Love and Duty
is an A Song of Ice and Fire fanfic where Stannis Baratheon managed to take the Iron Throne, but is trapped in a stalemate with Robb Stark. On Davos' advice, Stannis agrees to an Arranged Marriage between his daughter Shireen and Robb's youngest brother Rickon Stark.
Tropes that appear in this fanfic:
- Arranged Marriage: Between Rickon Stark and Shireen Baratheon.
- Character Tics: Shireen tugs at her hair sometimes, to hide her grayscale scars.
- Convenient Miscarriage: Meera miscarried her first child with Bran. When she learns that she's pregnant again, she's afraid to tell him because she doesn't want to get his hopes up if she does miscarry again.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Stannis recently sent a force of 40,000 men to take the North and Riverlands. 2,000 came back.
- Dead Guy Junior: Robb and Myrcella name their children Rickard (Robb's grandfather) and Joanna (Myrcella's grandmother).
- Fantastic Racism: Selyse has a fair amount of this toward House Stark, referring to them as a family of "beasts" who worship "heathen gods."
- Named After Somebody Famous:
- Sansa and Podrick named their son Tyrion.
- Arya and Gendry's daughter is named Visenya.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Robb and Catelyn.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Other than being ousted, there's no word of the fate of the Lannisters or Tyrells, or anyone outside of the Starks and Baratheons. Jon and Daenerys' plotlines do not appear either.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Arya calls Rickon out for his aloof behavior toward Shireen.
