#alayne stark

[noeverse]

the daughters of lady aurynn mormont, deemed the great bear cubs

In 130 AC, Lady Aurynn, who had recently turned three and ten, still young for her age, by her royal husband Crown Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, welcomed their first and only child, their daughter Visenya. The labour had been long and perilous, but, call it luck or godly favour, mother and child survived. As he had promised, Prince Jacaerys wrote to Lord Cregan of the birth of the birth of his future daughter-in-law. Although Jacaerys perished at seventeen in the Battle of the Gullet, mother and child survived the Dance and Visenya went to live to Winterfell earlier than expected to one day marry Rickon Stark.

In 134 AC, borne of Lord Cregan Stark, Lyanna Stark was born. She was quiet, shy but still intelligent and kind. Her mother had been seven and ten by then, and had a better birth than with her first child. She went on to marry wealthy Viktor Fell.

In 138 AC, Jeyne Stark was born. She had been named after the late Lady Jeyne Arryn, who had been admired by Lady Mormont, and a formidable regent for King Aegon III. She was the most beautiful and vain of all of her sisters, and went on to secure a match for herself with Lord Lyonel Tyrell

In 140 AC, Alayne Stark was born. She was studious, cunning, cautious and always two steps ahead, and adept with both the lyre and the sword. This earned her a marriage with Loreon Lannister. Despite being twenty years her elder, they got along well and seemed very fond of one another.

In 143 AC, Lysandra Stark was the last born daughter of the marriage, for Lady Aurynn was considered entering her old age. She was brave, ferocious and headstrong, playful and willful. During a visit to Storm's End, it is said that Lord Royce Baratheon clicked with Lysandra, and, taking into advantage the impending separation of Lady Mormont and Lord Stark, asked for her hand in marriage. She accepted if he helped sway the council to make her separation happen. The moment the document was signed and official, Aurynn shipped Lysa to her husband-to-be. They had a happy and blissful marriage.

In 155 AC, Lady Aurynn Mormont, now wife of Alyn Velaryon and Lady of the Tides, baffled everyone by giving birth to her last daughter at the age of four and forty, Daena Velaryon. She was an incredible beauty, and would be a notorious figure during the first Blackfyre Rebellion.

[laurellerual]

Day 4: House Stark

Arya, the lone wolf, still lived, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.

[oananovicov]

I wanted to make these portraits of Mercy ( Arya Stark) and Alayne Stone ( Sansa Stark) -which are inspired by Vermeer's " Girl with pearl earing" - because for a lot of time I thought that girl in the painting has something of Sansa Stark and by extension with Arya ..at least in my head😊 I don't know why 🤷‍♀️ 😊

[starsnectars]

they are children, sansa thought. they are silly little girls, even elinor. they’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before joffrey cut her fathers head off. sansa pitied them. sansa envied them.

[vintrage]

a collection of wolves, not doing well

[smilingfig]

"All she wanted was for things to be nice and pretty, the way they were in the songs..." - Sansa Stark

[killpilled]

the north remembers

[franzkafkagf]

you're your mother, sweetling; you sunk your teeth, ragged and sharp into my mother, she let you suck her dry. now you sink your teeth into me, and I'll let you suck me dry.

inspired by this post by @15step

Mine / A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin / House of the Dragon / A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin / A Feast for Crows – George R. R. Martin / A World of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin / Fire and Blood – George R. R. Martin

[jonsawilldanceanon]

Lack of Morals ~ Lack of Vows

[catofoldstones]

GRRM did AFFC so good actually. Flipped the male-centric series on its head with majorly female PoVs and then started the book with our resident paranoiapilled Cersei Lannister convinced that her killer is hiding in the walls of the Red Keep. He introduced the first true knight of the series, keeping an oath to a dead woman. No chance, no choice. Asha fighting centuries of patriarchy to fight for her throne. “Balon let her believe she was a man.” “Your father made the same mistake with you.” Sansa and the whole Vale arc? Arya’s Cat of the Canals arc?? Hello? We have been served female characters on a platter here and I for one am eating. it. up. He truly snapped here tbh.

[leulahart]

the alayne sample chapter from winds is actually something that can be so personal

[atopvisenyashill]

"I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I'm flying. We're both laughing, laughing so much that I can hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me. Then one day he wasn't. Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust my father, and I trust my mules. I won't fall."

I love this passage for a lot of reasons but I love the play on "a stone is a mountain's daughter" here because she's not just explaining why she wasn't afraid when she slipped, or even why she cares little for the opinions of others on whether she's a "proper" lady or not; instead, she's warning Alayne, warning a fellow daughter of the mountain that men are not to be trusted.

She's saying to Alayne, look at what has become of me. Your father is kind now but he will leave when he's bored of playing house or he will die without bothering to set up care for you, and then you will have no one to make sure you are safe. She is saying my Sister Stone, you must keep yourself safe because Petyr Baelish will not, anymore than Sweetrobin or Harry the Heir will. You have to have a skill that will keep you safe, and courage, or you will never make it as a bastard girl in the real world.

[asoiafpalestine]

our twenty-eighth art piece is…

sansa/alayne and petyr baelish by @sleazyjanet

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[sansaisms]

Alayne Stone I, A Feast for Crows.

[thetullystark]

sansa slaying the giant

painting study of ‘Judith with the Head of Holofernes’ by Cristofano Allori

[akarena]

She had not thought of Jon in ages. He was only her half brother, but still . . . with Robb and Bran and Rickon dead, Jon Snow was the only brother that remained to her. I am a bastard too now, just like him. Oh, it would be so sweet, to see him once again. But of course that could never be. Alayne Stone had no brothers, baseborn or otherwise. AFFC - Alayne II