“No. I can’t say I have heard of any not taking the position”
“But now…some days I wished i had refused. King Robert isn’t quite what he used to be. Plus, I miss a womans touch.” He gave a smile as he shook his head remembering he was in the presence of a lady. “Forgive me Lady Frey that was ill-mannered of me.”
I just imagined Viserys trying to sing Rasafarian Targaryen and idk why I found it so hilarious. Like I imagine him having a good singing voice (not as good as Rhaegar’s but decent enough)
Or more specifically, “two characters who have been sparring or in combat training together and almost kiss at the end of their practice fight”. As requested ! Feel free to make any changes.
“Is that the best you can do?”
“I won’t go easy on you.” / “I’ll go easy on you.” / “Quit going easy on me.”
“Hit me with your best shot.”
“You need to do better if you want to meet your goal.”
“I’ve been wanting to kick your ass all week.”
“Is this necessary?”
“Try again.”
“You’re pissing me off.” / “If you’re mad, why don’t you use your anger? Beat me at least once.”
“Here, let me show you how.”
“Woah! [falls on top of __]”
“Nice moves.”
“[pins __ to floor]” / “[pins __ to wall]”
“You’re…really close right now.”
“G–get off of me.”
“You’re heavy.” / “You’re crushing me.”
“Sorry–are you okay?”
“You’re really red right now.”
“…Do we always end up on top of each other?”
“Are you still panting?”
“I told you, it was an accident.”
“…Why don’t you just kiss me?”
“I’ll consider kissing you if you can beat me.”
Okay apparently I want to add Benjen Stark to my muse list…
Either Francois Arnaud and Bob Morley as alt and young Benjen
❝ You’re back. My cell was so lonely without you. ❞ ❝ You will tell me your secrets. You will tell me everything. ❞ ❝ Looks like someone needs to learn how things work down here… ❞ ❝ You’ve another chance to prove yourself. Don’t waste it. ❞ ❝ I didn’t realise my skills were missed this much~! ❞ ❝ Do not stray from your mission. You know the consequences of failing. ❞ ❝ Brave and beautiful? Looks like we’re gonna get along…! ❞ ❝ The church pulls your strings like a puppet, doesn’t it? ❞ ❝ Might open a shop selling spoons…Everyone needs a spoon. ❞ ❝ Now that I’ve saved your noisy hide, you owe me one. ❞ ❝ I don’t have to do anything except accomplish my task. ❞ ❝ I clean up messes, but your mess is not mine to clean. ❞
❝ This power is dangerous, and I would give my life to protect it. ❞ ❝ Thank you for your help, but I have work to do. Don’t follow me. ❞ ❝ I’ve already proven that I’m smarter than you, so… ❞ ❝ I can’t live until I find ____…Take me with you! ❞ ❝ Sorry, but I have no nanny to nurse you while I do battle. ❞ ❝ You say you’re a healer, little boy/girl? Well then, go on, heal. ❞ ❝ You’ve been silent for ages…Doesn’t seem like your speciality… ❞ ❝ Besides you, everyone I love is gone… ❞ ❝ It might seem lonely, but this is the life I have chosen. ❞ ❝ I’m not opposed to love,but feelings…just lead to trouble. ❞ ❝ As a drowning man knows the sea, so does a mage know magic. ❞ ❝ What is the price of a little blood for so much power…? ❞ ❝ Stay in the back and incapacitate who you can! ❞ ❝ I’ll make this simple: help us and you live. ❞ ❝ If it wasn’t for your incompetence, I’d have ____’s corpse on my shoulder by now! ❞ ❝ We’re gonna play nice together…Got it? ❞ ❝ My blade will surely smile slicing through you! ❞ ❝ Is it true that you’ve slayed a dragon?! ❞ ❝ Oh, how I do love to scare a man/woman dead with my look~! ❞ ❝ I finished the mission, but as far as ‘leave no trace’… ❞ ❝ You’re smarter than you look, and you’re certainly less glib than you act. ❞ ❝ Oh, a compliment? Shall we rent a room together then~? ❞ ❝ Tell me, do you have to flirt all the time…? ❞ ❝ You’re the person I have to thank for my freedom… ❞ ❝ No matter how much we talk about it, the past remains the same. ❞ ❝ ____ needs to die. You know that as well as I do. ❞ ❝ Are you suggesting we run off into the sunset together~? ❞ ❝ I like to blow off some steam before battle…You up for it? ❞ ❝ We’re going to be torn up by a demon army soon! What have we got to lose? ❞ ❝ For the first time, I am not the weapon…Instead, I wield it. ❞ ❝ What an appropriate audience for a night of such death and destruction! ❞ ❝ All I’ve ever been is the man/woman you wanted to marry… ❞ ❝ I had the means to do harm, so I took it. How could I deny my function? ❞ ❝ No matter how hard we fight it, we will follow our true nature.
You can’t be faulted for that. ❞ ❝ This doesn’t feel like much of a victory, does it? ❞
❝ Hmm…You have a certain strength of spirit. ❞ ❝ I am nobody’s master. ❞ ❝ Have a few swings at me so I can see your form. Don’t worry, I can take it. ❞ ❝ What do you think this is? We don’t do battle with magic around here. ❞ ❝ For now, you’re a whelp to me, so you do what I tell you to do. ❞ ❝ Be careful with my weapon, it’s probably worth more than you are. ❞ ❝ We were all whelps once…We just don’t like to talk about it! ❞ ❝ Don’t always just do what you’re told. Nobody rules here in our group. ❞ ❝ Around here, every man is his own and woman her own. ❞ ❝ I don’t know how you have the patience to deal with the rabble around here. ❞ ❝ It’s nice to have a new face around. It gets boring sometimes. ❞ ❝ I hope we can keep you…This can be a tough life. ❞ ❝ You’re tougher than you look. You beat me, fair and square. ❞ ❝ There’s a fine line between respect and boot-licking, but I like your spirit. ❞ ❝ It looks like someone’s been digging here…and recently… ❞ ❝ Now look what you’ve gotten yourself into…Sit tight, I’ll get you out. ❞ ❝ Killing you will make for an excellent story! ❞ ❝ Would you raise your shield in my defence, and your sword in my honour? ❞ ❝ We should be cautious. Beasts are not nearly as predictable as men. ❞ ❝ You’re stronger than you look. Perhaps we can hunt together someday. ❞ ❝ How can something that gives this kind of prowess be a curse? ❞ ❝ You might be the strongest we’ve had, but numbers can still overwhelm. ❞ ❝ You might do well to learn a smaller weapon, vary your style a bit. ❞ ❝ My advice? Always be honest with ____, but don’t tell him/her more than they need to know. ❞ ❝ Your heart is full of grief, and my own weeps at the loss of ____. ❞ ❝ You have taken more lives than honour demanded. ❞ ❝ This disease doesn’t just affect the body…It also seeps into the spirit. ❞ ❝ Move quickly, and don’t leave any of the enemy alive. ❞ ❝ I hope whatever you were doing was important. You weren’t here to defend ____. ❞ ❝ ____ had one wish before he/she died, and they didn’t get it. It’s as simple as that. ❞ ❝ This power isn’t as much of a curse as you think it is. ❞ ❝ The blade is a tool. Tools are meant to be broken. ❞ ❝ I can’t go any further with my mind fogged or my heart grieved. ❞ ❝ I regret nothing of what we did, but I let vengeance rule my heart. ❞ ❝ Well, that’s taken care of. No thanks to you. ❞ ❝ A true warrior would have relished the opportunity to take on a giant. That’s why I’m here. ❞ ❝ Glory only awaits those who triumph, and as warriors, our glory is hard-fought. ❞ ❝ If you wish to hunt with me, your feet need to be quick, and your eyes quicker. ❞ ❝ We don’t just take in any milk drinker who stumbles in. Do you think you have what it takes? ❞ ❝ A woman who lets her actions speak for her. I knew there was something I liked about you. ❞ ❝ Woah, ease up there. We’re rough, but there’s no need to kill over a dispute. ❞ ❝ I like your fire, though. You’ll make a fierce companion. Let us hunt together sometime. ❞ ❝ You’re not afraid, are you? Of animals? Come back when you find your spine. ❞ ❝ Not bad, not bad. The intensity of the hunt is special, isn’t it? ❞ ❝ It’s been a long time since we had a heart like yours among our numbers. ❞ ❝ Some cowards in this land can’t stand the sight of glory before them. ❞ ❝ You’re someone who can get things done. I like that. ❞ ❝ And here I figured you as one who enjoyed our special gifts. I guess I was wrong. ❞ ❝ I’ve been thinking we need to be more… discreet. ❞ ❝ You have to remember, it’s not about strength. It’s about leverage. ❞ ❝ There’s more to defence than just pure muscle. ❞ ❝ How do you manage to hold your ground like that? ❞ ❝ Everyone has his weakness, and this one is mine. I’m not proud, but I will stay back. ❞ ❝ The difference between a noble band of warriors and a ragged bunch of assassins is as thin as a blade’s edge. I try to hold us to the right path. ❞ ❝ Leave whispers and sneaking to the gutter rats who can’t fight for themselves. ❞ ❝ Politics are something best avoided. I prefer more personal confrontations, myself. ❞ ❝ This is a day where our souls must cry. Grieve in whatever way you know. ❞ ❝ Fight well, don’t be a lout, and you’ll be fine. You don’t need my help. ❞ ❝ I suppose you think this makes you better than me cause you can do that, huh? ❞ ❝ Come on now, watch the footwork. Keep your balance. ❞ ❝ Keep a sharp eye about you and maybe I’ll teach you to fight some day. ❞ ❝ Any warrior who gets to be old is either fearsome or a coward. I’ll let you find out which I am. ❞ ❝ You was an excellent sparring partner. I’ll miss our training sessions. ❞ ❝ Honor is in our blood, death in our hearts. If you seek either, you’ve found the right place. ❞ ❝
I think by now I’ve killed one of every living thing in this place.
❞ ❝
Great, another ambitious visitor. You think you can just wander in here and join us? ❞ ❝
There’s a cave. Animals or bandits inside, no doubt.
❞ ❝
Focus on the calm in the battle. Control the rage, don’t let it control you. ❞ ❝
Some people don’t think I’m smart. Those people get my fist. But you, I like.
❞ ❝
This is how a warrior should feel. Alive and alert. Not clouded with thoughts of the hunt.
❞ ❝
By the gods, I feel like I could crush a giant’s head like a walnut!
❞ ❝
What guidance could YOU offer me?
❞ ❝
What kind of weapon do you prefer? I like the smaller, quicker blades.
I feel like i need to address this because i find it’s an issue many people, especially newcomers, have in RP.
PLEASE. DO. NOT. BE. SHY. TO. SAY. HI.
There’s no reason to be anxious or hesitant if you want to talk to me. I will happily accept a random starter, or a random tag, or an inbox message! Even if we’ve never interacted or even acknowledged one another, i will still HAPPILY interact with you!
You’re not bothering me. You’re not annoying. You’re not making me uncomfortable. I LIKE to interact with new people, it’s very exciting and fun!
Please, PLEASE, don’t be hesitant when sending in ANYTHING. I’m having a lot more fun than your anxiety tells you!
Out of all the Stark siblings, Brandon and Lyanna were perhaps closely the most similar. Brandon was stubborn and hot-tempered, and Lyanna while perhaps not as wild as her eldest brother had her own wildness and despite this similarity it caused the two to often clash especially when they disagreed. ❝ Everyone has plans and what I want doesn’t matter! ❞ She howled so loudly her throat burned, it was no surprise that she was not in the least bit happy about this engagement but, it angered her even more that her own family thought she should be content with such a thing.
The eldest Stark growled as his sister yelled at him, louder than he had expected. “Will you hush!” He answered back just as fiercely. “What you want Lyanna? Robert Baratheon may not be a good man but he’s a good match and comes from a proud strong house.” Brandon wasn’t fond of the Stag and his wondering ways and while people said he would stop once he married his sister he doubted that would change.
“Do you want me to go over father’s head and tell him to not marry you off to Robert? To let you become a real knight? Lyanna you know as well as I do that our plans for ourselves will not go as planned.” Brandon closed the distance between his sister, his eyes glaring at the she-wolf. “I want to see you happy, I do. But to break such an engagement could mean disaster for our house. For our…your reputation.”
“I know how the laws of succession work. But Aerys lost your family the right to sit the throne. He had Brandon and Rickard Stark brutally killed. He would have had my uncle Robert and Eddard Stark murdered too, even though they were innocent of any crime and were barely out of boyhood. How could Jon Arryn not go to war against your father when asked to execute two boys who were like sons to him? How could Eddard Stark not fight against the man who had committed such atrocities against his family? And how could uncle Robert not support his dearest friend in that, and work to rescue his betrothed from her kidnapper, your brother Rhaegar?”
Did Viserys even know about any of this? He was so young when all of it happened, younger than Shireen was now. He would have been kept away from it all, and it might be that no one had ever told him about it. The Targaryen supporters who had sheltered him and his sister in their exile wouldn’t have wanted to tell him about the terrible things his father had done. But Viserys must have memories of Aerys, perhaps he remembered that his father could be cruel and violent…
Shireen continued, still speaking softly, gently. “How could any lord serve a king when they knew that he could slaughter them with impunity whenever he wanted? Aerys broke the rules on which the Seven Kingdoms are based- lords serve the king, and in turn, he offers them protection and a guarantee that they’re not going to be executed at the king’s slightest whim. If they don’t keep to those principles, no man can be king and no woman can be queen. Aerys could no longer rightfully rule as king, and could no longer hand down his title to his children.”
Shireen considered. “Negotiation isn’t exactly what I had in mind. It just seems to me that this is the meeting that normally comes at the end of a war of succession. Two claimants come together, face to face, in the throne room of the king or queen’s castle, and their fates are determined…”
He stood in silence as she went over their shared history. He hadn’t been told this version. Only the one skewed by those who wanted to see him on the throne that and from what his young child mind could recall which had gotten hazy over time. He could still recall what kind of man his father was and he barely recalled his brothers taking to the Northern woman. He had been raised by a paranoid abusive man and it hadn’t done him any favors later in life, he knew that much. But he heard the truth in the young girls voice and he grimaced. “I never said my father was a good man or king. He was far from it. My brother did your Uncle wrong. Both parties partook in bloodshed. I will get what it mine with fire and blood but I do not want to be like my father. I do not want to be seen as he was.”
His shoulders dropped, he was already the Begger King, the Khal Raggat. He wouldn’t be the second Mad King. No negotiation? Viserys knew he hadn’t been exactly raised in true Westeros politics but what the Baratheon was saying confused the young man. “By the people? To the death?” Viserys had no idea what the young girl was getting at. If Viserys had gotten here before he and his sister had conquered parts of Essos he’d want to kill the girl and get it over with but he stayed those thoughts knowing how the people he wanted to rule over would see him if he did such a thing, he’d be no better than The Mountain or any of the Usurpers themselves or his men.
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