A SACRIFICE OF ICE AND FIRE

And here's this year's Valentine's gift!! A Westerosi gallery of tragedies worth the pain.


This is the Alice of Human Sacrifice Westeros filk (War of the Usurper/Robert's Rebellion-era) I had been promising you for ages.


Ships/pairings: Lyaegar, Lannincest.
Warning: Pretty graphic story (especially the Elia part). Discretion is advised.

Once upon a time, in a certain place, there was a little dream.
No one knew who had dreamt that dream, and no one cared at all.
This made the little dream think:
I do not want to disappear. How can I make people dream of me?
And thus, the dream thought and thought, and at last had an idea:
"I will make people come to me, leading them astray,
and let them create worlds of their own..."


A SACRIFICE OF ICE AND FIRE

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Story the First: The Lost Swordswoman

The first Alice was a maiden righteous, bold, and free,
clasping in her left hand the hilt of a trusty sword.
She cut down the unfair and set right everything gone wrong,
wayward was her scarlet path, far from wedding a lord.

This Alice got lost somewhere far away,
disappeared, a fallen woman, into sin thus lead astray...
They found her bereft of life, within the Tower of Joy...
She lay in blood and wilted roses, with her newborn boy.

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Story the Second: The Star-Crossed Prince

The second Alice was a clever prince, so frail and shy,
strumming the strings of his heart and harp to many a song...
Singing and imagining that prophecies were true,
he created an insane world where nothing was wrong.

This Alice loved and picked a winter rose so blue...
he was slain by the stormlord for having made his bride untrue...
Crushed his breastplate and his chest, the lungs and heart within...
Once beloved, now he's hated, due to his last sin.

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Story the Third: The Broken Princess

The third Alice was sweet, with skin warm and dark as gold,
the friendliest, loveliest one born on the coast of Dorne...
She wedded the poet prince and dwelled within his court,
giving him two children; when he left, she felt no scorn.

This Alice was the princess of all the land...
She suffered a gruesome fate at a traitor's harsh command...
As she struggles for her life, she sees her children die...
then, her maidenhead once lost, she yields with one last sigh.

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Story the Fourth: The Wilful Twins

Following the woodland paths no one's trod before...
Crossing at the ford that still runs scarlet with gore...
Though you have been invited to the Royal Keep...
In my heart you will always dwell...

The fourth Alice were twins with green eyes and golden hair,
so wilful and curious, like any other child...
crossing many thresholds as their lives go on and on...
yet now they're no children and life is no longer mild.

The older sister's headstrong... and...
the younger brother's insecure...
They think they are the closest to their wonderland, for sure...
From their wildest dreaming they will never, e'er awake,
trapped forever in the lives they lead for their hearts' sake...

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Who will be the next Alice?

ON MY WESTEROS FIC: INSPIRATION SONG LYRICS

Alice of Human Sacrifice/Hitobashira Alice

“Hitobashira Arisu”, Englished as “Alice of Human Sacrifice”, is a Vocaloid song written by Yugami-P (both melody and lyrics). The narrative lyrics tell a four-part story with an introduction. Part of the lyrics, translated by the author of the fic herself, have been incorporated into the narrative, as the introduction and the opening of every chapter.

The lyrics resemble the typical “allegorical kunstmärchen (literary fairy tale)” in that they allow more than one interpretation of characters and scenarios.

Full lyrics, translated by the author of the fic

Once upon a time, there was a little dream.

It was such a little dream, that it is still unknown who dreamt it.

The little dream didn’t want to pine away in the shade, completely unnoticed.

So the little dream thought, and thought, and came up with a great idea.

“I should let humans come to me, and have them create their own worlds!”

The first Alice was a gallant one.

Sword in hand, she entered Wonderland…

Slashing all her enemies whatever it may take,

leaving a crimson pathway of blood in her wake.

This Alice was lost in the dark wood,

and there, like the sinner she was, she disappeared for good.

Aside from the trail of blood that’s seen through the mist,

there is no more evidence that she really does exist.

The second Alice was a gentlemanly one.

Singing a song, he entered Wonderland…

He filled up his inner void with all that’s bright and fair,

and a new world of his own was due to spring up there.

This Alice loved picking the roses brightly red.

Slain by a cross-eyed madman, who wished to see him dead.

Crimson roses blossomed from the wound in his chest,

and, even after death, he is beloved and he’s blessed.

The third Alice was a beautiful young girl,

the fairest and dearest one to enter Wonderland…

She charmed many people to her every beck and call,

and thus rose a sweet kingdom that would rise above them all.

This Alice was the Queen of Wonderland,

troubled by a hectic dream that never would be banned.

She feared that her good looks would soon fade away in vain,

ironically, while she had reached the peak of her reign.

Following the little red pathway through the wood…

Resting by the rose trees, that will sure do us good…

Then came an invitation to the royal court…

What was that, but the Ace of Hearts?

The fourth Alice was a couple of siblings.

Out of curiosity, they entered Wonderland...

On through many gateways, past many scenes and lives.

They’re together the latest Alice who arrives.

The brave and plucky little sis, the clever wicked older bro,

they were the closest ones to come where the story should go…

Both of them, however, from their dream will not awake.

Now they’re trapped in Wonderland for tragedy’s own sake.

The author has previously written three Vocaloid fusion fics (ut supra) that cast the Vocaloids (the Kagamine siblings in leading roles) as characters in lesser known fairy tales, before writing an reverse of her classical fusion fandom: non-Vocaloid characters to a Vocaloid song. Thus, the fusion fic “Alice of Westeros Sacrifice” doubles as a song fic.

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