#which. yes

HUMFREY MY BOYY

humfrey is the youngest child of leyton hightower and technically a canon character aka he is mentioned once and then appears in the appendix. i really love house hightower and wanted to include them in my story, and bc humfrey should be around cerelle's age he fit perfectly into her friend group. i also made him the only child of leyton's canonical fourth wife, rhea florent.

(here is the house hightower family tree i made for my fic if you are interested)

so in my story, by the time his parents met, his father already had nine children + three dead wives and his mother was 16 and a lady in waiting to humfrey's older sister leyla. he was also born after his eldest brother already had children of his own, so growing up humfrey knew he would never inherit anything, nor would his own family name ever be enough to bring him glory. but he made his peace with it, became an accomplished tourney knight, and enjoys the freedoms of a fourth son.

in canon, leyton hightower disappears to the top of the hightower a decade before the story starts, and allegedly studies magic with his eldest daughter. i have moved that event back to the day after humfrey's birth, meaning a lot of people whispered that he could be the cause for his father's madness. humfrey likes to believe that because it sounds funny.

humfrey very much takes after his mother in looks (especially with his red hair) and bc he despises his father also does whatever he can to associate with his mother's house more, i.e. dubbing himself "the knight of foxes" as a moniker (as a play on house florent's fox). while he was close with his nephews growing up, he spent a lot of time with his mother and trusts her above all else.

he is ~bisexual~ and bc of his attitude towards life in general also sleeps around a lot. but he is also religious and regularly prays to the seven so make of that what you will.

he has a 10k+ word pov chapter in house of lies, which centers around him (ofc) but more importantly his romance with cerelle's cousin, lucion lannister. lucion is very mysterious and dangerous which is what drew humfrey to him in the first place, but when they get closer turns out to be very awkward and a huge softie. beside cerelle, humfrey is the only person in the red keep who is not afraid of lucion, and also the only one who genuinely wants to get to know him more. then they kissed and nothing bad ever happened to them :)

(lucion is also the first time humfrey was ever truly in love, and the first time he ever found a reason to care. to care about life and living and doing good for a person that wasn't himself or his mother.)

humfrey's face claim is. uh. his face claim is tom glynn-carney. and rhea florent's face claim is olivia cooke. which yes, technically makes this an au where aegon was raised in a healthy environment. sue me

So, a while back, I made this post. And needless to say, I think the masses have spoken in the notes about wanting a fic from this idea. And I've been mapping one out for a while and, I'm officially writing it!!

"Sorry Isn't Enough" is currently planned to be a 10 chapter fic, showing what would happen if Tim had survived the Unknowing and become an Avatar of the Desolation. (I say currently because I am liable to decide to add more, but 10 is the plan.)

The story will go from the aftermath of season 3, when Tim wakes up post Unknowing, to the end of season 5. It'll be full of angst and typical TMA content warnings, so be warned.