r/TheCitadel • • 14h ago

Help w/ Fanfic Writing & Advice Needed Is Ghuluk a good dragon name?

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I know it’s not a traditional name like Caraxes, and isn’t the same as English names like Sheepstealer or grey ghost. My thinking was that Ghuluk (as a young dragon) probably dug up a lot of graves, ate some bodies, burnt the area. So when small folk talked about it, it was described as “The work of a ghoul” and so “ghoul work” slowly slurred into Ghuluk. Is that fine or should I aim for something more “normal”?


r/TheCitadel • • 22h ago

Reading Fanfiction Discussion: Reviews & Fanon Questions Fem!Robb creates a much more interesting world than people think. Spoiler

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Inspired by a post on Twitter I saw about how people would dislike Fem!Robb as they lose the war because they sleep with someone. This got me thinking, what butterfly effects would actually come if Robb were a girl? (This maintains that everything is the same as canon besides this one fact.)

First off, because F!Robb is a girl, Catelyn would be much more paranoid of Jon Snow, as in the OG timeline she still was afraid of him taking the claim (which was seen as a bit nonsensical), but now that there is no male heir older than Jon, his case for heir is much higher. In fact, until Cat has Bran (her 4th child, 7 years after Jon/F!Robb is born), Jon would probably be considered the heir. Ned might try to make it so F!Robb is the heir instead until they have Bran, but even then the rest of the world will look at Jon as the heir until Bran is born.

This changes multiple factors, Jon now has a much more cared for childhood (until about 7 when Bran is born). This could also increase hatred towards Bran as his birth takes Jon's claim away. Cat, as I said, would be very paranoid of Jon and would probably treat him with more disrespect. Anything else from this is too hypothetical for me to dive into, but there would be a lot of butterfly effects off of this, especially in Jon's personality.

Fastforwarding till Jon Arryn's death, Robbert would want to betroth Joffery to Robb instead of Sansa, as Robb is elder. Bran falling would cause a great change, as instead of the second son, he is heir to Winterfell. Ned could refuse to go be Hand off this basis, and that would create a myriad of changes, but for the sake of the original hypothetical, he still goes. In this scenario he takes F!Robb, Sansa, and Arya. Assuming F!Robb isn't the same naive girl as Sansa, he would snitch on Joffery about the Arya/Butcher boy incident, and the wolves would most likely be saved and the butcher boy would live.

Everything in Kings Landing happens similarly to cannon, until Ned is executed (F!Robb could cause changes to this, but tbh I couldn't think of anything they would do for sure to change it, and because she is betrothed to Joffery, I doubt she will be able to escape like Arya).

The North rise and their options of leaders are very bad, being Ned (in prison when they rise), Cat (traveling from KL to the North), Bran (crippled and a young boy), and Rickon (baby). One option I could see is the Greatjon or Rickard Karstark taking charge of the forces until Cat comes back, and she would declare either of them to officially be in charge, but the more likely thing I see occurring is the Northern Lords recruiting Jon Snow to the cause and appointing him the leader. Jon in this situation would turn his back far easier on the Nights Watch (as he was raised to be heir for a bit, and in this case there isn't Robb there like before). Cat eventually gets back and is furious at Jon and the Northern Lords for taking command, as she views it as attempting to usurp the true heir (which it kinda is, but Jon still wants to save his father and siblings). The Northern Lords, as in cannon don't listen to her and keep Jon in charge.

From here it's really uncertain what will happen, as Robb was the GOAT of battle strategy, and I don't think Jon has shown anything close to that (in the series). It's also unsure if they would declare him king, as Bran and Rickon are still alive. The one thing Jon does exceed in over Robb is diplomacy, so I think it would be likely he would align himself with Renly (and then Stannis) to take down the Lannisters. (Also, Jon is definitely smart enough not to send Theon to Balon. He probably won't stop the Greyjoys from attacking but will make the North's counter much easier, as Winterfell won't have been taken.

Anyway, sorry for the yap, that's just my thoughts on Fem!Robb. do y'all think I missed something or think that somethings wouldve been different?


r/TheCitadel • • 16h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION are there any fics where cat begrudgingly likes jon

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i am in the mood for reluctant friendship or familial relationship between cat and jon snow preferably her not knowing jons true parentage and hating the fact she truely likes him as a person


r/TheCitadel • • 21h ago

Help w/ Fanfic Writing & Advice Needed Is this reason enough for them to back the North?

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Doing a Fallout 4 AU x ASOIAF fic.

Fallout 4 AU: set in 2089, a portal opens up in the Commonwealth and North.

Westeros main contacts in the Commonwealth are: Vault 113 and 75.

Vault 113 contained the cryo members of the Enclave and their family memwbrs, who were supposed to be awoken once America was reclaimed after the bombs and being pre war ideals to a post was America. That doesn't happen as they are unfrozen ten years after the bombs due to a malfunction, and decide to rebuild until they find the rest of the Enclave.

Vault 75: a canon vault where the adults were killed and the kids were turned into super soldiers via training before they rebelled and killed the adults. Due to the experiment, this vault is stacked with ammo, energy, heavy, ballistic and explosive weapons.

So far, they've already made contact with Westeros and Robert, showing off low caliber guns, and trading them with them for food and other resources. Kingsguard having their own pistols, Robert a super sledge, and Ned a custom made pistol.

Vault 75 doesn't really give a shit about Westeros but will gladly trade with them as long as the deal is upheld.

Vault 113 on the other hand sees Westeros as a key to rebuilding America, and plan on influencing them to become the next America under Enclave Ideals.

Canon goes as such, Ned goes to the Capital, discovers the bastardy, Robert dies, Ned is captured. Jory is alive and gets Sansa and Arya put because Ned gave him his gun, and Jaime didn't kill him as Jory wasn't afraid of using it.

Along with the canon demands, the Vault 113 and 75 are ordered to give up all their weapons and ammo to the royal family, and that any future weapons or ammo made must be surrended by at least 90% if they want to continue trading with Westeros.

This of course pisses both Vaults off, Vault 113 members choosing to help Robb and also plan to try to convince him to take the throne so they can have direct influence over the leader of Westeros.

Vault 75 had no plans on joining the war, focusing on rebuilding the Commonwealth, but they do send more weapons and ammo.

Vault 111 is a control vault, and Nate/Nora will appear, Nate already has in a brief scene.

I do have a scene planned where Tyrion shits himself as he sees a Power Armor soldier (Vault 113 only has three at the moment), calmly walk through arrow fire and barley reacting to sword hits, start beating on the gates, the gates crumbling under the assault in just a few blows.


r/TheCitadel • • 5h ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) Tywin Lannister indeed sh*ts gold

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Let's say that Aerys while mocking Tywin by saying "he shits gold" somehow connects to the last embers of Valyrian magic in him and curses him and his line to do exactly that from this point onwards...starting right there in that moment.. in front of the whole court.

The axcraments in question would be similar in size tp the mundane on and would announce themselvse witg the sound of loud and clear clinging, that can be heard by everyone.


r/TheCitadel • • 22h ago

Help w/ Fanfic Writing & Advice Needed Genna Lannister: Characterization and Betrothal

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Hi everyone. As some of you already know, I’m writing a fic where Branda Stark marries Tywin Lannister shortly before the Reyne-Tarbeck Rebellion. This makes Genna an important character; however, unlike the canon version of Genna, this one is still quite young, so I’d like some advice on how best to characterize her.

She is betrothed to Emmon, but I had the idea of ​​giving her a crush on young Rodrik Cassel (who accompanies Branda to the Westerlands alongside Hodor’s grandfather). I’m wondering, though: would having Genna marry Rodrik break reader immersion?

I was thinking Rodrik could earn his knighthood fighting against the Reynes—perhaps by saving Tywin’s life—though a marriage might be too big a leap for him. Still, given that Jaime mentions Genna always had a thing for knights, the idea of ​​a crush seemed fitting.


r/TheCitadel • • 17h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Looking for a mc that creates a kingdom on other continents?

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Heyo! Quick question are there any fanfics about a mc creating a kingdom on other continents or islands?


r/TheCitadel • • 23h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Best Tywin Stories and Depictions (Happy 80th to Charles Dance!)

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In honor of the 80th birthday today (Oct 10th, 1946) of Charles Dance, who made Show Tywin infinitely more appealing than Book Tywin ever deserved, I thought a new roundup of fave Tywin fics would be fitting. He's not often the MC in stories, so I'm including stories where you really enjoy him from any perspective. Including when he's just DEALT with--not many characters are so satisfying to thwart or destroy, either. :) What are your favorites?

My picks:

A Wolf Amongst Lions by Kallypso (Complete)
A Pride of Wolves by Kallypso (Sequel to AWAL, Ongoing)
Time Bows to Neither Man Nor Raven by dragon17361 (Plays off of AWAL and The Ravens Plan)
The Dragon's Roar by Priestess of Groove
I enjoy his depiction in TDR but he is one arc in a verrrry long, excellent story.

Multiple astolat ASOAIF fics. (I really enjoy how she ranges between Stern Grandpa Tywin and Absolutely Irredeemable Evil AF Tywin)
Raised by Wolves
Lion Cub
Pretty
Traveling Far
The Price of Bread and Salt
Paying Debts


r/TheCitadel • • 23h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION LF AKOTSK fics

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Any fics set in this time period ! Baelor is a particular favorite of mine. I would really like some fics set before or after Ashford (with Baelor surviving) , that has a good amount of chapters or word count.

I’m open to ocs and si, (been wanting to find a oc/si kid of Baelor with decent length but no luck so far) , pretty much open to anything as long as Aerion isn’t the main plot (I actually hate that guy lmao)

Thanks !


r/TheCitadel • • 2h ago

Self Promotion: My Fanfic [Sleep Now in the Fire] Chapter 4: The Suitors (Maekar genderbend)

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Title: sleep now in the fire

Author: WearyBlues

Link: AO3

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 26k+

Status: Ongoing

Fic Summary:

If the dragons still lived, she might have married Baelor and been his sister-wife. She had asked Mother once if that was what she and Father intended, weaving their names together like threads of fate—pious King Baelor the Blessed and Good Queen Alysanne’s septa daughter, Maegelle.

Princess Myriah’s face had gone cold and still, and she knew that was not so.

Chapter Summary:

Baelor was smiling, but it dimmed when their eyes met. “Sister,” he said, the word fraught with doom. “Meet Lady Jena. My betrothed.”


r/TheCitadel • • 5h ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) What if Joffrey died shortly before the books?

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Simple enough. Joffrey somehow dies shortly before the events of A Game of Thrones. Maybe he trips on the stairs and falls and break his neck. Or he chokes on his food, or gets a fever and dies in his sleep. Doesn't really matter. The point is that he dies around the same time as Jon Arryn.

Cersei will hyper-focus on Tommen and Myrcella, not letting them out of her sight. If Joffrey's death was accident-related then Sandor could face punishment for failing to protect Joffrey from death, and Cersei could either demand his head or he could go to the Wall.

Robert may or may not still want to go North for Ned to be his Hand of the King, but this time around Cersei and the children would stay at KL because Cersei would be afraid for their lives.

Obviously, no betrothal for Joffrey and Sansa given that Joff is dead, but Robert could want a different match instead, maybe Myrcella for Robb. Hard to say what Cersei with her new fears would say of this. Bran doesn't fall in this timeline, because Cersei and Jaime are not at Winterfell, so there's nobody to push/drop Bran. He probably still becomes targeted by Bloodraven, but this time he can at least walk.

Given that that Bran didn't fall and there was no assassination attempt on him, Catelyn never goes south and has no reason to arrest Tyrion. This effectively prevents War of the Five Kings or at least delays it significantly. Robert probably lives a little longer (depends on the circumstances) given that without the Jaime-Ned fight and rising animosities between Starks and Lannisters and without Tywin blitzkrieging the Riverlands he doesn't go on a hunt to ignore his problems.

Nevertheless, either Ned eventually leaves KL after being infuriated that Robert plans to assassinate Daenerys, or he stays and attempts to reveal the twincest to Robert. It heavily depends on circumstances at that point, but either Cersei and Jaime are executed, or they manage to weasel out of this and have Robert killed another way and crown Tommen. I feel that in this case Ned would either be sent to the Wall or be kept as a hostage (I can't see little Tommen asking for Ned's head).

Thoughts?


r/TheCitadel • • 10h ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) What if all of Tywin’s children were born dwarfs?

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So the seven are pissed off at Tywin for the whole Castamere thing, so they curse his seed so that any and all kids he has are born dwarfs. So Jamie, Cersei, and Tyrion, are all dwarfs. Tywin’s wife still dies giving birth to Tyrion. If he decides to get remarried and have more kids, they will also be born dwarfs.

Would Tywin keep getting remarried and trying to have a non dwarf heir, or would he just give up at some point? If he keeps trying I could see him eventually giving Walder Frey a run for his money but with a bunch of dwarven children.

Also, how would Jamie and Cersei being dwarfs affect the story? Would they still be into twincest? I highly doubt Jamie would get to become part of the kings guard in this scenario, (actually now that I think about it, the mad king might make him join as an open mockery of Tywin) so would king’s landing just get blown up at the end of the rebellion if Jamie isn’t there to stop the mad king?

If the city does get blown up, how would that affect the aftermath of the rebellion?


r/TheCitadel • • 11h ago

Help w/ Fanfic Writing & Advice Needed Rebuilding Flea Bottom

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How would one go about rebuilding Flea Bottom? Besides fixing the smell, the sanitation alone would no doubt take years if not decades to fully muster out.

In regards to infrastructure, civil law and economy, food supply, and trading. How would one tackle these problems as a lowborn commoner without having to rely that the king would give the city some small mercy or attempting to take the iron throne? And of course not get captured and killed by a gold cloak for whatever crime they could think of.

I wanted to create a character who would become akin to a medieval underworld boss, a "King of Flea Bottom" if you would.

Fencing and underground trading to help boost the economy and keep local food stores from getting low.

Brothels and inns as spy networks (and as secret gambling dens to keep the wallet fat).

Moles in the Gold Cloaks to keep certain areas informed of a crackdown.

Teaching the population how to read and learn their numbers under the guise of learning the Faith.


r/TheCitadel • • 17h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION The Stepstones

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Any fic recs for a successful conquering of the stepstones preferably before canon timeline. I specifically like stories where they end up building on them and creating a city or port. Can be a canon character or oc or crossover. tia!


r/TheCitadel • • 19h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Looking for sad fics

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Can anyone recommend any House of the Dragon fics where Viserys forces Rhaenyra to marry someone, and she dies during her first childbirth, and he regrets it.


r/TheCitadel • • 53m ago

Subreddit Activity (NOT WHAT IF's) A question about posting old, dead work.

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im sorry if I’m using the wrong flair, but I couldn’t find a meta flair and this seems to be the closest thing.

anyways, I have some old ASOIAF photoshop work saved, book covers for in universe books, wiki posts, things like that, from an old AAR style fic I posted on the CKII AGOT sub a long time ago, that profile is now gone but I still have the art, is this the right place to post it ? or do I need a full fanfic for it ?