#they are the most unplanned between the two 😔

[vendetta-if]

So, question about Yvette. Did she ever want to be a mother? It's definitely implied that the pregnancy was unplanned.

I'm curious if she went through with the pregnancy because Viktor was willing/wanted to raise MC, or if Yvette got cold feet after their birth.

I'm always mixed about Yvette, her choice to not be involved in MC's life was certainly selfish, but no one should be forced to become a parent, especially if the child in question will be taken care of.

From what I’ve seen so far, I think a lot of readers also didn’t really have a problem with her not wanting to be a mother because she didn’t want to, but they seemed to mostly dislike her after she humiliated MC in the store 😔 Anyway, I’ll take the chance to kind of explain more about Yvette’s line of thoughts when she found out that she was pregnant, so it’ll be a bit long.

At that time, she was not ready to become a mother and wanted to focus fully on her career. She did decide to go through with the pregnancy because Viktor begged her to keep the baby and promised that he would take care and raise the baby all by himself—he wouldn’t try to pester or get her to get involved whatsoever in the baby’s life.

And Yvette agreed to it because she loved him a lot… and she was also aware that this hidden relationship between her and Viktor was already coming to an end, especially now that she got pregnant. She knew she couldn’t keep stringing Viktor along like that, and as painful as it was for the two of them, the relationship had to come to an end.

To her, agreeing to giving birth to MC was one last grand gesture of love for Viktor before they went on their separate ways in life.

Selfishly enough—and this is not something that she would admit even to herself—she was also hoping that raising MC would kind of make it harder for Viktor to try start another serious relationship and fully move on as she already established herself as the mother of his child, and that MC would also be something for Viktor to remember her by.

Deep down, she’s still in love with Viktor and she kind of secretly held out hope that Viktor would keep waiting for her, for when her superhero career was finally at its peak and fully stable so she could potentially return to him.

I’ve touched upon this before, but I feel one of Yvette’s biggest flaws is that she just couldn’t choose and wanted to eat her cake and have it too. She kept her relationship with Viktor a secret because she didn’t want to jeopardize her career. And when that failed and she was forced to choose, she still tried to think of a way to get that back in the future.

Yes, young her was selfish and only thought of what’s best for her and what she wanted. Maybe it’s a product of her upbringing. She was born an only child to a wealthy family and if her charisma and beauty alone were not enough to charm people around her growing up, she has her Empathy power.

But I do believe that she did quite a lot of growing up and self-introspection since then, especially after the bookstore incident with MC and Viktor’s death. She is still far from perfect but she’s also not the person she was 20 years ago.

Also, ironically enough, her hope of Viktor having a hard time moving on from her because of MC turned out to be the opposite. Viktor actually moved on and got over most of his feelings for her because he was so focused and happy raising MC, making them his number one priority in life.

During the first few years after MC was born, Viktor still kept contact with her, meeting her every couple of weeks or so and during these meetings, Viktor would tell stories about MC and even showed her some baby pics. Eventually, that became less and less frequent until it finally stopped altogether as Viktor became more preoccupied with raising MC, and Yvette with her career.

[abugwritesstuff]

Prince and Consort Dad/Family Headcanons Pt 2

okay! this edition is for the non-valet characters- i've got one written up specifically for the valets (excluding violet because not a dad and jay because no) that i'll probably post sometime tomorrow. i will note that for this one i left out zev simply because i do not know anything about him, or at least not enough to write a headcanon about him.

this post includes dia, lance (i know those two are princes as well but i didn't want to include them with the previous post), aquia, the headmaster, and hawke. also if i've left anyone obvious out of these posts please let me know! i can always write up some more.

dia 

hahaha

okay so i have so many ideas about this

honestly i can’t pinpoint if he’s the type of have one kid, or like, several 

either way, i can imagine the first one as a complete and total mistake and entirely unplanned

dia had literally never thought of himself as a father, like it kind of hadn’t occurred to him that he could actually do that lmao. like yes he imagined himself marrying the mc but beyond that?? 

he wasn’t raised as a prince so the expectations that yeah, you’re going to have kids weren’t really there 

i mean he was raised basically as a girl so i feel like he may have missed out on certain conversations and expectations. like yes he knows the biology of it all but that wasn’t necessarily a knowledge that had, like, sunk in 

i also sorta feel like this pregnancy happens, like, while they’re still on the isle of colde so it’s just not great timing 

so for the first while there he’s in kind of a daze and it takes him awhile to wrap his head around it 

at first i can see him sort of panicking and avoiding the mc, then coming to his senses and apologizing and then being very clingy the rest of the pregnancy 

he just moves her into his room from then on 

dia just clearing mushrooms out of spare drawers for her things lmao 

like we already knew he was protective and clingy but her being pregnant just multiples this by a million 

this is mostly because he’s concerned for her well-being, not so much because of the baby, which is still kind of a foggy concept in his head. when was the last time he’d even *seen* a baby, let alone interacted with one? probably not since he was child 

he feels guilty about it all 

he’s always been a little snippy and sassy with people but this also gets multiplied by a million during this time

literally getting in between the mc and other people like a physical shield 

👿 don’t talk to my betrothed 👿

he’s the most reactive this way around the headmaster and the S ranks (but mostly fenn and guy). he has sort of a tacit trust of toa 

toa gives the mc herbal teas and tinctures and whatnot so toa is okay 🙄

as she starts to actually have a bump i think he spends a lot of time touching it 

he’s a touchy person with her as is but he just idly has his hand there all the time

he’ll just lie in bed and look at the bump like “baby. a baby. that’s a baby. my baby.” trying to wrap his head around it 

he thinks it’s quite cute actually. he likes it a lot. 

as she gets further along he teases her for waddling around, to which she retorts “well whose fault is that??” and he’s like “😔”

dia doesn’t know anything about birth

like he gets the general idea but barely

has to have the mc explain it and he’s HORRIFIED

promises to never get her pregnant again (maybe)

still feels guilty about it all, like his whole thing was trying to protect her and keep her safe and now look what he’s done 

there is reason for concern about the mc’s powers and giving birth (i imagine this would be the case no matter who she’s having a baby with tbh). like in the history of saligia someone with ancient magic has never given birth, let alone on the isle of colde. so unfortunately the headmaster is much more involved than dia wants him to be 

mc goes into labor and dia freaks the fuck out, jay has to go get help 

she gives birth in their room in dorm nivalis, and also the headmaster is there with a few of the S ranks 

dia makes them stay outside, except for toa who knows about medical shit and can work with the midwives 

dia almost faints and throws up but doesn’t 👊🏻 but he stays up by the mc’s head instead of looking down 

baby is a girl 

no weird magic shit happens much to everyone’s relief 

dia feels like he’s having an out of body experience 

looks down at the baby in mc’s arms and just kinda blinks at her and reaches out to touch her

she does that baby thing where they grip your finger really tight and dia just sort of melts.

from there dia is just like. infatuated with his daughter 

i feel like dia would babywear hahaha

got his kid strapped to him while walking around looking for mushrooms 🍄 

she also really looks a lot like dia so he’s carting around a little mini-me wherever he goes

dia and the mc resume classes and dia tries to convince the headmaster to let them bring her with them to class 

he says no 

jay watches her 

also it goes without saying but he sings lullabies to her OBVIOUSLY

mc has to get after him to stop magicking her to sleep though since he keeps using magical-ass lullabies 

“she’s not going to know how to sleep on her own 😒 you’re gonna make her an insomniac whenever you’re not around”

“well i’ll always be around 😤”

anyways 

if they have more kids it’s a good couple years before their daughter has siblings but i can see them mostly having girls if so

like they don’t have any more until they’re in akedia and trying to rebuild tristitas and whatnot 

baby girl is a songbird obviously 

dia gives her nicknames based off of this, throughout her whole life 

my little lark, baby bird, etc

mc banned mushroom nicknames because they were weird sounding

dia has a perfect understanding of his kids baby language. just like total babbling that nobody can understand but dia is like “mmm, yes, good point”

i think dia is protective and a bit awkward as a dad, probably doesn’t adjust especially well to his kids getting older and more independent 

like what do you mean. that’s my baby. 

i think the possibility of his kids ever being used for their abilities is one of his main fears so he’s pretty nervous to let them sing in front of others but also doesn’t want to restrict that part of them 

anyway dia is a cute dad

lance 

yeah lance puts this off as long as he can 

i think he manages to win the award of “prince with the actual worst father ever” so you can imagine that he’s not necessarily super keen on having kids 

he’s fantastic with them, like he is with animals, but isn’t like… sure about himself as a dad 

as long as his own dad is in charge of ira i think the idea that his kids could be utilized for magical weapons manufacturing scares the shit out of lance 

when they do have kids, they have three: a boy, a girl, and a boy. 

he’s very stiff at first 

like very caring and loving to the mc throughout that first pregnancy obviously but he’s uncomfortable around baby stuff

christoph is excited though and that sort of helps warm him up a bit 

hawke has no kids and isn’t super useful in this regard but he tries to encourage him too. 

lance stops smoking. he may not know much about kids and babies but at least he knows secondhand smoke is bad. 

lance is reads a lot of books about pregnancy, birth, babies, etc. like he may not feel prepared but he can at least try to get there, yknow? he tries to hide these reading habits from everyone but people know. 

he ends up being very helpful during labor because of this. 

midwife lance lol

him with his sleeves rolled up holding mc’s back up and encouraging her ☺️

once the baby is born and he’s able to see his kid, that switch kind of flips and like, lance is not a big crier, but he just holds his baby with tears in his eyes and just sort of blinks over at the mc with disbelief like “we did this??”

very hands on with the baby, anxious about hurting them at first and kind of unsure of himself but the things he feels like he has a good handle on, he will not allow anyone else to do

like if he feels like he’s good at like, bathing the baby? feeding them? yeah he’s doing that. that’s their time back off 😤

once they’re old enough he’s that dad that tosses his kids in the air and holds them upside down, shit that freaks out mc 

lance is a practical dad 

those kids know how to do a lot of shit- archery, swordsmanship, survival skills, first aid…

he’s anxious about teaching them magic but does eventually do that too 

he does not treat his daughter any differently from his sons, has the exact same expectations for all of his children- which is a purposeful choice because he does have a soft spot for his daughter much like lynt does

lance having to hold himself back from threatening anyone who breaks his daughter’s heart because she knows she doesn’t want him doing that nonsense but MAN he wants to beat the shit out of that kid i swear to god……

lance reads to his kids 

but he’s the type of dad to get to a part of a book and be like “…what? no. that’s stupid” and then make up something else even his kids are like “daaaaaddd noooo read the book normal 😫”

like roy, the family goes on camping trips and shit

going hiking as a fam and lance ends up carrying the little one on his shoulders half the time 

god i love every image i have in my head of lance as a dad truly 

so cute 🥲

aquia

i wish i knew more about him but

he’s a big sweetie pie in every route he appears in so i can’t imagine him being anything other than a kind caring sort of dad and partner

i think he’d be very nervous of somehow hurting the MC, would probably treat her like she’s made of glass while she’s pregnant

given that he’s essentially a “spare” and is also kinda bad at magic, i think this gives him more of an ability to lie low and stay out of the public eye, and to avoid a degree of scrutiny so they do have that advantage

mc’s magically abilities would be an issue, i think aquia would be highly anxious about guy telling roc about her. and additionally nervous about this baby being powerful and causing friction in his relationship with guy. i think they would perhaps work out some kind of agreement that the information is kept private in exchange for her loyalty or whatever. 

i do see their baby being a surprise of some sort, whether they’re married or not

like i said, he’d be a complete sweetheart- just anxious and desperate to do the right thing by her

remember too that both of his parents have sucked- his mother is awful and overbearing and roc is… roc. so i think he lacks an example of good parenting but despite this, has a natural knack for it due to his personality being kind and gentle 

my hunch is that avarian fathers are typically sexist and distant. aquia is not that. perhaps a bit nervous at first, but hands-on 

rocking his kids to bed at night, singing to them softly, giving them piggyback rides in the hallways when possible, etc

i've got an image of aquia encouraging his kids to "go say hello to uncle guy!" and guy being mobbed by small children (who love him for some strange, inexplicable reason despite him probably actively ignoring them most of the time)

that’s all i’ve got. he’s a good egg :-)

lou, the headmaster 

oh man

he’d be such an embarrassing dad, can you imagine? lmao

the dad jokes? oh my god

anyway

i’m not sure if the pregnancy would be planned or not, but he’d be surprised and happy regardless 

i actually don’t think he’d be terribly protective compared to some of the others, but i do think they’d probably keep the pregnancy under wraps for as long as possible 

i feel like the headmaster is such an enigma that once everyone knew that they were expecting, they’d be like “…he… he… can do that?”

just puzzled by the fact that this was even happening

he buys a lot of baby clothes 

he buys a matching outfit for himself and the baby 

i don’t think he’d be very helpful while the MC was in labor tbh. he gives me the vibe that he’d be frazzled and kind of squeamish and afraid, maybe

i think it’d be a boy. i really don’t think he’d care about gender or sex or whatever though. he’d just be ecstatic either way. 

i think he’d honestly intend on being the one who does most of the infant care, like “oh go back to your studies we’re fine :)” and just tucks the baby inside his cloak and continues on with his regular duties 

he for some reason is extremely good at taking care of babies. no explanation for this at all, he’s just like an expert parent immediately.

would be the type to show off his son to people. like students ask how he’s doing and he’s like “oh yes he’s wonderful! *pulls baby out from inside his cloak*” 

i do have an image in my head of the headmaster teaching his baby to walk and it’s very cute

i feel like they’d have a lot of fun when the students go home for breaks or for the coldish cleanse 

like campus is empty so they’re having like family picnics and running around the place 

i’m not sure that they’d have more than one kid. if they did i think the age gap would be pretty significant, like ten years. 

he gives me kind of a head-off-in-the-clouds vibe so i think he’d be prone to flights of fancy, random impulse choices to do some extremely random shit with the kids

he’d plan pranks with his kids 

pranking the princes and other students and then suddenly you hear a bunch of child giggles from the next room

all in all he's a good, fun dad. i think it was alluded to that he's like a reincarnation of someone that mc was with in a previous life? so maybe some dad-knowledge is coming through from that life idk

hawke

okay this gives me massive feels

i think he’d have honestly sort of discounted the idea of fatherhood altogether at this point, whether he’d wanted it before or not. like in his mind, that ship has sort of sailed. 

he makes a lot of quips about being old so i can imagine he just doesn’t really have it on his radar until he’s together with the mc, where he’d probably just be like “i wonder if she’ll want them?”

i think he’d just be like, okay with the idea of it for her sake, but as a hypothetical. not sure he’d really ruminate on it all that much.

pregnancy is a surprise. very much an accident. when she tells him, he’s very shocked and taken off guard by it 

imagine the dial up internet noise playing in his head for a good few minutes 

he’d propose immediately, on impulse, as an honor thing, without really properly processing the news 

i think she’d accept but also be like okay woah are you good?? and he would not be good 

the actual news would hit him like a ton of bricks, might throw up 

i think he’d spend the next couple days just either sort of numbed out or frantic and guilty, a kind of whirlwind of emotions 

i think he’d really doubt himself and also feel bad that he’d both A) gotten mc pregnant and B) saddled some poor kid with him as a dad 

part of why he’d be more anxious about this than others is just that since he’s older he’s had more time to see what irian fathers’ parenting tends to do to their kids and perhaps reflect on whatever his own childhood was like. additionally he was former military and i can imagine that there’s probably a degree of PTSD or maladaptive coping that comes as a result of that, and he knows it.

weirdly enough (or maybe this is entirely predictable) i feel like fenn, lance, and violet (and maybe the headmaster for some reason) would encourage him and kind of get him out of the panic-state he’s in

granted some of this would NOT be good advice, but i think the encouragement would help

(as an aside i 100% ship him and violet. like tell me they wouldn’t be a great couple. you can’t. same with her and grayson also actually. there's potential there and she deserves the best. why am i talking about violet in the middle of this headcanon lmao)

additionally i think hawke would re-propose at a later date, try to do something more romantic. i think they’d get married probably sometime after the kid’s born, though

anyways, he’d be very attentive and scold her if she’d push herself too hard. once he’d mentally adjusted to becoming a dad i think he’d be pretty good, if a bit unsure

he does quit drinking, either altogether or makes it a very rare thing. wants to set a good example, y'know?

i think similarly to fenn, he’d kinda panic when she went into labor and violet would have to knock some sense into him 

given his past i think he’d be able to kind of buck up and deal with it. i can see him delivering his own kid, like catching it 

i can see the first baby being a boy

he would cry but try to be discreet about it, just turning away and wiping his eyes but they’re all red anyway

awkward at first but gets a good feel for things pretty quickly. he’d be competent at baby care things pretty quickly. it’s not that i think he’s had a *ton* of experience with them, but i can see him having had a variety of life experiences that probably make adapting to this new role easier for him than it would be for some others.

he does not baby talk to his kids. talks to them basically like adults, even before they can respond.

sometimes lacks a gauge for what’s appropriate for kids in terms of what they’re able to understand though

trying to teach fencing to a 3 yr old and mc’s like “ok let’s wait a couple more years on that one” 

i think they’d have like three kids maybe? there’d be a daughter in there i think 

lance is the kids’ godfather/unofficial official uncle. i don’t even know if they’d discuss this, i think they’d just know it was the case. 

i think he’d be a pretty affectionate dad, very fond of his kids and very patient with them 

the type to ruffle his kids’ hair and call them nicknames like “sport” or “champ” 

expects hard work and effort from his kids. he’d toss his kids into a pool in order to teach them to swim, toss them a sword and tell them to fight to teach them fencing

i think the only thing that would actually really frustrate him is if his kids are especially timid, or are unwilling to try their best 

but all in all he really is a pretty great dad despite his anxiety about it 

i love hawke sm 

give him a route PLEASE

hope you enjoyed! these are so fun, please tell me your headcanons too!

[mariedemedicis]

I haven’t talked about Jayne Ladybright in awhile (😔) but now I’m remedying that

(So actually this was sparked thinking about the Mormont sisters because we actually don’t have a definite age set for any of them except Lyanna; personally I think Dacey and Alysane are rather close in age which I think is supported by the text, between two and four years max I would say; I also think Lyra and Jorelle are close in age, which not as supported by the text, my guess would be they are in their lateish teens as Maege keeps them with her but they are old enough to fight; and then we have Lyanna at age ten at the very end (and I presume, unplanned; not that any of the Mormont girls were planned necessarily but I think Lyanna was more unexpected then the rest. I’m sooo interested in Lyanna’s relationship with her niece though. Aly’s (unnamed) daughter is only a year younger than Lyanna so I imagine they have to be if not close by choice, thrown together a lot by circumstance and their family.)

so my headcanon/guess is that Jayne is not much older than Elia Sand, but especially when you’re young, you cling to those tiny age differences and they mean so much, so I think she’s between one and three years older than Elia, I tend to think closer to the one/one and a half year apart but three at the max

Jayne has to still be on the youngish side because she’s specifically noted as such but she’s also not called a girl so she’s definitely at least sixteen

Elia Sand is fourteen so I would put Jayne at sixteen although I think seventeen is arguable too

(sidenote: not to be a hater but Elia Sand is a lot closer in age to Dany then Rhaenys, you realize that right? If Rhaenys had lived, it makes more sense to me that she’d be close to Arianne and/or the five older Sand Snakes (Sarella feels most plausible tho’) as well as some of the ladies-in-waiting she might have rather than her baby aunt who depending on Rhaella’s survival may not always be raised together with her niece and nephew; Aegon and Dany are closer in age to each other.)

anyway to clarify, this is all speculated/wildly made up by me based on Jayne appearing in one (1) Arianne sample winds chapter so like grrm could choose to change her name or get rid of her entirely (😪) but!

what I find interesting is that I think she’s like a foil to Elia Sand? maybe foil is too strong a word but like complement. I think Jayne is demure and well behaved (is this all based on the fact that pretty much the only thing of note is her being seasick? yes. could grrm choose to change her ‘characterization’? also yes. but i’m working with what little we’ve got.) the way a lady is supposed to be whereas we know Elia is much more gregarious and a bit wild.

I also think that their stations in life have something to do with this too? and grrm could do interesting things with that if he wants to. we have Elia Sand, a very highborn bastard but a bastard nonetheless with a father who it can only be assumed encouraged her wildness and who is only recently dead (and how much of the way Elia acts is in reaction to that, we just don’t know) and then we have Jayne, a presumably fairly sheltered young noblewoman.

if she’s getting seasick for the first time (again assumption but.), this may be the first time she’s left Dorne (not necessarily of course, there are other ways to travel, especially if you’re going only to the Reach or the Stormlands which are next door, but not i think an implausible guess).

the Ladybrights are all my canon ocs. we know next to nothing about them (yet) - not their house words, not their house colors, not their house sigil, not where their seat is located nor its name, and though we know only the names of two members, that’s almost the sum of the knowledge that we have.

I did extrapolate from their name (which is basically the only thing I can extrapolate from) that they might be particularly religious generally or they might be somewhat like certain religious cults where (I’m using cult here in like a specific religious subset way not a mass murder type way although obviously a cult can be both.) one god or aspect was given the lion’s share of the prayers and attention and devotion, i.e. the cult of mithras.

so I designed their sigil keeping that in mind. (sheb drew it for me here because she’s an angel. 💙)

‘the lady’ is a bit vague, it doesn’t map clearly onto solely the maiden or the mother, although those do feel a bit more plausible than the crone tbh. I also think it’s a reasonable interpretation that religion is practiced a bit differently regionally (grrm doesn’t really show us this but 🤫) and I think it’s entirely possible for someone(s) to choose to focus on the women aspects of the seven. (even the stranger honestly. the stranger said to be neither male or female so like, can probably be mapped under either by choice or variant of worshippers. also ‘the lady’ seems like it could be a way to euphemistically refer to a powerful figure such as death or a deathbringer but avoiding using their name so as not to summon them/get their attention.)

so I think the lady can be a number of possible things either a) amalgamation/focus of the maiden, mother, and crone or b) another name for just the maiden or c) mother and maiden or d) the three plus the death aspect. and doesn’t have to be the same one always.

I think House Ladybright may have a special connection with one of these or at the very least, the house founder might have. whether that is still true of the current members of the house is another thing.

Alyse Ladybright, canon relation to Jayne unknown, is lady treasurer.

because of that, I think it’s fairly reasonable to assume both that a) she’s on the older side rather than the younger and b) that she’s not the (current) head of her house.

I think it’s a logical assumption not to put say, a twelve year old, in charge of the accounting and financial decisions of a Great House even if they’re a mathematical genius so I think she is at least 20 and given that Arianne does not include either her or Jayne in her friend group nor in her childhood remembering, I think Alyse is at least 10 to 15 years older than Arianne

I headcanon her as close in age to Doran and them as childhood friends but that’s just what I would like

Likewise, although the age gap is almost certainly less between Arianne and Jayne, she doesn’t feature in Arianne’s memories like Sylva, Garin, Daemon, and Tyene do (this could be because the Ladybrights are very recent conceptions of grrm’s like how in agot we didn’t know all the names of Maege’s daughters but either way I think it has to be presumed they didn’t play together in childhood)

Alyse is probably not the head of her family because if she’s lady treasurer for Doran, she probably spends nearly all of her time in Sunspear/the Water Gardens, etc. it’s not impossible but unlikely that she’d also have time to run House Ladybright’s seat and manage her family’s affairs.

but she is a Ladybright. so either she’s a Ladybright by marriage, a widow, maybe of a previous Lord Ladybright, or she was married and widowed and reverted to her maiden name (possible of course but unlikely I think), or, what I think is most likely, has remained unmarried to do what she loves best which is math for the Martells. and I think she’s able to do that because her position brings prestige to her family.

so I think she is either younger sister to the current ruling Lord or Lady Ladybright or aunt to the same. Either way, I have her as great-aunt to Jayne.

hmm I really strayed from my initial thought didn’t I

it’s unclear to me whether Jayne and Elia Sand had an acquaintance before this trip but if not or if they knew who the other was and that’s about it, Elia making fun of Jayne getting seasick is hardly going to put them on the right foot so I look forward to them not getting along and being contrasts to each other and probably driving poor Arianne crazy

(last comment before I post this ramblygook: why is Jayne included at all in Arianne’s party? she’s the most obvious why is she there, so I think my idea that Doran and Alyse are friends/were friends/are close isn’t completely unfounded. also supports my thought that the Ladybrights are sworn directly to the Martells rather than vassals of say, the Daynes or the Yronwoods, but given their lack of significant mentions in Dornish history, I think it’s likely they derive their prestige from that relationship alone.)

I hope we see more of Jayne (and I hope we get to see Alyse) even if it means I’m proven wrong

I don’t know how to end this so uh have a meme behind the cut and peace and love ✌️

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