Roland Of The Horn

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It is not *exactly* a love match, more like a… lust match, basically lanna is desperate to not marry balon (here the lannisters try going for an alliance earlier, and SOMEHOW balon is smart enough to accept shhsjsjsjsj), and her grand plan amounts to seducing theon (easy, though now comes the hard part) into falling in love with her so hard that he ends up defying his father? which, spoiler alert, does not happen and she has to arrange for the two of them to get caught ahem, in flagrante, and having a shotgun wedding. Theon is probably resentful over losing his fathers trust (i mean it was already pretty much zero sooo)

They do not spend much time together before theon has to leave. Lanna just has this weird feeling that something will go wrong, but she cannot really object.

They keep exchanging letters as things go more and more wrong. She practically begs him to abandon winterfell and return home to no avail, and even writes to her father for help when it becomes clear that he will not do so (i doubt tywin even opened that letter). The relationship between the two is basically over when the news of theon killing bran and rickon reach her. Not only are they her cousins (even though she has met them like once in her life) but she realises theon is pretty much done for. He is dead to her, as she writes, and not just because of what he has done but as a simple acknowledgement of his situation.

Shes not happy but not surprised when the fall of winterfell happens. And oh yeah, she discovers shes pregnant shortly after theon leaves so now shes a widow. Balon and her soon discover that theon is still alive (i hate to borrow from the show but i couldnt help myself w that it was too juicy, i guess you could fit it into book canon by claiming balon would never have told anyone the truth anyways, so it staying as a secret is not that weird)

The pregnancy is stressful, as tywin commands her to return so that they can find another match for her if her babe is a girl, and in general its just a lot of pressure on her to at least deliver a baby boy. And of course she ends up giving birth to a girl.

The kingsmoot and stuff happens pretty in line with the canon except she would try to advocate for theons claim but is not taken seriously because well, she is a greenlander woman trying to argue for her husband who is assumed to be dead, says he is alive, but then cannot divulge how she knows that, her next best option is her infant daughter, she has no gifts nor champions, basically nothing but claiming as balons last son theon is the heir. Yeah right.

She is adamant on staying behind with aeron and tries to persuade asha into taking her daughter with her. Asha is not having any of it, convinced that lanna staying behind will end up as disastrous as theon, and she decides to jot let history repeat. So she just… knocks lanna out and kidnaps her shsnsnsjks

From then on she is with asha and thats when she encounters theon again.

She might take pity to him, but i dont see her immediately forgiving him or reinitiating their relationship. In fact she is probably furious at theon and i dont see it dissipating that easily

As for… yknow, i was always pretty 50/50 both in the text and i guess in my au and admittedly i have no idea which direction to take that. I mean i havent really thought that much beyonds winds and yeah nothing is happening between them then.

Ohohohoho i love this question

So the hightowers are of course a little different in my au, as lynesse is older than canon (due to me legit forgetting that jorah was just that big of a nonce) i may make a separate post with all my headcanons for the different siblings and their mothers. For now the most important things to know are that 1. lynesse didnt really want to marry jorah, them getting together was just a “drunken mistake” (and yes you should definitely read this as uncharitably as possible concerning jorah) baelor arranged the marriage to save face despite her not wanting to 2. this is basically canon but yeah leyton hasnt been seen in public for more than a decade. or actually seen by anyone other than malora, period. Yes, including his latest wife rhea florent, despite having two children together. baelor rules oldtown in all but name. And in turn everybody pretends to not notice that baelor is very close to his two youngest siblings, and the boys look remarkably like him. Its only natural, considering they share a father, is it not?

Now moving on. Baelor and roland are definitely not on the greatest terms. Roland fostering in oldtown was basically all but forced onto baelor, who already resents tywin due to the role he played during the sack of kings landing. Of course, rather than declining (because THAT would have actual consequences) he accepts and then just takes it out on roland. Well, taking it out on him is too strong a word. Mostly he just ignores roland despite his numerous occasionally pitiful attempts at connecting. He might have an oh shit moment when the whole story of roland and qyburn comes out, but by then roland has already found himself a niche at the citadel and there is not much to do. Roland himself might still occasionally feel hurt, especially later seeing the bond between baelor h and baelor b, but doesnt dwell on it, and instead focuses on just his resentment of baelors hypocrisy as he sees it and acts as if HE was the one who spurned him. He might also feel sorta envious of baelors excellent reputation throughout the seven kingdoms, despite his obvious personal failings as roland sees it

Baelor h secretly feels great guilt around lynesse and jorahs marriage and the ensuing fallout. This is reflected in his treatment of alicent, as alicent is allowed far more freedom than most ladies, including frequently getting to hang out with her friends roland and baelor b. Baelor h also really tried his best to get her as good a match as he could, despite the scandal of her parents and her general plain graceless appearance (including even attempting a match between roland and her) and never really tried to force any overtly political match that she would have bern unhappy in

Baelor h and baelor b are basically as close as father and son. Baelor b (then named balon, cos of course he wouldnt actually be named baelor lol) had lost his father in the rebellion, arriving in oldtown closed off and defiant. Around that same time period baelor h has to send his “brothers” away to foster elsewhere, to quell some rumours before they have a chance to arise too much, and he and his wife rhonda have no children of their own, so basically they both act as a replacement for something they have lost. Baelor b, as influenced by his foster father, converts to the faith of the seven and takes up his name to honour him. And also because he probably hated balons guts by now. Anyways, my point is they deeply care for each other.

Malora is alicents mentor the moment she arrives in oldtown, seeing alicent as her apprentice and her successor. She continually instructs her in… whatever the fuck shes doing up in the tower. Malora and lynesse had a tense relationship cause by just how different their personalities were, and malora might see alicent as her chance to get it right. However, she is baffled by alicents bond with roland and baelor b, and sees them as frivolous distractions. She is convinced that alicent should leave them, and marriage behind, and dedicate her life to her craft as malora did, and needless to say she doesnt react very well when alicent indeed goes ahead and marries.

Malora normally doesnt give a fuck about either roland or baelor b other than resenting them for distracting alicent, except for one time she witnesses one of rolands fits and is convinced that he is receiving visions. She persuades roland to try and experiment with them (it doesnt take much as roland is desperate to feel important and as if his suffering has meaning) they try various concoctions, drugs, fasts, sleep deprivation, everything. His fits get worse and worse to the point it is life threatening and alicent and baelor b are begging him to stop and there are still no visions. In turn malora says there might be more desperate measures needed. She once read that some seers took out their eye as a sacrifice to achieve true vision, at which point roland checks out, questioning how has he not sacrificed enough? He swears off anything magical after this and turns completely to the mercy of the seven. (and science. he justifies it to himself as just another way the seven are giving their blessings bla bla bla im not a theologian just emphasising that hes not a reddit atheist type) malora basically writes this off as a failed experiment and probably doesnt think about roland at all.

Leyton is the deadest a man has ever been but baelor h couldnt really publicly go against maloras word at the time, as not to raise questions of legitimacy for rheas children, and now hes just waiting for malora to give up her game pretending he is alive except theres no end in sight. Yes the entire time his corpse is there mummifying inside her study room. Yes roland and alicent see it and learn the truth.

My stocks are now on young neymar-theon.

Idk both have that cocky son of a bitch aura plus both are infamously physically and mentally broken down by the end.

1. wanting to become queen so hard she declares her and joffrey will marry when both were kids only to be told that no, they cant do that bro thats your nephew

2. flirting with lancel and trying to make him fall for her in her grand scheme to ultimately rule casterly rock (jaime and cersei cant inherit, tyrion is an obvious no, roland is unlikely too, so in her mind wouldnt it be sooo obvious to combine the lines and simplify the inheritance. especiqlly since in my au this is sort of how the marriage between tywin and joanna happens. she would prefer ruling directly of course, but knowing lancel shes certain she could… persuade him on almost every matter as well if he was the one to inherit) except even kevan refuses to take it seriously let alone tywin. he would get double pissed if she tried to use that joanna comparison too lol

3. getting married to a dark handsome lecher who is one step away from going full brokeback mountain with his stark buddy

4. copying cerseis entire wardrobe and style probably, and even trying to copy her mannerisms

I can see her taking up religion, not the old gods but the faith of the seven (she is definitely less weird w it than roland though, doesnt immediately call anyone and their mother heathens)

she would probably do tonssss of charity work around lannisport, becoming a patron of the motherhouse, an orphanage, sponsoring bright children to go to the citadel or to join the faith etc etc just basically anything you can think of. Sort of trying to run away from her problems by focusing on fixing others’. Plus she is determined to improve her reputation which… wasnt great when she first arrived to the west as their lady, considering shes from the distant north, following a strange religion

As for relaxation i can see her tending her own little garden. Mostly herbs and medicinal stuff, maybe a few vegetables, not many flowers which does baffle people. She just likes the practicality of it, and it reminds her of her time in winterfell’s glass gardens.

As for the unhealthier parts… unfortunately i can see her easily having trouble with eating, and falling into sort of obsessive-compulsive thinking patterns, if i dont do x something terrible will happen sort of thing (which roland sort of inherits as well) i can see her getting very st catherine of siena with it, with religious fasts that are not quite just religious fasts. Also obsessive about bathing, being clean, washing away just everything, which probably gets worse after the sack for like… obvious reasons. Think lady macbeth except idk shes not the committing murders