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disregardcanon · 5 years

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important modern westeros headcanons concerning the extended stark clan for my own modern au

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married couples: brandon and barbrey, ned and cat (duh), rickard and lyarra, hoster and minisa, brynden and unspecified beautiful man, and edmure and roslin

the starks, as we know them, are not The Starks Of Winterfell, they’re like their sixth cousins who live in winterfell the town (not the castle). they still have some runoff money from being related to them but they’re not the absurdly old money that The Starks Of Winterfell TM are. rickard and lyarra and then brandon and barbrey are at the cusp of between upper and upper middle class and then ned, lya, and benjen who didn’t go into the family business are towards the bottom of upper middle.

rickard stark is a shrewd and calculating businessman. he doesn’t ever coast through deals on the stark name, but he doesn’t like. avoid using it either. out of all his children, legal or good, he gets along the best with barbrey, brandon’s wife. rickard sent all of his children to a upper crust southron boarding school over the school years and then the “summer” (i don’t know how westerosi school years would work yet okay but imagine an equivalent of an american summer vacation) he sends brandon to stay with some friends in barrowtown, where he ended up falling in love with barbrey ryswell. he dies around the same time that bran is born of cancer.

lyarra stark, nee flint, is dedicated. she’s the one who kept up her husband’s squeaky clean public face, and she was always doing double time for brandon. when lyanna ran off with rhaegar and then came back with a baby to live with ned and cat for a few years, she was doing triple time. lyarra has a sharp wit and is very ambitious. she thinks that all of her children but brandon made a mistake when they chose not to go into the family business and she doesn’t let any of them forget it. she loves her grandchildren, even though she dislikes the circumstances of jon’s birth and thinks that ned might not have gone into police work if he didn’t marry a woman who went into law.

brandon and barbrey stark are the “someone will die.” “of fun!” couple. brandon is big, boisterous, and friendly and barbrey is hilarious, if you have a cruel and biting sense of humor. barbrey is devoted and loving, if you’re her family, and she’s disapproving of anyone who hasn’t earned her love. she and brandon don’t have children because brandon travels so much for work and barbrey doesn’t want them, but they love on ned and lyanna’s enough you’d think they were their own. brandon takes over the company when rickard dies and babrey is a higher up in her own father’s. she and roose bolton are frequent business partners.

in less fun news, barbrey’s sister, bethany, was married to roose bolton. barbrey and roose remain good friends until she attends the funeral of the man’s other son after he was killed resisting arrest for serial killing, torture, lots of not great ramsayish things because barbrey’s like “well roose is kinda a dick but it’s not like he wanted the kid to be like that. gotta go support the guy so he feels less bad” and gets a really bad vibe about the whole deal. she cuts off contact after that.

when lyanna stark was young, her mother and father were always talking about different businessmen she could marry and how she could come north and take over her portion of the family business, and lyanna felt suffocated. instead of coming back up to winterfell after her high school graduation, she runs off with her married poetry teacher, rhaegar viserion. it’s about a two year crazy ride of a romance, and lyanna ends up with a baby and the realization that rhaegar is terrible for her. she moves back up north to winterfell with ned, who was in the midst of a falling out with his parents over his choice to forego college and go into police work and his choice to marry so young, catelyn, and their young son robb. lyanna lived with ned for about four years (seeing sansa’s birth) before she died of cancer. this results in a few year long custody battle with jon’s father to keep him in winterfell. the custody arrangement ends up with jon spending major holidays of the seven and summer vacations with rhaegar and his siblings but all the rest of the year with ned and cat.

benjen made his way north to work for an expedition company north of the remains of the wall. he has not married and does not plan to. he dated a few women back in college, but it wasn’t really his thing. he tried dating a few men later on, but it wasn’t his thing either. benjen’s just kind of a lone wolf. he’ll spend holidays down in winterfell, and sometimes ned and cat spend the children up for a week or so at a time for a little break and because benjen loves his niblings

the tullys! depending on the way that i’m feeling on a given day they might be named tully and just be so distantly related to the tullys of riverrun that they can’t even prove a connection, “blackfish” as the children of a riverlands knight who admired brynden tully, or just “fish” because that’s a real last name and the idea of it makes me giggle. the family grew up in maidenpool.

hoster is a former physician well respected in the communtiy. he and his wife, a surgeon, made quite a nice living for themselves, and now hoster is in hospital administration, running the one at the university of maidenpool, one of the most respected institutions in the country.

minisa whent met hoster at the beginning of med school and the two have been together ever since. becoming a surgeon was difficult for minisa because of all of the obstacles that were against her, but she never let any of it stop her. she was said to have the “steadiest hands in the riverlands” and her children remember her for competent as a professional as well as for being kind and compassionate as a mother. minisa died in a car accident when catelyn was fifteen, and hoster was never the same since.

brynden was a college athlete, a pro athlete, and then a sports announcer. when catelyn was seventeen, he and his boyfriend were outed to the world and he became one of the most prominent gay celebrities, paving the way for more openly gay men in sports. he was always exceptionally close to his niblings, and once they had children, he doted on them just the same.

lysa was always a little bit unstable. she spent much of her life pining after petyr baelish, their neighbor across the street who was always in love with cat but never looked her way once. when she tried to talk to him about her affections, he laughed in her face the same way that cat had to him. when petyr moved away to king’s landing for college, he never came back and never spoke to her again, though catelyn apparently heard from him lots.

she flitted from interest to interest, always trying to find something that she was better at than catelyn. she took up a job at an after school program for primarily underprivileged kids, and while she wasn’t good at working with groups, she found that she was very good at making individual members feel loved and confident in ways that she never had as a child. she decided to start up her own home day care with high rates that only let in a small amount of kids, so that they could have more personalized attention.

she never had any luck with romantic relationships, but after deciding that she wanted a child of her own, she went through the insemination process and had robin. unlike canon robin, this robin almost never lacked peers to interact with between his mom’s daycare kids, his winterfell cousins and his maidenpool cousins, he never lacked for friends. and between his grandparents, his cousins, and his aunts and uncles, robin ever lacked for family or love.

edmure and roslin met at college. while hoster had been trying to pressure edmure into medical school, he met roslin in his intro to psychology classes and fell in love with the subject as he fell in love with her. roslin is the daughter of, of course, walder frey, by one of his later wives. walder is like a donald trump figure in all the grossesness that entails. roslin became interested in discovering why people act the way that they do (and why that way is so often Bad) and how to try to help people like, not do that. discovering a man who was so earnest, true, and kind was a breath of fresh air. edmure only completed his bachelors and ended up going into public relations at a company in maidenpool but roslin went all the way to get her doctorate and start practicing psychiatry and helping people that way. they had three daughters, minisa who’s rickon’s age, bethany who’s three years younger, and celia who’s two years younger than that.

#modern westeros au #nedcat #edmure x roslin #brandon x barbrey #asoiaf #barbrey dustin #roslin frey #edmure tully #brynden tully #lyarra stark #rickard stark #minisa whent

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wordsdontmeanshit · 6 years

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Little Bundle of Joy

Different scenarios of the family meeting Arya and Gendry's daughter, Edlyn, for the first time. This is kind of a part 2 for my one-shot for It's a Sign from AxG Week. Though it can be a stand alone fic.

Chapter 1: Catelyn and Ned

Arya looked down at her little bundle of joy, who was sleeping soundly in her arms. She had the dopiest grin on her face as she watched Edlyn sleep peacefully.

Gendry finally stopped hovering around the room, trying to make sure that Arya was as comfortable as possible. He came over to Arya's bed and stood over her and their daughter. He kissed the top of Arya's head.

"You are so amazing."

Arya's smile widens at his words though her eyes remain of their perfect daughter. "Well, I didn't make her alone."

Gendry chuckles, "No you didn't, but you did most of heavy lifting." He kisses the top of her head again.

A soft knock is heard at the door.

Arya's parents were at the door with big smiles and gifts.

Catelyn walked over to Arya with Ned following behind her. Cat pulled her into a gentle hug. "How are you feeling, sweetie?"

There was so much that Arya could complain about but nothing came to mind in the moment. "I'm perfect."

Her parents leaned over Arya to get a better look at Edlyn. "And who is this little bundle of joy?"

Arya smiled at her mother's choice of words. "This is Edlyn, the most precious baby ever." Arya finally looked up from watching Edlyn sleep. She looked at her father when she said the name. "She is named after the greatest dad ever, her grandfather." Arya handed Edlyn over to Ned.

Ned smiled at his daughter's words. "She is so precious."

Gendry pulled Arya closer to him and gave her another kiss on top of her head. He reached for both of her hands since they were no longer holding their daughter.

Edlyn had opened her eyes a little when she was moved from her mother's arms. Ned rocked little Edlyn with the biggest smile on his face. Ned was already a grandpa to Sansa's two sons and Robb's son, but this was his first granddaughter. He gently stroked Edlyn's black hair and her blue eyes sparkled at him. He thought that Edlyn looked just like Arya when she was a baby but Catelyn seemed to disagreed.

"She looks just like Arya did when she was born."

Cat leaned in closer to Ned and Edlyn to get a better looked at her granddaughter. "No, she doesn't. Edlyn looks just like Gendry with her black hair and blue eyes."

Arya just smiled warmly, still watching her father hold her daughter.

Gendry chuckled at Catelyn's comment, "I think she looks a bit like me too but I'm sure that she will grow out of it and inherit her mother's beauty."

"I think she is just perfect as is," Arya stated.

Gendry just smiled more and agreed with his wife because it was true. Edlyn was perfect.

Catelyn began hovering around Arya like Gendry was earlier. Catelyn wanted to make sure that Arya was comfortable in her bed. She started to fluff the pillows. "Are you cold, sweetheart? Do you want me to get you another blanket?"

"I'm fine," Arya replied, with a weak smile, her exhaustion was starting to show.

"Are you sure, honey? If you are hungry, I can go grab you something."

"Mom, I'm fine, really," Arya responded.

Catelyn nodded and just moved on to the next thing. "Arya, you should open the gifts that your father and I got for Edlyn."

Gendry let go of Arya's hands as Cat came over once again to hand him all the presents that she had brought. Arya opened the first gift, which was a baby mobile for above the crib.

Arya smiled as she saw the little animals that were attached. "Thank you, mom. It's perfect," Arya remarked.

"Gendry, look, there is even a bull for you," Arya smiled.

Gendry picked up each of the little plushy animals attached and analyzed them with a smile on his face. There was an animal for each of their houses. Wolf for the Starks. Fish for the Tullys. Stag for Baratheon. And a bull for Gendry.

"What a perfect gift for our perfect little bullheaded she-wolf," Gendry concurred.

"The bullheaded part, she gets from her father," Arya quipped.

Gendry chuckled and gave Arya another kiss on top of her hair.

"The other gifts are mostly unisex clothes since you wouldn't tell us the gender," Catelyn mentioned though there is one more gift that isn't clothes. Cat starts to shuffle through the gift bags that Gendry placed down on the ground.

"Ned, do you know where the green bag is? I can't seem to find it," Cat asked. Ned just shook his head, but didn't take his eyes off of Edlyn. "It must be in the car." Catelyn left the room in search of the bag.

Arya turned to her father, who was still rocking little Edlyn, trying to get her back to sleep. Arya put her hands out, wanting to hold her daughter again.

Ned handed Edlyn back to Arya. "Isn't she amazing?" Arya asks.

"She is perfect, just like you my little wolf."

Arya smiles at the nickname that she had also given her daughter. Her own little wolf. The newest addition to the pack.

Arya's eyes fluttered a bit. "You should rest some more Arya," Gendry states. Arya wants to argue with him that she is totally fine but she is still a bit tired so she hands Edlyn to him. She watches Gendry bounce Edlyn softly as she laid back further into her pillows begins to dose off.

"I can't believe that my little wolf is all grown up and just had her own little wolf," Ned commented.

Gendry smiled, "You said something similar at our wedding. I think your words even made Arya tear up a bit."

"It's hard to see your children grow up, I still remember Arya as the little girl that ran around after her brothers. She was always covered in mud from playing outside," Ned smiled fondly of the memory of Arya. "You'll know the feeling soon enough, now that you have a daughter."

Gendry chuckled, watching his daughter wiggle in his arms.

Catelyn reappeared into the room with the green gift bag. "Is it my turn to hold my granddaughter?"

Gendry hands Edlyn to Cat and takes the gift bag from her to put on the pile of other presents. "Gendry, why don't you open the gift," Cat suggest as she swaddles Edlyn close to her body.

Gendry begins opening the gift, while Cat spoke softly to the baby. "What a good little girl you are. I haven't seen you cry once today. You must have gotten that from your father because Arya had a set of lungs on her when she was born." Cat marveled at her silent granddaughter.

Gendry pulled out the little wolf plushy that looked exactly like Nymeria. "Edlyn's first wolf."

Catelyn positioned Edlyn to show her the little toy wolf despite Edlyn being too young to focus on it. "Look Edlyn, look what grandma and grandpa got you. A little wolf of your own."

Gendry waved the wolf around in front of his daughter.

Gendry's face hurt from smiling so much. He didn't think that he stopped smiling since the first moment that Edlyn was laid into his arms. Edlyn was perfect in every way. She already so loved and she had yet to met the majority of her family.

#arya x gendry #arya x gendry au #axg fic #gendrya #modern au #alternative universe #fluff #lots and lots of fluff #baby fic #Baby Edlyn #Liv attempts to write shit

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