❖Joanna of house Lannister❖
❖Tyrion Lannister's Secret Daughter❖
I Appear...
as though the spitting image of my grandmother whom I was named after = Joanna Lannister, late wife of Tywin Lannister. I stand at five feet and one inch - shorter than average but I hold myself in such a way that I often don't appear so. Plus the two inches I wear on my shoes to keep me at the average height for a woman helps. I take after all the best that the Lannisters have to offer - fair of hair and light of eyes. And through a combination of both my looks, my wealth, and the way I present myself I have received various suitors even by the age of seventeen. Yes I am a woman bloomed and for all purposes I should be married off...but I'm not. However, that hasn't made me bitter. In fact I prefer it this way. While I want to believe in all the joys that being married can bring, I can not. I am full of spite for what happened to my mother and can not overcome that. I do not trust men. In fact, they are my play things. I toy with them without sullying what honor I have. Each one is a lesson, each a stepping stone to my greatest goal. It's a wonder that I still appear so sweet and innocent.
My House...
Is house Lannister, richest of all houses in the seven Kindoms. We have on our banner a golden lion who has reared up, ready to strike upon a field of crimson. Our words are Hear me Roar. We are generally fair of hair and light of eyes. The head of our house controls the Westerlands and answers only to the crown. From this house, came my father - Tyrion Lannister. He is the second son of Tywin Lannister and (my name sake) Joanna. However, since my birth I have been hidden since the marriage was annulled. My birth mother (Tysha) was of no great birth, in fact she was common born. But as they were married upon my conception... technically I'm not a b*****d. However, since Tywin annulled the marriage before I was born and he did not want the scandal of Tyrion's to be made public knowledge, I have been passed off as someone else's child. This was to make sure that my true father never found out about me. And, I suspect, to make sure that he is not a valid choice to be heir of Casterly Rock.
My Story...
is that I am such an unlikely child that even the seven gods could not have created someone of stranger birth. My mother, Tysha, met my father after almost being rapped. Apparently my father and my uncle saved her. And she fell in love so very quickly with my father. I had no idea my mother could be so soft because that was a side I have never seen from her. But soft or not, she and my father fell in love and they were married.
After a two weeks of being married, mother noticed that she did not bleed. Or so she said. Then another week and my grandfather found out about their marriage. He was the reason why I am such an unlikely child - he had his solders rape my mother after she begged him not to annul their marriage on my behalf. He wanted to ruin her and the child, me, growing in her womb. But even after my father left mother to ruin I continued to grow. When I was born, my mother made a slow journey back to Casterly Rock. I was five when my grandfather first saw me and I remember his face even to this day. He looked as though he was looking at a ghost; so strong was my resemblance to my belated grandmother already. In return for her silence I was promised to be fostered at Lannisport under the guise of being just another member of the family. High enough to keep mother happy, but low enough not to draw too much attention - I was placed in the middle of the richest family in Westeros. No one would ever know that I was the daughter of the only son left whom could, by the King's laws, inherit all that the Lannisters had to offer.
I was thirteen years old by the time grandfather found out that my mother had told me all about who my father really was. And that was the last I saw of her. But I knew better than to try and fight back directly - I was no knight to try and stab him in the back. I was a woman nearly flowered and I knew how to work with that. I would play my part as a Lannister of Lannisport until the time was right. When that time comes...Mother have mercy because I shall not.
❖Tyrion Lannister's Secret Daughter❖
❖Joanna of House Lannister❖
Holliday Grainger
