Currently trying to write a long Elia Martell x Baelor Hightower AU fic, exploring their life together from right after their first meeting and going through a couple decades of their marriage, and I’m running into a weirdest roadblock figuring out who their four children will get married to.
For the two youngest, a girl (born circa 286) and a boy (born circa 289), I’m thinking Edric Dayne (b. 287) and Alysanne Bulwer (b. 291). Edric for obvious reasons bearing Dayne and all that, and Alysanne since she is the head of her house Bulwer, a Hightower bannerman, after her father’s death.
For the two oldest, a girl (b. 276) and a boy (b. 280), I’m not actually sure. I’d imagine that it won’t be difficult to get the daughter married to some lord paramount (but I’m not sure I like any of the potential prospects), or take a daughter of a lord paramount as a wife for the son, but there seems to be a shortage of daughters of suitable age. Sigh, this is more difficult than I though.
I guess my perception here is affected by the fact that I view Ella’s two older children as esstially “Rhaenys” and “Aegon” (except for the fact that they weren’t born from Rhaegar, which is only a plus in my book), and I love Rhaenys x Robb and Aegon x Margaery, but in this AU “aegon” and Margaery will be cousins, and I’m highly doubting that “Rhaenys” will find herself/will want to go to the North.
Why is this difficult, sigh.