#idk what Happens™ for him to end up a pirate

[izzyspussy]

lately I've been thinking about young izzy in a marriage of convenience. a land marriage, legal in the eyes of the king and all. so. to a woman.

the convenience aspect being like. maybe her father is sick and probably about to die, and she knows that the shop she runs and the house she lives in will be inherited to her shitty uncle or whoever. and he probably won't close the shop or kick her out of the house, but it won't be the same.

she knows izzy from Around, and he's disreputable but he's never been after her That Way and she's seen him share food with strays (both children and dogs) so he seems like a safe enough bet. so she asks him to marry her so that he'll inherit her father's property, and functionally speaking it will still be hers.

it's an arrangement of mutual benefit: she gets to keep her house, and he gets to live in it.

so anyway they get married, and she breaks the heart and izzy wounds the pride of all the merchant boys who thought they would get this particular girl. (an added bonus to both of the newlyweds lol.)

now. we all know izzy's gay. but! turns out she's gay too.

and unlike with stede and mary, they actually both have equal desire to make this thing work.

izzy has no particular desire to run away and have a grand adventure, he just wants to keep having a roof over his head and three meals a day and a bedmate he's reasonably sure won't stab him in his sleep.

and she chose this, chose him, so really it'd just be poor follow through on her part if she didn't put in any effort to make sure neither of them is miserable with the result.

not to mention, with no particular expectation that either of them fulfill their role perfectly - not applied externally or internally - they're free to form a genuine (if unconventional) friendship.

but it can be a little lonely, if you're not built for it, to be in a necessarily fidelitous marriage without that specific kind of intimacy that comes with sex and romance. and they really do love each other, in the way that they do, so they kind of end up... missing each other, while working the same shop and eating at the same table and sleeping in the same bed.

it's her idea first, the solution they come to. it's not totally on a whim, she's been thinking about it. how to make a real marriage bed into something they could actually want together, so that they can have it.

(and. maybe. maybe she was thinking about it a little bit before that. deep down. for reasons completely unrelated to him. before she even really new him as anybody other than the local street urchin. perhaps somewhere around puberty or so.)

she cuts her hair. she borrows some of his clothes. she uses makeup to thicken her brows, give herself some sideburns and a little patch of beard. she copies his body language, practices speaking from the back of her throat to lower her voice.

and - wonder of wonders - it works.

she kind of figured she'd be taking an L with this, just making herself attractive to him while thinking of England herself, but it turns out she actually does kind of want him back, like this. or maybe it's just electrifying to be wanted by him when he hasn't wanted her like this before.

(or maybe she wants to have sex with it doesn't matter who because she feels so different in her body in such a good way, and she likes him, and he's there.)

so that becomes something of a routine. it's not all the time, not even particularly often. but every now and then, she'll disappear into their closet, and she'll emerge in his clothes with kohl on her face, and she'll gently rib the very concept of masculinity, and he'll laugh, and they'll have sex.

pretty tough not to have your egg cracked in an environment like that. especially when you can subconsciously convince yourself that you have an expectation to fill. that it's only fair if you do it too. reciprocity. it's the honorable thing.

(he's been thinking about it too, for longer than he knows. not quite as long as she has, because he had more pressing issues back then, but nearly.)

she's a little bit broad and he's a little bit slight, so it's just as easy for izzy to fit into her clothes as it is for her to fit into his.

he shaves his beard and his chest hair, and he struggles valiantly with a corset by himself because he wants to surprise her like she surprised him, but eventually he has to give up that ghost and go and ask her to help.

he's laced her up dozens of times now, hundreds, and he never realized how intimate it is when he was on the other side. it makes him feel small, delicate but supported. ...cherished.

he goes quiet, as close to meek as someone with a personality as big as his can get, while she helps him into the rest of the outfit. the underskirt, the bodice, the dress. they forego stockings and shoes. they'll just get in the way.

she tells him he looks very pretty, he tells her to fuck off, she laughs, they have sex.

so they start trading off. sometimes they'll both be men, and sometimes they'll both be women. and sometimes they don't even have sex about it, they just enjoy being gay married or go on secret little dates. sometimes they're pretending, for fun and convenience.

sometimes they're not.

[slexenskee]

I'm just curious. Can I ask more about JJK/GOT? It’s just that as soon as I saw the Satoru/Robb couple I immediately became interested 😅

Sure haha I have a few plot points I could use feedback on

The backstory is where I'm??

Idk if I want Satoru to be reborn as Viserys and start his life just vibing as a pampered prince kinda ambivalent about his life / couldn't care less about the rebellion or his batshit father until he gets shipped off to Dragonstone and eventually Essos. Then he kinda realizes A) his little sister is literally relying on him to exist and they're situation is pretty rough and B) he has no more fucks to give and now he can really do whatever tf he wants. Kinda goes a bit wild, takes over one of the free cities (casually), gets worshipped by the Dothraki as a god (accidentally), ends up creating something of an empire in the Disputed Lands/takes over the Stepstones and now all the pirates and traders pay him for safe passing like sailors paying tribute to the altars of gods. Mostly he's just bemused by it, and doesn't care what they do so long as they don't bother him or his sister, who's raising her dragons (a gift from Illyrio) and just living a nice happy life.

OR he's not Viserys at all, he legit transmigrates adult body (and powers) and all and becomes a wandering god around Essos just sort of feeling his way through this random new world - definitely goes to Valyria just because he can, makes a fortune selling all the random junk he picks up there and becomes something of a master on the topic just bc he ends up learning so much about it as someone who regularly hangs out there, and one way or another ends up the accidental god of the Stepstones like he is the first scenario. Except this time he's cajoled to Pentos at the behest of Illyrio Mopatis, who wants to know more about the Valyrian freehold, and while he's there he meets Dany and Viserys. Immediately clocks Viserys as a nutjob and Dany as abused but honestly doesn't really care about either of them until he sees the dragon eggs + his Six Eyes see Dany has magic and it's reacting with the eggs. He pays Illyrio/Viserys a veritable king's treasure in exchange for Dany as his 'bride' and gets the eggs as her bridal gift... which he does not bc he wants a bride but bc dragons are, in his opinion, the only cool thing in this world and he wants to have one as a pet and Dany is his ticket to that.

EITHER way he's the god of the Stepstones and Westeros tries to push their weight around and fails regularly. Gojo eradicates probably like 3 Redwyne and Lannister fleets and lets them wash up to Dorne in pieces before Westeros finally gets the picture to leave him the hell alone. Robert Baratheon comes personally a few times mainly because he has a total hard-on for Gojo and frankly just loves the fighting (his adoration is not returned), Oberyn becomes one of his favorite drinking buddies. They probably fuck multiple times, let's be real.

He's not interested in taking over the world or anything - honestly if it wasn't for Dany he'd have like zero purpose for existing so he's lowkey happy to have her in his life, but it's definitely a brother and sister relationship no matter which way I go with his backstory. It's all very wholesome.

By the time we get to S1 Gojo is an undisputed world power that's also something of an eccentric recluse.

He doesn't get involved in the plot until one way or another he's notified of Shit Happening™ in the far north. Idk how yet - maybe he senses it himself, or one of the Red priests/priestesses tells him?

He goes to the wall, meets Jon Snow, learns some of the Northern history, feels bad for the Night's Watch - who are actually doing the lord's work up in this damn place, what is wrong with westeros, smh - and sends men and plenty of food/supplies as he can see the magic in the Wall and knows it's not just there to look pretty. Especially not when his Six Eyes can see that the Land of Always Winter has more magic and is more active than old Valyria. He jokingly propositions Jon Snow, who to his surprise is not actually gay, and then afterwards when he's summarily rejected casually propositions his 'sister' for him instead- who's going through a romance phase and wants a handsome man and Gojo, being a good brother and also a fucking troll, decides to help out. Whether Gojo is actually Viserys or not, at this point everyone assumes he's Valyrian and also related to Dany no matter what he says, so he just rolls with it. Jon still declines, because he's still all up in his duty and honor phase. (He notices Jon has magic, like Dany, but assumes that's just because of the Northern magic)

He becomes fast friends with Maester Aemon, deeply interested in his stories of the Far North. He's actually interested in the North, in general, bc its one of the few parts of the world he hasn't yet gone to, and also has a history that's almost as old as Valyria. The Free Folk are downright unfriendly to him, so he decides to try his luck with Winterfell.

Idk what the route is but basically from the Wall he ends up in The North and finally meets Robb smack in the middle of the War of the 5 Kings. Maybe he goes to Winterfell with a letter from Jon, and then from Winterfell to Robb? Or from Jon straight to Robb? Basically no matter which way he ends up going, he gets a warm intro from one of Robb's siblings (or both). He also gets tasked, by one or both of them, to look for the Stark sisters. Gojo's all like, 'LOL look for them? Bruh I could blast down the Red Keep and drag them out within the next hour, but sure ok I'll 'look' for them). It's especially easy because he realizes all the Starks have more magic than most, so his Six Eyes can pick them out easily.

So Robb and Gojo kind of have immediate chemistry. Robb has obviously heard a lot about him, most of it mysterious, all of it dangerous, so he's shocked when this stupidly good looking guy comes out of literally nowhere (teleports) and has some messages for him, and is also going to go fetch his sisters as a personal favor. That last one he's a bit cautious about, because he's heard plenty about this Valyrian god or devil or both, and he doesn't believe for a second such a powerful being would offer such a boon for free.

Gojo's only response is 'I've got a little sister too ya know, I understand how it feels to be an older brother that wants to see them safe and sound' and Robb's all like, blushy and flustered, but plays the hard line and sort of just dismisses him and denies his help. And Gojo's all like, 'damn this guy's hot' also 'if my gaydar isn't wrong, which it usually isn't, he'd totally be into me' and also 'he'd be even more into me if I really did rescue his sisters'. Which he was going to do anyway.

He obviously finds both of them. Arya gets a free assassination teacher that doesn't come with the price tag of her soul, Sansa doesn't have a tragic few years ahead of her.

Idk haven't figured much else out after that. Robb pines but refuses to act on his feelings, but Gojo is swapped in for Talisa so we all know how this ends. There'll be plenty of consequences for that though, but no Starks are going to be injured (aside from Bran lo siento) in the making of this fic.