“And I can only cower, and I can only cry, you have all the power”

Naerys and little baby Daeron 😔

TARGARYEN PORTRAITS: PART 5

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featuring: King Viserys II (1), Lady Larra Rogare (2), Prince Aemon (3), Queen Naerys (4), King Daeron II (5), Queen Myriah Martell (6), Princess Daenerys (7), Prince Maron Martell (8), King Aerys I (9), Queen Aelinor Penrose (10)

TARGARYEN WEEK • day 3: favorite monarch “Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few.” - Daeron II

Targaryens in canon, protecting the smallfolk and giving them rights. Poor Aegon V, he was even called “tyrant” by the nobles, because he tried to give more rights to the poor😓

Dany is following her ancestors! The Aegon’s and Aly are so proud of you sweetie 🥰

Princess Daenerys Targaryen waiting for her betrothed Prince Maron Martell.

When we think about it, Daeron II essentially sold his sister Daenerys to Dorne, forced a 16 year-old girl into marriage and shipped her off to a foreign land. And I’d estimate Maron’s age somewhere between 23 and 35, with a strong possibility of 27. Maybe Daemon Blackfyre had some points for starting the rebellion (and his mother, Daena the Defiant, was the rightful heir to the Iron Throne but got usurped, I stand by that).

GRRM says this:

Despite Daemon and Daenerys being in love, her brother the king, Daeron the Good, was more concerned with matters of state than matters of love. There had been many years of fighting with Dorne, and failure to bring them into the Seven Kingdoms while not being able to keep them from harassing the Seven Kingdoms. So he realized that where violence failed, perhaps marriage could bring an end to hostilites and so he uses his sister to make an alliance with the prince of Dorne. It's a political marriage, pure and simple, a convenient marriage to guarantee a union between Dorne and the Seven Kingdoms. And also, he prefers to give his sister to the prince of Dorne over a bastard brother with whom he'd already had a few clashes and whom too many people were looking one as a legitimate claimant to the throne or rightful king. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, and helps lead to Daemon becoming the first Blackfyre Pretender.

Yeah, they fell in love at some point but Daemon didn't act until 8 yrs passed after Daenerys' wedding. He seemed to moved on enough to have more than 5 kids with Rohanne of Tyrosh. That number of kids reveals that there is likely a strong bond between husband and wife. The same goes for Daenerys and Maron Martell.

And while you are attributing Daeron's unfitness to rule based on the amorality of his sending a 16-year-old to marry a grown man in a foreign place away from all she knew, Daemon did not rebel out of this sentiment. He also uses his own daughter, Calla, to have an alliance with Aegor Rivers. His reasoning/motives were:

his father, Aegon IV, legitimizing him

his mother being the eldest living adult child of Aegon III after Daeron I & Baelor I

the anti-Dornish sentiment at court and amongst those who had been fighting against Dornish people (stormlanders mostly) propelling detractors against Daeron to choose to support and encourage him

Yes if we had a PoV, we'd likely see:

his resentment towards Daeron for not marrying him to Daenerys

that leading or coming from contemplating how her marriage to a Martell was a strictly political strategy for tying the Dornish closer and consolidating Daeron's own rule

how Daeron's rule only exists bc Daena was passed over & Aegon IV was forced to marry Naerys (it's also possible that Daemon felt that if Daena just married Aegon he could then have not been a bastard/better life/better claim/married Daenerys) -> resenting how his bastardness partially blocked him from said throne & woman

But his main motive towards the throne is much more than just Daenerys and his love for her. To me, it seems like the desire to get out of that bastard identity that follows him even after legitimization by becoming the winner in a succession crisis/rebellion/usurpation attempt.

Aegon III's line got shafted big time by Viserys II. First Viserys usurps his niece. Then his grandson Daeron II gets the credit for uniting Dorne, a deal brokered by Baelor. No wonder Daena's son, Daemon Blackfyre, went on to start a rebellion that lasted five generations.

mater dolorosa.

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because where tf is him HBO?!?!?

The Green siblings.

Ah, yes. Team Green. Featuring a repressed lesbian still reeling from the fallout of her complicated situationship. An evil grandfather who eventually will become jobless. A guard who doubles as a stepfather and a hit man. An alcoholic. A doomed prophetess. An overpowered anime villain and his geriatric nuclear warhead. And a fourth child who may or may not exist.

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the kings (and rhaegar) of house targaryen

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Day 4: Favorite relationship ➥ Alicent and her children

I've been joking that I'm looking forward to Criston's homicidal grandpa arc, but seriously, this moment is going to make me go insane. We're actually going to see Criston spend time with all three four of his children this season. But this moment is gonna be incredible. Because he's rushing for Aegon and Aemond, most likely having just watched them fall from the sky, their dragons entangled with Meleys. He probably thinks he's about to find nothing left, that they're both dead and it will be his fault because this was his plan, his idea.

Those are his children. He knew Aegon and Helaena from when they were babies, odds are he was right outside of Alicent's chambers when Aemond and Daeron were born. He likely heard Aemond and Daeron's first cries of life, probably walked with Alicent when she had to present them to Viserys hours later.

I swear to God, if that leak about Criston carrying Aegon is true, I will be passing away. 😭

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Princess Daenerys Targaryen waiting for her betrothed Prince Maron Martell.