Harry is the Lord's chosen, born amidst flesh, blood and bone.

 

That's my understanding. Harry isn't aware of it yet.

Harry with a wand would curbstomp every army and obstacle. Voldemort introduces new conflict.

Are you kidding? Harry might become aware of Voldemort and be motivated to gather men, power, and money to fight him, but to everyone else in Westeros he's going to be just another power-grabbing young tyrant with an eye on the throne. Harry might have the best of intentions, and a good story about an evil sorceror, but not one of those fucks is going to believe him, or help him even if they did.

If Harry wants to save Westeros and the smallfolk from Voldemort he's going to have to become a ruthless tyrant. That character change is what's going to drive this story. And you call it cheap. :facepalm

 

Good point. Apathy and selfishness is the one thing you can rely on in Westeros. I'm sure cxjenious will make it work somehow. Still, if you take away his magic and his 'cause', all Voldemort really is a monster with a god-complex surrounded by Wildings who hate one another and aren't inclined to be subservient followers.

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Alright, I did not consider the tyrant angle or how it could motivate Harry to amass for war.

 

I don't think Voldemort would be looking to control iliterate muggles...there are other things north of the wall.

 

Maybe.

:facepalm Why they immediately thought of Wildlings and not White Walkers I'll never know.

Yes, it should.

Just as Harry Baratheon isn't quite Harry Potter, neither is the Great Other quite Voldemort.

 

Such a cock tease.

Honestly though, when I read that you had reincarnated Voldemort as well, I was a bit disappointed, because I could see the fic going along the way of Harry and Voldemort rolling everyone else trying to kill each other, but if you limit them, and give Harry other people to fight besides Voldemort, (like Daenerys and her dragons maybe, wink wink, nudge nudge) it could be interesting.

Plus, Voldemort as the Great Other? Awesome.

 

Tyrant!Harry, well if nothing else the Lannisters should be pleased.

 

inb4 the giant squid is reincarnated as the drowned god

 

Way more White Walkers than there are dragons, Voldemort will get his hands on a working wand faster than Harry does. (If he's north of the wall, does that mean he got reincarnated as a wildling?)

If Voldemort can make a horcrux with just magic and a cold-blooded murder, he'll be on his way to immortality soon. If he can make horcruxes in this universe - if he does, I bet Harry'll use fiendfyre or dragon glass/obsidian to destroy it.

 

Wut?

The conflict with the Great Other (not a wildling) is a long ways away. You needn't worry about it. Speculating at this early juncture in the story is just folly.

But I doubt that'll stop you guys, if the pages of pairing debates is anything to go by,

 

So...instead of spending time answering in here....shouldn't you be writing MOAR?!?!

 

If Voldemort was reincarnated above the wall, I'd assume in his new life, he'd have been born as wildling. Did I misunderstand something?

 

Lol, I am writing. The 1st scene of chapter six is near as long as the entirety of chapter one. But you can't force these things.

Yes. The Great Other is a creature of ice and death, not a wildling. The Great Other isn't even human.

 

Also, presumably whoever Voldemort is reborn as will be as malleable as Harry is. More so, in fact, as Voldemort has only 70 or so years of memory to Harry's 200.

Given that Harry Baratheon is turning out to be significantly different to Harry Potter in character, there's no reason to think that his counterpart will be anything like Voldemort.

 

Oh shit... does this mean that we're going to see a bunch of Independent!Voldemort stories coming where he has to get emancipated, go on a shopping spree, find out he's the heir of All the kings, dragons, etc. owns all the gold in the world, not to mention the training montages he'll have to go through so he'll be fight on par with Harry?

Shit... I forgot the multi-compartment trunk and time turner.

 

The Great Other should be like Voldemort at his core, just like Harry Baratheon is Harry Potter at his core. Otherwise you just have two random OC that share memories of people/characters from other worlds/books.

 

That sounds boring to me - fixed characterisation. What is interesting to me is seeing how someone with Harry Potter's character is transformed by the culture and environment of Westeros.

What's important to avoid OOCness is not that Harry retain forever a certain set of characteristics, but rather that he start with them and then we see a logical progression of his character in response to the events around him.

Also, not sure if cxjenious is going with the original plot bunny idea of Voldemort being the Great Other. It's not really balanced, for Voldemort to be reincarnated as a god and Harry as a normal human.

 

Who's to say he's not Rh'llor reincarnated?

 

The title of the fic.

 

Spot on, mate.

I wouldn't quite think of Harry as a normal human, nor would I think of the Great Other as a god.

The Magnar of Thenn is considered by his people as a god, and he's more normal a man than Harry by far.