History Fanfic / TheRavensPlan

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** [[spoiler: A furious Robert, aware and ''very'' tired of Cersei's scheming, has Joffrey's corpse thrown in her Black Cell.]]
** Joffrey and Littlefinger are killed in their first appearance: Joffrey by a vengeful and protective Sandor and Baelish by Jaime.
** Qyburn is captured by Gregor Clegane, who tells him he wants to be put in the same undead state he was made into in the old timeline, but retain his free will. Instead, [[spoiler: Qyburn sedates and kills him without blinking.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Myrcella briefly recognizes the maid serving her dinner, and realizes it's likely Tyrion will want to bed her. [[spoiler: That maid turns out to be Shae, who Tyrion has of course bedded before.]]

* OffWithHisHead: After seizing the Dreadfort, Robb executes Roose by beheading him with Ice.

'''Jon:''' [[spoiler: Of course they're getting shorter, [[CatchPhrase Winter is coming.]]]]\\

** To his credit, when Stannis realizes that he did in fact burn his daughter alive, the first thing he does is tell Davos to get Shireen as far away from him as possible. Davos is all too happy to comply.

* TheGoodChancellor: Once Davos reunites with the Starks, he's immediately reinstated as Jon's Hand, on the grounds that he knows as much as they do about the true threat, and they trust him.

* ToThePain: :Tyrion has Bronn confiscate the side weapons from his uncles and brother (and, surprisingly, his aunt) before [[spoiler:revealing the Maesters conspiracy and announcing the truth of Creylen's treachery]] for this reason: they'd kill him way, ''way'' too fast for the suffering Tyrion personally wants to inflict upon him.

* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Daenerys' canonical very LongList of accumulated titles is lampshaded several times: when Tyrion reveals himself as her Hand to Tywin, he starts listing her titles but gives up halfway through. Later, after learning that Dany has conquered Pentos and named herself Queen, Sansa snarks how that's on top of all her other titles, which how she seems to collect like seashells on a beach. Even the narration gets in on it by never actually listing all of her titles all at once, even when a character does; at one point, someone goes to say her titles and the narration cuts to the end.

** Catelyn when Jon reveals his true identity to the entirety of the Stark family, realizing that the boy she had been tormenting his whole life is actually the rightful king of Westeros, and she has long made an enemy, or at risked making one, of him.
** Qyburn's reaction when Gregor Clegane comes after him. [[spoiler: Subverted in that, even if he hates Qyburn for turning him into a mindless slave to Cersei, he remembers that he also made him much stronger, immune to pain, and even somehow cured his maddening affliction -- he describes it as Qyburn finally giving him the peace and quiet he'd sought from Maesters all his life. Perhaps understandably, Gregor asks Qyburn to make him undead again -- but this time with his own free will.]]

** Roose Bolton when [[spoiler:Bran reveals the hidden torture chambers underneath the Dreadfort.]]

** Jon, when he discovers [[spoiler: the Night King does Remember]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: The timeline resetting means the child characters basically have the minds of teenagers in young preteen bodies. This is a considerable source of frustration for a lot of them - Myrcella notes that the adults constantly pull NotNowKiddo on her despite the fact that she was nearly fully grown before she died in her last life, Lyanna Mormont and Ned Umber are both toddlers again, and Shireen expresses annoyance at how she's going to have to undergo puberty a second time.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: What Bran operates on. Considering the only way to stop him is to babysit him literally 24/7, Jon, Arya, and Sansa just give in and let him do what he wants -- much to Ned's disbelief and frustration.

** Shireen considers herself this for House Baratheon. She is quite probably right.

** Davos is this to Shireen. For every decision where we get to see his thought process, the first thing he considers is how this decision will affect her, and his care for her is strong enough to stay his hand from [[spoiler:ordering Qyburn's execution after he offers to treat her greyscale scars]]. For her part, Shireen essentially disowned her father after what he did to her and clearly cares for Davos too.

** Ned to Theon for his betrayal.

%%* ResetButtonSuicideMission: MurphysLaw in effect.

** Stannis' time in the Black Cells has clearly damaged his psyche. By the time Robert and Renly visit him, he's seething in rage at the very sight of them, demanding to understand why it is that he's always been TheUnfavorite out of the three of them and wondering what Renly could have possibly done to earn Brienne's UndyingLoyalty, and when he learns about Jon Snow's true identity, he starts laughing at them before proclaiming himself to the "one true king of Westeros, Jon Targaryen".

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The entire premise of the story is going back in time to try and stop the Second Long Night from coming -- or at least have a united Westeros ready to face it.

* SlashedThroat: What did Loras Tyrell in.

* SpitTake: At different points, Robb and Ned both end up choking on their ale when Jon and Howland, respectfully, inform them about Arya falling in love.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In his brief time in the story Joffrey revealed that like his mother he believed that Tyrion was the one who killed him, revealing that when he pointed at Tyrion as he died in the original timeline he was, from his perspective, identifying his killer, as Cersei had believed.

* ThatWasNotADream: When everyone wakes up on the first day of the timeline reset and remembers the events of the previous timeline, they initially think everything was AllJustADream... and then the AwfulTruth sinks in.
* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Jon is horrified to discover that, thanks to the Remembering, [[spoiler:Little Sam has not been conceived and thus he will never exist. Gilly herself is already devastated while both are downright terrified of how Sam is going to take it since using the spell was ''his'' idea]].

* ToThePain: :Tyrion has Bronn confiscate the side weapons from his uncles and brother (and, surprisingly, his aunt) before [[spoiler:announcing the truth of Creylen's treachery]] for this reason: they'd kill him way, ''way'' too fast for the suffering Tyrion personally wants to inflict upon him.

* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Daenerys' canonical very LongList of accumulated titles is lampshaded several times: when Tyrion reveals himself as her Hand to Tywin, he starts listing her titles but gives up halfway through. Later, after learning that Dany has conquered Pentos and named herself Queen, Sansa mentions how that's on top of all her other titles, stating how she seems to collect them. Even the narration gets in on it by never actually listing all of her titles all at once, even when a character does; at one point, someone goes to say her titles and the narration cuts to the end.

** When Robb sees Theon after waking up, he becomes so furious that being held up by Jon and Jory Cassel with all their strength, having Arya wrapped around his leg and Sansa screaming in his face to calm down is ''barely'' enough to keep him from killing Theon. Then Ser Rodrik gets in on it, and Bran has to warg into Hodor to stop him from doing the same.
** [[spoiler: The Lannisters get so mad upon finding out that Joanna Lannister was killed through inaction by Maester Creylen that Jaime ''smashes Tyrion's desk'' and has to be knocked out by Bronn, Kevan ''throws his chair across the room'', and Stafford ''clenches his chair so hard the arms break''.]]
** When Robert learns that Jon Snow is Jon Targaryen, that he's Rhaegar's son by Lyanna, and that Ned is betraying him, he goes utterly ''berserk'', wrecking the Small Council chambers, knocking out Meryn Trant with a chair to the face, and sending everyone else fleeing.

* ToThePain: :Tyrion has Bronn confiscate the side weapons from his uncles and brother (and, surprisingly, his aunt) before [[spoilerannouncing the truth of Creylen's treachery]] for this reason: they'd kill him way, ''way'' too fast for the suffering Tyrion personally wants to inflict upon him.

The War for the Dawn has ended in a victory for the Night's King. In desperation, Bran Stark and Melisandre enact a plan to use a spell that will send the memories of the last surviving members of the Great Houses (Jon and Daenerys Targaryen, Jaime and Tyrion Lannister, and Sansa and Bran Stark) [[PeggySue into the past]] so that they can prepare better.

** When Lord Rosby, Cressen, and Renly learn exactly who Jon Targaryen is and what it means, and realize they'll have to tell Robert, they are utterly terrified of how he's going to react. Their worries are proven right when Robert .

** In something more akin to "regaining lost levels in badass", Robert's reaction to the looming civil war is to get back into fighting shape. And while he's still far from his prime, he's certainly doing better than the fat slob he was beforehand.

** Bloodraven calls out Bran for casting the Remembering spell. Bran counters that by pointing out [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he didn't have any other option]].

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Yara has Dagmar get Theon set up with a few whores in an attempt to snap him out of "Reek", especially since his castration has been undone.

* AllJustADream: What everyone resurrected believes at first. Then the AwfulTruth sinks in.

** To his credit, when Stannis realizes that he did in fact burn his daughter alive, the first thing he does is tell Davos to get her as far away from him as he can. Davos is all too happy to comply.
** Everyone hates the Freys. That being said, poor "Fat" Walda Frey's fate in the previous timeline was so grisly and undeserved that even the Starks and Tullys can't help but pity her, especially when they learn that she Remembers.

** After what he did to his daughter Shireen in the original timeline becomes common knowledge, Stannis is firmly in this group. Absolutely no one has any care for him at all, not even his daughter or his brothers. Shireen and Davos both immediately pull a ScrewThisImOutOfHere as soon as they Remember, while Robert has him thrown in a Black Cell.

** Robert planned to make Robb this by betrothing him to Shireen, as an apology to House Stark and Ned in particular for all they suffered during the War of Five Kings. The plan got nixed after he found out about Jon.

** In the prologue, Jaime, Jon, Sam, Gendry, Edd, Tormund, and several others hold off the Night King's forces in order to buy time for Bran to finish the ritual. This turned out to be also ''literal'', as their blood and that of their army members' was added to the spell and overpowered it.
** Melisandre protects Bran from the bulk of the backlash when the ritual overcharges, frying her body. [[spoiler:This also results in rendering her younger self braindead.]]

** The first sign that the King's Landing group gets of just how bad the spell escalated is when Myrcella refers to Jaime as her father, meaning that she Remembers.
** Melessa Tarly's reaction to learning her husband threatened to kill Sam if he didn't join the Night's Watch is to give him a slap and scream at him, stunning everyone at the total reversal of her normal personality.

** Viserys (who doesn't Remember) is so overwhelmed by Daenerys' seizure of power in Pentos, and learning of Jon's existence, that he becomes a much happier and well-adjusted human being. Dany speculates that he was essentially shocked back into sanity.
** Edmure Tully's personality change post-Remembering comes across as this to Patrek Mallister (who ''doesn't'' Remember), especially when he nearly has his archers loose their arrows on Stevron Frey when the latter calls for parley.
** Mace is so shocked to learn of [[spoiler: the conspiracy within the Maesters]] that he personally kills his own Maester, who was involved. Olenna is shocked to find herself feeling proud of him for this.
** Also with Olenna, the various revelations about the Long Night and the Starks' newfound power base leave her visibly worried, which Margaery notes is very unnerving.
** When [[TheStoic Ned]] hits his RageBreakingPoint, he ''roars'' with anger, utterly shocking everyone around him.
** Ned finally believes Theon went through some form of punishment in the last life when the once proud heir is reduced to tears and blubbering after one slap.
** When the Lannisters learn about [[spoiler: the Maesters allowing Joanna to die]], they all react with, for them, uncharacteristic levels of anger (and sorrow, in Genna's case).
** [[spoiler: The normally bombastic Greatjon Umber is left utterly depressed by learning of his son's betrayal of the Starks.]]

** Sansa to Septa Mordane, when she self-righteously tries to assert authority over Sansa.

** Melisandre took so much power from the ritual when it went wrong that while she saved Bran's life at the cost of her own, [[spoiler: her past body was also rendered brain dead]].

** After chewing out Stannis for everything he did, Davos grabs Shireen and abandons Dragonstone. It later turns out that practically ''all'' of Stannis's men ditched him.

** When Renly and co. finally tell Robert who exactly Jon Targaryen is, Robert is completely unable to comprehend the words coming out of their mouths at first and it takes them several times before they finally sink in, at which point he goes into an UnstoppableRage.

* ShedTheFamilyName: Tommen wants to opt out of the Lannister name to become a Waters.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: All the time travelers who died early in canon have this issue, but it shows most with Ned Stark. He's essentially given a second chance at life with his beloved family, but said family has suffered so much and changed so drastically that he barely recognizes any of them. It eventually boils over in his RageBreakingPoint above, and he has a quiet talk with Howland Reed afterwards to come to terms with it.

** Subverted. The Baratheons ''think'' they're in the middle of one after they find out about Jon Targaryen, with Stannis in the Black Cells and Shireen missing, leaving Renly as Robert's only viable heir. In ''reality'', they're an AuthorityInNameOnly -- all the kingdoms except Dorne and the Stormlands have sworn fealty to Jon, and Dorne is stuck in a CivilWar right now, leaving their involvement limited to nonexistent (they wouldn't side with either of the claimants anyway). The only other two Targaryen heirs, Daenerys and Viserys, are fully supportive of Jon's claim, with the former possibly even marrying him down the line if things work out. Put this all together, and anyone with a brain can see that Jon's practically king already and that the Baratheons are the only ones yet to realize this.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: After being informed of [[spoiler:the Maesters' conspiracy, Luwin goes down to the Winterfell dungeons to speak with Qyburn and tell him about it. After some reflection, Qyburn admits that does explain certain things in retrospect, such as why some supposedly open-minded archmaesters always dismissed his ideas and findings even before he began his more questionable studies]].

** When Lord Rosby, Cressen, and Renly learn exactly who Jon Targaryen is and what it means, and realizes they'll have to tell Robert, they are utterly terrified at what a disaster this is going to be. They're all right.

* ToThePain: [[spoiler:Tyrion has Bronn confiscate the side weapons from his uncles and brother (and, surprisingly, his aunt) before announcing the truth of Creylen's treachery for this reason: they'd kill him way, way too fast for the suffering he wants to inflict upon him.]]

* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: Daenerys' canonical very LongList of accumulated titles is lampshaded several times: when Tyrion reveals himself as her Hand to Tywin, he starts listing her titles but gives up halfway through. Later, after learning that Dany has conquered Pentos and named herself Queen, Sansa mentions how that's on top of all her other titles, stating how she seems to collect them. Even the narration gets in on it by never actually listing all of her titles all at once, even when a character does: at one point someone goes to say her titles, and the narration cuts to the end.

** [[spoiler:It was this trope in relation to Winterfell and the Starks that led Old Nan to abandon her first love, even though she was really in fully reciprocated love, her beloved could have easily given her and their family a bright future and even nobility, and in fact he would have insisted in marrying her once he knew she was with child. As she confesses to Arya, her husband wasn't the father of her first child - it was ''Ser Duncan the Tall'', making him Hodor's great-grandfather.]]

** Grenn and Pyp both admit that they struggle with the fact that the Wildlings are crossing the Wall, even if they understand why it's necessary - but because they trust Jon's judgement, they won't question it any further.

** Tywin Lannister is usurped by Tyrion in the same general time frame, and is now a non-entity under house arrest.

** More like "I am in command now". Samwell Tarly, Tyrion Lannister and Yara Greyjoy each usurped their respective fathers. Later, with the backing of the Reach lords who remember, Sam takes the title of Warden of the South from Mace, in order to better prepare for the incoming invasion of the dead.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The blood of the Wolf, Lion, and the Dragon (Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister, and Daenerys Targaryen respectively) should've been enough for the ritual. No one took into account the blood of the 3,000 soldiers who would be fighting and dying in the same area, which overcharged the magic, thus leading to the current predicament.

** Talisa flees to Pentos to avoid getting caught back up in Westerosi politics. In the process, she accidentally stumbles on Daenerys, who’s impressed by her strength and recruits her for herself.
** In the original timeline, Renly was TheLostLenore to Loras, who never truly got over his death after all that time. In the new timeline, they’re together for only a moment, and then Loras is killed by Jaime in the chaos, making him TheLostLenore to ''Renly'' instead.

** Arya becomes this after word of her status as a Faceless Man, and her actions in the old timeline, is revealed. Except among the Tullys and their loyalists, who praise her for what she did to the Freys.
** House Stark in general becomes this after their various exploits from the old timeline come to light. Besides Arya, of course, there's Jon, who is the rightful king of Westeros and leader of the forces against the White Walkers, and Sansa, the Lady of Winterfell who fed Ramsay Bolton/Snow to his own hounds. Even Bran is feared, as his magic was powerful enough to cause the events of the fic in the first place. No less than Olenna Tyrell considers crossing the Starks to be death now, and her granddaughter Margaery agrees.

** Tywin. Not only has his least favorite son taken all his power, but because he Remembers, he knows the truth about Jamie and Cersei. And to add insult to injury, the only reason he remembers? Bran ''forgot'' about him.
** Cersei herself goes from Queen of the Seven Kingdoms to the lowliest prisoner in the Black Cells within a single day. For the cherry on top, that only happened because of Jaime, who not only abandoned her but even straight out told Renly to kill her and spare them all her madness.
* {{Hypocrite}}: During the talk about what to do with the Boltons, Ned notes that he doesn’t feel comfortable with a PreCrimeArrest. Understandable, but it rings a little hollow with Theon (who committed a heinous offense but is regretful, was already horrifically punished for it, and has Jon, Arya, Bran, and Sansa vouching for him) currently imprisoned in his room. To his credit, Ned does acknowledge that he overreacted, but still ultimately [[PersonaNonGrata banishes Theon from Winterfell]] with the threat of death if he steps anywhere near there again.

* IHaveNoSon:
** Inverted. Thanks to the malfunctioning of the spell, Stannis, his wife, and ''Shireen herself'' all remember Stannis allowing Melisandre to burn Shireen alive as a HumanSacrifice in the original timeline. Shireen promptly disowns them, whilst Davos takes her away from Dragonstone, determined to never see them again. The guilt drives Stannis deeper into alcoholism than even ''Robert'' fell, whilst Selyse hangs herself again in shame.
** Another inverted example is Tommen. He already disowned Cersei for her actions in the previous timeline, but also proceeds to disown Jaime after finding out Jaime is his biological father, to the point he'd rather ShedTheFamilyName and be a Waters.

** While he doesn't Remember, Viserys has a very similar reaction when he's told of what he threatened to do to Dany's unborn child. This makes him

** The Red Wedding, for House Frey. This act was so universally despised that even though every member of the family that participated in it was executed (irrespective of whether or not they Remembered), those left over are ''still'' held in complete contempt, even though each and every single one of them is completely innocent. Poor Stevron Frey laments how House Frey will be dealing with the fallout for several ''generations'', and that's if they're lucky.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** The reaction from several people who Remembered. The hardest hit are Stannis and Selyse Baratheon, who drive themselves into alcoholism and suicide, respectively, after they realize that, yes, they did burn their daughter alive. Additionally, while he doesn't Remember, Viserys has a very similar reaction when he's told of what he threatened to do to Dany's unborn child.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jaime killing Loras during the madness at King's Landing made things far more difficult than it had to be. To be fair to Jaime, it's pointed out InUniverse that was primarily Loras' fault, as he attacked both Jaime ''and'' Barristan Selmy at the same time. Barristan himself states that if Jaime hadn't killed Loras, he certainly would have.

** Robb to Theon, though he's talked down before going too far.
** Sandor to Joffrey, beating him to death.
** Edmure to Black Walder, bashing his head in with a rock.

** [[spoiler: Greatjon Umber to Smalljon Umber]], breaking his jaw and nearly killing him, when the former learns the latter had dumped his oaths to [[spoiler: the Starks to follow the Boltons.]]

** [[spoiler: The last thing Qyburn expected when he was caught by Gregor Clegane was for the Mountain to tell him that he ''liked'' being undead, and that he wants to be changed back into the monster that Qyburn made him in the old timeline... just with his own free will this time.]]
** Despite the time-travel element, neither Robb nor Jon were honestly expecting that [[spoiler:Ned Umber and Lyanna Mormont]] would retain their adult minds in the bodies of infants.

** Bloodraven, despite being the all-seeing Three Eyed Raven, never foresaw the Remembering being enacted by his successor Bran and upending all his plans.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The blood of the Wolf, Lion, and the Dragon (Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister, and Daenerys Targaryen respectively) should've been enough for the ritual. No one took into account the blood of the 3,000 soldiers who would be fighting and dying in the same area, which overpowered the ritual, thus leading to the current predicament.

* DownerBeginning: The story opens with the Others having won the Second War for the Dawn and overrun most of Westeros, with the last major group of survivors making a desperate LastStand that's not expected to win, just to buy time for the ritual to be enacted and send them all back in time for a do-over.

** [[spoiler: Every Maester involved in the conspiracy to manipulate and control the realm are executed by the Hightowers and other lords alerted to the conspiracy.]]

** Subverted. The Baratheons ''think'' they're in the middle of one after they find out about Jon Targaryen, with Stannis in the Black Cells and Shireen missing, leaving Renly as Robert's only viable heir. In ''reality'', they're an AuthorityInNameOnly -- all the kingdoms except Dorne and the Stormlands have sworn fealty to Jon, and Dorne is stuck in a CivilWar right now, leaving their involvement limited to nonexistent (they wouldn't side with either of the claimants anyway). The only other two Targaryen heirs, Daenerys and Viserys, are fully supportive of Jon's claim, with former possibly even marrying him down the line if things work out. Put this all together, and anyone with a brain can see that Jon's practically king already, and that the Baratheons are the only ones yet to realize this.

** After learning that Tyrion is their ally and friend, Ned thinks that at least they aren't talking about trusting the Kingslayer.
** [[spoiler:The Maester conspirators at the Citadel were so confident in their machinations they kept extensive, meticulous records of their actions. This only made it incredibly easy to root out which Maesters were in it when Samwell Tarly invaded the Citadel.]]
* ThatManIsDead: Bran repeatedly tells people that he's not really Brandon Stark anymore, he's [[InsistentTerminology the Three Eyed Raven now]]. Most people who knew him in the future all agree with him on that.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: To everyone's surprise, the Thenns [[KneelBeforeFrodo kneel to Jon voluntarily]], on the grounds that they follow strength and he showed it by killing Styr in their one fight.

** WordOfGod is that [[spoiler: Melisandre being rendered brain dead]] is this for her actions in the old timeline.
** A lot of this happens in general to various people post-Remembering, to the point that those who ''don't'' remember are barely able hold their friends back from taking their revenge.
** [[spoiler:Lomys was part of a conspiracy to destabilize the realm, and murdered Alleria and Luthor Tyrell to achieve that. He's promptly killed by Mace, who stabs him in the back in retaliation for the death of his wife and father]].

** Zigzagged in regards to Hizdahr (at least in his mind). He died saving Daenerys' life; in exchange, and he and his family are the only masters in Mereen whose lives are spared when the slaves rise up again. The zigzag part comes in when he is forcibly co-opted into ruling Mereen in Daenerys's name...with ''[[TheHedonist Daario]]''.

* LaughingMad: When Stannis learns that Jon Snow is actually Jon Targaryen, he starts laughing maniacally and proclaiming the Targaryen to be the one true king.

** Take, for example, the Starks. Ned Stark, who died before the chaos began (and whose death is what instigated it), is completely lost and the big explanation at the beginning is primarily for his benefit. Cue his over-growing shock and horror over his family's changes in personality, abilities (especially magic), and the many tragedies they endured. Robb and Catelyn, who made it to the Red Wedding before dying, have first-hand accounts of the War of Five Kings but little understanding of the underlying duplicity that occurred before, during, and after the war, so they fare hardly better than he does. The last Stark to die before the Long Night, Rickon, is the only one that is generally accepting of the new information, since he died only a year or so before the ritual.

* MachiavelliWasWrong: Perfectly displayed with House Lannister. Their ruthlessness in the original timeline caused everyone to fear them, but it also made them utterly ''hated'' as well and the only reason the other great houses never retaliated was because their resources and manpower were depleted. Now, in the rebooted timeline, that's no longer an issue and if it wasn't for [[ConflictKiller the threat of the White Walkers]], they would've all been perfectly happy banding together to wipe them out of existence. It's for this reason that Kevan and Genna support Tyrion in his coup against Tywin -- even they couldn't deny that Tywin's actions have put their family into a ''very'' precarious position.

** Sarella reveals to Doran that [[spoiler:his maester has been giving him medicine that worsened his gout instead of treating it as part of the maesters' plan to weaken Great Houses]].

* TheTimeTravellersDilemma: Jon is horrified to discover that, thanks to the Remembering, [[spoiler:Little Sam has not been conceived and thus he will never exist. Gilly herself is already devastated while both are downright terrified of how Sam is going to take it]].

** Jaime, Jon, Sam, Gendry, Edd, Tormund, and others hold off the Night King's forces in order to buy time for Bran to finish the ritual. This turned out to be also ''literal'', as their blood and that of their army's was added to the spell and overpowered it.

* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Jojen Reed still dies protecting Bran from the White Walkers]].

** In the midst of her HeroicBSOD, Cat blames everything that became of her family in the old timeline on her own actions. Specifically her canonical choice to swear to the Seven that she'd raise Jon as her own, only to go back on her word.

* {{Irony}}: After Tyrion decides to spare [[spoiler:Shae]], Genna notes that he will have to be utterly ruthless to whoever next wrongs him to ensure that no one assumes him to be weak. That person ends up being [[spoiler:Maester Creylen]], who is quite literally responsible for ''every major problem Tyrion has ever dealt with'' ([[spoiler:Creylen ensured that Joanna would die after giving birth to Tyrion, which Tywin blames said son for]]), so it's pretty clear Tyrion will take ''extra'' care with making sure that individual suffers horribly.

** Jon has this reaction upon realizing that by casting the spell and turning back time, [[spoiler:they erased Little Sam from existence. He wonders in horror how many other children were also [[RetGone erased from existence]] by their actions.]]

** Davos is this to Shireen. For every decision where we get to see his thought process, the first thing he considers is how this decision will effect her, and his care for her is strong enough to stay his hand from [[spoiler:ordering Qyburn's execution after he offers to treat her greyscale scars]]. For her part, Shireen essentially disowned her father after what he did to her and clearly cares for Davos too.

* RetGone: Since she killed him before he could ever rape her, [[spoiler:Gilly and Craster didn't conceive Little Sam. Gilly and Jon are devastated when they realize this, and Jon realizes that Sam will take it even worse.]]

** Qyburn's reaction when a remembering Gregor Clegane goes after him. [[spoiler: Subverted in that, even if he hates Qyburn for turning him into a mindless slave to Cersei, he remembers that he also made him much stronger, immune to pain, and even somehow cured his maddening affliction -- he describes it as Qyburn finally giving him the peace and quiet he'd sought from Maesters all his life. Perhaps understandably, Gregor asks Qyburn to make him undead again -- but this time with his own free will.]]

* OmniscientMoralityLicense: What Bran operates on. Considering the only way to stop him is to babysit him literally 24/7, Jon, Arya, and Sansa just give in and lets him do what he wants -- much to Ned's disbelief and frustration.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: As everyone would be sent backwards in time, it was likely many of the children born in that time would no longer exist. Chapter 44 confirms this as [[spoiler:Little Sam]] was erased from history. Just how many other children have been {{Retgone}}d

** Jon has this reaction upon realizing that by casting the spell and turning back time, [[spoiler: they erased Little Sam from existence. He wonders in horror how many children were also RetGone by their actions.]]

** Also with Olenna, the various revelations about the Long Night and the Starks' newfound power base leaves her visibly worried, with Margaery notes is very unnerving.

* RageBreakingPoint: Ned builds up a lot of frustration and anger over the various changes brought about by the Remembering, all of which comes bursting out in reaction to being told that Jaime is now an ally.

* RetGone: [[spoiler: Little Sam hadn't been conceived yet at the time when everyone Remembers. Gilly and Jon are devastated when they realize this, and Jon realizes that Sam will take it even worse.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: During the talk about what to do with the Boltons, Ned notes that he doesn’t feel comfortable with a PreCrimeArrest. Understandable, but it rings a little hollow with Theon (who committed a heinous offense but is regretful, was already horrifically punished for it, and has Jon, Arya, Bran, and Sansa vouching for him) currently imprisoned in his room. To his credit, Ned does acknowledge that he overreacted, but still ultimately [[PersonaNonGrata banishes Theon from Winterfell]] with the threat of death if he steps foot near .