( synnove karlsen + cisfemale ) * was that julyena snow , the twenty five year old bastard of winterfell , wandering around the keep ? i believe it was . rumors from THE NORTH that they can be ebullient and sanguine but many who have actually met her murmur that she can also be naive and self - centred . perhaps this coronation will show their true colours .
prince brandon stark was a wolf to the core, never able to sit still despite the best efforts of those around him. he never would quite settle down, even as he aged and his father the king put more and more responsibility on him and his brother. while his brother settled into his duties as crown prince, brandon resisted. the only person who ever seemed able to influence the prince was the stablemaster’s daughter, lyra. although brandon’s father was arranging a betrothal for him to some nobleman’s daughter, he fell head over heels for the commoner girl, and without planning it, lyra soon fell pregnant.
brandon’s relationship with lyra threatened to tear the family apart. it was clear that she had had a profound effect on him, but the king was furious nonetheless, the affair having ruined all his marriage plans. brandon was still a prince, but few lords desired to marry their daughters off to a half-wild scoundrel expecting a child to a commoner girl. eventually an agreement was reached, lyra would be permitted to stay in winterfell, brandon would be apart of his child’s life, but marriage was off the table. nine months later, the couple welcomed not one but two children into the world; julyena and her twin brother.
the circumstances of julyena’s birth never much affected her, she grew up happily sheltered by the walls of winterfell, brandon and lyra doted on their children and lived as close to a happy, normal life as they could get. although julyena had the name snow, she seemed a stark in every other facet of her life, with the exception of her grandfather, no one took issue with her illegitimate status, her father ensured that she and her brother had everything they could possibly need. and of course, she had inevitably inherited that famous stark wolf blood from her father, julyena was just as energetic and boisterous as her father had been in his youth, although her temper lacked some of her father’s sharpness.
it was from her mother though, that julyena got her eternally sweet disposition, bad moods never lasting long, and always the first one to offer a kind word whenever someone else was feeling down. julyena was still young when her mother died, and the child lost a part of her joyfulness forever. it was incredibly hard on her, but she did what she could to keep her spirits high for her grief-stricken father and brother.
tragedy seemed to follow julyena. her father had always seemed so strong, he’d never been the same after lyra’s death, but julyena thought she had years and years left with him, but he died just a few days after her twenty-second nameday. the sudden death of the crown prince shocked the entire kingdom of the north, and nearly destroyed julyena. while their mother’s death had brought the twins incredibly close, their father’s seemed to push them away. when the grief and pain was still fresh, julyena’s brother left winterfell, leaving her to deal with her pain on her own. although she had the support of her cousins and the other friends she had in her home, she still struggled, and it is a pain she is still processing today, and with the recent death of her uncle, the king, julyena wants to do all she can to be there for her family the way they were for her.
