Summary: "A lions still has claws" With rebellion brewing in the kingdom of Westeros, where will Thea find herself when the fighting does begin? A lion of House Lannister, Thea is young and troublesome. She is brave, and stupid, enough to do whatever she pleases, without a thought about the consequences. That has gotten her into trouble enough times, and it isn't about to end yet. OC.
Disclaimer: I do not own A Game Of Thrones or A Song Of Fire And Ice. All rights go to their respective owners. The only thing I own is Thea.
Authors Note: Hopefully his one will be better than the last chapter. And if you guys would like a visual on Thea, I knew from the beginning that it would be the beautiful Blake Lively she would be modeled after. You see a lot of Thea's true colors in this chapter. She isn't happy at all. She isn't happy that she had to go North. She isn't happy she is being forced to marry. And she doesn't like Robert, so she isn't happy to be in his company for the duration of their stay. She's frustrated, because even she knows. There's no way she could say no the king and he'd take her word into account. Excuse my french again, but she truly doesn't have a fuck to give.
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"A feast in honor of the King," Thea said bitterly, as Carys finished brushing through the youngest Lannister's hair "If they only knew of the King's true self, they wouldn't be honoring him with feasts but with a beheading at the foot of the Sept."
"You shouldn't speak such things," Carys said, placing the brush back down on the table and walking over the fire. It had grown dim in the past few hours and Thea liked her room hot before she went to bed "You could be tried for treason, my lady."
"Like the great Robert Baratheon would take the head of the youngest daughter of Tywin Lannister and place it upon a spike. He's too cowardly to do such a thing." Thea spat, running her finger through the ends of her soft hair. There had been no love loss between Thea Lannister and Robert Baratheon. She thought him a drunken swine. She had been forced to tolerate him her whole life as her brother by law "I am not in the presence of the King, my family or his guard, so I shall speak no good words of the fat oaf."
"My lady, how would you like your hair styled?" Carys walked back over to her after washing off her hands in the pale of water.
"Leave it be," Thea said, turning in her chair to face her Pentoshi handmaiden "Carys, how do you find the King?"
"He is a good man," Carys didn't know how to answer. If they were overheard, a young woman like Thea Lannister would never be declared a traitor. A lowborn woman of Pentos working as a handmaiden would. She couldn't speak ill of the King. Her answer had clearly been wrong as Thea pursed her lips and narrowed her blue eyes slightly. The Lannister woman had been blessed with thick dark eyelashes, enveloping her eyes perfectly. Many a man had been lost in those blue orbs.
"A good man?" Thea asked, a slight chuckle in her voice, standing up and brushing out her skirts.
"Yes, my lady."
"And you think him brave and honorable like the stories say?" Thea asked, taking small steps towards the woman.
"Yes, my lady," Carys repeated.
"And honorable man doesn't indulge on wine and whores every other night and till return to the bed where his wife sleeps," Thea said, with a firm face "An honorable man would claim his bastards, even if the Faith of the Seven doesn't allow such a thing. And God knows he's fathered plenty. Too many to count." Thea stepped past her visibly shaken handmaiden. Thea had the Lannister temper, she just shows it in a more lady-like fashion. She stood in front of the blazing fire, staring deep into the dancing flames "He dishonors himself in those whorehouses. He dishonors my sister by bedding those whores. He dishonors the Realm for believing he is an appropriate King."
"My la-" Carys began, but her speech was cut short by Thea.
"Robert Baratheon. King of the Andals and the First Men. Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. Protector of the Realm." Thea spoke "The dishonorable swine does not deserve the title of King. Seven Hells, I'd rather that Viserys Targaryen to be resting his silver haired buttocks on the iron throne."
"If I have caused you offence, my lady, I am truly sorry," Carys said, lowing her head and looking to the ground.
"Offence?" Thea asked, turning around and burrowing her eyebrows together "Why would I take offence? You were just stating your own opinion of the man. I was just merely telling you the truth." Thea walked forward to stand to her handmaidens front "Raise your head girl, you're not a sulking child. Tell me, what do you think of love?"
"Love, my lady?"
"Yes," Thea answered.
"When a woman and a man accept each other for who they are, be true to one another, forgiving them for all the wrongs they have done in the past and standing by them in the future," Carys stated.
"And, do you believe in true love?" Thea asked "or soul mates? Whatever they call it from wherever you're from."
"Yes," Carys said, with a nod of her head. Thea resting her hand on the back of the chair and tilted her hair slightly to the right "Yes, I do."
"Hm, exactly as I thought." Thea blinked her eyes as she looked at the Pentoshi woman "Well I am grateful I do not need to care what you believe. This notion that one man is destined to be with only one woman is a lie mothers tell their daughters at night. I am saddened to tell you this, but there is no such thing. No man or woman can ever be true to one another because they are never true to themselves. Look at Eddard Stark. An honorable and loyal man, and I don't doubt that he is. Yet, he fathered a bastard." No man is forever true and honorable as no woman is ever loyal and diligent.
"Lord Stark has given you a place in his home as his guest, my lady," Carys spoke "A true lady would respect that."
"I am guest of the King, of course, he would have to offer me his home and, I think we both agree that I am no true lady," Thea said, baring her teeth like lion and stepping forward again "Listen to me, Carys and listen well. In our sad, sorry little lives no man is forever brave and honorable as no woman is ever loyal and true. I may have been raised in Casterly Rock, away from the deception and corruption of King's Landing, but I know enough of the politics."
"My lady, please," Carys said, but it fell upon deaf ears.
"We all know the truth. Only one does accept it easier than others," Thea spat, walking back to her seat. "King Robert. The fat oaf lies to his wife every night when he arrives home from a whore house. Lord Stark, as honorable as the man may be, betrayed his wife some eighteen years past. Even my dear brother Jaime. The Kingslayer. He swore to protect a mad man, and yet he stabs him in the back. But, I do not love him any less. He's a Lannister and my brother. You've just got to accept that all men are dirty, rotten liars, and as are some of the women in this Realm." Thea took to her seat again.
"My lady Thea," Carys began, on the verge of tears, it had not been the first time Thea had revealed her lion blood to her. Thea's nature always intimidated Carys, but its time like this, she feels truly afraid of the girl almost ten years her junior "Do you- Do you need help getting into your dress for the feast?"
"No, that shall be all for now," Thea said, glaring back over her shoulder at the dark haired woman, who was wringing her hands "You may go to your chambers and I will call upon you when you are needed."
"My lady," Carys curtsied, before turning and walking to the door.
"And Carys," Thea said and the woman stopped at the wooden door. A satisfied smirk played upon the golden headed woman lips "I really enjoyed our talk."
Confused? Yeah, I was kind of confused to. I had to read it over a few times and re-write different things.
Just to explain it. The whole thing begins with Thea venting her frustration. She doesn't like her brother in law and what is going on then has driven her to the point of frustration.
Carys tries to help, but makes it worse.
Thea knows of her brother-in-laws...not-so-hidden secrets. She just takes that as a great offence because in her eyes, and I suppose in many peoples eyes, he is dishonoring her sister by doing so.Thea is fiercely protective over her family. It has only fueled her...distrust of the man.
The whole thing has only added to Thea's theology that nobody is 100% truthful, or good, whatever. Any positive...thing would go in there. Man or woman, they all lie. They all cheat. They all betray one another at one point or another. Thats just the way it is in her head, and that basically the main focus of this chapter.
You see more into Thea's character. There are very few people she trusts. Shockingly, Carys is actually one of them. But, Thea is kind of...I don't know if sinister is the right word. She is forcing Carys to believe in what Thea herself believes in. She wants everyone to share her theologies and beliefs and the people she trusts, like her father, Cersei, etc, they all hold at least some of them. She feels like she can tell Carys anything, yet, she's not the person Thea expects her to be to be able to trust her. She's very intimidating and seems to get joy out of frightening the utter daylights out of her handmaiden.
I am actually going to stop rambling now, its only building up the word count. I have just told you most of Thea's character, too, which I didn't intend to do. But, please, if you have any of your own opinions on Thea, I am open to constructive criticism. I'm sorry, but I will be upset if you just basically tell me "The is terrible". Haha.
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-HannahBanana
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DamonSalvatorelover: Ah, schucks! Yer too kind :) Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
SeerStormborn: At least someone likes it (luls). Yeah, I've read like...fourteen different stories where they is a female Lannister and it's all she's the good one, she marries this person or that person, she leaves her family behind, she doesn't get along with Cersei, yada yada yada. I wanted to create a different character. She is proud of her family, her blood and her heritage. Cersei likes her because they are, pretty much, kindred spirits, as you'll see as this continues. She doesn't want to marry, especially for land or money, as she knows her father is going to do eventually. I'm not dissing the other characters, they're brilliant. I just wanted to introduce something a little different to the whole GoT equation. Thank you for reading it, honey!
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