#and that's without mentioning that i could make a similar post about rhaena

[whitegownsandflowercrowns]

Just thinking about Helaena and her family again.

Because she has a mother. Her mother loves her with all her heart, her mother would (and did) give up anything to keep her safe. She tries her best to understand and support her, despite having no resources on how to raise an autistic child. And yet despite all that love and protection and support, she had Helaena married before she was even a teenager, and she stood by and did nothing to prevent Helaena from becoming a mother when she'd barely become a teenager.

She has a father who's obsessed with Old Valyria and dragon dreamers, and yet he doesn't pay enough attention to his own daughter to notice that she's the strongest dreamer the Targaryens have had since Daenys, who also stood by and did nothing during her marriage and pregnancy.

She has three brothers, one of whom is her husband. He ignores her unless he's drunk (and there are potentially worrying implications there), and despite sharing the same pain, they can barely even speak to each other. Her other brother cares about her more openly, and she cares about him as well, but he's part of the reason that her son is dead. He then burns her husband and his dragon, and expects her to help fix the problem he helped create. Besides, even if they did somehow connect and reconcile on that balcony, it'd be too late. She'll never see him again. She doesn't even know the third brother.

She has a sister who cares about her, who remembers small details about her and who is horrified at the suggestion that she would harm her. And yet, this sister still demands "a son for a son" from Helaena's mother, because if she didn't order the death directly it doesn't count. Never mind Helaena's pain and trauma. Her sister will remain with the man who ordered that pain and trauma, and who knows what will happen when she is her sister's prisoner and that sister is becoming increasingly convinced that she is a prophesied savior of humanity?

She has a grandfather who loves her, who also understands that she's "different," who reassures her when she's nervous or upset. And yet her grandfather's immediate reaction to the murder of her son was to force her to publicly grieve - something he knew she'd hate - to give their side of the family good press in a war she doesn't even seem to care about.

She has an uncle who has never pretended to love her, and is so blinded by his rage that he refuses to see her or her children as the innocents that they are. He may not have ordered her son to be killed, but he didn't order against it, either. She knows that she will be his prisoner for the rest of her life.

She has nephews and cousins who seem nice enough, but she barely knows them and they barely know her. She won't have the nephews for long. Do the cousins hate her for being on the other side? Even if they don't, even if she survived with them, would they be able to have any sort of relationship after the amount of blood and suffering and pain and all that has been lost between their families?

It just breaks my heart to think about Helaena and her family, because she essentially has no one. Even the ones she does have wind up using her for their own ends somehow.

[horizon-verizon]

So... none of the eggs Rhaena leaves with are Morning. They actually confirmed they're Dany's three eggs and a blue one for Viserys. So if they truly do combine Rhaena with Nettles, how tf are they going to pull that off without it being crazy stupid or misogynistic? The council's whole justification was "she has no ties to our cause, we don't know her, and we don't know if she's been working with the Betrayers the whole time. If one more rider defects to the Greens it's over."

None of those apply to Rhaena. So what, instead of the council pushing for strategic reasons, Rhaenyra's going to turn into a ranting raving evil stepmother that the men try to reason with and everyone can laugh about how she's worse than Alicent? Or will it be another "misunderstanding" in which case, why would Daemon ever believe she would order it?

Does this mean that Rhaena will have a MASSIVE dragon? If she flees Rhaenyra specifically, why would Aegon risk killing Rhaenyra and bringing Rhaena out of hiding? Why would the war not immediately be over the moment Rhaenyra and Sunfyre die and Rhaena has the last huge dragon? The whole point of the dance is that targaryens and their women were left vulnerable. How is that still true if instead of a hatchling, she has a dragon big enough that she and Caraxes were seen as enough to take down Vhagar? Big enough for her and Baela to say, "fuck you. We're Aegon's regents."

And if they aren't merging her with Nettles... why no Morning egg?

I can't see where they're going with this and I don't mean that in a good way.

Didn't watch the episode. Still haven't watched the 3rd one. I also pointed out similar stuff you did in a previous post. didn't emphasize how Rhaenyra could become a crazy evil stepmom that Alicent was closest to or how the council turns on Nettles and Addam specifically, though, nice catch. I haven't been keeping up with al the leaks, pictures of eggs, etc., I don't even know about there being a 4th egg. Do they mention/show Stormcloud?

Either way, you bring up very valid concerns, and more reason why Rhaena and Nettles can never be merged storyline wise even for production costs bc it all just falls apart. Be creative--which is your job--and MAKE it work. But you know, this is a marketing project, not a story or a faithful adaptation.