#Rhaena the conqueror

[maegorsbignaturals]

How would the Targaryens react to the modern times, not modern!Targaryens but canon!Targaryens/medieval!Targaryens? To meme culture, to our fashion, to our technology?

Maegor WOULD NOT survive one minute of exposision to Skibidi toilet. Probably thinks Vapes are for the weakest links of the chain but he is a huge fanatic of over priced gentrified chain gyms. Loves polygamy but doesn't understand neopronous and neither does tries to understand them. He would love to scream at strangers through his car window when all are stuck in the traffic.

Rhaena the lesbian my sweet baby girl, i think she would like to read some female poets that struggled with mental health a lot like Sylvia Plath and Alejandra Pizarnik. also like every average medieval woman she would love how free and more permissive modern times are with the women in general. She has No Reaction to men like Andrew Tate because i am sure she has seen men with faaaar more worst opinions towards women in her time. In fact, i think she would mock him severely.

Naerys doesn't like Ethel Cain. Like yeah preacher's daughter has a lot of things that she could relate but she considers the whole evangelism thing as a mean to abuse a woman as blasphemous. Probably enjoys Alexa praying with her. Loves the 'puter and those online blogs with threads where she can exchanges her experiences and not be judged and belittled by it. She gives me the vibe of being a Calico critter girl, probably a pochaco girl too. Like this is literally naerys

Visenya would love mixed martial arts. She would enjoy seeing UFC in the front row and screaming her lungs at the fighters. Rhaenys would really enjoy going to concerts and museums. And definitely they would adore those multiparts long ass tiktoks of some obscure reddit storytime with minecraft parkour background or subway surfers background

[wodania]

Fire and Blood

Queens and Claimants of House Targaryen

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[gracielikegrapes]

Redo of the Targaryen women I did last year!

note I only Included women born (Name) Targaryen for sanity's sake

[wweskywalker]

"She is Rhaenys, and I am Visenya. I have never thought otherwise."

— shadow study with the grannies x granddaughters duo <3 reminding everyone that rhaena resembles rhaenys so much aegon cried (my rhaena looks 60% aegon 40% rhaenys)

[blxkstar]

"Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin, and the world holds its breath."

I made a playlist for House Targaryen. Please check it out!

Everyone says Targaryens are closer to gods than to men but they say that because of our dragons. Without them, we're just like everyone else

Dreams didn't make us kings. Dragons did

[fadingstudentbananacookie]

Rhaena Targaryen, Jaehaerys I Targaryen, and Alysanne Targaryen.

Aemond Targaryen, Aegon II Targaryen, and Helaena Targaryen.

Daemon Targaryen, Viserys I Targaryen, and Rhaenyra Targaryen.

+ The Baratheon Brothers

Stannis Baratheon, Robert I Baratheon, Renly Baratheon

The Dragon Has Three Heads

[fuhhhhhh]

the andal laws only apply when a women is benefiting from something .

the TG will always say that " Rhaenyra would't be recognised as queen because of andal law " But let me tell you something if andal law was applied back then Viserys would not be king Because :

By the andal law a man cannot have a second wife while he is married to his first wife . so , Visenya would be racognised as the legal wife of Aegon i not rhaenys that means by andal law Maegor would be Aegons rightful heir not Aenys because aegons , marriage with Rhaenys is not recognised as legal . So, that means Maegor did not usurp his Half-older brother because the throne is rightfully his .

After maegor died . Since , he did not have any children the throne will pass over to Aenys i but since he is died the throne will go to aegon the uncrowned but since he is also died the throne will pass over to his daughter princess Aerea by the andal law a daughter comes before an uncle {jaehaerys } Jaehaerys by the law tecnically he would be be recognised as a usurper .

So, after Jaehaerys i is king his heir is prince aemon but since prince aemon is dead the throne will pass over to his daughter princess rhaenys ii will be queen but the throne was pass over to prince baelon , so lets consider rhaenys was the heir then by the andal law ser leanor would be the king and since he married rhaenyra she will be the queen consort and since jacaerys is legally recognised as his son so he will be king .

So , by applying andal law in the above situation viserys is not even a candidate to be king it seems it only applys when a woman is benefiting from something , like rhaenyra who was recognised as her fathers heir for ten years straight .

by the andal law the above man would be recognised as usurpers who stole the crown from the rightful heir

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

did hotd really give daemon sexual fantasies of his mother as if alyssa didn't die when he was three... he'd barely even remember her face?? they really have time for all this stupid irrelevant shit but cut nettles from the plot huh. and relegated baela and rhaena to minor roles. i can't

(though tbf ryan condal apparently said something about "aegon the conqueror's time in valyria" in an interview, and rhaenys said something like "let's go to battle again, meleys" in one scene, so. no idea what to call the show-verse but it is not the world of asoiaf)

[green-watcher]

Maegor the Cruel had 6 wives total, largely due to his inability to produce an heir. They were Ceryse Hightower, Alys Harroway, Tyanna of the Tower, Elinor Costayne, Jeyne Westerling, and his niece Rhaena Targaryen. His first wife was Ceryse Hightower, whom he married in 25 AC, after the conquest.

[belanekra]

Okay, 2 things about the whole "the ruler tells the heir about Aegon's dream" thing.

It's established that Viserys never told Daemon about the dream in all the years that he was the heir. Because he was still hoping Aemma would have a son. Sure sure. What if he fucking died before that though? What if he choked on a chicken leg and died and he'd never told Daemon, and he hadn't told Rhaenyra yet because she wasn't the heir? What then? Does the dream just die with him? That seems irresponsible, Viserys. Which I guess is in character but still annoys me.

Who the fuck told Jaehaerys about Aegon's dream? Presumably Aegon told his son Aenys and Aenys told his son Aegon the Uncrowned. But when Aenys died, Aegon was with Rhaena on progress and Jaehaerys was at Dragonstone. As far as I can recall, Aegon the uncrowned and Jaehaerys were never in the same place again before Aegon died. And I'm sure Maegor didn't know about his father's dream. And I doubt either of the Aegons or Aenys wrote it down anywhere. So how the hell did Jaehaerys know about it in order to tell Viserys about it? Did Aegon the Uncrowned tell Rhaena before he died, and then she told Jaehaerys when he took the throne? That's literally all I can think of that would explain this.

[itsburningsa4ge]

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[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

The fact that Visenya proposed to marry Maegor and Rhaena to “settle the matter of succession” is a vital detail in understanding the Targaryen/Valyrian right of primogeniture. It meant that without a doubt to anyone there, Rhaena was going to succeed her father since she was the first born regardless of any other children (sons) that will come after. And by marrying Maegor to the heir of the Iron Throne, they could rule together and any child that comes from them will unquestionably be the heir to the throne.

The fact that after Aenys’ death, Aegon the Uncrowned was championed as heir & not Rhaena has everything to do with them bowing to Andal customs to avoid more strife since it was their Valyrian tradition of sibling marriages that upset the kingdom in the first place HOWEVER it was established by the Conquerors themselves and then reiterated by Aenys’ rule alongside his brother and also Visenya wanting Rhaena and Maegor to marry and rule together, that there is no sole ruler in Targaryen/Valyrian tradition so regardless Aegon was going to be king and Rhaena queen and they would rule together there wasn’t any one is subservient to the other. They just paraded Aegon around as heir to gain the support of the kingdom.

And Rhaena knew it too. She told Alysanne that she & Jaehaerys already have her crown, they will not have her daughter too. “Queen Rhaena grew ever more resentful that her own claim to the Iron Throne, and that of her daughters, had been disregarded in favor of that of “my baby brother” (as she was wont to call Jaehaerys). She was the firstborn, she reminded those who would listen, and had been a dragonrider before any of her siblings, yet all of them and “even my own mother” had conspired to pass her over.”

Everything points out to women inherinting over men if they are the first born of their parents in Valyrian culture.

Very good points, anon. There's also the "Aegon had to marry Visenya for duty" thing. Aegon was crowned, but Visenya (and Rhaenys) was as much of a ruler as he was. I stand by my theory that Aegon allowed Andal customs to get to his head.

In my opinion Rhaena and Maegor should've been wed first, it would have set precedent for a woman heir and a royal consort not to mention joined the bloodlines of Visenya and Rhaenys.

[coveredinsun]

what i think about sometimes is that it’s lowkey crazy that it took 130 years for an eldest girl vs. younger boy succession conflict to break out into Actual War among the targaryens. i mean, in every single generation after the conqueror’s sons (in which there were no daughters at all) the eldest child of that generation had always been a daughter, but their inheritance was never formally scorned until rhaenys.

firstly, rhaena was aenys i’s eldest child, but she was quickly married off to her brother, not necessarily with the explicit intention to prevent a succession conflict, but prevention was a result; it made for a simple father-son succession with a built in queen consort.

of the next generation, there were 2 daughters elder than jaehaerys’ eldest male child aegon (who died as an infant and actually left a presumed female heir for a few years, daenerys!): aerea and rhaella. rhaella was sent away to be a septa, but aerea was even proclaimed heir! her claim against jaehaerys, like rhaenyra and daemon later, was a matter of king’s daughter vs. king’s brother. however, her inheritance was unofficially spurned, and with less publicity and outcry than rhaenys, because A) her father aegon “the uncrowned” was, as his nickname implies, never officially crowned king; and B) she was proclaimed heir by maegor, which left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. but jaehaerys was indeed chosen over her because of the male primogeniture that put viserys over rhaenys! and rhaena, her mother, held a valid resentment over that.

and then finally after jaehaerys is crowned king and has ruled for a little while, he actually has an eldest female heir, daenaerys, for ~6 years—and her mother alyssanne specifically contended for her right to be heir! but then she dies, and jaehaerys gets an uncontroversial male heir, AND a uncontroversial male backup. but then both of those male heirs die, and like 4 of their daughters die/run away/are sent away in rapid succession (alyssa, daella, viserra, saera, maegelle) and suddenly there are TWO possible options for jaehaerys’ children, so he turns to his children’s children, and we all know how it goes.

TLDR: the dance of the dragons was not the first succession conflict based on gender. it is simply the only one that did not have a clean “wrap up” (sorry for such an insensitive turn of phrase), and thus turned into a war. targaryen women have been spurned since day 1, but it was never officially ordained until rhaenys, and never viciously fought over until rhaenyra.

[sare11aa11eras]

The Maidenvault Princesses!

Close-ups under the cut

[silmarillaure]

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