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She did this for me. Daenaera Velaryon, come home

[westaeros]

#ELEKTRA:   translated by anne carson.  

i ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. 

i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth.

do i not live? badly, i know. but i live. 

in times like these, self-control has no meaning. 

yes, i know sorrow. i know it quite well. 

strange. i don’t think of you as a mother at all. 

vengeance is coming. 

don’t you see what you’re doing? you make your own pain. 

how many times can a heart break?

why are you so in love with things unbearable? 

how i pity the dark life you live. 

i’ve learned to side with winners. 

there is no one on earth i have hated and loved like you. 

is this the brilliant [name]? 

oh, my love, take me there. let me dwell where you are. 

i know what i am. 

death itself is not the worst. 

worse is to live when you want to die. 

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‘ why are you crying? ’ / from rhaegar (glorytragedy) to lyanna

❝ It's no matter. ❞

THE SHE-WOLF wipes at her eyes, mustering up a smile to allay the dragon prince's worries --- Tiny and weak though it may be.

Curled up in a seat by the window --- As much as she can curl, given the growing expanse of her stomach, slowly expanding outward like an army on the march --- Lyanna props her chin upon her hand. ❝ It is so very warm here. I was only thinking that I miss the snow. ❞ Missing the snow was easier than missing everything else she had left so carelessly. Missing Winterfell, missing its staff, missing her father and her brothers.

❝ Only the foolishness of a young girl, I'm afraid. You surely must have more important things to worry about.. ❞

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Nobody asked me, but if Lyanna had been given free rein to name her son, she would have called him Brandon.

[westaeros]

 ✦   𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃.

dialogue prompts taken from or inspired by the movie  CINDERELLA  (2015).   please feel free to change the sentences for pronouns and context as you see fit!

‘ do you still believe that they understand you? ’

‘ who looks after us? ’

‘ I believe in everything. ’

‘ when I am king,  you shall be queen. ’

‘ you must love me for I love you. ’

‘ sorrow can come to any kingdom no matter how happy. ’

‘ I want to tell you a secret. ’

‘ have courage and be kind. ’

‘ you have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. ’

‘ I must go very soon, my love.  please forgive me. ’

‘ time passed and pain turned to memory. ’

‘ and if ever there were a man happier in his fortunes,  I know him not. ’

‘ I do love a happy ending,  don’t you? ’

‘ it’s time,  perhaps,  to begin a new chapter. ’

‘ you’re worried about telling me,  but you mustn’t be. ’

‘ do you think I am,  maybe allowed,  one last chance? ’

‘ you have such pretty hair. ’

‘ how charming,  how perfectly charming. ’

‘ and in all that time they never thought to decorate? ’

‘ hush,  they’ll think you are in earnest. ’

‘ fortune favours me again. ’

‘ oh, look who’s having a party of their own. ’

‘ just what—  yes,  what do you think you’re up to? ’

‘ you’re missing the party. ’

‘ I imagine it’s much like all the other ones. ’

‘ I’m leaving first thing. ’

‘ but you’re hardly back from the last trip. ’

‘ do you have to go? ’

‘ it’s just a few months. ’

‘ bring me the first branch your shoulder brushes on your journey. ’

‘ that’s what I really want, for you to come back, no matter what. ’

‘ I always leave a part of me behind. ’

‘ you’re the very heart of this place. ’

‘ sometimes I could scratch your eyes out! ’

‘ perhaps you’d like to share it? ’

‘ so this is where you take refuge? ’

‘ can’t you see?  none of that matters. ’

‘ we’re ruined. ’

‘ it must have been very difficult for you. ’

‘ I thought breakfast was ready. ’

‘ I was only mending the fire. ’

‘ what’s that on your face? ’

‘ do clean yourself up. ’

‘ you are too clever. ’

‘ wouldn’t you prefer to eat when all the work is done? ’

‘ names have power. ’

‘ I’m alright but you’ve nearly frightened the life out of him! ’

‘ what’s he ever done to you that you should chase him about? ’

‘ he is a friend of yours? ’

‘ I looked into his eyes and he looked into mine,  and I just felt he had a great deal left to do with his life. ’

‘ what do they call you? ’

‘ you shouldn’t be this deep in the forest alone. ’

‘ I’m not alone,  I’m with you. ’

‘ you don’t know who I am? ’

‘ you’re an apprentice? ’

‘ do they treat you well? ’

‘ it’s not your doing. ’

‘ it’s not so very bad,  others have it worse I’m sure. ’

‘ just because it’s what’s done doesn’t mean it’s what should be done. ’

‘ then you’ll leave him alone, won’t you? ’

‘ I hope to see you again. ’

‘ you’ve only met her once. ’

‘ your business is my business. ’

‘ I shall endeavour to please, but I can’t work miracles. ’

‘ it’s a dangerous world. ’

‘ the wars have brought sorrow on us all. ’

‘ I wouldn’t mind a bit of a jolly. ’

‘ I’m on the ground. I’m literally on the ground. ’

‘ you don’t look well. not at all.’

‘ why do you stay there when they treat you so? ’

‘ it’s my home. ’

‘ I shall trick him into loving me,  see if I don’t! ’

‘ this is the most hugest news! ’

‘ why are you still here? ’

‘ that’s very thoughtful of you. ’

‘ you’re too ambitious for your own good. ’

‘ I only want to see my friend. ’

‘ every girl in the kingdom will be chasing the prince. ’

‘ you must get there first before the seamstress is drowning in work. ’

‘ wake up, your royal highness. you’re in a daze. ’

‘ it’s that girl, I can’t stop thinking about her. ’

‘ I don’t know anything about her. ’

‘ let it not mean we harbour dark thoughts against each other. ’

‘ I wouldn’t dream of poisoning you before we leave. ’

‘ blood is so much thicker than water. ’

‘ what will he be like, I wonder. ’

‘ what does it matter what he’s like? he’s rich beyond reason. ’

‘ wouldn’t you like to know a bit about him before you marry him? ’

‘ all men are fools. the sooner you learn that, the better. ’

‘ you are every bit as ugly within, as you are fair without. ’

‘ besides,  I did have a little help. ’

‘ I don’t want to ruin anything. ’

‘ this thing is so old-fashioned, it’s practically falling to pieces. ’

‘ it’s a ridiculous, old-fashioned joke! ’

‘ that is what you are, and that is what you’ll always be. ’

‘ now, mark my words!  you shall not go to the ball. ’

‘ I said I’d have courage but I don’t, not anymore. ’

‘ I don’t believe anymore. ’

‘ why are you crying? ’

‘ what is a bowl of milk? nothing. but kindness makes it everything. ’

‘ how do you know me? who are you? ’

‘ I should think you’d have worked that one out. ’

‘ they’re just made up for children. ’

‘ this will be a first for me. always interesting. ’

‘ you’re making me nervous, actually. ’

‘ shall I shut my eyes? ’

‘ oh for heaven’s sake, let’s just go for it! ’

‘ you see the trick is… actually I’ve forgotten what the trick is. ’

‘ is that what you meant to do? ’

‘ do you think that’s what I meant to do? ’

‘ my dress—  can you mend it? ’ 

‘ it’s beautiful. ’

‘ are these the best you have? ’

‘ it’s alright, no one will see them. ’

‘ no no, they’ll ruin the whole look.  take them off.  really quite hideous. ’

‘ you really must go now. ’

‘ off you go, for you shall go to the ball. ’

‘ that’s more than enough time. ’

‘ who are you looking for? ’

‘ I know your head’s been turned. ’

‘ you are as handsome as your picture. ’

‘ your little kingdom is enchanting. ’

‘ I hope you will not find our little kingdom too confining. ’

‘ enjoy it while it lasts. ’

‘ if I may, that is—  it would give me the greatest pleasure if you would do me the honour of letting me lead you through this first dance. ’

‘ they’re all looking at you. ’

‘ so you’re the prince. ’

‘ I thought you might treat me differently if you knew. ’

‘ no more surprises? ’

‘ I hate myself in paintings. ’

‘ no one’s ever painted my portrait. ’

‘ won’t they miss you at the ball? ’

‘ let’s not go back just yet. ’

‘ I’m expected to marry for advantage. ’

‘ surely you have a right to your own heart. ’

‘ your secret is safe with me. ’

‘ I have never shown this place to anyone. ’

‘ won’t you tell me who you really are? ’

‘ I took a walk in the rain to cheer myself up. ’

‘ we did not communicate through mere words. our souls met. ’

‘ it really was like a dream. better than a dream. ’

‘ you needn’t be alone. ’

‘ you must marry for love. ’

‘ did you steal it? ’

‘ nothing is ever given. for everything, we must pay and pay. ’

‘ kindness is free. love is free. ’

‘ love is not free. ’

‘ best to leave it to me. that way we all get what we want. ’

‘ I will protect you no matter what becomes of me. ’

‘ why are you so cruel? ’

‘ I have tried to be kind to you, though no one deserves to be treated as you have treated me. ’

‘ are you threatening me? ’

‘ lose heart and gain wisdom. ’

‘ fate may yet be kind to us. ’

‘ if you love me, I will love you. ’

‘ what sweet singing. makes me want to tarry just a little. ’

‘ I forbid you to do this. ’

‘ are you an empress? a saint? a deity? ’

‘ just remember who you are, you wretch! ’

‘ this is perhaps the greatest risk that any of us will take. to be seen as we truly are. ’

‘ I have no carriage, no parents, no dowry. ’

‘ will you take me as I am? ’

‘ I forgive you. ’

‘ are you ready? ’

‘ I’m ready for anything, so long as it’s with you. ’

[westaeros]

&. 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 / 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

(  various  dialogue  prompts  for  all  your  medieval  /  fantasy  /  d&d  inspired  threads  and  aus!  feel  free  to  change  how  you  seem  fit.  )

❛ i hope this raven finds you well… ❜

❛ you carry a sword, yet you are not a knight. ❜

❛ the gods must be angry. i sense a storm brewing. ❜ 

❛ there’s no place i’d rather be than by your side. ❜ 

❛ nobility is defined by what you do, not who you are. ❜

❛ i know how to keep my life and my crown. and i will. ❜ 

❛ well, i’m not a knight. not yet. ❜

❛ at least we’ll die with honor. ❜

❛ i’ve never seen a dragon before, what are they like? ❜

❛ this knife is laced with venom, any sudden movements and you’re dead. ❜ 

❛ of all the idiots in the realm, i’m trapped with you. ❜ 

❛ shed no tears for me. i will be back before you know it. ❜ 

❛ i’m sorry, but i’m to be married to someone else. ❜ 

❛ here’s a copper for your thoughts. and a silver not to tell them. ❜ 

❛ you humans are most amusing. ❜ 

❛ may i have this dance? ❜ 

❛ you were made to be ruled. ❜ 

❛ i will protect you. it is my duty, knight or not. ❜

❛ my kingdom is in danger. i’ve come to ask for your aid. ❜ 

❛ i’ve got a date with destiny, and it won’t end in a kiss. unfortunately. ❜ 

❛ keep your sword up and your back straight. ❜

❛ you’re asking me to commit treason. ❜

❛ you will make a fine ruler one day. ❜ 

❛ no curse of mine shall befall you from my dying breath. ❜

❛ you should see me in a crown. ❜ 

❛ bury me shallow, i will be back. ❜

❛ bard! play something a little more upbeat. ❜ 

❛ i warn you, i’ve been trained to kill since birth. ❜

❛ my magic is useless against them. i’ve never felt so powerless. ❜ 

❛ how can it be my destiny to protect someone who hates me? ❜ 

❛ i am at your mercy, your grace. ❜ 

❛ do not be afraid, little one. i will not hurt you. ❜ 

❛ any man who must say ‘i am the king’ is no true king. ❜

❛ knights must prevail with steel and sinew alone. ❜

❛ impudent of you to assume i will meet a mortal end. ❜

❛ spare me the ‘i’ve come to slay you’ speech and let’s get on with it. ❜ 

❛ it is my duty to protect the last of the dragons. ❜

❛ do i look like the kind of person who dies? ❜

❛ we are king and queen, chained together like prisoners in a dungeon. ❜ 

❛ for every great ruler, there is an equally great assassin poised to kill. ❜

❛ my bloodline was wiped out before my eyes. i’m the last heir. ❜ 

❛ you look better in your wanted posters. ❜ 

❛ you don’t need a king. a knight can make another knight. ❜

❛ violence for violence is the rule for beasts. ❜

❛ fear cuts deeper than swords. ❜

❛ pick a god and pray to it. ❜

❛ i’d rather die than marry you. ❜ 

❛ my duty is to my people. ❜ 

❛ glad to see you haven’t become food for the vultures. ❜ 

❛ i will paint the throne red with your blood. ❜ 

❛ what’s a life threatening quest without a bit of music? ❜ 

❛ some of us may not survive, but the ones that do will get the ultimate reward… paid. ❜

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Maria Doyle Kennedy as Catherine of Aragon · The Tudors 1.01

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Elizabeth of York’s costumes in The White Princess (4/-)

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She is Baela in miniature. But only in appearance. Where her mother is brave and her father is charming , -- she has heard the story, many times, of how he won Lord Stark's friendship -- Daenaera is not so bold. She prefers songs and needlework to swordplay and crossbow. How is she meant to live up to them ? The idea frightens her.

❝ I'm not like you. Not so ... perfect. ❞

♔ ∵ * ∴  @worthyheir

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It does not befit a prince to pout.

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❝ it’s alright. there’s no reason to be nervous. ❞ / for daenaera!

Small hand slips into Rhaena's larger one. Her gown, all white silk adored with pearls and Myrish lace, brushes against the ground with a whispery noise as she moves --- Daenaera has been strictly instructed not to muss it. Her caretakers want her to look her best for the ball. To meet the king, their little brother.

And yet, there are nearly a thousand maidens at this ball, all there to meet King Aegon, the same as she. Her anxiety comes out in one soft, worried whisper.

❝ ... What if he doesn't like me ? ❞

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Mutuals like this for a small thing with Daenaera

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Thinking about Baela and Rhaena presenting Daenaera to Aegon III and how their marriage is both a representation of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the war and a way to kind of (in my mind at least) "make up for" the way Baela and Rhaena were supposed to marry Jace and Luke but couldn't.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SEASON ONE SENTENCE STARTERS (PART ONE)

episodes: s01e01 - s01e04

❛ There are stories out there that need to be told. ❜

❛ Mortality beats a heavy drum. ❜

❛ Things didn't end well the last time, so forgive me if I'm a little nervous. ❜

❛ Do you not know your value? Do you suffer these indignities for some larger purpose? ❜

❛ Let the tale seduce you. Just as I was seduced. ❜

❛ Stop! Don't do that shit here! ❜

❛ Dishonesty breeds dishonesty. ❜

❛ It ain't easy, the work I do. Nothing but broken souls around me, and the ones that ain't broke are greedy. ❜

❛ The Earth's a savage garden. ❜

❛ How do you do that? Get in my head like that. ❜

❛ I had no room for feelings like these in my life. ❜

❛ I have seen death over and over and over and over again. It's boring. ❜

❛ Easy prey for the discerning predator. ❜

❛ And rather than fix it like a man should, I run like a coward. I run to the bottle. I run to the grift. I run to bad beds. ❜

❛ I laid down with the Devil. And he has roots in me, all his spindly roots in me, and I can't think nothin' anymore but his voice and his words! ❜

❛ I'm not the Devil. You were wrong about that. But I can give you death. ❜

❛ What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow. ❜

❛ I can swap this life of shame, swap it out for a dark gift and a power you can't begin to imagine. You just have to ask me for it. ❜

❛ For the first time in my life, I was seen. ❜

❛ Be my companion. Be all the beautiful things you are, and be them without apology. For all eternity. ❜

❛ Memory is a monster. We forget, it doesn't. ❜

❛ We live off the blood of the living. Lap up the blood of the deceased and it'll suck you right down into death, along with your victim. ❜

❛ You have the power to subdue anyone you want, but sometimes restraint is your most powerful weapon. ❜

❛ This is your home now. ❜

❛ The sun gives life to everything but us. ❜

❛ The life of a vampire has its challenges and its rewards... ❜

❛ Do you contemplate the life of the rabbit before you cut it? Or do you simply cut?❜

❛ These are nightmares I'm having, not dreams. ❜

❛ One might think the ability to read a mind a most useful gift, but, in reality, it's quite mundane. ❜

❛ Every human thought boils down to three things..."I want food", "I want sex", "I want to go home". ❜

❛ You chase after phantoms of your former self. I'll break you of it. ❜

❛ You hide from me this long again, I'll hunt you down and slap you sideways. ❜

❛ I had powers now and decades of rage to process, and it was both random and unfortunate, the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery. ❜

❛ You are a library of confusion. ❜

❛ I don't like sleeping angry. ❜

❛ For the record, if disrespect was done to you, I would have killed him myself. ❜

❛ If you love your family, as I know you do, spare them all the pain that you are causing them. ❜

❛ I ain't never gon' have a family of my own, am I? No sons, no daughters. ❜

❛ I'm your family. ❜

❛ I've been neglectful of our romance. ❜

❛ He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker… all of those things at once. ❜

❛ There is one thing about being a vampire that I most fear above all else... and that is loneliness. You can't imagine the emptiness, a void stretching out for decades at a time. ❜

❛ We must stay together and take precaution and never part. ❜

❛ Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it! Kill them swiftly if you have to, but do it! Embrace what you are! You are a killer! ❜

❛ Come now, love, let's get you to the couch to die. ❜

❛ If you'd listen to me, if you finally submit to your nature, you will be filled, with all the life you can hold. ❜

❛ You will see death in all its beauty, life as it is only known at the very point of the death. You alone, of all creatures, can see death with that impunity. ❜

❛ You alone, under the rising moon, can strike like the hand of God. ❜

❛ Do you ever think that we, that's to say, our kind...were put on Earth for a larger purpose? ❜

❛ I put you on this earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself. ❜

❛ I desire blood as much as you do. But I wonder, should we be more selective? ❜

❛ Hunting is pure instinct. Reason is a set of leg irons. ❜

❛ Every one of them is capable of abomination, even the ones worthy of admiration. ❜

❛ Don't mind the shaking. I've snapped his spine. It's merely his nerves spasming. ❜

❛ I don't wanna kill people anymore. ❜

❛ So much of that year was a blur. And you can imagine what time's inevitable hammer does to the minute details. ❜

❛ This is the odyssey of recollection. ❜

❛ Oh, come now. I don't bite. ❜

❛ Aren't I enough? ❜

❛ We'll be together ten thousand nights, a hundred thousand.  ❜

❛ What we're doing is hard. Anything that wards off the dungs of the everlasting road we walk. ❜

❛ There. I said it. We're communicating so much better now, no? ❜

❛ You ever think about those old days when we were kids? ❜

❛ You wanna come around, you come around when people are awake. ❜

❛ Well, I thought we could have an orgy. You can fuck them, and I can eat them. ❜

❛ What can I say? I'm a lot. I'm not perfect. ❜

❛ I heard your hearts dancing! ❜

❛ You watched the whole thing like some creeper! ❜

❛ This is not a life! ❜

❛ Am I from the Devil? Is my very nature that of the Devil? ❜

❛ Take a black man in America, make him a vampire, fuck with that vampire, and see what comes of it. ❜

❛ You're here to threaten me, I suppose. ❜

❛ Why is your heart beatin' so fast? ❜

❛ Did you not smile when he begged? Did you not feel pleasure as you carved him up? ❜

❛ You did what you did because it gave you pleasure. ❜

❛ We should make this our anniversary. ❜

❛ That's why you and me ain't never gon' work. That's why you're always gonna be alone. ❜

❛ You were ready to abandon our home. Now you want a third. ❜

❛ I'm not human no more, am I? ❜

❛ I'll teach you, but not if we're going to have family secrets. ❜

❛ We're a family? ❜

❛ You're not a girl. You're a devil. ❜

❛ Hungry? You just ate a man twice your size. You can't possibly be… ❜

❛ I'm so hungry. I think I'm gon' die. Is that how vampires die? From starvation? ❜

❛ If you made me and you made [name], who made you? ❜

❛ When I'm tired, I'm not so kind. ❜

❛ Fighting sounds funny in French. ❜

❛ A girl vampire needs her own space if she's gonna find herself in this no-day world. ❜

❛ He got secrets. He don't give good answers to questions, sits on the truth like it's his chair or somethin'. ❜

❛ I thought we weren't supposed to keep secrets. ❜

❛ Sometimes, old people don't like talkin' much about the past. ❜

❛ For a killing machine, I kinda like her. ❜

❛ You wouldn't believe how time flies when there's people to eat and money to spend. ❜

❛ We do like mortals do. We fight, we eat, we laugh, we sleep, we love. ❜

❛ Never seen a dead one look so peaceful. You know what her last words were? ❜

❛ Wakes were invented in places where it snows. ❜

❛ You've been too sheltered, my belladonnic beauty. ❜

❛ You must be most ferocious, hmm? ❜

❛ There's something back there, something evil. ❜

❛ Yeah, I'm surprised your fancy parents let you out at night. ❜

❛ I finally got a few secrets of my own. ❜

❛ You're an angel. ❜

❛ This is why we never get close to mortals. Because sooner or later, they end up dead. ❜

❛ I had a daughter. ❜

❛ That means there's so much more fun out there to have. I'm just getting started.❜

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fantasy / royalty vibes … sentence starters  feel free to change up species names / phrasing to suit your needs

“It’s the work of a curse, your highness.”

“Your highness, we need to get you inside.”

“Shall we haul him/her/them off to the dungeons?”

“I will not have such beasts roaming my kingdom!”

“I shall begin a war with whom I wish, magicks or not!”

“The guards say they’ve seen a dragon to the North…”

“There’s a strange sound coming from the catacombs.”

“Have we no courageous knights left to slay the beast?”

“They betrothed me to a dwarf. But, I refuse to be wed.”

“Perhaps we should beseech the elves. They may help us!”

“As a ruler, you have the choice to be merciful to such beings.”

“You are a merciless tyrant. And I curse you to my final breath.”

“With all due respect, you know nothing of ruling such creatures.”

“Surely we cannot stay there. People whisper that he is a… vampire.”

“I wonder, would you make deals with devils to protect your kingdom?”

“I know these lands better than most. I needn’t an army to defend me.”

“There’s nothing wise in starting a war with the magical, your highness.”

“Must we invite the fae, your majesty? They always cause such trouble.”

“And she claimed she saw mermaids in the moat. I don’t think she’s well.”

“It’s not bandits you need fear out here. There’s creatures more dangerous.”

“A ruler such as yourself should not play with powers you do not understand.”

“They townsfolk, they mutter about you, highness. They say you are not human.”

“The halls of this castle are rumored haunted. Are you sure you wish to stay here?”

“You have already ensured there is no place for beings such as us before your throne.”

“A royal like you shouldn’t be out here. These woods are rumored to be full of nightmarish monsters.”

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Bailey Bass as The Vampire Claudia — AMC's Interview With The Vampire

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My favorite weird theory is that show Daenaera is going to be a possibly-secret Jacela baby. I would love to explore that in RP with her. (But, by default, I think I'm going to go with her book canon of being Vaemond's granddaughter, so as not to, like, pressure anybody).