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If you manage to read how:

- Rhaenyra is the youngest dragonrider in Targaryen history (7 years old)

- during Rhaenyra's lifetime there were born the most dragons that the Targaryens ever had

- Rhaenyra's she-dragon Syrax single handedly laid clutches after clutches of eggs after mating with Caraxes

- Rhaenyra's stillborn baby daughter was DRAGON shaped - "with a hole in her chest where her heart should have been, and a stubby, scaled tail"

- Sunfyre initially refuses to burn/eat her

- Once Rhaenyra is murdered all the dragons die

And you don't conclude that Rhaenyra is directly connected to magic and dragons... You're obtuse as hell.

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I think there is definetly something to be said about how Rhaenyra did not seek to remarry or find a new husband once Daemon died.

They died on the same day so there were exactly five months between their deaths (22.05 - 22.10). And we know that when their previous spouses died Rhaenyra and Daemon married immediately, insulting their memories. Nothing could have stopped her from doing the same again if she so wanted. There was more than enough time for Rhaenyra to find a consort, especially when her position was so precarious and in need of political allies. She would have been even advised to do so.

Aegon did exactly that: after Helaena died he arranged to remarry Cassandra Baratheon and have new sons with her.

Whereas Rhaenyra could not sleep, refused to eat, wept constantly and could not bear to be parted from Aegon. She did not even contemplate taking another husband.

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Young Rhaenyra + Daemon, colored, adjusted

Adult Rhaenyra + Daemon, colored, adjusted

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whatever her soul is made of her and his are the same

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hotd + parallels: missing their human pillows

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“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss. […] We are the very definition of soulmates, that’s all. Our spirits twine together in a macabre ballet of love and madness.” 🖤🥀

Happy Halloween! 🎃

We’re so excited to share this commission of Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen as Gomez and Morticia.

Repost not allowed.

Art by @ellyness5 & commissioned by @jennyofoldstone, @adrianivashkovc and me.

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Yeah, the level of Viserys's obliviousness was always incredibly, satisfyingly funny :D

Literally EVERYONE knew

...everyone but Viserys... :D

"To prevent further conflict, and put an end to these “vile rumors and base calumnies,” King Viserys further decreed that Queen Alicent and her sons would return with him to court, whilst Princess Rhaenyra confined herself to Dragonstone with her sons. Henceforth Ser Erryk Cargyll of the Kingsguard would serve as her sworn shield, whilst Breakbones returned to Harrenhal. These rulings pleased no one, Septon Eustace writes. Mushroom demurs: one man at least was thrilled by the decrees, for Dragonstone and Driftmark lay quite close to one another, and this proximity would allow Daemon Targaryen ample opportunity to comfort his niece, Princess Rhaenyra, unbeknownst to the king."

Just Daemon, when he heard about the king's decree

Viserys may not have allowed Daemon and Rhaenyra to marry, but he played into their hands quite often. First, when he failed to notice his brother seducing his daughter for six months, and then when Viserys unknowingly allowed Rhaenyra to spend time with Daemon, which led to Aegon's III conception and their marriage.

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So fucking cute.

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THIS. You can see his weakness only ever with Rhaenyra or whenever Rhaenyra is involved...

His whole life SHE always was his alpha and omega.

Only ever to her did he yield.

Only ever for her was he ready to do literally ANYTHING.

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Daemon love language.

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I love how Otto always totally knew... :D

...Daemyra getting it on as soon as they possibly could (whether we're speaking about the book version or the show version) :) ... and little Aegon then being born in October... well, well, well... Little Aegon must have been conceived right when Laena died / before even...

The moment they could, they got intimate. The moment they could, they got married in the tradition of their house, Old Valyria style, in a blood magic soul binding ritual :") Nothing could have stopped Daemon and Rhaenyra from being TOGETHER.

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this is still the greatest piece of asoiaf twitter ever btw

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I would've loved to see the Daemon courting Rhaenyra era :")))

Just imagine seeing that on the big screen... People would've understood from the get go... 'cause for the book readers things had always been clear...

The necklace was a nice touch BUT: it shouldn't have disappeared and it should've been her most treasured gift from Daemon, one of many! Where's the jade tiara? All the books, all the poems Daemon read to her at night?! Yes, it should've been mentioned at some point at least 'cause it indeed was a big deal! But then people who haven't read the books wouldn't have spent the whole season 1 pondering whether Daemon would try to usurp her or not🤦 how very funny...

In HOTD I also really missed book Rhaenyra's vanity, feminity, sass, spite, pride - and all of those clearly encouraged and defended by Daemon.

In HOTD we also didn't see how not only Daemon pleaded Viserys for Rhaenyra's hand, but how book Rhaenyra also pleaded to be wed to Daemon! In book it was made clear they both very much wanted to marry each other!

...Well, what can i say, as it happens, showrunners just wanted drama... If at least the Daemon courting Rhaenyra part had been done faithfully to the book, people would never have raised the following topics: Alicent being Rhaenyra's one true love (🤦), Laena being Daemon's one true love, Harwin being Rhaenyra's one true love, Daemon wanting to usurp Rhaenyra (🤣), Daemon just wanting Rhaenyra physically / considering hurting her/actually choking her (🤬), Daemon and Rhaenyra marrying SOLELY for political reasons, and other examples of absolutely absurd BS...

These two had always been such a badass team...

...I missed Rhaenyra and Daemon always being on the same page. Even adult Rhaenyra was at least just as dark and bloodthirsty as Daemon was, that was also what made them Westerosi's nightmare.

Book Daemyra were true dragons, both of them. But TV series Rhaenyra lost their fire the moment she grew up - i can understand being, as they say, responsible because she's got children, but c'mon, many mothers actually become even more ferocious exactly because now they have children to protect! So, what were the showrunners thinking??? Their choice made Rhaenyra and Daemon seem incompatible, it made Daemon seem an abuser and Rhaenyra the victim, THIS was NEVER the case, i am forever pissed at how they butchered Daemyra's story :"(

hey i'm really not a fan of how

"At night he would smuggle her from her rooms dressed as a page boy and take her secretly to brothels on the Street of Silk, where the princess could observe men and women in the act of love and learn more of these "womanly arts" from the harlots of King's Landing"

(according to mushroom, who is known to be untrustworthy) turned into Daemon and Rhaenyra having no chemistry and then out of nowhere, him taking her to a brothel then abandoning her there half naked. so out of character, so annoying, honestly i was confused the first time i watched it and honestly it seemed like a bait n switch idk

this is a part of a broader problem i have with the show. taking events from the book, either watering them down or sensationalizing them, and acting like the original effect is still there.

another example is

"Daemon spent long hours in her company, enthralling her with tales of his journeys and battles. He gave her pearls and silks and books and a jade tiara said once to have belonged to the Empress of Leng, read poems to her, dined with her, hawked with her, sailed with her, entertained her by making mock of the greens at court, the "lickspittles" fawning over Queen Alicent and her children. He praised her beauty, declaring her the fairest maid in all of the Seven Kingdoms."

being turned into Daemon giving her that necklace in the beginning of season 1 which DISAPPEARS AFTER EPISODE FOUR🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😞😞😞😞😞🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤 it leads you to believe this necklace represents everything else he did for her in the book so you're like "ok, this must be like the most important thing ever since all of her other gifts got written out for it, really sentimental valyrian steel n all that blah blah blah" but like, nope. that whole paragraph like, really drives home the point that Daemon is in looooove with rhaenyra like that inseparable type of honeymoon phase love or at least infatuation just for the show writers or whoever is crafting these terrible moments in the show to ignore it all (placing my bets on it being sarah's fault). it would be fine if they took this part out and replaced it with something else that gives the same vibe but they don't !!! they literally don't care !!!

i feel like the reason for this specific paragraph's events being written out is the "show don't tell" concept but like. you decided not to tell us. but you did nothing to show us either.

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i usually love when i'm not told something in a show and the decision is made to instead show how characters feel through scenes with few or no words ; usually hotd does really well with this but not in the romantic relationships department !!! so like, please, tell us at this point. i'm tired of having only daemyra crumbs, less than crumbs at that. have daemon write in a little diary "i 🩷 rhaenyra soooo much" like 500 times and it'd be better than whatever that dumpster fire of a finale was

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are you to haave a child? . . .someday.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.02/1.08.