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My personal GoT modern!AU headcanons (1/5)
*Ships* - Cathelyn Stark/ Ned Stark - Robb Stark/ Theon Greyjoy - Jon Stark/ Ygritte Wilde - Sansa Stark/ Margaery Tyrell - Arya Stark / Gendry Waters - Bran Stark/ Jojen Reed - Rickon Stark/ Shireen Baratheon . - Danaerys Targaryen/ Khal Drogo - Tyrion Lannister/ Shae Essos - Lyanna Stark/ Rhaegar Targaryen - Samwell Tarly/ Gilly Craster - Jaime Lannister/ Brienne Tarth - Oberyn Martell/ Willas Tyrell - Renly Baratheon/ Loras Tyrell - Davos Seaworth/ Stannis Baratheon - Tywin Lannister/ Olenna Tyrell - Thoros Myr/ Berric Dondarrion . *(alternative Ships)* - Robb Stark/ Jane Westerling - Sansa Stark/ Sandor Clegane - Arya Stark/ Myrcella Lannister - Rickon Stark/ Lyanna Mormont - Danaerys Targaryen/ Yara Greyjoy - Oberyn Martell/ Ellaria Sand - Tommen Lannister/ Shireen Baratheon - Margaery Tyrell/ Robb Stark
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Character stories . Ned Stark: -married to Cathelyn -politician (big or small)
/- company owner /- police force boss - (ex)business partner of Robert Baratheon - best friend: ... Reed -despises the Lannisters (except Tyrion) for their corruption, but comes to kinda respect Jaime Lannister -especially close with Jon, Arya, Rickon . Cathelyn Stark: author /-interior designer /-life manager -traditional type of design -loves her children over all -especially close with Sansa, Robb, Bran . Robb Stark: -was class best -very grown up and reliable -gentle soul -will protect the ones he loves at any cost -logical and calm -utterly in love with Theon Greyjoy -patient -good listener -his best friend is his boyfriend (and Jon) -great big brother -always worrying -only Theon can make him reckless -bi (and accepted himself pretty fast) . Sansa Stark: -gentle and soft -but has a deadly fire inside her -happy, but also melancholic -past abusive realtionship(s), Joffey (, Ramsay) -used to be naive and a little bit cruel (with words) -is annoyed by and loves her little sister to death -looks up to Robb (and also Jon) -is very protective of her siblings, especially in front of their new romantic partners -found happiness in the form of Margaery (she is her best friend and the best fiance she could ever hope for) -bi (and didn't know it till Margaery) . Jon "Snow" Stark: -wants to join the criminal investigation police special force (nicknamed the Nights Watch) like his big idol uncle Benjen Stark -has a very snarky releationship with kinda mob girl Ygritte -is sceptic of Theon (but respects him for Robbs sake) -loves his siblings and knows how to let a body dissappear -goes nearly no where without his dog ghost -feels kinda responsible for Arya becoming so reckless -is her partner in crime -but is far more oberthinking -his best friend is Sam . Arya Stark: -doesnt take shit from anyone -will probably never admit that she likes Gendry -even if they have been dating for over two years -knows how to sword fight, break in, parkour, and pickpocket -her crew are Gendry, Lommy and "Hot Pie" -idolizes freestyle wreslerin Nymeria Rhoyne (and Jon) -loves her sister (but will not admit it out loud) -was responsible for Joffreys black eye and sprained wrist . Bran Stark: -since an accident (or failed suicide attempt/murder) disabled -used to love climbing -loves to read -has strange dreams -has gotten used to his wheelchair -best friends: Jojen and Meera Reed -got together with Jojen after 4 years of friendship -is the gentlest soul to ever exist (except maybe Shireen) -but isnt as innocent in every way (*hrmpf* Jojen *hrmpf*) -is class best . Rickon Stark: -almost wilder than Arya -her apperentice in pranks -is Brans personal bodyguard -loves (and always borrows) his big brothers comic collection -loves and protects his Shireen -his best friend is Lyanna Stark, she is the only person that can put him in his place (Shireen could too, but she's too soft) . the Starks family dogs: Greywind - his name is certainly in no way a refrence to a certain Greyjoy, nope (it totally is) Lady - died far too young (through Joffrey) Ghost - drug search dog (not official) Nymeria - put her bite marks on Joffey Summer - best therapy dog Shaggy -the scariest/wildest
Day 11 and 13: Friends, allies / Politics - House Reed
“To Winterfell we pledge the faith of Greywater. […] I swear it by earth and water. […] I swear it by bronze and iron. […] We swear it by ice and fire.”
He won’t be a boy forever, and winter is coming.
I thought the boys ought to have one too, since they are also babies. Girls can be found here.
asoiaf + “wise beyond their years” :
“You might do well to pray yourself.” “For victory?” “For wisdom.” — A Clash of Kings
for @aegontheconquerorwithteats
“The wolves will come again.” - Jojen Reed
Bran Week 2020 - Day Four, Quotes from Bran/about Bran
Actually made this for Jojen because he gets quoted a ton without ever being credited, and I wanted him to be up there and visible. And since this is one of the themes, I finished it for Bran Week.
Okay, so I need to distract myself from Moon Knight for a bit so I’ll pivot over to ASOIAF instead. Specifically thinking about Jon Snow, I wonder if he may become a fully fledged skinchanger in TWOW?
It’s established in the books that all the Stark children are wargs with their connection to their direwolves, to varying degrees of ability. But being a warg doesn’t necessarily make one able to skinchange into other animals. [For the purpose of this post, I will refer to warging as solely having control over wolves (/and dogs) and skinchanging as having control over any and all kinds of animals; that is how the author describes it so I shall too.]
Of the siblings, Bran is clearly the most powerful: a warg, skinchanger, and greenseer too. His fall leaves him in a coma, which results in Bran experiencing his first meeting with the Three-Eyed Crow. But it’s not until the second book that Bran feels he can truly reach beyond himself, and beyond his direwolf, Summer:
He remembered who he was all too well; Bran the boy, Bran the broken. Better Bran the beastling. Was it any wonder he would sooner dream his Summer dreams, his wolf dreams? Here in the chill damp darkness of the tomb his third eye had finally opened. He could reach Summer whenever he wanted, and once he had even touched Ghost and talked to Jon.
— A Clash of Kings, Bran VII
It’s not the first time Bran has warged into Summer, so clearly something has changed this time. In ASOS and ADWD, we can see Bran further his abilities by skinchanging into different animals and even a human.
Arya is also a very powerful warg like her brother. She can reach out to Nymeria despite considerable time apart and over a large land distance. Though Pre-ADWD, she is only able to connect with her direwolf, not any other animals. It is specifically after she loses her eyesight that Arya starts being able to skinchange into cats.
So that loss of sight (Bran being engulfed in the darkness of the crypts and Arya actually loosing her eyesight) is what seems to awaken the latent skinchanging ability. TWOIAF does make mention of something regarding this:
These new Lorathi were worshippers of Boash, the Blind God. Rejecting all other deities, the followers of Boash ate no flesh, drank no wine, and walked barefoot through the world, clad only in hair shirts and hides. Their eunuch priests wore eyeless hoods in honor of their god; only in darkness, they believed, would their third eye open, allowing them to see the “higher truths” of creation that lay concealed behind the world’s illusions. The worshippers of Boash believed that all life was sacred and eternal; that men and women were equal; that lords and peasants, rich and poor, slave and master, man and beast were all alike, all equally worthy, all creatures of god.
— The World of Ice and Fire, The Free Cities: Lorath
Jojen also provides some insight on the opening of the third eye:
“How would I break the chains, Jojen?” Bran asked.
“Open your eye.”
“They are open. Can’t you see?”
“Two are open.” Jojen pointed. “One, two.”
“I only have two.”
“You have three. The crow gave you the third, but you will not open it.” He had a slow soft way of speaking. “With two eyes you see my face. With three you could see my heart. With two you can see that oak tree there. With three you could see the acorn the oak grew from and the stump that it will one day become. With two you see no farther than your walls. With three you would gaze south to the Summer Sea and north beyond the Wall.”
— A Clash of Kings, Bran IV
Additional note by Bloodraven:
“Never fear the darkness, Bran.” The lord’s words were accompanied by a faint rustling of wood and leaf, a slight twisting of his head. “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”
— A Dance with Dragons, Bran III
The darkness, or shall I say sensory deprivation, is key here. Jojen (greendreams) and Varamyr (skinchanging) are two other characters with such supernatural abilities, and since both of them are described as being sickly in their childhood, it’s possible some kind of sensory deprivation state came about as a result of their childhood sickness.
Regarding the abilities of the other siblings, Rickon was also present in the crypts alongside Bran, but since he is a non-pov, it’s not really possible to say how exactly he is affected. Though I will say this, considering his young age, Rickon does seem to be incorporating large aspects of Shaggydog’s nature the same way Shaggydog is incorporating Rickon’s nature. In terms of describing their personalities, it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Moving on to Sansa, she is an interesting case because Lady died near the start of the story. Sansa still has warging potential but the skinchanging seems rather unlikely since I don’t see a situation in Sansa’s future where some kind of sensory deprivation could take place (who knows, it might happen, it might not).
Robb & Jon are in a similar situation where they both are somewhat aware of the connection they have with their direwolves. But both of them, over the course of their stories, start to deny this part of themselves (eg. locking up their direwolf).
The Varamyr prologue chapter introduces us to skinchanging 101, and one of the things we’re told is that Jon has great potential:
He had known what Snow was the moment he saw that great white direwolf stalking silent at his side. One skinchanger can always sense another. Mance should have let me take the direwolf. There would be a second life worthy of a king. He could have done it, he did not doubt. The gift was strong in Snow, but the youth was untaught, still fighting his nature when he should have gloried in it.
— A Dance with Dragons, Prologue
Varamyr acknowledges Jon’s latent skinchanging ability. Should a situation arise where Jon also experiences sensory deprivation, he could tap into that latent skinchanging ability he has. Though it’s not enough to simply have the ability, you need to be able to acknowledge that part of yourself. Jon does sometimes try to deny it. Robb, from what we saw of him, had a similar tendency; fluctuating between keeping Grey Wind always by his side and trying to limit their connection.
Part of the reason Bran and Arya are such powerful wargs, is that they fully embrace the nature of a human’s connection with their direwolf, and so they’re able to further that into their latent skinchanging ability easier than their siblings:
She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth.
— A Clash of Kings, Arya X
Yes, Arya thought. Yes, it’s you who ought to run, you and Lord Tywin and the Mountain and Ser Addam and Ser Amory and stupid Ser Lyonel whoever he is, all of you better run or my brother will kill you, he’s a Stark, he’s more wolf than man, and so am I.
— A Clash of Kings, Arya VIII
I won’t be afraid. He was the Prince of Winterfell, Eddard Stark’s son, almost a man grown and a warg too, not some little baby boy like Rickon. Summer would not be afraid.
— A Storm of Swords, Bran III
“I’d sooner be a wolf. Then I could live in the wood and sleep when I wanted, and I could find Arya and Sansa. I’d smell where they were and go save them, and when Robb went to battle I’d fight beside him like Grey Wind. I’d tear out the Kingslayer’s throat with my teeth, rip, and then the war would be over and everyone would come back to Winterfell. If I was a wolf …” He howled. “Ooo-ooo-oooooooooooo.”
— A Clash of Kings, Bran I
Both of them even react in the same appreciative way to hearing about Robb’s warging/connection with wolves. This is something we don’t really see with their siblings.
Jon most likely warged into Ghost upon his “death”. So that will certainly build a closer bond between the two. Depending on Jon’s internal psyche (if he has dreams in the crypts) and what state his body is kept in, he could very well be resurrected with his latent skinchanging ability awakened.
TLDR; I would like to see Jon skinchange Mormont’s raven.
asoiaf characters who could hack it as a starbucks barista:
— jon. runs that shit like the navy. schedules five minute scream-cry sessions for himself in the supply closet but everyone pretends not to notice bc it kinda seems like its working for him. keeps accidentally charming the regulars
— arya. only ever works closing shift bc if you put her on morning/lunch rush she yells at customers. cleans like a crazy person and leaves the place spotless. WILL put a nick in your car’s tire valve with a box opener if you make her count the till
— loras. makes GREAT coffee and can smooth things over with irate middle aged women very easily. however if ur gay avoid his location bc he cannot stop himself from being catty its in his BLOOD. also:
— dany. hits her (painstakingly decorated) dab pen in her car before work so she’s very zen. however she Is the coworker you sic on asshole customers bc she’s very good at making them feel stupid and also never caves and gives out free drinks
asoiaf characters who could NOT hack it as a starbucks barista:
— sansa. is the aforementioned caver. always turning up the heat because she’s cold even though literally everyone else is sweating like pigs. stayed on a couple months because it turns out mean customers calm down when she starts to cry #prettygirlhack but eventually quits because she hates cleaning the bathroom
— theon. uniquely bad at his job. writes his number on every other cup he hands out even to people wearing wedding bands or ACTIVELY WITH THEIR PARTNER IN THE STORE (has been beaten up like four times doing this). never ties off the garbage correctly. uses too much water when he mops and has slipped in it and twisted his ankle multiple times. is a soundcloud rapper and is always trying to get the manager to play his music in the store
— robb. nobody wants to fire him because hes genuinely a great guy but he takes eighty million years to make one drink and he’s always comping shit for his girlfriend who comes in all the time
— jojen reed. okay at the job but is always saying ominous shit to customers and is passive aggressive to whoever closed the previous night no matter how good of a job they did. quit because someone else got fired for showing up to work high and he didnt want to be next
asoiaf + “wise beyond their years” :
“You might do well to pray yourself.” “For victory?” “For wisdom.” — A Clash of Kings
for @aegontheconquerorwithteats
A low rumbling growl rose from Summer's throat, and there was no play in it. He stalked forward, all teeth and hot eyes. Meera stepped between the wolf and her brother, spear in hand.
The Reed siblings as depicted in the Finnish special edition of A Clash of Kings illustrated by Petri Hiltunen.
"He won't hurt me. This is not the day I die." The male walked toward them, unafraid, and reached out for his muzzle, a touch as light as a summer breeze.
Words cannot describe how much I love the Reeds they’re just these jazzy little crocodile dudes who smoke weed, live in a moving castle and go on spontaneous road trips for the Starks
Shut up about Winterfell shut up about Winterfell lets talk about motherfucking Greywater Watch which is literally a MOVING CASTLE
jfc yall dont know how tempted i am to turn this blog into a cute little witcher fanpage instead of spending my time thinking about a book where a nine year old ate his best friend
i know you’re not ready to hear this but
its ok im not ready for this either
“It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf’s dead and young one’s gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that’s left us is the ghosts.” “The wolves will come again,” said Jojen solemnly. “And how would you be knowing, boy?” “I dreamed it.”
Jojen Reed, A Sorm of Swords