#sacrifices. so you take shireen and go back to sunspear

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Hey, big fan of your lady Baratheon posts :)

Someone wrote that one of the great tragedies and ironies of the Baratheon brothers is they each possess one quality of a great king.

Robert had strength, Stannis had leadership and Renly had the charisma.

If they could’ve ever put their issues aside, those three could’ve been a dominant trio that might have ensured a golden era of Baratheon rule for far longer than it did.

I think your OC actually comes close to having the best qualities of each.

It would be interesting that, in the end, it’s her who’ll have be the future of her house after it’s decline and near ruin during the war and long night, after everyone dismissed her for being a woman and married to a Dornishman.

Looking forward to more of your work, and regarding your aspersions as a writer, I’m positive you have a future. You have such a creative mind. It’s just a matter of keeping focus and consistent.

All the best :)

Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words and thats def an amazing way to look at her! I imagine her (you) to be the type who overall wants nothing to do with the iron throne and encapsulates that quote about how those most suited for power are those who do not hunger for it. (i know its a quote from something but i can't put a finger on what lmao)

youre the mediator of your family, trying to keep what is left of it together until Renly's death, to which you join stannis' side.

Thats what really makes the common folk turn toward you. You're a noble woman, a princess, whose fighting in the heat of battle side by side with them and able to hold your own. Much like Stannis, you beleive in honor and keeping to your word, and do not view yourself as better than others simply because you're of noble blood. And since you don't share Stannis' views on the lord of light and publicly disagree with burning innocent lives as sacrifices to him, they see you as a more sane and down-to-earth baratheon and begin to whisper that perhaps you ought to be on the throne.

In Dorne, its quite the same. While you vanished with a single letter, telling your husband that you've gone to travel essos and find yourself, everybody knows the truth. That the doe had gone to fight in her brother's foolish war. Some beleive you've gone off to your death and will crumple at the first sight of blood, but when the whispers travel that you're leading the ranks and fighting alongside your men they begin to think different of you.

Their princess, the dornish people think, going from attending court by her husband's side to slaughter lannister soldiers like a proper warrior queen.

When the word spread that the king lion ran from the battle of blackwater with his tail tucked between his legs, they all but sing your praise. Even more when you return home, wearing scars that prove your strength and resilience in battle.

Dorne still does not care for house baratheon, but if one were to take the throne, they should like it to be the one wearing the Martell sigil.

#ask #asks #people say nice things #baratheon wife tag #oberyn martell x reader #looooove talking about this thank you for this lovely ask!!! #ive been meaning to get to it #yeah after the battle of blackwater you return to dorne ebcause stannis' alleigance to the lord of light turns your stomach at the sight of #sacrifices. so you take shireen and go back to sunspear