SmokeyMelons



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  1. Summary

    This is a series of unconnected works in progress.

    Most are either story fragments that I probably won't add any more to or are ideas that have been stalled for years.

    All are open to adoption. Just make sure you tag me!

    (And maybe let me play beta.)

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    Grimmauld has slumbered since the death of one scion and the theft of the other; has lain still, like predator, like hunter, waiting, with only its most fervent and devoted acolyte in its walls. Grimmauld has had time to think and to ponder and to hunger in a way an ancestral seat should absolutely not be allowed to. Trapped.

    And then Albus Dumbledore casts the Fidelius.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    Ned speaks the sacred words of House Bolton, and tells the boy of what his bastard brother would have done. Tells the boy of the wars to come, and that he has sought House Bolton’s aid in the coming conflict. Tells the boy what he and his father have plotted, to ensure that future never comes to pass.

    (In which Eddard Stark receives a vision, and promptly yeets his backyard sociopath at the political nightmare that is King's Landing so he can deal with magic zombies in peace. This mostly works, except where it doesn't.)

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    19 Jun 2026

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    In which Lord Stark refuses to allow Jon to take the oaths of the Night's Watch, and instead bestows upon him one of the fallen keeps the Watch once tended. In which Jon puts out the call, and Westeros' bastards answer. This, of course, changes things.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    „Lord Rickard demanded trial by combat, and the king granted the request. Stark armored himself as for battle, thinking to duel one of the Kingsguard. Me, perhaps. Instead they took him to the throne room and suspended him from the rafters while two of Aerys's pyromancers kindled a blaze beneath him. The king told him that fire was the champion of House Targaryen. So all Lord Rickard needed to do to prove himself innocent of treason was ... well, not burn.“

    Jaime Lannister, A Clash of Kings

    But what if he did not burn?

    Rickard Stark survives the attempt at burning him because the pyromancers could not tie a proper knot.
    Watch as he fixes the realm, his family and shit in general from the overall incompetence of kings, lords, knights and other idiots. For though the king may be a mad lackwit, his subjects at least should have a shot at peace and happiness.
    Shouldn't they?

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Leia Dies.

    What, like that was going to stop her?

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    27 May 2026