#🦌 ° ･ elspeth buckwell › headcanons

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House Buckwell fought for House Targaryen during the Rebellion, and as punishment, Lord Byran Buckwell was ordered to send his heir to court when the child turned ten, as a “ward” of the king. As Byran and his wife, Marya, had only a pair of twin girls, Elspeth, older than her sister Elaena by fifteen minutes, is his heiress and thus the child he was made to send to court, a hostage to his good behavior. As the daughter of a minor noble, she was nominally a companion for the girls of higher rank at court, and she took a liking to Sansa, a girl in a similar situation.

After Joffrey's death, Elspeth is married off, to the second son of another minor house  ( Because Elspeth is the heir to House Buckwell, it is determined that their children will bear her surname rather than her husband’s ).  

After the wedding, Elspeth is instructed to go back to the Antlers with her new husband, and not to return to the capital unless summoned ( Due to her known fondness of Sansa and the suspicion that she might have known something about Sansa and Tyrion's alleged plot ). Though she missed her family and loves them, they don’t truly understand what Elspeth has seen and lived through at court. And her new husband, Rolan Staunton, is a stranger to her, and she is rather frightened of the idea that she is meant to spend her life with him.

Elspeth has three children:  Marya (born 302 AC), Jarron (born 304 AC), and Catrin (born 306 AC).

Timeline: Elspeth was sent to court in 295 AC, at 10 years old. Elspeth, at 13, was part of the royal court's journey to Winterfell in 298 AC. In 300 AC (the year Joffrey dies/AFFC & ADWD takes place), Elspeth is 15.