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i am very normal about this man

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gwayne hightower i’ll love you forever

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The poem is Cassandra by Friedrich Schiller (translated by Daniel Platt)

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Plotting a new fic let's goooo

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the relationship between Alysanne and Arianne. Would you say they're friends?

This is a dynamic I'm excited to explore more!!! In short they're not enemies, but neither are they friends exactly.

Ultimately they should be, right? They're two powerful women, who both feel overlooked by their fathers in some ways, navigating this society that does not want to allow women to do much but what is expected of them.

I think the downfall of that could-be friendship is that they are both prideful (to a degree) and headstrong with goals that, ultimately, do not align. Arianne did not want Aegon to cede the North. If she had things her way, Robb would have knelt to Aegon. She wants justice for Elia and Rhaenys, and Alysanne has already spoken in defense of Jaime. In Arianne's mind, Alysanne might do the same for Tywin.

And Alysanne does not trust that Arianne won't push for Jaime's head. And as much as she recognizes it as a smart political move (and would have done the same), she doesn't like that Arianne out played her in a way with the betrothal offer for Arya-Aegon (Aegon played a part too, of course, but does Alysanne view it that way?).

In another life I think they would have been great friends. They would be formidable if they worked together!

Thank you for the ask 😊

If there's an asoiaf afterlife, I can imagine poor Ned looking down and being so shocked to see Alysanne hatch dragons and his son being crowned the King 😭😭😭 (or even Robert, he would be livid to see the 'dragonspawn' fly on real dragons)

Poor Ned can't find a moment of peace even in death. His eldest son is given a crown and forced to fight a war which may bring their doom, his foster daughter accidentally performs ancient blood magic by walking into the burning funeral pyre of her sworn sword/pseudo father in a maybe-suicide attempt (jury is still out up where Ned is) and wakes THREE dragons from stone, his eldest daughter is rescued from King's Landing by his hostage who she now insists on marrying, and his youngest daughter is married to the returned from the dead Aegon Targaryen, who up until now Ned thought had been murdered. His other son is gay and in love with the bastard of Cersei and Jaime and his 10 year old son is acting Lord of Winterfell. Oh also his nephew-son is married to the Princess of Dorne and rides a dragon and will return to live out his days in the same land Ned carried him and his mother's bones from. All very normal.

Robert can't decide if he's more angry at the return of Targaryens or that he was cucked and has no legitimate children of his own. One brother died at the hand of the other, who is now missing after a humiliating defeat. Common Baratheon W. Also he has no wine in the afterlife.

hello! this is sort of a spoiler but can you tell us how close are we to the battle of Kings Landing?

not far! next chapter is a Catelyn pov which sets up the next chapter, which will be the battle of Kings Landing!

next chapter is almost finished and i've already been writing bits and pieces of the battle. will certainly not be a short chapter, lol.

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Do you think Tywin truly loves Alysanne? I suppose beneath all the anger and disapproval, he does have some begrudging respect for her. He taught her how to be politically astute and she lived up to it.

Ooo this is a good question! The short answer is that he loves her to an extent. His love has limits. He loves her so long as she is useful to him and playing by his rules. 

I don’t think Tywin is capable of loving someone unconditionally. Maybe he truly loved Joanna, we don’t know. We only have the accounts of the people who knew him then, two of those accounts being his children who were very young. 

I think his love for Jaime and Cersei is conditional and hinged on their usefulness as pawns for his own ambition. His reaction to Jaime’s capture, in my opinion, is not one of outrage for his son but rather outrage for the perceived slight against him and House Lannister. 

This extends to Alysanne. He loved her when she was in Winterfell, when she listened to what he taught and heeded his words. He loved her as a political pawn, a toehold in the distant North. He loved the idea that he would have an (at that point in time) obedient and biddable granddaughter as the Lady of Winterfell. So long as Alysanne did as directed, she was worthy of his “love.” 

You're right in that he certainly respects her political acumen, but he does not love her in the way we understand familial love. He might have said he loved her at one point (pre-fall of Casterly Rock), but he does not love Alysanne the woman. He loves Alysanne the pawn. If she were to die he would not grieve his granddaughter, he would grieve the lost potential her position would grant him. 

TMTTW’s version of the Red Wedding is a good example of this. His concern was not for her happiness. Tywin’s goal was not only to end the war but also to bring her back under his control by any means necessary. Jaime is right in that Tywin would have expected Alysanne to eventually fall back in line and bend to his will. And if she refused and Tywin no longer had use for her, he would have discarded her. Perhaps to the Silent Sisters or to confinement in the Rock. 

(There is also the angle that the Red Wedding was, in part, an opportunity for him to punish Alysanne for her taking of Casterly Rock. That was a huge blow to him, and Tywin cannot countenance an affront of that nature.)

So Tywin might say he loves her (and his children), but his version of love is not truly love. I would venture to say that Tywin has, at the very least, narcisstic tendencies. Like Cersei, he sees his children (and grandchildren) as extensions of himself. It is part of why he hates Tyrion - Tyrion is the most like him, and he despises what he sees. 

Thank you for the question! I always love the chance to ramble about things like this ❤️❤️❤️

i fear i am growing quite fond of you, gwayne hightower

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next chapter is a daenerys chapter and then maybe catelyn? don’t think i’ve done a chapter from her pov.

locked in on the next chapter i’m so excited

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