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Ooh this is so good! What if during this time one of the kids wants to go horseback riding with Maekar? And there is something incident, maybe a normal accident where something spooked the kid's horse and Maekar had to react quickly and fell trying to protect his child, or an assassination attempt (😈) and the same thing happen he falls off his horse trying to protect his child? And he hits his head and if it's the assassination version then maybe also gets impaled by an arrow?

Imagine the Maesters say he can die and that's what brings Baelor back, the shock of it because Maekar dying is not something he never thought about because it does not make sense, especially dying before him because Maekar was supposed to outlive him, Baelor was supposed to go first but now Maekar might die and he had been so cruel to him 😭.

Ooh I just thought what if the child instead had both parents there both Baelor and Maekar, they are riding so awkwardly close and yet far away from each other and then the assains come so Maekar took the arrow meant for Baelor and fell and hit his head? 😈 That will so good, I wonder how this will go.

Imagine while Maekar is unconscious, the assassin has been caught and Baelor is furious, enraged mostly with himself because his last few months with Maekar he hasn't been good. So, he takes it out on the "poor" assassin like tortures him because the assassin is the reason Maekar might die and Daeron and Myriah don't really stop him either because well this man tried to kill their heir and nearly killed their youngest. I feel bad for the lord who ordered the assassination 💀

I just thought of Rhaegel saying something like "I know you were mean to him because of your injury but I still hate you for it" Baelor is like "I hate myself too" and Aerys is like "And I hate you both, get out the fucking library, I am trying to read 'interrogation' methods for our guest downstairs" (he is looking at how they tortured prisoners in ancient times because believe it or not he does love his brother 💀)

The more I write it the more ideas come to me, this one is sad too. Like maybe Maekar got pregnant after Ashford due to the time they spent together before the trial. During the pregnancy things go south and they can only save Maekar and the baby and Baelor chooses the baby which he would never do. He does not even realise the choice he has made until after Maekar is dead and he is holding his newborn baby. The image of Baelor holding the baby and looking at the bloody sheet covering Maekar's body. Like what did he do? Why did he do it? He would never do it but now he did. Imagine Valarr had been there and he had so desperately tried to stop it but it didn't work, so he stormed out of the room and told the rest of his siblings what Baelor had done 😭. Rhaegel and Aerys can't even look at Baelor anymore, Rhaegel openly blamed Baelor and Aerys looks through books to see if there was a way both Maekar and the baby could have survived. What if Daeron II tries to comfort Baelor saying that that's what Maekar would have wanted and it does not matter to Baelor because he still remembered the terrified look on Maekar's face as Baelor had spoken the words? 😭 He looks at the baby and sees a child who will grow up without knowing Maekar's fierce love

OH THIS IS SO GOOD 🙏

the thought of Maekar's first instinct being "protect Baelor" despite all that's been going on between them lately 🥹

and then all of the brothers (daeron²lings???) plotting together to take revenge on the man that dared to threaten their family and wounded Maekar, brilliant

and the second one??? is that how Jules Caesar felt when his dudes stabbed him???

the cruelty of that choice, the fact that when Baelor got a grip on himself it was already far too late and his sweetling was gone by his own order with Valarr to witness it all?

like, imagine an modern au:

Maekar just heard the news of Baelor's engagement to Jena Dondarrion. and it wasn't his brother who shared this news with him, no, he accidentally overheard Baelor talking to their parents, like it was some sort of an open secret only Maekar wasn't allowed to know

he didn't look back at Baelor who kept calling his name, he just stormed out of the house trying to hold back tears that were coming

of course he knew that their parents wouldn't allow them to get married in the old family custom. and yet, Maekar still hoped that one day they'll look at him with kinder eyes. their relationship was always tough since Maekar was the youngest of four. he was used to being their second thought, coming to their minds only after his older brothers were properly taken care of

that's he always trusted Baelor, knowing that his big brother will take care of him. he did that since childhood, never once forgetting about Maekar, always being there for him when their parents couldn't. he promised that no matter what Maekar will always be his sweetling

and now even Baelor betrayed him. because the family's reputation was more important than any feelings growing between them

and seeing Baelor's guilty eyes, hearing his feeble excuses, Maekar realised that maybe he was never that important to his brother as he initially thought

chapter 2 shall come out on the day of my birthday because baekar is like a gift that keeps on giving

I would give you a snippet but it's half-english half-polish (yes I use a dictionary and Google translate to search for the right words)

right now I'm working on Maekar's confrontation with Daeron II and Myriah because I have to squeeze valaeron in there and their dialogue has like, what, three versions now?

and after that there's a little scene between Maekar and Daeron and for once it's Daeron who's acting reasonable 😭

idk if I'll add a goodbye scene of if Maekar will just pack a trunk and leave at dawn before his kids notice anything

with Aerion, Aemon and Egg gone, Daeron bound to Red Keep bc engagement, and only girls remaining there but under Myriah's care now, I'm thinking that maybe the second option is more evil?

and then there's Maekar going through things in Summerhall, Baelor waking up and asking for him, then Baelor's grand escape from King's Landing and their reconciliation back in Summerhall

Valarr and Kiera have been married for a while but they haven't been able to conceive an heir yet. Daeron is pretty old for an unclaimed omega (which is Westerosi nobility speak for like, 27) and people won't shut up about it. The cousins, fuelled by some wine, end uo talking at a feast and Daeron proposes the arrangement: Valarr takes him as his second mate. He's an omega so there's a good he and Valarr will conceive a child, and people will stop asking for Daeron's hand for political gain. It's a win-win!

Maekar is all too aware of Daeron's long list of poor decisions and his equally longs list of issues, but Valarr and Keira seem nice and responsible, so hearing about the sudden betrothal is not spiking his cortisol levels for once. Baelor is just glad that out of all the cousins, Valarr chose a somewhat normal one.

Valarr and Daeron have always gotten on just fine, and Kiera is pleasant company, so the new arrangement is not as awkward as they expected.

Kiera and Valarr try to get Daeron to not drink as much, and he understands why - they goal here is an heir - or so he thinks. They inevitably argue about it and when he tells them he drinks because of the dreams... Daeron wasn't prepared for them to look sad. Valarr knows about their history, the dragon dreamers. He doesn't understand, but he also does.

As promised, Daeron goes to them when he's had a dream, and they listen and hold him until he can sleep again. The warmth of Kiera's arms and Valarr's scent make the idea of sleep less frightening.

He still Dreams, quite a lot, but apparently not running from the dreams means there's room for Dreams that aren't about catastrophes. He dreams of a knight as tall as a tree dancing with a dragon, of an egg hatching a hand**.

He eventually dreams of a two dragons flying closer and closer until they seem to crash into one another, merging together until all that's left is a tiny hatchling casting a large shadow.

Kiera and Valarr are a little alarmed when Daeron tells them they should call for the maester but that quickly turns into joy when Daeron talks about his dream.

*dunkaerion propaganda? Mayhaps

**in this AU the succession would be very different since plenty of them survive, so Egg eventually became hand of the king

I was thinking about your Baekar and the cryptic pregnancy post and now I can't stop thinking of Valaeron in such a situation.

Like, imagine a scenario in a modern AU in which Daeron, whose gotten therapy and medication for his issues +/- rehab if he had become an alcoholic originally to cope (because he is a character whose issues could be treated in a modern au), dating Valarr, maybe working a job he doesn't completely hate for once (or his first ever one) and for once, his life is looking like it's finally coming together.

Then suddenly one day he's brought into hospital with severely bad stomach pain, completely unlike anything he's ever experienced before. The doctors do their tests and everything and it turns out that Daeron is in labour even though he had been showing absolutely no signs of pregnancy in the last nine months and they realise that it was a cryptid pregnancy.

And Daeron (and Valarr if he was the one to bring him in) are both absolutely stunned by this. Like imagine suddenly becoming a parent when this morning the thought of children hadn't even entered your head as something happening anytime soon.

And maybe Daeron feels guilty/worried if his meds would have passed to the baby and could have potentially harmed them, or if he was eating foods/doing things that pregnant people should avoid and he's fearful now that he's harmed his baby before they were even born, even though he had had no way of knowing he was pregnant.

(The baby is absolutely fine in every way though, no worries there. They're the hardiest member of their family.)

But imagine Daeron's phone call to Maekar following all of that:

Daeron: So have you ever heard of this thing called a cryptic pregnancy?

Maekar: *Utterly silent as he's bluescreening upon hearing the word 'pregnancy'*

Daeron: (continuing on) Yeah, it's this really rare condition where you are pregnant, but your body has absolutely zero signs-

Maekar: . . . Daeron, for the love of the Gods, please tell me you are not pregnant.

Daeron: (looking at his baby in the bassinet) Not anymore

I don't know, sometimes I feel like if a cryptic pregnancy would happen to anyone, it'd be Daeron. Sorry for the long ask, I hope you enjoyed it

awww, thank you, that's so sweet 🩷

and I love this sm, like hell yeah, that's just something that could happen to them because fate likes to play with Daeron a bit 😭

and it actually makes so much sense, I mean, he's quite tall, has been taking better care of himself so even if he had a little weight gain wouldn't seem strange to him (like, thinking it's because of the meds, but also that he's been eating normal food instead of just drinking through the day)

damn I can kinda see them in a hospital setting, a very confused Daeron holding a baby and a pale, almost passed out Valarr sitting on a chair next to him (he knows they'll get scolded by his nightmare uncle/father-in-law and he doesn't want to imagine what his own father will say to that news, he can only hope that the cute little baby will calm the situation down)

Hii i found this post and it's such a good au! I love this! I was wondering what happened next after Baelor and him ran into each other? What was Baelor told about Maekar's absence? And what about Aerys and Rhaegel how did they react? 🥲 I imagine they did have contact for a few years until they lost it because life got in the way or Maekar wanted to hide Daemon's abuse. I wonder how it will go if Maekar decides to go back to his family? As in how it will go with Myriah and Daeron, I wonder if they regretted it when Aerys and Rhaegel lost contact with him. 😭 How do you think all of them will react if they ever find out about the abuse? Imagine if Maekar does come back but it's on his own terms rather than Baelor convincing him to, like it even surprises Baelor. Ohh what happened to Dyanna, I wonder how it will go once she returns to the picture.

Thank you so much for this au! I hope you have a nice day!

glad you liked it, dear Anon 🩷

okay, so moving back at what happened when they first found out about Maekar's pregnancy

I think Aerys, just like Baelor, was also already at the University, rarely coming back home because if that man loves anything then it's his books for sure. so yeah, I wouldn’t say he was there to witness it and to try and calm the situation down (for plot purposes, Baelor and Aerys have a 1 year difference between them, so if we put Baelor at 24 and Aerys at 23, they're away building their future)

as for Rhaegel, I would say he's between 21-18, it doesn't really matter that much, because in this case I usually pull out the glass child situation, so I think that he would be the one to try and fight for Maekar, but it would play in his face, ending up in him back in some sort of mental institution and Maekar getting blamed for triggering his brother's fragile condition or whatever (I think he would keep Rhaegel's phone number no matter what, like, they would be in touch but always talking about the kids, never about the Maekar-Daemon situation, never about how the rest of the family is doing)

as for what lie did Daeron and Myriah tell Baelor and Aerys, probably just that Maekar did run away with some boyfriend and cut off all contact with the family. of course Baelor knows his brother and the turbulent relationship between him and their parents, so he's smart enough to not buy that lie (and Baelor never gave up on him, he was searching for Maekar for years like a mad man, not aware that Rhaegel had contact with him the whole time)

then they argue in an alley next to the night club, Maekar's calling Baelor names, like he's their parents lap dog, how he believes every word they say, how he abandoned Maekar for years and now he's back and then Baelor finally snaps back that he spent years looking for him, he got divorced over this, and how can Maekar think that he would abandon him if he was the one to block Baelor's number

Maekar finally breaks down, hearing that Baelor never gave up

they meet the next day in a coffee shop, a neutral ground for both of them, and so they catch up on their lifes

Maekar tells Baelor about his two sons, about Dyanna and how her parents threatened him, how their parents kicked him out without second thoughts, how he ended up meeting Daemon, and how he's now decided to cut him off completely (now I don't know if he would right away say about the abuse, maybe he would just say that he was a bad influence on the kids and that's why they broke up)

Baelor is fuming but remains civil, and so he shares the story of his marriage to Jena, how they're still friends and have two sons but now they're finally living their lives, he talks about Aerys and Aelinor, about Rhaegel and Alys and their kids, how he didn’t believe in their parents side of the story, etc

I guess the brothers would meet up, eventually, in Baelor's house during Christmas, maybe? and that's when the truth about the abuse would come out

as for Dyanna, listen it would be funny if it turned out her and Jena are actually seeing each other

but also, if she really does cone back and stumbles upon Maekar and his two boys, and seeing little Daeron she's just like "oh shit" and they have a long talk/argument about Maekar's decision to keep quiet about the baby (well, he was threatened to do that tho, so maybe not really his decision)

I just think they'd be good for him! And if we add in omegaverse with the canonical issues around kids, perhaps Daeron in an omega and Kiera a beta.

Everyone's a little shocked but let's fave it, Valarr is the only one in their family except for maybe Aemond (who I will hc as aroace until my death thank you) and Baelor with the emotional stability needed to make a poly relationship work.

I have to confess, I have not think of this before, dear Anon

like, you just unlocked something in my brain because the vision is so good???

as much as I think that in canon Daeron and Kiera were an awkward marriage, when you add Valarr to it I think they would balance each other out?

they all are expected to perform different duties (well, Valarr and Kiera more than Daeron ig) and then Daeron's dreams come by more often than not, so in that way I think they would really work together? like Daeron becoming Kiera's biggest support during meetings with appointed ladies in waiting, Valarr's scent calming Daeron down after his dreams, Kiera holding Valarr after another long day with the Council, etc...

Forgot to add

I think it would devastate him to see the maekar he could have had had he not betrayed him for an upjumped useless little lordling.. like all that over some person that got themselves injured doing shit they shouldn’t have been? Chosen over his own brother.

To see what he’s missed out on because of his own wretched choices and to see the devotion maekar would have given him had he not brutalized him endlessly.

No anvil for him lmao

what can I say, Baelor’s now reaping what he sow (the way I had to look way too long for an equivalent because in polish we say "you have to drink the beer that you brew" 😭)

Pretty sure it's Maekar that got the cream.

I'm so slow sometimes, you got me thinking about what kind of cream, dear Anon, and then I realised XD

He finally got Baelor to start considering other omegas (if grudgingly) basically the day after.

The maester is called barely a few weeks later when Maekar is sick with a persistent 'stomach bug'.

Baelor is thrilled, but completely and totally adamant this is not his fault.

baby Baelor really saw baby Maekar and thought "well, he's mine now" (also, about a 5 year old Baelor carrying around a 1 year old Maekar like that's his personal toy)

and then Baelor having to see Maekar with literal supervision because God knows what the dude is planning, he and Daeron II were really playing 6D chess with each other 😭

Baelor gets knocked out at the trial goes to the garden universe and does all that..

Garden!baelor wakes up in the canon world and sees canon Maekar and all their kids… sees a thriving strong Maekar and is slapped with the reality of just how evil he’s been and intends to go back and make it up only to be slapped with the consequences of canon!baelor fixing his mess. Then Maekar runs that one through cause fuck him lol. Or the mace to the head is intentional this time lol.

Also garden Maekar and his kids HATE daeron ii myriah aerys aelinor rhaegel alys (maybe? Even aelora aelor daenora depending on how much they knew. Or maybe those three didn’t know at all and also hate those 6 for allowing it to happen) for allowing baelor to do that. They all blame baelor like he did it by himself. Those people left Maekar to that. They sanctioned it. They allowed it. Never visited never stopped it. Didn’t even question it. But they act like baelor was some evil villain (He is) when they were all literally his accomplices. He could NEVER have pulled that off without them.

Everyone pays!

Maybe even at that point they only have 7 kids no egg yet. Then Maekar can do away with all of the “family” that let baelor imprison and torture him. or they can just die in the spring sickness but Maekar meets Dyanna and they have egg. Who rules as king after Maekar. Baelors kids don’t want the throne after what he did to Maekar lol breakspears blood shouldn’t get to continue the throne after what he did.