#bran the broken

[reareaotaku]

Bran Stark Headcanons

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🐦‍⬛ Bran is hard to understand. You don't even really understand what he's thinking, because he always has a blank face. He just makes it hard for you to know what he wants.

🐦‍⬛ Bran has never been good with his words or actions, so to try and make him happy is a mission on its own. He likes you, sure, but he doesn't know how to tell you. It doesn't help that he's not always him.

🐦‍⬛ He has people watch and follow you and keep tabs on you. He constantly knows where you are and what you are doing. You can't get anything by him, whether you want to or not.

🐦‍⬛ After catching the Queen having an affair with her own brother, Bran is paranoid you will do the same, even though you are not dating or even engaged. He is the one who won't commit or confront you about marriage.

🐦‍⬛ If another person even THINKS about being with you/courting you, they are gone. He doesn't care what he has to do, but they're as good as dead.

🐦‍⬛ He slowly loses his touch with his human self, and the only thing that even keeps Bran as Bran is you. Seeing you makes the Three-eyed Raven disappear, even if only for a little bit.

🐦‍⬛ He can become jealous and spiteful. He can't stand to see you with anyone else, he doesn't care.

🐦‍⬛ You don't understand why Bran does what he does to you. You think he just wants you to be miserable. What you don't understand is that Bran doesn't want you to be miserable... He just doesn't want you to be happy with anyone else

[ibuprofenjuliet]

"An adventure," Bran repeated wistfully. He heard his brother sob. The room was so dark he could not see the tears on Robb's face, so he reached out and found his hand. Their fingers twined together.”

[cocomonerd]

Maybe in a season of “character building” they should have given some screentime to Jaehaera, how that goth girl named her dragon Morghul, meaning death in high Valyrian & how that sweet child was affected seeing her brother beheaded in-front of her & how that made her mother, the only present parent go mad and being left with no one to care for her & her relationship with her grandmother Alicent who will later ask her to commit murder. Otherwise I fear we will have another Bran situation on our hands.

[dreamfyre-beautiful]

I think we as a fandom need to discuss the ableism in both the story and in the fandom. Reducing characters like Aemond, Tyrion, and Bran to their disability and joking about it does not make you a good person. It makes you ableist point blank period.

On the other hand, character like Hodor and Helaena are infantilized and looked down upon. In the books Helaena has an active role in politics and isn’t always out of it or appearing to be in a different world like the show had her seem.

Also the only other disabled character in Hotd, Larys, is a bad guy who sexually assaults Alicent. While I’m not saying disabled people need to always be good people but they should have more options than being child-like or only being described by their disability.

[benilos]

callin that man The Broken as you name him king is WILD

[satrryeys4eva]

Sedona

Summary: a moment between Bran Stark and his wife at a feast

Warnings: semi songfic, really short, established relationship, fluff, slightly codepenedent if you squint, set after last season with slight ooc Bran (not very three eyed raven)

a/n: this man makes me soo weak yall, also sorry for not posting anything recently

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Baby, easy

I lose myself completely

When you're trapped in my mind

I can't take you anywhere

Even in the crowded hall Bran's eyes never left her silhouette, not once. The way she laughed, how her eyes lit up when she smiled, the twirl of her midnight blue skirts as she dance, all these snapshots of her were forever trapped in his mind.

After all, who wouldn't love her?

The celebratory feast was in full swing by now and Bran hadn't even moved an inch from his spot at the table. He longed to reach her, to touch her, to press her to his chest until thier souls became one.

I found my nicotine, amphetamine

The only thing that's good to me

My nicotine, amphetamine

When I look at you, and I can't breathe

She was absolutely intoxicating, the only drug he'd ever need. His salvation, or was she his damnation? Either way, if it meant being at the receiving end of her warmth, he would willingly march into hell with a smile.

Bran was snapped out of his thoughts when a shadow of the silhouette of his Angel fell over the table.

His Angel.

His.

"It's exhausting to have to do this every feast just to keep up appearances"

Y/n spoke as she sat down next to her husband, tired from all the socializing she had been expected to do.

Bran turned to greet her with a warm smile, "I would much prefer it if I could keep you to myself through all of them, My love"

"Don't you wanna be nobody every once in a while? Just to get away from all of this?, I understand that things would be less ideal but we would finally be able to rest"

Y/n added that last part quickly, feeling embarrassed for even suggesting such a thing to her Lord husband.

Bran only smiled and replied,

"Nothing even matters just as long as you're mine"

[asoiafzambi]

Me if I ever write ASOIAF Time Travel AU shenanigans:

Daemon finds himself in the illustrious round of the council table of Bran the Broken.

Daemon: A crippled King, a dwarf Hand, a fat Grandmaester, a girl as Lord Commander, and a sellsword and a smuggler on top ... Sure this isn't some kind of joke-afterlife?

Tyrion: ...

Daemon: So, no Targaryens anymore?

Brienne: My great-grand mother was a Targaryen Princess.

Council: Huh? (They had no idea.)

Daemon *makes a disappointed face*: Oh dear.

Tyrion: Well, the last one was Queen Daenerys but she set the city on fire with her dragon. Nobody liked that and she got killed.

Daemon *perks up*: Dragon? Was she hot? Who killed her?

Bran: My cousin Jon. He got exiled to the Wall for it. He also has Targaryen blood from his father Prince Rhaegar.

Daemon *leers*: Is he hot?

Tyrion: What the fuck? (There was nothing about that in his histories.)

Bran: He is conventionally good looking I would say. Also technically as the three-eyed raven I'm posessed by one of your great-grand sons, but ...

Daemon *backs away slowly*: Your king is posessed by one of my great-grand children?

Tyrion: ...

Daemon: Now that's not creepy at all.

Tyrion: ...

Daemon: Are you also related to me somehow?

Tyrion: No.

Bran: Well, actually there were some rumors ...

Tyrion: SHUT UP!

[anveyegres]

modern! house stark — brandon

"The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong."

[death-of-cats]

A Clash of Kings, Bran VII

A Dance with Dragons, The Turncloak

A ruined man and a broken boy, united by Winterfell

[ceyskywalker]

real bran braang participants know HIStory will be written by grrm not asoiaf fans

I think just think the fandom gets quite unimaginative when it comes to Bran, like there's a literal apocalypse coming with creatures that westeros thinks are long gone and Bran will play a vital role to stop it and also on top of it is a magical boy, is it that unreasonable for him for westerosi smallfolk and nobles alike to see him as someone who rebuild the realm.

Right. Plus Westeros is quite nearly a failed state. It’s on the brink of collapse, not to mention the upcoming doom brought by the Others. Is it too far fetched to expect that the political structure shifts to a point that allows for Bran’s ascension?

Bran is so central to the resolution of ASOIAF. It’s often ignored that he is right there with Jon at the front lines of the upcoming conflict. He’s where he is, beyond the wall and facing a northern threat, for a reason. GRRM also identifies him as the most magic-heavy character. It certainly seems that we as a fandom get so caught up on AA/tptwp, that we forget Bran is a walking, talking, glaring Last Hero allegory. And yes, he’s a greenseer and a magic boy. But he’s also heir to the largest kingdom in Westeros. Somehow people forget that…

And the strangest thing is, people often acknowledged that he would be the last POV character since he was the first. It makes sense for the story to start and end with Bran, but that was often the extent of his importance in the story.

Bran staying in that cave was the dominant endgame theory for him for many, many years. But I do think a part of it was people thinking that a disabled kid couldn’t become plot relevant; he can’t move so he might as well remain stagnant where he is. It’s how a lot of the complaints re not being able to have kids start. Sure, it is a problem but like…Rickon exists? His plot relevance so far has literally just been him occupying that position once Bran became Robb’s heir. Imo the point of Rickon is to be Bran’s successor and the one who carries the Stark line forward (and GRRM has been adamant that he’ll play a big part in upcoming books). If GRRM wants to make Bran king, I don’t see how it can’t be resolved satisfactorily. But Bran is a character who doesn’t have a large fandom and one whose importance is always written out that people twist themselves into knots denying that.

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Tyrion I

“There is nothing Lord Eddard can do for the boy in any case.”

“He could end his torment,” Jaime said. “I would, if it were my son. It would be a mercy.”

“I advise against putting that suggestion to Lord Eddard, sweet brother,” Tyrion said. “He would not take it kindly.”

“Even if the boy does live, he will be a cripple. Worse than a cripple. A grotesque. Give me a good clean death.”

Tyrion replied with a shrug that accentuated the twist of his shoulders.

“Speaking for the grotesques,” he said, “I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”

[ilustrandocanciondehieloyfuego]

08_Juego de tronos_Bran II

Le gustaba el sabor que tenía el aire en la cima, dulce y fresco como un melocotón de invierno. Le gustaban también los pájaros: los cuervos de la torre rota, los diminutos gorriones que anidaban en las grietas entre las piedras, el viejo búho que dormitaba en el desván polvoriento sobre la armería... Bran los conocía a todos.

Y, más que nada en el mundo, le gustaba estar en lugares a los que nadie más podía ir, y ver la mole gris y dispersa de Invernalia de una manera que ningún otro veía. Así, todo el castillo era el escondite secreto de Bran. 

Su territorio favorito era la torre rota.

[sunny12th]

just thinking about cripples, bastards, and broken things. these kids that, by all rights and logic, should've died long ago. bran crawling to his destiny with the weight of House Stark on his shoulders. dany dragging herself through the red waste, holding doreah and loving her til she's gone, and carrying a dynasty with her. jon climbing the wall and climbing his way up the ranks of the nights watch, climbing his way into friendships and family and not letting himself look back at the ones he left behind until he has to because it's arya.

bran looking back because looking forward is terrifying, so he looks for his family in anyway he can (through trees and dreams and wolves). he cries out for them, others answer. bran moving forward by any means necessary, 'our road is north,' because what else is there to do as a prince without a kingdom, a boy without a home. dany, 'if I look back I am lost', looking back at the trail of cripples, bastards, and broken things that have left everything they know to follow her, looking back at herself and hating what she sees, looking back and seeing herself in rhaegar's armor. dany looking forward and seeing chains and collars and saying 'I can do something about this, I will do something about this.'

jon 'kill the boy, let the man be born,' he kills the boy and is killed at 16. and dany never getting to be a girl, never had a choice between girlhood and whatever was needed/desired by others. she is sold at 13, mother at 14, widowed at 14, the last the last of her house at 14, conquerer at 15. bran falls, breaks, and flies at 7.

[aegoneggon]

why do i feel like helaena is going to get pushed out the window and it wont be suicide so HOTD can hammer home to us she is just bran

[ceyskywalker]

something about bran being family's favorite and special child

he's even GODS favorite starkling and most precious boy ever lannisters deserved everything that happened to them may the old gods curse them and their lineages

[killerchickadee]

You ever rewatch Game of Thrones and get really really mad at how fucking stupid the last season was?

I know I probably make this exact post every year or two but jesus fucking christ.