History Fanfic / WinterRoses

* HumiliationConga: Catelyn starts to suffer this once Ned is made aware of her systematic, lifelong mistreatment of Jon. She's sent back to Riverrun and forced to come clean with the rest of her family about her actions, which gets her harshly reprimanded. Then her father forces her to join the septas once it becomes clear that Ned will not take her back. Then her ex-husband gets remarried to his OldFlame and her daughters clearly have taken well to their new stepmother. Then she

-->"Be sensible, Catelyn!" Hoster snapped. "You should have ignored him, let servants care for him, leave him with a limited budget, obviously, never let him have as much or as good as Robb, but you descended below the acceptable!"
* ForWantOfANail: Daenerys is captured at Dragonstone and betrothed to Jon. Jon is given the Blessed Isle and the Midnight Fortress as a result, making Catelyn hate him even more and mistreat him openly.
** Ned sends Catelyn back to Riverrun and Hoster forces her to take a septa's vows once it becomes clear that Ned will not take her back.
** Ashara and Arthur Dayne faked their deaths. Ashara in her guise as Ella the commoner becomes a governess to Sansa and Arya. Once Ned's marriage is annulled due to Catelyn's religious vows, he is free to marry the love of his life.
** Ashara's political acumen ensures that Ned can navigate the Court as Hand much better than in canon, to the point where Varys helps them. She also helps him escape King's Landing when Cersei tries to have him arrested.

* HumiliationConga: Catelyn starts to suffer this once Ned is made aware of her systematic, lifelong mistreatment of Jon.
* IShallTauntYou: After Ned sends a proclamation of Jon's real heritage, Lysa Tully takes great relish in letting her sister know that she threw away her status and future over nothing.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite all the changes to the timeline, Dany still ends up in Essos, meets Khal Drogo, earns the respect of the Dothraki and hatches dragon eggs. It seems that Dany is destined to be the Mother Of Dragons.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Daenerys has had to endure a lot of disdain from Northern Lords due to her father's actions. They've mostly gotten over it by the time she gets married though.

* CallingTheOldManOut: "Old lady" rather, but Robb is not at all happy when he learns just ''how'' deep his mother's resentment of Jon goes and outright calls her worries of Jon usurping his rightful place as heir of Winterfell paranoid delusions.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/901533 Winter Roses]] is a ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones'' AlternateUniverseFic series written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/fairytalelovr/pseuds/fairytalelovr Fairytalelovr]].

After Ned takes Jon from the Tower of Joy, he stops by King's Landing to see Robert crowned. There, they discover the former Queen Rhaella Targaryen had died in childbed. But while Prince Viserys escaped Dragonstone, the baby Daenerys was not born soon enough and was brought to the capital to face justice for her family's crimes. After a debate over what to do with her, Robert allows Daenerys to live in Winterfell and betroths her to Jon to sully her line, rather than disgrace himself by murdering a baby.

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** The other Tullys are not cool with Catelyn's treatment of Jon and find her worries that he'll be like a rebellious Blackfyre preposterous.

* HumiliationConga: Catelyn starts to suffer this once Ned is made aware of her systematic, lifelong mistreatment of Jon.

* UndyingLoyalty: Ayla toward Lyanna. She fed Jon from her own breasts and moved to the North from Dorne in order to look after him. When Catelyn turned her out of Winterfell, Ayla returned in a couple of years as a laundress. Later she follows Jon and Dany at their keep, the Midnight Fortress.
* WickedStepmother: Catelyn, even worse than in canon. It is fueled by her envy of Jon's good fortune in being given a princess for a wife, titles, and lands.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Alliser Thorne murders Jon because he thought he'd be serving House Targaryen by freeing Danaerys from an unhappy marriage. Benjen makes it perfectly clear to him how much he's ''harmed'' House Targaryen by revealing Jon's true identity. Thorne is left horrified and wishing for death.

* CallingTheOldLadyOut: Robb is not at all happy when he learns just ''how'' deep his mother's resentment of Jon goes and outright calls her worries of Jon usurping his rightful place as heir of Winterfell paranoid delusions.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Pretty much every Northern noble, even the ones that hate Daenerys, are incensed when Joffrey attempts to rape her.

After Ned takes Jon from the Tower of Joy, he stops by King's Landing to see Robert crowned. There, they discover the former Queen Rhaella Targaryen had died in childbed. But while Prince Viserys escaped Dragonstone, the baby Daenerys was not born soon enough and was brought to the capital to face justice for her family's crimes. After a debate,, Robert allows Daenerys to live in Winterfell and betroths her to Jon to sully her line, rather than disgrace himself by murdering a baby.

* AttemptedRape: Joffrey tries to rape Daenerys, which Cersei put him up to.

** All of the Stark children, plus Ned and Benjen have bonds with their own direwolves.
** Measter Aemon becomes the third head of the dragon when Rhaellion bonds with him.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Pretty much every Northern noble, even the ones that hate Daenerys are incensed when Joffrey attempts to rape her.
* ForWantOfANail: Daenerys is captured at Dragonstone and betrothed to Jon. Jon is given the Blessed Isle and the Midnight Fortress as a result, making Catelyn hate him even more and mistreating him openly.

** Ashara's political acumen ensures that Ned is able to navigate the Court as Hand much better than in canon, to the point where Varys actually helps them. She also helps him escape King's Landing when Cersei tries to have him arrested.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Alliser Thorne murders Jon because he thought he'd be serving House Targaryen by freeing Danaerys from an unhappy marriage. Benjen makes it perfectly clear to him how much he's ''harmed'' House Targaryen by revealing Jon's true identity to him. Thorne is left horrified and wishing for death.

* NunTooHoly: Catelyn becomes a septa but she retains her nasty, elitist personality. She resents her reduced circumstances, prays to the Seven to visit misfortune on Jon, his family and Ashara. She also orchestrates the kidnapping of two noblemen, plunging Westeros into war.

* UndyingLoyalty: Ayla toward Lyanna. She fed Jon from her own breasts, moved to North from Dorne in order to look after him. When Catelyn turned her out of Winterfell, Ayla returned in a couple of years as a laundress. Later she follows Jon and Dany at their keep, the Midnight Fortress.
* WickedStepmother: Catelyn, even worse than in canon. It is fueled by her envy for Jon's good fortune in being given a princess for a wife, titles and lands.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Catelyn gets several, two from Jon, one from Dany, another from Ashara. And one from Arya, which actually deeply hurt her.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/901533 Winter Roses]] is a ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fanfic series written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/fairytalelovr/pseuds/fairytalelovr Fairytalelovr]].

Completely AU from the end of the Rebellion!

After Ned takes Jon from the Tower of Joy, he stops by King's Landing to see Robert crowned. There, they discover the former Queen had died in childbed. But while Prince Viserys escaped Dragonstone, the baby Daenerys was not born soon enough and was brought to the capital to face justice for her family's crimes.

This story is about Robert allowing Daenerys to live in Winterfell, betrothed to Jon to sully her line, rather than disgrace himself by murdering a baby.

* AttemptedRape: Joffrey tries to rape Daenerys, Cersei put him up to it.

* InSpiteOfANail: Despite all the changes to the timeline Dany still ends up in Essos, meets Khal Drogo, earns the respect of the Dothraki and hatches dragon eggs. It seems that Dany is destined to be the Mother Of Dragons.

* {{Sadist}}: The poison nearly used to kill Jon as a baby and also the children of Ashara and Ned along with Robb's is noted by Lord Varys to be an extremely cruel way to kill a child. [[spoiler: In all the cases the culprit was Littlefinger.]]

* SinsOfOurFathers: Daenerys has had to endure a lot of disdain from Northern Lords due to her father's actions. They've mostly gotten over by the time she gets married though.

* {{Sadist}}: The poison nearly used to kill Jon as a baby and also the children of Ashara and Ned along with Robb's is noted by Lord Varys to be an extremely cruel way to kill a child.

* AdultFear: Ned was forced to lie to everyone and claim that his nephew was his son to protect the infant from being murdered.
** Catelyn outright abuses Jon by starving him, denying him a fire in his room and assigning harsh punishments over imagined infractions. Ned is blind to this going on until Jon is fourteen years old.
** Daenerys lives in fear that the Lannisters will murder her, her husband and any children that they have. As a result she is rather desperate to remove them from power.
** Petyr Baelish attempted to poison Jon as a baby in the cradle, and did the same to his and Benjen's sons years later.
** In the sequel, Dany is kidnapped by the Second Sons under orders of her brother. Her kidnappers gave her a hallucinogen that makes her believe her home has been burnt down and all her family is dead.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Pretty much every Northern noble, even the ones that hate Daenerys are incensed when Joffrey attempts to rape her.

** Ashara and Arthur Dayne faked their deaths. Ashara in her guise as Ella the commoner becomes a governess to Sansa and Arya. Once Ned's marriage is annulled due to Catelyn's religious vows, he is free to marry the love of his live.
** Ashara's political acumen ensures that Ned is able to navigate the Court as Hand much better than in Canon, to the point where Varys actually helps them.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Alliser Thorne murders Jon because he thought he'd be freeing Danaerys from an unhappy marriage and serving House Targaryen. Benjen makes it perfectly clear to him how much he's ''harmed'' House Targaryen by revealing Jon's true identity to him. Thorne is left horrified and wishing for death.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Cersei convinced Joffrey to try to rape Danaerys because she thought if he managed to impregnate her, it would make Robert remove Dany as a threat to the throne. Instead, Joffrey fails and his actions become public knowledge, the incident makes many of the northerners hate him and become sympathetic to Dany, and Robert gives House Starling a thousand men and raises them to a major house as compensation.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Daenerys has had to endure a lot of disdain from Northern Lords due to her father's actions.

** Both Arthur and Jaime note that there's only one entrance and exit from the Maidenvault, where Elia and Aegon where hiding at the time of the Sack, so it would have been impossible for her to sneak her son out of King's Landing.

** Measter Aemon becomes the third head of the dragon when Rheallion bonds with him.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Lady doesn't die at the Ruby Ford, and Drogo isn't killed by Miri Maaz Duur.

* WickedStepmother: Catelyn, even worse than in cannon. It is fueled by her envy for Jon's good fortune in being given a princess for a wife, titles and lands.

** Measter Aemon becomes the third head of the dragon when Rheallion binds with him.

* NiceJobFixingItVillian: Cersei convinced Joffrey to try to rape Danaerys because she thought if he managed to impregnate her, it would make Robert remove Dany as a threat to the throne. Instead, Joffrey fails and his actions become public knowledge, the incident makes many of the northerners hate him and become sympathetic to Dany, and Robert gives House Starling a thousand men and raises them to a major house as compensation.

** Petyr Baelish attempted to poison Jon as a baby in the cradle.

* ForWantOfANail: Daenerys is captured at Dragonstone and betrothed to Jon. Jon is given the Blessed Isle and the Midnight Fortress as a result, making Catelyn hate her even more and mistreat him openly.
** Ned sending Catelyn back to Riverrun and Hoster forcing her to take a septa's vows once it becomes clear that Ned will not take her back.
** Ashara and Arthur Dayne faked their deaths. Ashara in her guise as Ella the commoner becomes governess to Sansa and Arya. Once Ned's marriage is annulled due to Catelyn's religious vows he is free to marry the love of his live.
** Ashara's political acumen ensures that Ned is able to navigate the Court as Hand much better than in Canon. To the point where Varys actually helps them.
** Jon participating in the War of the Five Kings as a King himself.
* IShallTauntYou: After Ned sends a proclamation of Jon's real heritage Lysa Tully takes great relish in letting her sister know that she threw away her status and future over nothing.

* HumiliationConga: Catelyn starts to suffer this once Ned is made aware of her systematic, livelong mistreatment of Jon.

* WickedStepmother: Catelyn, even worse than in cannon. Fueled by her envy for Jon's good fortune in being given a princess for a wife, tittles and lands.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/901533 Winter Roses]] is a Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire and TVShows/GameOfThrones fanfic series written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/fairytalelovr/pseuds/fairytalelovr Fairytalelovr]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeach: Catelyn gets several, two from Jon, one from Dany, another from Ashara. And one from Arya, which actually deeply hurt her.

* UndyingLoyalty: Ayla toward Lyanna. She fed Jon from her own breasts, moved to North from Dorne in order to look after him. When Catelyn turned her out of Winterfell, Ayla returned in a couple of years as a laundress. Later she follows Jon and Dany at their keep, the Midnight Fortress.