a new fic starring mira and tom dropped on ao3! https: //archiveofourown.org/works/51957001
Oooohhhh yall this blog is still active! Keeping this little ship afloat as long as tumblr lets me. A little Christmas gift for our fave coal boy and handmaiden!! Thank you so much for letting me know. 💖💕
currently reading : nightmares & dreamscapes by stephen king
last movie : road to ninja: naruto
last show : kitchen nightmares ( amy's baking factory )
craving : energy drink
what are you wearing right now : a bright yellow halloween shirt with witches all over it & black shorts
how tall are you ? : 5'3" / 5'4"ish
piercings / tattoos ? : a floral version of kakashi's anbu tattoo from naruto
glasses ? contacts ? : needs glasses but doesn't wear them woooo
last thing you ate ? : eggo flavored pop tart
favorite color(s) : red but like fire engine red
current obsession : CRITICAL ROLE!!! ( & naruto )
any pets : two cats, janet & twix.
do you have a crush right now ? : i've been with my partner for three years wooo
favorite fictional character : kakashi - naruto, jason todd - batman, peter parker - spider-man, talia forester - ttgot, percy de rolo but he's a new addition to the list.
last place you traveled : my dad's house! i don't usually stray far from home
tagged by: Yoinked off the dashboad
tagging: anyone who wants to! i 'm a virgo i like knowing things
love your blog! just recently got back into ttgot (even made a side blog, saddest-coal-boy-in-westeros) and i was wondering how you felt about mira's storyline! were you heartbroken by the ending(s)? did you have any quibbles with the writing?
I think at this point I'm more heartbroken by the fact season 2 was canned a week after it was announced but they never told us, I think in-game the only thing that could've soured me was if they'd killed off Talia or Ryon, so I'm glad they didn't.
Mira-story-wise, I do think her arc was a bit disappointing, but that's all due to execs meddling as they always did. Her story being more political and less action-oriented didn't test well so they kept cutting it down and eventually just used her as a show character cameo carousel.
I've heard so many interesting things about what her story originally was too. From what I remember;
She could speak to Lucan in the original version of Episode 4 who would reveal that Damien was a serial womanizer and the two grew up in Lannisport. The dude was very upset about Damien's death. I think these lines are still tucked away in episode 3's files...
Mira's rivalry with Andros would go deeper to the point that she could either blackmail him(?) or outright poison him in a brothel. Given that there are interesting lines about how Andros has zero interest in his wife, I imagine the blackmail may have been some form of outing his potential sexuality which is a bit concerning (might be a reason why it was cut).
I think there was a cut plotline where Sera finds out what was going on and Mira accidentally kills her by pushing her down the stairs and breaking her neck.
From what I've heard (citation needed) Mira's execution in Ep6 was a push and pull from execs - they wanted a main character to die in the finale, but the writers didn't, so they came to the compromise of making it a choice.
Personally I had her reject the marriage and die, but given that Season 2 now exists in our collective psychosis I like to imagine that if she did agree to the marriage, Morgryn dies very mysteriously and wow, look at that, his wife suddenly inherits all his assets and the Ironwood trade in KL.
I've also heard that there were very vague discussions about Malcolm becoming the staple KL POV in season 2, so they could've been a great business duo. Mira getting in on the Targaryen kool aid and all that.
Overall, I do feel a bit bad for Mira and her plotline. She never even really gets a chance to shine because of how much they kept reducing her scenes, and the only control she has in the end is death or slave marriage. It might be bias because I've spoken to the writers (years ago now) but I only blame the execs for any flaws. The team really wanted to tell a good story but the meddling kept holding them back.