rhaenicent fics
hello by popular demand (smart people told me i should) i have listed all the fics + completion status and links so that you can all easily enjoy every unhinged ounce of these
grey ridge (ríl liatroma) – complete / 8 chapters / modern AU
viserys dies suddenly. rhaenyra is marooned at the helm of a multinational corporate empire to bear four generations of legacy and a bit of a drug problem. alicent wants her wife to succeed. somebody else does not.
(married!rhaenicent) (has been described as “the succession au of my dreams” was the editing challenge of my nightmares)
ride the dragon (do it quickly) – complete / 2 chapters / post-episode 6 fix-it
The King, beseeched to broker peace in the North, sends his heir and the Queen in his stead. Alicent lasts two days with a chill that reaches her bones; and then she finds a solution.
(enemies to lovers! bed-sharing!!! fix-it! brainchild of tumblr dot com!!!!!)
leaf and blade – complete / 5 of 5 chapters / modern professors au
alicent won’t take up her father’s political mantle. rhaenyra won’t let go of the birthright lost to her dying kid brother. summer’s hotter than ever. professor hightower might be banging the new high valyrian instructor. everyone’s growing their gardens
(football uniform rhaenyra figures heavily and that’s really the critical sell)
pls enjoy!
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love is complicated – incomplete / 11 of 15 chapters / slow burn modern au
It’s not even remotely fair to say she’s in love with Rhaenyra, just because the last time she was so bone-deep exhausted after they’d wrapped production she’d had them drop her at Rhaenyra’s flat and told her just hold me, hold me, make it okay.
“Alicent,” Laena moans. “You couldn’t be more in love with her if you were characters in Notting Hill.”
(alicent is an actress, rhaenyra is mostly just rich, laena is losing her cool)
song of the exposition – incomplete / 1 of 3 chapters / grey ridge prequel
Nine months in the dark, Alicent had called it.
bodhrán beat – incomplete / 3 of ? chapters / royal au
“When we met you were eighth in line to the throne.” She’d whispered, eventually. “Your royalty was so obscure and your name so ungoogled and as beautiful as it is your face so unknown that our life was almost normal—it almost seemed like it would be. Like it would be always, even.”
“I couldn’t predict the accident.” Rhaenyra had seethed. “Or the referendum.”
oh and—
several tremendous / one-shot / arranged marriage (hotd universe)
Alicent's heard tell of Rhaenyra the Cruel. Rhaenyra only wants to make her new wife happy.