#honestly… it would probably work out better if I kept him being corlys’ nephew :////

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what is maeve’s relationship like with baela and rhaena? and by extension the blacks?

Ngl there is a slight disconnect there with the girls. Maeve was raised on driftmark solely, the twins spent much of their time sort of hopping between driftmark and Pentos. Maeve is sad for them that their mom died. Maeve and her brothers were not around for the fight - they were up with their mom. I actually think the twins would have got Maeve if she was readily available simply bc she’s older with an older dragon… interesting to think how differently that would have went down if Maeve (or even her brothers), who had a more objective view, was there. They are cordial/kind to each other and have no reason to not like each other… till they do :/

Vaemond and Alayne (Maeve’s mom) fall into an interesting space. Not as old as corlys and rhaenys, not as young as say laena and laenor were. Had kids later in life because they both had stuff going on. Alayne was a widow in her own right pre Vaemond. So that kind of adds to things.

Vaemond and Alayne arent big fan of daemon’s. There is clearly no love lost between vaemond and Rhaenyra/her kids. Alayne has bigger goals in mind and they just happen to align with house velaryon/helping the greens. She doesn’t have any ill will till it involves her kids and husband. Maeve in turn knows little about the blacks simply bc they aren’t around. She had strong (lol) ties to the Velaryon side of her family so naturally she’s like ?? When she sees Luke and Jace for the first time 😭. But her feelings obviously don’t intensify till she is thrown into it herself.

She is actually is quite close with her uncle, that’s why it is so shitty when things sort of blow up. I think she would find corlys inability to admit he may have mad a mistake putting all his eggs in one basket frustrating. I sort of touched on rhaenys here.