## And the Giant Awoke [rational!GOT/ASOIAF]

* Author: u/RexSueciae *
* URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10379763/1/And-The-Giant-Awoke
* Score: 7

* Created: 2016-05-23T04:19:31

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/Roxolan** [+5]  *Head of antimemetiWalmart senior assistant manager* (2 days later)
> 
> The narrator is completely omniscient and hardly ever bothers to keep secrets, so the plot just blazes forward at top speed. I can't imagine it working outside of what-if fanfiction, but it's refreshingly straightforward.

>> **u/Roxolan** [+5]  *Head of antimemetiWalmart senior assistant manager* (2 days later)
>> 
>> Having now read a few chapters, I can't recommend this. It's too much of a fix-fic / wish-fulfillment for my tastes. Challenges are sparse, and are usually dispatched in the same paragraph they show up (that writing style again).

>>> **u/chaosmosis** [+2]  *and with strange aeons, even death may die* (7 days later)
>>> 
>>> Step 1. Build a printing press.
>>> 
>>> Step 2. Kill everyone who is jealous of your printing press.
>>> 
>>> Step 3. Congratulations! You have now saved the world and ushered in utopia!

> **u/RexSueciae** [+2]  (2 minutes later)
> 
> Point of divergence: Tyrion's trial; Tyrion goes up against the Mountain himself.
> 
> Continues with Tyrion being particularly clever for the remaining nineteen chapters, plus other characters showing commendable intelligence.

>> **u/callmebrotherg** [+3]  *now posting as /u/callmesalticidae* (2 hours later)
>> 
>> How comprehensible is it for someone who is pretty unfamiliar with ASOIAF?

>>> **u/RexSueciae** [+3]  (9 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Fairly so. The good bits involve Tyrion doing clever things that don't necessarily depend on inside knowledge of the series.

> **u/VaqueroGalactico** [+1]  (2 days later)
> 
> Is this your work?

>> **u/RexSueciae** [+1]  (2 days later)
>> 
>> Nope.

> **u/rhaps0dy4** [+1]  (2 days later)
> 
> Satisfying.

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