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TARGARYEN PORTRAITS: PART 6

by riotarttherite on twitter

featuring: King Aegon IV (1), Lady Barba Bracken (2), Lady Melissa Blackwood (3), Lady Serenei (4), Ser Daemon Blackfyre (5), Ser Aegor Rivers (6), Lady Mya Rivers (7), Lady Gwenys Rivers (8), Ser Brynden Rivers (9), Lady Shiera Seastar (10)

[ironlily1413]

Serenei of Lys (Sweet Serenei)

“Serenei was the most beautiful of Aegon’s mistresses, but she was also reputed to be a sorceress”

[ophelias-lamentation]

Serenei of Lys

Seren

[beneathxblackwaves]

The Nine Mistresses of Aegon IV:

→ Suki Waterhouse as Falena Stokeworth → Laura Donnelly as Merry Meg → Dominique McElligott as Cassella Vaith → Ebonee Noel as Bellegere Otherys → Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Barba Bracken → Katie McGrath as Mylessa Blackwood → Anne Hathaway as Bethany Bracken → Tamzin Merchant as Jeyne Lothston → Reese Witherspoon as Serenei of Lys

[coldraindropsss]

Lady's

[rozsesandart]

Serenei of Lys, ninth mistress of King Aegon IV Targaryen and mother to Shiera Seastar 🌊

Art by @rozsesandart

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Art by Jota Saraiva

[highgardenart]

Lady Serenei of Lys

“[she] was the most beautiful of Aegon’s mistresses, but she was also reputed to be a sorceress.”

[tragedy-peanut-gallery]

what are your thoughts (and potential headcanons) about aegon iv's nine mistresses?

Ouffff well I gotta be honest I probably won’t have as many headcanons about them as I did for the daughters in law of Daeron and Myriah- but I’m more than happy to share my thoughts about them!

Falena Stokeworth

Thoughts: Groomer!!! Get lost lady you’re literally his dad’s age!!!!! Should’ve locked her up in Harrenhall and thrown away the key maybe!

Headcanons: Honestly I think canon already kind of spells it out for us given her age relative to his own, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she was preying on Aegon’s whole mommy issues deal in order to get into a relationship with him. Pain and suffering all around.

Megette

Thoughts: Honestly poor girl she deserved sooo much better :( pretty sure her whole deal was supposed to be another commentary on how nobility don’t actually give a shit about the smallfolk even when they’re lovers and all that, but goddamn I just feel bad for her :(

Cassella Vaith

Thoughts: Ngl another girl who deserved so much better- it’s kind of weird how they give her a description but not the other mistresses but hey who am I to judge- makes her easier to draw ig?

Headcanons: Oh she was absolutely psychologically tortured during her time with Aegon because that man is notttt capable of being nice to any woman. I imagine the reason she wasn’t married off after being returned home was because of how traumatized she was

Bellegere Otherys

Thoughts: Okay this may sound stupid as hell given all the shit I talked about Aegon prior to this but like…. Idc, I support her decisions in choosing one of the most rancid men in Westeros to be her lover. In her defense!!!! Pickings for royalty were very slim- her only other options were a former teen dad who’s still hung up on his ex wife and is always busy trying (and failing) to keep his nephews from dying, a member of the kingsguard who’s obsessed with his own sister, and Baelor, of course she was gonna go for Aegon! Bellegere can get the one exception because I think pirate women are really cool and tbh I think she’s also the only one who was with him for funsies before dropping his ass like a sack of potatoes when he got too annoying for her

Headcanons: Ngl I kinda like to think her daughter Nahra took up the whole trading/smuggling/pirating business after her, and Bellegere got to retire and chill in Braavos watching all the shit go down with the Blackfyre rebellions. Good for her <3

Barba Bracken

Thoughts: I mean…. She’s a bitch, but tbh she kinda deserved better too. Even if she is meant to be a bad person, she was also just a teenager when Aegon began sleeping with her and was mostly pushed forward by her own dad, and its sad that she then continued the cycle of abuse to her own sister :(

Headcanons: I kinda like to think she and Daena had a very toxic frenemy-ship, that’s my main reasoning to explain why Aegor was so loyal to Daemon lmao

Melissa Blackwood

Thoughts: I mean, she’s one of Naerys’ only canonical female friends so she gets an automatic like in my books. And also kinda funny that the Bracken/Blackwood slap fight actually caused another Targ civil by just pushing their female relatives in front of a horny king. She absolutely deserved so much better

Headcanons: I refuseeee to believe she died in childbirth, in my head she’s also retired chilling in Raventree Hall with her daughters and occasionally got updates from Brynden about the war crimes he was committing <3

Bethany Bracken

Thoughts: Deserved so, SO much better. Mr lord Bracken sir I will see you in HELL!!!!!

Jeyne Lothson

Thoughts: Only thing I have to say is…. Absolutely gothic horror girlie because holy shit. My god. Was George intentionally writing her story to be horrifying or was it a weird fetish- I’m hoping to god it was the former. Anyways she absolutely deserved so much better than all the adults in her life

Headcanons: For added flavor aka more horror! I do headcanon her to actually be Aegon’s daughter, and I believe Danelle was either her daughter or granddaughter because- well, we do definitely need to sprinkle in some more cursed bloodline shit to the house that’s already doomed cause they’re living in Harrenhall, yippe :))

Serenei of Lys

Thoughts: Boring as hellllll that she died from childbirth like- COME ON!!! Let the lady die from implosion, or slipping on a banana peel or something!!! Also kinda sucks that we barely know anything else about her! I want the lore George!!!

Headcanons: Due to lack of lore, I’m stealing someone else’s previous headcanon that she’s actually a Hightower bastard because 1. Absolutely hilarious and is absolutely the level of hustling scam-artistry that I would expect during Aegon’s reign, and 2. Kinda explains her whole deal- why Jon even brought her to court, why we know nothing about her past, why she’s so distant and kinda secretive. Shout out to whoever came up with that headcanon cause that lives in my head rent free forever now

[vermithwhore]

Saying it now so I can take credit when I'm right someday: Daeron didn't die at Tumbleton, and the 'Daeron pretenders' that rose up against Aegon III after the Dance were actually Daeron himself trying to take back what he believed was rightfully his. He just got discredited as a pretender by history to help legitimize Aegon III's rule.

And also: Serenei of Lys is his daughter. Daeron fled to Lys after his failed attempts at reclaiming the throne. He kept in contact with the Hightowers, and when Jon Hightower became Hand of the King he brought Serenei to King's Landing in a failed scheme to try to get the 'true' lineage back on throne. Her child with Aegon IV, Sheira Seastar, is Daeron's granddaughter. Convincing Aegon IV to legitimize his bastards was part of Jon Hightower's plan. And then Shiera's refusal to marry any of her brothers put an end to the plan. Also, Shiera Seastar is Quaithe.

It was always interesting to me how a Hightower, the first with power in King's Landing since the Dance, brought a strange silver haired woman to King's Landing. And it's also interesting how Daeron's body was never found after Tumbleton. I think it adds up.

[makesitprecious]

LET'S CAST THAT ⤵

Sasha Luss as Shiera 🌊🌟

Though she never wed, she had many offers, and several lovers through the years. Duels were fought over the right to sit beside her, men killed themselves after falling from her favor, poets outdid each other writing songs about her beauty. Her most ardent admirer was her half-brother, Bloodraven, who proposed marriage to her half a hundred times. Shiera gave him her bed, but never her hand. It amused her more to make him jealous. -- So Spake Martin

[muadweeb]

Essosi women of import in TWOIAF

[aticketplz]

見たことないシャコがいて嬉しかった

「きょう見られたことが奇跡です」と書いてあった

嬉しすぎ

I was delighted to see a mantis shrimp I'd never seen before. It was written, 'It's a miracle to see it today.' I was overjoyed.

標本コーナーにもいたけどレア度が高い！ ありがとうたけすい！！！

@竹島水族館

It was also in the specimen section, but it's quite rare!

Thanks Takeshima Aquarium!!!

@Takeshima Aquarium

[ophelias-lamentation]

The lady Shiera Seastar, the last of King Aegon It’s Great Bastard and daughter of Sereni of Lys, a rumored witch. Shiera was stunningly beautiful, hailed as being the most beautiful in all the Seven Kingdoms. She was rumored to follow in her mothers footsteps and practice sorcery. She had many lovers, one of which was her half-brother Brynden Rivers, the Bloodraven. She sided with the Targaryens during the first Blackfyre Rebellion her final fate is currently unknown.

[atopvisenyashill]

too many years lost in history

aka i have the songs from six the musical stuck in my head and since it’s kind of a “playing into the stereotypes to interrogate the stereotype” take on the wives of henry viii, i thought the dramatic takes on the characters would mesh well with the mistresses (and wife) of aegon the unworthy. also i need something to do with my hands when as i listen to all the asoiaf audiobooks lmao

naerys targaryen

falena stokeworth

merry meg

(pretend it says daughters and not sons since they had all girls) (justice for merry meg, aly, lily, willow, rosey, and all smallfolk everywhere)

cassella vaith

bellegere otherys

barba bracken

missy blackwood

bethany bracken

jeyne lothston

serenei of lys

sorry i struggled with her lol, she and falena have the least amount of characterization so far. i’m excited for her though, just because of all the witchiness surrounding her, she has to have some interesting layers!

okay now everyone sing with me let’s go:

SO THEY HAD NO CHOICE

(*characters singing in background* SO WE HAD NO CHOICE)

BUT NOW ITS US ALONE

SO THEY HAD NO CHOICE

(SO WE HAD NO CHOICE)

WE’RE TAKING BACK THE MICROPHONE

IM GONNA RAISE MY VOICE

(WE’RE GONNA RAISE OUR VOICE)

GEORGE SAID WE ALWAYS NEED YOUR LOVE BUT NOW ITS TIME TO RISE ABOVE!

if you wanna know the songs, in case any of the lyrics interested you (go listen to six pls i love it):

every queen gets one song, and then there’s a song that introduces the holbein portraits and hans holbein, an intro song, and then two songs at the end where they realize they should stop fighting & imagine their lives if they’d been able to choose their paths.

naerys - catherine of aragon’s song “no way”

falena stokeworth - anne boleyn’s song “don’t lose your head”

merry meg - jane seymour’s song “heart of stone”

cassella vaith - catherine parr’s song “i don’t need your love”

bellegere otherys - anne of cleves’ song “get down”

barba bracken - anne boleyn’s song “don’t lose your head”

melissa blackwood - jane seymour’s song “heart of stone”

bethany bracken - katherine howard’s song “all you wanna do”

jeyne lothston - group number “haus of holbein”

serenei of lys - catherine parr’s song “i don’t need your love”

my lil ending song - finale group number “six”

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Young BloodRaven and Shiera Seastar

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