#bellegere otherys. || study.

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the children of king aegon iv targaryen & captain bellegere otherys.

bellenora otherys-targaryen: born in the maidenvault in the red keep the same year the princesses of the maidenvault were imprisoned, bellenora inherited all of her mother's great beauty & took after her in the refined etiquette of a courtesan. under her mother's tutelage, she learned from the matriarch not only the art of a courtesan, but political intrigue & using daggers. graceful & elegant, bellenora became popular in king's landing & singers wrote tales of her great beauty after the death of king baelor. she grew weary of her royal father's antics, however, & decided to make her own destiny across the narrow sea. after his death, she sailed to braavos & became a courtesan under the same title as her mother: the black pearl of braavos. bellenora was said to be the most beautiful woman in all the world in her day with singers making songs about her beauty, seamstresses begging to make her the most beautiful dresses, showered with gifts by goldsmiths, bravos killing each other in her name & merchants, nobles, princes, & even kings vied for her hand in marriage. wedding a sealord, she became wealthy for the rest of her long life living in luxury, with her descendants continue the courtesan tradition to this day: house otherys.

narha otherys-targaryen: born in the maidenvault two years after her elder sister, narha grew up a rebellious child, a perfect combination of both of her parents. wild almost from birth, narha took the path of her mother, becoming a pirate queen. seafarer by nature & by trade & skilled in blades & archery with a goldenheart bow, her vessel the black dragon's goldenheart has made port in hundreds of docks across westeros & essos & sailed as far east as the dark city of asshai-beyond-the-shadow. eventually she stopped sailing & settled down south in the summer isles & became the ruling princess of the summer isles in her own right after uniting the princes & princesses of the summer isles under her rule to fight against the ghiscari slavers. after the war, she established her own dynasty, under her rule, the summer isles prospered in a way they haven't in centuries, even when westeros was long at war, with trade growing to westeros & essos, & her descendants still widely respected to this day.

balerion otherys-targaryen: the only son of the three, balerion, named after balerion the black dread, the largest, fiercest & most terrifying dragon ridden by aegon the conqueror himself, from his namesake balerion was destined to become a fierce warrior, born two years after his sister, growing up in the maidenvault & was raised by the many ladies who lived there until his royal father demanded to see his second son. it was said for quite a long time that balerion was aegon's favorite son, unlike his trueborn son daeron by his wife naerys... that is, until daemon waters (later known as daemon blackfyre) was born years later. he grew up to become a warrior then as a retired pirate, he was once captain of his own crew until he retired to become a bravo, using both his skills as knight & a water dancer to fight in the streets of braavos to defend his elder sister's honor, was briefly exiled from the city after an altercation with the sealord's son where the latter was slain after he insulted his family & in that time of exile he headed east towards volantis & valyria & was rumored to follow the rhoyne to its headwaters & explored the shadowy depths of the forests of qohor & then upon returning became the first sword of braavos then he went on to gain his own titles & rose to become the sealord of braavos: balerion otherys, son of the black pearl, the black dread, scion of braavos, the summer isles & old valyria & keeper of the three dragon eggs lady elissa farman gave to the sealord of braavos all those years ago, the very three petrified eggs that would eventually come to hatch over a century later into queen daenerys i targaryen's three dragons: drogon, rhaegal & viserion.

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Arya stark x The courtesans of Braavos

The Black Pearl of Braavos

"She was so lovely that the lamps seemed to burn brighter when she passed. She had dressed in a low-cut gown of pale yellow silk, startling against the light brown of her skin. Her black hair was bound up in a net of spun gold, and a jet-and-gold necklace brushed against the top of her full breasts."

A study of François Claudius Compte-Calix 'Ladies in the Park'. France, 19th century. 

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A concept of Bellegere Otherys ⚔️✨

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personally i'm& of the mind that naerys was one of the few women who could actually go in & out of the maidenvault, mostly staying there to avoid aegon iv's creep antics. considering naerys, 22, was a married woman & having daeron, i& think she'd want him to have a proper influence & not to mention to be close to daenaera, her maternal figure. she was pregnant with her first twins at the time & wanted 7 year old daeron close by. an army of midwives attended to the birth but the twins died shortly after & naerys herself almost died that day which caused king baelor to fast for a moon's turn. in that time, naerys was almost always accompanied by women with the exception of her father viserys the hand of the king who was likely the only man allowed to come in & out of the maidenvault without the king's permission, for aegon was away at war in dorne then was sent to braavos on a diplomatic mission by viserys (& baelor by extension) in the hopes he'd leave naerys alone & aemon was in dorne (this is the same mission where he'd meet his fourth mistress bellegere otherys, daughter of the son of the sealord of braavos & a princess from the summer isles & smuggler, trader, captain of the widow wind, courtesan & pirate queen & mother of his 3 children: bellenora, narha & balerion otherys, the affair would last for 10 years). for most of his young life, daeron ii was raised by the women of the maidenvault; aemon re-entered the picture when he finally returned to king's landing with king baelor half a year later. as part of the peace treaty, prince daeron was betrothed to princess myriah martell, eldest daughter of the ruling prince of dorne & it was because of this that naerys made sure to have many other women raise the young targaryen prince, as well. when bellegere arrived in king's landing with prince aegon, pregnant with his child, she was placed in the maidenvault to, according to baelor, "repent" & avoid aegon's lusts & to avoid tempting men at court. princess daena, 17 at the time, was at first jealous of the newcomer, but eventually they became friends. bellenora was born later that year & narha & then balerion were born over the decade in the maidenvault & daeron & the three kids were raised together & played together. eventually, when daena fell pregnant with daemon waters (later blackfyre), she raised daemon in the maidenvault in his first year of life before king baelor's eventual death.