#staghedge

[cyborrrg]

the stag and the hedge

[froggypogs]

Wildling Dunk being captured by Lyonel (he was on a world tour and ended up fighting alongside some northerners against Dunk's clan) he bought Dunk to heel and said as payment he would take the big man as his, he didn't just want Dunk to be payment he wanted Dunk to become his companion and most trusted person to his heart. It was love at first fight. Dunk had struck him so hard across the face he could swear he saw the Warrior himself. It was as if Lyonel was guided by the Seven themselves to meet this wildling man. He would swear up and down there was a connection between the two, visible only in their eyes. Dunk would disagree and try to snap Lyonel's neck multiple times. Lyonel would become even more smitten by the sheer strength of this one man alone, big and strong to take on ten men by himself and only bought down by Lyonel's own might and power. He can already hear wedding bells ring for their unity.

[dandeelyun]

this started as a raymun drawing believe it or not

stormhedge sleeper agent hit

[thatredobsessedgirlie]

just imagined Lyonel having a version of his antler crown made into a ring for him and Duncan when they get married with blue jewels to represent his big blue-eyed kind beauty

(Bonus points if that man absolutely uses it in sex when he’s fingering Duncan, he keeps it on to add extra sensations, etc.)

[drrattt]

You mentioned Lyonel Bitching Dunk and/or mating him in a couple of the Bitched!AU posts. Do you have any headcanons/ideas for how that might have gone down?

Yes!

Now with my Lyonel au there are a couple of caveats. 

1) Lyonely is closer to his cannon age. Which places him between 15-25 at ashford. I will have him be 25 at ashford. 

2) They meet a lot earlier.  Idk why I just feel it in my bones. 

Ser Arlan is doing small tourney in the storms lands and gets invited/ just shows up to the Baratheon party tent which is almost larger than the tourney grounds themselves. It looks more like a Baratheon party ft. Some joust. 

Similar to Ashford  21 year old Lyonel is zeroing in on that man like a heat seeking missile . 

Now Dunk is a freshly presented Alpha (16/17) and although alphas tend to be more aggressive when freshly presented Dunk is still a nervous boy trying to make himself smaller in a place he knows he shouldn’t be. 

Now Lyonel doesn’t have a gender or orientation preference. As long as it’s a consensual good bit of fun he’s down. 

Arlan ends up sneaking off with one of the local lords maids so Dunk is sitting next to the third son of the house of Baratheon, stag antlers now placed on his head getting hit on. 

He gives Dunk the same talk and is then like let’s go for a walk ;) 

Dunk is like ok :) 

Well the walk turns into a kiss turns into Lyonel showin a surprising feat of strength carrying Dunk to his room in the hosts keep. 

Lyonel as first is like hey wanna do me?

But Dunk gets blushy, tells him he’s never done it before and he doesn’t want to hurt Lyonel. 

Lyonel is offended. He’s THE slut of the storm lands he can handle another alphas co-

Okay maybe they should look at Dunk fucking him later. After like two days of prep. That dick is incredibly proportional. 

So for the 5 days they’re there Lyonel and Dunk are fucking almost every day. 

Turns out Dunk very much likes to bottom. 

As Ser Arlan and Dunk go to leave. Arlan Giving Lyonel the sink eye, Lyonel loudly declares that once Dunk is knighted he will become apart of his retinue of guards. 

After there a while away Arlan tells Dunk to get whatever he is thinking out of his head. The word of nobles means less than dirt in the light of day. 

Dunk wants to argue that Lyonel isn’t like that but Arlan reminds him of all the lovers Lyonel has favoured over the years. Pointing out one that was in the tent who had been in Lyonels bed for nigh on two years. Only to be ignored and sent off to marry a smaller noble man months prior. 

Dunk the lunk thicker than a castle wall feels foolish for his belief in what Lyonel had whispered to him at night. 

As they go along their way Dunk starts to feel sick. His body hurts, bones feel like there shifting his stomach cramps are awful. He keeps on sweating through his clothes, stinking up the area he’s in. 

He and Ser Arlan have no choice but to keep moving. They don’t have enough money to see any wood witch or village healer. 

However at a fight with bandits Dunks scent takes a swift turn. Suddenly his earthy Alpha scent has become sweeter. Like the maple that pours from trees in the north. Like creamy smell of milkweed. 

The Bandits are frozen but Arlan pushes through his shock to dispatch the rest of the bandits. 

Then he grabs what they’ve stolen, takes it back to the town. Gets paid. Then instead of going to the brothel he grabs Dunk and takes him to the (cheapest) local healer. 

The best they can get is a midwife but that turns out to be for the best because after kicking Arlan out and only letting him in after a good few hours the woman tells him that Dunk has been bitched. 

Apparently Dunk had gained himself a vagina weeks ago but had been too scared and embarrassed to tell Arlan. Which earns him a clout around ear. 

For someone who believes most noble men have no honour (Prince Baelor excluded) Ser Arlan sure is going to make Lyonel take responsibility. 

On the ride back to the storm lands, Dunk is doing any thing he can to stop Ser Arlans crusade towards Storms End. 

The horror and embarrassment of people knowing that he was bitched is too much. 

But Ser Arlan is stubborn and it’s happening. 

Before they get to storms end they find Lyonels Party tent at a lords castle for some hunt. 

Ser Arlan just burst in there and points his sword at Lyonel. Legs up, shirt fully open, antlers on head and wine in had Lyonel is stunned when an old man yells at him. Waving a sword around like Lyonel deflowered his daughter and left her with child. 

He perks up when he sees his knight behind the old man, apologising profusely as Lyonels guards start surrounding them, swords drawn.

Lyonel just signals hold Ser Arlan while he stalks his way towards Dunk. 

He’s about to say some shitty one line that would work on only Dunk when he stops.

Sniffs.

Oh?

Lyonel asks who bitched him Ser Arlan says it was him. 

Dunks bright red face confirms it. 

Lyonel is confused because most bitchings take a while and are only exhilarated if its multiple alphas in a short time. 

He’s about to open his mouth again when Arlan beats him too it by saying the lads not had time to see anyone else, already defensive. 

Once again Dunks face says it all.

Well nothing for it! obviously the mother has designed them to be together or how could merely several tumbles in the bed have caused him to start and finish the process of bitching with no one else help?

Sign from the gods. Gotta marry my huge Omega wife now. Grab the Septon.

Ser Arlan still dies around the time he did before. Dunk and Lyonel have had their first two children by then. Dunk wanted to name them after plants because he wanted them to have beauty and colour in their lives. 

Lyonel agreed because he loves Dunk but refused to let him name either of their daughters Wheat. I don’t care how much you talk to me about Wheats value and all the metaphors and memories it brings Wheat is not a name. 

Juniper and Oleander. Two hardy thriving plants that thrive in the windy, rainy land that is the Stormlands.

No Roses or Peonies; their Reach names >:p

Ashford kind of goes a similar way. Dunk asks to go solo hedge knight mode to Ashford in memory of Ser Arlan.

Lyonel allows him but is privately freaking out about the most desirable omegas in the 7 (9) Kingdoms going solo. 

However because of this he does bring their two daughters along because Dunk isn’t around to say no and he wants to show off his daughters damn it!

Dunk ends up with his little squire Egg, although he actually takes him on at the inn because Egg makes him nostalgic and he feels like taking this orphan boy to squire  is something he would have wanted.

So they get a lot more bonding time together. Although when they come up to Ashford Dunk reveals who he is.

He tells Egg that if he still wants to squire for him theres a hearth for waiting for him to warm himself by at Storms End. 

Egg is thrown off because Dunk gives away 0 inclination he is noble. Especially married to the son of a Lord Paramount. The same paramount that oversees the domain his family live in!

Although come to think of it wasn’t there the story of a Stag in a Hedge or something? 

Dunk goes to pop by say hi to his husband and introduce him to his new squire. Only to find his daughters there. 

What the fuck Lyonel!

After a “Talk” Dunk says that he and Egg will be camping the old fashioned way.

Alone.  

Puppet thing still happens, Egg prince reveal still stings and Dunk is put in the cells. 

HOWEVER

Word gets out about the tent and then Lyonel Baratheon is storming into Lord Ashford’s keep demanding to know where his husband is. He even brings  girls as ammunition. 

(to be like, how can u deny children their omega parent?)

(He’s an Omega!!!)

Dunk is released but they must come back the next day to discuss this incident and Eggs alleged kidnapping. 

The come the next day, daughters included (They wont leave Dunk alone. Lyonel ranting about the Targaryens meaning to kill Dunk did not help)

So the Baratheons and the Targaryens are all sat there ready to hash things out. 

(For some reason Baelor is starting to feel envious of Lyonel as he watches Dunk bounce his daughters on his knee with ease. Occasionally kissing them on the forehead for being well behaved.)

There’s an agreement come to that the Baratheons will have to compensate Maekar for Aerions injuries however the Targaryens have to compensate the Baratheons for false accusations and the imprisonment of high nobles Omega in a jail cell. 

So it basically breaks net even with the bonus of Egg becoming Dunks Squire and Aerion being fostered in Starfell for a bit. (Egg just feels like he’s winning, best trip ever)

Lyonel feeling, smug until Oleander suddenly pipes up. 

(Maekar has been so hot under the collar for Dunks ability to keep two 4 year olds in check while all three of his children still cant sit still and stfu through out this entire meeting.)

Oleander says that her Septa Fiona has been telling them about marriages and how they bring people and families together.  So she’ll marry Daeron when she is of age. 

Everyone just freezes. 

Daeron, pale faced hungover and lucking like they found him in a gutter has somehow infatuated Oleander Baratheon.

[anotheronleft]

I would love to hear about your Duncan Targaryen au, is he the son of Baelor, Maekar or is he their brother or a dragonseed that is discovered and brought to the Red Keep? Tell me more plss

Alright, thanks to you and @rayexpert for giving me the motivation to talk about this:

Bit of an intrudoction: Dunk isn’t a Targaryen by blood, he was adopted in the family.

In this au Daeron is ten when red grass happens (cannot remember his age in canon), so let’s start there.

While his father is fighting Red Grass, Daeron, Aerion and Dyanna are in KL, and Daeron keeps getting urgent dreams that basically show him a passage from the keep to file bottom over and over every night, with, in the background the feeling of brotherly affection he feels for Aerion, the dream get more and more urgent as the days pass (they started a couple of days before the actual battle) and Daeron interprets them (correctly) to be telling him that he’ll find a sibling in Flea Bottom if he follows the path that the dreams show him, so, a couple of days after the battle has ended and Maekar and Baelor are back at the Red Keep, he sneaks out using what the dreams showed him and heads to Flea Bottom.

On Flea Bttom he follows the path and finds a really traumatised Dunk huddling in a corner of a dirty hallway with Rafe blood still on his face and still bleeding from the cut on his leg, Daeron sees him and immediately decided that 1: that’s who the dreams were leading him to and 2 that he’s gonna bring his new brother home

Daeron spends a couple of hours coaxing Dunk from his corner and gets even more convinced that Dunk is meant to be his brother, in the end Dunk decides to help Daeron back to the Red Keep (he admitted to not remembering the path well enough to take it back, and Dunk knows that it’s a miracle he hasn’t been robbed and left in a ditch yet because it’s obvious to anyone from FL that those clothes are expensive as fuck) and tells him that he’ll help him but that he doesn’t know whether he will stick around.

(Dunk doesnt know who Daeron is, he thinks him a random noble’s child)

They get to the Red Keep and Daeron manages to find the entrance to the secret passage and basically drags Dunk up to the holdfast where his whole family is panicking about him disappearing (he’s been gone for basically the whole day) when they get to the doors of Baelor’s quarters a bewildered and relieved Kingsguard lets them inside.

Daeron slams the door open on his father screaming at his uncle to not tell him to calm down, with the whole family being present, Daeron enters, everybody turns to look at him, and Dunk basically hides behind him because he may not have seen the royals before but you don’t need to be a genious to realise who they are as half of them have pure white hair and are in the keep.

Daeron gets a bit smothered by his parents but steps back to stand better in front of Dunk as he can tell his new brother is panicking and all the eyes on him are making it worse, so he get in front of Dunk (who’s taller than him but hunching a lot and basically trembling) and introduces him as his new brother.

Cue pandemonium as Maekar is yelling his confusion and demanding answers, Dyanna is also like “I did not birth that one”, the king and queen are getting flashback of Aegon the bitch and having a mental breakdown over their son cheating on his wife, caos is had until Aerion (who’s still a sweet little kid at this point) walks up to Dunk sees him crying (Daeron has his back to him to try and hide him better) and yells at everybody to shut up before turning toward Dunk like “are you my big brother or little brother?” Because at this point that’s his only priority.

The moment of shock serves enough for Dyanna to gently ask Daeron to explain, Daeron does (giving all adults in the room a collective heart attack about daeron going in flea bottom). In the end Maekar and Dyanna are cowed by Daeron possessive “he’s MINE”, Aerion pure excitement at having a new brother and Dunk teary eyes as he looks up at them clearly miserable and scared, and decide to keep the kid, as a ward for now. Then Daeron moves from in front of Dunk and everybody freak out as they realise the kid’s injured.

What follow are some months at the Red Keep where Maekar and Dyanna get attached to the little anxious mess and decide to adopt him for real, (Baelor is just bitter he couldn’t do it himself, he got *one* starry eyed look from Dunk and he was gone) so they adopt him and bring him back with them to Summerhall.

As the years go by Duncan grows up as a prince, he learnstogether with his siblings and shows a natural talent for fighting (more like he’s really good at winning fights, Maekar takes some time to teach him that he should actually fight like a knight and not a feral child) which Maekar appreciates as Daeron clearly doesnt like it and isn’t good at it while Aerion is good at it but likes it a bit *too* much. Duncan also develops a love for painting and usually spends his fee time either doing that or spending time with the horses, he’s also the favourite of the older brothers, and is constantly with a little helper around his little painting studio in the form of his younger siblings.

Duncan does participate in tourneys and gets a name for himself, but he doesn’t enjoy it, he does it because it makes Maekar proud, and he loves his papa.

In this au there isn’t a particular “Ashford event” as Aerion gets in less trouble with a older brother ready to check his shit, and while Daeron does periodically go out to drink Duncan usually knows where he is, also Egg doesn’t run away because he’s squiring for his *cool* older brother and couldn’t be happier.

Dunk does like to spend time with the small folk and usually spends tourney dressed as a commoner and participating in the revelry, Maekar tried stopping him when he was younger, but Dunk was like “Im gonna do it anyway, so, do you prefer me sneaking out, which you know Im good at, or do you prefer knowing where I am?” In the end Maekar agrees on the condition Dunk always bring at least one guard with him, which Dunk does, as long as they disguise themselves appropriately. It also helps that, since he looks nothing like the rest of the family, and always introduces himself as Dunk from Flea Bottom, almost nobody recognises him, apart from the small folks around Summerhall who know exactly who he is but choose to ignore it.

Now this is a pretty angst free au, and it is stormhedge. I think I’ve written even a bit too much for one single post, so if you have any questions please ask, <3

[jay-trekking]

Lyonel if you could go five minutes without thirsting over Duncan that’d be great

[falling-through-a-trapdoor]

I know Lyonel was pissed when Egg came to get him to fight for Dunk that Dunk hadn’t immediately come to him for help. Like they danced together, had a late night drunk heart to heart, Dunk “went to war” for Lyonel in the tug of war, during which Lyonel slapped his ass and also attempted to basically jump into his arms… here Lyonel is thinking they’re damn near an item… and then it turns out Dunk didn’t even come to him we he really needed help…