#modern alicole au

[loonie-and-proud]

modern alicole au

criston cole has been the hightower's neighbor for ten years. he's always with them, he had dinner with them, he goes for the children to school, he sometimes spend the night at the house.

just for one day picking up aegon in his aa meeting someone make a comment on "aegon mom's boyfriend" and criston says they're just friends.

aegon is so confused.

he text his siblings about this and all of them are like "what the fuck do you mean they're not dating????"

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

first sunday without them.

[nxpthys]

Kid!Aegon: Every time I go to a hotel I take a bite of soap, just to mess with people.

Criston: You DO realize that by eating soap, you’re the one who’s losing, right?

Kid!Aemond: You’re just jealous he was brave enough to taste the Forbidden White Chocolate.

Kid!Aegon: White chocolate’s disgusting!

Alicent: AND SOAP ISN’T?!?!

[mothdoly]

welcome to my pta mom alicent au, she is very active in her community

[alicentsultana]

Calling all besties to debate with me!

Hotd modern!au, what would Criston work with?

I particularly see him in something like military official or a firefighter, lieutenant or capitan, something that involves fighting and security of some sorts.

In the same au, what would Alicent do?

In my head, she probably would divorce and have to redo her life, she's very clever, and I believe that she well versed in history, culture, knows a little bit about language and dialects, so I see her as either a professor or a tourist guide, I totally can see her showing monuments and explaining it, and I also can see her doing a slide presentation and telling students to write an essay for next Tuesday.

I also think about the children, Aegon would totally try to drop out of high-school and give up college, furthermore as a way to help his mother after the divorce. However, Alicent would force him to finish school and tell him to get a half-period job (maybe in mctargaryen), but I think he would try to take care of his siblings so his mother wouldn't worry.

Helaena and Aemond would clean the house and attempt to make some food (pasta, that's a lazy home alone sibling food), and I picture they would fight over who's turn it is to change Daeron's diapper (he only begin to walk recently).

Anyway, tell me you guys opinions and hc, I need some ideas.

[fatherforgivethem]

Are you, are you, comin' to the tree? Where they strung up a man, they say, who murdered three. Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be, if we met at midnight in the hanging tree…

Are you, are you, comin' to the tree? Where the dead man called out for his love to flee. Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be, if we met at midnight in the hanging tree…

(Thank you to @sidraofthewildflowers for plaguing me with this idea. The movie was bomb we need to see it again!)

[florisbaratheons]

Hightower Mum and Dad.

(Six year old Daeron took the pictures. Helaena put the barrettes in Criston's hair.)

Fic Posted Here!

[sidraofthewildflowers]

The Story of Alicent and Criston

~ Alicent Hightower and Criston Cole were both students at NYU. Alicent had a passion for design and was majoring in architecture, while Criston, known for his ability to remember even the most obscure historical trivia, was pursuing a degree in history.

~ The two of them met in their freshman year in a communications course where they had the world’s worst professor. Alicent wasn’t completely sold on a friendship with Criston at first, but his sense of humor grew on her. They bonded over their shared hatred of their teacher, their passion for their areas of study, and the fact that they were both English students attending school in the states.

~ After realizing they were both failing the class, they formed a two person study group, and constantly helped each other out in class. Fortunately, after many all nighters they both ended up passing and they never had to take another class with that professor again.

~ As time went on, they’d often be found studying/procrastinating together at one of the coffee shops on campus, where they agreed the coffee was terrible but never stopped going.

~ Criston had an annoying roommate during his freshman year and so he would spend most of his time at Alicent’s (and her strange but kind roommate’s) apartment.

~ Without thinking about it, the two of them began doing everyday tasks together like grocery shopping, cleaning their apartments, and studying (even though by junior year they didn’t share any classes anymore).

~ Criston smoked since before Alicent met him, and refused to quit even when she’d nag him and tell him how terrible it was for him! She smoked on and off throughout college though (mostly during stressful periods).

~ Their roommates, were convinced they were in love, and teased them constantly. They always denied having feelings for one another and both of them dated other people on and off through college.

~ In their senior year, Criston began dating a girl named Rhaenyra, and Alicent was introduced by her father to a man named Viserys, which caused some rifts in their friendship.

~ Upon graduating, Criston was offered a job in the states, which he took, while Alicent returned home to be closer to her dad. Though they told each other they’d keep in touch it became more and more difficult, especially after Alicent told Criston that Viserys proposed and that she was expecting her first child.

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~ 10 long years have gone by and Criston has moved back to London. He missed his family and he, luckily, found a teaching position at Oxford as a History professor. He’s excited to be back, to be home.

~ After a messy divorce, Alicent feels like she is finally free to live the life she’s always wanted. She can finally peruse a job within her field of study. Even if she’s constantly busy with her four children. They never seem to stop growing and they always have something for school due the next day. Aegon, her eldest, is 8. Helaena, her only girl, is 6. Aemond is 4 and Daeron had just turned 2 years old.

~ There was nothing she tried harder to do than to get herself and her children far away from her ex-husband. She needed to keep them safe, to let them live a normal life. It also helps that she was able to get a good amount of money from the divorce. Enough to buy a home in the city and get the uniforms her two eldest children need for school.

~ One day, after picking up the kids from school, she and her herd of children could be found shopping for groceries. Aegon was begging for a certain dinner, Helaena and Aemond wanted to buy a toy, and Daeron was busy chewing on his blanket. It was chaos, but the best kind. The one she loved.

~ She was listening to Aegon tell her about his day at school when her cart crashed into another’s. What she didn’t expect that day, was to look up and see her best friend, Criston Cole, standing there after 10 years of thinking she would never see him again.

~ The world seemed to stop when she saw him, and with the way that Criston was standing still, it was the same for him. The only thing that brought her back down to earth was Aegon pulling on her sleeve. “Mummy? Mummy?”

~ And so the next hour was spent with Criston helping her shop as they caught up with each other. She introduced him to the kids and while Daeron liked him, the others looked skeptical. He told her about his breakup with Rhaenyra, how hard he took it. She told him about her divorce and what she was doing now. He told her that he was back for good and that he had a teaching job at Oxford.

~ When he noticed just how many bags of groceries she had, he helped her bring all of them back to her house. Her house is only a short walk away and the both of them kept an eye on the kids whenever they crossed a street.

~ And so life went on. Criston was over all the time, he would take the kids out for fun activists. Alicent would take the kids to visit him at work. Aegon, Helaena, and Aemond became attached to Criston as time went on.

~ Alicent found an architecture job and before she knew it, she was finally letting her feelings for Criston come to light. After years of keeping quite, one night after the kids had gone to sleep, she told him that she had always loved him. And, luckily, he had said the same.

~ It was only a year or two after that when Criston moved in, and it wasn’t long before he was proposing. They were at Aegon’s soccer practice and Daeron was asleep between them. Criston turned to Alicent and said “Ali… would you wanna marry me?”. It didn’t take much convincing for her to say yes.

~ The wedding was a small one, full of friends and family members. The kids had fun on the dance floor and Alicent and Criston took as many pictures as they could.

~ The life that they had always wanted was finally theirs, after so many years, it was theirs.

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With LOTS of writing help from @fatherforgivethem 🤍🤍🤍🤓

[ladymorghul]

imagine alicent going out for drinks with criston who she knows but hasn’t introduced to the kids and she drinks a little bit more than she planned so criston kind of has to take her home to make sure she gets there fine and when he gets there the kids are like:

[writerswhy]

WIP Titles Game

Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your wip folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

I got tagged by @the-phoenix-king-blog! Thank you! These games are pretty fun 😊

I only have three WIPs and who knows if they’ll ever see the light of day but here you go:

Once more, with feeling 

On this day in history 

We light the way 

I’m pretty bad at tagging but if anyone is interested go right ahead! 

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

#we’re just normal men. (via @mylestoyne)

criston and larys are carpooling to nine year old aemond’s karate recital bc larys can’t drive and larys is like whos your favourite director and criston’s like i dont know. whos yours. and larys says probably john waters. and criston says that’s original (derisive. unclear if he’s being sarcastic). the car runs over something and larys says was that a dog or a kid and criston shrugs. checks the hand mirror. dog. michael bay. they both completely ignore aemond’s karate recital they both only went for fear if he didnt and the other did he’d be losing the alicent’s favourite guy competition

[writingsofwesteros]

Tom and his tv wife #irl

They are so flirty in interviews and have so much chemistry that they’re always paired up together

Interviewers ask about their sex scenes and tv wife actress! can only blush and bury her head into Tom’s shoulders in embarrassment (Tom is grinning like a madman)

Fabien posting his instagram pics and one of the ones that gets the most attention is of Tom and tv wife actress! cuddled up in bed after one of their sex scenes, the pair watching videos on Tom’s phone in between takes

HOTD fans never needing to imagine the characters in a modern AU bc they have Tom and tv wife actress! posting holiday pics from Spain (Tom loves to see her in a bikini and has a few pics he secretly took on his phone)

Tv wife actress! doing an interview with Olivia and Emma and the pair teasing the girl for her scandalous scenes with Tom and she just giggles (tom keeps suggesting them to the directors)

!!!

There is a scene of her and Aegon asleep....its the time Aemond goes to visit him. And tv wife actually falls asleep and cuddles into Tom without thought. He strokes her hair .

And she always has Ziggy with her, sometimes she'll post a story and it's her walking with Ziggy zooming past!

Of course Tom is suggesting such things and instead of alicole sex we are getting theirs oospie

[tessarionbestgirl]

Alicole Modern Au, but Cole is Alicent work husband.

[nxpthys]

Criston, dressed like Santa and lying on the floor of Aemond's room: Ouch Alicent: What's wrong? Criston: I try to give Aemond his gifts, but the moment I got through the window he hit me with his toy and kicked me in the balls yelling: “go away creep!” I’m both proud and concerned

[thingsthatneedtobesaidsblog]

I lowkey (very highkey) want a fanfic where Alicent is a recent Widow and she has been sleep casually with criston her work partner when she finds out she's pregnant with his baby and she contemplating abortion because she one can't afford it, and two she's already a regretful parent.

I need her to be contemplating telling Criston but she never gets the chance to make the choice to tell him because she finds out he's been moved to a different company or he left.

I just need some tragic Alicole fanfic and I'm honestly not finding them anywhere 😪 and on AO3 they aren't even the primary couple, like I just need a story of it being they're tragic love story either HOTD timeline or modern au.

I also love this idea where someone switched the kids Jace, Luke and joff were criston and alicents whlie Helaena, aemond and Daeron are Rhaenyras I just absolutely love it.

[alicentsultana]

I saw your modern! au post and here are some thoughts:

I feel like the Hightower's in a modern au would own a really fancy university in Oldtown plus a Church.

Otto's older brother, I believe he's named Hobert Hightower in the show? anywayyyy he's like the owner of everyone, Otto is a professor and Alicent kinda followed in to his footsteps.

She met Viserys after Aemma dies? Kinda like Viserys started going to church lol and Alicent was already going to church so they meet, he grows an attachment, she feels weird about it? Because let's say here Viserys and Otto were University buddies? Like Viserys was sent to Oldtown to study met Otto they became friends, then Viserys moved back to KL but they still somewhat kept in touch.

But Otto sees Viserys's interest in Alicent as something good, because the Targaryen's are filthy rich so he hopes Alicent and himself by extension will get benefits through Viserys.

Alicent married Viserys, let's imagine she was barley 19? Because a Stepmom to 9 year old Rhaenyra who hated her guts (it's honestly just and expected reaction I think because the poor lil girl just lost her mom and now her dad brings in his new wife so she feels abandoned in a way) and an asshole brother in law Daemon who keeps insulting and laughing at her.

Then there's Criston who's...hmmm a newly hired bodyguard for the Targaryen's? He was mainly in charge of Rhaenyra, him and Alicent don't interact much beyond pleasant hellos and stuff.

After 9ish years? Of a toxic marriage Alicent just has enough of dealing with Viserys, his neglect and straight up bad behaviour towards her. Let's say Aegon is 9, Helaena 8, Aemond 7, and Daeron 2. She takes the kids and hires a lawyer (for the sake of plot lol let's say her lawyer is Larys Strong 🤡) she gets some shares in whatever business Targaryen's have and moves back to Oldtown.

This is getting long lol so to be continued....

Omg I LOVED THAT

Annon if you ever plan to write it or just rumble about it SIGN ME IN!!!!

The post for those who want to read/recap.

Larys as lawyer is 10/10, I wonder how the audit turned out, will viserys fight for custody? Does he visits? The children together have roughly a great percentage of Targwhatever inc than Rhaenyra, I believe someone would try a lawsuit, just to spice things up.

Wouldn't judge the girl either, she just lost her mother and her father is already thirsting around... but I do want her to be close to her siblings, and then everything going -360°

I would love to read and think about Alicent's motivation, do you think otto used religion to say this was right or do you think she ever held some personal ambition? I picture her abandoning her studies to marry, is something that always comes to me, I also would go as far as bringing any kind of kink from his side while she's quite clueless, adding those very dark undertones, he thinks he's in the right.

Also, I must come my alicole bs so bear it with me - he's hating work for this targashian/townner clan, Alicent doesn't have money to keep him when she moves out with the children - so he just find some work around? Maybe even helping in the church, one hour travel to old town every weekend... In the Seven we trust

Please continue, this is sounding awesome!