#Alysmond : Hades and Persephone AU

[moonshine999]

Alysmond : Hades and Persephone AU

Prince Aemond grew up amongst luxury and all the pleasures of life at his disposal. But being into royalty wasn’t enough for his ambition. He was a Prince? He wanted to be king. He was mocked for not having a dragon? He needed to claim the largest one alive. He was brilliant at wielding the sword, philosophy and history? He wanted to be the best. The one eyed never seemed to be happy with the brightness around him. “It won’t last forever so why not make the best of it?” Ser Criston always told him during their training. It was his want for more that kept him from doing so.

When the young Prince was made to send a message to the Riverlands, he flew there himself. Somehow he managed to stumble into a goddess’s den and was enchanted, a bit disgusted but whatever. 

Alys Rivers grew up with nothing. A bastard of house Strong and nothing more. But she cemented herself as a danger. “A witch who bathes in blood to keep herself young”, “go near her den and you’ll be tortured before you die a painfully slow death”, “she practices magic of the darkest kind, stay away”. 

She wasn’t used to visitors, let alone princes who were way too cocky for their own good quickly making himself at home. 

(side note : this is still very much rooted in canon and is sort of canon divergence but like a full on Greek gods AU sounds really fun as well)

Concepts 

For the aesthetic :

Aemond with braids and decaying flowers in his hair

Alys wearing a crown of bones 

Them sharing a pomegranate

Aemond in a flowy mesh shirt

The handle of his sword being designed with various flowers and vines imagery 

Alys in a long dark cloak embellished with gold 

Her slowly strumming her fingers on a skull 

Them covered in blood (I’m not crazy, I promise)

Alys untying his corset 

Aemond having dark blood lipstick stains near his mouth, on his jaw and neck

For the “plot” :

Criston and Alicent filling in the role of Demeter and frantically writing letters to Aemond to come back home

Them killing every Strong and Harrenhal becoming their underworld

Alys “petting” Vhagar as though the dragon is a three headed puppy

Them vowing they’ll burn anything and anyone for each other 

Them bonding over their ambition 

[moonshine999]

the urge for a alysmond hades and persephone AU where alys is hades and aemond is Persephone is really strong right now.