Fake Fic Summaries 34/?, the Nostalgia Fusion edition (2025-10-13)
(hopes and dreams and the shadowed things beneath)
If Darby ever slows down enough to think about it, she would have to admit that their mother probably didn’t mean to endanger their lives out of greed. It wasn’t ambition, or a lack of shame, or even stupidity that led to the situation. Unfortunately it may have been due to sentimentality, of all things, which Darby almost considers even more frustrating. Because their mother, despite her profession, had been educated enough to name her twins Deer and Nobility — as blatant a declaration of Baratheon bastards as could be — but she had lacked the foresight to know that doing so would spell Darby and Gendry’s doom. And if Darby slows down even further, lets herself acknowledge the shadowy part of her mind, then she’d have to admit its a little bit funny how she has been reborn as the a secondary character’s twin sister named deer girl not just once, but twice.
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Kinda long for summary, mostly because I was rereading some of my old stuff in a sort of narcissistic / nostalgic fit because I don’t understand how I was so prolific before and I yearn to write again. So I attempted to write a thing for Minor Miracles (my A Song of Ice and Fire SI!OC anthology) and then realized that, oh no, I accidentally just copy and pasted Shikako Nara. BUT THEN I realized that, well, technically, this also could meet the criteria for an addition to Hail To The Queen (my Shikako becomes Hokage or the real power behind Hokage or sometimes literally queen?) since if I just leaned into Darby being Shikako again, then her being one of Robert Baratheon’s bastards would put her PRETTY CLOSE to the action in the, you know, titular game of thrones.
Unfortunately, once I had the realization I could do that, I then got paralyzed in the TOO MANY paths this premise could take. Like, how powerful would I want her to be? Does she only have memories or does she have any holdovers from the Naruto world whether that be chakra or Gelel-given abilities or the Westeros nearest equivalent. And then there’s the whole Lord of Light / Brotherhood of Banners things and given the whole Nara shadows thing, does that put her at odds with them?
Or are Darby and Gendry, like the Starks, split up for the majority of the timeline and trying to get back to each other / fearing the other has already been killed and grieving before reuniting after being thoroughly but separately traumatized?
Anyway, I mostly wanted to get at least this much of a brainstorm typed out so that I can refer back to it in the future.
