Oscar Serrett

Oscar, c.98 AC

Oscar, c.130 AC

Auguste Serrett

Mallador Serrett

Leana Serrett

Jocasta Reyne née Serrett, sister

**Oscar Serrett** is the Lord of Silverhill, coming into power after the death of his brother in the Cobbler Rebellion. He is the younger son of Otho Serrett and Leonette Lannister.

He is married to Elyanna Serrett, formerly Darklyn, and is the father of five children, four of which are legitimate.

## Appearance and character

Oscar aged well. From a dandy to a respectable lord, he retained the coldness of his youth. His golden hair has started losing its colour, though he has a blonde beard to match. His eyes are an icy blue, vivacious and active, always searching and observing.

Oscar is, at first glance, a man of grace, showcasing his noble upbringing and heritage. He's highly charismatic, highly intelligent and seemingly always in a perpetual state of icy calmness. He's observant and silvertongued, a people pleaser, flirtatious; yet, he's a liar, a manipulator, not always having the best intentions, a pragmatist. He has to be in perfect control over his surroundings, including himself, and the way he appears to others, giving him some semblence of stability, albeit fake, in his life, lest he give in to an agressive streak his father left behind.

Deep down, Oscar Serrett is a frighetened, raw ball of unreleased hurt and unresolved pain, tangled firmly to his experiences under his abusive father. He's ever a pessimist, burdened by what had happened and the lingering scars that refuse to go away. He's tried to divert that pain unto something productive, and has settled on an anger-based desire for justice for all the people who suffered under familal abuse. He bears a sense of responsability not to be like Otho, who he despises, but always fears he'd end up like that in a vicious cycle of pessimism.

He cares for his mother and siblings, and really values the notion of family, which is part of the reason he fears fatherhood despite having a child he rarely takes care of as a father, leaving her care for nurses and nannies. He's also had many relationships, but wouldn't ever stay unfaithful to any partner, let alone his newlywed wife.

## History

### Winter's child

At the time of Lady Leonette's second pregnancy, a woman who boasted she could predict what the baby in a mother's womb would be like when born worked in Silverhill. Leonette was curious, and paid this woman a visit; after a reading, the woman widened her eyes in shock.

"A winter's child," she said. "Your child will be that of winter, m'lady." Leonette laughed, amused by her prediction. A few moons later, when the boy was born, that same woman stood in the room with many other servants, and when the boy opened his icy eyes to look at his mother, the woman looked away. "Stranger take him," she said, "harbinger of winter!"

And indeed, Oscar Serrett was born at the start of one of the coldest winters Westerlands had seen in a long time, at the ending moons of 75 AC. But Leonette, insulted that someone would wish death upon her newborn baby, threw the woman out of service. Otho, Leonette's lord husband, looked at the child and cursed that he was one more mouth to feed in the winter.

### Secondborn

To Otho, Oscar was just that - one more mouth to feed, body to clothe and child to raise. He never really showed him any paternal love, and growing up, Oscar's main source of parental love was his mother, who bonded with him quickly and marked him as her favourite child, despite having two more after him. Oscar had an older brother, Daryn - but Daryn was raised by his father, with little to no contact with his mother. Thus, from the very start, brothers were pitted against each other.

And Otho liked reminding the boy that he was a secondborn. He rarely had new clothes, only Daryn's hand-me-downs; his gifts for namedays were usually Daryn's old toys and wooden swords, and whenever Leonette tried getting a new gift for him, it would end in a shouting match where she was out-yelled despite her best efforts.

Disharmonious nature of Silverhill under Otho Serrett only stopped whenever the guests were over. Children smiled, waved and pretended as if they weren't afraid of their father. For Oscar, that fear would only intensify on an otherwise quiet evening in 85 AC.

### A quiet evening

Leonette had always fought for her children, tooth and claw. It was a few days after Oscar's 10th birthday. He was, once again, gifted Daryn's old wooden sword, and Leonette had had enough. Taking her son in hand, she marched into her husband's room and demanded that her boy be given something that wasn't previously in Daryn's hands.

A shouting match, one of many, between Otho and Leonette ensued. Oscar hid behind a chair, watching fearfully as the parents yelled back and forth. Then, unimaginable happened - Otho raised his hand and struck Leonette down, causing the woman to fall onto the floor, unmoving.

To Oscar's child-like mind, there was a huge possibility his mother was dead. He burst into tears and sobbed, distressed, and Otho turned his attention to his son. He yelled some more, coming ever closer; the boy stood still, unable to do anything but give laboured, short breaths. When Otho demanded an answer, Oscar's lips refused to give it. Fear paralysed him completely, his thoughts and his body, keeping him in a corner of the room. Then, the door burst open and his uncle Tytos came in, checking if Leonette and Oscar were alright and accusing his brother of many evil things.

If Otho could kill over a gift, he thought, he could kill over less trivial things. Luckily, his mother was alive, but the night left a scar on Oscar's soul. Scar that would first burn in fear, and then hatred and then anger. For a longest time, he dared not oppose his father at the slightest, lest he hit him too.

### Squiredom

When Daryn was 12, he was sent to squire under Benedict Tarbeck, who would end up a Knight of the Kingsguard, and who was the brother of Lord Andros Tarbeck. Vaguely aware he needed to find his second son a knight to squire under, Otho arranged for him to squire under Ser Lomas Estren, who was distantly related to Otho's grandmother, Lady Jeyne.

Oscar wasn't that good with the blade. Smart and a quick learner, but never good enough physically, he more often than not snuck out to study fortifications, famous siegemasters and their works, major sieges. Lomas wasn't necessarily opposed to it - some men were cut for knights, some were not - and he had understanding for the boy. However, to not avoid Lord Serrett's wrath, Oscar stayed until he turned 16. Then, by mutual agreement, Oscar left Lomas' service without a knighthood and returned to his father once more.

When he informed Otho, his father stared at him with a disapproving frown on his face, asking where his knighthood was. "I'm not Daryn," the boy simply said.

### Jyanna

Jyanna Algood was a young lady in waiting to Leonette, not a famous beauty but there was something about her that drew everyone's attention. Maybe it was the way she held herself, the way she walked and talked, the way she behaved. Every young man in Silverhill was enchanted by her, but her choice fell on Oscar.

Oscar felt as if he had one advantage over his brother. He supposes his ability to fall in love easily came partly from the thrill of having something that wasn't handed down to him, something new and solely his. He loved Jyanna, he really did. They walked for hours in the garden, talked and laughed, and everyone thought they would marry once they became older.

Yet it wasn't meant to be. She was a year older than him, and after a year of courting, she had to leave, as her family had found her a suitable match. Ever since then, many women have passed through Oscar's heart, lowborn and highborn, and with every one he wondered when they'd leave to marry.

### How the mighty have fallen

A year after Jyanna left, the Rosegold Rebellion broke out. Otho, Tytos and Daryn left to fight for the lions, while Oscar, Norwin, Leonette and Jocasta waited. Silently, Oscar prayed to the Stranger that his father die in the rebellion, but only his father. His little brother Norwin always a Stoic man was greatly slighted to be left behind during the Rebellion and took to cold silences and bouts of violence through Serret land saying bandits to quench his thirst, Oscar found him far too unpleasant to deal with a boy that despite being overlooked on the same way as him by Otho had never developed any true bonding with.

Stranger had made his wishes come true during the war, and did so in the form of Lucion Corbray, who slew his father in the Battle of King's Landing. It was said that Oscar hid a little grin all throughout the funeral, and after it was finished and they left the sept, that he laughed happily.

Oscar slid back in the shadows after Daryn took over as the new Lord Serrett. But having tasted power, he knew he had to use it to stop what Daryn and Otho planted in the peacocks' court.

A year later, he was in a romantic relationship with a seamstress called Lysa, who accidentaly fell pregnant and gave birth to a child named Marya Hill which Oscar immediately took in as his own. Unfortunately, after Marya's birth, Lysa left, leaving him with a baby to raise as a single father.

Oscar counted with the support of his brother Norwin during the whole ordeal, as their mother called them "her two little peacocks", Norwin hated Otho on his own way but he also respected the authority he commanded as Lord seeing Daryn ascend to the position Lord drove him to a deep jealously, while Oscar cooperated with Daryn Norwin often spoke against him taking the side of the affronted vassals being able to weaponise their discontent.

## 98-99 AC

### 6th Moon, 98 AC

King's Landing - arrivals

The dragon weeps and the lion feasts (written by /u/stealthship1)

The dragon weeps and the lion feasts 2 (written by /u/stealthship1)

Trout in the Garden (written by /u/willmagnify)

King's Landing - the Grand Feast

King's Landing - the Grand Feast 2

I've still got a lot of fight left in me

Kindness of the Stranger

Late night snack (written by /u/cycloft)

### 7th Moon, 98 AC

The Peacock's Bride (written by /u/cycloft)

A deafening roar

### 9th Moon, 98 AC

Life for a life (written by /u/cycloft)

Morning prayer (written by /u/cycloft)

### 3rd Moon, 99 AC

Knock knock

A coat of gold,a coat of red (written by /u/erin\_targaryen)

### 7th Moon, 99 AC

Blessed are the champions of the righteous

Vengefully victorious

## 99-130 AC

Slowly, over the last few years of his brother's rule, Oscar quietly took over most affairs in Silverhill. That was the reason why, when the Cobbler Rebellion took the life of Daryn Serrett in the battle of Golden Tooth, Oscar's ascension hadn't been a surprise nor particularly celebrated.

During the first few years of his marriage, he and his wife had four children, all of which grew into adulthood. One of his strenghts had always been his three sons, whereas Daryn had none. The succession was clear, male heirs were aplenty, and Oscar proved himself to be a good lord, even if not officially. When he ascended the lordship, there was a sharp twist in tone for the whole court. He reformed the criminal justice law that his father had set up, giving it a more humane taste. He invested in his people, in a lesson harshly learned from the Cobbler revolt.

Tensions within the family never quite faded.His younger brother Norwin ever angered about everything made daily life on court a challenge that along his marriage with the Liddens of Deep Den made Oscar's rule far from secure, on the inside really Oscar knew Norwin wanted not the Lordship fir the sake of it but the power to never be hurt again.

Unused to family life that wasn't abusive, he adapted slowly to the role of the father, which had never come naturally to him. While he loved his children, he didn't quite know how to stay in their lives without overpowering them, so he became somewhat distant from them. What pulled him back in was the sudden knowledge that his eldest son, Trevas, had married a courtier named Alysanne Estren without anyone's express permission or approval. The two have had both good and bad periods since the day it became widely known in Silverhill.

## Recent events

2nd Moon, 130 AC

3rd Moon, 130 AC

4th Moon, 130 AC

## Quotes

"*There wasn't a part of this Serrett man that didn't appeal to Corenna as*
 yet. *He was handsome and well-spoken, and clearly doted on his sister.*
*All of that spoke well of his character*." - thoughts of Corenna Frey

"*Taller than her yet hardly towering, it was as though he had been sculpted from ice, save for his golden curls. He dressed in fine clothes, clearly he came from a house of substantial wealth - and it was not a difficult assumption when paired with his hair to assume he was a*
 Lannister. *Then again, Shyra had never heard of a Lannister who looked*
as such." - *thoughts of Shyra Grandison*

"

## Family

*Delena Serrett, Lady of Silverhill* (19BC-33AC), m. *Leo Plumm, Lord Consort of Silverhill* (19BC-35AC)

* *Symond Serrett, Lord of Silverhill* (4-51), m. *Jeyne Estren, Lady of Silverhill* (6-62)
	+ *Wilbert Serrett, Lord of Silverhill* (27-72), m. *Eldeen Bar Emmon, Lady of Silverhill* (26-58)
		- *Otho Serrett, Lord of Silverhill* (52-93), m. Leonette Lannister, Lady of Silverhill (50)
			* *Daryn Serrett**, Lord of Silverhill* (72-115), m. Anya Crakehall, Lady of Silverhill (75)
			* **Oscar Serrett**, Lord of Silverhill (75), m. Elyanna Darklyn, Lady of Silverhill (80)
				+ Trevas Serrett, Heir of Silverhill (99), m. Alysanne Estren (99)
				+ Auguste Serrett (100)
				+ Mallador Serrett (101)
				+ Leana Serrett (102)
			* Victaria Serrett (79), m. Raymund Tully (79)
				+ Ellery Tully (100)
				+ Victor Tully (106)
				+ Alyssa Tully (108)
				+ Rosamund Tully (110)
			* Jocasta Serrett, Lady of Castamere (83), m. *Reynard Reyne, Lord of Castamere* (73-129)
				+ *Gawen Reyne* (101-129)
				+ Robb Reyne, Lord of Castemere (103)
				+ Damon Reyne (105)
				+ Alys Reyne (105)
		- *Septa Loreza* (52-117)
		- *Tytos Serrett* (54-118), m. *Sarella Yew* (50-103)
			* Lia Serrett, Lady of Tarbeck Hall (76), m. *Martyn Tarbeck, Lord of Tarbeck Hall* (76-129)
				+ *Ellyn Tarbeck* (100-122), m. Baelor Targaryen, King of the Iron Throne (100)
					- Saerra Targaryen, Princess of the Iron Throne (118)
				+ Walderan Tarbeck (103)
				+ Myranda Tarbeck (108)
			* Giulian Serrett (77), m. Marissa Sarsfield (77)
				+ Victor Serrett (97)
				+ Manfryd Serrett (103)
				+ Rodrik Serrett (105)
				+ Bryce Serrett (108)
			* Theomar Serrett (80), m. Rohanne Rowan (82)
				+ Alyx Serrett (104)
				+ Luwin Serrett (106)
				+ Cassana Serrett (109)
			* Myranda Serrett (83)
		- Allyria Serrett (58), m. House Wylde
	+ *Selyse Serrett* (30-67), m. House Oakheart
	+ *Corenna Serrett* (33-105), m. House Osgrey

* *Alannys Serrett* (7-60), m. House Rowan
* *Otho Serrett, Knight of Silverhill* (7-63), m. *Leyla Garner* (7-58)
	+ *Raymund Serrett* (33-73), m. *Alyx Falwell* (33-74)
		- *Edmyn Serrett* (54-123), m. *Janei Stackspear* (54-119)
			* Olyvar Serrett (76)
			* Deana Serrett (78)
			* Lyn Serrett (80)
		- *Harra Serrett* (54-122), m.(1) *Roryn Jast* (50-76); (2) *Selwyn Yarwyck* (55-112)
			* Marsella Serrett (78), m. House Manning
			* Tyanna Serrett (78), m. House Connington
			* Alerie Serrett (80)
	+ *Ella Serrett* (35-92), m. House Celtigar

## Meta

Skills:

* Deception
* Siegecraft
* Diplomacy
* Fortification
* Silvertongue