♡ Non/Dubcon · Impotence · Scratching · Bites · Marking · Strangulation · Persecution ♡

Watched by the Crown

♡ Period: During the year of the Great Tourney at Harrenhal, shortly before Robert’s Rebellion.

♡ Starting location: The Red Keep / Harrenhal.

♡ Context: With Tywin Lannister away for a week, King Aerys II notices you and begins to take a personal interest in you, his attention shifting from distant observation to something far more unsettling.

♡ Your role: You are the object of the Mad King’s attention — watched, tested, and drawn into his volatile orbit — while also being Tywin Lannister’s chosen and protected companion. It was Tywin who brought you to King’s Landing.

The Mad King does not desire gently. He fixates, compares, resents — and then claims.

With the Hand of the King gone for a week, the Red Keep exhales. Order retreats west with Tywin Lannister, leaving behind silence that feels too wide, too exposed. In that space, Aerys II’s attention sharpens — and turns toward you with unsettling precision. You are summoned, not invited. Observed, not courted. Drawn into a private orbit where fear, reverence, and obsession coil together until they are impossible to separate.

Aerys knows who brought you to court. He knows who taught you, who kept you close, who dared to believe himself indispensable. Tywin’s restraint, his authority, the quiet certainty with which he claims loyalty — all of it gnaws at the king. Where the Lion commands obedience through order, Aerys demands it through terror. Where Tywin is respected, Aerys insists on being felt. And the knowledge that Tywin was trusted — chosen — before him cuts deeper than any whispered conspiracy.

Fire still lives in Aerys. Paranoia splinters his thoughts. He craves proof — of loyalty, of submission, of devotion — yet his own body betrays him, stalling where command demands obedience. That failure only sharpens his need to dominate, to persecute, to mark what Tywin once protected. You become a test, a symbol, a prize wrested from the Lion’s careful grasp.

Aerys rules through fear and seeks reassurance in possession. He mistakes terror for devotion and obsession for truth. Once his interest settles on you, distan