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⋆˚꩜ ARINA she/her. xxi. med student.

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It pisses Ormund off so much in a way that r speaks so highly of Gwayne at some point he thinks shes in love with G and that makes him hold her children legitimacy even more, poor r she’s thinking my sister didn’t have this hard did she?!

Do i also think he’d kill for her if someone else did it? Of course he may torment her about it, but only him no one else

Also also her dragon being very precious to her her speaking high valyrian to it, coddling (maybe like Syrax) the dragon, having terms of endearment and even teaching Daeron how to bond with Tesarrion and if her children do get eggs and they hatch oh boy, maybe they are gifts from viserys no one can deny or return so now old town has 2 grown dragons and 2 little ones running around lol

The way she coddles her dragon would make Ormund demand to be treated the same😂😂

Decisions, decisions 😳

ooo well the dragon advantage is a great point and MAYBE just MAYBE ormund would let the dragon eggs be kept BUT there is no way he’s going to let them be put into the cradles and they will have to be chained up like Tessarion (even if that does limit their growth)

ormund definitely holds what him and reader did over her head. like all the time. especially when her and gwayne seem like the perfect, dream couple on the outside — whereas ormund is the only one who knows the truth. he gaslights her constantly and makes her feel guilty for being affectionate towards HER OWN husband. like she compliments gwayne in front of someone or says something like ‘yes, he is a lovely husband and a chivalrous knight’. ormund mocks her for it later ‘your lovely chivalrous husband couldn’t even properly bed you’ he’s just that kind of asshole

he would definitely kill for her, no hesitation. we see how he was with the hightower knight and the man he forced daeron to kill. to him the lives of those below him are significantly insignificant.

she just brings such an amazing air of targaryen royalty and valyrian culture to oldtown which he CANNOT STAND. the dragons (especially their foul stench) if the children have white hair, the high valyrian, he is seething about it and wants to uproot all of it. he limits the time she gets to spend with her dragon and forbids her from practicing high valyrian, deeming it a barbarian and uncivilized language.

he’s probably too respectful to ask … since he feels like he’s failed his duty as husband he doesn’t want to intrude on who reader is sleeping with or wtv. he definitely is curious though, probably just thinks it’s a hightower knight or something

like we know Ormund doesn’t like the dragons from the scene with Daeron but if reader has a dragon and said dragon is also really overprotective over reader and whenever Ormund is around growls and is about to pounce on him

Esp if reader wants to take the children flying with her and Gwayne is like yeah go for it and Ormund looks like he’s about to explode lol 😂😂

this just adds another layer of complexity !!

ormund hates dragons. canon. now imagine the dragon constantly being moody and growling around him but not around gwayne. rip. he would hate the dragon even more.

and when r takes the kids flying, he nearly gets a heart attack and gets the poor beast executed. he endlessly goes on about her being foolish and should not having let HIS children go near that beast let alone fly on it, not without asking permission from him first anyway. and she’s like ‘well, i asked gwayne… they are his kids by law.’ ormund nearly strangles her, like… metaphorically but also physically. this is a toxic relationship ok? (situationship but with kids 😭🫩)

might I add a little bit of spice 🌶️🌶️

Preg!reader sex with Ormund 😦 he’d lose it looking at you, carrying his children glowing but even better jealous preg sex with ORMUND LOL 😳 him coming to your chambers after hours when you’re about to sleep after he has seen you all day by Gwaynes side

Also I feel like at first he’d feel disgusted with himself for doing this to a married woman esp his cousins wife bcz it goes against the faith and well everything but then as time goes on he’d fall for her but would still be disgusted with himself in a way maybe even going as far as to think she’d tainted him and blaming it all on her and her Targaryen magic 😂😂

Ps we love Gwayne here and i think reader would oppose the annulment at first because she has some sort of friendship with Gwayne he treats her well and respects her whereas Ormund… yeah

my face lights up every time i see a notification from you in my inbox ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ okay let’s discuss some freaky ormund !!

i have to add this here but prone boning with ormund. that’s it. that’s the thought. MY GOD

okay so that’s a hc for before reader gets pregnant bc yk all of the technicalities with being pregnant and all that, but when he is trying to get her pregnant … mhm let’s just say her face is being drowned in the sheets. idk i just feel like ormund would be really into pinning her down with his body. like his chest is nearly pressed against her back and she has nowhere to escape. he has total control over here. (power kink back again!!)

now when she gets pregnant the possessive sex levels up SIGNIFICANTLY. a hand is constantly on her belly and her womb. while she’s riding him or he’s eating her out… it doesn’t matter. the hand is there. it’s especially intense when you spend all day by gwayne’s side but at the end of the day you slip into ormund’s chambers or him into yours and he reminds you exactly who the growing life in your womb is from :3

as for the guilt, he would probably pray about it, ask for guidance from the seven or something like that… he’d repent, but he’d also realize that he loves sinning far too much to stop. hypocrite hightower.

and yeah just to make it clear this is NOT a gwayne hateclub!! reader definitely has a good relationship/friendship with gwayne and cares for him deeply hence when ormund suggests the annulment she is the first to turn it down. which ormund doesn’t take nicely, but anyway…

okay okay , now this is super interesting to explore.

first of all, i think gwayne (as we see in hotd) is incredibly honorable and empathetic so he would do his best to be a good father figure even when he knows the children aren’t his (because him and reader never consumated the marriage), this is all considering he doesn’t know or assume that ormund is the father. because otherwise he would probably feel profoundly disturbed and betrayed. (as he should lmao)

he would definitely coddle them when they are newborns, he seems like such a great father person, he would help reader while breastfeeding, when the babies are crying and wailing through the evening he is there to comfort them even when there are plenty of wetnurses to take care of them. he insists. it’s the least he can do.

he would teach them how to wield a sword but also the responsibility and values of being a knight (if we’re talking about boys) he would see them as his kids. no matter that he knows they biologically aren’t his. the one thing he always found strange however is that they do look like… hightowers. but he brushes it off, thinking reader probably just slept with someone who has similar looks. (peak denial, his mind WILL NOT even stray to ormund, it’s that deep)

so yeah, overall i think gwayne would be a great boydad/girldad considering all of the circumstances and he’d do his best to raise the children in a loving manner :(

He has a pregnancy kink, a power kink hell I’ll even throw in a possessive sex typa shit he looks like the type who doesn’t like when people touch whats his and the funny thing is reader is like “sir, I’m not your wife I’m your sister in law”, he’s going to be having crash outs left and right whenever people say yours and Gwaynes kids excuse you those are his kids, let alone when the kids start calling Gwayne daddy and he’s constantly ranting to reader about it, and poor reader is like well in name they are his kids and his eye would just start twitching and reader is about to grab Daeron and gtfo of there

Ngl, I can also see him acting as if it doesnt affect him at first, gaslighting you into believing hes okay with everything until he starts hearing about how pretty Gwaynes kids would be, how Gwayne has honoured his family and Ormund is like wtf wtf wtf

I agree with the fact that he does love Gwayne enough not to off him but he’d send him away all the time and poor Gwayne is like wtf because he doesnt understand why his cousin wants him away from his wife and kids all the time (assuming he doesnt know whose the father of readers kids) and reader doesnt want people to look at her like they do her sister so she just keeps quiet and obeys him (not that she doesnt want to🤭)

we’re on the same wavelength here fr.

POSSESSIVE SEX YES ABSOLUTELY. canon if you ask me. especially when reader announces her pregnancy because now it is official !! she is his.

when the children begin calling gwayne father or dad or whatever… well let’s just say ormund is NOT happy about it. i feel like he’d start undermining his own cousin and throw in some comments when gwayne is away like ‘well your father isn’t here, is he? but it’s alright I am here.’ he definitely complains to reader and when she even SLIGHTLY wants to confront him and say something like ‘well they are his children…’ ormund would crashout like in that one scene and be like DO NOT PLAY THE FOOL WITH ME. it is enough that everyone thinks they are gwayne’s kids. NOT YOU TOO. poor girl just nods and agrees because really what else can she do?

maybe at first he tries to play along and be nonchalant but nahh it just doesn’t work with him like that. like imagine a lady complimenting their son/daughter on her beautiful hair or nose or something saying something along the lines of ‘you and gwayne have made such beautiful creatures!’ and reader is just blushing, politely thanking her while ormund is staring daggers at the woman but not before adding ‘yes. hightower genes are strong.’ and he proceeds to glare at reader who just raises both her brows.

poor gwayne is probably too embarrassed to ask about who reader took into bed because he definitely knows it wasn’t him… aka that the children aren’t his. he feels like he has no right. but also i think he’d catch on not long after he realizes how much ormund truly cares about her kids but then he’d probably be in denial for a while before admitting it …

Same anon!! And I'm so glad you liked it hehe

But yes!!! The angst!! Ugh i love complex political relationships

I like to think its much like Harwin and Rhae's relationship (as in it spans years, if you know what I mean) and while he isn't exactly subtle about it but nobody can prove anything, esp the hair, since unlike rhae, laenor, and harwin, gwyane and ormund are related and so they probably have some semi similar features and so nobody would even know (ANDDDD they just quietly chalk it up to him trying to be a good "uncle"(???) When he wants to hold the baby!!

But he also would definitely try to pull some b.s 😭

so when she marries gwayne and finds out he doesn’t desire her it’s like her worst nightmare happening realtime… perfect opening for ormund and his savior complex schemes

And again, soooo real

He would know R probably has angst of being illegitimate and swoops in and "saves her"

#pining and yearning ormund 🔛🔝 (of us all tbh)

complex political relationships!!! right there with you anon.

he would be so smug about it too … he’s just being a good uncle, right? no matter that he insists on holding the baby when it’s born. no matter that he insists on teaching them to pray. no matter that he takes them to the sept every sunday. no matter that if it’s a boy he personally sees to their sword training and education.

and if someone does end up gossiping about the children looking more like ormund they would be shut off just as quickly. ormund tolerates no such speak of his family in his city.

if he does end up feeling guilty about what he did (in some ooc scenario) he comforts himself with the thought that reader is also a bastard… so it was inevitable for her to have illegitimate children. it’s not that much of an abomination. a bastard birthing bastards. he would probably think she should be thanking him for curing her blood of incest and giving her hightower children.

I can tots see the jealousy/possessive thingy with Ormund because it started off to preserve his familiys honour, Gwaynes honour, the heir to be trueborn yada yada but somewhere along the line he kinda fell for reader ups😳 and now he wants her and the child that is his by right for himself but when he brings it up with reader poor girl is terrified because she has seen what has happened with Rhenayras kids over the years and she doesnt want that for her kids or herself and shes like fuck no, we’re keeping this quiet and it pisses off Ormund so much because ehm that’s his heir? And through out the pregnancy it should be him keeping you safe and protected but noooo it has to be Gwayne 🙄 let alone if you’re attacked and Gwayne is away on other activities he’s going to be having a crash out poor guy

And then the birth, when the measters say that only Gwayne can go in as the father the measter is about to meet his precious gods lol 😂

I can def see him sending Gwayne away for reasons and when a certain period of time has passed he goes to the grand measters and is like the child is being raised without a father, and a bunch of other reasons as to why he should marry reader and poor girl is flabbergasted because wtffff 😭

He’s looking so smug and happy he gets the loml and his heir and she Gwayne and Daeron are looking at him like that meme on tiktok

Meanwhile he’s so happy

Or he plainly offs Gwayne while he’s in battle (bonus points if he feeds it to Tesarrion) and then goes to the Measter to marry reader so her and the children are legitimate

🤭🤭🤭

noo it’s okay, i get you, we can hyperfixate together 🙂‍↕️

ormund would probably agree to it out of some sick perversion of his (aka having the upper hand and manipulating reader knowing that there is no way out for her without being scandalized unless HE decides to keep it a secret) i am convinced this man has a power kink in every sense of that word. sexual or not. so yeah he would agree to having reader in the palm of his hand beside the fact that he gets a hard-on from imagining her as the mother of his children

now in a scenario that he decides to take the risk and does begin an affair with reader, in the course of which he grows absolutely infatuated and then she eventually does get pregnant and he reluctantly admits he might not have thought it through properly because now every time someone congratulates her and gwayne on finally consumating the marriage his eye twitches. in fact every time someone refers to the baby as gwayne’s his fists clench and his nostrils flare because that is HIS work. HIS seed. despite the agreement …

and yeah slowly he would start to forget that all of this was just because gwayne couldn’t get done with it. he would seek out reader. constantly. even now that she is pregnant and technically there is no reason for them to be sleeping together. and poor girl is terrified because there is no way she can refuse him. the REAL father of her child. if he ever decides to bring light to what they did — it is OVER for her. he will spin some bullshit tale about her seducing him and of course everyone will believe him. because savage targaryens…

during the pregnancy itself he would be overly involved and invested in every detail but he only insists it’s because gwayne is away on campaign and well someone has to look after poor reader… one more thing daeron would be the first one to catch onto everything. he’s an intelligent kid okay.

and if reader ends up injured or hurt — oh ormund would not see an end to it. he would berate gwayne ENDLESSLY. about failing his duty as husband, that he cannot even protect his wife, that he has shamed the gods and the name of house hightower.

ormund would also demand a report from the maester who tends to reader, spying on her through her handmaidens. to him it’s just looking out for her and being cautious. nothing weird and unhinged about it right?

and then the birth itself… oh lord. if gwayne IS there ormund would just be fuming in front of the door debating if he should risk it all and barge in or poor daeron would have to deal with keeping him chill, take him to the sept to pray or sum. and if Gwayne isn’t there (which ormund would probably arrange actually) he would insist once again reader needs the support and someone to be there for her nevermind that she’s asking for ormund anyway…

and if the maester refuses to let him inside? well let’s just say he is no longer a maester.

maybe after a few years around reader’s second pregnancy he would keep sending gwayne off for longer and longer campaigns until at one point he’s like “wait… what if i just annul their marriage since gwayne is never in oldtown anyway”. peak manipulation gaslighting tactics right there.

i feel like he wouldn’t deliberately hurt gwayne because they are still family and grew up together. honor and duty are very important to him. it is what brought him into this mess in the first place (a mess of his own making mind you because if he was straight in the head he would have outright refused you).

yeah and then poor daeron would just witness all of this and be like what the fuuuck.

of course dear !!! <3

This concept is so loved by me!!!

To crank up the angst, let's say it's like a history repeating with Rhae's daughter 👀

She is incredibly angry bc she had hoped for a loving marriage but now she is sacked with a man who could never love her and she also hates the hightowers but then she begins to bond and opens up to Ormund 👀👀

(that one comment on this post that said ormubd would be possessive over her and his children? Chef's kiss! Ormund is definitely the type to have possessive sex with his wife (or in this case, lover) if he gets jealous 🚬)

MHMM this this this.

so there are two possible paths here:

one: Ormund agrees to perserve his cousin’s honor and sleeps with his wife, because in any case if the babies have auburn hair or look slightly like him it could just be written down to genetics. now the issue here is, we know ormund to canonically be a VERY proud and VERY religious man, so this does sound kind of ooc … like you expect this man not to be overprotective during the entire pregnancy and not burst into the birthing chambers and demand to hold the children first ESPECIALLY if it’s a boy. yeah no.

but anyway imagine him and r bonding so much that even the ladies and lords begin to think ‘wait, is something happening here?’, but again as we have seen ormund is very cunning and i feel like he wouldn’t be so sloppy about hiding his affections. so it would be more like a hidden affair, late evening meetings, or in the sept during prayer …

two: he immediately just offs gwayne. like he sends him away or something… in which case he asks the high septon to annul their marriage because gwayne is khm let’s say … ‘overburdened and unable to take proper care of his wife’ or some bullshit like that. he’d be super strategic and political about it too, wanting to keep everyone’s reputation immaculate and clean. in the eyes od both gods and men. someone has to persevere the honor of house hightower !!

and if it’s rhaenyra’s daughter… oh well that just adds another layer of angst. she grew up witnessing a lavender marriage and prayed she would never end up like that (not because she didn’t love laenor but because she despised her mother living in a lie), so when she marries gwayne and finds out he doesn’t desire her it’s like her worst nightmare happening realtime… perfect opening for ormund and his savior complex schemes lmao

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