#rhaenyra is the rightful heir

[bayofwolves]

ppl need to understand that although i lean more towards team black than team green i WOULD kill a man for alicent hightower

[persephryne]

Making Aegon a rapist was straight up bad and lazy writing.

Let me elaborate.

In the show, the first thing we learn about Aegon as an adult is that he is a rapist. We haven’t seen him yet but still we already know that he is an horrible despicable rapist, especially since Dyana is so young, which pretty much makes him a pedophile too. How could anyone root for a man like that ? And that’s where the problem begins.

Rhaenyra had already been established many times as the rightful heir to the throne in season 1. It has been made obvious that she would make a decent Queen too. In the meantime, it had already been shown that Aegon is not even a good person. He’s selfish, inconsiderate, a bully, and does not act like a prince at all. To put it plainly, he sucks big time and we as viewers already know it. Add what we saw in season 2, how reckless he gets, how he’s an alcoholic immature asshole, how he obviously knows nothing about strategics nor how to rule efficiently, or even how bad he is at high valyrian, and you can’t have anyone tell you in good faith that he would’ve been a better ruler than Rhaenyra.

However, had Aegon not been made a rapist, you would still feel for him even though he is not cut out to rule. Because he knows it too and tried to escape it and he was forced to attend his own coronation . Because this crown that he did not want does not fit him, even though he really tries to show that he is not as worthless as everyone seems to think and he just keeps failing. You would feel for him because the war ,that he has started when he was made an usurper by the people around him, has cost him his son’s life. Because the brother, who is partially responsible for his son’s death has now betrayed him and tried to kill him with dragonfire. Because the injuries he suffered make him look more and more like his father who never cared for him, never loved him and that he definitely hates. Which also probably why he tries so hard to make his mother proud of him and love him but he can’t and his main attempt has left him half-dead, half-burn. Not only that but his dragon, with whom he has the strongest bond known in Targaryen’s, history probably died during this futile attempt to prove himself. The only thing about his Targaryen’s heritage that he seems to care about has been destroyed all because he wanted to prove himself. Because he truly resents his Targaryen’s, his father’s heritage, it’s obvious, just as it is obvious that he didn’t want to marry his own sister but was forced to. It’s completely legitimate of him to want to distance himself as much as possible from everything that is Targaryen related. He is indeed more of an Hightower than a Targaryen, but can you really blame him for that ? Would you not try to fit somewhere else too, if you were in his place ? It’s all absolutely and undeniably tragic.

I wholeheartdely believe that, even if you would’ve root for Rheanyra to be Queen, you woud’ve probably still thought that Aegon, as bad as he is, did not deserves this much pain.

But because he is a rapist, well, he honestly does.

By not trusting the audience to see that Aegon is not a good person, nor a good a king, without having him comitting a literal crime, by making Aegon a rapist, the writers have annihilated any possibilities for an internal conflict regarding Aegon and Rhaenyra. The whole concept of « teams » just goes down the drain because of this lazy, manichaean, writing. And that, my friends, is bad writing at its peak.

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

don’t know why so many team green stans are dying over the fact that rhaenyra’s sons are bastards 😱😱😱 when it wasn’t even confirmed in the books and when being a bastard in westeros is just a state of legality. if legitimised, they would have every right to their family’s titles - hence gendry and jon being legitimised and having claims to the throne and winterfell. legit every single person in that show has legitimised jace as rhaenyra’s heir and referred to him as such. their grandfather corlys, their father laenor, their other grandfather the literal KING accepted them and threatened death and dismemberment to anyone who didn’t do the same, their MOTHER rhaenyra. jace has every right to ascend the throne because his mother is the rightful queen and he is her rightful heir.

[worstamericangrl]

“you block people over politics?” i block multiple ppl a day for denying rhaenyra targaryen’s claim to the iron throne

[darklinaforever]

[dragondreamers]

she burned as bright as any man

[pureworlds]

my angel sweetie pie with her 1 minute of screen time

[spiderliliez]

Even the ‘King of the Kingswood’ seeks the rightful heir. Rhaenyra encounters the ‘White Hart’ 🦌 [+] EMMA D’ARCY [GIF Collection] ✨👑 [+] “House of the Dragon” 🎬

[fairvstairs]

Absolutely Majestic

[dragonworshippersblog]

otto’s word about aegon: aegon targaryen sits the iron throne. He wears the conqueror's crown, wields the conqueror's sword, has the conqueror's name. 

maegor targaryen: maegor targaryen sat the iron throne. He wore the conqueror's crown, held the conqueror's sword, was the Conqueror's son.

What these two characters have in common is that they both usurped the throne from the rightful heirs, aegon targaryen (eldest son of aenys, known as the uncrowned) and rhaenyra targaryen. The fact that both aegon and rhaenyra are not recognised as sovereigns (in the case of rhaenyra it is practically the thing on which the greens focus most attention) does not in any way alter the fact that they remain the rightful heirs. Maegor and aegon can have as many coronations as they wish and infinite supporters, but they will never be lawful kings, in fact they suffered the same fate as every other usurper in asoiaf's world, they were killed without heirs and their bloodline died resulting in the ascension to the throne of jaehaerys targaryen and aegon iii targaryen (brother of aegon the uncrowned and son of rhaenyra targaryen respectively) who continued the targaryen dynasty

[thedragonqueens]

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[khaleesioftherealm]

Fire and Blood.

[jul-juliana7]

My Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen that I procrastinated for about 3 months, but here she is

[darklinaforever]

Greens stans : I don't support Aegon II out of mysoginy at all ! I support him to be king, because Rhaenyra would have made a bad ruler, even without all the trauma she suffered from the dance.

Rhaenyra Targaryen, before the dance and so the traumas of the dance : Is a very good leader / ruler on Dragonstone who serves as training for her role as future queen, while Aegon II is content to be a lazy drunkard and rapist.

Me :

[thronekeeper]

[addaerontruther]

what if i said Viserys did, in fact, have Harwin killed, and Larys, being who he is, found out and spent the rest of his life trying to destroy House Targaryen? he was the spy on the Green Council to ensure mutual destruction and did whatever he could at every opportunity to get as many of them killed as possible, then during the Hour of the Wolf, chose death over taking the black because he'd accomplished his goal: the dragons were dead, and all that remained were traumatized children.