will always make me feel so ill how criston basically babysat rhaenyra as her bodyguard since she was 7 and he was 23 like. even alicent noted that ”ser criston protects princess rhaenyra from her enemies… but who protects the princess from ser criston?” when nyra was a TWEEN
the last portrait ever painted of gentle queen naerys, eldest granddaughter of rhaenyra
with her two children, daeron and daenerys, daughter-in-law myriah martell, and four grandsons. she was said to resemble her descendant daenerys stormborn, but shorter
bring your (grand)kid to work day: rhaenyra and baelon edition
since baelon prayed for a daughter, i like to think he was extra fond of his granddaughter
queen rhaella targaryen, mother of rhaegar, viserys and daenerys. she was said to be ”mindful of her duty.”
it’s strange we know so little of a woman who was queen of the seven kingdoms for over two decades
queen aemma arryn
the only child of lord rodrik arryn by his second wife princess daella targaryen. she married her cousin, the five years older viserys in her tweens. in the show, she died in roughly 112 AC but in the book, she died in 105 AC, when she was only 23 years old.
dowager queen shaera crowns her daughter, princess rhaella. rhaella was her brother aerys’ queen consort for 21 years and became pregnant 11 times. her crown was later sold by her youngest son viserys, and with it went his joy, left was only his anger and his grief
a lot of ppl talk abt how much daenerys resembles some of her targaryen queen ancestors… but have we considered her similarities w fellow baldie egg? egg in his usual regalia as a hedge knight’s squire and dany in her qaartheen crown and albino lion pelt
rhaena ”the queen in the west” and good queen alysanne, granddaughters of aegon the conqueror and rhaenys. both dragonriders, they were close as children (despite being 12 years apart) as the only sisters out of five siblings
#fireandblood
#asoiaf
#targaryen
a semi-old drawing of an au where visenya lives
”she was my only daughter, and they killed her. they stole my crown and they murdered my daughter, and they shall answer for it.”
the fourth son of a fourth son, egg became known as king aegon the unlikely. he grew unpopular with the nobles, as he favored the smallfolk and gave them more rights than they had ever had before. grandfather of king aerys, queen rhaella and lord steffon baratheon
three ladies of dragonstone were noted in fire & blood. daenys the dreamer, who saved her family from the doom. daenys’ daughter elaena, who co-ruled with her brother aegon. and lastly the conqueror trio’s mother: valaena velaryon (a targaryen herself through her unnamed mother)
i love some targaryen details. like for example egg having more gold than silver in his hair or that good queen alysanne had curly ringlets of sunny gold. viserys the second, rhaenyras baby, having a prominent nose and bushy eyebrows. elaena with her streak of gold in otherwise
daenerys lost her mother naerys very early in life, and as she was born inbetween her nephews baelor and aerys she was practically raised by her brother daeron II and his wife myriah. daenerys married myriah’s younger brother maron martell when she was 15
betha blackwood, called ”black betha” for her dark hair and eyes. she was the beautiful and spirited, though some said wilful, daughter of the lord of raventree hall. at nineteen she married twenty year old prince aegon targaryen (later aegon V), theirs was a marriage for love
”I cannot help but wonder what will follow, when the last warmth leaves my body … Will I talk with Egg again, find Daeron whole and happy, hear my sisters singing to their children?”
- maester Aemon
laenor and laena velaryon ⚓️
beloved children of the sea snake and the queen who never was
born in 94 and 92 AC respectively, they were the eldest great grandchildren of king jaehaerys the conciliator and good queen alysanne
riders of seasmoke and vhagar
princess rhaella with her son rhaegar
”please, I beg you—
he is all that I have,
and you have so many heroes
and the world has so many more.
let him be soft,
and let him be mine.”
’upon the death of the Old King in 103 AC, two of his grandchildren succeded him. viserys, age 26, wore the crown of his grandfather. aemma, age 21. their only child, rhaenyra, was 6.’
in about 258 AC crownprince jaehaerys forced his two children to marry, to their despair. a wood’s witch had foreseen that the prince who was promised would be born from their line. aerys was 14, rhaella 12 or 13. a year later, rhaegar was born in the tragedy of summerhall
”He [Viserys] was the only one left. The only one. He is all I have.”
”The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.”
”I know that somewhere upon the grass, her dragons hatched, and so did she. I know she is proud. How not? What else was left but her pride? … She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and a sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.”
thinking about 10 year old aegon being thrown into the dragonstone dungeons after rhaenyra’s murder to find his 14 year old big sister there, scarred and grieving :(
And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. Fire glimmered red through the narrow eye slit of his helm. "The last dragon," Ser Jorah's voice whispered faintly. "The last, the last." Dany lifted his polished black visor. The face within was her own.
beard and pale pale silver hair. rhaenyra and the small, pouty mouth she shared with her eldest half-brother. alyssa with her crooked smile, large ears, thin face and mismatched eyes. rhaegar being taller than viserys was in adulthood 😭 these small things are so precious to me
completely white hair. aegon the third, egg and rhaegar all having the same dark indigo eyes ”so dark they were almost black”… rhaenys ”silver fox” targaryen. bloodraven with his ’sinister’ facial features. baelor breakspear having a twice broken nose. maekar with his square
@fqceme
right like… the shock on my face looking up harwin’s age 😭 he was at least 10 years older than her he was a captain of the city watch when she was 8. hes the least terrible out of her male romantic interests but what was the reason… couldve easily made him her age
”He [Viserys] was the only one left. The only one. He is all I have.”
”The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.”
edmures speech to jaime will always get me 😭😭 ”you will never know how much i despise you, kingslayer” bro lost his dad both his sisters and as far as he knows all his nieces and nephews are dead except for sweetrobin and then jaime shows up and threatens his unborn baby LIKE
he was never the same after having lost most of his family and wore black the rest of his life. he became 36 years old and was known as the broken king, the unlucky, the unhappy and the dragonbane. since the last dragon died during his 26 year old reign.
forever thankful i take no part in f&btwt discourse anymore bc i recently saw the saera and jaehaerys stuff and i feel sick to my stomach. i dont have much to say other than please stop being strange, canon is already strange enough as it is. sorry, it was just very upsetting
i cant imagine how traumatizing it must have been for a 13/14 year old child to give birth whilst her family burned alive around her. smoke in her throat and eyes, the screams of dying people right next to her like 😭
i will forever be sad about how viserion is the gentlest of dany’s dragons and how he loved to sit on her shoulder… in the pyramid he dug himself a hole in the wall as a nest HHHHHHHHHHH
will never stop thinking about how baela — a fourteen year old girl on a barely pony sized dragon — took down an adult dragon and his rider who was a grown ass man…. like ik rhaenys was cheering seeing her granddaughter finishing what she started
grrm i need to know did rhaenyra and jeyne arryn play as children did jeyne’s father take her and her brothers to KL to meet his half-sister the queen did they meet did rhaenyra proudly show off syrax… did they have playdates w laenor and seasmoke
nothing breaks my heart more than the deaths of the kids during the dance. all of them. butchered, stabbed, pushed out windows, eaten, ripped apart, had limbs cut off posthumously LIKE WHAT WAS GEORGE ON????
@LillyPharaoh
mind u she was 14 the first time she supposedly approached him 😭 he was 29. the implications are there that he was weird whether you like it or not. ofc we cant know which version of events happened. but the age difference is real and makes the relationship diff from the show
the asoiaf fandom is truly the only fandom on earth where ppl will have actual discussions on whether a young girl is evil and bad for having a crush on some old man instead of criticizing the old man for causing her harm or taking advantage of the situation
”but her bastards ☝🏼🤓—” in the og dance family tree, rhaenyras first husband and father of her three eldest sons was lord lyonel strong, and guess what? the dance still happened, rhaenyra was still eaten alive, her son still became king
when the widowed jaehaerys died in 105 AC, only archmaester vaegon and the runaway princess saera (who was a courtesan in essos) were still alive. merely three of the siblings were dragonriders: aemon rode caraxes, baelon vhagar and alyssa meleys
hello if it wasnt clear i just wanna do a heads up! this is a book only account. show canon is a whole other universe and if u prefer the show version good for u i guess… but i prefer good ol book canon. ages and important plotpoints were changed by hbo from the source material
thinking once again how rhaenyra was only 7 when 23 year old criston became her sworn shield 🤕 lost her mom at 8, father remarried when she was 9, big sister again at 10. married at 17, mother of three when she was 20. lost her daughter, father and son within DAYS of eachother
baelon earned the nickname the brave after he punched balerion as a child, while aemon was called the pale prince at his wedding to ”the dark lady” jocelyn baratheon, his aunt
honestly the eye incident discourse annoys me so bad like what did people expect viserys to do??? have his five year old grandson’s eye be cut out by a kings guard??? like don’t piss me off
woke up after a long nap to these awful leaks hbo im in ur walls why are alyn and addam like 25 HELP? ulf white drunkenly bonding w dragons WHO LET HIM IN THERE W A BOTTLE? don’t get me started on jace and that npc
discovered that people are apparently shipping sansa (a little girl) with yet another freaky man. this time it is aemond of all people. someone free my girl
”in this world of men we women must stick together” SO TRUE JEYNE ARRYN 🗣️🗣️🗣️
its so funny how jeyne went ”ur mom has shit taste in men but shes my cousin so we ride at dawn” to jace
the fatherdaughter targcest content is extremely disturbing, which i assume it is meant to be, but i thought i had escaped most strange things through muting. apparently not
most notorious incident during the entire dance and the two perpetrators walk through the throne room… aegon seeing them… while the only guard in the whole castle fucking the queen dowager
the whole tragedy of the dance is that sm of the kids and teens died/went through horrid trauma. making addam old as balls when he was supposed to die at 16 erm also aging up baela whos supposed to be 13 btw ONLY to have her sexually harassed by her ten years older cousin?
like why am i getting BOOK readers in my replies saying erm actually rhaenyra was an evil whore at 14 bc she was alone and bullied by her step mom and neglected by her father and court and HOW DARE SHE be taken advantage of by two older men she knew since she was a child?
grrm was really insane when he wrote rhaella’s and naerys’ stories so similar
- forced to marry weirdo older brother in early teens by father
- neither them or their brothers pleased by this
- accused of cheating by their husbands
- many 💀 babies
1/2
wait so is nettles actually being cut from the story or is that just a rumor… i saw hugh hammer still but if ulf white hasnt been shown yet then theres still hope that nettles shows up yes 😭
- husband executing a mistress and her family
- firstborn married to a martell
- youngest child named daenerys, born two decades after their first baby
- died in childbirth
2/2
however, rhaella never had an aemon the dragonknight 🥲
the only way to enjoy fandom, this fandom in particular, is to find a group of friends u engage with. ignore the discourse and just discuss and love ur faves in a small group. ofc easier said than done but thats why i stayed away from twitter for years
hello everyone! i’ll be opening comms relatively soon again. i have had a semi hiatus due to personal reasons but i hope to return to regularly posting soon