Cursed
is a A Song of Ice and Fire One-Shot Fic written by The Last Mockingbird9 that serves as a Continuation concerning the trial and execution of Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish.
Tropes that appear in this fanfic:
- Achey Scars: Littlefinger's scar from navel to collarbone burns and itches during his trial. A couple times, he's surprised that it hadn't started bleeding.
- Didn't See That Coming: Littlefinger never expected Jeyne Poole to be the person who brought all his schemes crashing down. He had been expecting one of his schemes to come crashing down on him at some point, but not that one since he considers his crimes against Jeyne to be among his lesser ones.
- Die Laughing: Littlefinger's last action is a bitter, gurgling laugh.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Tyrion Lannister, throat slit by a prostitute on Littlefinger's orders.
- Entitled to Have You: How Littlefinger feels about Sansa; since he has created everything about her, he should have her.
- History Repeats: The theme of the story. The last line of the story is that "History repeats itself in the most brutal ways."
- Judge, Jury, and Executioner: When Littlefinger is sentenced, Sansa carries out the execution.Sansa (to Jon) No. I am the accuser. I will carry out the sentence. This is what father would have wanted.
- Kissing Cousins: Jon and Sansa marry each other.
- Noodle Incident: What exactly Littlefinger did to Jeyne Poole, apart from forcing her to be a Sex Slave and giving her to the Boltons, is never explained. Also counts as Nothing Is Scarier.
- Number Two: Littlefinger is currently serving as Sansa's Hand of the Queen.
- The Peeping Tom: One of the first scenes has Littlefinger spying on Jon as he has sex with Sansa, imagining himself where Jon is.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jeyne Poole left Westeros and fled to Braavos with Theon. This is because she fears and hates Littlefinger for what he did to her.
- Slashed Throat:
- A prostitute slit Tyrion's throat.
- Littlefinger's fate, courtesy of Sansa.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Jeyne Poole doesn't appear at all, but her testimony about what Littlefinger did to her seals his fate.
- Spanner in the Works: Jeyne Poole to Littlefinger. She had fled to Braavos with Theon, and in correspondence with Sansa, reveals what Littlefinger did to her.
- Speech Impediment: Podrick still has that stutter.
- The Starscream: Littlefinger is plotting to kill Jon, marry Sansa and become King in the North.
- Villainous Breakdown: Littlefinger when Sansa confronts him about Jeyne Poole's ordeal, as well as the Lannisters forcing her to marry Tyrion, which Littlefinger caused by revealing the Tyrells' plans to marry Sansa to Willas. The story goes through Littlefinger's thought process, from what he thinks he should do to why he winds up digging himself deeper.
- Villain Protagonist: The entire story is from Littlefinger's POV.
- Would Hurt a Child: Littlefinger also plans to murder Jon's child with Sansa.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After arranging the marriage between Harrold Hardyng and Sansa, Littlefinger had him cut down by a greedy soldier when the Vale came to retake the North.
