#man I thought I had to worry about how this next season would treat Aegon and alicent when I should’ve been worrying about Nettles evidentl

[malaiikka]

The news about Rhaena/Nettles legit managed to erode all the excitement I had about season two during the past few weeks in a matter of seconds.

Nettles is canonically the only non-Targ dragonrider, her story and arc is so important in challenging the beliefs about dragons and Targaryens and blood magic incest that exist in Westeros and among the Targaryens, why would the writers look at such a character and decided to mesh her storyline with Rhaena’s?? Are they just so uncreative they couldn’t figure out something for Rhaena to do in the Vale?? Or can this show only handle no more than three black characters, all the while they continue on cooking up new storylines and arcs for the white characters that don’t exist in the book??

[stillness138]

finally got the time to yap about hotd

so people are upset and disappointed with how chood and bleese were done. i will admit to having only read an extensive summary of the book, but i didn't mind it. i'll get back to it but first some general thoughts tm

but reading different reactions and comparing them to mine kinda made me think about how this show adapts the source material in general. i really, really like the show, despite it having specific points i definitely disliked or was also disappointed with (especially in episode 9). because i think it is overall a great adaptation. and not necessarily of the text of Fire&Blood - a text that is harder to adapt to begin with because, as people seem to keep forgetting, it is told exclusively by in-world characters with their individual biases - but rather of the themes, topics and messages this story (and really asoiaf as a whole) is trying to convey.

and people seem to have lost sight of those a little bit too. this thing is about an oppresive, unsustainable patriarchal system that harms just about everyone in and around it. the most drastic change - Alicent being Rhaenyra's childhood best friend - is an excellent piece of adaptation because it allows them to say so much about the topic at hand, more than George did. [a side point, but this fandom, just like the witcher one, should also take a step back from treating grrm as someone who can never err and whose word is holy. the man has a morbid interest in writing child torture porn to illustrate a point he already made 3 books ago. he aint special, and he sure isn't the best thing since sliced bread.] [but actually, on this topic, the choices of where to have nudity, sex, sexual abuse, violence and gore are also made with thought in this show and my god is that so refreshing to see, ESPECIALLY in this universe.]

i would've done the first episode of season 2 differently, would've only set b&ch up at the end and built tension through the whole of the next episode, but i obviously haven't seen the rest of the season. no one has save for unenthused journalists but throwing hands in the air about the lack of this or that is kinda silly. it's literally just the first episode. i'm ready to do the stanczyk and eat my words if i'm wrong, but stuff like pact of ice&fire, how alicole came to be, even more reactions to Luke's death, why the castle was completely devoid of guards,.. may yet be subjects in conversations later on.

the ep manages to have a unifying theme, that being parents' relationships to their (deceased) children, and it gets that across well enough. yes there should have been more of Aegon and Helaena's time with their kids but also, this would've never reached the level of setup the red wedding had. they're not really comparable.

another opinion i've seen and disagree with is that b&ch is portrayed as an oopsie. what do you think Daemon answered to "and if we don't find Aemond?" and why do you think "does she look like a son to you" is said? they knew what they were doing. if anything, their surprise is to how easy it was to get to Helaena. and that is set up too. if Aegon took her seriously, like, ever (this is something he exhibits all the way back in the Driftmark episode), maybe there would be at least some guards. she foresaw the danger and he could've attempted doing something about it or at the very least ease his sister/wife's worries, but he was too busy using Jaehaerys to humiliate Tyland Lannister. [truly the dad to end all dads in this series.] i want to see Aegon wracked with guilt over it, because he definitely directly underestimated the situation.

he is also left with either his wild card brother or his daughter to name the new heir. where have we seen that before. and the not so secret third option is to put Helaena through another pregnancy to hopefully get a son out of it. that's what Maelor would be forced to live with. knowing that he only exists because of a terrible tragedy and the system's requirements for a suitable heir.

i do agree that the show leans towards Rhaenyra's team quite a bit, but i don't think they're being too sanitized. again i'm ready to be the fool, but Daemon has 9 more episodes to openly admit to ordering Jaehaerys's murder.

if the bag was fumbled on anything, it was delivery, but not adaptation itself. this isn't the show of women screaming in horror as men threaten to assault their six year old children. it is a show about a system that manifests as an abuse cycle and ends in tragedy one way or another, and that can be conveyed in a number of ways.

[targaryenparty]

Sansa vs Daenerys?

I find it interesting that so many Sansa fans are the ones believing the idea she’ll hate Daenerys and will go against her throughout season 8. That’s some serious lack of understanding what her entire arc through season 7 was. Do I believe Dany and Sansa will get along from the get go and become best friends who braid each other’s hair? Hell no. There’s going to have some tension in the beginning, definitely.

But to me, one thing is clear about Sansa in season 8: she’ll be the one suggesting a marriage between Jon and Daenerys.

In season 7, Sansa’s arc started with a conflict between her and Jon. They clearly had different visions when it comes to enemies: Jon wanted to forgive the sons of his traitors because the Great War is coming, but Sansa wanted to punish them because for her, nothing is more important than politics. Right after this scene, they both discussed Cersei.

Sansa: You’re the military man, but I know her. If you’re her enemy, she’ll never stop until she has destroyed you. Everyone who has ever crossed her, she has found a way to murder.

So it’s clear that Jon’s arc is about the Great War, and his true enemy is the Night King. Sansa’s arc is about politics, her true enemy is Cersei.

Despite their differences and the fact that both feel they undermine one another, she still believes he’s a good ruler.

Sansa: You’re good at this, you know.

Jon: At what?

Sansa: Ruling.

Jon: no…

Sansa: You are! You are!

But it’s interesting that the comparation is done with Joffrey, the previous King of Westeros. She thinks Jon would be way better than Joffrey, but part of her still believes that Winterfell is hers, and she would do a better job taking care of the North. 

And that conflict in her is constantly brought up by Littlefinger and Arya throughout the season.

Littlefinger: what about happy? Why aren’t you happy? What do you want that you do not have?

Jon decides to meet Daenerys, and announces he’s leaving the North in Sansa’s hands. You can see in her expression (brilliant acting by Sophie) that she’s pleased with this, and even Brienne smiles sweetly after hearing it. 

An important thing to be noticed in this scene is the fact that Sansa smiles subtly when Jon announces that Daenerys intends taking the throne from Cersei. So even though Daenerys is a Targaryen, she stills seems pleased by the idea of Dany taking down Cersei. Again, Cersei is set up as her true enemy.

Jon [about Daenerys]: she intends to take the Iron Throne from Cersei Lannister…

Sansa:

As Sansa starts ruling Winterfell, Littlefinger points out that it suits her (it’s clear he tries his best to influence her into taking the North from Jon during the whole season). So then we have an important dialogue between them:

Littlefinger: I know Cersei better than anyone here. If you turn your back on her…

Sansa: you don’t know Cersei better than anyone here

Littlefinger: I only meant to say…

Sansa: that the woman who murdered my mother, father and brother is dangerous? Thank you for your wise council.

Littlefinger: well, two things will happen: either the dead will defeat the living in which case all our troubles come to an end or… life will win out. And what then?

Littlefinger: Fight every battle, everywhere. In your mind, always.

So again (and I will repeat this as many time as I need): Cersei is the enemy she should be paying attention. She needs to foresee every battle and plan for the future, even if the dead are about to come.

As the Sansa vs Arya plot starts, we have an important dialogue between them:

Sansa: Glover has five hundred men, Royce has two thousand. Offend them, and Jon loses his army. (…) I’m sure cutting off heads is very satisfying, but that is not the way you get people working together.

Sansa knows that Jon needs armies to fight against the dead. But she’s also thinking about Cersei. Jon (and the North) needs political and military support to fight her in the future. Allies are important, and she can’t offend them or go against them if she’ll need their help in the future. That a great foreshadowing to how she’ll chose to treat Daenerys in Winterfell. It’s ridiculous that some people in this fandom believe she’ll be rude with Dany and “put Daenerys in her place”. Fight every battle. Sansa knows she’ll need her. 

Arya notices that Sansa likes the position of Lady of Winterfell. 

Arya: you’re thinking it right now. You don’t want to be, but the thoughts won’t go away.

Sansa doesn’t deny this. So it’s clear that she, now more than ever, thinks she’s capable of guarding the North and would like to do that, but she’s conflicted because Jon is a good ruler too and she trusts him (despite the fact that he still underestimates her). As she talks to Littlefinger, we have another important line that foreshadows her position in the future:

Sansa [about the northern lords]: Yes, they turned their backs on Jon when it was time to retake Winterfell, then they named him their king, and now they want to turn their backs at him again. How far would you trust men like that?

She knows the northern lords are fickle. Fight every battle. What happens if some of them decide to abandon them again in the future? 

As Sansa and Brienne talk about the Dragonpit meeting, the writers again focus on her despise for Cersei: 

I’ll not set foot in King’s Landing while Cersei Lannister is queen.

I’ll remain in the North. I have work to do here.

She knew Daenerys would probably go too, the queen that is supposedly holding her brother south. She knew Daenerys had dragons, but again, it was Cersei she was worried about. This last line can also be a great foreshadowing to Sansa’s endgame: she’ll remain in the North and be the lady she’s destined to be (is also good to remember how much the direwolves’s names indicate the future of their owners).

As she learns that Jon bent the knee, Littlefinger talks about a marriage between Jon and Daenerys:

An alliance makes sense. Together they would be difficult to defeat. He was named King in the North… He can be unnamed.

What is he suggesting? For Sansa, the best way to get out of Jon’s shadow (when it comes to ruling Winterfell) is for him to marry Daenerys and then have his title of King in the North be taken away. He would become the Queen’s consort, and would have to live with her, have children with her. And that would certainly be outside of Winterfell. How could he be Daenerys’s Warden of the North not living in the North? The title would have to go to somebody else. Fight every battle, everywhere. In your mind, always. He gives her another advice:

Littlefinger [about Arya]: What is the worst thing she could want?

Season 7 established two sides of Sansa: the one who finally learned the game and eliminated one of the biggest schemers in the series, and the one that does a good job guarding the North and would like to be in that position. As she points out herself:

I’m a slow learner, it’s true. But I learn. Thank you for your many lessons, Lord Baelish. I’ll never forget them.

So taking all this that into acount, how will Sansa react to Daenerys and her people next season? She spent season 7 learning with Littlefinger and listening to what he had to say. It’s his voice which will eco in her mind when she takes decisions and chooses a side. 

Fight every battle, everywhere. Can Sansa defeat Cersei alone, with only the northern lords and the Vale’s support? No. Can she defeat Daenerys alone, with only the northern lords and the Vale’s support? No. Can the North defeat the dead alone, without Daenerys’s help? No. 

What is the worst thing she could want? Cersei: to murder Sansa, Jon, Arya and Bran. To wipe out the Stark blood out of pure spite and take the North again.

What is the worst thing she could want? Daenerys: to make them bend and to threaten them with her dragons and armies, like Aegon once did. 

Offend them, and Jon loses his army. That is not the way you get people working together. If she offends Daenerys, they can loose her help, and they all need to work together to defeat the dead AND Cersei. Daenerys should be treated nicely enough and maybe even befriended (like Littlefinger does to his possible enemies).

In season 8, when she receives Daenerys in her home, all these thoughts will certainly go through her mind. But things will be easier than she predicted: the most powerful woman in the world is in love with her brother and would do anything for him (and his family). This woman’s ultimate goal is to eliminate the NK and then end Cersei’s reign. Not only that, if this woman marries her brother, he’ll have to go south with her, and the North will be Sansa’s. If Daenerys marries her brother, she becomes, somehow, part of the family and Sansa will have a powerful influence on her, and can therefore secure the North’s best interests. Even if one of Jon or Dany dies in the Great War, being married is the best case scenario for Sansa. If Jon dies as Daenerys's husband, Dany will forever have a bond/connection with the North and Jon's family. If Daenerys dies in the Great War as Jon's wife, he'll inherit everything that belonged to her, and the North certainly becomes stronger 

So then Jon’s true identity is revealed. Fight every battle, everywhere. What is the worst thing that could happen? Two Targaryens, two different claims. Jon vs Daenerys. Separated, they could start a civil war. Could Westeros survive the Great War, the war against Cersei AND a civil war? If Jon marries a northern lady, he’ll have Targaryen/northern babies. If Daenerys marries another lord, she’ll have Targaryen babies (she’s proud and powerful enough to pass her name to her children). Two branches of Targaryen family with their own claims = another Blackfyre type of rebellion. With this conflict, the North is in danger again. 

So what would Sansa want?

1. To go against Daenerys, treat her badly and then support Jon’s claim. With that, she looses Daenerys’s help to fight the Night King and Cersei. Now, a broken-hearted queen with dragons is the north’s enemy, and the North alone have 3 threats. But like pointed out by Sansa herself, the northern lords are fickle and she doesn’t fully trust them, so she’s left with a tiny army and she doesn’t even fully trust them. Without Jon, Daenerys will marry a man Sansa doesn’t know, and the North will have again another enemy.

or

2. Take advantage of the fact that Daenerys and Jon are in love and suggest a marriage to join their claims (I have no idea how Jon would react to this). The queen with dragons and 100k dothrakis is now her friend, ‘part of the family’, and married to Sansa’s brother/cousin (a man she trusts, acknowledges is good at ruling and who also happens to be half Stark). No matter how crazy this queen turns out to be, she’s married to Jon, and he’ll make sure she has the North’s best interest. With this marriage, Sansa has help to defeat Cersei, and if so, Jon becomes King, which means he has to move south, leaving the seat of Wardeness of the North free for her. In the future, Sansa could work her way to secure the North’s independence (if that’s still on their minds after the horrors of these wars). 

To me, it’s quite clear. If she’s a fool like her father and Robb, she’ll choose 1. If she’s smart and truly learned with Littlefinger, she’ll choose 2.

Sansa’s storyline in season 8 is clear: with Littlefinger out of the game, she’ll fill his position as the “player”. Pushing for a Jon/Dany marriage is also a great fuel for conflict with Tyrion. Out of all the characters part of the Winterfell plot next season, Sansa, Tyrion and Varys are the political ones. It’s clear at this point (for reasons that aren’t still clear to us) that Tyrion wouldn’t like a marriage between Jon and Dany, otherwise he would have suggested it already. It would be great to see Tyrion and Sansa interacting with a material richer than “we used to be married, remember?”, so seeing her going politically head to head with him would be an amazing character development. Not only that, it would be incredible to see a victim of so many arranged marriages being the one who is suggesting one to benefit her and her people.

[sultryfandoms]

Prologue: "Be Strong"

||Sofia||

"I've brought you some wildflowers and some northern pudding today my love" I smiled softly as I sat down next to my husband's grave, placing the wildflowers on top of it

"It has been a year since you've been taken from me Jaime" I began, caressing the flowers he would give to me every time he'd go to Winterfell and came back to our previous home, Casterly Rock

"Many things had changed... Sansa being Queen of the North... Jon- Aegon being King of The Six Kingdoms... Bran being Hand of The Queen... The Dragon Queen killed by Wildlings... Cersei escaping Aegon and his men for her crimes against the crown... Arya travelling to the west of Westeros... Myself being Sansa's chosen heir to Winterfell even though I am very much older than her" I laughed and shook my head

"I'm still not used to not having you by my side" I took a shaky breath, tearing up "People always tell me to move on from you, remarry and find a suitable lord my age and bear another child" I caressed my stomach, looking up at the sky

"But I can never replace you and our daughter" I sobbed, hugging my knees together "I fake a smile every time they ask me if I'm alright.... Even though deep down I am still hurting because of your death" I sniffled, wiping my tears

"Sebastian was arrested by the Kingsguard and was sentenced to death by Aegon... I-I should be happy to have found justice.... B-but why do I still feel empty and sad inside?" I asked no one as tears kept falling down my face and I curled up and hugged my knees once more

|*|

"I thought we'd find you here" my sister's voice was heard as I look up to see her and my direwolf, Duchess. She smiled at me as Duchess laid near Jaime's grave with a sad whine, I stroked her fur softly

"It's been a year since his death and I still miss him" I sighed and wiped my tears with my dress sleeve

"Jaime was a good man Sofia" she says with a small smile "But you have to move on, he would've wanted you to" she said in all seriousness

"Let me grieve Sansa!" I stood up angrily, my eyes welling up with tears once again "You won't understand because you actually wanted Ramsay dead and you never really loved him!" I spat, mentioning my sister's fallen husband

"You're right... I will never understand your pain..." she trailed "But if Jaime was still alive he would've been unhappy on how you treat yourself!" she exclaims "You barely sleep, you barely eat and the only time you leave the castle is when you visit Jaime's grave" she sighs "Bran told me to let you grieve but I can't help but worry about you" she caressed my cheeks and wiped my tears "I don't want to lose you too" she tears up

My face softens as I pulled her into a tight hug "I'm sorry for worrying you" I kissed her forehead "I just..." she cuts me off

"No... I'm sorry that I'm forcing you to move on so quick... But if anything happens to me, you'll be queen of the north and you have to be strong for our people" she says, smiling softly

"I will be... And I will never let anything or anyone harm you Sansa, I would protect you with my life... I swear it to the old gods and new" I caressed her cheeks as Duchess nuzzles her nose on my leg

The pack stays strong

A/N: Hello my lovelies and welcome to the prologue! This is just a bit of a backstory on Sofia's side of the world. I altered the ending of the final season. (well altered the one sitting on the iron throne) 😌

The main character here is the same main character of my Jaime Lannister Story on Wattpad, The Lion and His Wolf buuut this is a mere alternate universe for that book since its not done yet because I revised it 🙈😅

First official chapter will be published here soon! 😽

-Sofia 💜

PS: The gif I placed was a little modern buuuutttt it kinda fits the vibe since Sofia is in her husband's resting place 🙈

[lawonderlandwriter]

Jon & Daenerys Facfic - Family Reveals

Okay so I’ve never written GoT fanfic before and I’m not sure I’ve used the right tags or anything or if there’s some sort of protocol for writing it. But I’ve been obsessed with Jonerys since season 7 started and writing this made me happy. So if anyone likes, you’re welcome to read.

This is an imagined scene from season 8 based on the season 7 spoilers. So if you haven’t read the spoilers, don’t read this. Hope people enjoy!

Sam hadn’t had a moment alone with the King in the North since his return to Winterfell several days ago. But this news couldn’t wait any longer. He and Bran decided this information needed to be delivered together, so they asked for a private audience with their King.

“I was told you wanted to see me,” Jon spoke, entering the Winterfell library. Bran and Sam exchanged a look that could only communicate to Jon that whatever they had to tell him, it was serious.

“You might want to sit down, Your Grace.” Jon stared at Sam for a moment, contemplating the term your grace. Even as Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, his best friend had never addressed him so formally. Jon took his advice and sat down.

“What is it?” he asked carefully. Had they found out some new piece of information about the Night’s King? A way to defeat the dead?

“Jon.” It was Bran who spoke this time. Jon looked at him and was suddenly on edge. It was as if Bran was trying to communicate with his eyes to his older half brother. Trying to tell him all he needed to know. Trying to ask him the same thing Jon had wanted to ask of Daenerys the first time they met. Please believe me.

“You know,” Sam started slowly, “how Bran has visions now.”

“Yes…”

“The things Bran can see…they’re not just things that are happening. They’re things that have happened in the past.” Jon inhaled sharply, involuntarily. Sam paused.

“I wouldn’t have believed him when he told me. If it hadn’t been for something Gilly found in the old records at the Citadel, I would have thought it was nonsense.” Sam paused again and turned to retrieve a piece of parchment from the desk behind him. It was an old Raven’s scroll. Probably twenty years old by the look of it. The edges were brown and worn with time. The writing faint, but readable. Sam handed it to Jon without another word.

Jon read. The marriage of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell has been annulled. Prince Rhaegar has married Lady Lyanna Stark and the two have taken up residence at the Tower of Joy.

“My aunt Lyanna…” Jon stammered. All these years he’d heard tales of Rhaegar Targaryen, Daenerys’s brother. How he’d been an evil, vile man. How he had kidnapped his aunt Lyanna and raped her. Holding her prisoner as Robert waged war to get her back.

“So Rhaegar forced her to marry him?” Jon asked uncertain. But even as he said it, he knew it was wrong. He felt it.

“No,” Bran answered quietly. “I saw them run away together. I saw their wedding. Lyanna was in love with him too.”

Jon wasn’t sure why but he felt tears sting his eyes. All this time. The reign of King Robert, his father’s best friend, had rested on a lie. The rebellion Robert started to kill Rhaegar and get Lyanna back…it was all for nothing. Even if Robert had gotten to Lyanna before she died of fever, she wouldn’t have been his anyway.

“I wonder if father knew,” Jon said quietly, almost to himself. Sam stole a glance at Bran then, worry etched into his plump face.

“There’s something else Bran has seen as well.” Jon looked up at his little brother, wondering what other lies he may have grown up believing.

“Lyanna didn’t die of a fever, Jon.” At this, Jon’s heart beat unnaturally hard. A million scenarios were flying through his mind. Had Robert actually found Lyanna? Had he known she loved Rhaegar instead? Had he killed her himself? And if he had, did his father, the honorable Eddard Stark, cover it all up?

“She died giving birth.” Jon froze. His brain was taking an achingly long time to catch up with everything, but his body wasn’t. His skin erupted in cold sweat, his breaths coming faster and faster as his chest heaved underneath his leathers, his heart slamming into the walls of his chest. What did Bran mean?

“Father was there with her when she died. She made him promise.”

“Promise what?” Jon asked, not even realizing the words were tumbling out of his mouth as he spoke.

“Promise to keep you safe,” Bran said simply.

Jon stood up so fast he knocked his chair backward in his haste. He turned around wildly, looking for something that wasn’t there. Looking for his father. This couldn’t be. Jon was the bastard of Lord Eddard Stark, Warden of the North. He was a Snow. He would always be a Snow.

“Don’t you know what this means?” Sam asked, his voice a little lighter. Jon couldn’t look at either of them so he walked to the fireplace and stared hard into the flames. “You’re not a bastard, Jon. You are the true born son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. The Rightful King of the Seven Kingdoms.”

“No.” Jon got out. He didn’t even want to be King in the North. He wasn’t meant to rule anything, let alone the entire realm. Daenerys was the Rightful Queen. And after they defeat the Night King and the army of the dead, that’s exactly what she’d do.

“Your mother named you before she died,” Bran spoke again. At this, Jon turned around. He was Jon Snow. He had always been Jon Snow. Jon Targaryen just didn’t sound right. It didn’t fit.

“Father called you Jon to protect you from Robert. But your real name, the name Lyanna gave you, is Aegon. Aegon Targaryen.”

“It wouldn’t have worked, you see,” Sam continued while Jon’s mind reeled. “His plan to raise you as his bastard, to keep you safe from Robert. It wouldn’t have worked if he called you by your true name. Robert wanted all the Targaryen’s ended. He wouldn’t have been pleased if his best friend had named his bastard son after one of them.”

Jon didn’t feel his knees buckle but he felt them hit the hard wooden floor. His hands flew out in front of him to steady his body and prevent him from falling face first into the flames. Aegon Targaryen. The son of Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. None of it made sense. Daenerys was the last Targaryen. She had told him so the first time they had ever met. Daenerys. Rhaegar’s little sister who was born well after her brother had died. Daenerys, the rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Daenerys, Dany, the woman he had made love to weeks before on the ship from Dragonstone.

“Daenerys,” Jon whispered gazing into the flames. The tears streamed hot down his face but the longer he stared into the fire, the more his heart steadied. Tiny moments flashed before his eyes. The day on Dragonstone when he had laid his eyes on his first dragon. Walking into the audience chamber in the castle and looking upon Queen Daenerys. Dany returning from defeating the Lannister forces and Drogon letting him touch him. His father, Ned, telling him as they departed for their separate journeys, the last time he ever laid eyes on his face, that when they met again, Ned would tell Jon all about his mother. A meeting that never happened. Catelyn Stark hating him growing up. The whispers around the castle that, whoever Jon’s mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely to keep him around and raise him with his true born children. It was true.

“Jon, there’s one last thing,” Bran’s voice broke through Jon’s memories and he turned to see Sam giving Bran a quizative look. What more could they possibly have to tell him?

Jon’s steps were determined as he headed for the Lord’s chamber. Crossing the Winterfell grounds he wondered briefly where Ghost was but then the answer came to him, it was so obvious. He’d be with her.

“Your Grace, Queen Daenerys has asked for privacy for the moment. Maester Wolkken is with her now.” But Jon knew that wasn’t necessary.

Jon pushed past the guards who merely gave him stern looks, but did not dare try to stop their King. He opened the door to Daenerys’s room and was brought back to the night on the ship. The night it had happened.

Dany met his gaze from the center of the bed, looking small amongst the heavy furs and the direwolf. Ghost lifted his head from her belly and turned apprehensively to Jon, not sure whether to greet him or treat him as a threat. Maester Wolkken stood in the corner of the room collecting various objects and putting them back in his pockets. He stopped at the sight of Jon.

“It’s true.” He said, walking to Daenerys who was eyeing him nervously.

“Jon, what do you m–”

He grabbed her face as he sank heavily onto the bed and kissed her as he had never done before. She wrapped her arms around him as the truth passed between them and he could feel the tears leaking from her eyes onto his face.

He broke away from her but only just. Their foreheads were still touching. “I thought you said it was impossible?” he spoke quietly, laying a hand on her stomach which was still warm from Ghost’s weight.

“I thought it was,” Dany whispered back. “After Rhego I thought…” Jon kissed her again, hearing the sadness in her voice at the mention of her son, willing his kiss to take that sadness away from her.

“You make impossible things happen,” he smiled. Dany looked up into his eyes and knew that wasn’t quite right.

“No. I think you did.” She covered his hand on her stomach with her own and kissed his cheek lightly.

Jon grew up believing he was the bastard son of Eddard Stark and a nameless woman he would never know. He grew up believing he would never marry and never father children so he wouldn’t have to watch them grow up and be called Snow. He joined the Night’s Watch to ensure such a fate would never befall him. Of course when he was younger he dreamed of being a true born son. He dreamed of being a knight, a prince, riding dragons and rescuing princesses, of being a leader and a hero. But it was all fantasy, or so he thought.

“And you,” Jon said turning to Ghost. The direwolf still sat on the bed directly next to Daenerys, guarding her. “You knew the whole time.” Jon reached over and roughed up his fur, scratching him behind his ears and the direwolf relaxed entirely, knowing his master’s intentions were pure.

“He did, didn’t he?” Dany said, her voice full of wonder. She reached over and pet him too, absentmindedly. “Jon, how did you know? Before you walked in, you knew, already, what I was still struggling to comprehend. How did you know?”

Jon turned and looked about the room. Maester Wolkken had quietly shown himself out some time ago. They were alone. Still, he did not want to be disturbed telling her this. He got up, crossed to the door and bolted it shut for good measure.

“I have something to tell you.”

Daenerys hadn’t spoken for several minutes. Jon allowed her the silence to absorb the information he was still processing himself. Was she angry with him? Did she think he’d want the Iron Throne for himself once they defeated the Night’s King? Did she even believe him at all? Jon barely believed it himself. He had learned of two new families in a single day. It sounded crazy. It sounded impossible.

“I thought for years, after Viserys died, that I was the last Targaryen.” Jon tensed. He wasn’t sure where she was going with this but he knew, given their new and unexpected circumstances, that he had to reassure her.

“You are my Queen, Daenerys. After we defeat the Night’s King, you are the one who will sit on the Iron Throne. And my only wish is to serve you faithfully. And protect you.” Jon didn’t realize how hard he was breathing until he stopped talking. Please believe me, he thought.

“I thought I was the last Targaryen,” she said again. Then her eyes finally met his. She grabbed his hand and pulled it back down to her stomach where their child was quietly growing. “Now there are three of us.”

She rested her head on his chest and settled into him, the stresses of the last few weeks taking their toll. Jon sighed and climbed onto the bed fully clothed, as the last light of the day disappeared. They hadn’t been together since arriving at Winterfell. Jon slept apart from her so as not to arouse suspicion. But tonight, he no longer cared. If only for tonight, he knew he needed to be with his family.

[darylandbethfanforever9]

That’s disturbing as hell and ironic, since that would mean Rhaenyra is genuinely a bastard with no legitimate claim to the iron throne. Meaning, the blacks are in the wrong.

The news about Rhaena/Nettles legit managed to erode all the excitement I had about season two during the past few weeks in a matter of seconds.

Nettles is canonically the only non-Targ dragonrider, her story and arc is so important in challenging the beliefs about dragons and Targaryens and blood magic incest that exist in Westeros and among the Targaryens, why would the writers look at such a character and decided to mesh her storyline with Rhaena’s?? Are they just so uncreative they couldn’t figure out something for Rhaena to do in the Vale?? Or can this show only handle no more than three black characters, all the while they continue on cooking up new storylines and arcs for the white characters that don’t exist in the book??