Please Finish Your Smiling Rhaenyra Please!!!!

"We must make terms. His Grace should absolve them of all their crimes and treasons, proclaim Rhaenyra’s Aegon his heir, and marry him at once to Princess Jaehaera. It is the only way.”

- Fire & Blood

Rhaegar won, damn him… He has Lyanna now

Here’s to the women who are only remembered through the lens of the men who live in the shadow of their sepulchers.

guilty as sin

The time he spent on the Stepstones made him forget how dull Viserys and his court were. Daemon was gone for eight years, yet the Red Keep has not changed at all in that time. He notices it as soon as he returns. Viserys has grown fatter, yet he’s still the same oblivious fool who wants to please every grasping lord and scheming lady. Every day, a feast or banquet is hosted to entertain the pompous lords and empty the Crown’s coffers, and merely a sennight after his return, Daemon is dying of boredom. There is only a single bright spot amidst the crowds of droning lords and ladies draped in ridiculous garments. Viserys’ daughter and Daemon’s niece – Rhaenyra.

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Daenerys and Daemon

by mourningstorms

9 - kingswood

“There she is!” Daemon grins when he spots Rhaenyra. He glances at his friends briefly, “My niece is not used to early mornings.”

“And neither are you,” Rhaenyra says when she reaches him. She offers him her hand, and Daemon grasps it gently before pressing a lingering kiss against her knuckles. The devious glint in his eye suggests he might be in the mood to do something bold, so Rhaenyra takes her hand away before he can try. “Are we ready to go?”

She prefers not to dally, fearing her father might attempt one more time to stop her from going or add even more guards to their ranks. Their group has already expanded enough from what they had initially planned.

“Eager as always,” Daemon mutters with a chuckle. Thankfully, he keeps his voice low enough that only Rhaenyra hears him. 

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Mama Rhaenyra with baby Aegon III🥺

Hi, hope you're well.

I've been reading some of the older chapters because I love our dragon brothers, and when little Viserys is presented at court, Alicent thinks about how baby Aegon 'stole' her son's name as well as his birthright, and that she was the one who wanted to name her son for the Conqueror, not Rhaenyra.

Do you think that had Aegon (son of OTP Baelon and Alyssa) lived, Alicent would have felt so strongly about her son being named for the Conqueror, or would it have meant less to her had another member of House Targaryen already had that name? I imagine part of her possessiveness for it is because she saw her son as Viserys' heir, but would it lose meaning if someone else got there first, rather than someone 'taking' it after her?

Hi there, I hope you are well too.

The problem was that Rhaenyra used the same name Alicent did, and she hates Rhaenyra. That's it 😂 That's all of it. Like I always say, simplest answer is almost always the correct one, and you can never go wrong if you say it's pettiness and hatred driving these two 😊

OTP Baelon and Alyssa would not even be an after thought even if their son Aegon had lived.

This is always about the Princess and the Queen

Alicent *hearing that Rhaenyra and Daemon named their son Aegon*:

Rhaenyra:

Elaena Targaryen

Pink evening dress

c. 1840s

Historic Deerfield Museum