#elia martell deserved better

[lilacstarryskies]

List of All Elia Martell-centric fics I enjoy:

Elia Martell And The Crown She Didn’t Want: AU where she marries Baelor Hightower yet Rhaegar is longing for her, which is unreciprocated.

Two Father’s, One Son: Everyone Lives AU where Jon Snow dies unexpectedly and Elia comes back to KL, married to Baelor Hightower.

The Isle Of Faces Does Not Welcome: Elia and Rhaegar have a third child, and Elia confronts Lyanna. No bashing of her, from Lyanna’s POV.

Clean AU: Elia and children are missing, assumed dead for 15 years, until a mystery knight returns to KL, claiming the blue roses his mother deserves.

The Queen And Her Bastard: Everyone Lives AU. Legitimised bastard Jon with sympathetic Lyanna slowly turned more cunning against Elia. Jon-Aegon have positive relationship, in spite of their mother’s ambitions.

The Brightest Sun: Elia and kids transported to Harry Potter Epilogue era. Train and arrive to Westeros during GOT. 200K words.

Poetry is what he thought, but did not say: Erik Kilmonger as Rhaegar. Ruthless Elia with ruthless Rhaegar who has a controversial temperament and bad reputation. Interesting dynamic with Barristan, Arthur and Aerys.

Dragons spin and spin: Spiders weave and weave: Mainly Elia Martell AU oneshot collection, with other characters included.

A tigress, not a woman: Elia Martell scorned by Rhaegar, wants for a annulment. Elia beloved by the Smallfolk.

Poison is a Woman’s Weapon: Queen Regent Elia watches on as Aegon gets crowned, reminiscing on the past.

An unexpected news item: Elia Martell gets shocking news. Very exaggerated bashing of Lyanna.

With Careful Hands and A Strong Chin: Doran died as a babe, Elia is the heir to Dorne. Arthur-Elia.

With Duty In Mind: Elia and Rhaella clean up Rhaegar’s messes.

Gone Girl: Elia dies only to wake up before her wedding. She runs away, with Rhaegar following suit in her trail in regret.

In The Chaos Of A World: Rhaegar dies while Lyanna and Elia live to see Robert ascend. Robert-Elia not in a romantic light, but political.

Caged Beasts And Cloudy Skies: Braime-centric, yet Elia-focused as they wish to crown her after the scorn from R+L, and bring her to rest at her homeland.

Lex Talionis: SIOC of Elia, takes the war into her own hands. Jaime-Elia centric.

Lady of Stormsend: Annulled Elia-Rhaegar, yet Elia married Robert and jealousy and resentment arises.

From Where Blessings Flow: Robert and Elia marry, yet the Realm is not settled as Aegon and Rhaenys grow. With Rhaenys-Viserys.

Living With Regret Of The Chance Not Taken: Rhaegar and Lyanna are married, while Elia, Aegon and Rhaenys are missing… until they are not. And life turns on it’s head. No bashing, just critical of R+L.

Planetos React: Modern AU react to historical figures Elia, Aegon, Rhaenys and Jaime found within tombs, and go wild on tumblr.

But A Woman Is A Changling (always shifting shape: My fic!! Selfless promo! Elia has a green-dress moment ala Alicent where she shows pride in her heritage and snarks towards Rhaegar and Lyanna.

This is all the Elia-centric fics I know of and enjoy! If you have any, please comment them and I’ll add them to this masterlist!!

[martellspear]

“Princess Elia was a good woman, Your Grace. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit”.

my princess never did anything wrong, genuinely one of the sweetest asoiaf characters and deserved the entire world george martin i am outside your door

[hieronymph]

Had to see another post in Elia Martell tag about how Elia is a silent victim and how we don't know if she was really angry or upset with Rhaegar's infidelity.

A woman who was a Princess of a progressive kingdom which values women for being more than child incubators

Had to move to a racist court to marry a man who was delusional and who forced her to become a broodmare and got her pregnant in quick succession even after she was bedridden

Had to deal with said husband being a deadbeat father who didn't protect her and their daughter from his racist father and stayed silent

Was kept as a hostage by her racist FIL so he can blackmail and extort from her brother to send her kingdom's men to fight and die in a war that wasn't theirs

This definitely sounds like something a woman from a progressive nation, who is ridiculed and treated with distrust for her race, would be ok with. Right?

There are so many blanks in the books about so many things yet we all come up with detailed and nuanced theories to

fill those blanks.

Yet, some of yall can't fill the very simple gaps left about Elia's response to her husband's infidelity, disrespect and forced impregnation.

You operate under this belief that GRRM didn't mention that she wasn't upset so of course, she wasn't angry at Rhaegar or his actions.

Sure that is exactly the way to digest whatever content GRRM writes.

Are yall deliberately this obtuse?

Please get out of Elia Martell tags with such shit takes.

[tell-them-the-north-remembers]

ELIA WEEK DAY 1: ELIA AND HER CHILDREN

"What more do you remember ?"

He asked and she seemed more invested than ever, like the more he asked the more she remembered.

"I remember she said something. About taking your sister to the Water Gardens, once she was old enough to play."

He looked at her intently, curiously. He waited and waited to hear more of that day but she remembered no more...

The Water Gardens on AO3 ---> Read here!

[ladymarys-blog]

I don't trust in people who hates Elia Martell or Helaena Targaryen.

[gothgleek]

I like to imagine after the Tourney at Harrenhal, Elia started wearing golden spines with her dresses, symbolizing how she will not be broken by her husband’s humiliation nor bow to his family.

My First Draft

[moongirlgodness]

Since when it became normal to come onto people who like something you don’t?! I mean let’s ingnore the fact that you idiots stan she who must not be named and think this gives you any right to bully belittle R/L fans every single day 24/7, but who do you think you are to specifically go into pro-R/L fics and cause drama? Why are you so obsessed with us??? Can we live??? Like go spread hate and be toxic in your little corners, please.

[wtfmalfoy]

never forget that the sun is the brightest star

“Elia.” It's exactly the third time her name has come to his lips and part of her wants to reach out and scratch it, rip the letter by letter out of him, stop him from having more and more of her… instead, she sits down, as calmly as she can muster, still staring at him. “I am immensely glad to see you well.”

This is too much, it takes all her strength to take a deep breath and deal with the dizziness that invades her body. There's relief in his words and it's almost insulting the way he leans toward her, trying to catch her hands before Elia pulls away, lifting her face, knowing how the emotions betrayed her in plain sight.

“Do you, husband?” Her words are like poison seeping between her teeth and she hates him for turning her into this. There was a time when she only knew sweetness and gentleness, but such blessings seem far away, far from her touches, her sneers when a little laugh escapes “funny that you say that, I had a little feeling that your mind couldn't be further away, than reflecting my well being.”

chapter two available - read here

[s0ftpixels]

lyanna and rhaegar, they can never make me like either of you

[lilacstarryskies]

im sorry but i can never be a lyanna stan guys.

just lemme explain.

obviously this is only if she willingly went w rhaegar

To begin with, the situation in its simplest form is that Rhaegar and Elia are married, amicable yet not in love, and Rhaegar runs off with Lyanna, causing chaos to ensue amongst the realm.

Even if no war occured and everything was fine, how can Lyanna try to justify running away with a married man, especially on the way to her brothers wedding which feels very selfish, even if Brandon didn’t want to marry Cat, like she still ruined their wedding day.

Not to mention, that running with Rhaegar meant that shes inserted herself into his marriage which is Elia’s place. How nonsensical it is to run away with a married man and somehow marry him!

There’s two routes people go to justify it, and I’ll explain why I think they suck:

1) E-R-L is a polygamous marriage: This is not appeasable to the realm at all! Nobody will accept that. The only reason Aegon+Rhaenys+Visenya were accepted was because they were conquering Westeros, and like you can’t say shit about the guys conquering you!! Also the Targs were on thin ice then, and Maegor also tried, and look what happened afterwards!

2) E-R was annulled and R-L are married: I don’t think this is reasonable at all. Considering that Rhaegar is only HEIR, just like Daemon, for example. Both wanted annulments and both need the permission from the King and/or High Septon, but also considering how the likes of Aegon IV couldn’t annul his own marriage, do you really think a measly heir could?! At least in Daemon’s situation, he had no children, but as Aegon IV and Rhaegar both had kids (Elia giving birth twice in 3 years) theres no grounds for annulment, and it would disinherit his children potentially anyway, or even start a second Dance. As soon as you have a second wife, whether polygamous, annulled or dead first wife, war will be almost inevitable between the potential heirs.

Also Ik its not possible.. but can we stop with the E/R/L shipping in a serious manner (crackship is fine but in canon is 😐)

Like genuinely thinking mid-20s Elia would want to romance a 14 year old girl, would be fine with her husband romancing said 14 year old, or join in together, is so crazy to me. Like, yes Rhaegar is very much in the pedo-realm but why would Elia also follow suit??!

And like not to be a huge Robert Baratheon stan here (i hate GOT era him) but you can’t deny that it is the rebellion+it’s repercussions on his life, that change him so heavily into this twisted abusive, pedo man. He was not a great guy pre-rebellion, he slept around, was loud and rowdy, but I feel like you can’t really say that Lyanna somehow predicted that he would be this abusive evil man, tbh it seems like she just disliked his promiscuity which is valid, but in doing the same to Elia, her point gets invalidated in my eyes.

Also next point is the age-situation.

Now i know that obviously in a real life situation, a 14 year old girl is at no blame for the groomer actions of the adult…. however just look at how GRRM perceives this. like not as an “oh medieval girls married at 14, its fine” because they were still mentally children… but i mean how GRRM perceives relationships akin to R-L and characters by Lyannas age in ASOIAF-verse.

Ok so GRRM thinks R-L is romantic, which means that the groomer undertones aren’t necessarily meant to be there, and its meant to be more of a Romeo-Juliet situation (which heavily fucked over Romeos girl Rosaline ie Elia). He also believes Dany-Drogo and San-San is healthy, so I don’t think age heavily affects characters romantic feeling and actions much then.

Then if we see character Lyanna’s age, they’re treated as adults (yes some do have child impulses but overall adults). You have Robb acting impulsively like a kid, but ultimately being treated as an adult and being killed. I feel like even though they have kid impulses, they’re meant to get adult consequences for their actions.

Also ages as a whole is fucked up in ASOIAF in comparison to real world, like you have baby Rickon Stark going feral in Skagos, you have 3 year old Joffrey Velaryon/Strong squaring up to Aemond, and you even have 11 year old Benjicott Blackwood being an absolute beast of a warrior when in the real-world, he’d be just a kid, useless in defence.

[martellspear]

now why is the twitter fandom so against the notion that elia was a loved princess?

[hieronymph]

According to rhaeger stans cheating isn't bad and lyanna desreved protect more then elia because she is the woman he loved and he didn't abandoned because he send them to dragonstone

The racism and misogyny of his stans

Lizard Prince and his Lizard fans 🙃

Don't you know?

Rhaegar has a free pass for pedophilia, racism, misogyny, rape, forced impregnation and making lives hell in general by actively doing it or being a bystander when he could have done more.

I think I am starting to see that it's just easier for some white people in every fandom to just completely not register the struggles or the trauma of a WoC or a PoC.

I saw it with Bonnie in TvD. I haven't even seen the whole series and I don't want to.

I have curated my fandom experience to just not interact with such delulu fans. Misogyny is bad enough in real life. I can't deal with that here as well in a place that's supposed to be an escape.

Fandom experience has become so much better since then. I suggest that to every Elia fan out there. It's hard being us.

[hchollym]

I would love to see your headcannon for Elia...

I just love her and there is so little about her....

I agree! Elia Martell is amazing & deserves so much more love! ❤️

I said in this post that:

She would have been one of the best queens in the history of Westeros. She was a very hands-on mom who didn't want her children raised by wet nurses. She used to sing to them every night. She had asthma and anemia. She was secretly disappointed that Rhaegar wasn't clever or witty, though she would never say so. She loved flowers. Some of her best memories are at the Water Gardens. She was bisexual. She loved doing charity work and helping the poor. She always wanted a puppy, but her father never allowed her to have one because of her health, so after she married Rhaegar, she got herself an adorable black puppy.

More Elia Martell Headcanons:

-She was very intelligent and loved learning new things through books and/or experiences.

-She studied healing and medicine, and she was able to mostly treat her own health problems (as much as she could with their society's knowledge) without the assistance of a maester.

-She loved music. Even when she wasn't able to dance, listening to Dornish music made her feel light and happy.

-She had a good sense of humor, and she also enjoyed watching plays.

-She felt very burdened by her role as Rhaegar's wife, because she was well aware of the prejudice aimed at her by the people of Westeros, and she felt pressured to constantly "represent" the Dornish people in a positive light, and it was exhausting.

-She loved all animals, and she once nursed a hurt bird back to health.

-One of her greatest fears as a mother was that Aegon would inherit the Targaryen madness.

-She was always drawn to the water and fascinated by the Rhoynish faith/gods (even though she worshipped the new gods).

-She would have been very close to Arianne if she had lived, and she would have been the perfect balance of the "fun aunt" and the role model that helped prepare Arianne to rule Dorne.

-She loved oranges and grapefruit (eating them & the smell).

Thanks for the ask! 😊

[gothgleek]

I like to imagine Elia has a “Revenge Dress’ moment after the Tourney at Harrenhal, coming dressed in a backless gown, save for the golden spine symbolizing how she will not be broken by her husband’s humiliation nor bow to his family.

(Inspo: the Roberto Cavalli dress Zendaya wore to the Spiderman premiere)

[moongirlgodness]

Ashara is Lemore that's it this is the post

[lilacstarryskies]

💥💥💥 forever seething at how laena velaryon & elia martell were treated by the narrative and fandom 💥💥💥

THEY ARE NOT AFTERTHOUGHTS‼️

THEY ARENT JUST “SECOND”CHOICES‼️

they were strong women not just to be defined by their relationship to men the fandom love!!

they loved their children…

they had siblings they cared for…

they arent just placeholders for your “true love” ship‼️