How do you think things would have went if Queen Rhaella survived Daenerys birth?

Depends on how hard Robert was trying to kill Daenerys and Viserys, and the kind of person Rhaella is. All that's really known about her is that she didn't want to marry her brother, she was dutiful, and she protected Viserys from Aerys to the best of her ability. Apart from that, her biography is just a series of things happening to her, which makes it difficult to discern who she was.

As it is, we know that Daenerys and Viserys survived because they had protectors. Say that these protectors watched over Rhaella too, and say that Robert wouldn't be trying to kill an adult Targaryen harder than he did the kids, and say that there are no assassins looking to take out Rhaella specifically, then we're looking at Rhaella surviving all the way into where the series begins.

I imagine with Rhaella alive, Viserys and Daenerys are less likely to end up impoverished. It was the death of their protector, Ser Willem Barry, that led to them being effectively homeless. Rhaella would have been able to marry a nobleman, or, should that be beneath her, she would still have been an adult watching over them.

(And no, this may be Westeros but goddamnit we're not going the prostitute Rhaella route. Daenerys and Viserys were never forced to prostitute themselves (marriage to Khal Drogo excepted), they coasted off of powerful friends to get by. Having an adult around should make them better off, not worse.)

Viserys' mental health might be better, though that's a heavy "might". He turned on Daenerys because he needed someone to blame for his circumstance, and she was the one he could abuse. He also, at another point, strikes a servant Daenerys sent to him because he was upset with his sister. The man processes emotion by channeling it into anger, and he will take it out on anyone he considers below him.

Had his mother been alive, he wouldn't have been blaming Daenerys for her death but that's not to say he wouldn't have found something else to blame her or, perhaps more likely, that he wouldn't have turned on his mother and blamed her for everything. Conversely, perhaps having his mother around would have made him emotionally healthier and better adjusted, and he wouldn't be lashing out at the people around him the way he does in canon in the first place. It would depend on the people Rhaella and Viserys are.

Either way, Daenerys didn't kill her mother in childbirth so she's already better off in this AU. If Rhaella is a good mother to her and Viserys doesn't abuse her than Daenerys is looking at a straight up not-entirely-terrible childhood.

As for Rhaella herself... gosh, this depends on how things would unfold, on how destitute she would be, and the kind of person she is, but considering the hell she endured by Aerys' side I can imagine that being free of him would be, in its own way, liberating. Yes, she lost a son and two grandchildren, as well as a kingdom, so I can't imagine she'd be anything close to okay, but she would have a surviving son and an infant daughter that depended on her. She either cracks under the pressure or rises to the occasion.

Should she crack under the pressure, then... well, then Daenerys marries Khal Drogo. Viserys is murdered by the Dothraki, and Rhaella gets to watch her daughter walk into a pyre only to become the Mother of Dragons.

In that case, then Rhaella's impact on the story is that Daenerys is that much less adoring of her Targaryen legacy. She has a flesh and blood Targaryen queen by her side and the woman has never been a mother to her, nevermind anything that could be called a dragon.

Should Rhaella rise to the occasion and be a good mother to her children who provides for them, then the Dothraki marriage doesn't happen. Khal Drogo had ten thousand men to offer, Viserys was desperate and foolish to accept. As it is, I strongly doubt Rhaella would even want to reclaim the Iron throne. It's a fool's errand, for one thing, and something that caused her nothing but destruction. She couldn't marry the man she loved, she was trapped in a marriage to a man who'd rape her while her so-called guards stood idly by, and her son was butchered along with his wife and children. I can't imagine going back to Westeros, a venture that would almost certainly fail and get her remaining children killed anyway, would have any appeal to her.

More likely, Rhaella shops around the Free Cities for a good husband to Daenerys and a rich wife to Viserys. She might even marry herself, should she find someone who seems trustworthy and who can provide for her and her children.

When Westeros burns because of ridiculous wars and ice zombies, Rhaella watches from afar with an umbrella drink, shrugs, and goes about the rest of her day.

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Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen

By Jota Saraiva

PART I

All Daenerys' appearances in the Game of Thrones Histories & Lore (including Rhaella pregnant with Dany and giving birth to Dany)

“Whenever Aerys gave a man to the flames, Queen Rhaella would have a visitor in the night.”

Yes, Targaryen men are gorgeous. The beauty of a malnourished twink who wasn't sleep well in years but Targaryen women? They're superior in beauty. A powerful woman who can fight, ride a dragon and be kinda psychic? There's no debate in that.

I don't care if you bring your stupid brother-husband with you, let me get to know you better

Rhaella, Elia, Rhaenys and Viserys having a nice family visit 💖

Motherhood

Princess Rhaenys 🌺

She should have been the delight of the kingdom ☀️🥹

IT ALL GOES BACK AND BACK, TO OUR MOTHERS AND OUR FATHERS

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TARGARYEN PORTRAITS: PART 2

by riotarttherite on twitter

featuring: King Aenys (1), Queen Alyssa Velaryon (2), Princess Rhaena (3), Lady Elissa Farman (4), Prince Aegon (5), Prince Viserys (6), King Jaehaerys (7), Queen Alysanne (8), Princess Aerea (9), Septa Rhaella (10)

the way viserys is really just a little boy trying to get home. he loved dany so much and did everything he could to protect her. like selling his mothers crown the last piece of her and the childhood he had. he was foolish amd naive because he was scared and desperate to make it home. when he was home it was the last time he was truly happy. he misses his mother and remembers her beautiful and not the sad and lonely women she was. now do i think viserys is a complete jackass and abused dany heavily yes but the point of asoiaf is that people are more than one thing and i think viserys perfectly embodies that. the show lacks the depth of viserys character like so many other characters. i can’t help but feel bad for a character like viserys who was just scared. but don’t think that means what he did was excusable! i still think he deserved to die….

Targaryen's but their androgynous

Targaryen's but they have little spots of scales on certain parts of them

Targaryen's but with fangs

Targaryen's but they growl when they are pissed

Targaryen's but they grow extra sharp nails

Targaryen's but they think blood is delicious

Targaryen's but they love burnt meat

Targaryen's but they give love bites

Targaryen's but they also give hate bites (if it's a hate bite you're probably going to be missing a limb)

Targaryen's but they elaborately braided their hair

Targaryen's but they tie gems into their hair

Targaryen's but with traditional Valyrian piercings

Targaryen's but with traditional Valyrian makeup and markings

Targaryen's but one of their marriage traditions is to drink a cup of their spouses blood on their anniversary and on their wedding

Targaryen's are the opposite of tame and they deserve as many freaky customs and traits as possible.

Was Barriston lying about Viserys showing signs of mental illness at a young age? Cause while we all know how he turns out he seemed like a fairly normal kid and Daenerys remembers him being a good brother to her at one point. It's only after where they are forced to sell their mother's crown that he truly loses it.

Hmmm.

Well, let me, a known Barry-hater, try and state my opinion on his credibility as a source.

She turned to Ser Barristan. "You protected my father for many years, fought beside my brother on the Trident, but you abandoned Viserys in his exile and bent your knee to the Usurper instead. Why? And tell it true." "Some truths are hard to hear. Robert was a . . . a good knight . . . chivalrous, brave . . . he spared my life, and the lives of many others . . . Prince Viserys was only a boy, it would have been years before he was fit to rule, and . . . forgive me, my queen, but you asked for truth . . . even as a child, your brother Viserys oft seemed to be his father's son, in ways that Rhaegar never did." [...] "Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?" He hesitated, then continued. "I told you before that I used a false name so the Lannisters would not know that I'd joined you. That was less than half of it, Your Grace. The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were not . . ." “… my father’s daughter?” If she was not her father’s daughter, who was she? “… mad,” he finished. “But I see no taint in you.” [...] “So I am a coin in the hands of some god, is that what you are saying, ser?” “No,” Ser Barristan replied. “You are the trueborn heir of Westeros. To the end of my days I shall remain your faithful knight, should you find me worthy to bear a sword again. If not, I am content to serve Strong Belwas as his squire.” (ASOS, Daenerys VI)

Barristan Selmy is entitled to his opinion and we are entitled to question the worth of his judgment, if he'll pronounce madness in a boy who was maybe seven years old the last time he saw him, and younger than that the last time he saw him with any sense of regularity. We're talking about a kindergarten-aged little kid.

But in the same breath, he claims the Targ heir who abducted Lyanna Stark, hid in a tower in Dorne for most of the Rebellion and then went and badly lost the only battle he ever fought, was not "his father's son", a.k.a. not dangerously mad.

And then goes on to swear undying loyalty to the teenaged girl who has last been seen ordering people burned alive or killed for wearing a tokar (aged 12 and up!) or crucified by the dozens. Because he sees "no taint" in her.

Convenient, isn't it?

Yeah, sure, Barry.

Queen Rhaella Targaryen, wife to the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen. Rhaella was forced to marry her brother by her mother and father. She birthed Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Prince Viserys Targaryen the beggar king. Her last child was Princess Danaerys Stormborn the mother of dragons. She died while giving birth to Danaerys leaving her two youngest children as the last known Targaryens.

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By Jota Saraiva

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