History Fanfic / MyFathersSon

* DemotedToExtra: While a highly important part of Elia's life in the first half of the story, Ellaria Sand loses prominence after she becomes Oberyn's official paramour. While not entirely out of the picture, since Oberyn has moer to do for the politics and fighting, Ellaria just doesn't get as much to do after Rhaegar's Rebellion.

* DemotedToExtra: While a highly important part of Elia's life in the first half of the story, Ellaria Sand loses prominence after she becomes oberyn's official paramour. While not entirely out of the picture, since Oberyn has moer to do for the politics and fighting, Ellaria just doesn't get as much to do after Rhaegar's Rebellion.

* AdaptationalJerkass: While keeping his core personality with grudges, passion and lust for battle, Robert's obsession with Lyanna is put in a much more harsh light here with her being living and HappilyMarried on top of it all. The writer noted he saw Robert as a [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] type figure high on himself and expecting adoration always. Which like Gaston, leads him down some more abrasive (if not totally villainous) paths.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Still being young and learning the Game, Renly Baratheon gets pushed into taking hostile actions against Elia and Lyanna by [[spoiler: attacking Starfall]].

* AgeGapRomance: Despite his own discomfort, the marriage between Garlan Tyrell and Melissa Blackwood (nee Fossoway), isn't horrible. It's a gap of over 17 years, but Melissa takes the lead as the elder partner, and Garlan's own honor helps to sustain it in his own way.
** Jamie is only eighteen by the start of the story, but he ends up romancing Queen Rhaella, who's a whole generation above him. Though given what her husband [[DomesticAbuse was like]], this was a welcome change for her.

** The premise of the fic is built off of this, as Aerys wanted to use a marriage of his son to Lyanna Stark as a way to get the North, Riverlands, and Vale onside to keep Tywin Lannister on his toes.
*** For that matter, Rhaegar's first marriage was also a way to keep Dorne happy with the realm, but the method by which it was done created walls for Elia and Rhaegar.

** After the mess of a Trial by Seven, Rhaegar makes an arrangement with Olenna (who was acting as leader of the reach due to Mace being in King's Landing) to marry Janna Tyrell to Titus Peake as a way to ensure a safe passage through the reach, and ensure the snippy Janna doesn't pull anything after her fiancee was killed after the trial.
*** Olenna also uses this as a way to shore up the family's control due to [[spoiler: the deaths of Mace and Willas]]. That to give the family a boost and to connect to the crown, her grandson Garlan is arranged to Melissa Blackwood/Fossoway.

* WomenAreWiser: Olenna gets people pretty quickly. She recognizes that Brandon Stark wasn't a true lord material, was able to sus out Ned and Cersei's path forward, and recognized that Catelyn wouldn't be able to adapt to the north. In some ways, this is couched in her blunt demeanor that makes others resistant to her observations, but it doesn't change the fact that she understands how things are much quicker than many others.

** Chapter 68: "A Difficult Choice". After everything, a few big wrinkles hit the family. [[spoiler: Rhaella is pregnant by Jaime]]. And [[spoiler: Aegon]] is revealed to now have long term illnesses now due to the experimental treatments Qyburn gave him to save his life. As such, the family calls the Third Great Council to help decide [[spoiler: the line of succession.]]

** Second, there was the 4th Great Council, where the realms were basically split over whether to have Aegon son of Elia, or Baelon son of Lyanna as Crown Prince of the Seven Kingdoms. [[note]]Rhaenys was briefly floated as a candidate by Dorne, but the rest of the realm wasn't ready to accept a queen as future sovereign still.[[/note]] While the different regions had their own desires, as several of the kingdoms ended up splitting their votes. However, Tywin was such a feared and respected leader that "If he wanted it, he could order the Westerlords to jump off Casterly Rock", making his one of the few united voting blocks besides The North. And while he couldn't get any direct gains for himself yet, he could have much more political prospects (and deny his [[TheRival princely rival]] more effectively) by supporting the position of Baelon, and so helped legalize the change in inheritance.

** In punishing a subordinate for failing, he says, "[[Film/StarWars Apology accepted]]" after killing him.

''My Father's Son'' is a ForWantOfANail and AlternateUniverseFic about making a new story out of the "previous generation" of the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' series. For in choosing to legally bind their houses, all the houses of Westeros would be reshaped in a new song of ice and fire. It's also the first in a planned series called the Succession Series.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Robert Baratheon takes this role for Lyanna. And it unfortunately doesn't improve over the years she's with Rhaegar.

** In this world, it's not Robert's Rebellion, because [[spoiler: Robert ends up fighting for the crown]]. Instead, it's Rhaegar's Rebellion.

->'''Lyanna''': Gods, I wasn't at all prepared to be Rhaegar's Princess.
->'''Elia''': Please, I wasn't prepared when I arrived in King's Landing. With Rhaegar at my side, I learned quickly and you are as well.

** In this world, instead of Ashara Dayne, Elia Martell took Ellaria Sand on as a Lady in Waiting. This changed court dynamics, and provides an OriginStory to how she and Oberyn got together.