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"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."
LITTLE WOMEN meets GAME OF THRONES
for fractives & ljrevival
"We'll all grow up one day . . . We might as well know what we want."
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Lord March has been executed for the crime of treason in King's Landing. The family he has left behind resides in Concord, the small and oft-forgotten enclave to the east in Westeros. At one point, the Marches were considered a prosperous family and a fiercely intelligent ally to be had, but now, the Marches find themselves as nobility in decline: a decaying castle, the smallest seat in the kingdom (a minuscule cold spit of land that abuts the sea), and their voice in the capital -- Lord March -- has been silenced.
Lord March left behind four daughters. The eldest, Meg, has already promised her hand in marriage to a tradesman despite the best interest of the family. Jo, headstrong and spirited, spends most of her days in the family library, devouring as many of the old texts her father managed to procure before his death. Beth is a sickly girl, and Amy -- Amy has always known she was meant to be queen.
The Marches' descent into poverty is coupled with fear the Lannisters will attack Concord as further punishment for their father's perceived betrayal.
Enter Prince Theodore Laurence from across the sea, rich with gold and his own ego.
The arrival of Prince Teddy (Laurie, as Jo comes to call him, first in mockery, and then something approaching tenderness) catches the attention of all of the Seven Kingdoms, and the royalty in King's Landing lays in wait to see what will become of his stay in Concord, the frozen isthmus to the east. Marmee, the stern matriarch of the March family, promises this prince that he may marry her eldest daughter Meg, a promise neither Meg is none too keen on nor any of the March sisters, save for Beth. Prince Teddy agrees to the engagement, well aware of Meg's attachment to a certain tradesman who frequents Concord's shores, and finds himself becoming ever more fond of Jo.
Unbeknownst to Jo, Laurie breaks off his engagement to Meg and encourages her to elope with her tradesman. Amidst this scandal, Laurie confesses his true motivations to Jo and asks her to marry him and asks her to be his queen. Jo, never one to be tied down, never one to conform, and against the very idea of having to be his courtly wife (against the very idea that she might, perhaps, love him too) balks at the proposal and flees. She runs, her heart full of the intent that she will fight. She will fight her way to the capital and avenge her father. She cuts her hair off and attempts to pass as a boy and sword in hand, on horseback, she cuts her way towards King's Landing.
In Jo's wake, Laurie, furious and jilted, marries her sister Amy. His father dies soon thereafter, out beyond the sea, and Laurie is named King, and Amy, his Queen. Tensions mount within the Seven Kingdoms, Laurie's presence feared by the Lannisters in the capital, and the peace is shattered when Beth is poisoned at a royal feast. Her death spurs Laurie to set out from Concord to find Jo. Much as she left -- sword in hand, on horseback -- he departs her home and becomes the soldier his father always wanted him to be. In his absence, Amy leads Concord, her eyes bigger than her stomach, as she treats with the Lannisters -- her singular goal in mind: to take the capital as hers and Laurie's.
And Laurie rides. Jo rides. And through the Seven Kingdoms, he searches for her.
“Love, Jo, all your days, if you choose,
but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away
so many good gifts because
you can't have the one
you want.”
M I X ;
-- will i know it when you're here?
Midnight City (Who Killed JR Remix); M83
Wolf & I; Oh Land
Master of None (Beach House Cover): Toro y Moi
Harmless Lover's Discourse; Odawas
Because the Night; Au Palais
Echoes of Silence; The Weeknd
0040; Ólafur Arnalds
The Bull and the Ram; Former Ghosts
Killed the Lord, Left for the New World; This Will Destroy You
Lay Down in the Tall Grass; Timber Timbre
A Prayer; Madeleine Peyroux
Valley of the Shadow; Thomas Newman
Open Eyes (Demo); The xx
The Grey Ship; EMA
Devil Take You; Zola Jesus
B O N U S ;
Dance on Our Graves; Paper Route
Game of Thrones Theme (Piano)
Z I P
(one file; requests for single tracks welcome)
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"Someday you'll find a man, a good man, and you'll love him, and marry him, and live and die for him.
And I'll be hanged if I stand by and watch."
†
NOTE: Ahhhhh, this is all May's doing! Her prompt over at ljrevival was: "Little Women, AS GAME OF THRONES. The March Sisters lose their father in a war (he is their Ned Stark o k a y) and one of them has to marry to keep the seven realms at peace. Hijinks ensue when Laurie, some rando prince from beyond the sea, is set to wed Meg and falls for Jo instead, who of course, eventually pulls an Arya and flees." And wow if that didn't randomly inspire a whole host of feelings lol. I, er, deviated somewhat from your original prompt? And I majorly deviated from Little Women ~canon, but I am sorry: IDK how to deal with that story without lamenting Laurie and Jo never getting together lol. ANYWAY, holy cats this was super fun to come up with and I hope you enjoy it too! FIN.
"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."
LITTLE WOMEN meets GAME OF THRONES
for fractives & ljrevival
"We'll all grow up one day . . . We might as well know what we want."
†
Lord March has been executed for the crime of treason in King's Landing. The family he has left behind resides in Concord, the small and oft-forgotten enclave to the east in Westeros. At one point, the Marches were considered a prosperous family and a fiercely intelligent ally to be had, but now, the Marches find themselves as nobility in decline: a decaying castle, the smallest seat in the kingdom (a minuscule cold spit of land that abuts the sea), and their voice in the capital -- Lord March -- has been silenced.
Lord March left behind four daughters. The eldest, Meg, has already promised her hand in marriage to a tradesman despite the best interest of the family. Jo, headstrong and spirited, spends most of her days in the family library, devouring as many of the old texts her father managed to procure before his death. Beth is a sickly girl, and Amy -- Amy has always known she was meant to be queen.
The Marches' descent into poverty is coupled with fear the Lannisters will attack Concord as further punishment for their father's perceived betrayal.
Enter Prince Theodore Laurence from across the sea, rich with gold and his own ego.
The arrival of Prince Teddy (Laurie, as Jo comes to call him, first in mockery, and then something approaching tenderness) catches the attention of all of the Seven Kingdoms, and the royalty in King's Landing lays in wait to see what will become of his stay in Concord, the frozen isthmus to the east. Marmee, the stern matriarch of the March family, promises this prince that he may marry her eldest daughter Meg, a promise neither Meg is none too keen on nor any of the March sisters, save for Beth. Prince Teddy agrees to the engagement, well aware of Meg's attachment to a certain tradesman who frequents Concord's shores, and finds himself becoming ever more fond of Jo.
Unbeknownst to Jo, Laurie breaks off his engagement to Meg and encourages her to elope with her tradesman. Amidst this scandal, Laurie confesses his true motivations to Jo and asks her to marry him and asks her to be his queen. Jo, never one to be tied down, never one to conform, and against the very idea of having to be his courtly wife (against the very idea that she might, perhaps, love him too) balks at the proposal and flees. She runs, her heart full of the intent that she will fight. She will fight her way to the capital and avenge her father. She cuts her hair off and attempts to pass as a boy and sword in hand, on horseback, she cuts her way towards King's Landing.
In Jo's wake, Laurie, furious and jilted, marries her sister Amy. His father dies soon thereafter, out beyond the sea, and Laurie is named King, and Amy, his Queen. Tensions mount within the Seven Kingdoms, Laurie's presence feared by the Lannisters in the capital, and the peace is shattered when Beth is poisoned at a royal feast. Her death spurs Laurie to set out from Concord to find Jo. Much as she left -- sword in hand, on horseback -- he departs her home and becomes the soldier his father always wanted him to be. In his absence, Amy leads Concord, her eyes bigger than her stomach, as she treats with the Lannisters -- her singular goal in mind: to take the capital as hers and Laurie's.
And Laurie rides. Jo rides. And through the Seven Kingdoms, he searches for her.
“Love, Jo, all your days, if you choose,
but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away
so many good gifts because
you can't have the one
you want.”
M I X ;
-- will i know it when you're here?
Midnight City (Who Killed JR Remix); M83
Wolf & I; Oh Land
Master of None (Beach House Cover): Toro y Moi
Harmless Lover's Discourse; Odawas
Because the Night; Au Palais
Echoes of Silence; The Weeknd
0040; Ólafur Arnalds
The Bull and the Ram; Former Ghosts
Killed the Lord, Left for the New World; This Will Destroy You
Lay Down in the Tall Grass; Timber Timbre
A Prayer; Madeleine Peyroux
Valley of the Shadow; Thomas Newman
Open Eyes (Demo); The xx
The Grey Ship; EMA
Devil Take You; Zola Jesus
B O N U S ;
Dance on Our Graves; Paper Route
Game of Thrones Theme (Piano)
Z I P
(one file; requests for single tracks welcome)
†
"Someday you'll find a man, a good man, and you'll love him, and marry him, and live and die for him.
And I'll be hanged if I stand by and watch."
†
NOTE: Ahhhhh, this is all May's doing! Her prompt over at ljrevival was: "Little Women, AS GAME OF THRONES. The March Sisters lose their father in a war (he is their Ned Stark o k a y) and one of them has to marry to keep the seven realms at peace. Hijinks ensue when Laurie, some rando prince from beyond the sea, is set to wed Meg and falls for Jo instead, who of course, eventually pulls an Arya and flees." And wow if that didn't randomly inspire a whole host of feelings lol. I, er, deviated somewhat from your original prompt? And I majorly deviated from Little Women ~canon, but I am sorry: IDK how to deal with that story without lamenting Laurie and Jo never getting together lol. ANYWAY, holy cats this was super fun to come up with and I hope you enjoy it too! FIN.