#HotD Rhaena

[mermaidslabyrinth]

My OC Rhagerys Targaryen with the two people who he would do anything and everything for.

His younger half sisters, Baela and Rhaena. They mean the world to him. They are his weakness but also his strength to keep going. He is their big brother and has been taught to protect them at all costs.

The way I see the three are as the sun, moon, and stars. Rhaena is the Sun. Along with her dragon Morning. Baela is the Moon. Along with her dragon Moondancer. Rhagerys is the Stars. Along with his dragon Starsong. Each are present in one another's lives but in such different ways that people forget that they're connected to one another. That in some way they always will be.

This gorgeous artwork was done by the wonderfully talented @lonelymagpies. They did such marvelous job. The hair, the clothing, the jewels, their looks.

Also a special thank you to @dr-aegon. They reblogged a post mentioning that lonelymagpies was doing commissions. So, thanks to them, I was able to have this artwork created.

[manymanymirrors]

Princess Rhaena Targaryen and her dragon, Morning

[sephynne]

a quick redraw of my dragon twins piece

[scorpiusartistry]

Grieving children and their mothers, part two electric boogaloo

[fallenrosepettals]

The Dragon Twins

Prints!!

[mairoon]

[senblvd]

Rhaena and Morning

[spacerockfloater]

Every time Team Black stans talk about Rhaenyra’s bastards and the Dragon Twins as if they’re blessings upon this earth, an angel loses its wings.

Like, okay. They’re children, I’m excusing all of them up to a certain point. But they’re some of the most vicious, aggressive, cowardly, snotty brats we’ve ever seen in this franchise and pretending that they’re not is so foul.

Lucerys is a hypocritical twat that bullied the boy he grew up with because he didn’t have a dragon, but then he’s totally okay hanging out with Rhaena who doesn’t have one either. And then he pulls out a knife and blinds Aemond for no fucking reason, after his gang attacked him first, and faces zero consequences for his actions. He eventually grows up to become an even worse person by literally laughing in his cousin’s face, whom he disabled. And then he tries to boss lord Borros around by telling him that he’s obligated to ally with Rhaenyra even if there isn’t anything in him for it.

Jacaerys is also very two faced for the exact same reasons as Lucerys, with the addition of having anger management issues. Like, remember how he beats the living shit out of his little brother when they’re training at the beach, kicks him to the ground and grabs him by the throat because he is upset their uncles are better warriors than them? That’s the good future king you’re all talking about? He is already obsessed with the idea of becoming king, to the point that his own mother has to remind him that she’s actually alive and well and he would have to wait a good fucking while before his dreams come true. That’s actually so sick on his behalf. Not to mention that he very likely married Sara Snow, betraying his fiancée, in order to gain the Starks’ help, which is very dishonourable. At least Lucerys told Borros he’s betrothed and refused to marry one of his daughters to get his support, I’ll give him that.

Baela is a deranged evil girl who was ready to throw hands on sight, too. And have we forgotten that she becomes a drunkard and whoremonger who spends her money gambling in the rat pits, the places where children fight one another in King’s Landing, once she grows up, or is it wrong only when Aegon II does it?

Rhaena is an aggressive coward who seems more preoccupied with the acquisition of a dragon than her mother’s death. She didn’t have the guts to go and claim Vhagar, but she feels powerful enough to confront Aemond when she has three people backing her up.

Finally, even without taking all of their problematic traits into account, these people are so severely uninteresting and unimpressive. Lucerys does not convince Borros to side with his mother and drops dead like a fly. Joffrey gets shrugged off by Syrax and plummets to his demise. Jacaerys is immediately killed during his embarrassing attempt to fight the Triarchy, not to mention that he was the reason his youngest half siblings were captured and nearly killed because he had the brilliant idea of sending them away. Baela loses the only dragon fight she was ever part of to Aegon II and Sunfyre who were very injured by a previous fight already! And Rhaena is just… there. Doing nothing. Never avenging her husband’s death, eventually marrying a Hightower. Yikes.

Are there much more ill behaved children in ASOIAF? Yeah, for sure, but we actually acknowledge that children like Aegon II and Joffrey Baratheon are pieces of shit. But if we could like, stop glorifying these four mediocre and borderline malicious kids solely because some of you feel the need to ride the dicks of everyone who is part of Rhaenyra’s crew, that would be great. They might be children, but they’re children with shady, putting it mildly, personalities, wielding new-clear weapons of mass destruction who actively participated in a war, especially Jacaerys and Baela. They sure were victims of the world they were raised in, but they were aggressors as well. And like, this is the ASOIAF universe, nearly all of our protagonists are children. We can’t constantly apply modern day morals and coddle them forever because “OMG, they are just babies!”, unless we are ready to apply the same logic on the Targtowers, who were basically the same age as Rhaenyra and Daemon’s children.

[liaa--qb]

ryan please listen to me Ryan please 🙏🏻...

"Aemond kidnaps rhaena from vale and keeps her as his captive"

Ryan you know what you have to do next please listen to me.. let this be true, the vision....

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

TEAM BLACK. SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT TEAM GREEN.

[thatscruelsummer]

[chaosvelaryon]

an au where Luke survived storms end and got sent to the Vale with Rhaena, Joff, Egg, and Vis bc Arrax is bigger than stormcloud and Tyraxes. while they are there Luke starts training with Rhaena and the knights of the Vale. Morning hatches and starts growing at a fast rate. Luke starts to edge an idea to Jeyne to name Joffrey her heir to the Vale since she wants a "dragon" to guard the Vale. she considers it bc she's growing close with the youngest boys and Luke. months pass and it's just them training, living life, and waiting for a call into battle if their needed. (Rhaena is expectantly good with a bow and arrow and Luke gets too good with daggers.) Rhaena and Luke eventually get married in the Vale.

[scorpiusartistry]

The lady Rhaena and the Lady Baela Targaryen, the dragon twins

God I love these two

[fallenrosepettals]

“There is a large Dragon in the Vale”

[fearmakess]

watched the new series...didn't like anything except him and his hair 🙏🏼 (thought a lot about inserting the coat of arms or not, decided to insert it)

[genz420]

This episode was so good.

Not because we got confirmed girl kisser Rhaenyra but because of the dragons.

It showed that the dragons have a choice in who claims them, that it is not just as simple as "Walk up to the dragon, speak some Valyrian, and jump on"

cough cough Ser Steffon cough cough

We have shown that they can sense their riders. Are drawn to them, even in 2.5, when they talked about Rhaenys and Meleys, the dragon chooses the rider just as much as the rider chooses the dragon.

Sheepstealer went to the Vale, probably for Rhaena, but I still have hopes for Nettles and Seasmoke burning one man and then flying to Spicetown to hunt down HIS man. And the chase that Seasmoke did to get Addam, chef kiss, he knew who was meant to be his rider.

The show is doing a fantastic job of diving deeper into the bonding processes, and I'm thankful for it!