#lyanna

[what-inthe-goddamn]

Lyanna, my love.

Another glimpse into Six's life before New Vegas

(a small self-indulgent fic down below for this)

A half-burnt photo, a shredded journal, and a fractured memory. That was all Six had left of Lyanna.

The courier looked up at the photo, lightly running her thumb over the singed edge of it, right where Lyanna’s face should be. Now it was just reduced to ash. Six’s face remained, and so did Idunn’s, the ghoul towering behind her. The boy’s face beside Six had remained unscathed as well, but his name still was lost to her. That wasn’t the important part at the moment.

Six’s eyes flickered back to Lyanna, trailing the features she could find. The girl’s long braids reached her waist. Six remembered how they would braid each other’s hair each morning, how it felt to run her fingers through the silk-like stands Lyanna had. The other girl would quietly sing and talk the whole time, and Six just liked to listen, humming along or in response as they worked.

In the picture Six could just make out the two elk teeth above Lyanna’s front jacket pocket. She knew there were two on the other side. Two were a gift from Lyanna’s dad, and two a gift from Six herself for Lyanna’s sixteenth birthday. Or was it the seventeenth? Ah, well. Regardless, Lyanna loved them, practically jumped into Six’s arms, and kissed her face so much that Six’s skin turned bright red. That night they sewed them onto her jacket, just like they had spent many other nights decorating them. They had the same arm bands, marking that they had accomplished something or another. The exact meaning for the wolves and snake didn’t come to mind.

Lyanna had these earrings too, beautifully embroidered beads of white, blue, and pink. She wore them every day, and Six often had to help Lyanna get them unstuck from her hair when they danced. Six never really liked dancing. But when Lyanna would find her hiding away in the back of the lodge, away from the crowd, and she would take Six’s hand and lead her to the center with the biggest smile, the string lights above illuminating it. How could she say no to her?

Those nights always ended with them dragging their sore feet home, collapsing into the bed. The chill of nights in the winter always cut deep into their bones, and Six would pile blanket upon blanket on top of them. In the morning they woke up, Lyanna’s face being the first thing she saw. Six would just linger there, eyes tracing the features of Lyanna’s eyes, nose, lips, a thousand times over.

Six sighed, tucking the photo back inside the journal on her nightstand.

She remembered so many things about Lyanna.

So why not that?

#courier six #lyanna #fallout oc #throws this at yall and runs away #fallout new vegas #fallout #fnv #fnv fanart #fnv fanfic #click for quality

[eliamartel]

The loudest lyanna stans really think she'd run to a married father of two to joyously have his kids 😂

#lyanna stark #anti rhaelya #lyanna

[thescriptofsharkboyandlavagirl3d]

i don’t think i’ve seen anyone address this but it is so fucking disrespectful to aegon targaryen (son of elia) to name jon snow aegon. if aegon did die then his death was a direct consequence of rhaegar’s actions that resulted in jon’s birth. if young griff isn’t actually aegon, then this poor boy had his head smashed against the wall because his father abandoned his family to fulfill some prophecy and they think it’s a good idea to name another one of his son’s aegon.

and you know for a fact that if rhaegar did win, he would have completely overlooked aegon for jon.

#aegon targaryen #aegon vi targaryen #rhaegar x elia #anti rhaegar #rhaegar targaryen #jon snow #rhaegar x lyanna #lyanna stark #lyanna #elia #elia martell #got #game of thrones

[blue-rose-of-wolves]

@love-dragoneyes @dorneandthenorth @sayruq

@thelastdragonsnet @princessofdragonsandwolves @irisewithsunyourisewiththemoon

@asoiafrarepairs @houseofjaqen

@asoiaffanart-blog

@asoiafwomensource

#blue rose od wolves #lyanna stark #house stark #house of stark #winter is coming #winterfell #lya stark #pre asoiaf #lyanna #lyanna x rhaegar #lyanna x elia #elia x lyanna #the silver prince #elia x rhaegar #rhaegar x elia #rhaegar x lyanna #house targaryen #the last poet in westeros #the golden viper of dorne #the last dragon #thelastdragonsnet

[jedimaesteryoda]

I saw your brienne lyanna parallel post, and it reminds me of a meta I've read in which OP compares jaime-brienne-cersei to rhaegar-lyanna-elia. It interests me because it has many parallels than i thought, though I'm highkey sure the former's fates won't be the same as the latter. What do you think?

Rhaegar and Lyanna's story was a classic chivalric romance up to and including a tragic ending. Jaime and Brienne's story is a bit of a screwball romantic comedy mixed with chivalric romance.

Rhaegar was married to Elia in an arranged political marriage and while there was fondness they weren't romantically in love. He pursues a relationship with Lyanna with there possibly being romantic love as he was impressed by her act of chivalry defending Howland in a tourney.

Cersei is the royal in an arranged political marriage maintaining an adulterous relationship with Jaime and although there is arguably some romantic love from at least Jaime, it involved a lot of sexual manipulation on her part. Jaime eventually grows after the loss of his hand, and comes to realize the truth about Cersei and their relationship to the point at the end of AFFC, he has officially broken up with her, symbolized by throwing her plea for help in the fire. He falls for Brienne, seeing in her the ideal knight he aspired to as a boy.

Both Rhaegar and Lyanna and Jaime and Brienne's relationships lasted through a terrible war. All three people involved in the former died as Rhaegar dies in battle, followed by Elia's horrific rape-murder and Lyanna dying from the complications of childbirth. Cersei like Elia is destined to die along with all her children, and I don't think Jaime will die in battle but he will likely die strangling Cersei while she takes the sword from his belt, the thing he had that she always wanted, and mortally wounds him.

Lyanna survived long enough to give birth to Jon at the end of the war. I think Brienne will survive the war, and unlike Lyanna will survive the series, and she will give birth to a son by Jaime. Just as Jon likely will be the series' King Arthur, Jaime and Brienne's child would be the series' Galahad, the bastard son by Lancelot who becomes the most perfect of all knights.

#jaime x brienne #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #brienne the beauty #rhaegar x lyanna #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna #lyanna stark #cersei #queen cersei

[kapreysun]

is your name lyanna stark cause you're haunting my narrative

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #grrm #lyanna stark #stark #lyanna #got #game of thrones #agot #mine #guys she was haunting the narrative from page 17 of agot #jon cant catch a break #ned stark #haunting the narrative

[mikaelaryder]

rat boy & rat daughter

#me #lyanna

[rosaluxembae]

I was joking about HBO degingering the Tullys on Twitter yesterday but it is interesting how it affects Arya and Jon's relationship. Like it's a little thing but there's this conscious and explicit thing about them both looking like each other (ie like Starks) when all the others look like Tullys. I think it's supposed to mirror and reinforce the idea that they're kinda misfits as well as how close they are to each other.

In Arya's case it also emphasises her Northernness, in contrast to Sansa's Southernness. I think I was going to talk about Arya and Sansa and Northern and Southern gender roles a few time before but always backed out. Like Arya is kinda transgressive of Northern gender roles too but there's a lot more wriggle room up there when you compare Lyanna and the particular "extreme" example of the Mormonts.

With Stark girls, it's highlighted by their looks like I said, and also their religion. As well as which family they take after, there's also like beauty standards. I've said before that Arya is canonically beautiful, Sansa and Jeyne are just bullies, but I think there's also an element of her having a kind of Northern kind of beauty like Lyanna, which is kinda different from Sansa being completely in line with Southern beauty standards. Although that's not to say Southrons don't appreciate Northern beauty, they clearly find Lyanna beautiful and various characters comment that Arya is pretty too but it's just a slightly different dynamic I guess.

#asoiaf #stark #Tully #Sansa #sansa stark #Arya #arya stark #Lyanna #lyanna stark #GOT #agot

[gojuo]

Having to witness Ragged Tarpits and Becky with the Blue Roses fraudulent ass wedding ceremony in fucking DORNE of all places was borderline vomit inducing, but the fact that production got two of the most mid looking actors to play them was most pleasing to me. Ragged especially looked like a foot in Viserys' old, musty unwashed 2 dollar wig. Never getting over it lmaooooooooo.

Anyway, I do not acknowledge any of that shit as canon and D and D better pay for their sins. Inshallah.

IM CRYINGGGGGGG cuz you wanna know why? Bc that RxL wedding bullshit was so obviously D&D dog ass fanfiction because they wrote themselves into a corner by erasing Young Griff from the show, the guy the entire Southern Plotline is going to revolve around in TWOW and ADOS. I mean they literally split his storyline into four and gave it to other characters:

The legitimate heir part and most of the Westerosi lords' support being with Aegon against Dany went to Jon.

The Golden Company + being King of Westeros once Dany arrives and having the people's love and support against her and the final showdown with her went to Cersei.

Varys + Tyrion + JonCon's trauma of the bells went to Dany.

Jorah got JonCon's greyscale.

Jon's arc has never been about being "the rightful hidden heir". Those are the fantasy trope cliches GRRM has always been subverting. It's Aegon that is the legitimate heir, and what you'd expect is for him to save the day and live happily ever after ... but that's not going to happen. The legitimate heir, the true hidden prince, is going to die, horrifically. And so is the other legitimate Targaryen (Daenerys). But the one that will come out on top is the bastard.

Now, I don't want to make it seem like Jon's character purpose is being a bastard, because that's the wrong conclusion in my opinion. The point and most important aspect to Jon is being Ned Stark's bastard. And then he's going to find out the man he believed to be his father is not his father at all. The issue with this is that people conflate that with legitimacy which is also the wrong conclusion because that's exactly Aegon's plot, not Jon's. The point of R+L=J is the fact that Jon Snow will no longer be Ned Stark's bastard son, which will devastate him.

However ... how-fucking-ever ... D&D decided to forgo this important facet of Jon and did decide to not write the THIRD HEAD OF THE DRAGON into the story but give the part of Aegon's plotline of being the legitimate heir in the books to show!Jon, which left a very big problem: How were they going to justify why there was a legitimacy battle going down between Jon and Dany when Jon can't even be the legitimate heir if his parents are not married? Which they weren't. Because Rhaegar only needed a Visenya for his already-there Rhaenys and Aegon, and as would-be king he could just legitimize his own bastards without any trouble. So he did not need to marry Lyanna to have a child with her per se, especially not the Visenya she was supposed to bear him. And I especially do not believe Lyanna was in any way or form in love with him or that she went with him willingly, considering what we know of her.

Besides, when Rhaegar returned from the Tower of Joy after making sure he raped a baby into Lyanna to King's Landing to ride off for the Trident, he said this to Jaime about Elia, Rhaenys and Aegon:

“And the children, them as well,” said Prince Lewyn.

Prince Rhaegar burned with a cold light, now white, now red, now dark. “I left my wife and children in your hands.”

“I never thought he’d hurt them.” Jaime’s sword was burning less brightly now. “I was with the king … ”

ASOS, Jaime VI.

So you see how he still refers to Elia as his wife, meaning no damn annulment took place? He can't even fucking annul a marriage that is fully legal and totally consummated, and prophecy-obsessed Rhaegar 100% would never cast away his two children HE DEEMED TO BE 2/3 HEADS OF HIS THREE-HEADED DRAGON and he sure as fuck did not make Aegon, literally the son he believed to be the PTWP (as seen by Dany's vision in the HOTU), a bastard. D&D just shot themselves in the foot because they gave Young Griff/Aegon's book storyline of being the legitimate heir to Jon and had to make sense of why it would be him to be the legitimate heir when Rhaegar's legal wife was not Lyanna but Elia.

The entire bullshit way RxL went down in the show was just more proof to me that Young Griff is the real Aegon since D&D just had to make Jon a legitimate son. LMFAO.

#be rest assured babes rxl wedding will not exist in the books. sadly we will never get the finished product :( #anti rhaelya #jon snow #aegon vi #rhaegar #elia #asoiaf #lyanna #anti got #anti d&d #anonymous #answered

[all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone]

New Muse!

Elia Martell

Princess of Dorne

Wife of Rhaegar

#new muse! #queue #elia martell #Elia Martell of Dorne #asoiaf rp #asoaif #ASOIAF #Elia Martell RP #got RP #game of thrones RP #roberts rebellion #Roberts rebellion rp #got roleplay #rhaegar #Elia #Lyanna #Robert #Baratheon #stark #Targaryen

[squibkin]

#my art #suzie #lyanna #dr oc #dragon age oc #valentines #valentines oc #best

[what-inthe-goddamn]

The Old Faithful Lodge, 2270

#courier six #fallout oc #lyanna #fallout new vegas #a little blurb for my courier’s life pre-newvegas #pre-newvegas

[eliamartel]

On one hand, TWOW being released would be hilarious because I would greatly enjoy watching peoples' theories get completely blown out. On the other hand, I'm not ready to read whatever R/L apologia and romanticism Martin will pull out of his ass to make that relationship seem like a tragic star crossed lovers romance. Like, I'm sorry, but I am not strong enough lmao.

I understand this feeling because I hate how they are romanticised too. I'm guessing Rhaegar and R/L will continue to be glorified in Dany's chapters, while Grrm expands on other characters who will look at Rhaegar critically and sympathise with Elia and Lyanna.

The material we have on R/L already doesn't paint it as a love story. Rhaegar was implied to be obsessed with having three children, and he took Lyanna only when it became clear that Elia was too weak to bear another child immediately. He kept Lyanna isolated and hidden even after she became pregnant; he didn't arrange for a maester and didn't take her to a better place after that; she was sitting in that tower with his three guards for the entire duration of her pregnancy and gave birth alone. That alone tells me that obtaining his special prophecy baby was the only thing that mattered to him the entire time.

Rhaegar, Elia, and Lyanna are characterised very carefully across the books. Lyanna is written to dislike Robert's possible infidelity in the future, so I think she would have rejected Rhaegar when he expressed romantic interest in her. She is not characterised as someone who would ditch her brother's wedding to run away with a man with a wife and two kids. The sequence of Rhaegar going out with six of his companions and disappearing with Lyanna makes me think he already knew she would not agree to run away, so he decided to abduct her and arranged for a secret location where he could keep her till she gave birth. Despite what Lyanna and Rhaelya stans say about Lyanna having "wolf blood" and being a fierce girl who would fight back and escape if someone tried to harm her (yes, people really say this), it's not that hard for some of the best swordsmen on the continent to abduct a girl and take her to another country.

R/L is being presented as unsettling and creepy in new material too. The 2024 official calendar art of 'Rhaelya' is not romantic, no matter how convinced those stans are about it.

Their framing here looks sinister af for Lyanna. Despite R/L being romanticised in the books (by Barristan to Dany), the official art looks gloomy. You want to see how this couple, said to have loved each other so madly that they turned blind to whatever obstacle lay in their path, would have been framed in art if their relationship was truly romantic? Just look and compare it with Rhaelya fanart ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

#asks #Also we have nothing to lose even if Martin continues to romanticise r/l in twow because we will be finally getting more of ELIAAAAAAA #I'm truly so hyped over her #thanks for the ask ❤️ #rhaegar #lyanna #anti rhaegar targaryen #anti rhaelya #lyanna stark

[fantasy-scifi-art]

#Lyanna #Judith #faithful #falchion #Index #biblical

[argetlam25]

Question of the day, antis please don't answer: Rhaegar was barely 24 years old when he was killed, Lyanna just turned 17 or was about to when she died. There was about 7-8 years between them and Lyanna was 15-16 when they married (she was about to be married off to Robert, so clearly she was not too young for marriage according to everyone in universe) Lysa was 15 also when she was married to 65 year old Jon Arryn but I don't hear people complaining about that or calling him a phedophile like people do with Rhaegar, when in the books the characters found the age difference between Lyanna and Rhaegar mostly ok and the Lysa-Jon difference disgusting/weird. I seriously don't understand this? Can someone please help explaine this to me? Also, no doubt that it was a political marriage and the prophecy also played a part, but why is it weird to think that they also loved each other? From the few quotes we have from the books I always got the feeling that Lyanna was rather mature for her age (despite being impulsive). And no, I found not think that they just run away for months without leaving a word of it to anyone else or that Lyanna was a little girl who got charmed into running away without thinking of the consequences or that Rhaegar was that mad about the prophecy and that idiotic regarding the politics (i think too many people have high opinions of both of them for that). If she was that empty headed, she would have married Robert., who looked like a "hero from the songs".

#rhaegar #lyanna #house stark #jon snow #game of thrones #ice and fire #a song of ice and fire #house targaryen #robert's rebellion #prophecy

[jedimaesteryoda]

As they closed to either side, the blue knight reined hard, smashing one man full in the face with his splintered shield while his black destrier lashed out with a steel-shod hoof at the other. In a blink, one combatant was unhorsed, the other reeling. The blue knight let his broken shield drop to the ground to free his left arm, and then the Knight of Flowers was on him. The weight of his steel seemed to hardly diminish the grace and quickness with which Ser Loras moved, his rainbow cloak swirling about him . . .  The blue knight pulled a long dirk free and flicked open Tyrell's visor. The roar of the crowd was too loud for Catelyn to hear what Ser Loras said, but she saw the word form on his split, bloody lips. Yield.

. . .

"As champion, you may ask of me any boon that you desire. If it lies in my power, it is yours."

"Your Grace," Brienne answered, "I ask the honor of a place among your Rainbow Guard. I would be one of your seven, and pledge my life to yours, to go where you go, ride at your side, and keep you safe from all hurt and harm."

-ACOK, Cateyln II

Brienne’s performance at a tourney before crowned king Renly does bring to mind a scene from the Knight of the Laughing Tree in the next book:

"Whoever he was, the old gods gave strength to his arm. The porcupine knight fell first, then the pitchfork knight, and lastly the knight of the two towers. None were well loved, so the common folk cheered lustily for the Knight of the Laughing Tree, as the new champion soon was called. When his fallen foes sought to ransom horse and armor, the Knight of the Laughing Tree spoke in a booming voice through his helm, saying, 'Teach your squires honor, that shall be ransom enough.' Once the defeated knights chastised their squires sharply, their horses and armor were returned . . . But the next morning, when the heralds blew their trumpets and the king took his seat, only two champions appeared. The Knight of the Laughing Tree had vanished. The king was wroth, and even sent his son the dragon prince to seek the man, but all they ever found was his painted shield, hanging abandoned in a tree. It was the dragon prince who won that tourney in the end."

- ASOS, Bran II

Brienne of Tarth and Lyanna Stark do have some noted similarities as characters. Lyanna and Brienne are both only daughters who are associated with blue: the color of Brienne’s eyes and armor and the crown of roses for Lyanna. They even bear shields with tree sigils with the elm tree on Brienne’s hinting that Dunk is her forebear whereas Lyanna’s is a weirwood heart tree, hinting at her First Men heritage. 

They also challenge the gender restrictions of their patriarchal society by pursuing the martial arts of their class meant for men with Lyanna playing at swords with her brother Benjen and riding at rings according to Martin and Brienne training at arms under Ser Goodwin. They are also both romantics with Lyanna sniffling from Rhaegar’s song and Brienne enjoying tales of chivalry like Galladon of Morne. Their belief in chivalry extends to their actions where Lyanna defends a crannogman from three squires, and Brienne defends an inn full of orphans from outlaws. 

They ultimately both participate in tourneys with royal attendance and after winning against their opponents, when asked to be granted a boon, they reply with chivalric demands. Lyanna asks the unhorsed knights to “teach your squires honor” and chastise their squires for bullying Howland, and Brienne asks to be in Renly’s Rainbow Guard to serve and protect him. In essence, despite not being knights due to their gender, they embody the True Knight™ chivalric ideal. In recognition of their triumphs, Brienne gets blue armor from her royal crush Renly and Lyanna gets a crown of blue roses from hers, Rhaegar. Both crushes are handsome (and married) royals who serve as representations of the ideals of knighthood and romanticism with Renly’s death associated with the death of summer and Rhaegar associated with spring.

Their actions also attract attention from suitors they interacted with at Harrenhal: Rhaegar and Jaime. Rhaegar tracks down Lyanna as the Knight of the Laughing Tree, and was likely impressed not just by her skill but her reasons for it being to defend the honor of a crannogman that most of the other highborn would have looked down on. A girl who likes chivalry and fighting in the style of a knight, of course that would appeal to a romantic warrior prince! Rhaegar keeps her secret for her from his father’s wroth and the public. At the end of the tourney, he ends up giving her a crown of blue roses naming her as Queen of Love and Beauty, giving her props. He later comes to “rescue” her from her marriage to Robert, taking her to the Tower of Joy.

Jaime’s story with Brienne is almost a compete contrast to Rhaegar and Lyanna’s. Jaime is on the surface like Rhaegar: a very handsome knight in splendid armor and prodigious skill, but rather than being a model of knighthood is the opposite, the Kingslayer, what a knight shouldn’t be. Accompanying Jaime to King’s Landing, Brienne’s courage, skill, loyalty and commitment to her ideals eventually earns his admiration. Jaime divulges to Brienne his secret of why he killed Aerys for Brienne to keep. He later rescues her from Vargo Hoat by jumping into the bear pit, and takes her with him to King’s Landing. Jaime ends up gifting Brienne the Valyrian sword Oathkeeper, and letting her go to keep Catelyn’s daughters safe in clear recognition of her abilities as a knight.  

One final detail is that Rhaegar in Cersei’s mind was meant to be her husband while she always meant Jaime to be her lover and only hers. Basically: 

                              Brienne               Lyanna

                                              🤝

                       Stealing a man Cersei had designs on

Both their stories make up the stuff of songs. Brienne is the knight on a quest, and Lyanna elopes with a handsome prince, with the deconstruction as Lyanna’s story ends in Robert’s Rebellion with the death of her, Rhaegar, her father and brother, and Rhaegar’s family while Brienne is on a knight’s quest without being a knight. 

I’m just hoping that Brienne’s story ends up on a happier note than Lyanna’s. Though, I do think her story like Lyanna’s does have her giving birth to a son by the man she loves at the end who also happens to be a fantasy stock character, perhaps the Gallahad to Jon’s King Arthur. 

#brienne #jaime x brienne #brienne of tarth #jaime lannister #rhaegar #rhaegar x lyanna #asoiaf #lyanna #lyanna stark