Robert Baratheons Known Children ||The King Had Other Baseborn Children Scattered Throughout The Seven

Robert Baratheon’s Known Children || The king had other baseborn children scattered throughout the Seven Kingdoms. He had openly acknowledged one of his bastards, a boy of Bran’s age whose mother was highborn. The lad was being fostered by Lord Renly’s castellan at Storm’s End.

Ned remembered Robert’s first child as well, a daughter born in the Vale when Robert was scarcely more than a boy himself. A sweet little girl; the young lord of Storm’s End had doted on her. He used to make daily visits to play with the babe, long after he had lost interest in the mother. Ned was often dragged along for company, whether he willed it or not. The girl would be seventeen or eighteen now, he realized; older than Robert had been when he fathered her. A strange thought.

Cersei could not have been pleased by her lord husband’s by-blows, yet in the end it mattered little whether the king had one bastard or a hundred. Law and custom gave the baseborn few rights. Gendry, the girl in the Vale, the boy at Storm’s End, none of them could threaten Robert’s trueborn children … – A Game of Thrones

cersei, based on a costume from la reine margot (1994)

Baela Targaryen || Arya Stark: Parallels

“The last dragon,” Ser Jorah’s voice whispered faintly. “The last, the last.”

Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own. 

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"the only other adult in the room" is such a. theme. in asoiaf. i think of it endlessly with sandor, the huge terrifying monster of a man renowned for his physical strength and intimidation who does everything a 12 year old boy tells him to and stands aside to watch a little girl be brutalized by men smaller than him. stannis watching his brother hit his own son, his own nephew, so hard he thinks it kills him. illyrio helping viserys sell his 13 year old sister into sexual slavery. there is always another adult in the room. they are always doing nothing.

Asha. It was her doing. My own sweet sister, may the Others bugger her with a sword. She wanted him dead, so she could steal his place as their father’s heir. That was why she had let him languish here, ignoring the urgent commands he had sent her. He found her in the high seat of the Starks, ripping a capon apart with her fingers. The hall rang with the voices of her men, sharing stories with Theon’s own as they drank together. - Theon V, aCoK

Asha and Theon Greyjoy for @welshrugby ❤❤❤