#jayne bracken

[luxmundi-i]

Lady Jeyne Bracken by me

[thepog]

Before the Andals came to Westeros, House Bracken ruled this river. We were kings and the Blackwoods were our vassals, but they betrayed us and usurped the crown.

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scribbly Bracken sisters bc I have the Brainrot

[behindfairytales]

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Jayne Bracken Second daughter of Lord Jonos Bracken of Stone Hedge by his first wife

[aegor-bamfsteel]

Random Bracken headcanon: One of Jonos Bracken’s five daughters is named “Jayne.” While the name “Jeyne” is very common in Westeros including the Riverlands (Jeyne Darry-Frey, Jeyne Goodbrook, Jeyne Harroway, and Long Jeyne Heddle, among others), the alternate spelling Jayne only appears one other time: In Arianne’s Winds of Winter chapter, one of the ladies-in-waiting who accompanies her to the Stormlands is young Jayne Ladybright. We know so little about House Ladybright (aside from Jayne, the only other member of the House mentioned is Sunspear’s lord treasurer Alyse) that it’s hard to say if it’s a unique family spelling (not a regional one, since “Jeyne” is used for Jeyne Fowler. Though as the Fowlers are First Men/Stony Dornish and we don’t know where the Ladybrights even live, Jayne might be a Rhoynar variation/transliteration instead). So maybe Lady Bracken is a Ladybright and decided to give one of her daughters her family’s special variation on a common name. 

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War and Wildflowers

The Horse-Tamer

Jayne, alone among her brown-haired sisters, inherited the bright auburn head of her Piper mother, who she never knew. She loved her older sister, everyone in her family, her home and all the people and animals who lived there. She loved them fiercely and with unwavering pasion. When they shared their secrets, Jayne always told Barbara that her only wish was to stay forever with her, in Stone Hedge. And Barbara always reminded her that her duty was to obey father and hopefully marry with a great lord worthy of a Bracken. "I will stay here with you", Jayne always insisted. As expected, Lord Jonos, once he secured his eldest daughter's bethrothal, started to hunt for interesting matches for his second child. Although not very seriously, as he was still anxious about give away some of his daughters before having secure his line of heirs, and thus risking the possibility that another great House manages to put a foot in Stone Hedge. As an amiable joke of destiny, there was in the Riverlands another noble House of high dignity in which the Lord had had a harvest of five sons. So the negotiations with House Vance seemed unavoidable. Some letters were send, some visits were made, and a most likely Bracken-Vance match appeared in Jayne's future. But she managed to stay away of any chance of marriage. It also helped her that Barbara, now married, wasn’t having any children to secure the line. So she devoted fully to her horses and her family. When the war started, knowing her father would have to leave their lands with his army, Jayne worked, always under her sister supervision, to enforced Stone Hedge defenses. She even tried an armor and a sword, and patroled on her favorite mount the fields close to the castle with some of the men in the guard. Months after her father's departure, the garrison spotted the Clegane banners, and when she knew who was commanding them, Jayne swore herself to defend her family and home at any cost. "I will stay here. I will protect you".

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War and Wildflowers

The five daughters of Jonos Bracken were each called by the people in Stone Hedge with some form or another of affectionate pet name, at least during the happy times before the war.

Barbara was simply the “heiress”. Elegant, formal, efficient, in charge of managing the household and regent of the House in her father's absences.

Jayne was known as the “horse tamer”, because she was a skilled rider and a experienced horse-breeder, a true exponent of her House sigil.

Catelyn, lover of books, was called, at least part in joke, the “she-maester”.

Bess was regarded as the most beautiful and polite of the sisters, and thus she was known as the “fair lady”. 

Alysanne, the youngest and most pampered by all, was just called the “baby”.

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War and Wildflowers 

The five daughters of House Bracken

"If I may be so bold, you would do well to require a hostage from Lord Jonos too. One of his daughters. For all his rutting, he has not proved man enough to father sons."

A Dance with Dragons. Jaime I