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i realize elia and naerys have a lot of parallels:

•delicate princesses

•wives of king/to be king

•had two children ─ boy and girl

•husbands shamed them with mistresses

•their children paid for their fathers’ crimes

•dorne connection of daeron, daenerys, rhaenys and aegon

•their male heirs were not good enough for their husbands. daeron ii was disliked by his father and aegon vi’s father was aloof because he wanted prophecy child

•rhaegar and aegon iv preferred their bastards more than true born heirs

•husbands’ bastards were in a position to threaten their child’s heirship ─ aegon and jon snow + daeron and daemon blackfyre

•rebellions happened/will happen as a result of kings stupidity

•fandom dismisses elia and naerys because they did their duties, were epitome of quiet strength and grace, did not frolic around with swords

there may be more but elia and naerys my queens deserve so much better.

GRRM IM IN YOUR WALLS

I just appreciate the way Martin writes parallel characters, Rhaegar is an absolute joke.

Let’s compare Rhaegar with Daeron II and see how each of them acted as a son, as a husband, and in how they treated illegitimate children. Then let’s compare Rhaegar with Daemon Blackfyre II and see, given that they were both handsome, could play music, and had prophetic dreams, what they actually had in common.Not to mention our tragic Silver Prince also shares many similarities with Aegon IV and Maegor.

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I just realized that in that so‑called “official commission” artwork Rhaelya fans love to flaunt, there’s a Martell sigil right there in the Summerhall scene. Rhaelya stans, don’t tell me you were so busy praising Lyanna and Rhaegar’s love and Ashara’s friendship that you somehow missed that massive Martell sigil.

Think about it: Daeron II built Summerhall to commemorate the union of two houses and the peace of the Seven Kingdoms, yet Rhaegar abandoned his Martell wife Elia, plunged Westeros into chaos, and played his wretched harp with his mistress in Summerhall, right under the Martell sigil.Thick‑skinned as the Wall. A brain as smooth as silk. This honestly cracked me up. It’s practically performance art.

Daeron II is Rhaegar’s parallel in every respect — as a mother’s son, a king’s heir, and a wife’s husband, Daeron II truly lived up to each role. Rhaegar, born in a place that symbolized peace, brought nothing but destruction, destroying that very union and shattering that very peace. The things others had worked so hard to build, Rhaegar smashed one by one.

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I just the most rancid take. Oh Lyanna and Elia 'bonding' after they both survive and Robert is king. Aegon is taken away from his mother to Winterfell where he raised along side Jon and Lyanna writes Elia about her child. Such feminist sisterhood.

Why would Aegon be sent to Winterfell? Elia’s still alive, so there’s no need for anyone else to raise her child. As a hostage? Are the Starks supposed to be keeping watch over Rhaegar’s legitimate son and heir on Robert’s behalf?

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I've come to recognize that when Rhaelya stans dismiss those they deem personality-deficient, it isn’t truly about any absence of character, the indictment speaks louder of the critics than the criticized. Their fundamental error lies in conflating volume with depth - mistaking histrionics for character, interpreting tantrums as authenticity. The nuances of restraint elude them entirely; the dignity of quiet fortitude finds no purchase in their vulgar emotional vocabulary. Silence becomes an existential threat - if it doesn't announce itself with pyrotechnics, it simply doesn't compute as legitimate personality.

And they dislike anyone who doesn’t reflect themselves back at them. They use Rhaelya as a mirror. In it, they see the most beautiful, radiant version of themselves. Elia, on the other hand, is like a funhouse mirror to them, all distortion and discomfort. Rhaelya makes them feel like the main character. Elia? Elia reminds them they’re just like everyone else, and they just hate that.

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Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna. Ok. Can we talk about the sources confirming the romance angle come from outsiders like Barristan Selmy, Cersei Lannister, Kevan Lannister, and Jon Connington who knew shit about Rhaegar personally or his motivations or even see him interact with Lyanna beyond the QoLaB stunt while the prophecy angle is the first and last time we hear Rhaegar actually speak?

Fans think in straight lines only. They base it on Martin’s “lovestruck prince” comment and on so‑and‑so’s claim that “Jon Snow’s parents are like Anakin and Padmé.” But what Martin probably meant was, “As things stand, from the perspective of characters in the books, Rhaegar’s motives appear to be romantic.His behavior was that of a man madly in love”. As for the Anakin‑and‑Padmé comparison, that was simply someone taking Martin’s reveal that Jon’s parents were Rhaegar and Lyanna and interpreting it through their own personal bias as an honorable great love story. This seems to indirectly confirm that part of Rhaegar and Lyanna’s relationship had to do with the goal of saving the world.

Martin’s famous officially licensed fan art has already made it clear what their relationship really was. The vibe in that scene is already so obvious, yet fans are somehow saying the tree is smiling at Lyanna, blessing her and Rhaegar. Personally, I think the fans are beyond saving, no need to correct them at this point. Just treat it as end‑of‑life care.

As for the prophecy, some Rhaelya fans already acknowledge it as part of the reason. They’ve long been glorifying Rhaegar and Lyanna’s union as something done to save the world, not merely for some petty romance. To them, Rhaelya are the father and mother of all humankind, bearing the fate of the entire world on their shoulders, yet tragically misunderstood by everyone else.

But whether they’re “true love” stans or “prophecy” stans, they share one belief: whatever Rhaegar and Lyanna did was perfectly justified, and no one should criticize them, anyone who does is simply too narrow-minded. I honestly can’t tell which of the two camps is more arrogant. And I’m a bit curious when the time comes, will there be any hardcore Rhaelya “true love” fans or GRRM loyalists who end up turning their backs and walking away?

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both Naerys and Elia were cheated on, humiliated and abused (physical | emotional) by their husbands even though they did their duty with resilience but only naerys gets sympathy from targ stans. its the reason why most of them are eugenics obsessed ne*n*zis who selectively hate quote unquote dirty halfblood aegon and rhaenys, greens targtower but swoon over dirty halfling jon snow, strong boys, aemma arryn, egg and his siblings from dunk & egg, even rhaego the stillborn i mean sorry??

targcels being unignorant, objective and less disgusting? challenge failed massively.

green hate i get but aegon and rhaenys?? they were innocent children! fuck rhaegar, rhaelya and their teeny stans who fetishize him to satisfy their pervy desires how are these people feminist? at the least aegon iv unworthy is not fangirled for his deeds i shudder to think if he played harp, was hot* and not dangerously fat, targcels would defend him.

Whenever I believe fans has reached the moral abyss, it finds new depths to plunge into, a bottomless spiral of depravity.

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“It’s not cheating if you don’t love them” People bend over backwards to excuse this silver mf. This bullshit excuse for Rhaegar abandoning his wife and children for his teenage mistress in the middle of a political crisis he helped cause. Because, apparently, the "sincerity" of feeling now cancels out legal commitments, public obligations, and, you know, basic accountability. He is a deadbeat father and a cheater! That's what he is! People go on and on about his “political marriage” as their gotcha moment. Pleaseee! Marriage in Westeros is not a private emotional contract. It is a political alliance, a legally binding status, and a tool of dynastic continuity. And Rhaegar entered into it willingly, after a year-long betrothal. A full year to object, to delay, to send polite raven-coded protests. Did he? No. He went through with it, with all the ceremony and approval that came with being the heir to the throne. He married her in the Great Sept of Baelor, in front of the realm, with full institutional backing. No one was holding a sword to his head. Whether or not Rhaegar loved Elia does not negate the fact that he was married to her, fathered two children with her, and had a political and familial duty to protect her. He slept with her long enough to risk her life in childbirth twice. And only after all of that then he left her behind for Lyanna, he left her as his legal wife, not a discarded mistress, not a separated noblewoman, but a princess still publicly tied to the future of the realm. "oh but Lyanna..." Nah bro, that's still cheating. Doing it with one person (because LoVE) instead of twenty doesn’t suddenly make it noble. It’s still betrayal. It's still a violation of the commitment he chose to enter. Whether he loved Elia is completely irrelevant. Love has never been the currency of marital fidelity in that world. Commitment is. That doesn’t stop counting just because Rhaegar later decided he didn’t like the terms. Elia is still bound to him in every legal, political, and symbolic sense. Elia’s dignity, rights, and life didn’t stop mattering the second Rhaegar stopped caring about her. And if the defense of him requires pretending she was already erased when she was very much still married, still present, maybe the tragic bitchprince isn’t as noble as the narrative says. But yes, go off. It’s not cheating if you don’t love them.

By that logic, it’s not prostitution if you don’t pay lol. Wouldn’t Rhaelya fans be giving Robert a way to be excused too? Aegon IV and Aerys weren’t considered cheats either？

It’s already hard to stomach that a married man with children can still be thrown back into the dating market and treated as a viable romantic option. Have they really lowered the bar that much? Are they that desperate they’re calling fly legs gourmet now? People who say things like that are usually the ones who are… well, you know. Or maybe they’re just trying to whitewash Rhaelya, saying whatever it takes, even if it’s a set of values they don’t truly believe in themselves. In real life, if their boyfriend, husband, or father turned out to be a Rhaegar who met his Lyanna, they’d be completely stunned. My advice to them is: stop saying things like that — what if they actually come true?

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Just realized Elia may have been physically frail, but she didn’t die from illness. In fact, she endured and survived two difficult childbirths. What incredible strength of will, what rare luck.

There’s a well-known saying in my country: “If you survive a great disaster, blessings will follow.” But even with all that, she still couldn’t withstand the damage caused by a bunch of dumbass men. They ruined everything that was beautiful.

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What duty? Rhaegar was not burdened by duty, he was burdened by prophecy and chose to follow it at the cost of his actual responsibilities as a prince, a husband, and a father. He didn’t struggle to uphold those roles, and he didn’t hesitate when abandoning them. He left Elia and their children behind without explanation, disappeared from public life during a political crisis, and never took steps to protect or defend the family he left vulnerable (Leaving them “safe” is not.) He never expressed regret. He didn’t write to Elia. He didn’t defend her. He didn’t justify his absence. He doesn’t act like someone torn between two paths, he acts like someone who made a decision and committed to it. The entire “tragedy” framing only works if you grant Rhaegar a sense of duty he never actually demonstrated, and then excuse his abandonment by imagining he felt bad about it somewhere off-screen. But the text gives us none of that. He wasn’t burdened by duty. He walked away from it. Again: what duty? His duty as a prince, a husband, and a father? He never cared enough to uphold his duty.

For privileged men, “duty” is just a disguised form of power, and their so-called tragedy is nothing more than melodrama — a bowl of brown soup would be enough to cure it.

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It is crazy that in the year of our lord 2025 people still deny that the purpose of Jon Snow was a prophecy baby. Like Rhaegar states as much in the visions that Dany has and can't the shippers count?

Rhaegar and Lyanna are gone over a year while the rebellion is going on and Rhaegar doesn't leave until he knows Lyanna is pregnant. If it was just true love why run at all?

It’s like how they acknowledge the Mad King was insane, the abuse of Rhaella, the murder of Brandon and Rickard Stark. They treat these facts like background noise — acknowledged, but never confronted. Just like with Rhaegar, they admit he found the prophecy, but don’t question what he actually did with that knowledge, or who paid the price for it. They believe the prophecy was only meant for Daenerys, that it was destined to be shown to her in the House of the Undying. Rhaegar was just a catalyst, a cutscene. No need to dig any deeper.

Even when they buy into the prophecy, they’ll still romanticize it like this: “Rhaegar spent his whole life burdened by the duty and the prophecy, until he met Lyanna and finally chose to let it go, and somehow, by sheer accident, that’s exactly what fulfilled the prophecy after all.”

I bet if Martin ends up revealing that Rhaegar did have a plan to fulfill the prophecy, they’ll still double down and say “Rhaegar and Lyanna are the father and mother of humanity. They gave up their personal honor, chose to bear the scorn of the world, how noble, how selfless. They saved the world, even though they died before the main story began, they still managed to dominate the entire narrative. They completed the Song of Ice and Fire, all before the first chapter was even written. ”😃😃

Their image just keeps getting more exalted and radiant. Rhaelya stans must be absolutely intoxicated by this kind of grand narrative. A flawless victory from every angle, 360 degrees, no blind spots. No wonder some fans brag that shipping Rhaelya means you’re always on the winning team.

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"After Aegon’s birth, it is reasonable to infer that Elia was again in a state of physical vulnerability (likely confined to bed or at least severely limited)" GOD! I’ve seen insane takes on “Why didn’t Elia do anything to save herself and her children?” Or the classic “Rhaegar had a plan, Aerys ruined it.” Be fr!. Elia was placed in a situation deliberately designed to leave her powerless. Why is the burden on her to act, when the two men who actually held power, Aerys and Rhaegar, were the ones who created the situation to begin with? The people insist that Rhaegar and Lyanna’s choices were justified escapes. Let’s be clear: For whatever reason, Rhaegar chose to walk away from court, from his wife, and from his children. Lyanna chose to leave her family, disappear, and not tell anyone of her intentions. Elia had no such freedom. In Westeros, a woman’s mobility, decisions, and survival were mediated through male protection and support networks. Elia had none left. And yet somehow, the burden falls on her to act. The narrative expectation is that Elia (a woman isolated, physically compromised, and cut off from any institutional support) should’ve singlehandedly saved herself and her children. Meanwhile, Lyanna, the so-called “warrior princess," "the kotlt," is the one who needed saving. From her betrothed, from Aerys, or depending on which fan bullshit theory people are trying to spin to sanitize this dumbass romance. If Rhaegar had a plan, it clearly didn’t involve Elia or her children. After all, he left them under Aerys’s control. If that was his idea of a plan, it was either catastrophically negligent or cruelly selective.

They can’t criticize Elia’s inaction without slipping in a little praise for their fave as the ultimate self-rescuer, of course. When Lyanna stans say Lyanna just “saved herself,” what they really mean is she just simply nodded once and let everyone else clean up the mess for her. And just to contrast her with Elia — to hype up how “active” and “alive” Lyanna supposedly was — they’re willing to say absolutely anything, no matter how ridiculous.

No wonder they’re the fans of The Runaway King And Queen, I’m guessing their idea of “saving yourself and your children” pretty much just means running. “Why didn’t Elia save herself and her children?” Great question, maybe because not everyone gets a brooding prince and his Kingsguard dropped out of the sky to ask if she wants to run away with him? Funny how they never ask why Rhaella spent all those years quietly enduring Aerys’s abuse without “saving herself and her child,” huh? Elia and Rhaella were dealing with the real Aerys, not the watered-down version that Lyanna stans in their minds seems to imagine. Once the Mad King set his sights on you — tell me, how exactly were they supposed to “just run”? Maybe someone should remind the Rhaelya stans how their golden couple managed to escape in the first place, they ran before Aerys ever turned his attention to them. If it weren’t for Rhaella and Elia acting as human shields, would Rhaegar and Lyanna have had even a single year of peace in hiding? Not a chance.

As for the whole “Rhaegar had a plan, it was Aerys who ruined it” argument, all I can say is, thank the Seven he didn’t get his way. I’m so done with that broody, tight-lipped guy whose frown could kill a fly. You think he’s got everything under control, but in reality, he gets taken out by a hammer in one clean hit.

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The "Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man’s nature” is often applied when justifying Rhaegar’s actions in contrast to Robert’s, as if Lyanna was oh so wise to avoid Robert, an abuser, a rapist, and agressive man and equally justified in choosing Rhaegar, who was somehow… better. How exactly is Rhaegar “the better man,” when his treatment of Elia carries its own thematic echoes of exploitation? Aegon’s conception occurred either while Elia was still recovering from a traumatic first birth or shortly after. There is a disregard for Elia’s body, well-being, and personhood. Whether she was pressured or simply unconsulted, George implies (red comet) that consent and care might not have been central, and Aegon’s birth appears tied to Rhaegar’s belief in prophecy and the need to fulfill a role through his offspring. So, Rhaegar the "alleged" rapist. Rhaegar publicly humiliated Elia at Harrenhal while she was either pregnant or had recently given birth to Rhaenys in front of the entire political elite. Elia was already operating in a politically unstable position: a Dornish woman in a court hostile to Dorne. So much for being “fond of her,” or "good friends". Not only was that stunt cruel, but it also weakened her political standing at court, both socially and institutionally. After Harrenhal, she could no longer rely on Rhaegar’s support to reinforce her authority. He failed to reaffirm her position or shield her from the fallout. So, Rhaegar the "alleged" neglectful husband. After Aegon’s birth, it is reasonable to infer that Elia was again in a state of physical vulnerability (likely confined to bed or at least severely limited) while caring for two very young children. At this point, Rhaegar removed himself from court entirely and later left with Lyanna. Without his presence or public endorsement, Elia's status as crown princess remained formal but lost its practical force. She had no legal right to relocate her children, no independent claim to resources, and no political allies in the capital. But yes, let’s applaud Rhaegar for “leaving her safe” (in the Red Keep or on Dragonstone), surrounded by servants, soldiers, and household staff loyal to the crown, not to her. She held no command, no military leverage, and no protection from Aerys. Rhaegar, like Robert, did not remain faithful. But because Lyanna is framed as more “legitimate” (the true love/chosen one), there’s often an assumption that had he lived, he would have remained loyal to her in a way he never was to Elia. As if abandoning your politically isolated, physically compromised wife and children is excusable, so long as it’s in pursuit of destiny. Because apparently, both were just trying to escape their own horrible political marriages, all in the name of love or shit. How, then, is Rhaegar the better man? Lyanna may have succeeded in avoiding one form of abuse, only to attach herself to another. From Elia’s treatment alone, there’s little reason to assume Lyanna would have been exempt from the same patterns of disregard, control, or instrumentalization.

The fans keep reposting that quote over and over, trying to frame Lyanna as wise and clear-sighted beyond her years.Yet somehow they — Lyanna included — act like it only ever applied to Robert, never to any other man, especially not Rhaegar. Or maybe, in their eyes, it only applies to men, never to women, especially not Lyanna. The sad thing is, it’s just a case of being blind to what’s right under their nose. I feel like I need to add another line: “Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man’s nature, nor will it make us a better person. After all is said and done, we are still exactly who we were, just as we’ve always been.”

So sad the judgment Lyanna cast on others in her youth was like a boomerang, years later, it came back and struck her square between the eyes. I wonder if, in the end, she ever truly saw the nature of Rhaegar — or her own.

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Okay. So I was 14 when Season 7 aired, and yeah—I’ll admit it. I fell for the whole “tragic Silver Prince and rebellious Stark girl” fantasy. The Jon Snow reveal, the slow-motion snow montage of Rhaegar and Lyanna, the dramatic music… I ate it all up. Back then it felt romantic. I was a kid. I didn’t question anything.

But now? I’m in my 20s. I’ve reread the books. I’ve read the appendices. I’ve read the interviews. I’ve seen the way Rhaelya shippers twist ancient out-of-context quotes from George like they’re gospel and ignore everything else. And honestly? I’m ashamed I ever defended this garbage ship.

Let’s start with the obvious: Rhaegar Targaryen was a married man who abandoned his wife and kids to run off with a teenager—and not just any teenager, but a girl we’re constantly told was “willful” and “wild” and oh-so-special because Rhaegar thought so. The Lyanna we get in the books isn’t even a real character. She’s a vessel for male fantasy—a tomboy who hates other women, resists the rules, and dies tragically so Rhaegar can be sad and mysterious. That’s it. That’s the whole character.

And the fandom? God, don’t get me started. The way Rhaelya shippers treat Elia Martell is actually disgusting. They hate her for being Rhaegar’s wife. Like, sorry she didn’t die in a romantic tower with harp music. Sorry she had real trauma and real children and wasn’t some nebulous wolf girl that Rhaegar could project all his prophecies onto. The woman literally died because of his actions, and all they can say is, “But she was weak” or “She wasn’t his true love.” Give me a break. That’s not shipping. That’s delusion.

And don’t even try to pull out those crusty, pre-2010 quotes from George where he calls Rhaegar a “love-struck prince.” You know what else George said recently?

“My standards have changed.”

That came from his own mouth. He literally acknowledged that a lot of what he said in the past doesn’t reflect the kind of writer—or man—he is today. And if you think that statement doesn’t apply to this gross, one-sided fairytale about a man who ditches his family for a girl he barely knows, you’re lying to yourself. The “Rhaelya” ship is a relic of his earlier writing.

I swear, Rhaelya shippers will use anything to defend their fantasy, even if it means pretending Elia doesn’t matter, or that Lyanna was somehow “better” because she gave birth to Jon. They worship Rhaegar like he’s some tragic poet-prince and Lyanna like she’s a misunderstood goddess—but they treat everyone else like garbage.

Well, congrats. You’ve built your OTP on abandonment, fantasy projections, dead kids, and some prophetic fever dream Rhaegar had while reading too many scrolls. And now you cling to decade-old interviews while George Martin himself has moved on from the kind of writing that enabled this mess. Anyway. I’m tired. I have taste now.

—Anonymous (Former Rhaelya Shipper)

I wonder how many people who once shipped Rhaelya have now woken up and switched sides.

Was 2017, when Game of Thrones Season 7 aired, the height of Rhaelya stans' arrogance?When their ship reigned unchecked and they thought they had the whole fandom behind them?

The ones who dared to call out Rhaelya back in 2017, or even before, those were the real brave ones.They were the true whistleblowers, no question about it.

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Lately, people have been scoffing at anything romantic,because bad coin drives out good. Too many strange, unspeakable things have crept in and spoiled the whole idea of romance🙄

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Yikes rhaelya shippers are cheap and gross. To personally attack you over a fictional pedophilic ship? I think its obvious who is projecting here lmao. To call you bitter ex when they are desperate pick me for a fantasy prince is the lowest level of having zero self awareness.

Most elia stans dont even like rhaegar let alone ship him with her, they just very rightly hold him accountable as her husband and the father of two children. The same cannot be said of rhaelyas who are rhaegar simps to boot. Their teenage dream is to be chosen by a handsome prince so they project into lyanna. It is why they take pains to justify his infidelity as well as, for lack of better word, idiosyncrasy.

There are many elia pros who are anti rhaegar and dont ship elia with him even though he is canonically her husband but there are hardly any lyanna stans who are for lyanna only and not RHAElyas even when rhaegar did lasting damage to her life and indirectly destroyed her family.

Also if these simpering bitches are so upset by people not mooning over rh***ya why do they get in the anti tags? They are desperate to know your opinions so they could whine about it😂🤣In kris jenner voice you are doing amazing. Hit them where it hurts. They are bothered because they know what you say is true and it nettles them. You do you. Fuck those pick me poxys.

I’ve come to realize that in this day and age, you have to speak your truth boldly. What’s there to be embarrassed about? Is the sky going to fall just because someone dares to say something out loud? The funniest part is how some outdated, feudal garbage gets a layer of gold paint slapped on it, rebrands itself as progressive feminism, and suddenly people are tripping over themselves to get behind it — Rhaelya stans included. They were tempted by the sugar-coated grenades thrown down by men at the top of the ladder, and in reaching out to catch them, they let go of the very rungs they had fought so hard to climb. They fell, and now they want to drag down every other woman who’s still steadily climbing her way up. When we refuse to take the bait, they mock us for not appreciating how “sweet” the sugar coating is. Open your eyes, see through the glossy rhetoric for what it really is — that’s the right thing to do, we shouldn’t let regressive, feudal nonsense disguised as some kind of modern, progressive feminism poison everything💪

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"Rhaegar never cheated on Elia until he met Lyanna" it's silly really because it gives Lyanna doesn't mind as long as she isn't the one cheated on. She can dislike the possibility of Robert cheating on her even when she doesn't love him but somehow they think "he never cheated until he met Lyanna" means he is just that high value man that never cheats. But he did. He cheated and didn't stop there. He Humiliated elia repeatedly and then endangered her. And literally paved the way for her cruel death with their children.

Like how many times I've heard from the children born out of affairs and cheating "my dad was so loyal and that what my mother loved about him. He never hurt or cheated on his ex wife until he met my mother and he loves his children with her. I mean yes she was hurt but my father was in love" like do you hear yourself? This is admission not a defense.

I feel like those stans — how do I put this — they play both Lyanna and her child.

Those children’s mothers follow the exact same behavior pattern as Lyanna, or at least the version of her that fans ship and self-insert into. To them, only a married man who had never cheated before could be seen as the ultimate symbol of loyalty. A man like that gets a straight-up fast pass through all their tests. Is there anyone more perfectly suited to be their husband — to be the father of their children — than him? They understood something the ex-wife never did: that showing up early isn’t as important as showing up at the right time, and that it’s far easier to enjoy the shade than to plant the tree. What good is a man’s loyalty to another woman, if it’s not to them? They either uproot the whole tree and replant it in their own yard,or just move right in and make themselves at home in someone else’s house. Why spend years helping a boy grow into a man, when you can simply choose one someone else already raised? Let the other women do the work,they just showed up to pick the fruit. And to top it all off, they even congratulates themselves on what an excellent picker they are.

And then the fans go and cast themselves as Lyanna’s child too. They’re perfectly like those children who desperate to scrub away their parents’ sins, because deep down, they’re really just trying to cleanse their own. At most, they might accept that their origin lies in an extramarital relationship, but emotionally, they reject the idea that it was anything less than a deep, profound, and meaningful love. They need it to have been serious, not a mistake or a whim.

That habit of taking what isn’t yours — coveting someone else’s happiness — must run in the blood. Always looking for shortcuts, always ready to swap out the old for something shinier, always replacing instead of building.Whoever they set their sights on is just plain unlucky,all because their life was too happy. At this point, all I can do is chant “evil spirits, begone” and hope for the best.

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If someone said to you, “You’re insulting me because you’re obsessed with me — you’re just trying to get my attention. Stop wasting your time, I am never going to notice you,” you’d probably think they were a creep. And that’s the kind of attitude you see all the time from Rhaegar stans and Rhaelya shippers when you criticize Rhaelya.

They actually say I insult Rhaelya just to get their attention, that deep down, I’m just like Elia, in love with Rhaegar and unable to have him. It’s just as gross as having a toad crawl all over you,maybe worse. And honestly, it hits harder than being told I’m just some bitter ex who got cheated on.I was literally speechless for a few seconds.🙃