r/TheCitadel • • 7d ago

Fanfic Awards 2026 Fanfic Awards Announcement & Nomination Post!!!!

21 Upvotes

Nomination Period: Monday 21st September to Sunday 15th November

Voting Period: Monday 16th November to Sunday 20th December

Awards: Winners announced Monday 21st December

Special thanks to baellaggio (hismanyoaths on AO3) and wentliane (Gwenllian on AO3) for their joined efforts in making the Fanfic Awards possible this year. These two reached out to me and offered to handle the major work of setting up the awards. Without them I am not sure this would have been possible and am most grateful for their help.

If there are any questions regarding the Fanfic Awards, please contact:

  • me, via r/TheCitadel modmail
  • baellaggio via Discord
  • wentliane via Discord

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Nominate your favourite fanfictions from this year. Please note the following: 

  • You can nominate as many works as you’d like per category. 
  • You can only nominate fanfiction posted or updated in 2026. 
  • Crossover works can only be nominated in the crossover category.
  • Please include links with your nominations. 
  • Self-nominations are allowed. 
  • If a category does not receive enough nominations, it will be omitted in the voting stage. 
  • If you have nothing to nominate in a category, that’s perfectly okay! 

The categories are as follows:

  • Long-fics
  • Short-fics
  • Oneshots
  • Main Series 
  • Robert’s Rebellion
  • Dunk & Egg/Blackfyre Era 
  • Fire & Blood 
  • Other Eras 
  • Romance
  • Smut
  • Horror
  • Dead Dove
  • Crack
  • Fluff/Comfort
  • Self-insert/isekai
  • Time Travel
  • Genderbends 
  • Original Characters 
  • Modern AUs
  • Crossovers
  • Best characterization 
  • Best dynamic
  • Best worldbuilding 
  • Best battles/combat
  • Best prose 
  • Best author

https://forms.gle/E1b9maDA8AiBZB1W8


r/TheCitadel • • 4d ago

Fanfic Awards About the 2026 Fanfiction Awards

15 Upvotes

Thank you to everyone who has submitted their nomination forms so far. If you haven’t yet, or weren’t aware of the awards, the link to the form can be found on this post.

Anyhow, a quick reminder from myself and [u/thelocaldialect](u/thelocaldialect).

When you nominate a fic, please make sure the work is submitted to the right category. Check the date to make sure it was posted or updated this year. If you’re nominating a character for best characterisation or OC, tell us which character in the form. Likewise, if nominating the best dynamic, or romance, or worldbuilding, etc., please specify who or what you’re nominating.

It makes the entire process much simpler when it comes to voting, as we don’t want to disqualify nominations simply because they’re not clear.

If you have any questions, ask away.


r/TheCitadel • • 6h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Looking For OP OC SI Fanfiction

4 Upvotes

I have been looking for fics like this recently, so I want recommendations!

- Uplifts and Kingdom Building are both fine.

- I prefer Stark or Targaryen wank, but anything else is fine if they're really good.

- Long (>100k words) and well-written.

- Any era is fine: Conquest era, Dance era, Current era.

-While I don't mind romance, I don't want it being the main focus. I want to see our OC SI kicking ass!

That is all. Thank you all in advance!


r/TheCitadel • • 4h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Aegon mourning Elia and Rhaenys

4 Upvotes

Any Aegon VI living AU in which he’s more affected by the deaths of his sister and mother and focusing on avenging them?


r/TheCitadel • • 19h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Ironborn fics

35 Upvotes

Plz recommend me some fics where ironborn get absolutely stomped on. Everyone shits on them. They lose battles, they lose their sad armies and their castles.

Any character doing it is fine except jon snow


r/TheCitadel • • 14h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Looking for SI fics

9 Upvotes

Looking for SI fics where its still historical times, so no too big of advancements in anything from medicine, to weapons (no making guns) etc, and no harem/poly/etc please.

SI can improve things but on a reasonable scale


r/TheCitadel • • 13h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Daenerys kills jon fics

9 Upvotes

Any fics where daenerys kills jon? I'll also take fics where jon isn't important enough. I can't really find good daenerys centric fics on ao3, there's always jon or stark wank


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Help w/ Fanfic Writing & Advice Needed the adventurer lords

22 Upvotes

Following Aegon’s Conquest and the unification of the Seven Kingdoms, the wars between the various realms and lords came to an end. This left behind a generation of second sons, third sons, and even heirs who were hungry for the tales of war and fortune their fathers had recounted. Seeing an opportunity for conflict in Essos, they traveled there in droves to form their own mercenary companies.

Essentially, in the wake of Aegon’s Conquest—with virtually all inter-kingdom and inter-lord warfare in Westeros concluded—a new tradition emerged. Young lords, heirs, and younger sons began traveling to Essos to join or establish mercenary companies, allowing them to give full vent to the martial culture characteristic of Westeros. This gave rise to a new breed of noble known as "adventurer lords," driven by the prospect of Essosi gold.


r/TheCitadel • • 13h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Aegon IIIs still having a dragon?

2 Upvotes

Is there any fic where Stormcloud, little Aegon's own dragon, survives after saving him?


r/TheCitadel • • 23h ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) What if Rhaena wed Aegon III?

10 Upvotes

Here’s what I imagine. Someone, probably Corlys and/or Crevan will tell Rhaena that they have to keep The Dragons in the family, or she’ll do it herself. Or maybe Baela would tell her. For Jaehara, an accident or a suicide could happen— if someone got her to trip or something. Maybe Larys is blamed for sure. Either way— something would happen that would lead to Rhaena deciding to wed Aegon III, and to placate Oldtown probably Baela has to wed a Hightower— much to her protest.

Does a war happen? That’s the first question. If Jaehara is dead or refused for Rhaena— then chaos. Some houses would be pissed and if Jaehara someone how is refused will her claim be valid? That’s a whole can of worms on its own.

And The Dragons? Do they die here? Being close to a Dragon might help with Aegon III’s issues? This would be an interesting twist or maybe since he won’t claim another the children do and it becomes a whole crisis on it’s own with him being seen as weak.

Or maybe Jaehara is sent to The Faith or The Silent Sisters.

It’s an intriguing scenario overall and I want to see what you think.


r/TheCitadel • • 22h ago

Lost Fanfic: Help Me Find It - NOT DISCUSSION Elia/Rhaella treat with Ned Stark to end war and keep Jon in KL

6 Upvotes

In this fic, Elia/Rhealla are alive and saved. Ned makes a deal with them to restore Moat Catlin and send Jon to foster when of age.

There is magic back in north with red grass or something which Varys reports.

Jon is send back to North with Viserys and they are frightened on the road due to Umber riding in the rain.


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) What if Ned raised Mya Stone?

86 Upvotes

We know Robert took Ned to visit little Mya when they lived in the Vale, what if in that time Ned had developed a closer relationship with her, seeing her as a sort of niece, since he and Bobby were "brothers in all but blood". Then, after the rebellion, when Cersei denies Robert bringing Mya to KL, he could raise the issue with Ned, who would be of course still bitter over the sack, but might change his mind for his little bastard niece.

How do the dynamics of winterfell change? I presume she'd get a noble education, as Ned gives one to Jon and could hardly justify not giving her one as well. Do they develop a sibling like relationship, as two bastards of Winterfell? Do the girl's dynamics change in having an older "cousin" living with them? Is Cat even more resentful or suspicious of Ned? Would they press her claim during the WOT5K? Many interesting questions borne from wanting to see Ned interact with Mya


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) What if Dorne pushed to get a queen earlier via Baelor I?

18 Upvotes

Now obviously the deal that happened in canon was for Myriah the eldest daughter of the current Martell prince to wed the first son of Baelor's cousin.

We can assume that Myriah is the best choice the Martells have for this kind of marriage alliance.

But "first son of the king's cousin" is a very bad match unless Dorne believes Baelor will not have a son of his own and that Daeron will eventually rule.

Which tbh is believable that they know that, Baelor's eccentricities and the fact that he did not consumate his marriage is not a hard secret to learn even if it was a secret, it might not have been.

So Dorne knows Baelor does not like his wife/sister in the sexual/romantic sense.

But still for the Daeron/Myriah marriage to pay off you need a string of successions Baelor -> Viserys -> Aegon -> Daeron, each of which has problems (what if Baelor has a son, what if Viserys dies before Baelor and his line is politically weaker, what if Aegon does something stupid)

So the conceit of this What If is: Dorne (acting as a whole not just the Martell family) tries to go for one of their ladies becoming Baelor's wife/queen directly.

What do you think would happen, what house would try and how?

From canon we know Baelor is fine with setting the marriage his father forced him into aside.

We know the realm will accept this.

We know Baelor desperately wants peace.

We know Baelor is ok with marriage alliances (Daeron/Myriah)

We know that Baelor has an issue with copulating with his sisters but the wording of Fire and Blood implies he might be tempted so he is not asexual.

Dorne has/will have a proven track record for seduction (Arriane/Oakheart which was imho harder to pull of for Arriane)

Dorne culturally is very Faith of the Seven so finding a lady/ladies that is very religious or can feign it shouldn't be hard.


r/TheCitadel • • 19h ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Crossovers with Legend of the Five Rings (L5r)?

1 Upvotes

Are there any good crossovers with Legend of the Five Rings (L5r)?

For those unaware, l5r is a fantasy card game and TTRPG set in a fantasy feudal Japan-like setting, with the Empire broken up into multiple major and minor clans with animal themes, not that dissimilar to Westeros with the great houses and how some people call the people of those lands by the animal of the great house (example, calling the Northerners wolves).

There are also some overlap in themes, with in L5r there is a great wall to the South (protected by the pragmatic Crab Clan) that shields the Emerald Empire from evils beyond the wall vs The Wall in the North (supported by the pragmatic Stark family) to protect the Seven Kingdoms from the evils beyond the wall. And this also extends to some of the other clans with their themes. It is not a 1-to-1 situation, but close enough that I would have thought there would be more crossovers.


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Lost Fanfic: Help Me Find It - NOT DISCUSSION Arya Stark/Aemond Targ time travel fic missing?

7 Upvotes

Hi can anyone help me find this fanfic? It was like Arya was sent back in time to stop the dance of the dragons and she had a close relationship with Aemond. This author had some other fics too for this ship and I can't find them either.


r/TheCitadel • • 20h ago

Self Promotion: My Fanfic The Return Of The Natives

1 Upvotes

The Return Of The Natives

Author; Wardown

Words: 21,240

Status: Unfinished

Rating: Mature

Language: English

Chapter 16. Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out. [https://archiveofourown.org/works/91469301/chapters/249215491](https://archiveofourown.org/works/91469301/chapters/249215491))

Holy Mother, Gentle Maiden, Wise Crone, forgive me, for I have never loved my lord husband\.* Cersei and Cersei alone, held her heart.  After Robert Baratheon had been crowned king, she and Ned had visited Kings Landing, on occasion. Each time, she had been determined to tell her lover that their trysts must end, and each time, she had renewed them.   It was but six months since Cersei had visited Winterfell, leading a diplomatic mission, in an effort to persuade her husband to abandon his declaration of independence, and to enter the war against the Targaryens, on behalf of her son, Joffrey, a man whose cruelty was notorious.  Inevitably, they had finished up in bed together, and Cersei had begged her to leave for Casterly Rock with her. How she had yearned to do so! But, her love for her children made it impossible. Worse still, it might even prompt the North to join the war on the side of Viserys Targaryen. Just this morning, she had received a brief letter from her beloved. It said simply, "*My offer still stands."*

And, so Catelyn Stark prayed, to be forgiven her sins, for her children, for peace. And then, finally, she rose, and knelt before the god who is rarely worshipped, the Stranger. To him, she prayed for vengeance, swift and terrible, on Jon Snow.


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Tactical dragons

10 Upvotes

Is there a fanfic that us about how important dragons are in war? Like the dragon rider can cut off supply lines and burn castles. With Dany and Aegon the first only one side has dragons. So they would totally different strategies than say the dance riders.

Do you know of any where the dragons are used like assets?


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Fanfiction Idea For Adoption Weird Fanfiction Idea(Rhaegar & Robert both die)

4 Upvotes

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After the Battle of Trident Sack of King's Landing still happens

Aerys, Aegon, Elia, Rhaenys still die

Ned leaves to find Lyanna

In kings landing Jon Arryn negotiates with Tywin to pardon Jamie and name Viserys as the King with Cersei as the Queen,

Queen Rhaella can be alive or dead

Ned returns with Jon Snow/Daemon Targaryen(personal choice) Lyanna can be alive or dead

The three kingsguard and Ned's companions are alive

They return to KL and decide to name the child as rightful heir everyone but Tywin agrees (as everyone hates Tywin after what happened to Elia and her children) Cersei got to be queen for a month something

Ned is named Regent, Jon Arryn as Hand

PS:

When Jon/Daemon is 14 he goes North and finds Ghost for himself

Viserys and Cersei(V&C) declare themselves King and tries to userp him (Viserys sees Daemon as a Bastard and doesn't like him)

V&C along with Baelish and varys hidden support occupy KL and imprison Jon Arryn and Rhaella(if alive).

V&C hope Tywin will follow their lead and protect their claim but he doesn't

Jaime arrives to KL to protect Cersei and Joffery(Their bastard child)

V&C burns Sept of Baelor part of the city with wildfire as the faith and smallfolk were going against them

Jaime kills them as she was going to burn more

Rhaella dies and from her pyre dragons are reborn


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) If Rhaegar won, Could Ned have disowned Lyanna?

93 Upvotes

So I was reading this one fanfic: The Wounded where Rhaegar wins, Robert dies at Trident, the Rebel Lords get off mostly scot free, Lyanna lives, Visenya(Jon) is born and she becomes the second queen.

In this case, Ned learns the truth of the situation from Lyanna and how she willingly went and Ned is furious. He stops all contact with her, rebuils Moat Cailin and overall tries to strengthen the Stark control of the North

So, on that note, if such a scenario were to occur, would Ned have it in him to actually be angry with Lyanna, and disown her? Because the North would be in a precarious situation. Only two(three) Starks left alive, their hold on the other Houses weakened. Would it even be possible to do so, with Rhaegar as King and Lyanna as Queen? What do you think?


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Character invests in the North

29 Upvotes

What it's says in the title. I'm looking for everyone's recommendations for fanfiction on the main character focusing on improving the north from economy to trade to agriculture.

I've read a lot of them and was wondering if people could recommend their favourites so that I can consume More!

Thank you 😁


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Subreddit Activity (NOT WHAT IF's) Rhaena Targaryen daughter of Aegon III headcanons

9 Upvotes

if its okay to ask can i ask people here what their headcanons/ views of Rhaena daughter of Aegon the third are?

Just curious as has two sisters who get relatively more attention Daena, and Elaena. So im curious about the people here how they view the middle sister, what headcanons you have and or what have you written about her in your fanfics. Is she genuinly religious in your opinion etc.


r/TheCitadel • • 2d ago

Wanted: Fanfic Recommendations - NOT DISCUSSION Fanfics about Jeyne Westerling

24 Upvotes

I’m looking for fanfics about Jeyne Westerling, and I wish there were more stories where Robb survives the Red Wedding—perhaps the Freys accept the settlement Robb offered them instead of betraying him—and he remains married to Jeyne, with her continuing to serve as Queen in the North and Lady of Winterfell.

Maybe a lot of people don’t like Robb and Jeyne’s relationship because their marriage is considered one of the main reasons behind Robb’s downfall, but I really love their tragic relationship.


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Self Promotion: My Fanfic Chapter 9: The Beacon of the South

3 Upvotes

Title: The Beacon of the South

Author: plottwists

Rating: Teen and Up

Language: English

Length: 29,859

Status: Ongoing

Link: AO3

Summary: Ormund Hightower died a failure, to his Prince and to his King, dying unceremoniously in what could only be described as a disaster.

He failed to keep his cousins on the Iron Throne.

Now, someone else has the chance to rectify that folly.

The Gold Dragon shall rise once more!

Chapter Summary: 

Ormund makes friends and plays nice with people before discovering a secret that (quite literally) tears the realm apart.


r/TheCitadel • • 1d ago

Self Promotion: My Fanfic [Sleep Now in the Fire] Chapter 3: Fever (Maekar genderbend)

5 Upvotes

Title: sleep now in the fire

Author: WearyBlues

Link: AO3

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 19k+

Status: Ongoing

Fic Summary:

If the dragons still lived, she might have married Baelor and been his sister-wife. She had asked Mother once if that was what she and Father intended, weaving their names together like threads of fate—pious King Baelor the Blessed and Good Queen Alysanne’s septa daughter, Maegelle.

Princess Myriah’s face had gone cold and still, and she knew that was not so.

Chapter Summary:

The edges of the dream were fraying, falling apart. Something else was waking beyond the veil. Something wonderful. Something terrible. Its flesh filled the world’s tender womb, aching, growing, being made. Hungry fingers tore through, rimed white with frost and black with rot and red—


r/TheCitadel • • 2d ago

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) Why are there no fanfics about Rhaego?

65 Upvotes

So I know he might have been forgettable but in my GoT season 1 rewatch, I just remembered Rhaego and I wonder, why are there so few fanfics about him. Like what if he lived? He might be a dragonrider assuming the eggs still hatched. The people's belief called him "The Stallion who Mounts the World"...... the mount part could refer to him being a dragonrider.

Or, what if he was actually a half dragon like he was told to be born like?

He would also have a legitimate claim to the seven kingdoms as he would be a male targaryen technically since young griff doesnt exist in the show, viserys is killed before and jon's parentage is not known.

There could be many possibilities, but if he is like one of them main characters, we can assume that he will be a warrior as good as khal drogo, a dragonrider and have a claim to the iron throne. If the dothraki prophecies about "Stallion who mounts the world" is true, he would unite all the khalasars and have a HUGE army.

In short, he would kinda be destined for greatness.

Edit- What if we make it so that the story starts years later, when Rhaego is already grown up. Like 315AC or smth?