Meet Bella Baratheon
Her primary AU in A Song of Ice and Fire is where it was discovered sooner that Cersei's kids were not actually Robert's, so he collected all of his illegitimate children that were still alive and legitimized them in an attempt to ensure he had heirs. Bella's about a year older than Gendry, and her mother worked in a pleasure house in Stony Sept, she was Robert's favorite. She grew up in said pleasure house, and is about 17 when she's pulled away to Kings Landing. She's put into dozens of lessons to bring her up to where she should be as a princess, and people do gossip about her upbringing quite a lot considering where she came from. In this verse, her maidenhood was up for auction right before she was removed from the house, so although everyone thinks she was already defiled, she was still technically working in the kitchen.
In canon we know that she was obviously working in the pleasure house, and shortly after the war of the five kings began, she and a few of the other girls escape the pleasure house and hope to find shelter elsewhere. Which is how she could end up in a variety of places for any point in time. Now she doesn't openly share about Robert being her dad anymore because she did hear the whispers that all of his bastards had been offed, and she has no desire to lose her life. But to people she trusts, she'll admit to it.













