Winter in the Winds
is a Game of Thrones fanfic concerning events after Season 6.
Tropes that appear in this fanfic:
- Adaptational Heroism: Instead of brushing off Tommen's suicide as she did in the show, Cersei is devastated by his death.
- Age Lift:
- Willas Tyrell is now Mace Tyrell's second son instead of eldest son. Likewise, Harlan (changed from Garlan) is now Mace's youngest son.
- Cleos Frey is a couple decades younger than his canon counterpart, being more of a contemporary of the Stark children rather than of Jaime Lannister.
- Ascended Extra: Euron Greyjoy gets his own POV chapter when he cuts out Falia Flowers' tongue.
- Canon Immigrant: The Frey branch under Walder's second son Emmon makes an appearance, including his wife Genna Lannister and her sons.
- Contrived Coincidence: In this fanfic, Sam winds up treating Jorah's greyscale as a final test to become a maester.
- Everyone Has Standards: About 700 Baratheon soldiers from Stannis' battle with the Boltons were found, having deserted over Stannis burning Shireen.
- Karma Houdini: Cersei sees Tyrion as one of these, being able to do as he wished without consequences while Cersei was subjected to Robert's whims. As far as she's concerned, the worst he's ever had done to him was marry Sansa.
- Ms. Exposition: Genna tells Arya a lot of information about Cersei while in a cell at Riverrun.
- Shaming the Mob: The Sand Snakes take Produce Pelting in stride. For example when Obara gets hit with a piece of bread, she eats it and laughs.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- The Blackfish, instead of staying behind to die, hid under Brienne and Pod's boat and went to Stone Hedge. He took back Riverrun once, he can do it again.
- Cleos Frey is alive and well instead of getting killed by brigands.
- A recursive example since the fanfic was written before Season 7. Instead of Obara and Nymeria getting killed by Euron, they get captured alongside Yara, Ellaria and Tyene and go on a round of Shaming the Mob while being paraded through the streets.
- You Remind Me of X: Yara's Big Sister Instinct for Theon reminds Tyrion of Jaime.
