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Edmure Tully (280///300 AC)

◇ house stark◇ house tully ◇

Teddy T! I based the scale armor (vvv loosely) off of this ref

Now I love the Whents but there's something about TullyTrauma that makes me feel feral. Like, Hoster already had three heirs lined up but Minisa died in no small part because of his attempts to bring another Tully into the world. His uncle vocally never got married (we love that for him) and got ostracized for it, but he seems to be the only Tully dude that's not drowning in self-doubt and shame!

Edmure's sisters were married off and shipped off to different corners of the continent at half his age. Meanwhile he's still walking the same hallways watching his father's hair turn white, perpetually adolescent and unnecessary. And then when the moment comes for him to finally "grow up" it all goes to shit :')

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Lysa Tully/// Lysa Arryn

◇ house stark ◇ house tully ◇

Lysa! Her drip is immaculate in the books, and I think she's always loved the pageantry of selecting fabrics and trimmings for new clothes. I'd bet she was constantly giving Cersei a run for her money in the style department.

As always, the eldest kid/heir wears the "purest" version of their succeeding house (as their future representative). Meanwhile the younger kids have more freedom to shift up house colors/hybridized sigils (partly because I love throwing these symbols together animorphs-style).

The little patterned ribbons bb Lysa is wearing are little Whent-Tully bat fish! There a transparent pattern for them below.

P.S. there have to be giant direfish in the riverlands right??? like full on 20 foot highly intelligent long-living monstrosities...anyway vampire fish are now canon.

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Catelyn Tully///Catelyn Stark

I know wearing metal near the skin would be uncomfortable in the North, but I really wanted to echo her father's beard jewelry! Maybe it's an unusually warm day. The kissing wolf/fish cloak pin is a bit flirty, but thankfully NedCat are sweet enough to handle it. The little glass beads little Cat's overdress are made of sand from Riverrun.

Drawing the same character at different ages was such a fun exercise!

Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya Minisa Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin

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Hoster Tully (C. 270 AC)

one of the top contenders for the "Worst Dads of Westeros" (and there are sooo many participants).

Whenever I picture Tully men, they are ALWAYS wearing kilts. with all those hills and rivers, raising sheep and exporting their wool make so much sense for the Riverlands! Richly dyed fine wool was worth its weight in gold, and what better way to show how wealthy you were than to use yards of it? Hoster here is wearing the upper portion over his shoulder in the "Toga Method" (ref)

His brother was originally a redhead, so I gave his hair a ginger tint as well. It would have been nice to know who his mother was, but GRRM has something against giving women names :') Also, Minisa is half a foot taller than him (and Catelyn/Edmure grow to be much taller as well)

Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya

Minisa Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin

Transparent Version (because landscapes aren't my strong suit)

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Minisa Whent-Tully

The Whents are such a fun house, they live in a HAUNTED CASTLE and their sigil is a BAT. The Whents are vampires headcanon confirmed (there's a Lady Stoneheart vampire theory here somewhere) .

I didn't really want to portray Minisa as sweet or diminutive. I can't see anyone who grew up in Harrenhall of all places to not have some fangs. You can be a beloved wife and mother and also be creepy AF.

The Riverlands pre-rebellion to me are the epitome of Post-Roman Pre-Anglo Saxon fashion in the Scottish isles. Gallic influences mingling with drapery, rich dyes, and fine metalwork. Post-Rebellion, there's less of an anti-Targ backlash style-wise, simply because there's less of a stark (ha) difference between the Riverlands and KL. Nobles begin to prefer less draping in favour of tighter tailoring and heavier embroidery, but that's about it.

I feel like if anyone would preserve a stylistic time capsule like Druidic face paint for centuries after the conquest, it would be vassal houses surrounding a superstitious and mystical place like Harrenhall.

Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya

Minisa Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin

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Arya "Underfoot" Stark (AGOT)

She's babie!! I gave her Lyanna's face structure, her grandmother Arya Flint's curly hair, and Ned's eyes and coloring. Her forehead is a little higher, her face is a little wider, and Catelyn + Edmure Tully have gaps in their front teeth just like hers (because she had to get something from her mother's side)

Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya

Minisa-Hoster Catelyn Edmure Lysa Robb Sansa Bran Rickon Robin

I think embroidering house imagery on clothes is a VERY important for hierarchical power dynamics. Firstborns or "heirs" to a house often feature the most unaltered "pure" versions of their house's sigils, but those further down in succession (or those whose mothers are "higher" in standing) can mix and match without too much pushback (Royces and their different colored horses, Brynden Blackfish, etc.).

I think anyone in Catelyn Tully's position would ensure her firstborn and oldest daughter dressed as Northern and traditionally "Stark" as possible, but I feel like Ned's lookalike Arya and the youngest kids would've had a little more leeway.

As for highborn bastards, I highly doubt Jon's clothes ever featured any direwolf imagery, even if they were just as well-made and warm as the other Stark kids. Theon had the opposite treatment, the Greyjoy kraken was always prominently on display, but that might have been interpreted as more alienating than enabling pride for his roots.

Arya reminds me of one of my younger cousins, I'd painstakingly braid her hair in the mornings so it was out of the way (she wasn't allowed to cut it :') but she'd always come home with her hair all tangled and the ribbons in her pocket or lost. I think Arya hates embroidery but is pretty decent at simple mending by AGOT due to having to repair her own clothes whenever she tears them.

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Jon Snow (AGOT)

Local Emo Teen Tired of Being Told What to Do, Becomes Child Soldier Rickard-Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen Jon Arya

Jonboy!! I think I mightve made his eyes too purple-tinted, oops. Let's just say everyone secretly thinks Ashara is his mum. He bought the shirt at Syg's Most Heated Topicks and Tapestries (the trendiest shoppe near Winterfell).

Jon in Ghost colors! I'm going to draw Arya next and then head all the way back to Hoster and Minisa for "The Tully Look" through the generations.

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Benjen Stark (AGOT)

In his "rich velvet" outfit and silver chain.

RIP Benjen your gay youngest sibling swag was off the charts ;^;

Rickard---Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen

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Lyanna Stark

Lya above ground...and below

Rickard---Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen

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Eddard "Ned" Stark (AGOT)

Rickard---Lyarra

Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen

One of my favorite styling headcanons is that Northern fashion was set aside to emulate more Southern styles under Rickard's rule.

Rickard was...vividly described as having steel armor (shudders), and I think overall, the Starks dressed in Southern-inclined fashions (with climate-appropriate fabrics and layering ofc) to "blend in" better for the connections Rickard wanted to make.

Then, the fashion pendulum swung entirely the other way post-rebellion. Style-wise, a lot of the nobility basically started dressing like their grandparents did. I think it took a lot of older people by surprise, haha.

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Brandon "The Wild Wolf" Stark

Rickard---Lyarra

Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen

Brandon always gives me "jock with good intentions but no impulse control" energy (hence the hockey hair). Maybe he would have mellowed out in time, but he never got the chance? Or maybe not...I think Rickon will eerily resemble to him one day.

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Rickard and Lyarra Stark

Rickard---Lyarra Brandon Ned Lyanna Benjen

HC that House Flint often incorporate ancient arrowheads and blades in their hair or as jewelry Rickard's wolf-shaped fasteners have keys in their mouths to honor his mother's sigil (House Locke).

I like to think a second girl like Lyarra could have inherited a wry sense of humor from her Flint mother (and maybe a propensity for bravado from her sellsword father). Brandon spent the most time with her before she passed, and I think they had very similar temperaments and got along very well.

On the other hand, I see Rickard as very quiet and pensive, with a slight dreaminess when he was young, the kind to enjoy quietly stalking prey or listen to a story instead of sparring or feasting.

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Barbrey Dustin in her sable coat (+ bby Barb!)

Barbrey is one of my favorite characters in ASOIAF. I can see her just popping out of the snow and briskly shaking herself off post Long Night like some kind of spite-fueled pragmatic cockroach.

hat is loosely inspired by an Ushanka!

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Robb Stark Marrying Jeyne Westerling

This wedding might be one of the more peaceful ones in ASOS, but I've always found it interesting, an impromptu "Sand Wedding" on the western shoreline. Was there a weirwood in the Crag, or did they say their vows in front of an oak or in a Sept? I'd like to think that just for a moment, they weren't old before their time and bent by duty and just two young people finding love.

Robb's outfit is based on southern Finnish gakti that I unfortunately dimmed the beauty of by using Stark colors. They're so vivid and beautiful! I guess the Starks camouflage well, at least...

Jeyne's head covering is based on the headcoverings in this illustration from the 1220s (https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0595) it looked too much like a shell not to add!

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tales of knights and maidens, grumpkins and snarks

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Chalk mural of Daenaerys Targaryen I (c. 300s AC) discovered on an Essosi wall fragment

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sydney's food tour is one of my favorite parts of the bear s2 🍽