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King's Landing
The capital of the Seven Kingdoms, home to thousands of people caught in the crossfire of the political power plays.
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The Spiders
A trio of teenagers that, during the Battle of the Blackwater, gained spider-related superpowers. They use said powers to fight against criminals and help the smallfolk. Petyr Parker
Petyr Parker, Spider Man
The son of Goldcloak Rickard Parker who was murdered along with his wife in the riots against the Lannisters, while Petyr was luckily staying with his aunt and uncle. He later gains spider-like abilities after being bit by one affected by wildfire.- Big Damn Heroes: Downplayed. Jon was clearly capable of dealing with the guard he was fighting, but he still helps by webbing the guard to the wall.
- Child Prodigy: Taught himself to read without a maester's aid, and later thinks up a design for a wheel-powered automated training dummy horse.
- Geek Physiques: He's noted to be skinny, and Gwen tells him he could work out a little more in comparison to Jon.
- Healing Factor: Heals a little faster than the other spiders, so that knife slashes can be regenerated from in hours rather than days.
- Kid Hero: Only twelve years old when he's orphaned. He gains powers barely a few months afterwards, and immediately sets to champion the downtrodden.
- Motor Mouth: He never stops talking during a fight. When the Vulture King asks if he's unable to shut up, Petyr gleefully declares babbling is a personal superpower of his.
- Nephewism: Taken in by his aunt and uncle after his parents were killed in the anti-Goldcloak riots.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Even if his costume fully hides his face and body, Jon nonetheless identifies him because he can't rein his Motor Mouth tendences and Keet disposition in.
- Parental Neglect: While Uncle Benjen and Aunt May were always there for him, his mother was sickly and unable to attend to him regularly. And his father Rickard was career obsessed and didn't give him the time of day most of the time.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: He's around thirteen years old at most and in a sexual relationship with Gwen. Both Natasha and Jon are disturbed by this fact.
Gwen Stacey
Gwen Stacey, Spider-Woman
Commander Jeor Stacey's daughter and a friend of Petyr Parker's, who like him gains spider-like abilities following being bitten by a wildfire-affected spider.- Eating the Eye Candy: She certainly enjoys the view of a naked Jon, much to Petyr's chagrin.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She can sew, dance and play music. She also enjoys archery.
- The Immodest Orgasm: How Miles learns she's having sex with Petyr — she's really not quiet when he pleasures her.
- Kid Hero: Is about the same age as Petyr, and gained her powers at the same time.
- Lady-In-Waiting: Becomes this to Natasha in Book 4, in order to justify the time she's spending learning how to be a hero from the Black Widow and the Centurion.
- Master of Unlocking: When Jon grumbles about installing a lock in his and Natasha's bedroom door, Gwen shouts she knows how to pick locks.
- Teleportation: Has the ability to teleport, though it has limits — she can only "jump" about 20 feet, can't go through walls, and has to be able to see where she's going.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: She's thirteen years old at the most, yet she's already having sex with Petyr and it's implied she was the one making advances on him. Even Natasha looks uneasy when she learns this.
- What Does She See in Him?: Played for Laughs when Miles gently teases her about her relationship with the socially awkward and naive Petyr.
- You Remind Me of X: Jon fondly comments he might believe Arya had dyed her hair blonde as a prank when she's around.
Miles Muralus
Miles Muralus
Commander Davus' son, who like Petyr and Gwen gained spider abilities after being bit by a wildfire-affected spider and became a hero.- Culture Clash: His opinions about love and marriage are very much influenced by the sexually liberated Summer Islands, and he vocally expresses distate for the Westerosi shunning bastards and refusing to acknowledge two people as lovers without a legally binding ceremony.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Wears a mostly black costume, but is a hero.
- Invisibility: Has the ability to turn invisible.
- Kid Hero: Is roughly the same age as Petyr and Gwen, and gained his powers at the same time.
- Shock and Awe: Possesses minor bioelectricity powers that he's working to control.
Goldcloaks
The city's guardsmen. Benjen Parker
Benjen Parker
Rickard Parker's brother, who took in his orphaned nephew Peter.- Doomed by Canon: Assuming Spider-Man's origin remains close to the original, he's going to die to teach Peter to use his powers to be a hero. Tywin offhandedly mentions he was also killed during the Battle of Blackwater.
- Parental Substitute: His brother Rickard wasn't a very good father, so Benjen served at Petyr's true role model as a servant of justice.
- Posthumous Character: We don't even see him in person, and then Tywin mentions he was killed during the Battle of Blackwater.
Jeor Stacy
Jeor Stacy
A Goldcloak commander who was close with the late Rickard Parker.- Character Death: Falls during the Battle of the Blackwater when a wight cuts him down to get to Tyrion.
- Composite Character: Being Tyrion's ally in the Goldcloaks and an honest man makes him a composite of Jacelyn Bywater and George Stacy, a cop from Spider-Man, and much like Bywater, Stacy dies during the Battle of the Blackwater (just as George was killed in the comics).
- Doomed by Canon: His canonical counterpart is most famous for dying, so it shouldn't be too surprising that he does.
- Due to the Dead: He was so popular and respected among the Goldcloaks, Tywin decides to pay the pension of May Parker since he knows she's taking care of Stacy's daughter Gwen.
- Friend on the Force: Serves as this for Tyrion, who knows he needs good recruits to fix the clusterfuck that King's Landing is and considers Stacy a worthy candidate, eventually giving him the job.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: He's killed by being cut roughly in half diagonally.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Is fatally attacked in the middle of updating Tyrion on their forces' counterattack against Stannis' forces.
- Rank Up: Is promoted to Commander of the Goldcloaks by Tyrion.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: The anti-Goldcloak sentiment in King's Landing hasn't changed his determination to do good by the people.
- Universally Beloved Leader: He is a responsible, honorable leader lauded by the people of King's Landing and his fellow Goldcloaks even after his death as the best Commander they've had in a long time. Tellingly, the only ones who were unhappy with him used to be Janos Slynt's cronies.
Jiffsun Davus
Jiffsun Davus
A commoner from the Summer Islands who is made the new Commander of the Gold Cloaks after Jeor Stacy's death.- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's made Commander largely on the strength of his successful defense of the King's Gate during the Battle of the Blackwater.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Struggles with King's Landing treating him and his family as exotic animals to ogle, with Tywin Lannister being widely considered as favouring him as Commander of the Goldcloaks merely for the entertainment value and not because Jiffsun is actually doing a good job.
- Establishing Character Moment: Kevan mentions him prior as a good candidate to be the next Commander of the Goldcloaks, but Tywin (and by extension the readers) first meets Jiffsun in Chapter 12 of A Shield of Man, following Lannisters assaulting Oberyn and Jon and Natasha's parties. He gets straight to the point without fumbling his words or fawning, reports preliminary findings as well as statements taken from witnesses as well as the ones attacked, and points out the latter only fought and killed out of self-defense. In short, a reasonable, responsible commander who believes in the Goldcloaks' duty and honesty, all of which silently pleases Tywin (plus, the Lord of Casterly Rock likes Jiffsun's use of an archaic notepad and pencil).
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Like his predecessor Jeor Stacy, Jiffsun genuinely believes in doing what's right and makes sure his subordinates do the same.
- Self-Made Man: While most of the other Summer Islanders who arrived with Jalabhar Xho simply leached off Robert's hospitality, Jiffsun applied to join the Gold Cloaks, which pays off with his promotion.
Citizens of King's Landing
Gendry Waters
Gendry Waters, aka Petyr
One of King Robert Baratheon's numerous bastards. A very skilled blacksmith who gets dragged into a dangerous whirlwind.- Beneath Suspicion: How he helps Mystique and Arya to flee King's Landing: no one is going to suspect a family of three who's asking for directions.
- The Blacksmith: He's introduced apprenticing as one, as per canon. He's talented enough for Tony to buy his apprenticeship.
- Composite Character: Thanks to the Blackfyre ritual, Gendry is also the story's version of Colossus, complete with his interest in the version of Shadowcat.
- Dumb Muscle: How he's considered by many people. His master even dismisses him as "all muscles and no brains, a true colossus". However, he is smarter than he is given credit for.
- Heroic Bastard: He's a complete Nice Guy and is one of Robert's bastard sons.
- Heroic Bystander: His reaction when he sees the Gold Cloaks' commander harassing a poor commoner woman and her daughter? Why, smashing his head open, of course.
- In the Blood: He wields a hammer for a weapon (and outright pulps Janos Slynt's head when the douchebag starts leering at Arya) and shows slightly perverted tendencies when he muses about his and Arya's guide's gender preferences, just like his birth father.
- Personality Powers: As a blacksmith apprentice, he worked metal for a living. So of course he gains the power to turn himself into metal.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Later in A Crack of Thunder, his mutant gene's activation aged him until his twenties.
- Refuge in Audacity: His strategy to leave King's Landing after killing Janos Slynt? He doesn't bother with a disguise, just walks through the doors while talking to the gold cloaks on his way. Arya is stunned by his success.
- Ship Tease: It's subtle, but he does show a bit of attraction towards Arya after they're both aged up.
- The Tease: When Arya protests lady parts are not how he envisions them, he playfully asks her if she's propositioning him.
Adrian of the Tombs*
Adrian of the Tombs, the Vulture King
A knight from the Reach, embittered against the Tyrells for their treatment of his family, who uncovers an ancient relic that allows him to finally take power for himself.- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Adrian doesn’t have his MCU version's hatred of Tony Stark. Instead, it’s directed at the Tyrells.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: Inverted. He's a Westerosi male who becomes the next Vulture King, who was previously Rhaenys Targaryen, a Valyrian woman.
- Berserk Button: The Tyrells as a whole are one for him, given all the ways they've screwed over his life.
- Conspiracy Theorist: Adrian is utterly convinced that his long list of failures in life have all been engineered by the Tyrells, who don't want anyone from his family moving up in society. To be fair, there's quite a bit of evidence that he's right.
- Cosmic Plaything: He absently muses that he must be cursed, because all his attempts at improving his lot in life have failed.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: His hatred for the Tyrells was brought by their manipulations in preventing him from doing anything that would distance him from his family's duty of protecting House Tyrell's tombs.
- First, he tried to find a knight to squire with, but none would accept him because he was not important enough.
- Then he tried to join the Faith of the Seven, but then a Septon had a "vision" of the Seven stating that he had to return to his family's duty. The Septon gained greater standing in the Faith, and coincidentally the Tyrells made a sizeable donation to the Starry Sept a few days after the "vision".
- Later, he went to the Citadel and stayed there for two years, only for a Hightower to offer him the chance to squire. Adrian accepted - and within two months he was knighted, told that he could not be a Maester and all but ordered to return home.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He's killed people in many different ways, but still grimaces when one of the Tyrell soldiers guarding the ship with Joffrey and Margaery's wedding presents falls on the rigging and breaks his neck.
- Forced into Evil: After The Spiders and Centurion beat him, he actually was okay with going to the Wall and living an honorable life shaping up misfits into a proper "crew". However, then his old pall Phineas helped lead Ultron to his position, and he's forced into service since he can't fight back at the moment.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: The helmet of his Vulture King outfit has eye lenses of Yi Ti glass, which are noted to glow like wildfire in the dark.
- Graceful Loser: Surprisingly, he doesn't rage when he's finally defeated for good, instead accepting that he's beat.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Upon being given a chance to redeem himself in the Night Watch, he sincerely intends to try doing so. Unfortunately for him, Ultron shows up and forces him to bend the knee.
- Legacy Character: Uncovers and claims for himself the dragonbone flight harness of the original Vulture King.
- Magnetic Hero: Well, not a hero. But he has the charisma to drive everyone to listen to everything he has to say, and to follow his lead, even if they don't like him.
- Number Two: Ends up this to Ultron aka Petyr Baelish. His old pal Phineas talked him up so much that Ultron thought he would be a good Hand of the King.
- Pet the Dog: He gets along well enough with Yoren, the Night's Watch member taking him to the Wall, that he convinces Ultron to spare him and the other recruits and have them join Ultron as members of his new court.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He is smart enough to realize that Tywin's messenger could likely betray him, and so kills him. In addition, he's smart enough to endear himself to the Old Lion himself, knowing that he not only rewards loyalty better than House Tyrell, but is officially the second most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms, and most powerful by de facto. Not to mention during his first raid as the Vulture King, he doesn't use the wagons used by the Tyrell soldiers, as they are easily identifiable and would spark suspicion if they are seen with them, and keeps some of the goods for his men to enjoy so as not to acquire Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal of the kind he himself is inflicting on House Tyrell.
- Properly Paranoid: He knows that any messenger Tywin Lannister might send to bring him back would likely just murder him for the sake of the glory of discovering the Vulture King's wings. He also knows that, were he to return to King's Landing with those wings, Tywin Lannister and Mace Tyrell would just take them away and claim to have discovered their existence themselves.
- I Shall Taunt You: He takes on the Vulture King identity to mock the Tyrells (due to the title's status as The Dreaded in the Reach).
- Shoot the Messenger: Kills the messenger sent by Tywin to recall his expedition, not trusting the man not to kill him and steal credit for his discovery (and, given the man's reaction when he mentions this, it is obvious he was planning to do that).
Sam
Isamalwi Iso Malsosia aka Sam
A Summer Islands warrior living in voluntary exile in King's Landing to escape his homeland's constant warfare.- Badass Cape: One made of red feathers. He uses it in battle to distract his opponent from his weapon and reactions, as the bright color draws attention.
- Commonality Connection: He strikes up a friendship with Jon Stark on the basis of both of them being very skilled sword fighters and because they're both used to being judged and treated as inferior by people for something they can't control (Sam for being a Summer Islander and Jon for being a bastard).
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: An extremely competent swordsman and teacher whom Westerosi highborns dismiss as a dark-skinned barbarian and exotic decoration. He lets slip a hint of bitterness over this.
- The Exile: Voluntarily followed his Prince into exile in Westeros, knowing that he'd probably never return.
- Lightning Bruiser: His sparring contest leaves Jon feeling like he's fighting three men.
- Master Swordsman: While he doesn't want to fight in any more wars, Jon is seriously impressed by Sam's skill with a blade. Cersei even remembers Jaime once telling her about how much he enjoyed sparring with the Summer Islander.
- The Mentor: To Petyr. He later becomes one for Tommen along with Jon, and between the two and Tywin's guidance, the lad seems to be developing quite well.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Because no one in Westeros can manage to properly call him by his birth name without butchering it. Except for Tywin, who apparently took it upon himself to learn Sam's real name and how to pronounce it correctly; Jon notes the Lord of Casterly Rock probably considers addressing someone by nickname beneath him.
- The Only One I Trust: The reason why Natasha entrusts him specifically with the Vulture King's wings. Sam isn't divided between loyalties, and he understands keeping such a dangerous thing away from King's Landing keeps Tommen safe.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: The reason he left the Summer Islands. He's seen so much warfare, he wants to live somewhere where he has no obligations to fight anymore.
May Parker
Petyr Parker's aunt, and sole remaining parental figure.
- Hidden Depths: Despite being a smallfolk woman, has a sharp mind and strong opinions on what's going on in King's Landing. And apparently, her tea was good enough that Tywin complemented her for it.
- Never Mess with Granny: Despite each of the Spiders being more than capable of defying her, none of them want to be rude in her presence.
- Secret-Keeper: Brought in as part of the Spider family secrets when she accused them of doing child prostitution.
