Checkmate
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castling the king by brokentombstone
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
11 Jan 2024
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Robb knows duty, he learned it standing at his father’s knee and sitting on his mother’s lap before he had a concept of what it actually meant. He was born to be Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North. Kingship was never supposed to be on the table for him. But his family has been torn apart one too many times, and war seems endless; his only option now is to burrow in for the long winter, no matter the cost.
(And if that cost is his life? Well it’s a calculated risk he took the day they laid that weighty bronze circlet on his brow, naming him King.)
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When the Tyrells switch allegiance before Robb Stark can be killed by the Lannisters, it only serves to stoke the fires of the wars in Westeros, the after effects rippling across the realm for years to come.
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- Part 1 of Checkmate
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the lion's maw by brokentombstone
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
13 Aug 2024
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Myrcella never held any great love for Robert Baratheon, her father, the late King of the Seven Kingdoms.
She doesn’t know that he ever loved her either. He tried more with Tommen and Joffrey, but she, the daughter, was held at arm’s length even when he deigned to engage with fatherly duties.
(Myrcella is not so naive, she does not forget the way her father’s eyes wistfully lingered on Arya Stark when they journeyed to Winterfell all those years ago—like he was seeing a daughter from another life, another dream. One that Myrcella would never fit into.)
Because of course, she is all her mother.
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When the war is won, Myrcella journeys to Casterly Rock to claim her crown.
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- Part 2 of Checkmate