There is a nebulous jordie lives au which lives entirely in my head in which jordie recovers from the plague while Kaz is still sick. He gets up to find them food and water only to return and discover Kaz is nowhere to be found. Still recovering from the fever, he searches the barrel for days before he finally sees Kaz wandering down the staves in a sort of fugue state, soaked to the bone with a haunted look in his eyes.
Kaz won’t tell him what happened, but jordie knows it’s bad because his baby brother flinches every time he touches him, and soon enough he’s started wearing gloves, even in the height of summer.
Soon, they discover kazs gift for cards, and it keeps them fed and clothed, if not much else. Kaz is angry at jordie for losing the money, refuses to let him make any decisions. Jordie is beholden to his angry traumatized little brother because he can’t deny that he failed them the first time around.
Kaz is offered a place in his pick of the gangs, but the only one willing to take both him and his tag along older brother is the dregs. Jordie dies a little bit inside when they join up, when they take the tattoo side by side, but he’s not sure they’ll survive another winter on the streets.
And the plot of SoC generally goes on from there. Jordie tags along on the ice court, he and Jesper test kazs patience at every turn, he’s constantly offering unsolicited annoying older brother advice about Inej.
This lends itself to a really interesting exploration of Kaz and jordies relationship, what holds brothers together in the face of incredible trauma, the skewed power dynamic of Kaz becoming the breadwinner for them both at the age of nine, etc etc. But mostly, this au is a vessel for the sailing of the ultimate crack ship, which is of course, jordie/alys Van Eck.
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I can't believe I've come across some Bottom Checo haters, bro. That dude can SCREAM gentle and sweet. His whole personality has that! I lowkey can feel betrayed over that. D:
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alicent having to heat and handle her own stones because she doesn't trust any of the maids is so good. especially because larys catches her in the act. he must know it's not working with the maids but with the context of the conversation that follows and his snooping and touching of her things it serves to show this as another intrusion of her intimate space
NOT TO MENTION that her aborting here is already SUCH a private act larys is forcefully bearing witness to. because he won't leave her alone. LOOK at him looking directly at her hand in her womb....gulp
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Alys Rivers is not a woman she is laser-guided karma sent by the old gods to wreck terrible vengence on Targaryen men.
Good for her, honestly.
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If my girl Rhea Royce is not given her chance to jump scare haunt Daemon while he is at Harrenhal I will riot.
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good morning to Jon “flirts with a girl at her own wedding” Snow and Jon “flirts with a girl at her own wedding that he arranged specifically for political manoeuvre” Snow only. Flirtboy of all times truly.
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Ada Limon
James Baldwin
Autumn, Ali Smith
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Residual Hauntings, Psychic Library
Autumn, Ali Smith
The Five Stages of Grief, Linda Pastan
Hauntology: How the Ghosts of our Past haunt our Future, Vincent Freeland
BBC Archive - What is Hauntology
Hauntology
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I think they would be very happy together
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Checo, my darling, they will never make me hate you.
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