#modern Braime AU

[riocat01]

Modern Braime AU!

[seaworthee]

no, girl.

[abouquetofdaylillies]

Modern AU Tyrion lives with Jaime in a penthouse apartment that is paid for by Tywins company where Jaime pretends to work but he really just listens to Arthur Dayne's podcast and pulls up an Xcel spreadsheet whenever someone walks in. Tyrion is a twitch streamer and Twitter intelleckshual and his fan base is desperate for a face reveal because they think he's a hot alpha male Chad and Tyrion doesn't correct them but he never promises a face reveal of any kind. Their apartment is absolutely disgusting because they're both man babies and whenever Brienne comes over she hovers over the toilet to pee but Jaime's funny so it makes up for it in her mind. She leaves her razor in their bathroom and Tyrion uses it and they have an argument and he doesn't understand why she's mad about it and he posts on Twitter that his roommate's gf is a bitch and he and Jaime get in a fist fight over it and Brienne is just like "come over to mine next time." And everything is fine.

[braime-won]

I have a request! There is a scene in the end of Nightwatch 2 with Nikolaj cw taking his shirt off at a beach.Can u somehow make modern Jaime and Brienne gifs with that? No pressure!!!

Hmmm interesting! If I can find Nightwatch 2 at my usual dl palace then yeah I'll do it for you. I already got some Gwen beach footage in mind. It's been awhile since I made some modern au J/B gifs.

[insignificantly-notorious]

Lies Layered Like Peach Strudel - Chapter 2 Updated!

Jaime Lannister was one rich, obnoxious individual. Obnoxious enough to buy an apartment (one-floor penthouse?) opposite Stark, Stark, Tully & Co. (SSTC)’s office to be called his home. It was that afternoon when Jaime proposed to her. Brienne could barely utter a word and only blinked rapidly at him. So he suggested that after office hours, she would go to his house and ‘discuss’, while finally un-pin her from the wall since he decided he should go home and rest.

[lookatthethrones]

Oh look, it's Jaime and Brienne's sons having an argument.

[roosterbox]

Fic Rec Friday 6/2/23

Title: you come back with gravity

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: F/M

Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms

Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Jaime Lannister & Brienne of Tarth

Characters: Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, Tyrion Lannister, Cersei Lannister, Lysa Tully Arryn, Hyle Hunt

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Childhood Friends, Alternate Universe - High School, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Friends to Lovers, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Protective Jaime Lannister

Summary: Now she runs back to the same old swing, the place that ties them together. Brienne doesn’t understand what she’s feeling, but she needs to be here–where she can remember all the versions of herself, and their history is as present as a living thing.

She rocks back and forth, clinging to where they started, because she has no clue where they’re going.

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This week’s rec is from the wonderful, wild world of Game of Thrones fanfic. God, remember when that show was popular? Time keeps rolling on. But thankfully fanfiction is forever (and usually better than canon!), and so here we are.

I love a good modern AU of a fantasy story, and putting my favorite ASOIAF ship in it? Perfection. The love between Jaime and Brienne is so easily translatable to any time and setting, but something about seeing them in modern times especially warms my heart. Maybe because Brienne being tall and “ugly” (in quotes because looks are always subjective, and even if she was absolutely hideous (she’s not!) her beautiful soul makes it irrelevant) is less remarked upon than in canon? Maybe because Jaime’s genuinely good nature has more of a chance to shine through? I don’t know why, but I love it.

The relationship in this one builds naturally. Gently. We only see a few snapshots of their life together, but you never doubt their feelings or commitment. And the characterization rings true of their canon counterparts too, but with a modern flair that fits them well. Also, the role reversal in the last segment is just *chef’s kiss*. Perfectly emphasizes what birds of a feather they are, while ostensibly being opposites.

A truly lovely piece of writing!

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Next Week: Time for another trip to visit our favorite autistic space man and his vulgar, dog shirt wearing sweetheart! And this one has an interesting trope as its main concept - temporary amnesia. But not even losing his memory will stop Nigel from being absolutely smitten with Adam Raki. That man is DOWN BAD.

See you next time, my lovelies!

[alishaaxo]

List of All Elia Martell-centric fics I enjoy:

Elia Martell And The Crown She Didn’t Want: AU where she marries Baelor Hightower yet Rhaegar is longing for her, which is unreciprocated.

Two Father’s, One Son: Everyone Lives AU where Jon Snow dies unexpectedly and Elia comes back to KL, married to Baelor Hightower.

The Isle Of Faces Does Not Welcome: Elia and Rhaegar have a third child, and Elia confronts Lyanna. No bashing of her, from Lyanna’s POV.

Clean AU: Elia and children are missing, assumed dead for 15 years, until a mystery knight returns to KL, claiming the blue roses his mother deserves.

The Queen And Her Bastard: Everyone Lives AU. Legitimised bastard Jon with sympathetic Lyanna slowly turned more cunning against Elia. Jon-Aegon have positive relationship, in spite of their mother’s ambitions.

The Brightest Sun: Elia and kids transported to Harry Potter Epilogue era. Train and arrive to Westeros during GOT. 200K words.

Poetry is what he thought, but did not say: Erik Kilmonger as Rhaegar. Ruthless Elia with ruthless Rhaegar who has a controversial temperament and bad reputation. Interesting dynamic with Barristan, Arthur and Aerys.

Dragons spin and spin: Spiders weave and weave: Mainly Elia Martell AU oneshot collection, with other characters included.

A tigress, not a woman: Elia Martell scorned by Rhaegar, wants for a annulment. Elia beloved by the Smallfolk.

Poison is a Woman’s Weapon: Queen Regent Elia watches on as Aegon gets crowned, reminiscing on the past.

An unexpected news item: Elia Martell gets shocking news. Very exaggerated bashing of Lyanna.

With Careful Hands and A Strong Chin: Doran died as a babe, Elia is the heir to Dorne. Arthur-Elia.

With Duty In Mind: Elia and Rhaella clean up Rhaegar’s messes.

Gone Girl: Elia dies only to wake up before her wedding. She runs away, with Rhaegar following suit in her trail in regret.

In The Chaos Of A World: Rhaegar dies while Lyanna and Elia live to see Robert ascend. Robert-Elia not in a romantic light, but political.

Caged Beasts And Cloudy Skies: Braime-centric, yet Elia-focused as they wish to crown her after the scorn from R+L, and bring her to rest at her homeland.

Lex Talionis: SIOC of Elia, takes the war into her own hands. Jaime-Elia centric.

Lady of Stormsend: Annulled Elia-Rhaegar, yet Elia married Robert and jealousy and resentment arises.

From Where Blessings Flow: Robert and Elia marry, yet the Realm is not settled as Aegon and Rhaenys grow. With Rhaenys-Viserys.

Living With Regret Of The Chance Not Taken: Rhaegar and Lyanna are married, while Elia, Aegon and Rhaenys are missing… until they are not. And life turns on it’s head. No bashing, just critical of R+L.

Planetos React: Modern AU react to historical figures Elia, Aegon, Rhaenys and Jaime found within tombs, and go wild on tumblr.

But A Woman Is A Changling (always shifting shape: My fic!! Selfless promo! Elia has a green-dress moment ala Alicent where she shows pride in her heritage and snarks towards Rhaegar and Lyanna.

This is all the Elia-centric fics I know of and enjoy! If you have any, please comment them and I’ll add them to this masterlist!!

[seventh7crow]

calling all the braime shippers to recommend me their favorite fanfics. PLEASE it's a fucking NEED you guys. send me the best ones, the long ones. the ones i can send into my kindle and read until my eyes are literally melting into the screen it's a fucking MUST for me tonight. modern AUs, canon divergence, just whatever you fancy with pining, with fluff with EVERYTHING guys I'M DESPERATE

[daenystheedreamer]

i love looking at ao3 statistics did you know if you exclude got and hotd from your search the top ships will include both rhaegar/lyanna and rhaegar/elia but not rhaegar/joncon even though out of those three people joncon is the only person confirmed to have even liked rhaegar in the first place. also the top tag for stavos is modern au... all stannis fans want is to see him in his rightful place (shitty corporate job at the executive level)

I LOVE AO3 STATS omg i went down a rabbit hole for yearly changes in the ASOIAF tag and its so fun (<- nerd)!! you can see how game of thrones totally changed the landscape, then how hotd just annihilates it. i didnt filter out the show tags for this reason. before the show released, somehow arianne x jon snow was the THIRD!! most popular pairing. and stavos is there too but is ANNIHILATED once the show airs. braime is consitently on top but gets beat by jonsa and jonerys a couple times, and then Its So Back, and now its so joever because of hotd however if you take out the hotd tags its #1 🫶

intellectually annotated pics below, super interesting if youre an insufferable nerd. i filtered for 2011-01-01 until 2012-01-01 and so on, and didnt filter show tags.

[riocat01]

Modern Braime AU:

Jaime Sees Something He Wants!

[15-lizards]

i am embarking on writing a modern braime college sports au. they will be swimmers bc i swam for 13 years 2 of them in college so i will have to do comparatively minimal research. once i have something worth sharing I’ll come off anon to share. and i am absolutely using your posts about this type of au as inspo

YES PLEASEEE I literally tried to write that student athlete Brienne x LanistarRoyCo CFO Jamie fic but for all my meager writing skills I’m not very good at writing fic. Should give it another shot tho it lives rent free in my brain

More headcanons for the soul

-Brienne would wear her warmups/athlesiure literally everywhere. She maybe owns one pair of jeans. Not in like an asshole student athlete way who rides their scooter around campus and flexes their gear, that’s Jamie

-when all the boys bleach their hair (do college swimmers still do that or is it solely a high school thing) before shaving it off, Jamie absolutely refuses. Everyone gets mad at him for no team spirit but he doesn’t really gaf

-Jamie has thirty sponsorships and 50k followers on instagram and is verified and all of his posts are curated by a PR person. Brienne has 27 followers 3 posts and has been on private since she made her account

-Brienne is normal about being a student athlete. She does her work and goes to class then practice and doesn’t complain. Only thing that identifies her as part of the swim team is sometimes she wears the jacket. Jamie complains about his workload and sport balance every day bc it’s just so hard being a student athlete those plebeian NARPS just don’t understand (he’s a business major)

-Jamie is constantly ragging on Brienne but every time he sees her cut through the water like a dolphin he has to turn away for his own sanity

-Brienne tries to deny her crush on Jamie bc she feels stupid having a crush on him like everyone else but the first time he gives her his undivided attention in a nice way she has a panic attack

-Their first kiss happens after they get into an argument and Jamie is suddenly realizing how attractive Brienne is when she yells at him and he randomly asks if he can kiss her and she goes against her own judgement and says yes. It’s cute then she comes to her senses and pushes him into the pool hoping he lands on his head 💜

[abouquetofdaylillies]

i live for ur modern aus i need more pls

Thank you! I'm currently in the process of writing a modern AU, but it's less comedic, and more of a dramatic romance. Jaime is a homicide detective and Brienne is a child welfare agent and she's pulled into the murder investigation of one of client's mothers.

I'm also making plans for a Western Gothic Braime fic, and a Blair Witch (kinda sorta, it'll be a ghost story but it'll take place in the Riverlands or the Whsipers can't decide) Braime fic.

But, for more modern AU headcanons, here you go:

-Jaime never obeys the speed limit, in the city or on the highway, and it stresses Brienne the HELL OUT.

-Tommen is one of those ipad kids who wears those big onesies around the house.

-Myrcella has a coquette/pink aesthetic blog that she keeps secret from the adults because a bunch of the photos are just women in pink thigh high stockings.

-Brienne loves historical romance but keeps it secret, she either reads on her phone or keeps the books hidden under her bed.

-Joffrey only wears stinky Minecraft hoodies and blackmails Myrcella by threatening to tell Cersei about her blog.

-Brienne is a big athleisure girly because she can always find peices that fit her and look good. When she starts openly dating Jaime, Cersei makes a bunch of passive aggressive posts on her Facebook and Twitter about how whorish and sloppy she thinks it is for women to wear leggings as pants.

-Jaime is constantly sending Brienne memes that are months old and she doesn't have the heart to tell him, so she's always like, "That's great sweetie :)"

-Jaime and Cersei were big on terms of endearment when they were dating, and called each other 'babe' alot. They've had several very tense and awkward moments where one of them accidently called the other 'babe' in front of Tywin.

-Jaime is still a big fan of terms of endearment when he starts dating Brienne, but calls her 'my love' instead. Brienne just calls him Jaime.

-Both Jaime and Brienne hate PDA but are very affectionate in private. If Brienne is sleeping on her stomach or back Jaime will lay on top of her like a slug until he feels like he has enough Brienne-time.

-Jaime and Brienne watch Dateline together.

-Tyrion is a huge pothead. He started using to help him with his chronic joint pain and eventually opens a head shop with Tysha, who is a ceramic artist and makes pipes that they sell in their shop. Margarey is a frequent flier in their store.

-Sansa plays tennis even though she likes track better. She thinks tennis skirts are prettier and tennis is a more refined sport.

-Jon has more friends than Robb, and often invites him to parties instead of the other way around. Robb loves parties while Jon hates them.

-Theon is hired as a waiter because he's really hot but quits because he didn't realize how much walking it takes and Ramsay the line cook always silently stares at him when he goes back into the kitchen.

-Sam and Jon become roommates after Sam gets kicked out and they host Smash bros tournaments in their apartment. They're very close friends and often get mistaken for a couple. Robb posts about how much he loves his LGBT family members on his Insta during pride month to try and be supportive and Jon thinks it's for Brynden Tully and likes it.

[jaimexbrienne-fic-finder]

ok, i just have no clue how to search for this. it's a braime fic that's a modern au but also canon-verse. brienne's like, a pi looking for sansa and arya and it's vaguely post-adwd. the events of the books happened but all in a modern setting. i think oathkeeper's a car? i feel like it's a pretty unique fic setup but i cannot find it! thank you!

I am pretty sure it's

All the Redemption I Can Offer by Lady_in_Red I immediately thought of this, but it is also the only one I can think of. If I am wrong please let us know and maybe someone else can help!

[insignificantly-notorious]

No one asks but here are what Jaime and Brienne's would wear if they're in the modern era as I'm scrolling through aimlessly trying to find clothes myself:

BRIENNE: Brinny is a TRUE supporter of local-made clothes. A LOT of vintage shopping involves but with her physic, it's quite hard to find clothes her size so she goes to men's section. Has her dad's hand-me-down buttons ups, If she buys new clothes, it's probably very well made with fabrics like wool and cashmere. Always would buy local too and would spurge on custom suits if she has extra to spend if she isn't buy some random knickknacks-which she always does lol. Most her jewellery are silver and vintage!

A lot of earth tones in her closet and good quality SOCKS! JUMPSUITS! SWEATERS!

JAIME: This mf has no concept of money the only currency in the world that matters is ATTENTION! Jaime would wearing some of the outrageous, loud-logo luxury brands with bright ass colours and he would still looks good cause he's pretty!

The only hand-me-downs(?) are his mom's (gold) jewellery. A lot of nice colours custom, expensive suits though (white, reds, greens, browns) just to look cunty as he surviving the corporate world his dad dragged him into.

His taste with scarfs are IMMACULATE and a collector of it. Don't like wristwatches but LOVES pocket watches. And his nails always clean and well manicured ✨✨✨

[musing-and-music]

Meeting the ancestors

Written for the Sweet or Spicy Braime Exchange 2023 for lilacs_in_bloom

Summary:

People said Casterly Rock was haunted by generations of Lannisters, ghosts wandering in the wide halls of the red mountain looming over the Westerlands, and that only those with Lannister blood could see them and speak to them. Brienne Tarth, art restorer, is asked to work in Casterly Rock on a few paintings belonging to the Lannisters. While staying there, she meets a few ghosts, and their stories bring her closer to understanding the past... and the future?

Rating T | 2075 words | Modern AU, Ghosts, Reincarnation - Sorta, Painting Restoration, Inspired by Baumgartner Restoration, First Meetings, Falling in Love, Fluff | Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Various Lannisters (alive and dead)

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Reference for the painting: The Past, by Thomas Cole