I am at last myself… with no ambition greater than to walk where I please and to breathe the open air. To die unremarked and unnoticed… and be free. You speak as if from a distant dream.
Hello everyone! The other day I was feeling really sad and needed something to read, so as a thank you to all the kind people who gave their recommendations... Here's a list of my favorite fanfics (or ones I've saved because I liked them back in the day). Enjoy :)
- Pedestal or the lawyers. I'm completely obsessed.
All my finished fics, with length and summary and link to read!
Length: 16 Chapters, 102k Words
Cruel Fates
Length: 26 Chapters, 186k words
The gods design is ever fickle, changing history by a simple twist of fate, like Rhaenyra having an aunt rather than an uncle.
Thus the Princess is raised as the unequivocal heir to the Iron Throne, finding her strength much earlier and becoming bolder with her companion Alicent. Everything seems in order until Aemma looses her life in the birthing bed and Rhaenyra's aunt Daena becomes Queen. With Daena quickly giving birth to new sons, the question of who will rule engulfs the Seven Kingdoms.
The Dragons shall dance and only death awaits at the end.
We Light The Way With Dragonfire
Alicent Hightower's life is changed forever when at six years of age, she's gifted a dragon egg by Rhaenyra and happens to hatch it in a single night. Suddenly catapulted from being the daughter of a second son to one of the most powerful persons in the realm, Alicent must grapple with the world's reaction to the only non-Targaryen Dragonrider.
Her and Rhaenyra try to remain together even when the expectations of marriage and childbirth begin to unbalance their fragile peace. The firstborn daughter of the King and her childhood companion turned wife must navigate the game of thrones as they grapple with Rhaenyra's brother Baelon, her uncle and a succession crisis that may plunge the realm into bloody war.
The Many Shades of Green
Length: 13 Chapters, 81k Words
Alicent Hightower is finally free. Away from her father, not longer working for his company, at last able to work as a journalist like she had wanted to since she was young. A couple months into her new life she gets the chance to interview the new CEO of Targaryen Industries. Being drawn into the alluring orbit of Rhaenyra Targaryen makes Alicent realise that sometimes she quite enjoys giving up her new found freedom in a safe enviroment and kneeling to soft spoken commands.
Red Flame Dragon Empress
Length: 24 Chapters, 165k Words
Instead of being broken apart by Alicent's betrothal, her and Rhaenyra hatch a plan to leave court behind for good. They must chart their own destiny in the far east, slowly building up a new home while freeing the downtrodden of Slaver's Bay. But the long shadow of the crown never quite leaves them, especially when an age later a Westerosi messenger arrives with grave tidings.
Aka
Just let our girls be lesbians or else they might start a theocracy
runner's high
Length: 11 Chapters, 53k Words
Alicent meets a silver-haired woman in her local dyke bar and a one night stand leads to discovering Rhaenyra’s struggles with violence, abuse, and trauma in her marriage. The road to recovery is long, but together they just might manage it.
Am I The Girl That You Were Dreaming Of?
Length: 10 Chapters, 57k Words
Alicent Hightower is a poor but promising soccer player who gets the chance of a lifetime when she earns a sports scholarship to Kings Landing University. Will she be able to keep up with her classes while playing for the prestigious KL Dragons soccer team?
Especially when a silver haired cheerleader with a cheeky smile is about to turn her whole world upside down.
Violet Claws (they rend so sweetly)
Length: 10 chapters, 49k Words
The Kingdom of the High Tower has stood for many generations and under its latest King Otto I, expanded to control much of the southern Reach. Everything seems in order until a foreigner with purple eyes and silver hair shipwrecks on their shores.
And Otto's daughter is the only person who knows the stranger's language.
Your Best Valyrian Girl
Length: 11 Chapter, 43k words
Rhaenyra thinks she's hit the jackpot when, by pure chance, she meets Alyssa Raquelor in a jewelry store. Finally, a real friend who wasn't chosen by her father or her fiance. They hit it off instantly and feelings spark faster than either of them expected. What Rhaenyra doesn't know is that there wasn't a lick of chance about the meeting. Alyssa's real name is Alicent Hightower, sent by Westeros' intelligence agency as part of the Lioness program. Her mission is to get close to the Targaryens, the premier financiers of the criminal underworld and worse.
Will Rhaenyra's family grow suspicious of this newcomer? And how will Alicent manage her mission while dealing with unbidden feelings growing every day?
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)
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.”
happy mother’s day to karen wheeler and joyce byers, who were both reduced to the same “wife and overprotective mother” role by their writers despite proving how intelligent they were outside of their romantic and familial relationships
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