History Fanfic / ADovahkiinSpreadsHisWings

** Catelyn strained her relationship with her children by forbidding them from writing to Jon after he cut off contact with Ned, under the belief that Jon wanted something that Ned wouldn't give him. In reality Jon pulled back because Ned was demanding that Jon abandon his life on Skyrim and return to Winterfell.

* ExhaustionInducedIdiocy: Jon trying to hatch some dragon eggs he found after leaving King's Landing was done after he collapsed from exhaustion from overusing his Shouts. Despite that, Enzo still gives him a slap and an earfull for hatching fire-breathing creatures while they're at sea on a wooden ship.

* FacePalm: Jon's reaction when [[spoiler:the newborn dragons escape from his ship cabin just before he can reveal his true identity to those present.]]
* FakeRelationship: When Tywin offers Jon a marriage to his bastard niece Joy, Jon knows that refusing would be too dangerous and suspicious, so lies to say he is already engaged to Serana. Alas, he truly does have feelings for her, and she has hidden ones for him.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Jon's huge, vicious bird-of-prey is called Sweet Roll, [[spoiler: and he names his three dragons Little Blue, Ebony and Smokey, although this one is justified since they're still very young and adorable.]]

** Both Cersei Lannister and Ned Stark tend to smother and coddle their children out of a misguided wish to protect them, and can be prone to vicious bouts of temper. Where Ned acknowledges his behaviour is unhealthy for a continued relationship with his family and tries to make amends, Cersei stubbornly persists in her toxicness and doesn't see why this is a problem.

** Selyse Baratheon and Valerica Volkihar are both stern mothers who don't get along with their daughters and are not sure how to fix their relationships. [[spoiler: While Valerica can at least spend the rest of her life making amends, Selyse dies regretting that she was never able to do right by her daughter.]]

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Once Ned finally tells Jon the full truth about his parents and sincerely apologizes for hurting him, Jon makes it clear that although he still loves him, their relationship will never be completely fixed, and that he can't call Ned his father though he is willing to call him his uncle.
* ForWantOfANail: InUniverse, Jon muses on this. If he had just been able to sleep the night that he ran away, he wouldn't have been wandering the corridors, which means he wouldn't have overheard Ned and Benjen's conversation and learned of his true parentage. This means that he wouldn't have run away and ended up in Skyrim, and his life would have been very, ''very'' different.

* IgnoranceIsBliss: A huge tenet of Ned Stark's viewpoint, which leads him to lie and hide things to his children because he wants to protect them from the world's cruelty. It's deconstructed as Sansa is shown to be ''painfully'' naive, Jon lost trust in him for not being truthful and Arya feels insecure about her future since her father doesn't tell her anything.

** She also points out that Jon's dragons are tiny and cute ''right now'', but they are eventually going to grow up into creatures that love to kill and eat people.

** Not only does Cersei continue to call Jon by his bastard name, [[spoiler:she butchers Serana's name every time she's addressing her. Valerica doesn't appreciate this kind of behaviour]].

* RefugeInAudacity: The basis of Cersei's plan, where she kills or captures the non-Lannister nobles within King's Landing to remove their opposition, takes their children hostages, and blames it all upon those she has killed. She could then gaslight or coerce the hostages into agreeing with her version of events. If she had actually pulled it off, she might have held onto her rule for a few years, but even [[ManipulativeBastard Tywin]] was stunned and horrified at what she was doing.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The author confesses having dyslexia and apologizes for any slip-up.