Fanfic / King of Thrones

King of Thrones by Jaehaerys.Joestar is a Fusion Fic between A Song of Ice and Fire and Yu-Gi-Oh! that also takes aspects from Game of Thrones. One day, all of Planetos wake up to find everyone over the age of six has both a Duel Disk and a deck, and merchants have plenty of cards for sale. Quickly the changes are accepted, and many characters become duelists.

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King of Thrones contains examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Randyll Tarly goes so far as to prepare to force his son to kill him in self defense, so as to Blackmail Sam into taking the black.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: After the Dornish War, Trystane Martell becomes Prince of Dorne due to Quentyn's death and Arriane running away.
• Adaptational Badass: Since Viserys has had as much time to become a duelist as everyone else, he is much more of a threat here than in canon.
  • The Lhazareen, thanks to the cards, as they fight back against the Dothraki and even eventually destroy their sacred city of Vaes Dothrak.
  • Any soldier using War Mode. Anyone can go from cannon fodder to One-Man Army if they have the right cards.
  • Darkstar becomes a Dark Signer who orchestrated the Dornish War and is responsible for causing some of the chaos in Westeros.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Viserys is a better person here than in canon. Though he does struggle with his trauma.
  • King Robert has fun dueling, and becomes closer to Tommen and Myrcella. This leads him to try to be a better king.
• An Arm and a Leg: Darkstar loses an arm to make it look like he was injured defending Quentyn instead of helping the Ironborn kidnap him. He gets his arm back through his cards during War Mode.
• Arranged Marriage: Several:
  • The Tyrells try to get Robert to set aside Cersei for Margaery. Olenna tries to convince them to change their focus to Joffrey, as that will not antagonize the Lannisters, and Joffrey is likely to live longer, meaning Maegaery will be Queen longer.
  • It is also revealed that Olenna arranged to have a Florent Lord that Alerie Hightower was set to marry killed so she could wed Mace instead.
  • Tywin plans to use war with Dorne to force Arriane to marry Tyrion, and if she kills him, she will be executed and Quentyn will marry a legitimized Joy Hill. This is all to spread the Lannister's influence into Dorne.
  • Arriane learns of her engagement to Viserys before heading to Pentos.
  • All of Lord Leyton Hightower's marriages had been political. Which was why he approved of Lynesse marrying Ser Jorah for love. He regrets it everyday.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Rodrik Harlaw's reputation as an undefeated duelist gives him more political power among the Might Makes Right culture of the Ironborn.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: The Main belief of the Faith Militant in regards to cards. They believe that those who use Dark attribute monsters are themselves evil, while inversely, they all use Light and Fairy monsters.
• Berserk Button: Ned Stark is a Papa Wolf who highly disapprove of kinslaying and was righteously angered at Randyll Tarly for disowning Sam and sending him to the Wall by threatening to either kill or framing his own son for kinslaying.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Instead of monsters being turned into pixels like in the Anime when they are destroyed, their deaths are shown in such ways as a slit thoat, impalement, or being eaten.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Stannis calls Robert out on "praising him" by taking away Stannis' inheritance of Storm's End and giving him the prestigious but worthless Dragonstone along with lesser positions in court.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Baelish's Duel against another brothel owner who wants him dead. He manages a One Turn Kill by ritual summoning Reshef, then using Monster Reborn to summon Invader of Darkness. He then uses Reshef's ability to steal the only monster on his opponent's side of the field, and attacks with all three.
  • Ned has a two turn win for his first official duel in the series in Chapter 25.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Jon and Dryn have an interesting talk about marriage customs. Dryn explains the concept of stealing a wife, and that some families let it happen if they know each other, using it more as a tradition than a kidnapping. Jon explains the idea of Septs and Heart Trees being used for weddings. Both of them think how strange the other's tradition is.
• Did Not Think This Through: Oberyn's actions in Chapters 9 and 10 end up backfiring spectacularly. His attempt to kill Tywin ends up failing and leading to his own death and throwing an unprepared Dorne into war with the rest of the Kingdoms.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Meryn Trant dies in a duel with Robert, Oberyn Martell dies trying to kill Tywin, The Slavers of Slavers Bay get Killed Offscreen by Missandei and the Unsullied.
• Dragon Rider: Besides monsters that are naturally this, Podrick Payne ends up as one briefly during the battle of Vulture's Roost thanks to War Mode.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Doran realizes that a Dornishman has betrayed him, but suspects it was the prisoners of Ghaston Grey who recently escaped. In reality, it is Gerold Dayne.
• For Want Of A Nail: Obvious aside, Tywin never would have built an Exodia deck if the first piece he acquired had been anything but the head, which revealed the instant win effect.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Chapter 9 has Tyrion note a Dornish ship docked in Lannisport. By the end of the chapter, Oberyn confronts Tywin.
• Friendly Enemy: Tormund and Greatjon Umber, according to Ned, either became companions or greater enemies after Tormund challenged and beaten Greatjon in a drinking game.
• Gilligan Cut: King Robert reminisces to Tommen and Myrcella about Ned Stark and muses that his friend must be having a tedious and boring life. Then we cut to Ned with his family, Theon, Tormund, Ygritte, and Gilly trying to get Rickon off from biting Sam's arm.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Ned does not think that Balon would do anything that would risk Theon's life. In reality, Balon has to be reminded that he would lose support among his men if he let his son die.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Tywin regrets Ellia's death on a personal level, but accepts that she and her kids had to die, or Dorne could continue the war when they were old enough to stake their claim.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Downplayed, Tywin is thankful he does not keep wine in his solar after reading a letter from Cersei filled with nothing but complaints and orders.
• Implausible Deniability: Pycelle claims the official story is that Ellia killed her kids and then herself. Stannis points out she was bisected by a sword too large for her to even lift.
• Last of Her Kind: Played With. Barbery Dustin may be the last of House Dustin, but she married into it, and Ned just lets her keep the name alive for as long as she is. Jon actually does not know what will happen to the Barrowlands when she dies.
• Loophole Abuse: Stannis notes that while duels may replace causes of death like stabbings, they will not know if a killing method works until someone tries it. He specifically notes setting traps and shooting a crossbow into a crowd may end up killing people without starting a duel first. He also notes that poison is still an effective way to kill; the magic the cards run on treats eating or drinking poison as the victim's fault.
• Mythology Gag: Myranda Royce tells Mya about how Mychel Redfort tried to duel with a squire while racing on their horses. However, the Blackfish stopped them before they could. Myranda finds the idea of knights racing around an arena as their monsters chase after their leaders entertaining, while Mya finds this ridiculous and doubts it will ever catch on.
• My Greatest Failure: Leyton Hightower considers himself allowing Ser Jorah to marry Lynesse to be his. The mere mention of his daughter's name has become his Berserk Button, as Leo Tyrell learns.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Ned fears Robert finding out about Jon because he knows he will protect Jon over obeying his King.
  • Jaime punches Ser Meryn Trant when the latter is found about to molest a child, in part because Ser Meryn had guarded Myrcella.
  • It is Robert seeing Tommen and Gendry and not wanting them to see him die that gives him a Heroic Second Wind in his duel with Trant. Robert also throws Joffrey out of the way when Doran tries to kill him.
    • When Robert learns from Varys that Lord Redfort wants to kill Mya, he orders every Lord between the two to stop him.
  • Doran goes to war in part to protect his and Oberyn's children, and when he learns Quentyn is dead, he tries to kill Joffrey.
• Patricide: Gilly killed her unlamented and sexually abusive father Craster in a duel.
• Pet the Dog: Tywin has a soft spot for Queen Betha Blackwood, seeing her as a second mother. Her death at Summerhall was one of the few times in his adult life that he cried.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Ned Stark doesn't send Sam to the Wall after learning that Randyll Tarly threatened his son to take the black. Instead, Ned allows Sam to stay at Winterfell as his guest.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Robert is furious with Joffrey for putting himself and his father in danger when he made Doran to attempt to kill Joffrey after informing about Quentyn's death. He punished Joffrey to spend in temporarily exile in Essos while making Tommen his heir apparent.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Edmure puts together a group of knights and heirs he trusts to hunt down the Sparrows after Lord Hoster Tully orders that they be left alone.
• Shout-Out:
  • Oberyn once told Arianne the story of when he wore strange armor and rescued something.
  • Rickon once bites Sam and has to be restrained in a spin on a scene from Attack on Titan.
  • Viserys drinks tea at the Jasmine Dragon
  • Each of the dragon riders at the Doom of Valyria is named after a character from another series.
• Their First Time: Theon points out in Chapter 25 that two virgins having sex for their first time sounds romantic, but is in actuality very awkward. He tries to tell Robb that his future wife will prefer if he knows how to please her.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Exodia the Forbidden One is a card that, when its user has its legs and arms, allows them to automically win the duel. Tywin uses this to win the duel against Oberyn.
• The Unfavorite: Stannis sees himself as this, in relation to Renly. Robert took away Storm's End and gave it to Renly while also giving Dragonstone to Stannis which, while prestigious (and acknowledging him as the heir to the Iron Throne)is lacking in wealth or strong bannermen. Robert also gave what Stannis considers to be lesser positions in the Small Council.
• This Cannot Be!: The High Sparrow react with his final word "impossible" when Jon Snow summons Slifer the Sky Dragon to defeat him.
• Unwitting Pawn: Darkstar manipulates Melisandre into believing he is R'hllor.
• War Is Hell:
  • After years of thinking War Is Glorious, Robert is reminded of the waiting and sense of morality that he had forgotten accompany combat when he prepares to face Meryn Trant in Trial by Combat.
  • War Mode allows soldiers to summon their monsters onto the battlefield and use spell and traps, turning an otherwise fair fight into a possible bloodbath depending on who has what cards.
• Wham Episode:
  • Chapter 11 keeps the POV (Bran) a mystery until the end, and shows what happened during the Doom of Valyria.
  • The Millenium Items and Signer marks existed, and were used by Valyria to control the first dragons.
  • Chapter 10 shows that Tywin is in possession of Exodia which he uses to kill Oberyn.
  • Chapter 12 reveals that Varys has the Millennium Necklace, and Euron stole the Millennium Eye from Bloodraven.
  • Chapter 17 ends with Darkstar killing all the Daynes in Dorne and turning Dawn into a dark version called Dusk. He does so using Purple flames.
  • Chapter 23 has Davos return to Dragonstone to find everyone in a coma, with Selsyse and Melisandre nowhere to be found.
  • Chapter 24 has Viserys become the Signer with the Crimson Dragon's Head, and also gives him the ability to talk to duel spirits who are actually Maegor and Jaehaerys I.
  • Chapter 26 finally reveals Jon Snow's mystery card to the audience: Slifer the Sky Dragon, as he uses the Egyptian God monster to defeat and slay the High Sparrow and many of his followers.
  • Chapter 28 reveals that Darkstar is the mastermind for causing the Dornish War in which he was responsible for manipulating Oberyn in his failed attempt to assassinate Tywin. He is also behind causing everyone at Dragonstone to fall into coma and that he is using Melisandre as an unwitting pawn by posing himself as R'hllor.
  • Chapter 29 Davos meets a mysterious man who wields the Millennium Key and receives the Millennium Ring from him.
  • Chapter 30 has Balon Greyjoy giving Theon a field spell card, The Seal of Orichalcos, and he also plans on giving more copies to every Ironborn.
• Wham Line: The title of Chapter 10 is one, as it is technically titled "Spoiler" with the actual chapter title being revealed at the end. The True title is The Lion That Devoured The Sun. Due to Tywin Killing Oberyn.

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