to me one of grrm's biggest screw-ups is not letting gaemon and jaehaera grow into adulthood, because the dynamics those two could have with aegon lend themselves to so much.
you're aegon iii and you're forced to marry the daughter of the man who killed your mother and your brothers. her only friend is her dragon and you hate dragons because one killed your mother in front of you and two others killed your brothers. she hates you and would kill you if that didn't mean her own demise. your best friend is also a son of aegon ii, but he hates him too, as he is responsible for the death of his mothers, he was a pretender, he is a nice kid who wants to help people just like you. he's the only one that understands you.
you're jaehaera, your father won the war, but you're forced to become the wife of the son of the man who killed your twin, the woman who put a bounty on your other brother's head and who drove your mother to suicide. your grandmother, the only family you have left, is crazy with grief, she wants you to kill aegon. you're just a child. your dragon is a wretched delicate thing, just like you, your husband hates it. he is afraid of it, it makes you happy. your only brother (if he is your brother) doesn't like you, he spends all his time with aegon, you try to bond with him, but he is not jaehaerys. he will never be.
you're gaemon, son of a whore, bastard of a king. you were the hope of the smallfolk, a path for liberation, but the royals came and they killed your moms. now you're their pet, their tool to avoid being poisoned. you love aegon, he shares the same wounds as you, but you resent him, he is using your body, your life, that's what you smallfolk are for the royals, just pawns in their little games. maybe you're tired of it. then viserys comes back and you're discarded, not longer a friend, but just a tool. jaehaera claims she's your sister, but she isn't, aegon is nothing to you, she creeps you out, she understands what being a hostage is.
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I have something to show you Ninjago fans.
Brave x Ninjago
Lloyd smiled, laughing only to notice that Arin was missing from his seat behind him. "Arin?" Lloyd asked as he spinned around to find Arin.
Arin walks out holding a bow taking off his mask.
"I am Arin and I'm going to show you that you don't need elemental powers to be a ninja!" Arin announced as he prepared to take aim with the bow. He aims and hits the first target dead on center.
All the other masters looked at Lloyd for an explanation, but Lloyd didn't have one. He looked at Arin in horror, as much as Lloyd was proud of Arin and believed in him this was going too far.
"Arin, wait, stop this!" Lloyd called after him leaping off the platform watching Arin as he moved on to the second target, aiming and shooting center again.
Lloyd chased after him, hoping to stop him before he shot another arrow. "Don’t you dare release another arrow!"
Arin takes another arrow and prepares to shoot the third target. Lloyd could feel his anger building at Arin not listening to him and causing a scene. "Arin, I forbid you!" Lloyd told him, reaching out to grab him.
Arin breathed in.
At that moment Merida shoots the arrow and hits the center of the target, splitting the successor of gravity's arrow in half.
Arin smiled turning to face Lloyd but his smile faded when their eyes met.
Lloyd dragged and threw Arin into his painting room slamming the door behind him. Arin stumbled in catching his footing.
"I can't believe you! Just what were you thinking!" Lloyd snapped at him, turning to face him as his eyes narrowed.
"You’re the one that said I could-!" Arin shouted at Lloyd, confused why he was mad at him. Lloyd cut him off, raising his voice.
"You just embarrassed them! You embarrassed us!" Lloyd told Arin gesturing to the door then back at him. Arin huffed, rolling his eyes.
"I followed the rules!" Arin asserted back.
Lloyd groaned walking past him, turning around glaring at him. "You don’t know what you’ve done!"
Arin gave a frustrated scream throwing his hand into the air. "I don’t care how-."
Lloyd covers his face with his hands, cutting off Arin again as he paces. "There will be fire and fighting if it’s not set right."
"You're not listening! Just listen to me!" Arin shouted at him feeling desperate but recoiled when Lloyd faced him.
"I am the green ninja and the leader! You listen to me!" Lloyd yelled, putting his foot down as his eyes flickering to a shade of purple.
"Oh! This isn't unfair!" Arin argued back, marching over to the other wall picking a training sword.
"Huh?" Lloyd asked, perplexed folding his arms across, staring at him.
"You are never there for me!" Arin jabbed at Lloyd even though this wasn't true as he pointed the sword at him. Lloyd flinched but not because of the sword.
"Do you ever bother what I want? No! You walk around telling me what to do, what not to do! Trying to make me be like you! Well, I’m not going to be like you!" Arin shouted and swung the sword around.
With every word that came out of Arin's mouth Lloyd could feel his anger rising but he kept saying to himself that Arin was just saying these things because he was mad at him.
Of course this didn't stop the oni inside of him from feeding off the frustration and anger from Lloyd, pushing him.
"Ach! You’re acting like a child." Lloyd told him while holding his head, all this stress was getting to him. Arin growled glancing over at the unfinished painting of him, Sora, and Lloyd. With Lloyd's hands on their shoulders, all of them smiling.
"And you’re a terrible teacher! That’s what you are!" Arin sneered at Lloyd pointing the sword at the unfinished painting that Lloyd had been working on.
Lloyd glanced over then back to Arin, but his eyes widened darting back in realization to where he was pointing the sword at.
"Arin?!" Lloyd called out to him in fear.
"I will never be like you!" Arin shouted as he stuck the tip of his sword into the painting.
"Wait, No! Stop that!" Lloyd cried, reaching out hesitantly and scared.
"I’d rather die than be like you!" Arin screamed and slashed the painting, Arin separated himself from Lloyd and Sora. Lloyd's arms jerked back in horror.
Arin frowned, looking back at Lloyd feeling a bit of relief from his anger.
Lloyd's face went dark as the oni inside of him came out full force. Arin's eyes widened staring at Lloyd's glowing purple eyes.
Lloyd marched over to Arin, tearing the sword out from his hand throwing across the room. He also takes Arin's grappling hook from him as Arin looks at him in fear.
"You will never be a ninja! If you can't act mature!" Lloyd growls, throwing his grappling hook in the fire. He turns his head at Arin, glaring at him as he stares in shock at him.
Arin backed away slowly then slammed the door open, running away.
"Arin!" Lloyd shouted after him as his eyes returned to their normal emerald hues. A crack and pop sound came from the fire, Lloyd eyes widened and immediately regretted his actions in realization.
Lloyd quickly kneeled down reaching into the fire and pulled out the now broken grappling hook before it burned. Lloyd shook his hand in pain from the heat.
"Oh no! What have I done?" Lloyd wept in horror at his own actions. Why did he say that? Arin was more than capable of becoming a ninja.
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