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   If Dreams Die by Orphic_Gaze

   Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   15 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Dunk | Duncan the Tall/Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • Dunk | Duncan the Tall & Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • Dunk | Duncan the Tall (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • Daeron Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • Aegon V "Egg" Targaryen
   • Maester Aemon Targaryen
   • Maekar I Targaryen
   • Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers
   • Rhae Targaryen (Daughter of Maekar I)
   • Daella Targaryen (Daughter of Maekar I)
   • Shiera Seastar
   • House Targaryen Characters (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • House Blackfyre Characters (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Members of the Kingsguard | Queensguard (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Daemon II Blackfyre
   • Slow Burn
   • Romance
   • Eventual Romance
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Falling In Love
   • Eventual Sex
   • First Kiss
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • it eventually gets resolved
   • Dragon Dreamers & Dragon Dreams (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canon-Divergence Post Ashford Tourney
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Canon Deaths up to Ashford Tourney and the Great Spring Sickness
   • Morally Ambiguous Character
   • Found Family
   • except they're already family?
   • Spoilers
   • Spoilers for the novellas as well
   • Action & Romance
   • POV Daeron Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • POV Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • POV Dunk | Duncan the Tall (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Protective Dunk | Duncan the Tall (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I) is Bad at Feelings
   • POV Aegon V "Egg" Targaryen
   • Egg's POV comes in later
   • Size Difference
   • First Time
   • Unresolved Romantic Tension
   • Canon-Typical Behavior
   • Warning: Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • Period-Typical Sexism
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Canonical Child Abuse
   • Possessive Aerion Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)
   • Oblivious Dunk | Duncan the Tall (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Maekarlings | Maekar I Targaryen's Children
   • Dragon Dreamer Daeron Targaryen (Son of Maekar I)

   Summary

   Dunk is trying to get away from princes, but the world keeps handing them out anyway. After Ashford Meadow, Dunk leaves too soon and Egg never becomes his squire. As prophetic dreams begin to change, Dunk is pulled into political plots and the orbit of Targaryen princes once more.

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