I'll try not to alter too much what happened prior to season 7.
Instead of happening in season 8 I'd have it take place in season 7.
The NK gets past the wall not with a dragon but by freezing the river the Shadow Tower overlooks (kinda like in Harry Potter with the dementors). With the assault of the castle Arya, Theon, and Sansa are entirely absent and the ones left to defend it are Bran, Jon, Davos, Ed, Sam, Melisandre, Tormund, and a few other northern lords.
Instead of Arya teleporting to the twins she instead teleports to riverrun. Jaime never takes this castle and the blackfish still holds it. Arya's team up and support with the blackfish would create a nice duo as both have been seeking justice for their family for years. Also change her cringey monotonous acting.
Sansa goes to the Eyrie with Brienne and Pod to convince Robin to send the entirety of the Vale's forces to aid in the long night.
Bran does manage to get south of wall and is back in winterfell which Jon has commandeered. Upon his return Jon offers up the north to Bran but Bran refuses. Bran has spent so much time in the minds of animals he begins having feral proclivities. Bran is actually scared of himself and what he is and knows Jon is the better leader they need. Bran isn't omnipotent in this version, he has frequent nightmares, hallucinations, and muscle spasms. With the 3ER having died prematurely Bran has not properly been taught how to control his power and he's just a kid. I would take out his time traveling ability and only make it so he wargs and has bits of foresight but usually comes in the form of night terrors.
The NK slaughters everyone who couldn't get south of winterfell in time before descending onto winterfell itself. A few days (or weeks idk) prior to the assault Jon would have sent a raven to all the high lords of westeros requesting aid.
Jaime after hearing of Jon's call for aid would answer it (against Cersei's order). He would take roughly 12,000 soldiers and march to aid the family he regretfully decimated years ago. Tormund sacrifices himself for Jon and can only make out the words "my daughters" before dying in Jon's arms(attempting to tell Jon to save his daughters who in this scenario have already been introduced and established.) When Jaime gets there the castle is already under siege and close to falling.(Not going into great detail) Jaimie would charge the dead giving those left time to escape the castle, by this time Davos and Ed have already died defending the wall. Jaime and the Lannister cavalry would meet their death on the field at this battle with only Bran, Jon, Melisandre and a few others (mostly northern and wildling women and children)making it further south. Jaime would lead a final charge head on towards countless wights to give the others time to make it south. The closest thing I could imagine it to would be the battle for Minas Tirith except everybody dies and those that don't run away.
After Robin refuses to send his men outside of the kingdom Sansa meets up with Jon and Bran either in Moat Cailin or white harbor.
In this story Dany's arrival is pushed back significantly. Dany would have given up on her dreams of conquering westeros and would have stayed in essos where she feels she is still needed. She puts the citizens needs before her wants. (This would have been a scene with her speaking to Jorah while overlooking the civilians of Mereen prospering in the world she has built for them.) Upon hearing the defeat of the lannister force, the destruction of the Stark stronghold, and the mass genocide in the north by a necromancer Dany would then begin her sail to westeros. Not to conquer but to save.
(I would also change the night king entirely. Instead of making him a full blown villain with the end goal of touching a little boy(Bran), he actually is avenging the genocide of the children of the forest and is doing everything to save the few left. This is a major change and makes the NK not so black and white and gives him actual motivation. I would take out his gloating antics and instead replace them with logical ones. He's no sword fighter, so in this scenario he never goes on the front line or dare engages in combat but instead he's more of a sorcerer.)
Edit - sorry I'm a shit writer. Most of my changes are done so for more emotional and dramatic scenes which I felt were absent in the last few seasons of game of thrones.
Edit 2 - thing I forgot - I'd still have Lady Olenna's death be roughly the same except she doesn't have the support of Dany or anybody else. The battle for winterfell wouldn't take place until the end of the season and up until that point the Lannisters will have been executing rivals and cementing their place as the power house of westeros.
Submitted July 28, 2021 at 12:40AM by EmmaW17 https://ift.tt/2UNyk8b
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