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The AU of Restoration AU where whatever Ned thinks is the twins backstory is actually true. How would Rhaella meeting and negotiating with Daemon Targaryen/Blackfyre/Who-Even-Cares go?

Hm, so I'm assuming this is the variant where we have Stepstones-era Daemon who hasn't had his twins yet, so anywhere from 30-34ish.

The main difficulty is in keeping Caraxes secret from the world, since in Restoration AU, no one has any notion of dragons being back. Not even Ned (yet)! So perhaps he is injured in battle and ends up Winterfelled near Braavos, separated from Caraxes at first. When he stumbles into Braavos, declaring himself a Targaryen, he's led by Targaryen sympathizers to the house with the red door.

Rhaella being in a position of power over him helps, I'm sure, because he looks enough like kin to stir unwanted memories of Aerys. But he's very kind to her children, who adore him, and insists on finding his "dragon." Once he's better, he invites Rhaella to accompany him to see that he speaks the truth about his dragon.

By now, I assume Rhaella has heard his stories of being Daemon Targaryen, rider of Caraxes, wielder of Dark Sister, and only his sword has lent the story any credence. But when they go outside the city, perhaps to one of the mountainous isles in the lagoon, she sees Caraxes for her own eyes.

At this point, his story is looking at least somewhat more true. He has no knowledge of current events, he knows a great deal of history, he has a dragon. And that's the important thing. He has a dragon.

It must be Rhaella who tells him that Caraxes must be kept secret from the world until they make their strike. Daemon is all ready to rain fire down on Robert Baratheon, but they need soldiers. They need the Golden Company.

Marriage is the best alliance, and Rhaella will do what she must for both her children and her family's legacy. She proposes that they marry, even though she is forty years of age now, and after a quiet ceremony + Daemon scaring up some coin by torching a roving band of raiders or something on Caraxes, they set out for the Disputed Lands to meet with the Golden Company.

After only a few moons, Rhaella finds herself pregnant once more. Dany is maybe a year old by now, and it's overwhelming to think about going through another difficult childbirth, but having Daemon's children will almost assuredly cement his loyalty to her. Surprise! It's twins.

I like to think that the two of them falling in love happens at different speeds. Daemon is taken very quickly, admiring Rhaella's spirit despite all that has happened to her, and her maternal affection for her children. It takes much longer for Rhaella, for obvious reasons. Daemon playing with her children as though they are his own, protecting them from dangers on the road, ruthlessly destroying anyone who threatens their family--not out of paranoia, like Aerys, but because their safety is the most important thing in the world to Daemon.

By the time they arrive in the Disputed Lands, the marriage is less one of paper. Rhaella probably urges Daemon to claim that he's a Blackfyre, though Dark Sister isn't the best blade to produce as evidence, but the Golden Company doesn't even care because that's a full grown dragon.

Because the Golden Company comes to know of Caraxes, rumors likely make it out into the world, only to be dismissed. The main weakness I see with this AU "mirroring" Restoration is that I don't think it would take eight years for Daemon and Rhaella to feel confident to retake the Iron Throne.

That said, I like to think they go in search of dragon eggs, finding the ones that Illyrio has in canon, and one hatches for Rhaella, Viserys, and Dany apiece. The twins' eggs are found following a lead to Volantis. Maybe Daemon wants to wait until Rhaella's dragon is full-grown (or close enough), and that's the reason they wait eight years. Two dragons is a better security policy than just one, and Viserys will be old enough then to aid in battle.

The twins going missing would actually be a kidnapping. Hard to say who's at fault. Daemon has been a part of Viserys's life long enough for him to view him as a father, and he has a dragon to curb some of his instability (a lot of which was exacerbated by having to raise Dany alone, penniless and in fear of assassins). So I don't think it would be him? Perhaps it's an actual surviving Blackfyre heir, aiming to challenge Daemon's claim somehow. Who knows!

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In an AU where Jon is still male but Rhaegar is female, if Rhaella were in this AU too, what would Rhaegar’s name be? And who would they all end up with? Maybe Daemon would be completely unhinged because he’d constantly be telling Jon that he needs to get married, while at the same time telling his daughters that every single suitor has to get past him and Dark Sister!! That’s the fun part—if they were all daughters, Daemon would just have to watch out for incoming men. But now, he also has to play matchmaker for Jon. Lol. (Maybe if Dany exists too, he won’t need to find Jon a bride anymore.) Lol.

I feel like Rhaegar would let Rhaella choose the name, which means she very well could end up being Daenerys, since that was the name Rhaella choose for her next daughter. Alternately, she might let Daemon choose, in which case Alyssa and Visenya might be in play. (Or they could go for rhyming names and be Daella and Rhaella.)

Honestly, if Daemon has two daughters and one son, he's gonna just assume Jon will end up with one of them. He's the one who would best take care of his sisters, and to Daemon, marrying your sister is basically the gold standard of Targaryen matches. Jon not being on board is obviously Allard Royce's doing, and something Daemon will need to "fix."

I don't see Daemon rushing Jon into marriage, though, or interfering too much in his choice. That's what was done to him, and that's how he ended up stuck married to Rhea Royce for nearly two decades. I could see marriage being a bittersweet prospect for Daemon, as it's sort of the final rite of passage into adulthood for his children, after which he's no longer needed.

Daemon's ideal would be one daughter marrying Jace to become queen, and one marrying Jon to become the lady of Runestone alongside him. Second best would be both daughters marrying one of Rhaenyra's sons. Anything that keeps them reasonably close to him, so that he doesn't need to travel far to see any of them. Consolidating his children between KL and Runestone accomplishes that in spades.

(Third best would involve other Velaryon matches, as Driftmark is also fairly close.)

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Here's a fun one for you.

I assume Jon has had to do all manner of chores in his life, including collecting eggs, but has Rhaegar ever had to wrangle a rooster? A chicken? A turkey? Pheasant? Has he ever had the experience of being pecked at by an angry feathered miniature dinosaur? Being the king's personal chicken wranglers and egg collectors for a week would be such a good punishment if Daemon ever has to punish his sons again. Maybe as punishment for making poor Arryk and Erryk wrangle them (in the mud no less)!

Oh dear. I could see Rhaegar haaaating that kind of punishment because chickens are vicious when roused to anger. While Daemon doesn't have to feel bad about depriving his children of something. It's just good, hard work. Though he might view it as too demeaning/too like what Allard might have punished them with to "show them their place." *thinks* Maybe Laenor can convince him otherwise.

I would guess that Jon and Raymar had plenty of adventures at the Gates of the Moon, including some close encounters with the feathered kind. Just enough for Rhaegar to understand how terrifying they can be. 😂

I'm now imagining Qelebrys protectively attempting to burn every chicken that attacks him. Oh my. And the Cargyll brothers watching with great amusement as the boys serve out their chicken/egg wrangling punishment.

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Regret AU!! I’m enthralled by the idea that Vizzy might be so enraged by Volantis kidnapping Daemon/twins that he claims another dragon and goes after them himself. I would love this! What are the chances this would be a real part of the story? And if so, which dragon? I think, if he can finally get the courage up, if he finally is wiling to show Daemon what he means to him, then Vizzy should get a terror for a dragon. Thoughts?

The thing about Viserys being moved by his rage/fear to claim a dragon is that it cuts to the heart of what Daemon has always felt that he lacks from his brother: gestures that demonstrate how much he cares. Getting over his reluctance/fear of claiming a dragon and leaving the safety of the Red Keep to search for his brother himself is basically speaking Daemon's love language. It's bold, it's a bit reckless, it's something their father would have done.

It would also go a long way toward making up for the blunders that led to this outcome, most notably ignoring/belittling Daemon's pleas for an annulment.

The main problem as far as claiming a terror (Vermithor or the like) is that Viserys has no quick journey to Dragonstone. He'd have to go by boat, since Rhaenyra is at Gulltown. (Or, humiliatingly, he has to call for her to return to ferry him there, which wastes precious days.)

So his best bet would be claiming a dragon like Dreamfyre.

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Pushing my Rhaella/Jace agenda because it has firmly lodged itself in my mind and I can't think about anything else.

I feel like if Jace courted her he would want to do it by the book and give her like a perfect fairytale courtship. Since Jace is not a teenage girl, and has virtually no idea how to court a teenage girl, I think that he's going to be going to Rhaenyra for advice a lot. Rhaenyra has lots of experience with bad suitors, so she'll definitely be able to tell him what not to do, but in all honesty I don't remember her having a single suitor (other than Daemon) who she genuinely liked. I guess she could tell him to do some of what Daemon did (rare, expensive gifts, and dragon races) but most of his "courtship strategies" were... unorthodox, to say the least. (see: the brothel incident.) Poor Jace is going to need to seek advice from Laenor (who is not interested in women), Viserys (who will have no advice because he's king and most people in the realm just do whatever he says), or Daemon (who's "advice" will amount to "harm my daughter and I maim you".) He could maybe ask Corlys, but it's not clear how often they see each other, and Rhaenys basically chose him so I don't think he'd have much good advice either. So the entirety of the advice he gets amounts to "give her pretty things and fly with her."

Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) Jace has access to both the Crown's vaults, and Driftmark's, so he'll have no shortage of pretty things to give Rhaella. The result ends up being that Rhaella now has so many priceless jewels and trinkets that she's running out of room for all of them, which is slightly overwhelming, but Jace is always so nervous when he gives her something new, and his smile is so sweet when she says she likes it, that she doesn't want to tell him to slow down a little. (also, pretty things! yay!)

Also, I'm not sure this needs clarification, but this is for the Rhaella-as-the-boys-triplet AU. I just realized that I forgot to say that.

Awww, all Jace really needs is to be sweet to her; she's lived a life before of having a vast array of jewels, but none of that mattered when she was trying to cover up the bruises. But I'm cackling at all the conflicting/overlapping advice he'd be getting. Here's my take:

Rhaenyra: Don't act as though he's doing her a favor by courting her. Seek to understand her, and give her things that she would like. Failing that, most girls like jewelry.

Laenor: Wear tight-fitting trousers in her presence and win her over with daring deeds in the yard/tourney, dedicating those victories to her.

Viserys: (probably just offers to make a formal betrothal as head of House Targaryen)

Daemon: Obviously there are threats here, but if Daemon is being charitable, he might share some of the things you mentioned that he's done in the past (rare gifts, dragonriding, etc).

Corlys: Travel to a distant land and bring back something unique that no other girl would possess.

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I know there's a pretty good chance that Rhaella will have no interest in boys whatsoever while she gets over her life with Aerys, but won't it be so adorable if/when she actually does become interested in a boy? Just seeing her finally get to experience being with someone who cares about her as a person and not as walking womb. And she's get to have a proper courtship, betrothal, and (eventually) marriage to someone of her choice. Not to mention the endless entertainment of having Jon, Rhaegar, and Daemon all plotting to murder anyone who so much as looks at her too long. If she does end up with Jace, (as I'm sure Rhaenyra is hoping for) he'll probably be spared the worst of it, because Jon and Rhaegar don't want to hurt they're cousin, and Daemon doesn't want to hurt Rhaenyra's son, but I'd imagine it would still be pretty intimidating. Jace would be an amazing match for Rhaella because a) she'd get to be a queen with real power b) she would be able to learn about that power from Rhaenyra before actually becoming Queen herself, and c) even if they don't have children, Jace has so many brothers that it won't cause a succession crisis as it did for canon!Rhaella and Aemma.

I definitely agree that if Rhaella wants a do-over at being queen but with a husband who is actually quite charming and attentive and willing to let her carry out her royal duties (aside from the childbearing ones), then Jace is a very nice option. I think you raise a fair point too that there's far less pressure to produce a male heir when the king has multiple brothers who are also up to the task.

Jace will get that additional scrutiny from Rhaegar and Jon, however. They know about her past, and although she's had many years to distance herself from that trauma, either will want her to have only the most worthy of suitors/husband.

Viserys meanwhile is in a constant state of anxiety over PTWP business. Was Rhaella meant to marry one of her brothers to consolidate whatever special blood they carry? Or should he be prioritizing keeping that blood in the main royal line? Although Rhaella doesn't have the "normal" pressure to bear children, Viserys has a vested interest in the matter...

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Okay, code officially submitted, no take-backsies. Now to make some ice cream and finally get to those pending inbox asks...

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Thanks to the incorrect quotes blog, I have another question inspired by that last quote. I know mother's day is probably not a thing in Westeros, but say it was, or maybe it's Alicent's birthday, would Rhaegar help Helaena or Aemond or even Aegon come up with a gift for their mother? Or maybe even look at them all disappointed if at first they don't seem to care/plan to get her anything. I feel like he'd have strong feelings about appreciating your mother. 🥰

Alas, the Faith only really celebrates the "Maiden's Day" (where ironically mothers are barred). But a name day is a good excuse for a gift. Not that Daemon needs an excuse with his sons.

I could see Rhaegar perhaps exerting a positive influence on the boys here. At the very least Aemond, who wouldn't want to disappoint him. But it's definitely sweeter if Helaena is involved somehow.

(Jon, over in the corner, is mystified.)

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Jon: What's that?

Aegon: A birthday card for my mother.

Rhaegar: Aw let me read it... "get better soon" ... I thought you said it was a birthday card?

Aegon: It is. I feel like it's the most appropriate one for our relationship.

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Daemon, to Otto: I don't have to win...I just have to make sure YOU LOSE!

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*emerges bloodied from the depths of coding* I'm aliiiiiiiive.

I'm not fully done yet, still gotta write a few things up and submit the damn thing tonight, but the biggest crunch is over. All I gotta do after that is stress about the upcoming three follow-up interviews...

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Hello everyone!

Happy to see you found my blog! I’m a digital artist and I mostly draw fanart of whatever fandom has invaded my brain at the moment. My art can be mostly divided in two, fanart ideas that I have developed myself and fanart from fics I like.

I also use this blog to reblog things I like, art references, or just silly stuff. If you want to ignore all of that my main art tag is #mis trazos

Here’s a list of some of the ideas I’ve developed for different fandoms, some are quite lengthy, others only have one or two works, but I’m placing them here because I want to add to them in the future.

(I originally tried to transfer all my gallery from Deviantart to tumblr, but I didn't do it when it was time and now it's too late and now you all have to deal with the DA links)

Transformers:

SARMA (aka Sunstreaker and Rod magical adventure)

A series in which Sunstreaker is separated from his twin, finds a youngling named hot rod and now he must bring the both of them to a safe place.

[ Art tag ] [DA gallery] [ ao3 fics by @weewoo-and-go-go-go-bot-rangers]

Voltron legendary defender

Sheith with cats

Another comic I did during the pandemic; at least this one has something like an ending 😅

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Cosmo the therapy dog Just a bunch of drawings of Shiro spending time with Keith's wolf.

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Tolkien

Young refugees

Elwing and Earendil spend time together as they do chores around Sirion. I love coming up with scenes for this one!

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Maedhros found the twins au

Very short comic of Mae succeeding in his search for Dior's kids. I've thought about this one often...

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It was a nightmare au

Maglor wakes up from a terrible nightmare...

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Feanorianweek series

Every year I try to make works about the feanorians, they can be found under the tag #feanorianweek or the more specific

#Miriel's descendants fanart

#elves in quarantine

#Feanorian life skills

#red and white series

#sons of feanor and water series

#the Eramos Felices y no lo Sabiamos series

Tolkien reverse summer bang art

Super fun activity I try to do every year; I come up with some crazy idea and a fantastic author creates a fantastic fanfic around it!

[ Art tag ] [ Masterpost of all the works I’ve collaborated in ]

Linked universe

Ancestor au

A short comic of wild's family

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The face of your loved one au

Based on a prompt (what if your future reincarnation has the face of your loved one in this life?) it's actually bigger in my WIPs gallery but I will finish those eventually

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Additionally, I read a lot of fics and a sometimes a spell falls upon me, and I end up drawing fanart for that.

Some fics have several pieces of artwork, others only one (not because I love them less, it's just sometimes the subject helps me with artistic block or to improve my art skills 💕)

Voltron legendary defender

Discordiasama's fics by @discordiansamba

Most of these fics are Keith centric, usually with some physical modification, and I loved to draw the very different types of alien features!

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Find me in the shadows by the Wenzel

The author is no longer in tumblr, but the story remains and I had a lot of fun drawing this version of Keith, the hair, the jewerly!

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ASoIaF aus

Everlasting song by @amethysttribble

It’s both asoiaf and Tolkien! With my favorite disaster family! Ahh, such a good read! I struggle to come up with a definite design but t's always fun to try.

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Resonant and it's many, many aus by @syndrossi

The author started with one single story, and like a vine, it extended into several branches, focused on the prompt of Jon snow and Rhaegar Targaryen time traveling to the times of the dance of the dragons. it's always a good place to practice drawing children!

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Transformers

The Iacon prophecy Series by @weewoo-and-go-go-go-bot-rangers

An amazing alternate universe about the autoboots, Sideswipe and Prowl centric, this is the verse I go to when I need to practice drawing robots 💖

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Linked Universe

Gerudo!Twilight au

The art I've done for this au derive mostly from a fic titled "A wolf in king's clothing" by @thesacredtwink, but some are unrelated, in any case here's the tag.

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Other fanart from Linked Universe can be found with the tag #just a chain of green adventurers

Avatar the last airbender

Another brother by AvocadoLove

An au where Hakoda found an injured and amnesiac Zuko. I love this story so much, I’ve made several fanart about it because drawing fire and water is quite the challenge!

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Dragon Ball

A Different Baby Series by @secretsofdbz

One of my favorite types of au! Trunks is actually a girl, and many things are different because of this change. it's so fun to draw the main character, she's strong and muscular and I'v saved so many art references to draw her 🫶🏻

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Fullmetal alchemist

Loyal dogs by xCrimsonxBlackxBloodx

Mustang and his team are sent to war, and yes this includes Edward. The first thing that draw me in was the idea of drawing Ed in military uniform and then ah! The plot draw me in, the OC’s the drama! The action! There are several scenes I want to draw so much!

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Regrettably I haven’t created more fanart tags here in tumblr, but you can find all the fanfiction based art I’ve made in this DA gallery: As seen in a fanfic

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I'll be pretty radio silent today, just FYI, as I have my coding assignment to finish for one of my upcoming interviews. Feel free to send in asks, just know that I won't get to them until tomorrow!

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@lidoshka I just realized that I forgot to link your Restoration AU art in the last AO3 Resonant Side Stories update! 😱 Clearly this means I'll have to sneak in some other chapter at some point, especially with the new Reversal AU art too!

(Maybe a Reversal + Restoration ficlets collection? I could also do an Aemon's Sons AU compilation.)

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oh, what’s that? more resonant videos?

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#please please please give me shiny shadow#he would be so irritated

Well, @immortalwalnut gave us shiny versions of the hatchlings here! Soooo, surely there's some AU where they're at their shiniest, gaudiest best as baby dragons!

baby dragons whose scales are much more shiny and iridescent in order to hide in their parents' hoards

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i ask myself, should i ask syn this question because it has the potential to evolve into yet another verse fic? and then i go ahead and do it anyway.

just read a post (i think by my fellow teacher bestie @textbookchoices hi!) and you answered how Daemon would be waiting to put Aerys in his place had he shown up at the Trident. the following questions, naturally, come:

- What if Daemon showed up during Aerys’ reign when Rhaegar was 14yo? (and mayhaps dreaming of Raymar Redfort). He could also be 11-12

- To include Jon, we could… yeah i got nothing there

- He shows up? Just like Daemon? What would be terribly ironic would be if he were a Volantis cousin lmao

- And so, as per uze, Daemon and Caraxes encompassed Fire & Blood epically, take the throne from Aerys (who is quite angry that he doesn’t have a dragon after seeing Rhaegar [and Rhaella?] being handed a large egg), and now needs his sons help to find his other son, Rhaegar’s twin brother.

- So I guess a main part of this is the Search For Jon, and mirroring each other, Jon is on the search for both of them.

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Hmmmm, how to get Jon in here? We could make it a mirror of Restoration, where there are two Rhaegars, so it could be Daemon + the twins showing up, and fourteen-year-old Rhaegar now has a mini-me.

Eek, imagine Rhaegar ending up in KL while Jon ends up elsewhere (the Vale? the North? Dorne? idk). Rhaella had a miscarriage 4 and 5 years after Rhaegar was born, so could Aerys believe, in his paranoia, that R!Rhaegar was one of those children somehow, stolen away?

So in sharp contrast to the twins in Restoration finding protection and shelter from Ned, you have R!Rhaegar in the nightmare of Aerys being his father once more and KL!Rhaegar having no clue what to make of this. Pretty sure Rhaella knows Rhaegar can't be one of her miscarried babies, but he looks so much like hers that perhaps the gods restored one of her lost children to her somehow?

And it will be hard for Qelebrys to hide, so Aerys has a "lost child" with a dragon and he's going to be hell-bent on figuring out where to get more dragon eggs / what makes R!Rhaegar special. (Summerhall does provide a reasonable cover story. I could see Aerys plundering it for surviving dragon eggs.)

I think I'd start Daemon out on Essos, so he has a reason to knock on Volantis's door first because obviously sorcery shenanigans went down. Then it's KL, then the Search for Jon, who is going to have quite a few people interested in getting their hands on him and his hatchling.