strubbery
Fandoms
Recent works
-
Tags
Summary
You watched her shots cleave through their skulls with your binoculars, spotting for her as you were, and felt more accomplished than if you’d made the same shot yourself—after all, you made the shooter.
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
He indulged Maekar, he knew that. He always had, in a way he did not with Aerys and Rhaegel. Baelor couldn’t help it. He never seemed to have developed the requisite ability to deny his baby brother his wishes, and his wishes, much of the time, were simply to be with Baelor.
***
Or, five times throughout their lives together when Baelor tended to Maekar's wounds, plus the one time Maekar tried (and failed) to return the favour.
Bookmarked by strubbery
03 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Maekar is aware that a better man would have stopped this. A better man would also not have slain his brother.
(Or, a series of vignettes after Baelor dies and Maekar and Valarr are forced to continue on without him.)
Series
- Part 1 of something dead that seems to be alive
Bookmarked by strubbery
02 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
"Maekar thought, sometimes, that he would have been happier to die fighting alongside his brother during the Rebellion than returning home to live a life without him. At least then, they would have been burned together."
***
Post-Ashford. Baelor is recuperating at Summerhall. Feelings are surfacing that Maekar has long been trying to bury.
Bookmarked by strubbery
02 Jul 2026
-
the view from across the rubicon by Goattracker8
Fandoms: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)
05 May 2026
Tags
Summary
"Overruling the will of the Gods rarely comes without consequences,” his father warned him.
But Maekar does not belong to the Gods, Baelor thought savagely. Maekar belongs to me.
***
Maekar, not Baelor, is greviously wounded at Ashford. To prevent him from dying, Baelor imposes a bond onto his brother. For a while, Maekar hates him for it.
Bookmarked by strubbery
01 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“He was ruined now. Ruined for anyone but Baelor. He supposed that had always been the case. His first word had been Baelor’s name. Womb to ash, Maekar knew who he belonged to.”
***
Baelor survives the blow to his head at Ashford but believes himself to be mated to Maekar as a result. Their father orders Maekar to go along with the charade in order to ensure Baelor heals from his wounds. Maekar does, even though he knows it will be his undoing.
Bookmarked by strubbery
01 Jul 2026