the thaw. [arya stark]

they say that when a targaryen is born, a coin is flipped and all the world stops. for in that single, fleeting, moment the fate of the world lies in that childs' hands. who lives, who dies - everything - can be made or broken by their shrill screams. cities conquered, and dynasties toppled at their minuscule fingertips.

it was a folly, ridiculous, that the lives of so many were bound to blind luck, but the name targaryen bred power, and it was to targaryen whims, wants and luck that westeros bowed. forever destined to serve fire.

however, the odds of this arrangement were stacked, for something far more sinister than fire ran through their blood - a curse of hereditary insanity pulsated through their veins, biding its' time as it waited, poised to strike any child that dared enter a targaryen womb.

and, when valeria, aerys and rhaella targaryens' fourth and final child was born, ending her mother's life upon the very second that she strayed from her womb - fate, never one to divert from this o' so twisted tradition, flipped a coin.

but as robert baratheon's rebellion spread like wildfire to each and every corner of the cruel continent that was westeros - a destitute, desperate, and newly homeless pack of three young targaryen fugitives were forced to flee across the narrow sea, as far away from the fateful blade of robert baratheon's infamous battleaxe as possible - and the fate of coin, was forgotten...

arya stark x targaryen fem oc
game of thrones s7-8 au
part of the WILD AT HEART series