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[linaartsblogsworld]

ELIA MARTELL And RHAENYS TARGARYEN

[motorway-south]

its so funny that s1 criston is like "can we run away together" and rhaenyra rejects him and s2 alicent is like "can we run away together" and rhaenyra rejects her and s2 larys is like "can we run away together" and aegon is like yk why the hell not??

[fshfish]

redraw of an older piece!

dialogue was going to be:

"you betrayed me, my Queen.

Do you know what happens to traitors?"

[sarcasticsweetlara]

Laena would always get Dark Sister as the widow of his wielder and as the sword was originally meant for a woman's hand.

And of course Laena would make sure that Baela, Jace, Luke and Joffrey are trained alongside her cousin Daeron Velaryon, convincing Vaemond to fight for Rhaenyra with the promise Laena would give Vaemond and his firstborn Daemion a fortress in The Crownlands with a fleet of ships, and she would take Daeron with her to fight in the Stepstones and with Vhagar and Laena's wit aiding the strategies of Corlys they would win the war in the Stepstones.

And I know Laena would ask Viserys to give a fortress to Aemon Targaryen (her son who was named in honor of Laena's grandfather) as a homage to the son of the Rogue Prince, and send him as a ward to other branches of House Velaryon (the branches of Jorgen and Victor Velaryon, Corlys' uncles) so they can win them over, and later betroth him to the cleverest one of the Four Storms - Maris Baratheon.

Once the Stepstones are completely apart of the Seven Kingdoms, many fortresses would begin to be built by Corlys and Laena to protect it (and later used for the Dance), as well as reach out to Laena and Rhaenyra's great-aunt Saera Targaryen and her children and struck an alliance by giving them fortresses of their own.

Laena would also travel to the Vale to improve the relationship between House Targaryen and the Vale, and would streak a deal of betrothing one of her Velaryon cousins (a son of Malentine Velaryon) to one of Jeyne Arryn's female cousins, and she herself would arrange the betrothal of Joffrey with Daeron Velaryon's daughter: Daenaera Velaryon, and eventually arrange betrothals between her other Baratheon cousins Cassandra, Ellyn and Floris to grandsons of her cousins Malentine, Rhogar, and Daemion, while also building fortress personalized for every single one of them in the Stepstones, all under the agreement they will fight for Rhaenyra.

And Laena would eventually make a Valyrian Longsword for her son Aemon: 'Lealty'.

And then as queen, Rhaenyra would announce Laena as her Mistress of Coin, Mistress of Ships, and announce her as the Duchess of the Crownlands

And I'm sure Laena would gain over the Reach with her persuasion *cough, Vhagar, cough* and the betrothal of one of her Velaryon female cousins to the Lord of House Redwyne.

Rhaenyra and Laena would eventually meet and make a deal with the Rogare family, in the exchange of betrothing another of Laena's Velaryon female cousins to one of the Rogares.

Ser (and eventually Lord) Aemon Targaryen would soon claim Seasmoke, while Morning would hatch and be claimed by a grandson of Saera: Maerion Targaryen - we know Saera would give her surname to her children just to spite her parents - and other grandchildren of Saera would claim Vermithor and Silverwing.

Laena would be Rhaenyra's major asset.

A HOTD au where instead of Laena dying by dragon fire/childbirth, she lives on to give birth to a son, Daemion Targaryen, and her husband mysteriously dies of a burst belly. With her newborn son in her arms, Dark Sister at her hip, her two grieving daughters, and an equally grieving Caraxes claimed by Rhaena, Laena returns to Dragonstone for the funeral of her husband. Queen Alicent and her father, once again appointed Hand, secretly rejoice in the death of their despised foe and brazenly make moves to put Aegon II on the throne. The death of Daemon Targaryen has left Viserys a shell of the man he used to be and Rhaenyra struggles to accept the death of her beloved Uncle and the pressure of her inheritance.

But Laena refuses to cave under grief and uses it to drive her to ensure that her children are well cared for and that Rhaenyra's inheritance remains intact and away from the Greens. But envy and restless hearts threaten her plans and Laena finds herself romantically entangled with yet another dragon of fire.

Outside the towering walls of Dragonstone, the wind raged as if joining Laena in her fury. The sea was foaming under the gleaming moon like a cold caress, the sound a small comfort for Rhaenyra as she wrapped her black cloak tighter around herself. She searched one end of the beach to the other before glimpsing Laena standing with water up to her knees, fingers playing with the Dark Sister's hilt.

Rhaenyra didn’t need to see her expression to know she was furious.

Poor, sweet Rhaena with tears on her cheeks and trembling hands had given Caraxes the command to burn Daemon's body, her family standing in support behind her as Queen Alicent along with her father and brood stood a little ways from the flames, but no one had missed the small smile of triumph in the Queen's eyes or the grim look of satisfaction on Otto's face.

Their happiness and Alicent's constant need to force Rhaenyra into a conversation to offer her false condolences had nauseated her to the point where she practically had fled to the beaches to gather herself and speak to Laena...alone.

Heart in her mouth, Rhaenyra strode over towards her, each step shrinking the vastness that had come in between them. Laena did not turn, watching the waves sweep up on the sand before her, her body tensing with each step Rhaenyra took.

“Laena, I'm sorry,” she blurted. “Please, Laena, you mustn't be alone--”

Laena's shoulders moved convulsively, halting her words. “Let us speak plainly, cousin. My husband, your Uncle, is dead and now the vultures show their brazenness without shame and have even expressed an interest in having Dark Sister given to Aemond who displays nothing but Daemon's worst traits. Surely his mother isn’t blind to his viciousness….” Laena's voice trailed away.

“Laena, I know..,” she murmured. When Laena did not reply, Rhaenyra breathed in the salt wind through her nose to clear her mind. She knew. Everyone knew. She was trying so hard and now Daemon-- “I don't think you do know, cousin.” Laena's silver head whipped around, presenting her with the full extent of her grief and Rhaenyra crumbled at the look of agony on her beautiful face. "I don't think you understand just how far your beloved Hightower will go to make a mockery of your grief and twist it to her advantage. You don't...you don't..." Laena's voice trailed off and her expression twisted in a look of despair as she fell to her knees and sobbed. Rhaenyra dashed forward into the water with her and held the sobbing woman in her arms, two dragons of sea and fire lost in their grief as the waves crashed.

"What is to happen to us now?"

"We protect your crown and our children's rights with Fire and Blood. Daemon is gone, but his progeny lives and I swear by the sea, House Hightower will never be free of his shadow." Rhaenyra barely heard Laena's oath, the wind pushing her curly hair into her mouth. She was dragging it free when Laena crushed her palms to her temples and, looming in, crashed her lips to Rhaenyra's with bruising force, a kiss that Rhaenyra immediately returned. The force of their passion consumed them as the two women embraced under the cold moonlight, a promise on their lips.

By fire and sea.

[ladystoneboobs]

so, one aspect of catelyn which i think is underrated (certainly the biggest adaptation loss which nobody talks about) is her, let's say superstitiousness, or better yet, let's call it genre-savviness, being one of the few adult characters open to magic and the supernatural in this fantasy world. we first meet her in the godswood, home of gods which are not truly hers, yet she is still very aware of their power. when she and ned talk of the deserter he killed, he hopes he won't have to go with the nw to deal with mance rayder, but she has even more fear of that idea bc there are worse things beyond the wall than just wildlings. ned scoffs and says she's been listening to old nan too much, but she's right. we already know from the prologue that she's right! and here she is, understanding the genre of their world better than her husband, who was actually born and spent his earliest years in this northern land of deep magic, listening to old nan's stories. same with the direwolves, where she was uncomfortable with them at first, but later believed in them as guardians from the old gods even after robb had lost his own faith. and once again, we know she's right even if she doesn't know the evidence to back up her instincts, bc summer and shaggydog did not fail bran and rickon and robb was almost certainly a warg like his brothers. (perhaps making it more fitting that she's the one brought back as a fantasy vengeance monster, not ned and robb, the most unbelieving dead starks.) and in her 2nd agot chapter, everyone focuses on her ambition in wanting ned to agree to the hand job (pun intended) and sansa's betrothal, and while she does recognize the value of their daughter being a future queen more than ned does, that's only her stated argument bc she thinks it's rational enough for ned to listen to. (if ambitious matchmaking were as important to her as to her father she never would have made those frey betrothals fandom loves to blame her for.) in her own head there's a deeper urge driving her. she keeps thinking of the dead direwolf with antlers in its throat, an omen which filled her with dread from the first she heard of it, before robert's arrival, and thinking of it again is what makes her desperate to convince ned not to refuse robert. she had to make him see. and really, she's not wrong, as jon snow would say. the dead direwolf was an omen of ned and robert getting each other killed. it's just one of those misread portents, with no way of knowing the danger to ned was in his loyalty to robert, not conflict with him. BUT the next time she's dealing with baratheons, she knows exactly what she's talking about. it's catelyn, not brienne, who sees the shadow slaying renly, and explains that it was stannis who did that through some dark magic. with no way of knowing how it was achieved and no prior expectation that such a thing were ever possible, she realizes with no hestitation that stannis was guilty and that his red witch was capable of pulling this off somehow. really, the only instinct of the supernatural she's wholly wrong about is her insistence that varys gathered his knowledge through some dark enchantment. however, though that might offend varys, given his own personal experience with a sorcerer, i'd say it's a reasonable assumption without knowing the dude had children moving through walls everywhere like oversized rodents. and imo it just shows she had a healthy respect and awe for varys's power which most other characters lack.

oh, oh, and let's not forget that she also believed in the curse of harrenhal, from her own childhood and the stories old nan told her kids. "and every house that held Harrenhal since had come to misfortune. Strong it might be, but it was a dark place, and cursed. 'I would not have Robb fight a battle in the shadow of that keep,' Catelyn admitted." sure, that wasn't enough to save robb, but he did not die from the curse of harrenhal. that doom was meant for his enemies from tywin lannister to roose bolton.

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

ppl who genuinely think that jon should just be a king-consort who doesnt interfere with politics and just lets his wife do all the dirty work should consider themselves opps bc were not reading the same books im sorry to say. ppl r so obsessed with making jon out to be some ambitionless wifeguy and a lapdog and thats literally so annoying bc thats a completely different guy!!! ur making up a guy in ur brain!!!! he joins the nights watch bc hes ambitious bc thats the one place where bastards may rise high hes daydreamed and pretended to be the lord of winterfell as a child hes been groomed by joer mormont FOR leadership and IS a leader now and when stannis offers jon winterfell and val he WANTS it he wants it so bad but refuses it to lead the nights watch. if u dont want that then u dont want jon idk what to tell u

[tidetower]

The Prince of the Hightower and the Heir to High Tide

Artist: erchitos

[wodania]

green king and black queen, brother and sister

[anahida]

🩸The Leech Lord and The Chubby Lady 🩷

[targsource]

Lord Commander and the Dragon Queen

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[linaartsblogsworld]

Queen Alysanne and Rhaenys Targaryen ✨

A ruler needs a good head and a true heart,” she told the king. “A c•ck is not essential.”

“If Your Grace truly believes that women lack the wit to rule, plainly you have no further need of me.”

_ Alysanne.

[effemar]

Great Red Dragon, Woman Clothed With Sun

[theotherpacman]

this week on, ships in which one of them is Absolutely Obsessed with the other:

brienne: I guess he's not that bad

jaime: she's so uptight and boring she's one of the best swordsmen I've ever met which pisses me off bc she isn't even a man she's so goddamn annoying but guess what I'm worse she's all honorable and shit and I wish I could hate her for that but I want to be more like her which SUCKS for me. gods she's so fucking ugly I need to stare into her sapphire eyes forever I need to push her against a wall I need her to push me against a wall I need to show her a good time so she can finally fucking relax for once I need to get on my knees and beg her to marry me what who said that

[goosemixtapes]

“a relationship should be between one man and one woman” a relationship should be a cunty backstabbing swordsman, a butch knight with autism, and the emotional shadows of the two kings that died under their respective watches

[ladystoneboobs]

"balder than she remembered" is a great catelyn pov quote on its own but also could be proof that stannis started going bald pretty young. i mean he's only 35 max here and it must have been some years since cat could have seen him previously--already somewhat balding--bc it's not like he was ever known to visit the north before asos/adwd. so fitting that stannis is not only the only known bald baratheon, he's also the type of guy to start losing his hair in his late teens/early 20s at most. maybe that one officialish art of him looking older than 19 during the siege of storm's end isn't that off. art true to the spirit of the text should have young adult stannis with a noticeable receding hairline at least.

[jelloholic]

A wave of inspiration hit me after seeing a rhaenicent post like this