#house massey

[fkaluis]

princess rhaenyra targaryen & her ladies-in-waiting

left to right: margaret arryn, roslin strong, melina strong and elinda massey (3/4 names are made up sadly ;( damn u grrm)

[witchthewriter]

𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐲

ISFJ

Hufflepuff

Neutral Good/Chaotic Good

Virgo Sun, Cancer Moon, Virgo Rising

A noblewoman of House Massey and a lady-in-waiting (in the book) to Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons. Elinda was the youngest and the gentlest of Rhaenyra's ladies-in-waiting. In the show, she's Rhaenyra's lady's maid. But her personality is the same.

Even though Elinda was the youngest, she was the closest to Rhaenyra. In the series, you can see her in multiple scenes where Rhaenyra is particularly vulnerable. For example; when we first see her, she's the one to tell Rhaenyra that the Queen wishes to see the babe.

In the most recent episode (spoilers, sorry) - she's telling Rhaenyra she needs to sleep and that a maester's draft might help.

Elinda is a loyal, kind and devoted servant to the crown (Rhaenyra), and goes wherever Rhaenyra goes.

[ophelias-lamentation]

Rhae Targaryen Daughter of Maekar

I put her in Massey colors because one of my friends requested it, but we do know that she married and had children. We also know that she gave her brother Aegon V a love potion to try and make him fall in love with her

Sneak Peek of what’s next: Rhaelle Targaryen

[warp-speed]

A light hazing of the first princess of Westeros, Alyssa Velaryon, by the current Queen Visenya Targaryen.

I think this color process worked out really well. It's a lot quicker. I just need to study more lightning/shadow tutorials.

[annamarielabeau]

Team Black - House of the Dragon Season Two

Shout out to Elinda Massey, Maester Geradys, and Ser Erryk

[goodqueenaly]

Do you think that the Masseys might have fought for the Targaryens and that Justin Massey was Robert's squire as a hostage? Also, do you have any theories on why Justin is a Ser when he has lands lost? Like is he from a cadet branch, might the Masseys have been reduced in rank from lords, like the Heddles or the Conningtons (which I find less likely as they weren't betraying their liege), was he maybe an heir of a cousin but has been passed over for supporting Stannis?

It's certainly possible that the Masseys (assuming there were any men of fighting age, at least) fought for the Targaryens during Robert's Rebellion. The Masseys are a Crownlands family, after all, and because the rulers of this region are sworn directly to the Iron Throne, at least some of its families defended the Targaryens during the rebellion (like the Rykkers and Thornes). Too, the Massey family pre-Conquest had closer ties to the Targaryens than to Storm's End, and post-Conquest participated in at least the first century and a half of Targaryen court life: as masters of law under Aegon I and Jaehaerys I, as courtiers to Rhaenyra Targaryen, and as (albeit briefly, perhaps historically unofficially) at least one member of the Kingsguard (and, though hardly positively, as a champion of Maegor the Cruel during the latter's trial of seven). So I would say to the extent House Massey still existed as a lordly power at the time of Robert's Rebellion, it's not entirely unreasonable to think its lord, and perhaps other Massey men, fought for Aerys II and the Targaryen crown.

As far as Ser Justin specifically goes, though ... it's virtually impossible to speculate much at all about his background or dynastic standing. The entire backstory Stannis provides on Justin is that Massey "once served my brother Robert as squire and acquired his appetite for female flesh", without acknowledging why Massey had come to squire for Robert in the first place. Asha, for her part, merely notes that "Massey's own ancestral holdings, far to the south, were lost to him, so he must needs make an advantageous marriage or resign himself to being no more than a knight of the king's household". It is worth noting that Stannis' loyalists seem to have been subjected to a general attainder by the Baratheon-Lannister regime, given that following the Battle of the Blackwater, those men who had fought for Stannis but "begged forgiveness for their treasons and promised to serve loyally henceforth" were "welcomed ... back into the king's peace and restored ... to all their lands and rights". Therefore, we cannot tell whether Asha's allusion to "Massey's own ancestral holdings" being "lost to him" refers to this apparent general attainder or a prior loss of lands (after Robert's Rebellion or at another time).

Nor do I think we can really say whether Justin's knightly position and title reflect his feudal ranking or merely his chivalric training. As an aristocratically born squire to a king, and given his large size perhaps at least a competent fighter, Justin may have expected that he would be knighted by the king in due course following a period of squiring, and since we don't know who knighted Justin and when, it's entirely possible that Robert (or someone else) knighted Justin irrespective of whatever place in the Massey succession Justin held, simply because Justin had finished his period of squiring. No one in universe, certainly, suggests that the Masseys suffered the same fate as the Conningtons, to lose much of their lands and have the head of the House be reduced from a lord to a landed knight (and it would be quite strange to me if that were the case, given that the Masseys were nowhere near as personally identifiable with the Targaryen cause during Robert's Rebellion as the Conningtons were). Of course, even if Justin had already lost the right to his ancestral Massey holdings, such a lack of lordly inheritance would not prevent Justin from being knighted: Dontos Hollard, after all, was knighted after being spared as a child by the chivalric intervention of Barristan Selmy, while Jaime promises the officially attainted Lord Edmure that "[i]f [Roslin's] child is a boy, he will serve House Lannister as a page and a squire, and when he earns his knighthood we'll bestow some lands upon him". The most we can say is that at some point, someone who had themselves been knighted (who was likely but not necessarily the king) decided that Justin should be knighted.

(Even less, I think can be said about Wallace Massey, given that we know literally nothing other than that he is Denys Mallister's squire.)

[voidofcourse8]

ASOIAF Fic Idea #2: Self-Insert into Elinda Massey from TDOTD

Another Fanfic Idea I may or may not write since I have the issue of wanting to write and then my brain freezing after the first couple of chapters or in the middle of the planning process if I decide to actually plan it out!

Elinda of House Massey is a Lady-in-Waiting for Rhaenyra Targaryen from the time period of TDOTD.

She wakes up at 5 years old as Elinda.

She would have two brothers and three sisters.

She is the oldest of all her siblings.

Order of birth: Elinda, Sister 1, Sister 2, Brother 1, and twin siblings Sister 3 and Brother 3

Names will come later

Original Fate: Gouges out eyes and is put into Sea Dragon Tower for ransom

She was forced to watch Rhaenyra be burned and eaten by Sunfyre

Wiki Link Here

Little to no uplift, lots of scheming on how to survive the dance and come out with her eyes and not a captive.

If there is uplift, it would be to build a citadel of the arts where Stondance is located, sanitation improvements, and public education in cooperation with the faith.

Link for stonedance wiki here

Link for house massey wiki here

Citadel of the arts would be built in cooperation with the citadel and would include all sorts of arts along with the history and philosophy.

A finishing school for girls of lower birth would be started as well.

Whores would start attending the school to improve their skills and desirability.  Eventually they started attending the etiquette classes (as the fee was cheap) that were offered and became more like the Courtesans of Braavos than normal whores.

Elinda hears of this eventually and talks the girls into starting a Courtesans Guild, as she honestly can’t stop prostitution, but she can set up protections in the form of a guild.

As a joke it would be called “The Maidens Guild” by guards and others to make fun of it, but it turns out that the Courtesans Guild liked the name and it’s catchy, so it stuck.

Would include Elinda being one of few people taking Rhaenyra’s training to be heir seriously.

She becomes an unofficial advisor to Nyra.

She convinces Nyra that if her father won’t provide her the education needed, that she needs to seek it out herself, and helps her pick out people to teach her what she needs to know.

Also convinces Nyra to keep her Septa and Ladies-In-Waiting near her at all times, and explains to Nyra that she needs to be beyond reproach.  The ladies-in-waiting and septa will help guard her reputation.

Her septa is from flea bottom, and is well liked there.

Also she convinces her that Daemon is in fact, bad news..

Elinda comes with Nyra on her tour along with Nyra’s other ladies and helps her build alliances.

She can’t stop Aemma from dying or Vizzy T from marrying Alicent.  She tries and fails fantastically.

TDOTD is set up by the death of Prince Aemon, so there’s no stopping it when Rhaenyra is his only living kid with Aemma.

Jaehaerys never intends for Rhaenys to be the heir, it’s a source of strife between Aemon and his father

House worships the seven, descended from the first men; they have a Weirwood tree in their castle.  It’s become more of a garden and is at the heart of the castle.

House words “Ever Moving” from a tumblr that made them

Link here

Book/Show fusion for canon

She would survive the dance, her family does declare team black.

She will marry and her youngest brother survives the war, but not the oldest of her 2 brothers.

Haven’t decided who she would marry though.

[asongofgoldenfireandblackblood]

Lady of House Massey and Queen Rhaenyra’s youngest lady in waiting, Lara Pulver, she/her - @elindamassey

Welcome, Lady Elinda of House Massey We’re delighted to see she has arrived safely on her journey to King’s Landing. Around the court the six-and-twenty-year-old has been praised as loyal, kind, creative but some have whispered she is also loud, impolite and informal. Upon her arrival, it is clear that she is in support of the reign of Westeros' first Ruling-Queen and while the eyes of our court may be fixed on House Targaryen, Queen Rhaenyra, and the future of Westeros, her true allegiance will always be to House Massey, House Fell and The Royal Family.

Sofie, seven-and-thirty, she/her, GMT+1, Triggers: godmodding

[littlelord]

the minor characters lowkey took it this season.... gwayne, erryk & arryk, simon strong, oscar tully, tyland lannister, aegon's little frat friendgroup, maester orwyle, alys rivers, jasper wylde, larys, elinda massey, hugh hammer, rickard thorne, those 2 riverlands guys that had everyone fujoshing out i mean come ON.. let's hear it for the relatively normal people

[gameofthronesdaily]

THE PRINCESS AND THE QUEEN — 1.06

[mistressofthemacabresworld]

[imogenheaneys]

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: minimal layout + typography ALYS RIVERS, JEYNE ARRYN, & ELINDA MASSEY in House of the Dragon S2

[chelireads]

Hi. Can you draw Visenya with any of the Dragonstone stone? Maybe Elinda or Maester Gerardys or Ser Robert, or Ser Erryk? Any of them. Thanks.

Hi! I actually originally made a Visenya with Gerardy’s but ended up changing it so here is baby Visenya with Lady Elinda

[Visenya wanting braids like her mama, and the gentlest of Rhaenyra’s ladies is the most likely to indulge her]

[emynarnen]

"Elinda was the youngest and the gentlest of Rhaenyra's ladies-in-waiting."

[spiderliliez]

Baela snaps with a clever reply! BAELA VS. THE GEEZERS OF THE BLACK COUNCIL

[+] BAELA TARGARYEN [GIF Collection] ✨ [+] RHAENYS TARGARYEN [GIF Collection] ✨ [+] ..more on “House of the Dragon” 🔥

[jabberwocky1996]

Jordon Stevens as Elinda Massey in House of the Dragon

2x02 - "Rhaenyra the Cruel"