#rhaenyra Targaryen

[visenyatargaryenapologist]

oh my god did you just stab me?

:)

[the-highgaryen-council]

there's absolutely no reason for their first scene to look like this unless they are...you know...

[immi-immi]

I am team black for the right of women to rule. I am team black for Rhaenyra, the rightful Queen. I am team black for Rhaenys, the Queen Who Never Was. I am team back for Daenerys, whom Jaehaerys refused to name his heir. I am team black for Aerea, whose claim was greater than Jaehaerys'. I am team black for Rhaena, whose right was taken by Aegon and Maegor. I am team black for the Amethyst Empress, usurped by the Bloodstone Emperor. I am team black for the women surpassed in favour of men.

[sugurugetos]

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

#she’s like stannis where they both dislike rhaenyra in spite of being the rhaenyra of their own situation #cersei read fire and blood as a child and kinned daemon (via @visenyaism)

#any question that starts with “would cersei like [any woman]?” the answer is almost always no (via @stars-and-soda)

do you think cersei would like book rhaenyra?? like if they met

No. Cersei is a misogynist who does not like women and usually thinks that all women both deserve and secretly want their own oppression except for her. She’s spitting out an insane fire and blood book report that’s just like “actually Rhaenyra should have used MORE force to subjugate the idiot peasants of King’s Landing and also killed her brother at birth and also not crowned her stupid bastards princes ever.”Like I think she genuinely would not notice any of their commonalities and actually resent Rhaenyra more over the traits they have in common. 

Cersei is also a fascist so losing the war is a big thumbs down plus obviously getting murdered by her treacherous little brother who arguably has been destined to usurp and threaten her since his birth would be an unacceptable mark against Rhaenyra in Cersei’s mind. To say nothing of the complicated feelings resulting from Rhaenyra having a father who actually loved her and trusted her with power.

[knightofthenewrepublic]

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism]

EMMA D'ARCY as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN House of the Dragon (2022–) | Season 2

[daenerys-apolog1st]

Crazy how people ignore literally everything about the Dance to support bullshit that they just made up in their heads to justify backing the misogynist bootlicker side of the war.

Rhaenyra was supported by the vast majority of the houses, and that's just plain fact. How about we list them all:

House Velaryon, House Celtigar, House Staunton, House Massey, House Bar Emmon, House Darklyn, House Stark, House Tully, House Frey, House Hayford, House Harte, House Byrch, House Dustin, House Manderly, House Darry, House Blackwood, House Beesbury, House Caswell, House Costayne, House Borrell, House Buckerler, House Fell, House Arryn, House Corbray, House Cerwyn, House Hornwood, House Charlton, House Mallister, House Piper, House Roote, House Footly, House Vance of Wayfarer's Rest, House Smallwood, House Wode, House Burley, House Grimm, House Merryweather, House Mullendore, House Oakheart, House Rowan, House Royce, House Sunderland, and House Tarly.

House Yronwood- (the most powerful house in Dorne, aside from the Martells) -also supported Rhaenyra, even though the Martells remained neutral.

THAT'S 44 HOUSES!!!

Even House Bracken defected to the Blacks, even after first supporting the Greens---as did the City Watch of King's Landing.

And do you know how rare and insane it is for the Brackens and the Blackwoods to be on the same side? Like, if that tells you anything about who had the most support during the Dance, it definitely wasn't Aegon.

So, with a total of 45 houses that supported Rhaenyra and her claim, let's see how many supported Aegon:

House Hightower, House Cole, House Lannister, House Wylde, House Strong, House Peake, House Fossoway, House Roxton, House Norcross, House Ambrose, House Butterwell, House Rosby, House Stokeworth, House Mooton, House Lefford, House Swyft, House Reyne, House Tarbeck, House Crakehall, House Redwyne, House Baratheon, House Swann, House Vance of Atranta, House Graceford, House Risley, and House Leygood.

26 houses supported Aegon...and, not for nothing, but 4 of those houses originally supported Rhaenyra and only defected to the Greens because they were captured and told that they had to either swear fealty to Aegon II or die---meanwhile the Brackens defected to the Blacks of their own volition.

Even so, however, with Aegon's 26 houses, that still leaves Rhaenyra with 19 HOUSES MORE THAN AEGON! 45 houses v. 26! And that's at the END of the Dance after Aegon forced 4 houses to join his side, in the BEGINNING---putting those 4 houses on Rhaenyra's side and House Bracken on Aegon's side---Rhaenyra had 26 MORE HOUSES ON HER SIDE! 48 houses v. 23!

To really nail the point home:

In the beginning, Rhaenyra had 25 MORE houses on her side than Aegon did, which is more houses than Aegon had IN TOTAL!

Either way you slice it, beginning or end, Rhaenyra had the support of the vast majority of the houses.

As for the smallfolk not liking her, that's something that the show completely made up.

Firstly, it's clear that that play was less a vote of whether they liked Rhaenyra or not and more of a showcase of that societal misogyny TG is such a big fan of. They weren't making fun of Rhaenyra because they didn't like her, they were making fun of her because she's a WOMAN! If she were a man, the play wouldn't exist because they'd have no reason to make fun of her because her (him, in this case) being named heir would fall into their society's expectations.

Secondly, in the book the smallfolk do actually support her claim---she wasn't called "The Realm's Delight" for nothing. At Aegon II's coronation, no one cheered and people were asking for Rhaenyra; when Rhaenyra took over King's Landing, people cheered and celebrated; the only reason the smallfolk revolted against her was because the Greens raided the treasury and so Rhaenyra had to raise taxes to try and replenish what they stole; and are y'all seriously forgetting this passage in the book:

"When Prince Daemon sent forth his call to arms, they rose up all along the rivers, knights and men-at-arms and humble peasants who yet remembered the Realm's Delight, so beloved of her father, and the way she smiled and charmed them as she made her progress through the riverlands in her youth. Hundreds and then thousands buckled on their sword-belts and donned their mail, or grabbed a pitchfork or a hoe and a crude wooden shield, and began to make their way to Harrenhal to fight for Viserys's little girl.”

Rhaenyra was beloved by the smallfolk---despite what TG would have you believe---and they DID support her, alongside the majority of the houses. She had the stronger claim, the majority of the houses, the love of the smallfolk, the better cause, and her son sat on the throne at the end of it all---because the houses that supported her were truly LOYAL to her, something that can't be said for Aegon's supporters considering that he was literally poisoned by his own men.

Team Green trying to pretend that she wasn't loved and supported is just a deathly case of copium because they can't handle the fact that no one liked their rapist loser king 🤷‍♀️

[kiraliaart]

Rhaenyra and Daemon for @fkaluis dtiys!

[strawberrybyers]

i miss the lesbians (alicent and rhaenyra i’m looking at you)

[montdaphne]

I don’t understand why people are making Rhaenyra the second choice when the reality is, it was Laena who was the second choice.

People love to forget that Daemon wanted to marry Rhaenyra from the beginning but stupid Viserys denied him and was banished. Daemon would’ve never even looked at Laena if he was allowed to marry Rhaenyra.

Daemon loved Laena? That is incredibly easy to prove wrong. Daemon literally got with Rhaenyra the moment Laena dropped dead or perhaps even before that. Daemon also didn’t even have the audacity to at least respect her memory and married Rhaenyra before both their mourning period was over hence why Viserys and the Velaryons were angry.

Rhaenyra and Daemon went behind the King to marry and didn’t care that their late spouses’ family was offended by their actions yet people still say Daemyra wasn’t a love match. Absolutely ridiculous.

i get pissed off whenever i see people saying that rhaenyra was bi and that she was in a relationship with laena or that daemon, rhaenyra and laena were in poly relationship, or that daemon only loved laena and that was his healthiest relationship like what are you people even reading at this point.... the truth is daemyra were together as soon as their lovers dropped dead (maybe even before that), had a son not even nine months after laena died, daemon killed laena's brother to marry rhaenyra and they were criticised by everyone but it was not true love and they married for politics apparently and were only mourning their dead lovers😔

[maglors-grief]

I saw this photo on pinterest and why are Alicent and Cersei here as if they did not help cause most of their own problems 😭

Why is Alicent here instead of Rhaenyra??

In one of the asoiaf books you have Stannis Baratheon referring to Rhaenyra as the usurper woman who tried to steal her brother's throne, you have Fire & Blood written by a maester who was sympathetic to the Greens, you have Rhaenyra getting the most misogynistic labels such as Maegor with teats, Rhaenyra the Cruel, the bitch queen, the whore of Dragonstone, even though none of her misdeeds even come close to what anyone else did during the war, Rhaenyra's sons couldn't even let her be recognized as Queen after the war so they could please the Green sympathizers they were surrounded by, but yes Alicent, the woman who helped her father start a senseless war and placed her son on the throne, is actually the biggest victim and everyone unfairly hates her 😒

I truly hate the narrative the show started that Alicent was actually the one unfairly slandered by history. They really try so hard to make her the victim over Rhaenyra and so many people fall for it and they won't even recognize how wronged Rhaenyra was by nearly everyone. Rhaenyra has one of the saddest stories but it feels like most people refuse to see that for some reason.

In one of my last posts I said that Rhaenyra can't have anything to herself without the show making it all about Alicent too. Like Rhaenyra can't even get unfairly smeared by history without Alicent coming in and claiming that for herself as well even though it doesn't make sense. What reason would Westerosi history books have to hate Alicent? She was like the model housewife. She obeyed men, she advocated for her son to have the throne over a daughter, she was a boy mom who thought her sons could do no wrong in the book, she knew her place, etc. Why would the men who write these history books have reason to hate Alicent of all people?

[the-highgaryen-council]

Thinking about Alicent when Rhaenyra didn't come with her

[immi-immi]

Amongst other issues with HOTD trying to patch up the GOT plot holes concerning 'The Prince that was Promised', it genuinely makes no sense that the prophecy is passed down solely from King to heir.

Alright, let's say Aegon the Conqueror passed it down to Aenys. Then, after Aenys is crowned King, he tells Aegon the Uncrowned. But before Aegon could tell anyone, he's usurped by Maegor and killed.

That's where the first problem arises. Aegon the Conqueror would not have told Maegor about the prophecy. No one passed the prophecy to Aerea or Jaehaerys. Who could've told them? Alyssa Velaryon, Rhaena, Maegor or really anyone besides Aegon the Uncrowned would not have been in the position to have been informed of it.

How exactly did Jaehaerys give that prophecy to Aemon, Baelon then Viserys?

You could argue the song is revealed when the King's blade is put in flame, but that doesn't guarantee the user will ever find out about it. It's not exactly your first, or even second or third instinct to put an ancestral knife into the fire. Aegon II had it and never learned of the prophecy inscribed into it. And even if you could read the inscription, it doesn't say that it's Aegon's dream of the end of the world of men. The blade just says "From my blood, come the Prince that was Promised".

Book Rhaenyra didn't fight for her right to rule as Queen because of some prophecy. She wasn't motivated by divine purpose. She was motivated by the fact she was named as Viserys' heir and was his rightful successor. She went into war for her rightful position as Queen, and for her children to take their rightful place as her heirs.

[franniesart]

Remaking some of my old Asoiaf art, here's my new revamped Rhaenyra.

Or, as someone called her on Reddit "Biblically Accurate Rhaenyra"

My favourite comment.