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2024-10-11
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Alicent's Baby

Summary:

Viserys dies a month after he announces his decision to marry Alicent and a mere three weeks before they would have been married. However, before Rhaenyra can take the throne, Otto announces that Alicent is pregnant with the new King and so Rhaenyra, as a mere princess, cannot sit the Iron Throne.

 

In this story, the Faith follows a very Biblical style view on engagement and marriage but IS NOT 100% following the Biblical concept. It's BASED UPON A SIMILAR PREMISE. Basically, once a couple becomes engaged, they are "married" just without the official wedding and would need to get an annulment or divorce in order to separate. This is the premise Otto is going to use to declare his grandchild as being a legitimate heir. Things are going to seem a bit murky, possibly, at first, but I WILL be fully explaining things further in the story. I just hope you will choose to follow the story long enough for the details to fully be explained, and different precedences to be brought to light in this AU version of Westeros.

Alicent and Rhaenyra are 16, Laena is 15, Laenor is 14. Alicent is only a couple months older than Rhaenyra and both are "of age".

Hope this clears things up.

Notes:

Viserys annouces his intention to marry Alicent two months after Aemma and Baelon die and a month after he names Rhaenyra his heir.

Chapter 1: Alicent's Baby

Chapter Text

Viserys couldn’t understand what was happening, in the week since he had announced his intention to marry Lady Alicent Hightower, his pregnant mistress (with whom no one had been told carried his child except for her father and his best friend), he had been getting cut by the Iron Throne more and more frequently and ever increasingly worse, or so it seemed. He was the rightful King and his marriage was truly the best thing for both the realm and his family. It wasn’t possible that the Throne was rejecting him.

However, at the council of Ser Otto and the Grand Maester, King Viserys ordered that thick down cushions be commissioned for the throne to keep him from being cut further. After all, it wouldn’t be seemly for his Kingly self to be covered in small cuts when he made his mistress his bride and ensured his son would be born 100% undeniably legitimate. It was no matter than no previous King had ever needed cushioning for the Iron Throne as he was King and to mock him was treason.

The following week, the velvet covered thick down cushions were placed upon the Iron Throne and the King sat down. Yet somehow, the throne still managed to cut his Royal self. Ser Otto and the Grand Maester were puzzled by this development as they were sure the thick cushions would protect the King from further damage, and yet, they didn’t. They inspected each and every cushion thoroughly and found that they were of the highest standard and each was at least three inches thick. How the King still managed to be cut by the throne was a mystery.

With the cushions themselves not seeming to be lacking in any way and with the mystery still unresolved, the two men decided that new cushions needed to be made post haste. However, these new cushions needed to be at least four inches thick and be made of the strongest and toughest hides in the land and covered in the nicest fur. After all, the King deserved the best, especially since he was making Otto’s daughter his Queen and soon Otto would be the proud grandsire of the new prince and heir.

It took the most skilled workers several days to source the materials and create the new cushions for the throne. At long last, Viserys would be safe from the blade the throne was made from.

Yet, again, the throne cut the King. While none of the cuts were particularly bad by themselves, it was the sheer number that was growing rather worrying. Not to mention, these latest cuts all seemed to fester and grew infected within hours of their formation.

When the Princess Rhaenys heard about her cousin’s plight, she flew from Driftmark to the Red Keep. Once there, she begged her cousin to change course, telling him that the throne was trying to send him a warning that he was refusing to heed. She asked him to please think of his daughter who had only barely reached the age of maturity and yet still needed her father’s guidance in her life. Otto, however, rebuked the Princess saying that she only said such things because the King had rejected her daughter. He also mocked her and said that the Seven would soon bless the King with all of his desires as he had so wisely chosen a devoted daughter of the Faith for his new bride and Queen.

Princess Rhaenys felt great sorrow that her, once dear cousin, had become so blind. Before she left to return home, she invited her young cousin, the King’s daughter, to spend some time with Laena and herself at Driftmark, and that the three women would return together before the wedding was to occur. Viserys agreed to the suggestion and Otto was thrilled to have the spoiled Princess who mistakenly believed she would one day be Queen out of the Red Keep.

So Princess Rhaenyra mounted her dragon and flew with her cousin Princess Rhaenys even as Otto and the Grand Maester pondered how they could help the King now. Both men sent ample messages to the Citadel inquiring about new remedies that could be given to the King to heal his cuts as well as messages to the High Septon for prayers that the Gods' would protect the King from further damage.

After three days, an Archmaester sent a message asking if steel plates had been inserted into the cushions. He reasoned that no blade could penetrate a quarter inch of steel, especially when it was wrapped in six inches of cotton and goose down and encased in hides that were at least half the thickness of the steel plates and covered in thick furs. When Otto presented the idea to the King, Viserys immediately ordered these latest cushions to be constructed. By all accounts, they were going to make the Iron Throne be the softest and most comfortable chair in the realm.

It took seven long days for them to be completed and each individual piece to be sewed to all of the others, making sure that not a single spot on the throne was weak enough to be penetrated by the blades. When it was finally completed it took an entire retinue to heft it into place. Before the King was permitted to sit his throne, his dear friend begged permission to try the seat to ensure it was safe for the King and Viserys permitted it. The throne did nothing to Otto though Otto was still perplexed on how the throne still felt deeply uncomfortable.

Soon the court was summoned to see the King sit down on his amply padded throne for the first time.

As for the members of the Court, seeing their King seemingly needing protection from his own throne was alarming. The only previous King who had ever been injured by the Iron Throne was Maegor and if the throne was injuring the peaceful conflict fearing King Viserys, then they had to wonder if the rumors surrounding Queen Aemma’s death were true and that King Viserys had ordered her butchered. They also wondered if there was a curse surrounding Targaryen Kings who took Hightower brides.

Later, members of the court would say that they were very glad the princess hadn’t been in King’s Landing that day as, within moments of King Viserys placing his Royal arse on his overly padded throne, disaster fell and the throne attacked. Blades pierced straight through the reinforced cushions and straight through the King’s ankles, thighs, shoulders and wrists almost instantaneously. This was rapidly followed by several blades piercing straight through his belly and before anyone could react or the King could think to cry out, blades were sticking straight out of the King’s neck, heart and lungs, killing him. It was a terribly macabe scene. Many ladies of the court ended up fainting dead away and many other individuals wound up vomiting at the sight. The throne had passed its final verdict and had eliminated another unworthy King.

 

Later that day the Small Council met in the throne room to attempt to decide how they were going to remove King Viserys’ body from the throne as well as who was going to pen the letter to Princess Rhaenyra to inform her of her father’s death. Despite Otto’s many arguments against it, it was decided a messenger needed to be sent to Prince Daemon in the Stepstones to inform him of his brother’s death as well.