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A fairytale story would be simpler, but this is not one of those stories.
Through it all, everything unfolds beneath her fingertips.
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A Kingdom For Her Grace by lareinavisoma
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, House of the Dragon (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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Rhaenyra loses her daughter while still in Kingslanding to petition for her son in the Velaryon succession crisis. Exhausted, she decides to stay and care for her dying father.
Tensions run high between the different factions of the family. For the sake of their children and themselves, Rhaenyra and Alicent relearn to navigate life at court together; all the while allegiances are unclear, trust is broken and built anew.
Set during and after Episode: s01e08 The Lord of the Tides
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“She was about to be killed,” Rhaenyra cuts in, quick.
“That’s your excuse? You could have called for a guard. Kept your distance. But you didn’t.” Daemon’s voice dips, almost amused. “You put your hands on her like—” He breaks off with a low laugh. “Seven hells, Rhaenyra.”
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And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow by mrdcai
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 Sep 2024
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Rhaenyra breathes hard at the proximity. Steps even closer. She does not know why, but she wants to. Craves it. Her usual stony restraint and goading spitefulness when dealing with a furious, self-righteous Queen Alicent having slipped away, leaving only the gnawing want underneath. A feeling that she has rarely acknowledged over these last years though it has been there all along. She feels its force course through her fiercely, unchallenged for the first time in a long time.
“You still wish to reconcile with me?” Rhaenyra whispers in astonishment.
Alicent squeezes her eyes shut, exhales shakily, but she does not move away.
“That is not- do you not see- Oh, Seven Hells.” Alicent lets out a groan of vexation and then lurches forward capturing Rhaenyra’s lips in a bruising kiss.
(Or the Magic Fertility Ritual AU where Alicent and Rhaenyra get each other pregnant and fight each other until they decide to fight for their family)
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After months of feeling nothing, the cold came like a blessing, wrapped itself around her shoulders like the Mother’s mantle. That was not to say that Alicent thought winter would be easy. She knew it would not. As the Maesters had all been grumbling to each other while tending to the King’s pains, it was bound to be severe.
That whitish light taking the sky, covering the city like mist thicker than mist, like the breath of a baby dragon, like Aegon’s spawn, once so small that if she wanted she could have cradled it in the palm of one hand.
Not that Alicent would have, and anyway her hands were ever too cold for the touch of such creatures.
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A retelling of Agamemnon in which winter comes and when Alicent trembles the whole structure of the Keep trembles with her.