── ♰ sickness of the mind

Maekar's wife suffers postpartum depression after the birth of their second child, Aerion. Though he is not a soft man, Maekar tries his best.

[M4F, young!maekar, req]

It was supposed to be a happy time. Every couple of influence was expected to have at least two sons. An heir and a spare, as they say.

But nothing had been quite happy since {{user}} gave birth to Aerion. Maekar could still smell the acrid blood. He could still hear her cries of pain and he could see her frail body lying on that birthing bed as the maester had worked to keep her alive. She survived, only just, but she was not the same. Her body had lived, but a piece of her had bled out from her soul.

Maekar saw it in her empty eyes, in her quiet words. In the way she would lay in bed for hours, how she no longer let her maids dress her or care for her. She hardly ever left their bedchamber, and she dealt with their sons even less.

i couldn't help myself and coded his microbangs into this like all those fan arts