History Fanfic / AYoungGirlsGameOfThrones

* Averted with Varys. Myrcella's saving the Starks prevents the Seven Kingdoms from fracturing into separate factions, and makes the succession war less chaotic than in canon; which is easier for Varys to manipulate. [[spoiler:As a result he calls for Connigton and Aegon to come to Westeros and claim the throne much sooner than in canon]].

** It made sense to Jaime that Cersei's assassination attempt on Robert and Ned to cover up their incestuous affair, but even he thought it was monstrous to try and have Bran and Arya killed along with them out of petty spite. When he hears Tyrion, Lancel and the Lannister bannermen are caught up in the crossfire, he immediately rides out to rescue them.

* TheMagicComesBack: As is the case in canon, the approach of the red comet heralds a return of magic to Westeros. Myrcella notes that her magic suddenly became more potent and easier to use during a skirmish against Stannis' forces while Robb Stark gains a level of combat clairvoyance in the same clash. Shortly after that fight, she heals Lum from a mortal wound.

* TheMagicComesBack: As is the case in canon, the approach of the red comet heralds a return of magic to Westeros. Myrcella notes that hey magic suddenly became more potent and easier to use during a skirmish against Stannis' forces while Robb Stark gains a level of combat clairvoyance in the same clash. Shortly after that fight, she heals Lum from a mortal wound.

* MilesGlorious: Lyn Corbray proves to be this. He's a genuine BloodKnight, and purportedly one of the Vale's most skilled knights but believes himself the most skilled in all the Seven Kingdoms. However, all of his accomplishments, [[spoiler: killing two Kingsguard during the assassination of Robert and later Albar Royce]], were only after they were physically weakened and on their last legs, [[spoiler: and a weakened Robert even knocks him down and smashes his face despite wearing a helm]]. [[spoiler: During the surprise night attack be the Stormlands against the Vale army after Littlefinger's treachery, he flees the battle due to being without armor, and sells Petyr out when caught]].

* TheMagicComesBack: As is the case in canon, the approach of the red comet heralds a return of magic to Westeros. Myrcella notes that her magic suddenly became more potent and easier to use during a skirmish against Stannis' forces while Robb Stark gains a level of combat clairvoyance in the same clash. Shortly after that fight, she heals Lum from a mortal wound.

* NotQuiteFlight: Due to lacking a computation orb, Tanya/Myrcella isn't able to truly fly with magic like she used to. However, she can launch herself in the air, and maintain simple vectors, while slowing her descent, making for a very prolonged InASingleBound. [[spoiler:This lets her infiltrate and conquer Harrenhal by being able to get over it's massive curtain wall while carrying climbing rope for her troops, and also survive being thrown out the Moon Door]].

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Myrcella has no problems with having women, bastards and Lowborn in her Stormguard, in fact encouraging this.

** PlayedWith. Stannis doesn't actually want the Iron Throne, but feels it rightfully belongs to him since his elder brother's supposed heir is not actually his son and Westeros runs on HeirClubForMen so he has a higher claim than Myrcella, Robert's only true blood child. Though Myrcella tries to frame as this.

* AGoodWayToDie: [[spoiler:When Jamie discovers Robert's corpse amongst the dead assassins he took down with him, he remarks that this is way his King wanted to go out, rather than drink himself into an early grave.]]

* HonestAdvisor: Stannis prefers people who tell it like it is--he has no patience for brown-nosers. He gets at least three in the forms of Ned Stark, Ser Davos, and Robb Stark, who he admits values their counsel even if he doesn't always follow it.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Cersei is even more of one in this story, as for all her preaching about the importance of family, she had absolutely no problem outright setting Tyrion, Lancel, and Tyrek up to be killed in her assassination of Robert.

* LackOfEmpathy: Downplayed with Tanya. While she doesn't have much in the way of genuine empathy towards anyone else and has to put effort into pretending she does, the princess never cruel and does her utmost to come off as approachable to friend and foe alike. She does seem to genuinely care about those in his immediate circle to some degree as well. Compared to Joffrey and Cersei, though, she's practically overflowing with empathy to the whole world.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Tywin in this story is even more cruel and ruthless than he is in canon, though this is largely due to him facing different circumstances than in the book series. In the face of the Riverland lords preserving their strength behind their castles to wait for the North reinforcements, Tywin attempts to lure them into open battle by not only burning and pillaging the lands as he did in canon, but also openly killing and crippling the people. [[spoiler: He also intentionally sets Joffery up to die, due to Joffery openly killing Loras in court and causing the Reach to declare war on them, when they're already outnumbered by Stannis' forces. This stupidity, that's even worse than the canon execution of Ned, combined with Myrcella flat out telling him Joffery is a sadistic idiot that will get them all killed, [[KinSlayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil convinces him to kill his own grandson]]]].

* AbusiveParents: While Cersei loves her children, that doesn't necessarily mean she's a good mother. She spoils Joffrey rotten and fills his head with nonsense about how strong and fierce he is, despite all evidence to the contrary and being clear that he needs to be taught humility and responsibility. She barely interacts with Tommen because Joffrey is the child she paid the most attention to. And finally she's at odds with Myrcella for displaying independence from her desires and being friendly towards people she doesn't like (e.g. the Starks, her paternal relatives and the servants) and not BlindObedience towards her, going has far as to slap her in the face and yanking her by the hair while calling her a stupid little girl for making decisions for herself instead of going to her mother first. Robert admits to Ned that the main reason he doesn't abdicate the throne and leave King's Landing is because he dreads to imagine leaving his kids alone with his wife.

** Myrcella is, at the of the day, high-functioning sociopath with little real empathy towards anyone, but she's not at all impressed by the spiteful and petty behavior of Joffrey and Cersei.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Due to Jaime not leaving Kings Landing in this story, he gets a front row seat to just how monstrous, petty, sadistic, and short-sighted both Cersei and Joffery truly are after Robert's death. He's still so enamored and lustful over Cersei, he mostly follows her whims with only some grumbling, [[spoiler: and even rats out Tyrion and Addam Marbrand's proposed coup]] in order to sleep with her. Tyrion calls his brother out this before he leaves King's Landing.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Due to Jaime not leaving Kings Landing in this story, he gets a front row seat to just how monstrous, petty, sadistic, and short-sighted both Cersei and Joffery truly are after Robert's death. He's still so enamored and lustful over Cersei, he mostly follows her whims with only some grumbling, [[spoiler: and even rats out Tyrion and Addam Marbrand's proposed coup]] in order to sleep with her.

* OddFriendship: Myrcella and Arya get along quite well, with the former helping the latter out with her problems whenever they cross paths. This gets lampshaded by Robert.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: Myrcella starts calling Cersei by her name both to her face and out of earshot after she finds out her role in [[spoiler:after father's assassination]], which kicked off the war in the first place, [[BrokenPedestal showing she's pretty much lost all respect for the woman.]]

* Deadpan Snarker:

* SoProudOfYou: Robert sees only two good things come from his kingship, the first was kicking squid ass in Balon's rebellion, and the second was having Myrcella as his daughter.

* UngratefulBastard: According to Littlefinger, Jon Arryn took him under his wing after his disastrous duel with Brandon led him to being kicked out of Riverrun, allowing to work his way up to become Master of Coin on the Small Council. This didn't stop him from arranging his assassination for his schemes.

** It made sense to Jaime that Cersei's assassination attempt on Robert and Ned to cover up their incestuous affair, but even he thought it was monstrous to try and have Bran and Arya killed along with them out of petty spite. When he hears Tyrion, Lancel and the Lannister bannermen is caught up in the crossfire, he immediately rides out to rescue them.

** When she tells her grandfather that Joffrey cannot sit on the throne when he comes of age as even if they win the current war, he'll just start a new one either unintentionally or because he can. [[spoiler:Tywin decides to get him killed in battle [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill via wildfire explosion]], but unfortunately gets Jaime killed as he tries (and fails) to save his son.]]

** Ned is aghast to find out from Littlefinger that Myrcella has been learning out different poisons, leading him to conclude that Cersei is teaching her 11-year daughter this so that she can murder her enemies on her mother's behalf. In reality, the princess is learning about them so that she can make herself ''immune'' to them and Cersei knows nothing about it ([[EvenEvilHasstandards it would also be one of the few lines the Queen wouldn't cross]]).

* RunningGag: Myrcella giving a different, ridiculous explanation for [[spoiler:how she survived getting thrown out the Moon Door]].

* BroughtDownToBadass: While she no longer has the overwhelming magical might she enjoyed in her second life, and lacks a computation orb to help her employ magic more affectively, Myrcella is as personally dangerous as many of Westeros most experienced warriors, due to still having enough magical power to boost her physical abilities, and still retaining her fighting skills.

* DidntSeeThatComing: While her cynical nature, experience, and paranoia makes Myrcella on guard against most threats, her assumption that people wouldn't dare violate Westeros' most fundamental tenants tends to blindside her. Such as, [[spoiler: Littlefinger and Lysa Aryn violating SacredHospitality to immediately execute her via the Moon Door]], and then shortly later [[spoiler: being poisoned by a very delusional and insane [[MotherHen Cersei]]]].

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The explanation Myrcella gives for [[spoiler:surviving falling out of the Moon Door]] to cover up that she used magic is that [[spoiler:she clung to the person who she knocked out with her and jumped off him just before hitting.]] This would not work in real life. Myrcella herself notes that it wouldn't work, but she's counting on the fact that she's pretty much the only person in her army with a working knowledge of physics, and so nobody would be able to call her on it.

** Myrcella [[SelectiveObliviousness thought for years]] that Cersei was a gracious and intelligent queen. When she discovered how crazy, petty and stupid she was and how badly she'd destroyed her hope for a peaceful and comfortable life, things got ugly.

** Lord Royce has lost a great deal of respect for Stannis when he turned down Myrcella's offers in ways for to be returned unharmed, e.g. TrialByCombat or PrisonerExchange, so that he could execute The Mountain for his war crimes, appearing to him that his King cares more about upholding the law than the safety and wellbeing of his people. The only reason the Stormlanders don't execute him in retaliation is due to Myrcella's mercy in releasing him back.

* CallingTheOldManOut: After PrisonerExchange and she tries to blame her for "ruining everything", Myrcella gets sick of Cersei's shit and calls her mother out on her stupidity nearly got her killed and unwillingness to take responsibility for her actions.

* ChocolateBaby: As per ASOIAF canon, Joffrey and Tommen are not the children of black haired blue eyed Robert Baratheon, but have the blond hair and green eyes that denote them as Lannister blood, as they are the products of the incestuous union between Queen Cersei and her twin brother Jaime Lannister. Subverted with Myrcella, however: while she shares the blond hair of her brothers, she has distinctive blue eyes very similar to those of King Robert. This leads many characters aware of her brothers bastardry suspect that she is the only trueborn child of Robert. [[spoiler:This is to the point that Stannis, who is declaring war for the Iron Throne on the claim that Joffrey and Tommen are bastards refuses to accuse her of being illegitimate as well]].

* PrinciplesZealot: Deconstructed with Stannis. While being a man who wants to uphold the Law of Westeros regardless of social status sounds on paper like he'd make a good king, however, he does so to the point where even Ned and Robb Stark find his HonorBeforeReason tendencies to be detrimental to their war effort. Most notably where he wants to execute The Mountain for his ''many'' war crimes that he turns down offers from Myrcella to exchange him for Lord Royce losing favor from the Vale.

** Having a sister/daughter who's better than him/her in every way is not doing wonders for Joffrey's or Cersei's mental stability. [[spoiler:She also accidentally left Cersei thinking she had a crush on Robb Stark and revealed Gendry's existence to her]].

** Because he believes Myrcella is truly his brother's daughter, Stannis wants to avoid killing her at all cost because of this trope, despite being the opposite of the war he's fighting and is a major threat.
** Cersei tries this by proxy, hoping that Tyrion would get killed in Robert's assassination. [[spoiler:He survives but Lancel doesn't.]]