Fanfic Idea! (Lucemond, Viking Aemond, seer's apprentice Lucerys)
Lucerys does not enjoy being the chief's wife's apprentice. True, his abilities as a seer have been much more well maintained, but he'd rather be with the woman who raised him, Alys, than the woman currently speaking riddles before him, Helaena.
It's not that he doesn't like her, oh no, in fact, he enjoys her company, and though her manner of speaking is odder than the seers he has met before, he does still understand her, and learns well enough from her.
What he doesn't enjoy is being around the rest of her family. Besides her twins, and the newborn baby, the rest of her family are indescribably hard to get along with. Her mother, Alicent, for one, wasn't born a Viking, a person of Valyria. She is an Andal woman, brought to the village as a peace offering of sorts, in the form of a bride. Just like all Andals, she is a devout follower of the Faith of the Seven, a new religion that does not hide their distaste for the old gods, including the Fourteen Flames, who seers worship in order to attain the glimpse of the future.
She often makes disparaging comments, sometimes in the form of a "normal" chat, sometimes just calling them "wrong" and "straying from the true gods", often times she doesn't bother hiding her distaste. Lucerys later learned that she was much more harsher towards him because he was said to be a bastard, someone followers of the Seven look down upon even worse than old god worshippers. She tries to keep her grandchildren in her room whenever she got the chance to, away from him and her daughter, even bringing her septas into the village to watch over her grandchildren, in an attempt to "save" them from the "madness" of their mother. Lucerys tends to avoid her at all costs, not wanting to have an argument over beliefs, despite the fact the Fourteen Flames actually answers his prayers from time to time in the form of signs, visions and dreams, whilst her gods just stay silent and watch, despite her praying almost every day.
Then there was Helaena's husband brother, Aegon, the new chief. He was much of a drunkard, a pervert as well, often scaring away the maidens and frightening the septas. He often interrupts their lessons by barging in drunkenly, draping himself onto his wife before shouting. His drunken self is easy to anger, so Lucerys had to calmly call the guards so they may deal with him and put him to bed. Lucerys hates this "visits", especially since it often leaves his lessons short, as she would often breathe too quickly, before saying a barrage of nonsensical words, covering her ears or hugging her body, which he needed to calm down before she faints. If he couldn't do it, then he would hope that Aemond, her brother, returned home so he may calm her.
Aemond seems to be the more decent of her brothers, willing to stay with her and calm her down. He is also the one who Lucerys has the least problems with, seeing as his job was to lead the army to raid other villages, and often times he would bring back certain trinkets or bugs for Helaena and her children. Often Lucerys could see why rumors of Aemond being the true father of Helaena's children could be spread, with how often he visits them, unlike Aegon who sometimes was too drunk to even remember his name, let alone his children's. He knows, however, that it wasn't true. He has been there long enough to know that Helaena had no interest in anyone, and Aemond respects her enough to never force her into doing anything.
He sometimes brought things for him as well. Pretty pearls from a fishing village seems to be his favorite thing to give him, and he has quite the collection, with some having so many different colors. Lucerys enjoys looking at them, experimenting on them when he had time to.
Then there was Daeron, their mother's golden boy. He was training to become a Septon, sent to the Sept in Old Town at a very young age, their mother's hometown, so he would grow to be a "better man than the rest of the family", something Alicent loves saying whenever she spoke of Daeron. When he does visit, he looked extremely uncomfortable, and Alicent would look extremely embarrassed at the state of her house, often calling the village a backward place, and that although she couldn't give him the same level of comfort he is used to, she wished he would visit often so she may not feel alone (despite her three other children and grandchildren living with her).
She has tried sending her grandchildren away to the Sept in the same manner, but was stopped by Aemond. Lucerys didn't know exactly what was spoken between the two, all he knows was that whatever good Aemond and Alicent's relationship had broke, with Alicent refusing to acknowledge her once favorite son.
Other than the family debacle and Lucerys trying to further his training without being forced to deal with their family's problems, Lucerys was mostly fine.
Lucerys was treated fairly well by the villagers, though him being there in the first place was worrying. Often times there would only be one seer, and in that village, Helaena was theirs. He was called when Helaena was pregnant with her third child Maelor, and the healers were talking about her possibility of dying in child birth. He was to learn everything from her in case she does pass, and was meant to be the next seer after her. Thankfully, she survived, and decided she wanted him there a bit longer, so she continued training him, and his knowledge grew from her assistance.
He does have a certain problem, however. Aemond, the one that causes him the least amount of headache due to him often being away, asked Helaena to allow him to take Lucerys in one of their raids. Of course, it was a very strange request, seers are meant to stay in the village, safe, far from possible harm. They are few in numbers, and keeping them alive has always been a priority in the eyes of their people, so asking him to accompany them in a raid, a danger for an unarmed, untrained-for-battle man like he was, isn't this just asking for trouble?
Unfortunately for him, Helaena seems to be fine with her student/would-be replacement traveling with her brother's raid party. In fact, she seemed almost pleased with it. Lucerys couldn't really refuse, since he was more of an extra mouth to feed in the village anyway. Besides, if they truly needed a seer's ability for a certain raid, then it must really be an important one. So he goes, unwillingly (though not showing it), and followed the man and his party.
It irked him, how the man was becoming increasingly annoying as the days go by. How he was asked (ordered) to sleep in the same tent as Aemond after the realization that he forgot to pack up a tent of his own (to be fair, he was forced to speed up his packing process, and only managed to take his tools for seeing, before getting dragged out of the house by one of Aemond's men). Or how he had to ride on the same horse as him (he wasn't that bad of a rider, Arrax just tended to be a bit prone to being skittish around other larger horses, and much harder to calm, that was all. He didn't need to sit in front of him on Vhagar, the old girl may have been a war horse but she looked old enough to keel over any minute now). There was even the time where he was forced to learn how to properly defend himself, with Aemond pinning him to the ground every single time, complaining about his weak muscles and small stature (he was a seer! Not a squire, nor a warrior-in-training, but a seer of the future! He was supposed to be staying in the village!)
He can't wait for the raid to be over so he could return to the village. Hells, there were times he just wanted to take Arrax and ride him back to Alys and never have to deal with Aemond or his family (except for Helaena and her children) again!