History Fanfic / ADovahkiinSpreadsHisWings

* CurbstompBattle:[[spoiler: Jon vs the Mountain. Jon uses shouts from the beginning to send the Mountain flying before draining him of is strength. Jon then bashes his head in with a candle stick.]]

** Hammerfell's extremely hot climate makes metallic jewellery unpalatable as it would scorch the flesh. The Redguards adorn themselves with glass and porcelain instead.

* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Prior to [[spoiler:Cersei's coup]], Sam convinces his father to take his family and leave the city by punching him in the face, which makes his father understand how dire the situation really is considering how [[ShrinkingViolet normally docile]] Sam usually is.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Olenna starts laughing when she hears that Sam convinced his father to take their family and leave the city [[spoiler: before the start of the coup]] by ''punching him in the face''.

* BeastAndBeauty: A gender-inverted version with mortal man Jon and vampire Serana. Doubles as BoyMeetsGhoul.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Young Jon often pestered Ned to tell him who his mother was. Then he accidentally heard it while Ned and Benjen were quarreling, took it ''very'' badly and ran away from Winterfell.
** Similarly, Catelyn always hated Jon's presence at Winterfell and wanted him gone. When he finally did so, the rest of her family was heartbroken, and Catelyn's insistence that they consider him dead soured her relationship them.

* BigBrotherWorship: Arya for Jon, obviously. She disobeys her mother's orders to never contact him in the hope that he might come home for just a while and begs her father to let her come to King's Landing to be with Jon while he's in Westeros, then proceeds to agree to Ned's conditions ''and keep to them.'' She would even have been willing to go to Skyrim with him if he allowed it.

** Myrcella used to be very close with her mother, spending a lot of time with her and even wearing matching dresses as her. Over time, however, Cersei started acting both distant and controlling, which made Myrcella realise that her mother only sees her as an extention of herself, not as her own person. The pedestal gets broken even further [[spoiler: when Myrcella sees the lengths her mother has gone to in her obssession with keeping the throne]].

* CoolSword: Jon's birthday gift for Robb, an ice-steel Stahlrim longsword. Jon and Enzo's ebony weapons also count. In fact, basically ''any'' weapon from Skyrim counts as a cool weapon by Westeros standards.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Jon gives one to Ned, telling him he might consider staying in Winterfell longer, IF Ned finally answers the question that Jon always asked when he was younger; the truth of his parentage. [[spoiler:Ned fails.]]

** Jon Whitewolf and Joffrey Baratheon are young men born into a royal lineage with incest playing a role in their antecedents. Jon is very much a PrincelyYoungMan who [[CoolBigBro loves his siblings]] and who's not interested in ruling in spite of his strong claim to the throne, Joffrey is a horror of a RoyalBrat who [[BigBrotherBully bullies his siblings]] and covets a crown he has no rightful claim to lay. Even their physical appearances contrast, since Jon is dark-haired and tall while Joffrey is blond and short for his age.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Mother]]: [[spoiler:Myrcella finally has enough of Cersei's manipulations and her own identity as a Princess, and as soon as she is able to, assumes the identity of Myra Volkihar.]]

** Selyse Baratheon and Valerica Volkihar are both stern mothers who don't get along with their daughters and are not sure how to fix it. [[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.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: Catelyn once again confronts Ned about Ashara being the most likely suspect as Jon's mother, which leads to a huge argument.

** Jon saves Micah from Joffrey through a very subtle use of magic.

* BrokenMasquerade: During Cersei's coup Jon reveals his magic by flash frying two Kingsguards and eight Lannister solders. Sam witnesses all of it.
** Serana and Valerica do not shy from utilizing their SuperStrength and vampiric speed, and throwing spells around.

** Myrcella used to be very close with her mother, spending a lot of time together and even wearing matching dresses as her. Over time, however, Cersei started acting both distant and controlling, which made Myrcella realise that her mother only sees her as an extention of herself, not as her own person. The pedestal gets broken even further [[spoiler:when Myrcella sees the lengths her mother has gone to in her obssession with keeping the throne]].

* DomesticAbuse: Implied, of the psychological variety. Jaime's thought process and needless guilt in his interaction with Cersei in the first interlude will be familiar to any victim of {{Gaslighting}}. By the time [[spoiler:Cersei's coup happens, he's so entrenched in this that he can't bring himself to leave her, even when completely aware that she's manipulating him into becoming her Hand so he'll never be able to leave her.]]

** King Robert's enthusiastic affection for Jon Whitewolf is rather awkward for the ones aware that the boy was fathered by Robert's most hated foe, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Also, Jon ''really' does not appreciate the attention and would prefer to be left alone.

** Catelyn counsels Sansa to make friends with Myrcella by complimenting her looks and asking about her family and worries that Arya's tomboyish personality would get in the way. Cue Myrcella telling Jon that Sansa is ''boring'' because she's acting exactly the same as all the other girls in the court - and making friends with him, and later Arya, because they actually talk with her.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Margaery Tyrell loses an eye when a Lannister guard slashes her face with his sword.]]

** Cersei thinks that she must make preparations for Joffrey's eventual ascension to Throne. Come Chapter 20...

** Jon Whitewolf and Joffrey Baratheon are young men born into a royal lineage with incest playing a role in their antecedents. Jon is very much a PrincelyYoungMan who loves his siblings and who's not interested in ruling in spite of his strong claim to the throne, Joffrey is a horror of a RoyalBrat who bullies his siblings and covets a crown he has no rightful claim to lay. Even their physical appearances contrast, since Jon is dark-haired and tall while Joffrey is blond and short for his age.

** Catelyn verges on being a full-blown WickedStepmother towards Jon Whitewolf, yet she's the only one who seemingly acknowledges he's happier in Skyrim and supports his living there full-time. She's utterly incredulous when Ned insists on Jon staying in Westeros, despite knowing the youth wants nothing more than leave.

* KilledOffForReal: So far, [[spoiler:Robert, Joffrey, Tommen, Tywin, most of Robert's bastards, Jon Arryn, Stannis and Selyse Baratheon, and enormous swathes of the Stark and Tyrell retinues in the Red Keep.]]

** The Tamrielic visitors decide to keep quiet about any of the weirder aspects of their life, such as beast races and magic use, because they would not be believed.

* NotSoDifferent: Ned kept crucial information from Jon and tried to limit his choices and decide for him prior to Jon's leaving from Skyrim. He did this for his own good. During [[spoiler:Cersei's coup]] Jon knocks out Ned, limiting his choices and keeping crucial information from him to save him from a very likely death.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:During Cersei's coup, Arya gets a note, purportedly from Jon, telling her to take a carriage. It isn't until she's in that she realizes the trap, because the note is signed by ''Jon Snow'' instead of ''Jon Whitewolf''.]]

* ParentalFavoritism: Cersei dotes on Joffrey so heavily she barely gives her other children a second glance. [[spoiler:When Joffrey and Tommen are killed in the coup, she barely even looks at her youngest child, saving all her focus and tears for her beloved first-born.]]

* ShareTheMalePain: Gendry cringes when Arya accidentally hits the training dummy she's attacking in the groin.

** [[spoiler:Barra and Dustun (two of Robert's bastard children) survive the massacre Cersei orders.]]

** Similarly, Jon Arryn takes a good, long look at Jon's eyes.

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Subverted - [[spoiler: Arya doesn't kill the man who attacks her in the forest - Jon does that, revealing his magic to her - but she does stab him. It sends her into a frantic shock until she is calmed down.]]

* VillainRespect: Tywin Lannister honestly respects the fact that Jon Snow/Whitewolf, despite being a [[HeroicBastard bastard]], was able to create a wealthy and respectable life for himself from practically nothing.

** After being informed that Joffrey killed two maids on a whim Jaime compares him to Aerys and has resigned himself to killing him.

** It’s considered taboo for an unwed couple to sleep together in the same room in Westeros at least until they’re married. In Skyrim there is no such taboo given Serena’s nonchalant attitude of having been staying in Jon’s room multiple times in the past.

* DomesticAbuse: Implied, of the psychological variety. Jaime's thought process and needless guilt in his interaction with Cersei in the first interlude will be familiar to any victim of {{Gaslighting}}. By the time [[spoiler: Cersei's coup happens, he's so entrenched in this that he can't bring himself to leave her, even when completely aware that she's manipulating him]].

** Jon Whitewolf and Joffrey Baratheon are young men born into a royal lineage with incest playing a role in their antecedents. Jon is very much a PrincelyYoungMan who loves his siblings and who's not interested in ruling in spite of his strong claim to the throne, Joffrey is a horror of a RoyalBrat who bullies his siblings and covets a crown he has no rightful claim to lay. Even their physical appearances contrast, since Jon is dark-haired and short while Joffrey is blond and tall for his age.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Catelyn is this when she rejects Jon's gift, after teaching her children to always accept them as it would be the rude to reject them.