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mmelolabelle · 8 months ago

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I sometimes like to fantasize about how much Corlys Velaryon would have fucked shit up if Alicent had actually managed to injure Luke in 1x07.

That man had a fleet, access to two full grown dragons with battle experience, money to burn and a pre-existing grudge against Viserys and the Hightowers. He wanted that smoke since the Great Council. And he clearly loved Luke.

It would have gotten very messy, very quickly.

#like to be fair to viserys there is an actual political reason why he left luke alone #because luke wasn’t just his grandson but an heir to driftmark #anything happening to him would have been a political clusterfuck of epic proportions #like viserys and his small council spend half of season one trying to keep corlys on side #FOR GOOD REASON #if the choice was ‘open conflict with the velaryons’ vs ‘sending alicent to the silent sisters and getting rid of otto’#viserys might go for the latter #especially because rhaenyra his chosen heir would likely side with the velaryons #which would make viserys look weaker than he already does #and there’s no garantee that daemon would side with viserys if he backed the hightowers #especially if it put him at odds with rhaenyra #it actually could have averted the Dance #corlys velaryon #lucerys velaryon #viserys targaryen #viserys i #house velaryon

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