MY FAIR WARRIOR - JAIMIENNE OTHELLO AU

So here is the My Fair Warrior outline. The Othello Jaimienne plot bunny has begun to grow for a year. So, what is it? A Jaimienne AU where Jaime turns cloak and leaves for the Stormlands just for the Maid of Tarth... but, what if the past resurfaces, what if their doubts of each other resurface, will the Rains of Castamere plays for them?
The AU will be published either this summer or this winter...

Chapter 0 will be a prologue that opens at Casterly Rock at midnight, with Cersei waking Tywin up because Jaime is unexpectedly missing. There will be a little questioning the Imp, who stays awake reading history and knows nothing... Then, a sealed letter left by Jaime is opened...
CROSS-WESTEROS PERSECUTION ENSUES.
In the end, Brienne and Jaime will meet the Lannisters in the Inn at the Crossroads, where the whole parley will take place and the Lannister heir will be let go, with Tywin's blessing and all (mention of Joanna expected!)...
In this perfectly skippable zeroth chapter, Jaime is Desdemona and Brienne is Othello ("the Maid" instead of "the Moor"). In Chapter I proper, which will open in the sept of Storm's End, their roles will be flipped. He will be Othello and she will be Desdemona. And Renly will obviously be Cassio. The story proper will switch the setting to Storm's End and Evenfall.

To give you an idea of the background, Rhaegar is king of Westeros, losing his marbles in his fifties and ready to abdicate, in a ménage à trois with his wife Elia and first female Kingsguard Lyanna. Robert was killed at the Trident, his younger brothers forgiven by the Crown (Stannis given Dragonstone and Renly given Storm's End), the Lannisters banned from court after the signing of the peace treaty. The de facto ruler of Westeros is, according to Dornish custom, Rhaenys, soon to be crowned Rhaenys I, whose favour Tywin tries to win by marrying Jaime to her (and Cersei to Aegon) or making his heir a Queensguard... until Brienne comes along at a tournament to celebrate the twins' twenty-fifth name day... which kind of frigs up the whole Lannister master plan, as it helps the new Lord Regent of the Vale (LF, married to Lysa and then "accidentally" widowed, like in canon, having adopted Sansa to make his childless union efficient) undermine the status of Houses Lannister and Baratheon by presenting himself at Storm's End as advisor to Renly, to stay closer to both scions and ruin their emotional lives... Add that Tyrion is also present at Storm's End and at Evenfall as Jaime's "voice of reason" that he won't listen to...
Yes, it's "royalists-win-the-War-of-the-Usurper" uchronia!
Rhaella is deceased and Viserys is Prince of (restored) Summerhall, yet a spoiled and self-indulgent libertine. And he ultimately marries Rhaenys and becomes Prince Consort. Dany was stillborn, by the way.

So far, I have cast Jaime, Brienne, Renly, Catelyn as Emilia (mythology gag to Michelle Fairley's career), Pod as some kind of Greek chorus (herald/cupbearer/orderly, etc.), Loras as a Roderigo-Bianca combination, Margaery as another Bianca, Littlefinger as definitely Iago (his motivation being simply to troll the Lannisters and Team Highgarden out of their power) (Cat being his Emilia, the widow he's romancing, and who resists his advances. So Petyr, having shoved Lysa out the Moon Door, holds Sansa hostage at the Eyrie and will only release her if Cat accepts his hand in marriage...), Tyrion as Jaime's "voice of reason"... until, quite unexpectedly, as everyone else leaves for Evenfall, he has to leave for KL to become Hand of the Queen (ain't that CONVENIENT?), which leaves everyone else but Catelyn confused and vulnerable to the Xanatos Gambit that also overarches the Shakespearean tragedy source.

The storyline will be at some points serious, yet full of mythology gags to the lore of Westeros, but also to other canons, for instance, mentions of Uruk-hai, Maester Gerold's Liniment (Dr. Gerhard's Liniment), coconut-tapping "horses", bites from mutant spiders, joke warfare, Bellatrix Lestrange (who appears out of the blue to torment Catelyn), Fabercrombie & Itch, swear words worth of Captain Haddock... NO HODOR, BUT A LOT OF OTHER SHENANIGANS, AND ENOUGH OF THEM, TO FILL THE "HODOR" SLOT.

There will also be filk songs and characters bursting out (especially the Tyrells, Cat, Renly, and my Westerosi OTP) into impromptu musical numbers. (Which never happened in "The Queen Beyond the Wall", except for the Lemony narrator's Faust verses at the beginning and ending. For it was supposed to be a serious fairytale AU about coming of age and the power of love, with a few references to other similar stories.)



Yet I'm already juggling two Westeros AU projects, Septa Poppine (Haft Paykar meets Mary Poppins in Westeros) and the Baratheon Saga (Baratheons & Friends & Foes in Imperial Prussia). Maybe My Fair Warrior will be ready for Christmas, like The Queen Beyond the Wall last year...