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The Kings of Winter (Fanfic)

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The Kings of Winter is a Thematic Series of three A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones fanfictions, all inspired by a different critically acclaimed film, all revolving around men of the Stark family as they struggle against The Chains of Commanding and the responsibilities their position at birth has given them, versus their own personal human foibles. The three stories consist of: they say he turns into a wolf at night: Inspired by Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour. Set partway through A Game of Thrones (or season 1 of the television series), Robb Stark struggles to live up to the responsibilities saddled upon him as acting Lord of Winterfell, and is haunted by fantasies of sexual humiliation and degradation, mostly revolving around his friend and father’s ward Theon. A chance encounter with Theon’s favourite prostitute Ros encourages him to live out those fantasies by joining her in the Winter Town brothel, but once he does so things quickly go From Bad to Worse. Who Passes the Sentence: Inspired by Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration. Prior to the beginning of A Game of Thrones, Ned Stark receives the invitation to the wedding of a bannerman’s daughter, and takes three of his children – Robb, Sansa and Bran – with him. At the wedding however, said daughter makes a horrific accusation against her lord father, leaving it to Ned to deduce the truth of the matter. something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell: Inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. (Seemingly) awhile before A Game of Thrones, Bran Stark gets Jon Snow to take him out riding in the woods. When it’s time to go home though, they soon realise they are lost. Then things get weird.The series as a whole can be seen here on an Archive of Our Own.
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Daydream Surprise: After Robb and Theon have sex beneath the kitchen table during dinner, while Bran and Rickon are sitting above them, oblivious. Then Robb snaps out of it. In a written format it’s clear that Robb had no idea the fantasy wasn't real, suggesting he's going mad.
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Goodbye, Cruel World!
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Goodbye, Cruel World!: before drowning himself in the family well, Aleas left a very short suicide note scratched in it – the family motto, “Above.”
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Rage Against the Reflection
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Rage Against the Reflection: sort of. Bran is fine with his reflection, until it starts turning into his mother's reflection, which then turns into Lady Stoneheart. Bran gets frightened and throws a rock at it, but then feels guilty and begs her to come back.
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The Dutiful Son
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The Dutiful Son: Deconstructed. Robb views it as his duty to take responsibility for the family while his parents are away, while being barely more than a child and lacking any sort of decent support network. This drives him to a breakdown.
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Robb is terrified of disappointing his family, and hates himself for being unable to live up to his father's example.
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Full-Frontal Assault
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Full-Frontal Assault: Amaeda makes her accusation stark naked. There's an element of spite to it, as well as Rape Leads to Insanity, as well as the practical matter of her clothes getting torn in the bedding ceremony.
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Daddy's Girl
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Daddy's Girl: the close father/daughter relationship of two Original Characters - Frederik, one of Ned’s guards who was killed during his arrest, and his bastard daughter Maricella who is a prostitute - comes up in all three stories.
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Extreme Libido
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Extreme Libido: Leaning far more toward the Sex Addiction side of the trope, and like most addictions, it's a way of coping with deeper issues, in this case The Chains of Commanding. And it turns out having one when you're living in a world without Eternal Sexual Freedom and have been raised to value Honor Before Reason will really do a ringer on your mental health.
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Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
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Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Amaeda's disdain for the disabled (particularly her little brother) and the Crannogmen stems from the fact her father caught a pox that caused Averick's disability in the Neck, and passed it on to her. Well, possibly.
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Interrupted by the End: “Jon, I have to tell you something–”
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: Literally. If Robb and Theon could have been honest with one another, Robb wouldn't have sent him away, Theon wouldn't have seized Winterfell, Robb wouldn't have slept with Jeyne Westerling and been killed.
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all lowercase letters: the titles of they say he turns into a wolf at night and something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell are stylised as such. In the former case, it’s used to lend the title the vibe of a whispered rumour, and in the latter, to draw attention to the importance of Winterfell by capitalising only that. Averted for Who Passes the Sentence.
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Ambiguous Situation: is Amaeda a traumatised victim, or vicious manipulator?
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity/With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: In this case, it's the responsibility that causes the insanity, being suddenly forced upon someone who is not at all ready for it without an adequate support network, who descends into addiction as a coping mechanism and then drives himself mad with self-loathing.
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Mistaken Identity
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Mistaken Identity: Jon sees ‘Arya’ in the penultimate chapter, but given her age – “old enough to be a mother,” how terrified Bran appears of Jon getting close to her, and her identifying herself as Bran’s “blood” – the same way Ned Stark once described his relationship to Jon – it’s implied she is actually Lyanna.
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Ironic Echo
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Sansa/'Alayne' also repeats what she told herself in WPtS that she could never become a victim of sexual violence like Amaeda, because she was pure and unflowered, and Ned wouldn't let it happen, while presenting herself to Jon. Doubles as an Ironic Echo.
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Genre Deconstruction
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Genre Deconstruction: of Lemon, essentially. The sex is all a deeply unhealthy coping mechanism to deal with the trauma of canon events, it basically destroys Robb's identity and self-worth, and it plays a role in causing Robb's canon death.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tristen Skyer, who even in the most sympathetic interpretation of events, still had sex with his young daughter and shows zero remorse over it, and considers all the tragedies that result Never My Fault. To a certain degree Averick Skyer also, initially a very sweet boy, but he refuses to even contemplate that Amaeda might be telling the truth, physically assaults her, and says aloud he wants to kill her.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: One of Robb's biggest problems. Notably, it's not either of his parents' physical abandonment he's most traumatised by, but his mother's psychological abandonment during her Angst Coma. Later, after being Promoted to Parent, he has to leave Bran and Rickon behind while he goes to war. He feels very guilty about this, especially after they ‘die.’
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HypocriticalHumour
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Played straight when Robb calls Theon a slut while they have sex, which would probably fall under Hypocritical Humour if it weren't just sad.
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Lampshade Hanging: In chapter 7, Jon acknowledges how he and Bran keep running away from and then chasing after each other.
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Bondage Is Bad
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Bondage Is Bad: played with. Robb's desires don't indicate he's a bad person, but they do indicate he's a deeply dysfunctional one (essentially, the degrading sex he enjoys is a form of Self-Harm). He also does not do any of it in a Safe, Sane, and Consensual way.
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Alliterative Family
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Alliterative Family: The three Skyer siblings: Aleas, Amaeda, and Averick.
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Out of Focus: unlike Ned, Sansa and Bran, the events of the wedding are never shown from Robb’s POV. This follows his being a Supporting Protagonist in the books, but contrasts his being the POV character throughout tshtiawan.
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You Should Have Died Instead
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You Should Have Died Instead: Bran pulls this on Jon when they're looking at Robb's body, quoting his mother.
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False Rape Accusation
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False Rape Accusation: most of the plot revolves around determining whether Amaeda is making one of these or not.
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Hormone-Addled Teenager: Robb's youth is crucial to the plot, and much of the sex is meant to resemble adolescent fantasy more than real sex (since it may well be just that).
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Foregone Conclusion: Ultimately, Robb sends Theon to Pyke, Theon betrays Robb and ‘kills’ Bran and Rickon, Robb sleeps with Jeyne Westerling in his grief and then marries her to preserve her honour, and is then killed at the Red Wedding for it. It's the ‘how’ and ‘why’ that change.
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“It's like a bubble bursting, or perhaps being crashed over by an ocean wave.”
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Common Mary Sue Traits: Amaeda has a lot of these – she borders on being the World's Most Beautiful Woman, people fall in love with her at first sight or idealise her from afar, she (possibly) has Rape as Backstory, etc. Unlike most Mary Sues however, she proves unable to fundamentally change the nature of her surrounding environment, which is her downfall.
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Twincest: Tristen claims this happened between Amaeda and Aleas. She later claims it only ever happened when he made them do it.
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O.C. Stand-in
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O.C. Stand-in: a lot of characters from families that are little more than a line in the appendixes appear. Most notably, the Longthorpes.
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Psychological Projection
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Psychological Projection: Bran does a lot of this, lashing out at Jon for all his lingering issues with Theon. He also seems to by projecting a lot of his own guilt when he accuses Jon of being glad at Catelyn's death.
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Parental Substitute: Robb, Theon, Bran and Rickon form something of a makeshift family unit. Robb is not really comfortable with this however, for a lot of reasons, including: his fear of Theon becoming tethered to his responsibilities, his jealousy that irresponsible Theon Greyjoy is better at parenting than him, and his premonitions of Theon's role in Bran and Rickon's ‘deaths’.
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Naughty Under the Table: Subverted. The sheer implausibility of getting away with this is one of the first overt hints that Robb might not be all there mentally.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: in contrast to the previous two installments, Jon and Bran manage to resolve a lot of their issues and admit that they still love and miss each other. However it’s never clear if Bran actually manages to trust Jon enough to tell him the truth about his parentage.
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Stylistic Suck
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Stylistic Suck: the play version of Aegon the Conqueror burning Harrenhal that Jon and Bran watch Daenerys and Theon performing in chapter 3 is pretty woeful, what with Theon forgetting his lines and Daenerys appearing on a paper dragon in Incredibly Conspicuous Drag. Until her ‘paper dragon’ starts burning Theon alive, at which point it becomes terrifyingly real.
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Keeping Secrets Sucks
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Keeping Secrets Sucks: Bran, thanks to lingering trust issues, is desperately trying to conceal the truth of Jon's parentage. However, his subconscious makes that incredibly painful for the both of them.
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Ambiguous Ending
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Ambiguous Ending: The final line is “Jon, I have to tell you something–” We don't find out what happens after Bran finishes that sentence, or if he even does.
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Transparent Closet
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Inverted, more often than not. Robb has a habit of holding himself to harsher standards than he holds other people (eg. talking about how important it is he not become known as a sword-swallower, right before contemplating an alliance with Renly Baratheon).
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Stress Vomit
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Stress Vomit: Robb does this after having sex with a man he imagines to be Jon.
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Broken Ace
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Broken Ace: Robb, the perfect Stark heir and acting Lord of Winterfell, later King in the North... also a teenage boy crumbling under incredible pressure, consumed by fears of disappointing his family and failing to protect his younger brothers, plagued by abandonment issues and secretly prostituting himself to cope with the stress of it all.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Bran hints at being aware he's fictional, see Medium Awareness below.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie/Corrupt the Cutie: An example of Break the Cutie and Corrupt the Cutie intersecting, as most of the Cutie's breakage stems from his shame and self-loathing over how corrupted he's become.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Ned gives Amaeda her vengeance, but she's still left in a much worse situation than she began in, and she likely doesn't even know Tristen is dead. And that's if Amaeda was telling the truth, and hasn't completely manipulated him. Ned is left with major guilt over the underhanded way he killed Tristen, and is deeply discomforted by Roose Bolton helping him for mysterious motives. He's also gone through a major Broken Pedestal moment regarding his brother Brandon. Averick is left to become Lord of the Bluebell as a young, crippled boy with no family, and his and Bran's friendship is completely destroyed. Back at Winterfell, Sansa's idealism is majorly shaken, and she can only restore it by becoming even more judgemental of her sister Arya. Catelyn feels isolated from Ned, as she can tell he's keeping yet more secrets from her. The story ends with Ned praying for answers from the Heart Tree, but receiving none.
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Jon has sex with Rhaenys, Aegon and Daenerys by the banks of a river. And immediately gets caught by Bran.
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Wise Beyond Their Years
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Wise Beyond Their Years: Played with. Bran is wise enough to realise something's wrong and ask Robb about it, but still too young for Robb to actually confide in. Therefore it just makes Robb's psychological state worse.
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Loving a Shadow
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Loving a Shadow: or possibly lusting after a shadow. Robb's fixation on Theon seemingly stems from a conception of him as duty-free and irresponsible, and hence a route for Robb to escape the responsibilities he feels swamped by. When it becomes clear Theon does feel some sense of duty to Robb's family, also that like everyone else he is looking to Robb as someone to depend on, Robb lashes out at him.
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We Used to Be Friends
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We Used to Be Friends: Bran and Averick quickly form a friendship, that then immediately gets blown apart by the events of the story. Ned and Tristen's friendship gets blown apart to the extent Ned murders him.
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Obliviously Evil
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Obliviously Evil: According to Amaeda, the reason Tristen invited Ned to the wedding was that he genuinely didn't understand that he had done anything wrong in raping her.
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Rape as Backstory
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Rape as Backstory: Amaeda, according to her at least. And Aleas also. And it's implied, the cook Pia.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: all three stories: they say he turns into a wolf at night begins and ends with Robb (or a metaphorical representation of him) travelling through the woods and drinking something that tastes “rancid, bitter and tangy, and cheap.” Who Passes the Sentence begins and ends at Winterfell, showing the perspectives of the Starks who did not attend the wedding – Catelyn, Arya and Jon – as well as Ned and Bran’s. something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell features Jon and Bran comparing hands in its first and last chapter.
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Bookends
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Bookends featuring something travelling through woods.
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Bookworm
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Bookworm: Comes up a few times that Amaeda loves reading. This turns out to be fairly important foreshadowing.
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Broad Strokes
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Broad Strokes: picks and chooses between book and show continuity, particularly in they say he turns into a wolf at night, where both Ros and Jeyne Westerling play important roles. something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell goes back and forth between show and book details for added Mind Screw.
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Bran suffers a lot of guilt over having allowed everyone to believe he was dead for so long, as he believes this caused his mother’s death.
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Imaginary Enemy
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Imaginary Enemy: Cass, possibly. She probably exists, but whether she's the bastion of resentment Robb imagines her as is less sure.
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PromotedToParent
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Later, after being Promoted to Parent, he has to leave Bran and Rickon behind while he goes to war. He feels very guilty about this, especially after they ‘die.’
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It's All My Fault
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It's All My Fault: Bran over Catelyn's death, see My Greatest Failure below.
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Surprise Incest
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Surprise Incest: Jon has an orgy with his Targaryen aunt and half-siblings, not knowing who any of them are really. The scene with 'Alayne Stone' is a complicated example, as its unclear whether Jon recognises her or not – it's possible he's deliberately avoiding recognising her.
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Pragmatic Villainy
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Pragmatic Villainy: Roose sees no moral or legal problems with Tristen raping his own daughter, but does think it would be a stupid thing to do since it would ruin her value in marriage.
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Through the Eyes of Madness
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Through the Eyes of Madness: How much of the story is hallucinated is never made clear, but Robb is painfully aware of his own deteriorating mental state.
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Homoerotic Subtext
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Also in the final chapter, Bran promises Robb they can take Theon riding with them, and thinks he doesn't know why Robb likes Theon so much.
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Parental Incest
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Parental Incest: Amaeda accuses her father of raping her. He accuses her of being sexually obsessed with him. Who (if anyone) is telling the truth is decidedly unclear.
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I Take Offense to That Last One
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I Take Offense to That Last One: when Cass calls Robb a “highborn slut with nothing better to do”, he thinks that “'highborn slut' is fair.”
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Bran grows increasingly unhinged as the world around them grows more bizarre.
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Fille Fatale
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Fille Fatale: After finally admitting to having sex with Amaeda, Tristen claims she was one of these, having seduced him and then her twin brother.
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Being God Is Hard
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Being God Is Hard: Invoked by Bran in regards to his powers: “And I thought being a lord was hard, he thinks. What about being a god?”
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: 'Amaeda' alludes to both "mayday", the traditional signal given by ships in distress, but also the Spanish Armada, an infamous invading army. This indicates the ambiguity as to whether she is the victim or the villain of this story.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Aleas Skyer, and possibly his mother Lydia as well.
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My Greatest Failure
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My Greatest Failure: Bran regards Catelyn's death as this, as he believes it only happened because she thought all her children were lost, which happened because he fled Winterfell after it was sacked and let her believe he was dead.
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Foreign Culture Fetish
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Foreign Culture Fetish: Tristen Skyer appears to have one of these for the Crannogmen, spending an unusual amount of time in the Neck. Fridge Horror suggests there’s a different reason he spent so much time there: because the Crannogmen look like children.
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When She Smiles
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When She Smiles: Amaeda's first appearance shows Ned going on about how beautiful her smile is, although unlike many examples of this trope, this does not set them up as love interests.
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: Or word – the Skyer family motto is simply “Above,” tying into the overall theme of entitlement. See Screw the Rules, I Make Them! below.
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TheRashomon
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The Rashomon: without the flashbacks that usually characterise this trope, but the plot revolves around two people's very, very different recollections of the past, and the impossibility of knowing whose version is true.
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Thicker Than Water
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Thicker Than Water: What Bran fears, after Theon's betrayal, is that Jon's Targaryen heritage would make him chose them over the Starks. However 'Arya' later points out that the Starks are also Jon's blood.
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Ros, as per canon. Also Maricella, who gives Robb thoughtful, unjudgmental advice so he can avenge her beloved father for her.
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: A crucial theme of the stort is the tendency of being born to positions of power and ownership leading men to feel entitled to things, and believe the law doesn't apply to them.
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Deuteragonist
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Deuteragonist: Amaeda.
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Angst Coma
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One of Robb's biggest problems. Notably, it's not either of his parents' physical abandonment he's most traumatised by, but his mother's psychological abandonment during her Angst Coma.
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Original Character
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Jon references the Skyers in the second chapter, and Bran points out the Skyers hate them.
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Vague Age
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Vague Age: Everyone, due to the uncertainty over whether we're using book or show ages. The exception is Maricella, an original character, who is explicitly stated to be fifteen.
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up/Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Bran inexplicably ages from a boy to a young man in the second chapter, while he and Jon are in the middle of talking to Sansa. In this case, it's more for symbolism and surrealism's sakes than anything.
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Freak Out
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Freak Out: The whole story is really a long, slow one for Robb.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Amaeda's first scene with Sansa immediately sets her up as a major Jerkass.
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Aggressive Submissive
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Ned's worry that Robb might inherit the same attitude towards sex and sexual violence as Tristen, Rhaegar and Brandon serves as a deeply ironic version of this, as readers know he should be worried about the exact opposite thing.
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Defiled Forever
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Invoked by Ennett to Amaeda after learning she's Defiled Forever.
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Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: the final scene is entirely symbolic.
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Slash Fic
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Slash Fic
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Naughty by Night
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Naughty by Night: Deconstructed, as Robb's behaviour 'by night' is all a coping mechanism to deal with how overwhelmed he feels by the role he has to perform 'by day', but then the cognitive dissonance starts to drive him mad. See Aggressive Submissive.
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Mary Sue
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Who Passes the Sentence deconstructs Mary Sue fic.
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 The Kings of Winter (Fanfic) / int_83a903f6
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: Robb, with shades of both the sad and unstable variants. And by the end, the empty variant as well.
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Broken Pedestal
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Broken Pedestal: Sansa idealised Amaeda thoroughly before they left Winterfell. Actually meeting her proves... traumatic. Ned also goes through this with his brother Brandon, when he realises he most likely raped the cook Pia (although he also notes it could have been Lord Rickard). To a lesser extent, Tristen is this to him as well.
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That Man Is Dead
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That Man Is Dead: Bran claims “Bran Stark, as he once was, is long gone, dead the moment he entered that cave.” Although whoever he is, he clearly has a lot of leftover emotional baggage from being Bran Stark.
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 The Kings of Winter (Fanfic) / int_884e513b
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Medium Awareness
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Medium Awareness: It's implied that thanks to his powers, Bran is at least subconsciously aware of being fictional, hence the reference to “worlds their world could be inside.”
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 The Kings of Winter (Fanfic) / int_8b568cb7
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: Aleas and Lydia Skyer.
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Mask of Sanity
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Mask of Sanity: Robb's is very thorough, to the extent barely anyone notices anything's wrong. Although depending on your interpretation, this might be closer to your traditional Stepford Smiler.
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Rule of Symbolism
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something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell meanwhile gives up all traditional plot and functions purely on Rule of Symbolism.
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Arc Number
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The six doors in the corridor in chapter 5, alluding to the Arc Number from tshtiawan. Also the six men Jon sees coming out of one room having seemingly had sex with one prostitute, who are implied to be the same six men Robb had sex with in chapter 7 of tshtiawan.
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 The Kings of Winter (Fanfic) / int_927b2f11
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The Bus Came Back
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The Bus Came Back: Ros leaves Winterfell in chapter 8, but reappears in chapter 13. It’s heavily implied Robb is hallucinating her though.
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Questionable Consent
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Questionable Consent: Robb deliberately seeks out all the abusive sex he has, but given he's very mentally unstable and seventeen at the oldest, whether he's actually capable of consenting to it isn't really clear. That's if it really happened at all.
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Not So Above It All
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Catelyn, as described by Jon: “He remembers he used to admire her, in a way, despite everything. He admired her strength. He admired that she would never show weakness to anyone she thought might be an enemy, and that was a skill he much envied.” Seeing her cry deeply unsettles him.
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Never My Fault
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Tristen Skyer, who even in the most sympathetic interpretation of events, still had sex with his young daughter and shows zero remorse over it, and considers all the tragedies that result Never My Fault.
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In the Blood
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In the Blood: Lydia Skyer was a Crakehall by birth, and so their reputation for promiscuity comes back to bite her daughter.
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Tragic Keepsake
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Tragic Keepsake: Amaeda keeps the bones of her stillborn niece, which allow her to ‘prove’ her accusations to Ned.
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Revenge Before Reason
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Revenge Before Reason: Amaeda utterly destroys her own life in her desperate need for revenge on her father.
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Unproblematic Prostitution
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Unproblematic Prostitution: Zig-zagged, but ultimately averted. Robb is terrified the first time he goes to the brothel, but enjoys the experience and is deeply relieved afterwards. It's not until he goes home again that he's overwhelmed by shame. Later on, his work becomes more dangerous and degrading – and Robb only enjoys this more. This only worsens the guilt however, and it's made clear that his co-workers do not all share his opinions. The stress of it also leads to a lot of Sanity Slippage.
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Learning that Brandon probably raped a serving girl leads Ned to worry he might have done the same to Cat (a sort of pre-emptive invocation of the Marital Rape License) and she might have covered it up as to not disturb the Stark-Tully alliance, meaning Robb might not actually be his son. We learn in the epilogue that this is not the case, but he never does.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In hindsight, Ros really should have just kept her mouth shut.
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Death by Irony
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Death by Irony: Robb's canon death is transformed into this, and lampshaded: “After all this time, he died for fucking his wife.”
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
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Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: hoo boy.
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Foreshadowing
 The Kings of Winter (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing: Robb hyperbolically says that he's going mad (or some variant of that) quite a few times before we learn that he literally is.
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Accomplice by Inaction
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Accomplice by Inaction: Amaeda thinks of her mother Lydia as this, claiming she walked in on Tristen raping Amaeda and chose to do nothing. Ned, however, remembers how young Lydia was when Tristen married her and wonders if she might not have been as much a victim of her husband’s abuse as her daughter.
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Long Title
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Long Title: they say he turns into a wolf at night and something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell.
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Secret-Keeper
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Secret-Keeper: A malevolent version. Roose Bolton is the only person who knows that Ned killed Tristen Skyer, and helps him cover it up. He clearly has shifty motives for this though.
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Random Events Plot
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Random Events Plot: follows a dream-like logic that makes summarising the plot... difficult.
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Judge, Jury, and Executioner
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Judge, Jury, and Executioner: As Lord of Winterfell, Ned has to serve as this. But he's just one man who's extremely conflicted and has his own biases and lingering traumas; he can't ever know the truth of the matter for sure, leading to a lot of self-doubt.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Bran after defeating the sea dragonnote symbolising his heartbreak over Theon’s betrayal and fear Jon’s Targaryen heritage will lead him to make the same decision and realising he has left it alive, but horrifically mutilatednote just like Theon.
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Doomed by Canon
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Doomed by Canon: Robb himself, along with Catelyn and a good proportion of his army and bannermen.
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Rape Leads to Insanity
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Rape Leads to Insanity: Amaeda, possibly. She's clearly unstable, but how unstable is uncertain (there is also the possibility of Obfuscating Insanity)
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Unreliable Expositor
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Unreliable Expositor: Everybody, but particularly Amaeda and Tristen.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: Sansa’s three appearances. In the first, she appears as an innocent child playing with dolls, and when Jon and Bran leave, she promises to wait for them. In the second, she appears in the guise of ‘Alayne Stone’, makes sexual advances on Jon, and when he rejects her and leaves she yet again says she will wait. In her final appearance in the penultimate chapter, she appears as the Lady of Winterfell, calls her family out on having abandoned her, and tells them she cannot wait for them anymore.
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Porn with Plot
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Porn with Plot
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Deliberate Values Dissonance
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Westerosi attitudes to a girl accusing her father of rape are... about as horrible as you'd expect. Special mention must go to Roose Bolton though, who thinks that since Amaeda was Tristen's daughter, he had every right to do what he liked with her and hence no crime has been committed. Amaeda herself espouses the common Westerosi attitude that cripples are better off dead.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter is named after a past King in the North.
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Inspiration Nod
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Inspiration Nod: Jon and Bran comparing hands comes directly from Persona. The scene where Bran gives an accusative monologue to Jon twice, once from Jon's POV, once from Bran's, also comes straight from Persona (although unlike in Persona, Bran's monologue changes significantly on the second telling). Jon's orgy with the Targaryens heavily resembles the orgy Alma describes in Persona.
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The Treachery of Images
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The Treachery of Images: of a rather tragic variation. When looking at the statue of his father, Bran thinks about how it's nothing like his father, it's just stone.
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Dreaming of Things to Come
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Dreaming of Things to Come/Erotic Dream: In chapter 6, Robb has a series of dreams, all sexual in nature, foreshadowing a lot of future ASOIAF/GOT events. Including: The war with the Lannisters, and the fact he will eventually lose. Sansa's abuse and Ros' death at the hands of Joffrey. His own death at the Red Wedding, and Catelyn watching and going mad. Theon's capture and abuse by Ramsay Bolton. Theon and Roose Bolton's respective betrayals, Theon's “murder” of Bran and Rickon, and Roose's murdering Robb. His marriage to Jeyne Westerling.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Theon (allegedly) killing Bran and Rickon and sacking Winterfell gets Robb a lot of what he wanted at the beginning – freedom from the responsibility of his brothers and his castle, as well as his mother's undivided love and attention and the promise of Jon's return. However, this just leaves Robb swamped with even more responsibilities, as well as guilt.
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Wicked Stepmother
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Wicked Stepmother: discussed, inverted and defied. Bran accuses Jon of loathing Catelyn and regarding her as this, and being glad she died. Jon responds that he didn't hate Catelyn, that he understood her reasons and thought she treated him better than many women would have.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Tristen Skyer, according to his daughter at least.
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Marital Rape License
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Marital Rape License: Invoked by Ennett to Amaeda after learning she's Defiled Forever. A variant is discussed when Ned worries Brandon may have done this pre-emptively to Cat. We learn he didn't in the epilogue, but Ned doesn't.
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Aerith and Bob
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Aerith and Bob: The Skyer family, where Lydia and Tristen (a fairly simple variant of Tristan) parent Aleas, Amaeda and Averick.
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Pretender Diss
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Pretender Diss: when Sweetrobin threatens to have Bran thrown from the moon door, he laughs and thinks “I’ve been thrown from high places by people scarier than you.”
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Child by Rape
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Rys’ distinct Stark look makes Ned realise she is the bastard daughter of either his brother or his father, and given how frightened of him her mother seems, she probably was not conceived consensually.
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You Are What You Hate
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You Are What You Hate: Bran goes mad with anger at Sweetrobin because of his naïve belief his mother is coming back for him, and almost throws him out of the moon door, because it parallels his own relationship with his mother.
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Thematic Series
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Thematic Series: they say he turns into a wolf at night and Who Passes the Sentence are both mostly self contained stories, with only their themes and a few implicitly shared minor characters tying them together. something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell however is a lot more continuity heavy.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Bran's behaviour suggests he has one, but it takes awhile to piece together what exactly it is. Turns out to be a combination of a few things: Jon's newly revealed heritage, his mother's death, and Theon Greyjoy. They're all connected in various ways.
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Ambiguously Bi
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Ambiguously Bi: Jon doesn't think anything of having sex with Aegon alongside Rhaenys and Daenerys, although given the scene is more about the connection between the Targaryens than anything, this might be a case of If It's You, It's Okay.
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Incest Subtext
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There’s also the scene between him and Bran in chapter 7 as described under Incest Subtext.
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: oh yes.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: “I'm just a whore, I'd let anyone do it.”
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: the three prostitutes Robb meets over the course of the story: Ros (redhead), Cass (brunette), and Maricella (blonde).
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: At the end of chapter 10, Robb almost confides in Maester Luwin and gets the professional (or as close to it as you get in a pseudo-Medieval setting) help he needs. Then Luwin informs him of Ned's arrest, and Robb immediately abandons the idea.
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Strong Family Resemblance
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Strong Family Resemblance: Like many Westerosi families, the Skyers have a distinctive 'look', in this case strawberry blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Rys’ distinct Stark look makes Ned realise she is the bastard daughter of either his brother or his father, and given how frightened of him her mother seems, she probably was not conceived consensually.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Chapter 6, where Robb’s erotic dreams become nightmarish and violent and foreshadow a lot of later suffering for himself and his loved ones. The sex scenes in chapters 10 and 11 are also more sad than arousing. Arguably the whole thing once it becomes clear the sheer level of psychological dysfunction that is driving Robb to this behaviour.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Bran makes one to Twin Peaks: “That gum he likes might come back in style.” Leading him to get confused over what gum is. Twice, Jon quotes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: First is after the stage catches fire, seemingly killing Theon. “No-one gets up after death! There's no applause! Just silence and – second-hand clothes!” Second is in the final chapter, when they're discussing waking up from the dream. “Now you see me, now you–”
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Interplay of Sex and Violence
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Interplay of Sex and Violence: lots of unclear boundaries between sex, violence, violent sex and sexual violence.
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Iron Lady
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Iron Lady: Catelyn, as described by Jon: “He remembers he used to admire her, in a way, despite everything. He admired her strength. He admired that she would never show weakness to anyone she thought might be an enemy, and that was a skill he much envied.” Seeing her cry deeply unsettles him. Sansa appears to have transformed into this by her final appearance. Indeed Jon initially mistakes her for Catelyn.
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Supporting Protagonist
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Supporting Protagonist: The plot is driven entirely by Amaeda's actions, and Ned acts in response to her. However the theme of the story revolves around him.
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Slut-Shaming
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Slut-Shaming: Robb's is mostly internal, although his clients also do it a lot. Later, he calls Theon a slut while having sex with him, who's clearly hurt – Robb feels terribly guilty about it, but Theon refuses to admit he's been wounded. Cass also has an interesting take on it – she and Robb are both prostitutes, but she shames him because he does it for pleasure, rather than for money.
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The Chains of Commanding
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The Chains of Commanding: the central theme. In each story, the men of the Stark family struggle to balance the responsibilities and duties of their positions – be it as Lord of Winterfell, King in the North or The Three Eyed Raven – against their own personal wants, fears and weaknesses, leading to a lot of pain for all of them.
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Camp Follower
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Camp Follower: abundant, once the war begins. Theon sleeps with them. Later, Robb attempts to disguise himself as one, is recognised and ends up sleeping with one himself instead.
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Cerebus Syndrome
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Cerebus Syndrome: The first five chapters have a bit of angst, but it mostly comes across as part of an Excuse Plot for a PWP. It's not until chapter 6 that the focus really shifts from the porn to the psychological drama.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Amaeda Skyer. Seemingly Pia as well.
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Patchwork Fic
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Patchwork Fic: Of a really weird variation, where mutually exclusive details from the books and the show, most prominently Bran's eye and hair colour, as well as his age, change from one to another without warning or explanation, compounding the overall Mind Screw effect.
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I Wished You Were Dead
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I Wished You Were Dead: Robb blames himself for Bran's death in particular, given he did wish him dead briefly, and the burning of Winterfell, which he also wished for so he wouldn't have to be responsible for it anymore.
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Written by the Winners
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Written by the Winners: the Rape of the Three Sisters has been mostly airbrushed out of Northern histories. Robb is surprised and unsettled when Pia tells him about it, while Amaeda cruelly throws it in Sansa’s face, shocking her.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Inverted, more often than not. Robb has a habit of holding himself to harsher standards than he holds other people (eg. talking about how important it is he not become known as a sword-swallower, right before contemplating an alliance with Renly Baratheon). Played straight when Robb calls Theon a slut while they have sex, which would probably fall under Hypocritical Humour if it weren't just sad.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Amaeda believes Aleas crossed this after his bastard daughter Rhaenys was stillborn, revealing Tristen had given him the pox that would leave him incapable of siring a proper heir. This lead to his suicide.
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Don't Tell Mama
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Don't Tell Mama: Almost word for word. When Robb thinks Theon knows he's a prostitute, his first sentence is “please don't tell my mother.” “What would my mother think?” is also one of the sets of Arc Words.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: the first chapter and most of the story is told from Jon's POV, but ultimately, it's Bran who's the real emotional crux of it.
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Animal Motifs
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“Like a bitch in heat.”
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Call-Forward: to the A Song of Ice and Fire series proper, it’s television adaptation, and to they say he turns into a wolf at night, the previous entry in the trilogy. A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones: Amaeda’s description of Aleas’ stillborn daughter Rhaenys recalls Mirri Maz Dur’s description of Daenerys’ stillborn son Rhaego. Sansa's line “she was no true lady”, resembling her later line “he was no true knight.” The way Ned chokes and kills Tristen highly resembles the way he chokes Petyr Baelish in Game of Thrones, although Petyr doesn't die. they say he turns into a wolf at night: Ned's reflections on how Theon treats his whores, immediately juxtaposed with Robb's reaction to all the drama unfolding, foreshadows their relationship. Amaeda’s description of the prostitute Aleas sired his bastard on resembles Cass, implying they are the same person. Seemingly confirmed in something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell. Also in the final chapter, Bran promises Robb they can take Theon riding with them, and thinks he doesn't know why Robb likes Theon so much. Ned's worry that Robb might inherit the same attitude towards sex and sexual violence as Tristen, Rhaegar and Brandon serves as a deeply ironic version of this, as readers know he should be worried about the exact opposite thing.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: The three Skyer siblings combine the traits of the three Stark siblings who attend the wedding (Robb, Sansa and Bran), as well the Lannisters they will later end up in conflict with. Note that the Skyer family look – strawberry blonde hair and ‘sea-green’ eyes – combines the auburn hair and blue eyes of the Tullys that Robb, Sansa and Bran all inherited from Catelyn with the golden hair and green eyes of the Lannisters. Aleas: Like Robb, he is the oldest son and heir of the family, who dies young but whose legacy leaves an enormous shadow over his family. If we believe Amaeda’s story and take the events of tshtiawan into account, they both struggled to live up to their duties despite shame and self-loathing over being sexually degraded, and wound up dying after believing they could no longer perform the role ascribed to them. Like Jaime, he is the one thing that the rest of his family seem to agree upon, with a twin sister and younger brother who despise each other both adoring him. Also like Jaime he is accused of committing Twincest with his sister, although unlike Jaime it’s never made clear if it is true in his case. Amaeda: Like Sansa, she is a noble Westerosi (and at least offically a) maiden whose sex makes her vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by the men around her. They are both eventually sexually abused either by their own fathers, or by a man posing as their father (Petyr Baelish). Like Cersei, she is a scheming manipulator accused of using her sexuality to get what she wants. She’s also accused of committing Twincest with her twin brother, and resents her younger brother for a physical deformity he cannot control. Averick: Like Bran, he is a sweet young man with a physical disability who nonetheless dreams of great things. Like Tyrion, he was born disabled and suffers the prejudice that this makes him an inadequate heir to his house seat once his older brother is out of the picture. His older sister bitterly resents him, and he despises her. He also slowly reveals a similar vengeful streak to Tyrion.
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Calling the Old Man Out: Amaeda to Tristen. Inverted with the Longthorpes, where Rolland chews Ennett out for his attempts to get rid of Amaeda once he learns she wasn't a virgin.
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Reluctant Psycho
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Reluctant Psycho: Robb gains an awareness that something is very wrong with him mentally, and is terrified of it, although it's not clear how deep his mental illness runs.
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Deconstruction Fic
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Deconstruction Fic: each installment deconstructs a different genre of Wish-Fulfillment fanfiction: they say he turns into a wolf at night deconstructs Porn with Plot. Who Passes the Sentence deconstructs Mary Sue fic. something black in the crypts beneath Winterfell deconstructs W.A.F.F. fic.
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Freudian Trio
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Freudian Trio: The three fellow whores Robb meets over the course of the story. Ros, who encourages and enables him to act on his desires in the first place, is the id. Cass, who harshly judges him for his desires, is the superego. And Maricella, who sympathises with his desires but nonetheless encourages him to put them aside and focus on his duties for the greater good, is the ego.
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No Ending
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No Ending: ends in mid-sentence. Doubles as an Ambiguous Ending, since we never find out whether Bran will tell Jon the truth about his parentage or not.
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: Bran and Jon come to the conclusion their experience has probably been this in the final chapter. Although they're not sure whose dream it is.
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The Vamp
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Like Cersei, she is a scheming manipulator accused of using her sexuality to get what she wants. She’s also accused of committing Twincest with her twin brother, and resents her younger brother for a physical deformity he cannot control.
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Fever Dream Episode
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Fever Dream Episode: chapter 6, combining Anxiety Dreams, Erotic Dreams and Dreaming of Things to Come.
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Aleas Skyer, apparently.
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The Wrongful Heir to the Throne
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The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: Robb views himself as this by the end, although no-one else does, comparing himself unfavourably to his bastard brother Jon.
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Promotion to Parent
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Promotion to Parent: Robb is suddenly forced to take responsibility for his little brothers with little warning and no preparation, while one of them has undergone an extreme trauma and has almost been murdered repeatedly. Robb has no idea how to handle the role and feels completely overwhelmed by the responsibility, and even briefly wishes Bran dead so he won't be burdened by taking care of him anymore.
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Undying Loyalty
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Undying Loyalty: Averick is completely loyal to his father, because Tristen has always stood by his place in the succession despite his disability, and is furious at Amaeda's accusations as a result. However this isn't really portrayed as a good thing.
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Foe Romance Subtext
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Foe Romance Subtext: Robb's attraction to Jaime Lannister, which is a sign of just how broken he is. It’s also firmly one-sided.
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Red-Light District
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Red Light District: The brothel Jon enters in chapter 5 glows with a (rather anachronistic) red light.
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The Corrupter
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The Corrupter: it’s implied Roose Bolton may have served as this to Tristen in his youth, as they were foster brothers.
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Ephebophile
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Ephebophile: Tristen, according to Amaeda, as she claims he only started raping her and Aleas after she got her moonblood at eleven. Indeed she blames her bleeding so young for given him the idea. He also married the fourteen year old Lydia Crakehall at twenty.
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