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[[folder:Lord Manfryd Redwyne]]
The master of ships and lord admiral.
* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't seem to care much about smallfolk, suggesting [[spoiler:defending Aemon's right to the throne]] with "fire and blood" and later arguing against the laws prohibiting SexualExtortion.
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The master of ships and lord admiral.
* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't seem to care much about smallfolk, suggesting [[spoiler:defending Aemon's right to the throne]] with "fire and blood" and later arguing against the laws prohibiting SexualExtortion.
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[[folder:Ser Joffrey Doggett]]
Formerly Grand Captain of the Warrior's Sons, he had accepted Jaehaerys's offer for him to join the Kingsguard.
* BluntYes: In reply to Alaric:
-->'''Alaric''': You were afraid I might close the septs altogether and start planting godswoods all over the place.
-->'''Joffrey''': Yes.
* IGaveMyWord: He would rather die than break a vow.
* OldSoldier: He is described as having gray hair.
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[[folder:Ser Joffrey Doggett]]
Formerly Grand Captain of the Warrior's Sons, he had accepted Jaehaerys's offer for him to join the Kingsguard.
* BluntYes: In reply to Alaric:
-->'''Alaric''': You were afraid I might close the septs altogether and start planting godswoods all over the place.
-->'''Joffrey''': Yes.
* IGaveMyWord: He would rather die than break a vow.
* OldSoldier: He is described as having gray hair.
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* FishOutOfWater: He isn't feeling too comfortable surrounded by the culture of the South.
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* HonoraryUncle: In private, Alysanne addresses him as "Uncle Rogar". P
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* HonoraryUncle: In private, Alysanne addresses him as "Uncle Rogar". P
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* TheHighQueen: Technically, she is only the Dowager Queen now that Jaehaerys is dead, but she continues to fit the trope, being a benevolent and just authority figure.
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Alaric's daughter and his youngest child by Jonelle. She is Alysanne's lady-in-waiting and gets elevated to chief lady-in-waiting due to her Great House lineage and to her father's marriage to Alysanne.
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* BerserkButton: She is usually nice and friendly, but grows furious whenever anyone suggests women are in any way inferior to men.
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* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
** She is usually nice and friendly, but grows furious whenever anyone suggests women are in any way inferior tomen. men.
** All forms of rape and SexualExtortion enrage and disgust her so much she doesn't even go berserk after hearing of them: she goes into venomous TranquilFury mode.
** She is usually nice and friendly, but grows furious whenever anyone suggests women are in any way inferior to
** All forms of rape and SexualExtortion enrage and disgust her so much she doesn't even go berserk after hearing of them: she goes into venomous TranquilFury mode.
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* HypotheticalCasting: InUniverse. Alysanne thinks she would be much better at playing the queen than Myribeth.
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* HonoraryAunt: HiddenHeartOfGold: She is one has quite the temper, but a kind heart beneath it all. It's gradually revealed that, despite the Sunflowers' constantly precarious financial standing, she adopted Brennan after he was orphaned, allowed Obella to Brennan. stay in the troupe after she got pregnant and gave birth to Garnet, and let Ellara and Melara join the troupe after the girls were orphaned (and, in Melara's case, widowed), even though they are terrible actresses.
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* TheHeart: She makes sure everyone at court is content and gets on with each other. To varying degrees of success, she tries to fulfill the same role for the entire kingdom.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: With the pain he suffers from his disease, he doesn't even want to think about sex.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: With the pain [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Downplayed. Alysanne has had a frosty relationship with him ever since he suffers from his disease, he doesn't attempted to break up her and Jaehaerys (and it's not even want the attempt itself that angered her so much but the fact that Rogar didn't even try to think about sex.learn her opinion of the matter). However, she acknowledges that he has done a lot of good for their family and the realm, and she is deeply saddened when he tells her he is dying – for all his faults, he has been a constant in her life since her childhood.
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* SilkHidingSteel: She may be sweet and charming and mild-mannered, but she won't let anyone walk over her during negotiations.
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* WhatsUpKingDude: She encourages her subjects to share their wishes and grievances with her. In fact, when she is in her regal attire, it's a sign that she is ready to listen to her people even when it's not the formal time for an audience. When she is dressed simply, it's to show everyone that she is taking a break from ruling and only wants to spend time with her nearest and dearest.
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* HiddenDepths: Turns out to be quite an expert on theatre.
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* TheLostLenore: For a long time after his first wife Jonelle's death, he was heartbroken and certain he would never love or even be happy again.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Aemon is very protective of his little brother Baelon. When Alaric learns of it, it's the first time he feels a bond with his eldest stepson, because the latter reminds him of his own big brother Walton. Alysanne mention Aemon has grown much more responsible since Baelon's birth.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Aemon is very protective of his little brother Baelon. When Alaric learns of it, it's the first time he feels a bond with his eldest stepson, because the latter reminds him of his own big brother Walton. Alysanne mention mentions Aemon has grown much more responsible since Baelon's birth.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: He says, in all seriousness, that "Septa Rhaella seems quite normal", without realizing how tactless it sounded.
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* KnightTemplar: Unlike his own counterpart from the play, he is a downplayed version. He does push Alysanne to get married again to someone not related to her, but his scenes show he genuinely wants what's best for the realm and the people and is very sorry for Alysanne and her children (or at least is polite enough to act like he is).
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* StayInTheKitchen: He believes women should stick to AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits. The reason is that, due to the worst luck, he has had some bad experience with the tomboyish women he has met in his lifetime: his grandmother's attempt at a LastStand resulted in a humiliating defeat, ActionGirl Visenya Targaryen gave birth to monstrous tyrant Maegor, and the Dornish, with their equal rights for women, are the Baratheons' longtime enemies.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: With the pain he suffers from his disease, he doesn't even want to think about sex.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: With the pain he suffers from his disease, he doesn't even want to think about sex.
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* OrSoIHeard: Septa Rhaella says that the plays performed in Oldtown end with a magnificent grand finale, and immediately adds that it's what she's been told and that she wouldn't dream of attending one.
* ShrinkingViolet: As in canon, Septa Rhaella is extremely shy with everyone save for Alysanne, the High Septon, and the septa who tutors her.
* ShrinkingViolet: As in canon, Septa Rhaella is extremely shy with everyone save for Alysanne, the High Septon, and the septa who tutors her.
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* OrSoIHeard: Septa Rhaella says that CowardlyLion: She is timid and fearful, but offers to become one of a new group of WalkingTheEarth Seven Speakers, if sending them out is what's needed to [[spoiler:secure Aemon's claim on the plays performed in Oldtown end with a magnificent grand finale, and immediately adds that it's what she's been told and that she wouldn't dream of attending one.throne]].
* OrSoIHeard: She says that the plays performed in Oldtown end with a magnificent grand finale, and immediately adds that it's what she's been told and that she wouldn't dream of attending one.
* ShrinkingViolet: As in canon,Septa Rhaella she is extremely shy with everyone save for Alysanne, the High Septon, and the septa who tutors her.her.
* StutterStop: She stammers all the time, except when she talks to the few people she really trusts.
* OrSoIHeard: She says that the plays performed in Oldtown end with a magnificent grand finale, and immediately adds that it's what she's been told and that she wouldn't dream of attending one.
* ShrinkingViolet: As in canon,
* StutterStop: She stammers all the time, except when she talks to the few people she really trusts.
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: InUniverse. She plays the minor part of the Mother, but Alysanne thinks she is the best among the Sunflowers.
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* CrosscastRole: Since she is eleven years old, very slim and has a deep voice, she plays boys.
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* PushedInFrontOfTheAudience: When Ellara fails to show up for the Sunflowers' premiere of ''The Royal Penance'', Alarra offers to play the Maiden herself instead. Since the audience consists of her father, stepmother, siblings and Jonquil Darke, she is allowed to do so.
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* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: During her wedding night with Alaric, she constantly thinks about Jaehaerys and feels guilty for remarrying so soon, almost bursting into tears.
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* RapeAsBackstory: She was raped twelve years earlier and still hasn't fully recovered, considering ThereAreNoTherapeutists in Westeros. Even Myribeth, who is generally sympathetic towards her, views her trauma as a pesky reason why Obella can't succeed her as the Sunflowers' leading lady.
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* RapeAsBackstory: She was raped twelve years earlier and still hasn't fully recovered, considering ThereAreNoTherapeutists ThereAreNoTherapists in Westeros. Even Myribeth, who is generally sympathetic towards her, views her trauma as a pesky reason why Obella can't succeed her as the Sunflowers' leading lady.
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Formerly Alysanne Targaryen. The beloved Dowager Queen and her son's regent.
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Formerly Alysanne Targaryen. The universally beloved Dowager Queen and her son's regent.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Being respectively ten and seven years younger than her two brothers, Alarra Stark has always been viewed as the little girl of the family, even after she joined Alysanne's court and became much more independent.
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* ImproperlyParanoid: She is wary about trusting Alysanne, thinking that she uses the women's courts to gain information that can be used against the women later. Alysanne has no such designs.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: She used to be very pretty when she started acting, but more than twenty years of a traveling mummer's life had taken their toll, and she is aware she'll soon be unable to portray the beautiful main characters.
* ImproperlyParanoid: She is wary about trusting Alysanne, thinking that she uses the women's courts to gain information that can be used against the women later. Alysanne has no such designs.
* ImproperlyParanoid: She is wary about trusting Alysanne, thinking that she uses the women's courts to gain information that can be used against the women later. Alysanne has no such designs.
* SupremeChef: His cooking wouldn't look out of place on a high lord's table, in Myribeth's opinion.
A dancer from Sandstone.
* RapeAsBackstory: She was raped twelve years earlier and still hasn't fully recovered, considering ThereAreNoTherapeutists in Westeros. Even Myribeth, who is generally sympathetic towards her, views her trauma as a pesky reason why Obella can't succeed her as the Sunflowers' leading lady.
* RapeAsBackstory: She was raped twelve years earlier and still hasn't fully recovered, considering ThereAreNoTherapeutists in Westeros. Even Myribeth, who is generally sympathetic towards her, views her trauma as a pesky reason why Obella can't succeed her as the Sunflowers' leading lady.
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* ChildByRape: she was conceived when her mother was raped by an ironborn.
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The High Septon at the start of the story.
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The High Septon who holds the position at the start of the story.
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Alysanne's cousin.
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Alysanne's cousin.cousin, a septa in Oldtown.
* OrSoIHeard: Septa Rhaella says that the plays performed in Oldtown end with a magnificent grand finale, and immediately adds that it's what she's been told and that she wouldn't dream of attending one.
* ShrinkingViolet: As in canon, Septa Rhaella is extremely shy with everyone save for Alysanne, the High Septon, and the septa who tutors her.
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!! The Sunflowers
One of the theatre troupes invited to stage ''The Royal Penance'', whose rehearsals Alarra attends.
[[folder:Myribeth]]
The playwright and leading actress, born on Oakenshield.
* AffectionateNickname: She is Myrie to friends.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: She is finding it extremely tough to lead a theatre troupe; thanks to the Sunflowers' uncertain future, she is almost constantly on edge.
* DawsonCasting: InUniverse. She is middle-aged and plays an {{Expy}} of Alysanne, who is supposed to be in her mid-twenties at most. Her thoughts reveal there is simply no one else in the troupe able to be a leading lady.
* ImproperlyParanoid: She is wary about trusting Alysanne, thinking that she uses the women's courts to gain information that can be used against the women later. Alysanne has no such designs.
* {{Nepotism}}: She tries to defy it so furiously that she goes straight to [[AbusiveParents the opposite extreme]], constantly yelling at and belittling Brennan at the rehearsals and claiming he can do nothing right.
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[[folder:Garris]]
An orphan of the Greenblood, specializing in villains.
* IronyAsHeIsCast: InUniverse. In the production of ''The Royal Penance'', he plays the High Septon. The orphans of the Greenblood very pointedly refuse to accept the Faith of the Seven.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He is an honest, reliable and kind CoolOldGuy with a knack for playing terrifying villains.
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[[folder:Brennan]]
A Lyseni orphan and adopted child of Myribeth.
* UnderageCasting: InUniverse. He is a teenage boy playing twenty-six-year-old {{Expy}} of Jaehaerys in ''The Royal Penance''. Since the king in the play gets an early PlotTriggeringDeath, Myribeth deliberately gave the part to Brennan; it's his first speaking role.
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[[folder:Obella]]
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[[folder:Garnet]]
Obella's daughter.
* ChildByRape: she was conceived when her mother was raped by an ironborn.
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[[folder:Caleotte]]
A handsome Reachman.
* MrFanservice: He is drop-dead gorgeous, graceful and tall, with a beautiful voice, and is always smartly-dressed, which implies he is onstage to give the audience someone to swoon over.
* OrSoIHeard: Septa Rhaella says that the plays performed in Oldtown end with a magnificent grand finale, and immediately adds that it's what she's been told and that she wouldn't dream of attending one.
* ShrinkingViolet: As in canon, Septa Rhaella is extremely shy with everyone save for Alysanne, the High Septon, and the septa who tutors her.
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!! The Sunflowers
One of the theatre troupes invited to stage ''The Royal Penance'', whose rehearsals Alarra attends.
[[folder:Myribeth]]
The playwright and leading actress, born on Oakenshield.
* AffectionateNickname: She is Myrie to friends.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: She is finding it extremely tough to lead a theatre troupe; thanks to the Sunflowers' uncertain future, she is almost constantly on edge.
* DawsonCasting: InUniverse. She is middle-aged and plays an {{Expy}} of Alysanne, who is supposed to be in her mid-twenties at most. Her thoughts reveal there is simply no one else in the troupe able to be a leading lady.
* ImproperlyParanoid: She is wary about trusting Alysanne, thinking that she uses the women's courts to gain information that can be used against the women later. Alysanne has no such designs.
* {{Nepotism}}: She tries to defy it so furiously that she goes straight to [[AbusiveParents the opposite extreme]], constantly yelling at and belittling Brennan at the rehearsals and claiming he can do nothing right.
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[[folder:Garris]]
An orphan of the Greenblood, specializing in villains.
* IronyAsHeIsCast: InUniverse. In the production of ''The Royal Penance'', he plays the High Septon. The orphans of the Greenblood very pointedly refuse to accept the Faith of the Seven.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He is an honest, reliable and kind CoolOldGuy with a knack for playing terrifying villains.
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[[folder:Brennan]]
A Lyseni orphan and adopted child of Myribeth.
* UnderageCasting: InUniverse. He is a teenage boy playing twenty-six-year-old {{Expy}} of Jaehaerys in ''The Royal Penance''. Since the king in the play gets an early PlotTriggeringDeath, Myribeth deliberately gave the part to Brennan; it's his first speaking role.
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[[folder:Obella]]
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[[folder:Garnet]]
Obella's daughter.
* ChildByRape: she was conceived when her mother was raped by an ironborn.
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[[folder:Caleotte]]
A handsome Reachman.
* MrFanservice: He is drop-dead gorgeous, graceful and tall, with a beautiful voice, and is always smartly-dressed, which implies he is onstage to give the audience someone to swoon over.
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The mistress of whisperers.
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The mistress of whisperers.whisperers who used to serve Tyanna of the Tower before swearing her allegiance to Jaehaerys.
* IHaveYourWife: She claims that she only served Tyanna of the Tower to protect her son, one of the Warrior's Sons. Since Tyanna, Maegor and most of their closest retainers are dead, it's a ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: She is sixty but looks a lot younger, so much that Septon Barth suspects she might be dabbling in sorcery.
* SoleSurvivor: She is the only one of Tyanna of the Tower's whisperers who survived Maegor's reign and bent the knee to Jaehaerys.
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* GreenEyedMonster: In a platonic version of the trope, Rogar Baratheon feels deeply envious of Alaric Stark, who is everything Rogar used to be (healthy and strong, HappilyMarried to the Dowager Queen, acting as one of the boy king's regents) and is at the same time a year older than Rogar.
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[[folder:Lady Jocelyn Baratheon]]
Rogar's daughter, whom he brings to be raised at court when she is seven.
* AffectionateNickname: Aemon calls her Lynnie.
* OneOfTheBoys: She loves playing at swords with her half-nephews.
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!! House Hightower
[[folder:Lord Gyles Hightower]]
The Lord of Hightower at the time of the story's beginning.
* NervousWreck: He lost his father-in-law and his own mother to dragonfire during Maegor's reign, which has rendered him extremely fearful around any dragon and dragonrider, even if the latter is as kind and gentle as Alysanne.
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[[folder:Ser Eustace Hightower]]
Lord Gyles's son and heir.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Courageous and decisive, he is the opposite of his nervous, fearful and quiet father.
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!! The Faith of the Seven
[[folder:High Septon (Lemmar Hightower)]]
The High Septon at the start of the story.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He does it InUniverse to ''himself'' while he's thinking up the plot of ''The Royal Penance''. The play!High Septon is a ruthless KnightTemplar who makes the heroine climb the highest mountain as penance for incest, separates her children from her and makes them join the begging brothers. The actual High Septon's most harsh suggestion was for Alysanne to join the septas or silent sisters, and he took that back precisely because she reminded him she had three small children to care for.
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[[folder:Septa Rhaella]]
Alysanne's cousin.
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[[folder:Lady Jocelyn Baratheon]]
Rogar's daughter, whom he brings to be raised at court when she is seven.
* AffectionateNickname: Aemon calls her Lynnie.
* OneOfTheBoys: She loves playing at swords with her half-nephews.
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!! House Hightower
[[folder:Lord Gyles Hightower]]
The Lord of Hightower at the time of the story's beginning.
* NervousWreck: He lost his father-in-law and his own mother to dragonfire during Maegor's reign, which has rendered him extremely fearful around any dragon and dragonrider, even if the latter is as kind and gentle as Alysanne.
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[[folder:Ser Eustace Hightower]]
Lord Gyles's son and heir.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Courageous and decisive, he is the opposite of his nervous, fearful and quiet father.
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!! The Faith of the Seven
[[folder:High Septon (Lemmar Hightower)]]
The High Septon at the start of the story.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He does it InUniverse to ''himself'' while he's thinking up the plot of ''The Royal Penance''. The play!High Septon is a ruthless KnightTemplar who makes the heroine climb the highest mountain as penance for incest, separates her children from her and makes them join the begging brothers. The actual High Septon's most harsh suggestion was for Alysanne to join the septas or silent sisters, and he took that back precisely because she reminded him she had three small children to care for.
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[[folder:Septa Rhaella]]
Alysanne's cousin.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: For all his disdain of tourneys, he is happy to see that his sons Roderick and Edwyn acquit themselves well at the tourney at his wedding.
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[[folder:Lady Aspen Turnberry]]
The mistress of whisperers.
* OCStandIn: Whoever the master of whisperers under Jaehaerys was, he/she has so far never been described in canon.
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[[folder:Lady Florence Tyrell]]
The one actually doing the master of coin's work.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: She and Alaric don't often see eye to eye in financial matters, but manage to work together well enough to find a middle ground in their decisions, which is precisely what Alysanne hopes for when she asks them to cooperate.
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[[folder:Lord Martyn Tyrell]]
Holds the official position of master of coin, though everybody knows the job is done by his wife.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: He only holds his position formally.
* YesMan: He rarely does anything at the small council except agree with his superiors.
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!! House Baratheon
[[folder:Lord Rogar Baratheon]]
Lord of Storm's End at the story's start, stepfather to Alysanne.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Like in canon, Rogar Baratheon looks like an old man due to his sickness, but he is actually forty-four.
[[folder:Lady Aspen Turnberry]]
The mistress of whisperers.
* OCStandIn: Whoever the master of whisperers under Jaehaerys was, he/she has so far never been described in canon.
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[[folder:Lady Florence Tyrell]]
The one actually doing the master of coin's work.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: She and Alaric don't often see eye to eye in financial matters, but manage to work together well enough to find a middle ground in their decisions, which is precisely what Alysanne hopes for when she asks them to cooperate.
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[[folder:Lord Martyn Tyrell]]
Holds the official position of master of coin, though everybody knows the job is done by his wife.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: He only holds his position formally.
* YesMan: He rarely does anything at the small council except agree with his superiors.
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!! House Baratheon
[[folder:Lord Rogar Baratheon]]
Lord of Storm's End at the story's start, stepfather to Alysanne.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Like in canon, Rogar Baratheon looks like an old man due to his sickness, but he is actually forty-four.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: He finds it very hard to take care of an entire realm, since he can barely spend any time with his family. He longs for Aemon to reach his majority and for himself and Alysanne to leave for Winterfell (the North is still a big responsibility, but a way lesser one than the Seven Kingdoms).
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* GoodStepmother: Downplayed at first – he feels no particular emotional attachment to Alysanne's children by Jaehaerys, but he is ready to raise them well for her sake, and he defends Aemon's right to the crown rather than claim it on behalf of his own potential future son. As time goes by, he starts to really bond with Aemon.
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* GoodStepmother: [[GoodStepmother Good Stepfather]]: Downplayed at first – he feels no particular emotional attachment to Alysanne's children by Jaehaerys, but he is ready to raise them well for her sake, and he defends Aemon's right to the crown rather than claim it on behalf of his own potential future son. As time goes by, he starts to really bond with Aemon.
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* RealMenLoveJesus: Alaric Stark is a very devout follower of the old gods and is greatly moved when Garth Fossoway shows him the ancient godswood of Highgarden.
* SignificantNameShift: Alaric starts calling Alysanne by her first name immediately after the wedding ceremony. She is startled, since it's one of the aspects of their marriage they haven't discussed beforehand, but accepts it without comments and switches to FirstNameBasis with him as well.
* SignificantNameShift: Alaric starts calling Alysanne by her first name immediately after the wedding ceremony. She is startled, since it's one of the aspects of their marriage they haven't discussed beforehand, but accepts it without comments and switches to FirstNameBasis with him as well.
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* RealMenLoveJesus: Alaric Stark He is a very devout follower of the old gods and is greatly moved when Garth Fossoway shows him the ancient godswood of Highgarden.
* SignificantNameShift:Alaric He starts calling Alysanne by her first name immediately after the wedding ceremony. She is startled, since it's one of the aspects of their marriage they haven't discussed beforehand, but accepts it without comments and switches to FirstNameBasis with him as well.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Aemon is very protective of his little brother Baelon. When Alaric learns of it, it's the first time he feels a bond with his eldest stepson, because the latter reminds him of his own big brother Walton.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Aemon is very protective of his little brother Baelon. When Alaric learns of it, it's the first time he feels a bond with his eldest stepson, because the latter reminds him of his own big brother Walton. Alysanne mention Aemon has grown much more responsible since Baelon's birth.
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[[folder:Princess Alyssa Targaryen]]
Alysanne's last child by Jaehaerys, she is several months old at the start of the fanfic.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: PlayedForDrama. She is conceived a couple of months before Jaehaerys dies, and is born during such a difficult and stressful time that she ends up as TheUnfavorite.
* TheUnfavorite: Alysanne's pregnancy with Alyssa was discovered right on the heels of the deaths of Daenerys and Jaehaerys, and Alyssa was born in the midst of grief and diplomatic turmoil. Alysanne couldn't muster enough emotion to love Alyssa, and she still is colder towards her than towards Aemon and Baelon, though she's determined not to let it show.
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Alysanne's last child by Jaehaerys, she is several months old at the start of the fanfic.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: PlayedForDrama. She is conceived a couple of months before Jaehaerys dies, and is born during such a difficult and stressful time that she ends up as TheUnfavorite.
* TheUnfavorite: Alysanne's pregnancy with Alyssa was discovered right on the heels of the deaths of Daenerys and Jaehaerys, and Alyssa was born in the midst of grief and diplomatic turmoil. Alysanne couldn't muster enough emotion to love Alyssa, and she still is colder towards her than towards Aemon and Baelon, though she's determined not to let it show.
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!! The small council
[[folder:Septon Barth]]
The Hand of the King, a devoted friend of the royal family and especially the late Jaehaerys.
* GoodShepherd: Although it's hard for him to find time for his spiritual duties, he consoles Alysanne and her children after Jaehaerys and Daenerys die, and when Alysanne brings news of the death of Lord Towers, Barth speaks a prayer for him despite never having met him.
!! The small council
[[folder:Septon Barth]]
The Hand of the King, a devoted friend of the royal family and especially the late Jaehaerys.
* GoodShepherd: Although it's hard for him to find time for his spiritual duties, he consoles Alysanne and her children after Jaehaerys and Daenerys die, and when Alysanne brings news of the death of Lord Towers, Barth speaks a prayer for him despite never having met him.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: While Alaric is angrily scolding Aemon for being forty minutes late to a lesson, he starts saying "You'll grow up and [[UnbalancedByRivalsKid be half a year late for your progresses, like your]]—", when he catches himself and awkwardly ends the phrase with "like your childhood misdemeanors, only worse".
* MaritalRapeLicense: When Alysanne rejects him, claiming she is tired (she is actually distressed), Alaric, who has been looking forward to SexForSolace after his sons' departure to the North, briefly considers ignoring her wishes, but the sheer idea of Alysanne suffering through it is enough for him to defy the trope and leave.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Alaric Stark is a very devout follower of the old gods and is greatly moved when Garth Fossoway shows him the ancient godswood of Highgarden.
* SignificantNameShift: Alaric starts calling Alysanne by her first name immediately after the wedding ceremony. She is startled, since it's one of the aspects of their marriage they haven't discussed beforehand, but accepts it without comments and switches to FirstNameBasis with him as well.
* WhenHeSmiles: Aemon decides that Alaric looks a lot less scary when he's smiling.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Downplayed. The one sacrifice Alaric makes to marry Alysanne is moving to King's Landing to stay there until Aemon reaches majority (meaning for ten years). He deeply misses the North, though he knows his sons rule Winterfell capably.
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[[folder:Aemon Targaryen]]
King of the Seven Kingdoms after his father's death, Aemon is six years old at the start of the fanfic.
* AChildShallLeadThem: He is crowned at five.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Aemon is very protective of his little brother Baelon. When Alaric learns of it, it's the first time he feels a bond with his eldest stepson, because the latter reminds him of his own big brother Walton.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Aemon orders his new nurse (filling in for the injured Lady Hogg) to let him and Baelon play longer than they're supposed to, ending up getting to his lesson forty minutes late. He ''is'' aware that he's skipping the lesson, but he doesn't realize that his actions lead to the nurse getting punished (unlike Lady Hogg, she's lowborn, new at the job and therefore too frightened to argue with the king, even if said king is only six). He is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified with himself]] when Alaric calls him out for it.
* PuppetKing: Since he is a little kid, the ones holding the actual power are Alysanne, Alaric and the small council.
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[[folder:Alarra Stark]]
Alaric's daughter and his youngest child by Jonelle. She is Alysanne's lady-in-waiting and gets elevated to chief lady-in-waiting due to her Great House lineage and to her father's marriage to Alysanne.
* CoolBigSis: Alarra is very fond of Aemon and Baelon and tells them Northern legends.
* GoingNative: After three years spent at Alysanne's court, Alarra has fully embraced the culture of the South.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: Alarra is perfectly okay with her father and Alysanne getting married, but she freaks out when Alysanne announces her pregnancy, because it's clear evidence they are sleeping together.
* MaritalRapeLicense: When Alysanne rejects him, claiming she is tired (she is actually distressed), Alaric, who has been looking forward to SexForSolace after his sons' departure to the North, briefly considers ignoring her wishes, but the sheer idea of Alysanne suffering through it is enough for him to defy the trope and leave.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Alaric Stark is a very devout follower of the old gods and is greatly moved when Garth Fossoway shows him the ancient godswood of Highgarden.
* SignificantNameShift: Alaric starts calling Alysanne by her first name immediately after the wedding ceremony. She is startled, since it's one of the aspects of their marriage they haven't discussed beforehand, but accepts it without comments and switches to FirstNameBasis with him as well.
* WhenHeSmiles: Aemon decides that Alaric looks a lot less scary when he's smiling.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Downplayed. The one sacrifice Alaric makes to marry Alysanne is moving to King's Landing to stay there until Aemon reaches majority (meaning for ten years). He deeply misses the North, though he knows his sons rule Winterfell capably.
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[[folder:Aemon Targaryen]]
King of the Seven Kingdoms after his father's death, Aemon is six years old at the start of the fanfic.
* AChildShallLeadThem: He is crowned at five.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Aemon is very protective of his little brother Baelon. When Alaric learns of it, it's the first time he feels a bond with his eldest stepson, because the latter reminds him of his own big brother Walton.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Aemon orders his new nurse (filling in for the injured Lady Hogg) to let him and Baelon play longer than they're supposed to, ending up getting to his lesson forty minutes late. He ''is'' aware that he's skipping the lesson, but he doesn't realize that his actions lead to the nurse getting punished (unlike Lady Hogg, she's lowborn, new at the job and therefore too frightened to argue with the king, even if said king is only six). He is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified with himself]] when Alaric calls him out for it.
* PuppetKing: Since he is a little kid, the ones holding the actual power are Alysanne, Alaric and the small council.
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[[folder:Alarra Stark]]
Alaric's daughter and his youngest child by Jonelle. She is Alysanne's lady-in-waiting and gets elevated to chief lady-in-waiting due to her Great House lineage and to her father's marriage to Alysanne.
* CoolBigSis: Alarra is very fond of Aemon and Baelon and tells them Northern legends.
* GoingNative: After three years spent at Alysanne's court, Alarra has fully embraced the culture of the South.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: Alarra is perfectly okay with her father and Alysanne getting married, but she freaks out when Alysanne announces her pregnancy, because it's clear evidence they are sleeping together.
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[[folder:Alysanne Stark]]
Formerly Alysanne Targaryen. The beloved Dowager Queen and her son's regent.
* BerserkButton: She is usually nice and friendly, but grows furious whenever anyone suggests women are in any way inferior to men.
* DramaticSitDown: Alysanne is so shocked and overwhelmed by Alaric's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove that she sits down (in fact, almost falls) on the couch.
* GoodStepmother: She dotes on Alarra Stark, and Alarra is deeply devoted to her – it helps that their friendship developed long before there was any notion of Alysanne marrying Alaric.
* MovingBeyondBereavement: Alysanne has to marry Alaric while she's grieving for Jaehaerys and Daenerys, and a good deal of her arc involves her finding closure with her loss.
* ObliviousToLove: At first Alysanne has no idea Alaric is madly in love with her (he does his best to hide it). As he, with her encouragement, grows more confident in expressing his affection, she begins to understand he is at least very fond of her.
* StepfordSmiler: After the loss of her husband and eldest daughter, Alysanne often puts on a mask of cheerfulness in public while being anxious and sad in private.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: She sinks into melancholy after losing Jaehaerys and Daenerys to the Shivers. More than a year later, she begins to gradually recover her usual sunny demeanor after marrying Alaric.
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[[folder:Alaric Stark]]
The Warden of the North, rumored to be niggardly (which is true) and humorless (which is less so).
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Unable to pretend he only married Alysanne for political reasons any longer, Alaric finally confesses his feelings to her in Chapter 11, though he realizes she doesn't love him. Alysanne admits she likes him very much but still can't make any promises, and her thoughts reveal she hasn't let go of Jaehaerys.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Alysanne offers him marriage, Alaric acts extremely disinterested and skeptical and looks as if he's agreeing to it through gritted teeth. He does it to avoid scaring Alysanne with the passion he really harbors for her, but it results in her belief that she all but forced him into marriage, and she is tormented by guilt.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: He often finds himself entranced by Alysanne's beauty. At the Hightowers' feast, he thinks he could have gazed at her all evening.
* FoolForLove: He is generally cynical and pragmatic, but not where Alysanne is concerned. At one point, he announces that there will be no celebration at all on Warrior's Day, but one PuppyDogEyes look from Alysanne is all it takes for him to agree to host a tourney. Luckily for him and for everyone in general, Alysanne is not exploiting the trope without really good reasons.
* GoodStepmother: Downplayed at first – he feels no particular emotional attachment to Alysanne's children by Jaehaerys, but he is ready to raise them well for her sake, and he defends Aemon's right to the crown rather than claim it on behalf of his own potential future son. As time goes by, he starts to really bond with Aemon.
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[[folder:Alysanne Stark]]
Formerly Alysanne Targaryen. The beloved Dowager Queen and her son's regent.
* BerserkButton: She is usually nice and friendly, but grows furious whenever anyone suggests women are in any way inferior to men.
* DramaticSitDown: Alysanne is so shocked and overwhelmed by Alaric's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove that she sits down (in fact, almost falls) on the couch.
* GoodStepmother: She dotes on Alarra Stark, and Alarra is deeply devoted to her – it helps that their friendship developed long before there was any notion of Alysanne marrying Alaric.
* MovingBeyondBereavement: Alysanne has to marry Alaric while she's grieving for Jaehaerys and Daenerys, and a good deal of her arc involves her finding closure with her loss.
* ObliviousToLove: At first Alysanne has no idea Alaric is madly in love with her (he does his best to hide it). As he, with her encouragement, grows more confident in expressing his affection, she begins to understand he is at least very fond of her.
* StepfordSmiler: After the loss of her husband and eldest daughter, Alysanne often puts on a mask of cheerfulness in public while being anxious and sad in private.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: She sinks into melancholy after losing Jaehaerys and Daenerys to the Shivers. More than a year later, she begins to gradually recover her usual sunny demeanor after marrying Alaric.
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[[folder:Alaric Stark]]
The Warden of the North, rumored to be niggardly (which is true) and humorless (which is less so).
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Unable to pretend he only married Alysanne for political reasons any longer, Alaric finally confesses his feelings to her in Chapter 11, though he realizes she doesn't love him. Alysanne admits she likes him very much but still can't make any promises, and her thoughts reveal she hasn't let go of Jaehaerys.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Alysanne offers him marriage, Alaric acts extremely disinterested and skeptical and looks as if he's agreeing to it through gritted teeth. He does it to avoid scaring Alysanne with the passion he really harbors for her, but it results in her belief that she all but forced him into marriage, and she is tormented by guilt.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: He often finds himself entranced by Alysanne's beauty. At the Hightowers' feast, he thinks he could have gazed at her all evening.
* FoolForLove: He is generally cynical and pragmatic, but not where Alysanne is concerned. At one point, he announces that there will be no celebration at all on Warrior's Day, but one PuppyDogEyes look from Alysanne is all it takes for him to agree to host a tourney. Luckily for him and for everyone in general, Alysanne is not exploiting the trope without really good reasons.
* GoodStepmother: Downplayed at first – he feels no particular emotional attachment to Alysanne's children by Jaehaerys, but he is ready to raise them well for her sake, and he defends Aemon's right to the crown rather than claim it on behalf of his own potential future son. As time goes by, he starts to really bond with Aemon.
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