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Been saving so many videos and posts about how to braid little girl’s hair (cough, for Baela’s hairstyles, cough), now the algorithm thinks I’m a mom in her 30s with a 5 year old baby girl XD

Maybe I should draw Baela next 🤔

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Sketch of MVP Viserys II

[Based on The Blacks & The Greens descriptions because curly haired Viserys is dear to me]

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Me:*drawing a female Targaryen character I haven’t drawn*

Also Me: it’s Rhaenyra🤗

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Baelon or Daemon taking baby Rhaenyra to fly with them on Vhagar or Caraxes? 💖 (or even both of them if you have the time 😊) your art is beautiful and it's cute to see Rhaenyra, Aegon and Viserys getting so much love <3

Way above my skill level but here is a little doodle of Grandpa Baelon kidnapping his granddaughter for an afternoon flight

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Daemon quickly pulled her arm kissing her hand tenderly. The girl blushed and smiled. "How lovely you are, my princess." -The Blacks & the Greens by @sweetestpopcorn Chapter 3 Daemon I

The outfits are not accurate to the scene but after that lovely anon message I did want to draw the early days of Daemon and Rhaenyra again. Off to do one of their favorite pastimes, riding their dragons together.

As always click for the best quality.

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Baelon and I will be fighting by the end of this piece-

[another wip 🫣]

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Prince Baelon Targaryen

The Prince of Dragonstone, at the age of 44, just before his death.

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Please draw young Alicent before she became queen. Please please please

Okie!!

Lady Alicent Hightower (13) arrival to KingsLanding

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Princess Alyssa Targaryen

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WIP @sweetestpopcorn

Younger Corlys doesn’t know when or how—but he’s going to beat up Daemon one day

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ALYN OF HULL / VELARYON for the request thing 🙏 The way you drew him last time was so funny

Alyn having beef with the princes is one of my favorite things from The Blacks & The Greens 🙂‍↕️

[are they dragons or devils Alyn 🤨]

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Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (16)

THE PRINCESS OF DRAGONSTONE

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The Heir and the Spare

and a very proud mama Rhaenyra :D

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hi sweetestpopcorn! i hope this ask finds you in good health and a happy september! (also i hope my ask isn’t too much of inconvience over all your work!)

i have a question relating to the dance of dragons and the blacks & the greens: while it is already established that the reason for the greens rising up and the civil war is because of rhaenyra’s gender (because there are drafts where rhaenyra does not have any bastard children to weaken her claim and still half of westeros rose up), do you think there were any nobles in westeros that were rising up against rhaenyra specifically for the reason that rhaenyra had bastards? and if so, would that mean that by your AU they would more likely be switched to black from green because of rhaenyra’s marriage to daemon? do you think that there were any nobles that were won to rhaenyra’s side because of their love for daemon?

personally i think that there may be a few families that would switch from green to black with your au but i’d love your opinion! thank you 🩷🩷🩷

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Love your icon image <3

Hum... I get your question and there's much merit to it. I do think that the question and doubt around the "Velaryon" princes should make a lot of people not support Rhaenyra. After all, throughout the asoiaf books - all of them - we are continuously shown and told how much people despised bastards. Even in Fire and Blood and regarding the "Velaryon" princes this is highlighted for instance here:

This passage actually also highlights the issue the illegitimacy of her sons would pose for Rhaenyra herself, as she would be accused of High Treason and bear minimum would be liable for being disinherited completely but the consequences could go as far as death.

Nonetheless, as I and others have previously highlighted, even in the Green Council the illegitimacy of her sons is mentioned - by Alicent and Ser Incel Cole - but given very little attention. As for the lords of Westeros to the best of our knowledge, this was not a relevant factor.

I think it might be easily explained by a combination of factors. Most lords in Westeros had never seen the "Velaryon" princes and/or their purported father Ser Laenor + they knew that Rhaenyra had Arryn blood and that Rhaenys - Ser Laenor's mother - had Baratheon blood. Further, and most relevant of all, all three of them were dragonriders, which was taken as evidence - by the author of the book himself - that they were in fact legitimate. Of course that the logical thing is that they didn't need a father with Targaryen blood since Rhaenyra was a dragonrider and the youngest one of her house, but I think that's another evidence in the books of how much the role of women was overlooked, translation: If a child does X then it comes from their father 🤡

This all being said, I still think that this issue which was in fact Rhaenyra's biggest handicap should have played a much bigger role overall besides being used to portrait her as a wh0re and ruin her reputation, since it went well, well beyond that. However, it really wasn't.

Now we can play the "just because it's not said doesn't mean it didn't happen" game, but once again, we could also play that game with anything, including Aegon's 🥎🥎 We could say he could have anywhere from one to three and actually it would be impossible to disprove this statement. That is however, a game I don't enjoy playing because it's opening the door to just about everything, and then to the maesters, evil, evil, maesters changing history and lying.

So in sum, no, in my AU not having illegitimate children doesn't really change Rhaenyra's support all that much though her supporters are very, very pleased about who her heir is and the fact that his father was a Targaryen, which has highlighted by Lord Beesbury's arguments in Fire&Blood did matter - i.e., amount of Targaryen blood. It does change and a lot how people reading feel about her claim though, and over the years I had many people that consider themselves Neutral tell me that in the context of my fanfiction they are Team Black no questions asked.

In fact, strange as it is, I think this was an addition of George's not as much to the story but for his readers, to make them feel more ambiguous about the Dance.

Is this a big limitation in the way the Dance is written? Yes it is, and it does highlight how George is significantly stronger when he plays the gardener - main asoiaf books - instead of architect - Fire and Blood.

Cheers!

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Aegon: I don't think you're old enough to have this baby, Viserys

Viserys: 🥰

Aegon IV: 😠

Viserys: Look at his smile *pulls lips up*

Aegon IV: 🙂 (😠)

You’re 15 and your younger brother just told you he named his son after you