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whitegownsandflowercrowns · 7 days ago

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I do think all of the adults had some part to play in creating the Dance but if I had to break it down to who had the most power to prevent it it would be Jaehaerys up to and including the Great Council, Viserys up until the moment Aegon is born and Otto from then on.

#jaehaerys could have named rhaenys his heir and prevented any sort of similar succession crisis from occurring in the future #all viserys needed to do was not get remarried and not have sons #i pass it to otto after that because the second that aegon came out male he began to scheme #(granted if viserys had stayed firm in his decision to remove him as hand i do think the chances of the dance go down #but this is still mostly on otto)#alicent's culpability is mostly from raising her sons to hate and fear rhaenyra's sons #so is rhaenyra's to a lesser extent but also for leaving king's landing and having three blatantly illegitimate children #(and then two blatantly legitimate children right after that)#daemon's is just from being generally unhinged and giving the greens legitimate reasons to fear for their safety #larys is the reason otto came back as hand #mysaria did technically help orchestrate blood and cheese #all the other members of the green council willingly committed treason #i was going to say corlys and rhaenys are blameless but no they pushed laenor into marriage knowing full well he's gay #forcing rhaenyra to have the aforementioned blatantly illegitimate children #also in the alternate universe where viserys chose laena they are probably a lot more culpable for that dance #but ultimately while all of the above are a series of bad decisions that culminated there were only three that could have stopped the dance #don't set a precedent that women inherit after men.#don't remarry or have sons after you've declared your daughter your heir.#don't scheme to usurp the rightful heir.#and that is why those three have the most culpability to me #house of the dragon

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