THE OCEAN WASHED OVER YOUR GRAVE.

for someone who would say no to fighting for his own claim for the throne luke has so many opinions on aegon's court. i don't even think he would have wanted to be on the council of regents, but it would have given him access to the council and he is nosy because it affects his little brother's life.

"but many suspected ser tyland's real purpose was to lessen the crown's dependence on house velaryon of driftmark" luke in the survival au vc if aegon iii loved me he would let me get Rid of ser tyland lannister

i never have luke bond with another dragon in survival aus (it really is arrax or nothing in my head) but if i did ? it'd be grey ghost. he's the only dragon i can see him going for.

the urge to also bring luke back while also knowing i cannot write in the show verse because i cannot deal with that (and especially his relationship with rhaenyra in that verse)

unfortunately for luke, he is aware he would do like, 95% of anything corlys ever asked. he does love his grandfather too much, there's like, genuinely 3 things he would say no to.

luke in the survival au is pretty hyper focused on having to fix high tide and driftmark after the battle of the gullet, actually. he doesn't have the travelling spirit that alyn does, so a luke that lives isn't going to be making journeys longer than the free cities (and when he goes there, it is fully for trade reasons, and no others)

been going through the dance timeline for Reasons and each time i get to glimpse 'fight above shipbreaker bay' i want to laugh. fight. oh that's funny — that was a flight.

see unfortunately in his 'survival au that gets him to see the first blackfyre rebellion' (he would have been 81 which is old but fine, there's dragons, i can have him be alive), i do think luke would have considered for a very serious second there supporting daemon. before he forced himself to focus on every single reason why that is wrong (starting with that he was trying to usurp his brother, as his own mother had been usurped years before. but he had to force himself to focus to stop thinking about his biases for his niece daena)

it is good i wrote down some of the mannerisms i was supposed to keep in mind while writing luke because i have forgotten quite a bit. 'grips knife when nervous' what is wrong with him.