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## 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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