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* HoribleJudgeOfCharcter: Jon Arryn shows a little bit of this, praising Mandon Moore's BlindObedience and considering Littlefigner to be utterly reliable and trustworthy.
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-->''The whole of the realm denies [your right to the throne], brother, Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers’ wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.''
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* BadassGrandpa: Quellon Greyjoy, literally. While we have yet to see him fight, Aeron and Urrigon boast of his badass deeds and voyages. And aside from simply having grandchildren he is shown interacting with little Asha much like any Grandpa.
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* UpperClassTwit: Ser Allyn Stackspear is this, also serving as TheResenter and a CommanderContrarian towards Tytos Clegane.
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-->''The whole of the realm denies [your right to the throne], brother, Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers’ wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.''
-->'''Renly Baratheon'''
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* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: When they're arguing, Barbara Bracken unsubtly reminds her sister Jayne that their mother died on the same day she was born.
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* MythologyGag: The title appears to be drawn from Renly's canonical insult to Stannis in the page quote.
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Stannis dislikes and distrusts Pycelle, and while he lets him keep his office as Grand Maester, tends to interrupt him whenever he's giving advice, while assigning his own ParentalSubstitute Maester Cressen to carry out tasks that would normally fall under Pycelle's jurisdiction.
* BringMyBrownPants: Tyrion jokes that Harren Hoare's last thoughts, as dragon fire burned his castle around him, might have been hoping that he felt wet because he'd spilled wine on his lap.
* CharacterDevelopment: It's gradual, but Cersei undergoes this. It would be hard to call her relationship with Stannis loving, but they come to understand and appreciate each other better than she ever did with Robert.
** Stevron Frey officially dies of a mysterious illness (he was probably murdered by Black Walder) while off at war.
** BitCharacter Tarle The Thrice-Drowned is found killed (presumably by Quellon's agents) for preaching that a cataclysm would come if the ironborn didn't return to the Old Way and abandon their alliance with the Baratheon faction.
* HoribleJudgeOfCharcter: Jon Arryn shows a little bit of this, praising Mandon Moore's BlindObedience and considering Littlefigner to be utterly reliable and trustworthy.
* LeftHanging: Has gone over three years without an update, with the most recent chapter showing Stannis getting a raven that alarms him and telling Davos that they must talk in his new capacity as Master of Ships.
* LeftHanging: Has gone over three years without an update, with the most recent chapter showing Stannis getting a raven that alarms him and telling Davos that they must talk in his new capacity as Master of Ships.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Victorian provides rare version where the servant is the worse of the pair, and resentful of the master (his father Quellon) being a decent, reform-minded person who he nonetheless holds some love and respect for and continues to serve.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Garth yell is a lot more calculating than he lets most people realize.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Garth yell is a lot more calculating than he lets most people realize.
** Gerion Lannister becomes more familiar with Hoster Tully and Jeor Mormont on the same journey.
* ParentsAsPeople: The various flaws, and kind acts of Tytos Lannister are discussed. On some level Gerion likes the kind of Lord he was better than the kind Tywin has become, but agrees that he was a poor ruler who would have made a good innkeeper.
* ReducedToRatburgers: Alliser Thorne's fellow tprisoners Curgen and Luthor Crabbe discuss this, with some degree of familiarity, to the annoyance of Alliser and the disgust of Carmen Buckwell.
* SlutShaming: Victorian's response to Barb Bracken's attempt to seduce him. She takes it in stride, to his annoyance.
** Quellon Greyjoy doesn't die attacking the loyalist forces here, due to the different direction the war takes.
** Quellon's daughter, stillborn in the books, shortly after his death, here was born alive and named Yara.
* StoutStrength: Wyman Manderly shatters the skull of a would-be assassin with his bare-hands in one scene.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Alliser Thorne feels this way about several of his fellow prisoners bound for the wall [[spoiler: before Jon Connington breaks out all of them]].
** Quellon's daughter, stillborn in the books, shortly after his death, here was born alive and named Yara.
* StoutStrength: Wyman Manderly shatters the skull of a would-be assassin with his bare-hands in one scene.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Alliser Thorne feels this way about several of his fellow prisoners bound for the wall [[spoiler: before Jon Connington breaks out all of them]].
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* UnfortunateNames: Poor Septon Balerion.Balerion.
* UpperClassTwit: Ser Allyn Stackspear is this, also serving as TheResenter and a CommanderContrarian towards Tytos Clegane.
* UpperClassTwit: Ser Allyn Stackspear is this, also serving as TheResenter and a CommanderContrarian towards Tytos Clegane.
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* TheAtoner: Jaime accepts [[spoiler:Stannis sending him to the Night's Watch]] on this basis, though he has a different idea from most people of what he needs to atone for.
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Lyanna's son, Rhaegar]].
* HiddenDepths: For Janos Slynt, the grandson of former slaves from Essos in search of a way to provide for his family after his father's death in the sack of King's Landing.
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* UnfortunateNames: Poor Septon Balerion.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted when there are so many Pates among Tytos Clegane's volunteers that he resorts to assigning them epithets.
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* BiTheWay: Garth Tyrell admits his attraction towards both Prince Oberyn and his paramour, Ellara.
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* CoDragons: Oberyn Martell and Garth Tyrell seem to be filling this role to [[spoiler: King Viserys]] in his court.
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** TheBigBad: [[spoiler: King Viserys]]
** CoDragons: Oberyn Martell, representing the Dornish supporters, and [[ColonelBadass Lord Randyll Tarly]]
** TheEvilGenius: Garth Tyrell seems to be fulfilling this role as the more pragmatic member of the court
** TheBrute: [[PraetorianGuard Lord Commander Gerold Hightower of the Kingsguard]]
** TheDarkChick: [[TheProudElite Lord Monford Velaryon]], a more recent member of the Court
** TheBigBad: [[spoiler: King Viserys]]
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** TheEvilGenius: Garth Tyrell seems to be fulfilling this role as the more pragmatic member of the court
** TheBrute: [[PraetorianGuard Lord Commander Gerold Hightower of the Kingsguard]]
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** Robert, in the prologue no less.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Howland Reed Reed, when commenting on the Kingslaying Kingslaying, makes it clear he does not subscribe to this.this.
-->'''Reed:''' Would one of you white cloaks done it sooner. It would have been best for all the Seven Kingdoms.\\
'''Jaime:''' I... we swore a vow! To protect him, not to judge him.\\
'''Reed:''' And I have sworn a vow to serve House Stark. As did my father, and his father before him. And yet if I came to my home, and found a Stark raping my wife, that Stark would die. But then, I am only a crannogman. We are a small folk, and we often find the ways of you large folk puzzling.
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-->'''High Septon ("The Long-Winded One"):''' The blessings of the Seven fall upon us fortunate mortals from above like rain upon the earth. And like the rain, should these blessings fall on fertile soil, they sprout and bring forth good things to nurture the faithful children of the Seven.\\
'''Cersei:''' [thinking] ''Rain does not sprout, you '''imbecile.'''''
-->'''Reed:''' Would one of you white cloaks done it sooner. It would have been best for all the Seven Kingdoms.\\
'''Jaime:''' I... we swore a vow! To protect him, not to judge him.\\
'''Reed:''' And I have sworn a vow to serve House Stark. As did my father, and his father before him. And yet if I came to my home, and found a Stark raping my wife, that Stark would die. But then, I am only a crannogman. We are a small folk, and we often find the ways of you large folk puzzling.
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-->'''High Septon ("The Long-Winded One"):''' The blessings of the Seven fall upon us fortunate mortals from above like rain upon the earth. And like the rain, should these blessings fall on fertile soil, they sprout and bring forth good things to nurture the faithful children of the Seven.\\
'''Cersei:''' [thinking] ''Rain does not sprout, you '''imbecile.'''''
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* MyGreatestFailure: Tytos Clegane regards his son Gregor as this. The on he had hoped would bring fame and respect to the Clegane name his instead brought the House infamy and disgrace.
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* PetTheDog: Janos Slynt buys fruit -- which he's just noted is increasingly expensive -- from a shopkeeper who was casually robbed by a gold cloak. His companion takes it as a statement and warns him about offending the City Watch; Janos insists all he did was buy fruit.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:King Viserys]] can be genuinely frightening despite being nine years old. [[spoiler:His father apparently gave up on Rhaegar and was grooming him for the Iron Throne]].
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* PuppyLove: Between Viserys and Obara Sand.
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** A young Oswell Whent thought his late mother had [[Literature/AsILayDying turned into a fish]].
** A young Oswell Whent thought his late mother had [[Literature/AsILayDying turned into a fish]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Tytos Clegane regards Stafford Lannister and his friends as this. [[spoiler: He is correct]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Tywin Lannister has achieved several of his goals, but they are not working out as he planned.
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**[[spoiler: King Viserys also seems to be trying for this. He claims when he retakes the Throne he will let Stannis take the Black and let Renly have Storm's End. Tywin though he wants dead, very much.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: Quellon Greyjoy, literally. While we have yet to see him fight, Aeron and Urrigon boast of his badass deeds and voyages. And aside from simply having grandchildren he is shown interacting with little Asha much like any Grandpa.
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* OddFriendship: Everyone is surprised when Tyrion befriends [[spoiler: Aeron and Urrigon Greyjoy]].
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* AChildShallLeadThem: Happens to the Targaryens [[spoiler: in the form of King Viserys]].
* TheDreaded: Randyll Tarly seems to become this to the Stags.
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* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler: The remnant of the Driftmark Fleet does not do well against the new Stag Fleet. Janos Slynt actually stops watching considering it a decided match.]]
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Selyse Florent betrays her house to the Dragon court, exposing their conspiracy. LoopholeAbuse is then employed to send her to the Faith rather than become lady of Brightwater Keep]].
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* ObnoxiousIn-Law: Stannis and [[spoiler: Tywin; the feeling is mutual and obvious to observers]].
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* AdaptationNameChange: Jon Snow [[spoiler: is named Rhaegar by his mother in this story]].
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-->''There are many great matters to attend to, in this, my first court. It is my hope that in it, I will show the Seven Kingdoms what sort of king they have.''
-->'''King Stannis'''
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' AU fanfic. It diverges from the canon plot with Rhaegar managing to mortally wound Robert at the battle of the Trident. The first butterfly being Stannis being chosen as the Stag King only starts as the war, Westeros, and beyond are set on a different course.
The story can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10945017/1/The-King-Nobody-Wanted here]]
!!Tropes In This Fanfic
* CoDragons: Oberyn Martell and Garth Tyrell seem to be filling this role to [[spoiler: King Viserys]] in his court.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: King Stannis tries to be this. How successful he is varies greatly depending on who you ask.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: The Tower of Joy incident does not occur leaving all participants, and Lyanna, thus far alive]].
* TheDreaded: Randyll Tarly seems to become this to the Stags.
-->'''King Stannis'''
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' AU fanfic. It diverges from the canon plot with Rhaegar managing to mortally wound Robert at the battle of the Trident. The first butterfly being Stannis being chosen as the Stag King only starts as the war, Westeros, and beyond are set on a different course.
The story can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10945017/1/The-King-Nobody-Wanted here]]
!!Tropes In This Fanfic
* CoDragons: Oberyn Martell and Garth Tyrell seem to be filling this role to [[spoiler: King Viserys]] in his court.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: King Stannis tries to be this. How successful he is varies greatly depending on who you ask.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: The Tower of Joy incident does not occur leaving all participants, and Lyanna, thus far alive]].
* TheDreaded: Randyll Tarly seems to become this to the Stags.
