YMMV / The Raven's Plan

• Angst? What Angst?: Rickon is still surprisingly childlike considering everything he went through in canon, up to and including being killed by Ramsey feet away from Jon.
• Base-Breaking Character: Robert. Some think he should remain king and lead Westeros in the war against the Others because Jon and Dany failed in the original timeline, while others point out that he's still a terrible person and king and the main reason Jon and Dany failed in the first place was due to Westeros being depleted of resources and men thanks to the wars and conflicts that resulted from Robert's poor leadership.
• Catharsis Factor: Watching certain characters get their comeuppance a second time around is immensely satisfying.
  • Joffrey is beaten to death by Sandor Clegane within moments after Remembering, with Sandor dedicating a few punches to Sansa for good measure.
  • Jaime disemboweling and then decapitating Petyr Baelish, who doesn't even Remember thanks to Bran specifically making sure of it.
  • Ramsay and Myranda getting torn apart by Bran turning their dogs against them before possessing a bear to finish them both off.
  • The Boltons getting exposed by Bran as having plotted to betray the Starks for a long while before the War of the Five Kings, with Roose getting personally decapitated by Robb.

• Fan Nickname:
  • Commentators on AH.com have referred to the rock Edmure used to kill Black Walder as the "Tully Rock of Doom". This one became canon later.
  • Commentators also took to referring to the mess in Dorne as the "Dornish Dumpster Fire".
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The mentions of the characters who died in the old timeline become this when several of them actually die in Season 8.
  • Prior to everyone being sent back in time, Edd joking that he'll join the Others becomes this when he dies in the Battle for Winterfell and is raised as a wight by the Night's King.
  • Dany is a lot more stable and sane in this fic than in the show.
  • Arya and Gendry's genuinely loving relationship in the fic becomes somewhat hard to look at, considering in canon they sleep together once and then she rejects his marriage proposal.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Brienne and Jaime got together here, allowing her to have the person she loved with her, considering his Redemption Rejection in canon.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Sansa's friendly attitude towards Dany comes off as this considering the tension between the two in Season 8.
  • That a Peggy Sue was needed to stop the Long Night in this fic is this after Arya single-handedly averting the Long Night by killing the Night King in canon. Maybe the fact that Arya died fighting Euron in the backstory of the fic had something to do with the difference in outcomes between canon and the fic?
  • Repeatedly throughout the story, people react with disgust to finding out that Jon and Dany are in a relationship despite being related, until others point out that they're Targaryens, so that makes it okay. When this big Internal Reveal comes about in canon, no one other than Varys even acknowledges the incest aspect, and it's quickly brushed off when he brings it up.
  • Jon accepting the throne considering his adamant refusal in the show.
  • There is something darkly amusing about Jaime's angst over killing Cersei considering he died with his arms wrapped lovingly around her in the show.
  • The Mountain nonchalantly kills Qyburn right before Cleganebowl in the show. Qyburn kills the Mountain offscreen between chapter 26 and chapter 39 in The Raven's Plan.
  • Also amusing is that, in The Raven's Plan, Jaime killed the Mountain before killing Cersei, and the Hound went down fighting Euron, whereas in the show, it was Jaime who was killed by Euron and the Hound who killed the Mountain.
  • Bran's adamant acknowledgement that Jon is their King considering in the end of the TV series, he became the King of Westeros south of the Neck.
  • Edmure Tully is presented as having become much more dangerous and embittered after everything he went through. His final appearance in canon shows that even after everything, he's still as much an idiot and wimp as he ever was.
  • Yara and Theon's reunion sees her welcoming him back warmly, then kicking him in the balls to remind him what he's regained. In canon, their reunion when he rescues her from Euron involves her headbutting him before embracing him.