#John the fiddler

[wodania]

“Be my dog, ser. The night’s alive with promise. We can howl together, and wake the very gods.”

prince daemon and ser duncan 🎻🌳

[naomimakesart]

Commission of John the Fiddler and his dragon egg for @blackbyrenflowers !!

[fruitageoforanges]

my favourite heads of the dragon from dunk & egg —

baelor breakspear - honestly one of the most level-headed targs, though i suspect that’s just because he takes wholly after myriah. the moment with the war vs. tourney lances was epic for a jousting nerd like me, and his death is iconic, if disgusting and maybe not even medically possible.

prince valarr - idk, i just think he’s neat. he gets barely any page time, but what he does have is interesting, and i loved what he said to duncan after baelor’s death, because it shows how things that are good for protagonists aren’t, and shouldn’t be, always good for everyone else.

john the fiddler/daemon ii blackfyre - i have a precedent for liking dragon dreamers, so it’s unsurprising that daemon is my boy. he just wanted to be gay, fiddle (with duncan) and serve cunt, but somehow got caught up in his own rebellion. i really hope the rest of his life was spent as shiera seastar’s gay little purse-dog.

[highgardenart]

Daemon II Blackfyre

“You would be surprised to know how many lords prefer their kings brave and stupid. Daemon is young and dashing, and looks good on a horse.”

[coldraindropsss]

Daemon II Blackfyre

[blackbyrenflowers]

I find it kinda odd that it's taken as a given by some that Bittersteel refused to help the Second Blackfyre Rebellion (if you can even call it that) because of his blinding hatred of Daemon's sexuality. I mean it's certainly possible, but there's also the very real fact that hinging an entire rebellion on vibes you had about a dragon egg hatching in the middle of nowhere is like, an objectively terrible plan that's bound to fail.

[victoria-olgimskaya]

his dreams will be the death of all of us.

commission for a friend

[rynnthefangirl]

Dunk the Lunk could have rode the Black Dragon if he weren’t thick as a Castle Wall, but he never would have been offered to ride the Black Dragon if he weren’t thick as a Castle Wall… the Dunk Paradox🤔

[stannis-the-freaking-mannis]

john the fiddler💅💅

(has anyone noticed his name is spelt john and not jon, are there any other mentions of that spelling in asoiaf?)

[tumbledrylowwest]

Daemon Blackfyre and his wife Rohanne of Tyrosh, and their children

[professoruber]

Ser Glendon and Ser Kyle on the Identity of Dunk and Egg

Spoilers for Duncan & Egg: The Mystery Knight...

So having recently gotten done reading through Dunk & Egg (a very wonderful if sadly short spin-off to the ASOIAF Novels) I had a quick thought regarding the ending...

So.

Glendon Balls/Flowers and Kyle the Cat have got to realise there's more to Ser Duncan the Tall (and by extension, Egg) than it seems, right? Sorry if I'm getting any details mixed up, I'm kinda tired today and also only recently finished reading through it all...

So Dunk shows up during the meals and start up outs John the Fiddler as Daemon the Second, aka a Blackfyre pretender and all that, and then proceeds to defend Glendon; not only proclaiming his innocence and accusing others of preforming a frame-up, but also accuses the tourney as a whole of being rigged in Daemon's favour.

So Daemon agrees to do some trial by combat, and Glendon wins, and then Bloodraven shows up to crash the party and arrest everyone. This is probably where they should really start getting curious about Dunk's connection.

It was only a few heartbeats later, as Dunk and Ser Kyle were helping Glendon Ball off his horse, that the first trumpet blew, and the sentries on the walls raised the alarm. An army had appeared outside the castle, rising from the morning mists. “Egg wasn’t lying after all,” Dunk told Ser Kyle, astonished.

Here we see Dunk inferring to Kyle that Egg was aware of the coming army and had informed him of it as well.

It was late that afternoon before Ser Roland Crakehall of the Kingsguard found Dunk among the other prisoners. “Ser Duncan. Where in seven hells have you been hiding? Lord Rivers has been asking for you for hours. Come with me, if you please.”

As Dunk, Glendon and Kyle all await trial, suddenly a knight of the Kingsguard shows up and greets Ser Duncan by name and then proceeds to reveal Bloodraven has been looking for Duncan specifically.

“Aye, m’lord. Ser Kyle the Cat, and Maynard Plumm. And Ser Glendon Ball. It was him unhorsed the Fidd … the pretender.”

“Yes, I’ve heard that tale from half a hundred lips already. The Bastard of the Pussywillows. Born of a whore and a traitor.”

“Born of heroes,” Egg insisted. “If he’s amongst the captives, I want him found and released. And rewarded.”

And then of course we have the meeting with Dunk and Egg with Bloodraven in which Egg names Kyle and Glendon (and also Maynard Plumm, who from what I understand was likely Bloodraven himself) and specifically asks for the latter to be freed and rewarded. I'd assume Kyle also would at least get the courtesy of a shift release due to being named here by Dunk.

So from the perspective of Glendon and Kyle; Dunk knew of the Blackfyre presence, was informed a Targaryen army was coming, is acquainted with a member of the Kingsguard, and was specifically sought out by Bloodraven himself. And then presumably shortly after Dunk was taken to speak with Bloodraven, both Kyle and Glendon were presumably freed, with the latter getting rewarded for knocking the latest Blackfyre pretender in the mud.

From an outside perspective, this all has to be quite suspicious right? They'd likely be wondering if Dunk was a Bloodraven spy all along or at the very least side-eye just what kinds of connections he has (or rather, Egg has). If they manage to hear about the Ashford Tourney and Dunk's role in it, then that only would add to the confusion.

Just thought all this could be a source of conflict or at least confusion. I do think its likely they'll have questions at least.

“Some never will,” Dunk told him. “It doesn’t matter what you do. Others, though … they’re not all the same. I’ve met some good ones.” He thought a moment. “When the tourney’s done, Egg and I mean to go north. Take service at Winterfell and fight for the Starks against the ironmen. You could come with us.”

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You have as much chance of wearing a white cloak as I do, Dunk almost said. You were born of a camp follower, and I crawled out of the gutters of Flea Bottom. Kings do not heap honor on the likes of you and me. The lad would not have taken kindly to that truth, however. Instead he said, “Strength to your arm, then.”

Dunk does offer to Glendon to come with him and Egg to the North, and given how disillusioned he became with the Blackfyres as a result of the events of the Tourney, as well as gratitude to Dunk for saving him from torture, he may be more inclined to join them. Plus there's also foreshadowing of Glendon one day joining the Kingsguard of Aegon V, so him joining Dunk and Egg on their travels at least for a bit more would make sense in increasing the bond.

“I know that feeling well.” Ser Kyle sighed. “Lord Caswell did not know me. When I told him how I carved his first sword, he stared at me as if I’d lost my wits. He said there was no place at Bitterbridge for knights as feeble as I had shown myself to be.” The Cat gave a bitter laugh. “He took my arms and armor, though. My mount as well. What will I do?”

Kyle was also in a rather bad situation due to the tourney, and so might also be inclined to join the group heading North in hopes of finding more long-term service with the Starks.

So if both Glendon and Kyle are going to be travelling with Dunk and Egg, then that increases the liklihood of them noticing the pair (mostly Egg really but still) are more than they seem, and more time for them to ask questions the two will need to find someway to answer.

[stavosmissionary]

House Blackfyre part 1: daemon and daemon jr.

[unusual-raccoon]

Lord help me, I’m back on my Daemon II Blackfyre/Ser Duncan the Tall bullshit

[zionistsinfilm]

When you buy or stream Valley of the Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., Schindler's List, Munich, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Fabelmans, Superman, Home Alone, Harry Potter, NBC Sunday Night Football, Gilligan's Island, you're giving money to zionists. John Williams normalized occupation.

[ufonaut]

My name is Jay Garrick, and it's sometimes funny for me to realize that I'm one of the most famous men on Earth, yet only a handful of people know me by that name. It's one of the odd things about playing this superhero game, being famous and anonymous at the same time.

Speed Force (1997) #1

(John Byrne)