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Writing help too!

I’ve started work on a New Valyria AU that involves a more steady conquest by Aegon, as a book written by a maester covering the history of House Targaryen.

One difficult point I’ve run up against is what Master of Laws Edmyn Tully does or looks for when testing people in a royal service examination. The idea for the AU is that Aegon wants a unified royal army after the debacle of the First Dornish War (Rhaenys doesn’t die) but the lords aren’t willing to hand over more than a small fraction of men, and Edmyn’s the one who defends them to the king.

Annoyed, the king, but most Visenya, tell Edmyn to do something then with the five-thousand or so foreign sellswords, local lordlings, and Ironborn that don’t want to serve the Isles or the Riverlands into something resembling a royal service that would eventually evolve and be refined under later kings into a civil bureaucracy.

My idea was having a test that measures problem solving skills, basic math, literacy and history, and internal portfolios overseen by the master of laws. If Tully had three secretaries, I was thinking Justice overseeing judges or marshals of some kind, Works for infrastructure and roads to be maintained, and Waters for shorelines and rivers/waterways.

We all know our favourite cannibal Skagosi foundling is still out there in the books. After replaying Ghost of Yotei and still wanting to put grown-up Rickon Stark in my Arya/Edric fic, I was very much inspired by Jubei's story from being adopted by a samurai to becoming a lord himself (Kitamori aka defender of the north). Fics where Rickon is raised Skagosi, or maybe elsewhere as he ages and (ideally) gains influence and power for reasons.

One idea for a fic I had that I hope has been done in some capacity is Rickon being raised by a non-Northern or Stark loyalist family either as a semi-hostage or an adopted child. In a universe where Edmure is dead without children, maybe Wyman and Davos get Rickon to Brynden and he's raised to become the next lord of the North and the Trident. Wyman himself could do it, or maybe Mance or Stannis.

I want to know more about the history of working women on the home front during World War II, what it was like going to work or working in industries that were male dominated at that time. Fiction and nonfiction, romance or horror, I’m not picky, but politics and cultural history are what interest me most, especially what it was like after the war when soldiers started coming home.

I have anecdotes from my grandmothers, but both came from quite privileged backgrounds who never had to and actually looked down on women going to work. I’m primarily interested in Canada as that’s where I am, but there’s a lot of gaps so I’m not picky there either.

This fandom has been desperate for years. I’m currently working on a power rangers/asoiaf AU, so I’m looking for other fics which take semi-seriously any high sci fi or sci-fantasy alternate universe fics.

Hightower Mech, Euron Greyjoy summoning kraken kaiju, and Howland Reed’s Valyrian steel shotgun/helicarrier are all things I’m hoping to see or used in fics.

There’s some thematic overlap so here’s my team and the idea.

The setting: the city of Kingsland, Western County, California, across a small north California bay from the university town Oldtown.

The power rangers:
- Robb Stark, crimson wolf ranger
- Margaery Tyrell, pink rose ranger
- Samwell Tarly, green hunter ranger
- Sansa Stark, blue winter ranger
- Myrcella Baratheon, yellow deer ranger

This is an AU, so of course everyone is aged up to high school. I want to have each chapter equal an episode, and to go through all the highs and lows of some of my favourite power rangers season. Mr. Aemon is the Alpha Five, the Three-Eyed Raven is the Zordon, Valyria was an alien planet and Kingsland/Western County has been dealing with various alien-related crimes for three hundred years.

I wrote the first chapter and it consists mainly of Robb, first as QB for the Kingsland High White Knights and Jon as WR/kicker winning the big game against the Oldtown Wizards. Jon is being sent to Oldtown High because of his behavioural problems (Robb thinks it’s his mom’s fault) and Robb drops him off at the bus stop. While he’s downtown, he runs into his sister and her friends, then they come across the old abandoned library as a fire breaks out. They rush in to save Aemon, and then they all fall through the floor, pass out, and wake up in the Ranger HQ.

I’m working on arc villains, but I’d love everyone’s thoughts and opinions. This is just meant to be fun.

Gilly is often employed in a variety of fics to portray characters, often the protagonist, as a very good person. But as I’m rereading that section of Dance, I think about what Gilly must be thinking: the daughter-wife of a monster in human form, comforting the great and powerful Maester Aemon.

She must think it’s par for the course that his brother was a king. Stannis is a king, Mance is a king, Jon’s brother is a king. King’s are everywhere as far as Gilly is concerned. We always see Gilly become a wet nurse or a ladies’ maid but what’s going through her head? It would be shallow to think she’s just some simple wildling who is oh so happy to be alive she doesn’t care about being a servant. But I’m interested in more.

I’m also interested in any time skip fics where she and/or Sam raise Aemon Steelsong and Monster as brothers.

I came across this post and the comments get really deep on events in Westeros and the reaction over time as the kingdoms continue their feuding while a Neo-Valyria rises in Essos. A few things stood out to me and I had an idea for an AU/story centered around the resistance to House Hoare after Harrenhal is completed.

Basically the story would open on Orys Baratheon who, now a knight and back living with his mother’s family the Bar Emmons, decides he is going to save the Riverlands from the Ironborn and deliver the territory to his brother, Emperor Aegon. Other possible POVs the original post inspired would be Sharra Arryn as the Vale works to foment open rebellion against House Hoare, and Brandon Snow doing the same on the ground with allies in other kingdoms (and for other reasons).

What really interests me is the ongoing game of thrones between the seven kingdoms, and the wider implication of a Valyria that would have to be structured differently if the few dragon lords are to survive. Is war simmering between the Reach, Dorne and Stormlands? Do the Dothraki even exist? Have Qoherys, Velaryon and Celtigar become dragon-riding houses to expand Targaryen power?

I’m having fun playing with all these ideas, but especially the building of a Riverlands resistance/underground through worldbuilding inspired by peasant revolts and resistance movements of all kinds. Also what the Night’s Watch is like, since there’s probably a steady stream of the losers of wars manning the castles. What’snthe Faith militant up to??

I saw this meme and it gave me an idea. John Brown is reborn in the body of a Westerosi knight famous for his faith and zeal.

Dany writing help
Title. In my 100 chapter fic Company Man, the focus was Viserys. I didn’t expect it to become as long as it did, but that has made me reconsider the next phase of what has effectively become an AU. Viserys, at the end of chapter 100, will slide into a background character. Prince of Summerhall, husband to the future Princess of Pentos, a beloved father and uncle, but still with one eye across the Narrow Sea and the sister he hasn’t seen in sixteen years.

This part 1, through its twists and turns, ended with Daenerys a hostage/foster of Robert, King of Storm and Sea (Stormlands + Myr + Tyrosh) in the Disputed Lands, under the watch of two allies of House Targaryen/Viserys: Ashara Dayne in the guise of Septa Lemore, and Domeric Bolton, who is posing as a loyal follower of the orthodox Essosi faith of the seven to be a double agent in Robert’s camp for Westeros. Also in Essos are the Great Khal Bharbo and his sons, chiefly Drogo, a fellow ally to Viserys, the Republic of Braavos, Volantis and Slaver’s Bay, and Pentos and the forces of Westeros in the early phases of a crusade in the Hills of Andalos aimed at purging Norvoshi land of Dothraki and working to counter the influence of the Essosi faith. The Starry Sept, King Aegon in Duskendale, King Jon in the North and the Sealord of Braavos have sanctioned this crusade, led by House Arryn, much in need of redemption following their war and invasion against the North. Profit and titles have been promised to many.

All of this to say: Dany’s journey. I’ve thought about an age-appropriate romance with Jhogo, her basically being Valyrian Khutulun and building her own force as in canon and still somehow getting her dragons, being pursued and then served by various canon suitors who are unable to defeat her in combat (as she has been trained by Robert and Drogo). In all of that, I want Dany to have agency, so her true character can still shine through. This is a Dany that was raised mostly in captivity, first among the Sand Snakes and on Dragonstone with Rhaegar, who was often away fighting a war against Robert, before Rhaegar gave her to the Essosi faith in exchange for the many concubines he needed. The faith has plans for Dany, but so far they have said nothing and she thinks it’s all nonsense politics intended to suppress people/women/her.

One idea of mine was basically that, though the Faith of the Seven in its Westerosi and Essosi forms is anti slavery and is crusading in the name of ‘holy freedom’, Danenerys sees how former slaves live, how women and nature are treated, and that the Dothraki, Volantenes, Norvoshi and Slaver’s Bay are still trading partners and selling the products of slave labour to the supposed enemies of slavery. Would Dany find this cognitive dissonance unconscionable? Would she be more aggressive, or subtle in her opposition and disgust?

Viserys in this fic is neutral good, not neutral evil. He is much more caring, loving and fulfilled, having been surrounded by sibling, father and mother figures through his life, even multiple lovers of both genders, then finding his mother Rhaella alive in secret this whole time. This Dany is almost the opposite, with just her bastard nieces and nephews and her brother’s Kingsguard, most of the time treated like a porcelain doll, as the green smoke of King’s Crater filled the sky thanks to her father, and her brother looked more like thr Mad King and less a silver prince every day.

Dany will obviously be upset when she learns Queen Dowager Rhaella still lives, as well as that Viserys thrived only because of the Golden Company, when she has remained absent her family for so long. An aggressive ‘finding of found family’ will ensue over the narrative, and I have plans for all the gang to join her, even Grey Worm, who has been working for Willas this whole time and has already appeared in a few Red Flea POV chapters. Rakharo is a close friend of Viserys and will soon join her, but I don’t know how, and same with Syrio Forel (🐐), Asha and Theon (who are working for Euron rn who wants to kill Viserys for killing Aeron).

So yeah. What might Dany try to do in Essos? I sometimes think about what a Valyrian-feminist-anarchist revolt might look like. Maybe she burns Volantis to the ground and turns the Rhoyne and its fertile shores into a massive paradise garden forest. Maybe she burns Slavers Bay, becomes an agent of Robert, or even declares herself his heir and makes Joffrey her gimp (Joff and siblings are Robert and Cersei’s real kids).

It’s been a long fic and I am currently editing the final thirty or so chapters. I am excited to be done but more excited to look forward at the next part. The POV characters for part two will likely be Jon, Margaery and the Tyrells, Edmure, Lysa, Cersei, Domeric, Viserys, Serra and Aegon the younger (the son of Serra and ‘Rhaegar’).

Damn. I just remembered Varys is still out there. And Quaithe!

Title. Fics that would feature an OC son of Brandon and perhaps Barbrey Ryswell. Maybe she gets pregnant and they get married swiftly, but then Brandon dies in King’s Landing as canon and then Barbrey also succumbs. Ned and Cat still get married and have their kids, maybe Jon is still around.

I was thinking of writing a short fic myself about the topic. Boy lord of Winterfell raised by his aunt and uncle. Story could even work with him being Cat’s first son, but then after Brandon dies she and Ned marry (maybe they got married earlier than canon).

I’m a big fan of the names Alaric and Torrhen, so big points if that’s his name. I’d be interested in any and all fics and permutations involving a trueborn son of Brandon.

Author: Me, TheBruhintheNorth322 on AO3

Rating: Mature/PG

Language: English

Status: Ongoing

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82996611/chapters/227596256

My Arya Stark/Edric Dayne adventure/romance/time-jump fic has a second chapter! I've had a lot of fun playing up the mystery and Arya's fears at being caught, and also playing with grown up and aged up versions of canon characters.

I've finished chapter 3 and am plotting out the future. I would love to hear your ideas too though.

Author: Me, TheBruhintheNorth322 on AO3

Rating: Mature/Explicit (it's the Witcher and ASOIAF)

Language: English

Length: 9,717 words

Status: Ongoing

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85816241/chapters/226826466

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After replaying the Witcher 3 and rereading Life and Honour, I was inspired. I present The Watcher from beyond the Wall, a Witcher/Song of Ice and Fire fusion fic. I've been a fan of both for a while and I find that the tone of both settings line up very well, and Mance is the perfect blend of famous and outsider to be the protagonist of a fic.