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She literally just told him her name 2 seconds ago..
I really tried my best to get through it, but it's just too awkward. The MC is constantly trying to be badass yet ends up looking like an edgy 15 year old 9 out of 10 times. The romance is extremely cringy and matches exactly the kind of embarrassing quality you'd expect from a writer building a 20+ woman harem. If you're young and clueless, this might still be a fun read.
Really feels like you don't understand ASOIAF past the surface level
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"Of course" lol. This kind of move from writers always feels like a bad excuse made directly to the reader. His "meta knowledge" would not really be better at all with Varys alive , yet a very dangerous enemy would be (not to mention the gigantic shift his presence would have already caused; no way anything resembling canon would play out now). You may as well just have written: "But I have content involving Varys planned for the future, so killing him would be unwise."
I don't know why you think we have any real idea of how many years the various events in the east happened. We don't even know when the Valyrian Empire truly began. It's all just a mess. It sounds like you understand that at this point though and is just arguing to not be "wrong" now.
Tame the dragoness? Daenerys is just a scared, clueless child completely dependent on and submissive to her brother at this point.
Except if he had read the books he'd know that Arianne did not travel to Braavos, and the fact that she was kept away from the knowledge of her secret engagement is pretty much what fuels her entire character arc.
Except it's deliberately written in this vague way by GRRM, so we don't actually know. The characters /think/ it /may/ have been 8000 years ago, but it is also repeatedly stated that it was a time without proper documentation and that pretty much anything before the Andals' arrival are full of very erronous estimates, guesswork and legends. This is by design. When I say that not even GRRM likely knows, is because this is exactly how he has been known to write: he adds these mysteries to a book, leave them open-ended, and doesn't always even bother narrowing it down as exactly as you are. You've fallen prey to the idea that the characters always speak truth and known what they're talking about, which is just straight up false and is a very common theme throughout the book as it deals with mythology and legends. We don't know when the Long Night happened. We don't even know when the Wall was raised. You can try and fool yourself into thinking otherwise, but these are facts. Therefore, using your "8000 years" calendar is just ridiculous.
What is your source on this? I have been deeply diving into ASOIAF for a long time now and this seems very incorrect. In general there are no standing armies in Westeros. Tywin always had to call his banners to have any army worth using. This is also Lannisport which got sacked by the Ironborn at the start of the Greyjoy Rebellion; no way that happens with a standing Westerlands army of 8000 men. I don't see Tywin wanting to waste that much money on a standing army in peace times—not only does it cost to feed, employ, train and possibly gear these 8,000 men for years on end, it will also take them away from the fields and their various jobs. It would be a massive hit to the Westerlands economy. Even in your own story Tywin was too cheap to properly prepare his ships in case of a raid during peacetime. So either you're pulling this out of your ass, or you read someone's fanfiction/headcanon, got confused, and took it as canon, or almost everyone discussing this exact subject for years have missed such a crucial detail in the books.
What is this nonsense? No one except /maybe/ GRRM knows when the Long Night actually happened, nor what actually happened. Saying "8000" years is just some silly fanon shít and/or unreliable theories within the ASOIAF world itself. So, no, it doesn't make sense at all. It could be 4000 years or it could be 10000 years for all we know. Use AC, as this is the only reliable timeline we have access to.