Fairy Tale Endings For GoT...

[Bonzer Sheila]

I have always been a fan of fairy tales particularly of the Grimm variety...pardon the pun, so here is my wish list of GoT happy endings:

 

• Starting in the north so to speak - At the Wall is Bran, now super Maester to Edd Tollet who is Lord Commander of the Nights Watch...here Bran's magic may continue to protect the newly formed 7 Free States. He also cares for one of the Dragons, Viserion which Jon renamed Greenseer, a beast to guard against what might yet stir beneath the ice beyond the Wall. Jon was gifted Greenseer by his aunt Daenerys.

• Jon marries Meera Reed and together they live happily if not sometimes a little dark, curly and brooding; they are good and true guardians of the vast North. They have many children and also nurture a pack of Dire Wolves sired by Ghost and mothered firstly by Nymeria - each new Stark child or relation born is given a Dire Wolf pup. Close by lives his most trusted Lieutenant, Tormund Giantsbane who settled with the remaining free people.

• Arya is given her grandfather's seat of Riverrun and governorship of the Riverlands but is often absent being always unsettled she prefers to roam the 7 States and even travels beyond the Wall with her brother Bran. Arya had welcomed the Brothers without Banners into the Riverlands to settle and often leaves ‎Lord Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr in charge - these two have a castle each side of the Green Fork of the Trident.

• Theon Greyjoy abides in the Eyrie and serves as Chief Judge and Justice as well as one of the governors of the 7 States. Robin Arryn having finally lost his feeble mind and attempted to fly from the Moon Door! After helping her brother settle the surviving Ironborn to their new way life living and working peacefully in the Vale, Yara returns to Danerys' side to take charge of the royal fleet. When wrongdoers cannot be chastened by a spell in the Sky Cells Theon has them banished to the prison on the IronIslands.

• As rich reward for his true redemption, bravery, honour and many good deeds Sandor Clegane (no longer known as The Hound),is given Casterly Rock and charged with governorship of the West. He marries a blind beauty and they have many children, the eldest they name Arya, and he has many happy memories. He finds a new lode of gold and has his never tiring zombie monster of a brother, now his prisoner; direct the mining of the gold...a Mountain in the mountain!

• Lady Olenna, a woman who always knew her onions (pardon the second pun) was so admiring of the integrity and bravery of Ser Davos Seaworth that she named him her new heir. Honourable to the last Ser Davos and his long suffering wife take young Samwell Tarly junior under their wing and teach him to become the good and just governor of the Reach - the garden state of the 7 Free States. As for Gilly and Samwell Tarly senior - (his monstrous father dead in battle and his brother Dickon so ashamed of siding with Cersei he takes the black and becomes right hand to Lord Commander Bran), Samwell and Gilly move into Horn Hill...not too far from Old Town where Sam can nip to the local library whenever he wishes! Perhaps not surprisingly the Tarly families remain close friends of Jon and Meera's family.

• King's Landing....I'll come back to that!

• In the Storm Lands Podrick Payne with the consent of the last Baratheon, is rewarded with Storm's End and Sam's beautiful, gentle sister Talla Tarly...the lucky girl, and anyway I love alliteration.

• Off the coast of the Storm Lands, Tarth. Here is where Brienne takes the broken man who was Jaime Lannister. Filled with self loathing for having killed his sister Cersei, Jaime is nursed backed to health and happiness by the only woman since his mother who truly loves him, Brienne. Rather surprisingly they have four daughters together, perhaps less surprisingly all girls are very tall and very blonde.

• In the far south the governor is none other than Ser Bron of the Blackwater. He lives in casual bliss in beautiful Dorne having married one of Prince Oberyn's eight daughters - one who was not a Sand Snake! Here the family frequently entertain their good friends the half brothers Jaime Lannister and Lord Tyrion.

• Queen Daenerys Stormborn - once she has settled the warring factions of the former 7 Kingdoms of Westeros and defeated the Ice King and his army of the undead, realises her heart belongs in Easteros. She returns with her beloved Drogon and her entourage of advisors chief amongst them Tyrion: Lord Tyrion is given another of her dragons, Rhaegal. This only happens once Lord Varys reveals his best kept secret i.e. Tyrion is in fact half Targaryen. Varys himself returns with the Queen, as do Grey Worm and Messandei, and of course her devoted Jorah Mormont who was 'cured' by the creepy Maester Qyburn. The Queen meets regularly with her 7 appointed governors of the Free States of Westeros as does her Hand, Lord Tyrion. They all meet in her 'holiday cottage', DragonStone. Tyrion and Varys and Illyrio Mopatis begin the quest of recovering Old Valyria. A cure for Greyscale now exists and all displaced persons of Westeros and former slaves of Easteros are given a chance work to restore and rebuild and make their homes in Valyria. This is where Daenerys will eventually make her home. The Iron Throne is removed to Dragonstone and mothballed and is supposedly out of temptations way....however it still remains dangerously close to King's Landing and therefore to Gendry and particularly to Sansa.

• Sansa and the one true Baratheon, Gendry, are married and are as happy as they could be in the former Crownlands after all that life has thrown at them. Sansa is firm, Gendry always fair. It is a joint governorship....Sansa insisted. Despite this Sansa is sometimes distant and it is rumoured she keeps Little Finger as an imprisoned 'pet' in the Black Cells. Others believe she gave Lord Baelish to Maester Qyburn to experiment on and that Little Finger and Tyburn both dwell in what remains of Harrenhal, which is forever left as a ruin and reminder of the destruction war brings. Few go near Harrenhal as most believe it to be haunted. Qyburn is given a necklace once belonging to a member of the now discredited religion of R'hllor, the Lord of Light. Qyburn seeks the secrets of the red stones. Sansa often accompanies her sister Arya on her travels around the 7 Free States and beyond, sometimes they travel beyond the Known World.

This is my Happy Never After....

 

 

[Lucius Lovejoy]

On ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2017 at 2:47 AM, Bonzer Sheila said:

This is my Happy Never After....

Well, at least you realize it now.  A lot of this seems nice enough - Pod, Bronn, Theon, Meera, and Brienne's endings sound a little too happy, and Gendry seems more one for Arya than Sansa, but it's a pretty picture.

I'm pretty anti-Daenerys at this point, more so in the shows than in the books, so my dream ending is more like "the white walkers wins, everybody, except maybe Jaime and Davos, dies."  But that's how the show will beat the enjoyment out you after a long enough time.