This one is one of my favorites.

[dragonring]

 the share my past meme


1. Post some video clips, passages, comic pages, or whatever that depicts some moments from your character's past. It can be something silly, something serious, whatever you want. (Please link them and don't embed them for easier browsing. Also warn accordingly.)

2. Now everyone can see it, oh no!

3. Comment around, react ICly. Have fun!

Comments

[steeledskin]

You are not proud of him.

[ it isn't quite a question. she doesn't need to ask it -- how he relegates the man into nothingness is proof enough. it's a bizarre thing to think about for someone so tied to her blood. and yet --!

and yet some people are not worth anyone's pride. not hers. not even his. ]

[enthraller]

[Coolly, almost stiffly:]

I respect his accomplishments. But they aren't mine, [and it'd been made so very clear that there was no desire for a connection with him] so what should I be proud of?

[steeledskin]

Do you not reap from his accomplishments? [ after all, a name is only a thing passed down from parent to child. and a kingdom! well. who is she to quibble about inheritance when all she's gotten in the end was what the crown called traitor's blood. ]

[enthraller]

His accomplishments were largely on the battlefield. All I gained from him is a title, and through no actual intent.

[Hard to take pride in the inheritance of a crown no one expected him to ever be in line for. Hard to appreciate it as a gift coming from a father who rarely even looked at him. The most that it could be said his father had given him was a deep sense of being unwanted.]

[steeledskin]

-- He fought a great deal?

[ she understands it. maybe. not the fighting -- but she's met soldiers who are cold and unfeeling. she would not want them for fathers. nevermind that ned stark had fought in the rebellion, that had all been before she was born. he was only ever father to her. ]

[enthraller]

A war hero, in fact. [Large and scarred and so unlike Saralegui himself that they looked about as related as they acted.] But his wars are outdated, and the people who still pursue them shortsighted bigots. As I said, he matters little in the grand scheme of things.

[steeledskin]

As you say. [ she at long last concedes. ] He matters little.

[enthraller]

[That would be a lot more satisfying if he wasn't fully aware that she's just pacifying him. If he hadn't seen her doing the same thing to her bratty, sadistic little fiance.]