Honour Among Fools || Jaime Lannister x Original Character {ao3 link}
Little Rana was half hidden in her father’s cloak, quiet and perceptive as she looked around the room. She would have been Roose’s copy if not for the roundness around her cheeks of her mother. Already a pretty child, hauntingly Ned would say with her icy features; the Greatjon had called her “little Other”. Better than Leech Lord, Ned supposed.
Yet six years later, a rebellion put down and winter’s end between them, Rana had come to Ward for him and Cateyln. As suspected, she was intelligent, dutiful and observant in a way most Lord’s weren’t. If not her breezy demeanour, and a lack of empathy for most things and her coldness towards Jon, she would make a perfect bride to Robb, and a union the North had waited four hundred years for would finally commence. Then the raven came informing them of Lord Domeric’s death. Less than two moons later, Ned watched a woman of eight and ten namedays be declared heir by her father and she swore an oath to him before a weirwood that she would be loyal to her liege and his heir, call the banners when needed, offer council when asked and dispense the King’s Jusifice in the name of House Stark. Ned lost a good daughter and gained a bannerman.
Once betrothed to Robb Stark to be the next Lady of Winterfell, Lady Rana Bolton is made the heir apparent to the Dreadfort after the death of her brother Domeric. However, when King Robert Baratheon visits the North to name Eddard Stark his Hand, far from home, she learns that her father is dead and her bastard half brother has usurped her position.
With the Northern Banners called and the King and his would be hand firmly planted in Winterfell, Rana must prove that her rightful claim to her ancestral seat is worth fighting for under the gaze of those who oppose her. Love, duty, honour and sacrifice are all tested in a war of kin for Westeros’s bloodiest house all the while a lone stag has departed for Dragonstone while mockingbirds, snakes and roses rule Kings Landing.
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warnings : graphic depictions of violence, period typical misogyny, major character death, major au, sexual content (18+), reference to SA, individual warnings per chapter
|| jaime lannister x fem oc || & || catelyn stark x ned stark || & || other relationship tags to be added later ||
Major AU of the events of aGoT and the WotFK, including the survival of both Ned and King Robert, Bran not falling from the broken tower and major character deaths from the start.
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[prologue], [one / jon i], [two / eddard i]
