History Fanfic / AndTheGiantAwoke

* BornInTheWrongCentury: Of a sort. [[spoiler: The Dothraki take one look at Tywin Lannister, and immediately recognize and acknowledge him as "a Khal who was mistakenly born into the wrong life".]]

* TheButcher: Cleon, former slave and now conquering Essosi warlord has this for an epithet. Ironically, it's not for any particular BloodKnight tendencies - he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin really was a butcher]] prior to his current role, and [[spoiler: when his army is defeated, he escapes, goes to another city, opens a butcher's shop with the gold and gems he had on him, and eventually died years later, fat, successful, happy, and surrounded by family.]]

* DangerousPhlebotinumInteraction: [[spoiler:MasterPoisoner Olenna Tyrell slipped Littlefinger half of a binary poison via his expensive Highgarden soaps, and ensured he was exposed to the smoke of candle wicks soaked in the other half, triggering the effect. Then Tyrion's godswine, mentioned as an excellent medicine, was used on him. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath While it did lengthen his life, all it did in the end was prolong his agony.]]]]

** [[spoiler:Learning the truth about Tysha causes Tyrion to relapse on his heavy drinking - at least, until Sansa comes.]]

** [[spoiler:Mace Tyrell's DyingMomentOfAwesome - even the ''Dothraki'' are impressed.]]

** His exile to Essos does not lead to him teaming up with Daenerys (a common fandom plot and canon to the show as well), but instead simply running a good business, putting his inventiveness to use to become independently wealthy, and meeting Arya. He returns to Westeros having never met the Targaryen queen.
** Oberyn Martell survives and goes to Daenerys as an advisor. He handles the Sons of the Harpy more adeptly than her or show!Tyrion. It helps keeps Oberyn's mistress, Ellaria Sand from her RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Seasons 5 and 6 (the deaths of Myrcella Baratheon by poisoning, Doran and Trystane by treachery, and her takeover of Dorne), thus keeping her more in line with her characterization in the novels (or at least Season 4).

** Tywin and Olenna would normally be looking to gain advantages over each other for their families, but know when to work towards a common cause for the sake of their alliance. Olenna remarks, amused, that it would have been quite a sight if they'd married each other - and while one would have killed the other inside a year, "what a year that would have been."

* GoodPaysBetter: Olenna Tyrell is a believer of this trope. She happily admits that she's just as power hungry as any other noble of Westeros, but is smart enough to realize that treating people like tools creates resentment. While this approach might not made her as powerful as Tywin Lannister, at least she can sleep at night knowing that none of her children hate her nor are plotting against her.

** [[spoiler:Jaime's knight companions, who fight along him so he has a chance to reach the Night's King and kill him forever.]]
** [[spoiler:Tywin lets himself get killed in a duel so that Tyrion doesn't have to be a Kinslayer.]]

** Ramsay's InvincibleVillain nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Whie Walker he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]
** Cersei's powerlust and incompetence keep causing her trouble. First she loses a lot of influence over Tommen [[spoiler:when he weds Margaery. Then she gets humiliated by the High Sparrow after her plan to manipulate him fails miserably, forcing her into seclusion. Then the fleet she was building to be exclusively loyal to her gets stolen after her attempt to seize Littlefinger's fortune is foiled by Bronn, who sends the money to her father. When she escapes to Essos, she's completely dependent on Tyrion's reputation and fortune to make her way through, which irritates her to no end. Then the Faceless Men decline her contract with some choice words for her. And she still keeps at her stupid plans, refusing to return to the Seven Kingdoms. Finally, her hard-won army suffers a CurbStompBattle from Dany's Dothraki, and she runs away she pathetically meets her end with her armor pulling her down in a shallow river.]] Tywin's just exasperated at Cersei's pettiness and drunkenness.

* LittleMissBadass: Arya. She may not have received the Faceless Men training, but makes up for it with some utter ruthlessness against any that try to mess up with her or her friends, becomes Brienne of Tarth's squire - [[spoiler:and gets to kill ''at least'' one White Walker!]]
* MagneticHero: Tyrion. His charming personality, awesome exploits and his talent for making money makes it very easy for him to convince others to follow him.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Cersei, languishing in her personal Hell, is informed by Robert that one of the very few luxuries they're allowed is to go and try to help the souls of loved ones move on themselves, and tells her he's been trying to help Joffrey. After a moment's hesitation, she pulls herself together and goes off to join him.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The narration indicates that Tyrion would always regret his idea of [[spoiler:suicide bombers. The Irony is, in the confrontation with Daenerys, Tyrion uses an old lady as one: first to deliver cows with poison-containing bottles implanted in them to take out Daenerys's dragons (she succeeds with Rhaegal and Viserion) then detonates her double-belt harness of explosive flasks, which claim Ser Jorah and bring Mad Queen Dany out to where Daenerys and her surviving dragon, Drogon, could be eliminated]].

** Aurane Waters, who was AdaptedOut of the show, appears to assist Cersei in her scheme of controlling the Royal Navy. This will get a giggle from any book fan, as his story there ended with stealing the entire fleet from under Cersei's nose once it was finished - and he will probably be even gladder to do so, since Cersei pretty much turns him into her SexSlave. [[spoiler:And lo and behold, when Cersei gets imprisoned by the Sparrows, Aurane steals the fleet.]]
** Alliser Thorne tells Olly they're fortunate to be able to make a HeroicSacrifice against the White Walkers, as Jon would have been well within his rights to simply hang them. In the show, that's just what happened (this chapter is the first one written after the start of Season 6).

** [[spoiler:It happens again when we see Cersei and Robert in their {{Ironic Hell}}s, Cersei as a male warrior fighting a hopeless battle and Robert as a pregnant woman.]]
** [[spoiler:A third time with Jorah Mormont, who ends up meeting his father Jeor in the afterlife (he skips the IronicHell part because he had already admitted and acknowledged his sins) and chooses to give another try at serving Daenerys in a different Westeros.]]

** Jaime begins the story as Kingslayer, then [[spoiler:becomes Crowslayer after killing Euron Greyjoy. After killing the Night King, he's once again called Kingslayer, only now it's no longer an insult.]]

*** That same ram is then gifted to the Vale's Hill Tribes - along with two drums made of wooly skin. [[spoiler: The Dothraki are roaring with laughter at the sight of it, and even Daenerys finds the sight quite funny.]]

** Because Smalljohn Umber doesn't succeed his father as head of their House, he doesn't hand Rickon and Osha over to the Boltons, which would have led to their deaths.

* TranquilFury: Tywin's hate of the Faith was already deep enough in canon, but actually meeting with the High Sparrow, who embodies everything he hates in religion actually makes him snap.

## ...it wouldn't ''be'' more difficult than that; [[spoiler:Bronn, being the paranoid sort, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle pops one open with a crowbar to find it empty]]. He doesn't abandon the chests, but instead realizes that going to all that trouble to ''[[RevealingCoverup hide empty chests]]'' was where Littlefinger got too clever - he tears open the chests themselves to find the gems hidden in hollows in the ''corners'' of the chests]]. Tywin is pleased enough to [[spoiler:''grant Bronn the best fishing rights in the Crownlands'' as a reward for his investigations]].
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Subverted. Arya's time among the smallfolk leaves her unwilling to murder Tywin even when she has a perfect chance as it would destabilize the realm again, making millions miserable and starting another war.

** In a world of dragons and undead armies, one of the things that most disturbs Tyrion is the revelation that there are worse families out there than his.