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The Tyrells of Highgarden
The ruling family of The Reach, House Tyrell has always had ambitions to grow their influence. And with the rise of the War of the Five Crowns, they can play The Kingmaker to whomever they support.
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Margaery Tyrell
Queen Margaery Tyrell
Lord Mace Tyrell's fourth child and only daughter, she has married Renly Baratheon and become Queen. Then, after Renly is disgraced and made unpalatable to follow, she's betrothed to Joffrey Baratheon to secure Tyrell loyalty. Of course, this did not last long. Now betrothed to Tommen Baratheon, and still the new Queen.- Big Sister Instinct: She doesn't like seeing her brother Loras pummeled into the ground and forfeits the match for him when his arm is too badly bruised for him to continue fighting.
- Beneath the Mask: As Natasha deduces, she puts on the appearance of being a Brainless Beauty to hide that she's a cunning political player.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Following the Ultimate depiction of the Maximoff siblings and the Valyrian practise of Royal Inbreeding, Margaery and her brother Loras are lovers.
- Character Tic: Sucks in her cheeks and puckers her lips when displeased. Theon muses it makes her look like a duck.
- Composite Character: Chapter 70 of A Shield of Man reveals that she's one with Scarlet Witch.
- Hot Consort: To Renly. Even if she's not Theon's type, he concedes he would have been tempted to jump her if they had met in a private room.
- Related in the Adaptation: Since she's actually a Blackfyre along with Loras, she's related to the Targaryens Jon and Daenerys.
- Widowed at the Wedding: Thanks to Loras, in revenge for Joffrey having struck her.
- Womanchild: Theon compares her to a little girl dressing up and donning a parchment crown to play the queen.
Loras Tyrell
Lord Mace Tyrell's third son, an accomplished knight who's very close with his twin sister.
- Adaptational Sexuality: From an offhand remark he makes while revealing the truth to Tywin, he's bisexual here instead of gay.
- Big Brother Instinct: When Joffrey backhands Margaery so hard she falls on the ground, Loras immediately comforts her. Then proceeds to use his Super-Speed to give his brother-in-law a Cruel and Unusual Death by stabbing him in the lung.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Following the Ultimate depiction of the Maximoff siblings and the Valyrian practise of Royal Inbreeding, Loras and his sister Margaery are lovers.
- Composite Character: Chapter 70 of A Shield of Man reveals he's also Quicksilver.
- Hopeless Suitor: Seems to be interested in Jon, as he won't stop extending him invitations to "jousting," baths and hunting. Jon being already married and happily heterosexual, Loras' hints completely fly over his head.
- Related in the Adaptation: Since he's actually a Blackfyre along with Margaery, he's related to the Targaryens Jon and Daenerys.
- Super-Speed: His mutant power. That's how he murdered Joffrey and framed Littlefinger in front of the whole wedding party — he moved so fast that nobody saw him committing the deed.
- Sympathetic Murderer: Killing your own brother-in-law at his own wedding sounds like a pretty nasty thing to do, but since Joffrey had just physically abused Loras' beloved sister Margaery in a fit of pettiness, it's not as awful as it appears to be.
Mace Tyrell
Lord Mace Tyrell
The Lord of Highgarden and Lord Paramount of the Reach. Seems to be much less principled a man compared to other source materials.- Adaptational Intelligence: This fic plays into the more generous interpretations of Mace as a man only playing the buffoon when he actually has his own strategies to get closer to ultimate power.
- Adaptational Villainy: If the rantings of The Vulture are true, then Mace is actually in talks to support Magneto in the future, playing both sides even now when he's so close to the Iron Throne. Thus making him a traitor to the realm, something he never showed any inclinations toward in other interpretations. The Vulture is ultimately proven to be right with the reveal that Margaery and Loras are actually Magneto's children who have been fostered with the Tyrells as part of a long-term plan to put the Blackfyres on the Iron Throne.
- And "A Web of Lies" reveals that he controls a large network of criminals reaching far and wide.
- Composite Character: Chapter 24 of A Web of Lies reveals he's one with The Kingpin.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Tywin states that his buffoonish nature is a trick into getting people to underestimate him. Natasha later comes to the same conclusion, and realizes that all the Tyrells have roles that they play to be underestimated, with his being the dim-witted, bumbling lord.
- Papa Wolf: What finally breaks through his oafish exterior? Joffrey drunkenly striking Margaery at their wedding.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: Sputters in embarrassment at his mother's sex jokes, seemingly more at the thought of her having sex at all than at the nature of the jokes.
- Playing Both Sides: Sieging Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion was him doing this — if Aerys won, he could say he was acting loyally to the crown, but if the Mad King lost, he could at least tell the Baratheons that no one was killed during the siege.
- He also claims to be controlling a network of criminals as part of making his position as Lord Paramount of the Reach and Master of Laws, stating that if there were no criminals then there would be no use to either position.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: Margaery and Loras are not his biological kids, and are actually Magneto's and Mystique's children, fostered with the Tyrells as part of a long-term alliance between them and the Blackfyres.
Olenna Tyrell
Lady Olenna Tyrell, a.k.a. the Queen of Thorns
Mace's mother, and the true leader of House Tyrell.- Actually Pretty Funny: Olenna points out that few women in Westeros have reached her age for anyone to confuse her with someone else. Natasha jokingly calling her "Lady Whent" makes Olenna decide to keep Natasha next to her so she can talk with someone willing and able to deliver repartee.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: In addition to constantly belittling Mace, she has no problem cracking sex jokes when he's in hearing range.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear how much this old lady knows about her son's secret plans to place a Blackfyre on the iron throne right now.
- Dirty Old Woman: She blatantly comments on Jon's attractiveness, bemoaning the fact that she's too old to enjoy seducing him, and won't stop dropping bawdy jokes to her son's dismay.
- The Dreaded: Is one of the people that Natasha warns Jon never to let himself be alone with, due to her intelligence and ruthlessness.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: She doesn't have the highest opinion of her gooddaughter Alerie's intelligence, and sneers when the younger woman calls her "mother".
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: States that being old means that she can say whatever she wants.
- Throwing Off the Disability: When fleeing a sudden storm, she rather noticeably loses her limp.
Lord Oaker
Lord Oaker
A cowardly and self-important minor Lord from the Reach whose actions prove to be the catalyst of Iron Man's birth.- Abusive Parents: He couldn't stop a group of bandits from raiding his lands, so he bribed them with his daughter as a slave. Iron Man publically revealing this turns the Reach nobility against him.
- Dirty Coward: He sold his daughter to a group of bandits so they would stop sacking his lands.
- General Failure: According to Tywin, his main strategy is to overwhelm the enemy with numbers, regardless of how many casualties his side ends up with. There's the fact that he's unable to keep his lands safe from bandits other than bribing them.
- Miles Gloriosus: Almost his entire character. Loves to boast how much of a fierce warrior and cunning tactician he is, but in reality, a group of bandits attacking his lands is enough to scare him into submission.
- Original Character: He has no canon counterpart in the Iron Man movies or the A Song of Ice and Fire franchise.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only making a single physical appearance and generally being unimportant in the grand scheme of things, Tony Stark would have never become Iron Man if it wasn't for him surrendering his daughter to the same bandits who kidnapped Tony.
