title from “The Great War” by Taylor Swift
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“Eighteen years ago, you marched off with Robert Baratheon. A year later you came home with another woman’s son.” Catelyn Stark, 298 AC
Lady Catelyn Stark fell pregnant on her wedding night; not only to her new husband’s son and heir, but with his twin sister as well. She named them Robb and Lyanna, after her husband’s best friend and the sister he would fail to rescue. Upon her husband’s return from war, with a bastard son, Lady Stark locked herself in her chambers and refused his attempts to make amends. By the time Lady Stark emerged, ready to forgive her husband; it had been five years since her husband’s return, and the birth of her children.
In the absence of their mother, Robb and Lyanna Stark were raised by their father alongside their bastard brother, Jon Snow, and their father’s ward, Theon Greyjoy, in Winterfell. It is widely understood in the North but seldom discussed that because Lyanna Stark was raised almost exclusively by her father; she was granted her an education identical to her brothers Robb and Jon, rather than one like her younger sister Sansa.
It has been 18 years since Robert’s Rebellion, and the Seven Kingdoms have experienced an extended season of peace and summer.
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Rating: Mature (aka MINORS BEGONE I MEAN IT)
General CW/TW: canon typical violence and sex (this is game of thrones y’all)
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