#viceuron

SO! i only have actual things written down besides outlines for one of them but i can't stop thinking about these prompts. content warning for mentions of rape, incest, and sexual harassment

PANIC for Alicent Hightower/Baelor Breakspear

hotd!Alicent (existing at 209 AC) is Baelor's wife, mother to Valarr and Matarys. The fic itself would take place before the Trial of Seven, and it'd feature Alicent concerned over Baelor's involvement with Dunk's cause—Baelor has already made up his mind: if Ser Duncan lacks for man-at-arms on the morrow, he will fight alongside him. Underneath that, though, Alicent is also absolutely terrified of the outcome of the trial regarding Aerion.

What I had in mind for it was that Aerion is increasingly paranoid (and characteristically perverse) over Alicent's power acquisition once Baelor inherits the Iron Throne—as in, there was indeed an Alicent who married one King Viserys during the Dance (she's essentially just book!Alicent), and is our Alicent's namesake. Aerion has never sexually assaulted Alicent (despite threatening to), but he harasses her constantly, only when they're alone, of course. Alicent can't bring herself to tell Baelor because she's afraid of the self-fulfilling prophecy of her Dance Era ancestor, and also is scared that Baelor might not believe her (he would, but what matters is that Alicent is uncertain of it).

So the fic itself is very concise: a long scene of Baelor and Alicent arguing. During it, she brings up how Valarr can fight instead of him (though they both know their son is a coward, a headcanon of mine), or how a hedge knight isn't worth all this trouble, all the while Alicent's panic increases as she thinks of what's really at stake for her.

INHUMAN for Euron Greyjoy/Victarion Greyjoy

I once wanted this to be a long one-shot (like 4k-5k), but I honestly think I can do it with a much shorter word count. The gist of it: Victarion Greyjoy is beating the living SHIT out of Euron. How did we get here? How did this happen? Completely irrelevant. A character study on desire and how masculinity only allows for men to touch one another through the excuse of violence. Euron can't stop laughing as Victarion makes an absolute ruin of his face—soft blue flesh peeking underneath red tissue and dark blood. Unstoppable force vs. unmovable object. I haven't decided if I'll make it a noncon fic (as in, Victarion attempts to rape Euron as Ironborn culture would have it, but it turns into an absolutely nightmare scenario to Victarion, since nothing he does seems to shake his brother, and it only seems to sink the Iron Captain into further madness). Revenge on Euron was all he had ever wanted. What happens when it doesn't work?

REMORSE for Asha Greyjoy/Theon Greyjoy

An expansion of this double drabble I posted on Ao3. Theon imagines raping Asha as he claims a saltwife as his own. It would be essently the same fic but longer, a bit plot what plot. Certainly the less interesting of the bunch, but still interesting to me.

disclaimer: i've read a little over half of adwd but i've not yet reached victarion's chapters in it, nor do i know what happens in them (i only know they exist), so i can't account for what's said or mentioned in them. with that out of the way, however:

self-awarness and victarion are antonyms, they're things that walk directly opposite paths from one another, have never met, and will never meet. i'm pretty sure victarion doesn't even understand what self-awareness entails, because he thinks every thought he has had about everything is Right and the notion that they could be Wrong is not really one he considers. he's a person who doesn't really open space for doubt, which, fine, people say he's dumb, he's dense, and it's true, but those are also the qualities of a fighter and a war commander, so they do serve a purpose. especially considering victarion fights with a steel axe—that's not really a weapon that allows for unsure blows unless you intend to lose the fight you're fighting. once he draws momentum he needs to go all the way. that's victarion greyjoy, in and out of battle.

he has the very powerful ability of managing to Not perceive things that go against his beliefs of himself, his family, and his culture (or twisting those perceptions in such a way that the core of those concepts are not altered). he craves that stability, that things don't and won't change if he doesn't allow them to. and when he does commit something that goes against those principles that build the very thing victarion is made of, he acts as if he's never had the choice—that, if these unmoving things moved, then there was nothing he could've done about them in the first place.

that's how he talks about the murder of his saltwife. euron "made him do it". the way he narrates her drowning at his own hands very much paints him as the victim too. i believe he will never, but assuming he could, if victarion managed to assimilate the idea that what he feels for euron is not only hatred, he, too, would place himself as the victim once again. euron is dark and twisted and hateful, and that's why he put these things inside me—these unholy feelings that do not belong to me but rather to him and his malice. much like the murder of his wife, all is inflicted upon him by euron, and so he loses agency (which ironically puts him in a place of submission he so very much resents, though has followed before) instead of purity (or what he considers purity to be).

a way victarion could find to regain agency is by violating euron himself, which is exactly what euron wants. everyone calls his character a sadist (and perhaps in the common sense of the word he is) but psychoanalytically speaking, euron greyjoy is a masochist. he torments his victims to the point that they do and say things that contradict how they view themselves and their principles. he takes everyone over the edge. he wants to be punished. he wants to experience the guilt everyone talks of but that he has never experienced. and so it is with his relationship to victarion. even in a scenario where victarion beats or rapes or kills euron, he's won. he wants to achieve that which balon forbade him all those years ago—he wants to take victarion over the edge and die at his brother's hands. he wants to experience the power of the law that's been denied to him. he wants to be punished.

Lannisport

Euron, mastermind behind the burning of the Lannister fleet anchored in Lannisport at night and Victarion ready to fling the first torch onto Tywin Lannister's flagship, sparking the Greyjoy Rebellion.

VicEuron for Greyjoy Week Day 2: Rebellion.

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