hold my hand --- CONSIGN ME NOT TO DARKNESS.
me: change jo’s fc to someone older
me to me: ok but keeping jo’s fc as charlize just upholds the idea that she is ethereal and completely defies time, which is the entire point of her character as i write her. she was not supposed to survive tyrion’s birth, and the fact that she did, in my main verse, simply contributes in that she doesn’t even seem real. she is, in appearance and in personality, a guardian angel.
❛ YOUR CONCERN IS appreciated, mother — yet hardly NECESSARY, i assure you. ❜ the lie tastes CRUEL ‘pon his tongue, smoldering & SMOTHERING him like ash. had he trulygrownso CRAVEN ?
HIS JAW MASTICATES & though comfort would he find within matriarch’s soothing grasp, her cub AVOIDS her unyielding stare, SILENT, as though certain she’d find no TROUBLE in his evasion.
❛ AND LYING TO ME, NOW, ARE WE ? you must have gotten into trouble. ❜ tone is teasing, of course, but her eyes tell a different tale. she will not push him. he is too much like his father, this way --- you do not have to hold the world on your shoulders, little cub.
but he is not little anymore. a lion grown, a man without her need. she will try anyways. ❛ come. i’ve wanted to stroll through the gardens all day --- now seems like the perfect time. ❜
« i was not born in the north, lady lannister. » there were an hidden disdain in those words. she might have worn the furs to make her blood warm but the sun on her skin was no stranger. « for a change, i welcome the warm weather. reminds me of riverrun. »
❛ oh, most certainly ! i remember watching you swim back in riverrun, once, when you were only a girl. ❜ there is no malice here ; only curiosity, words spoken to a woman she considers a friend. ❛ . . . although these years in the north must have been a trial --- at least, in the beginning, yes ? ❜
❛ EASILY ? It has been hours, mother — We have WASTED the entire afternoon over it. I am NOT changing my mind — ❜
❛ i’m sure you will not find it WASTED when i am lying deep within the crypts. come, now. i won’t try to change your mind. i only wish to hear your voice. ❜
❛ LADY STARK. it must certainly be warmer here than you’re used to. ❜ / / @corlapidis.
❛ not so fast. i’m not your father. you aren’t getting away from me THAT EASILY. ❜ / / @lionswrath.
❛ you are being especially QUIET today. when you were a boy, that always meant TROUBLE. ❜ / / @battleruin.
tag dump !
Hubert Selby Jr. (via a-beautiful-disaster-inside)
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller’s Wife (via seduceddeath)
William S. Burroughs (via quotemadness)
“ I believe the problem to be more serious than this; some of his teachers believe him to be dyslexic. An I am starting to believe it myself. “
lips purse as she mulls it over, and she drops her gaze to the ground. “ perhaps ---- perhaps we should get him a professional tutor, then ? “
He stayed in silence, for a moment ; then, he finally closed his laptop, looking straight in his wife’s eyes. “ I was listening. I am already studing with Jaime but he needs more help apparently. ”
that settles her at least SLIGHTLY ; she breathes out a long sigh, brushing her hair from her face. ( there’s still just a hint of annoyance in her eyes, but it will fade. eventually. )
“ it’s not that he’s incapable, tywin ---- he knows the material. he’s a smart boy, he’s just not FOCUSING, i think. he’s ... he’s not APPLYING HIMSELF as he should be. “
Tywin, slowly, raised his eyes from the papers he was filling, in time to notice how Joanna’s eyes had sharpened since the start of the conversation. “ Of course. We were talking about Jaime’s grades. ”
she’s growing AGGRAVATED with the entire situation, and quickly ; jaime is better than all of this, she knows. ( not to mention her slight frustration at tywin for the moment. ) she leans against the edge of his desk, eyebrows raised.
“ yes, we were ---- before you got DISTRACTED, it seems “
A boy in him rises, a boy in him wants to offer a helping hand, to rush to where asicklywoman stands, and help her to her feet. A BOY IN HIM DIES. Only King remains, still as the Wall itself, and just as unyielding. The enemy, she was. Not a mere woman. Alioness. The eyes of a Tully can be known as such only by their colour alone, for in them lies the ruthlessness STARKS are known for. Same is the voice that fills every inch of the room with its commanding tones and the conviction that was granted him the day his bannermen chose him to lead. What Robb spoke had weight. What Robb spoke was to be obeyed.
❝ Then you shall be taken to your new quarters. ❞
a cough rattles her bones as lannister emeralds seek the boy’s gaze ; they lift, slowly, from the ground from which she lays, and she struggles to stand on her own. it is PRIDE that drives her ; pride, fierce and strong, that brings her once again to her feet before robb stark. this time, however, she does not stand so poised ---- shoulders are hunched just SLIGHTLY, and breaths come less easily. ( she will not stand on her own for much longer. )
“ you are very kind, your grace. “
the words burn on her tongue as they are spoken, little louder than a SIGH, but she forces her gaze to hold his.
“ ... you remind me very much of your father. ‘