"The Evening Star
" is a A Song of Ice and Fire fanfic that details the relationship between Ned Stark and Ashara Dayne.
Completed.
Tropes that appear in this fanfic:
- Adaptational Explanation: The fanfic explains why Ned took Jon: Ashara resented Jon just as much as she did Ned for marrying Catelyn, and Allyn and Lord Dayne didn't want Jon around because of what Ned did to Arthur.
- Big Brother Bully: Allyn never missed an opportunity to insult Ashara.
- Death of a Child: Lyanna Stark did give birth to Rhaegar's child, but it was a stillborn daughter named Visenya.
- Faking the Dead: Ashara does this at the end of the story, leaving a suicide note and tossing a pair of shoes out the window.
- Going Native: When Arthur Dayne returns to Dorne as a Kingsguard, his words and mannerisms are all changed; if not for the fact that he had Dawn, Ashara would have thought him a different person.
- Named by the Adaptation: Other members of House Dayne are known to have existed but were not named in the main books.
- Myriah Allyrion, Allyn, Arthur and Ashara's mother.
- Allyn Dayne, Arthur and Ashara's elder brother and heir to Starfall.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Ashara Dayne and Oberyn Martell have been close ever since Ashara came to Sunspear.
- Related in the Adaptation: Jon's parentage is made very clear here: he is Ned Stark and Ashara Dayne's son, instead of the popular theory of being Rhaegar and Lyanna's.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Ned's killing of Arthur Dayne ensured that Jon would not be welcome in Starfall, so this is why Ned brought Jon to the North.
- Stress Vomit: Ashara vomits when she sees Brandon Stark being taken prisoner for challenging Rhaegar to fight. It also counts as Morning Sickness as she realizes she is pregnant.
- War Is Hell: Wylla's opinion is that "war is only good for making bastards and orphans".
