#FIRE AND BLOOD

[dalberadiata]

Reina Naerys

[artist-ellen]

Rhaenyra’s red and black dress

Show!Rhaenyra's red and black dress is one of the stronger designs from the show. There's good reason why it's the outfit most people are cosplaying with. So I wanted to reference it, but use the world-building/costume design rules I've been working with for Rhaenyra so far. Including a paired down Byzantine crown for 'everyday' wear.

Also I swear to you I thought this dress was red and blue. I had to go back and fix this one kind of convinced it was red and blue. It wasn’t until I started seeing better closeups of the dress that I realized the lighting affected it so much. 😅

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[ironlily1413]

Queen Helaena Targaryen and Dreamfyre

[drakaripykiros130ac]

The whole “Alicent is just protecting her children” argument is really getting old.

If her main priority truly was the wellbeing of her children, she wouldn’t have spent years turning them against Rhaenyra.

The only way she could have protected her children would have been to do the exact opposite: attempt to bring them and Rhaenyra close together.

But that’s not what she did. She made herself Rhaenyra’s enemy, not only by bullying her, but also by controlling Viserys, turning her children against their half-sister, and constantly gossiping about the parentage of Rhaenyra’s boys.

Didn’t she realize that as soon as Rhaenyra became Queen the fates of her children would be in Rhaenyra’s hands?

What did she hope to accomplish through all those foolish acts?

The only possible answer: she didn’t care about the consequences, because she knew that as soon as Viserys died, she and her “Green” party would usurp the throne.

All of Alicent’s actions resulted in the deaths of her children as well as her grandchildren. She is the only one truly responsible for the downfall of her family.

[lovedreamer11]

Eighteen-year-old Viserys consummated his marriage to Aemma when she was thirteen years old just after she began menstruating. Fifteen-year-old Aegon consummated his marriage to Helaena when she was thirteen. And people say that it was necessary and that both princes needed heirs immediately.

But we have a young fifteen-year-old King Jaehaerys whose marriage was opposed by his Hand and mother and he needed heirs to strengthen his right to the throne. But nevertheless, Jaehaerys refuses to have sex with thirteen-year-old Alysanne, whom he considers too young. And note, Jaehaerys waited two years until Alysanne herself insisted that their marriage be consummated.

We have thirteen-year-old Baela who insists on marrying Jace immediately, but Jacaerys himself asks her to wait.

We have Aegon, who waited several years after the Daenaera began menstruating before consummating their marriage.

Personally, it seems to me that Viserys and Aegon did not care at all about their wives. I often see opinions that say that Viserys and Aegon are not to blame, they are just teenagers, and they were allegedly forced to consummate the marriage by Baelon and Alicent in order to strengthen their sons' rights to the throne. Hello? They literally had sex with their thirteen year old wives. How could they be forced to do this? At most, all those around them could do was to harass and irritate Viserys and Aegon with lectures about the importance of duty and the presence of heirs, but no one could physically force them to consummate the marriage.

If Aegon and Viserys truly cared about their wives, they would have waited a couple of years. And as a result, we all know what the consequences of premature consummation were for Aemma, and poor Helaena became the mother of two children at fourteen.

Viserys deserves the title of "Best father of the year". For his eldest daughter, he arranged a marriage that was destined to be unhappy and barren, and he forced his youngest daughter to marry at thirteen (Viserys himself consummated his first marriage to a thirteen-year-old wife, he certainly knew about the possible negative consequences for a wife who was too young, but he wasn’t care about the risk to his daughter’s health).

Viserys and Aegon are two selfish bastards.

[la-pheacienne]

My girl Rhaenyra being compared to the Undisputed Rightful Heir Unfairly Killed and Eternally Mourned Prince Mustafa when the main premise of her story is that no matter how good or special or charismatic Rhaenyra was she would never ever compete with the sacred legitimacy of the Holy Male Heir Aegon II and her entire legacy was smeared for even daring to challenge this and two centuries later she is still considered a whore and a traitor because she broke the Andal Custom "She was daughter to one king and mother to two more, yet she died a traitor's death for trying to usurp her brother's crown. It is law. Law, Davos. Not cruelty" like I get that we can all have opinions and I get that everyone is entitled to their wrong opinion but there is a point where going through the tags becomes a horrifying experience. Like you cannot possibly be so unserious

[sihtriggyr]

TARGARYEN QUEENS

[rhaenin-time]

Not people calling Rhaenyra "lazy" for not flying into the Gullet when she had five other dragons to send and traumatized little Aegon was probably crying for her not to leave him as he watched little hero Stormcloud die. 😿

[sinsirellaxx]

The prince of your dreams

Daemon Targaryen x Reader

Warning: canon-typical violence.

A/N: Should this be a story/one shot? Would you be interested? Let me know!

PS: I'm currently obsessed with Daemon ... 😤

You had heard tales of dragons – they were told to be majestic but fearful creatures. And everyone who has heard of dragons also knows of the history of the dragon riders.

Just like every other girl, you had dreamed of your prince in shining armor – but instead of a white horse, the prince of your dreams came on dragon back.

A decade later you were taught that the prince on dragon back wouldn’t be your dream prince but the prince of your nightmares – setting your whole world on fire. Screams of panic and grief filled the usually silent night air followed by the sound of destruction. The smell of sulfur and fire woke you from your peaceful slumber, the distant cries of your folk drawing you from the comfort of your warm bed.

You clumsily stumbled out of your bed, almost tripping in your haste to reach the window – you could feel your heart in your throat as you pushed aside the curtains.

Hell – your eyes were met with the sight of a sea of fire – people were running out of their homes and onto the streets, trying to hide from the spreading fire.

Confusion overcame you and left you motionless – it looked like it rained lava.

Frantic knocking on your door pulled you away from your window. Your mother’s panicked voice calling out to you, telling you you had to leave.

Grabbing a silk robe, you threw it around you before rushing out, your mother’s weirdly cold hands grabbing you and pulling you along. You had never seen your mother that distressed before. You wondered why. It was just a fire – right?

You asked your mother why she was so scared, but she didn’t answer, instead she continued running.

Before you could repeat your question, a sudden heat tickled your back, the sound of concrete crumbling followed by the crackling of fire overwhelmed your senses as you forced your head to turn around as much as possible. One half of your home lay in ashes – you would have died if not for your mother. Your eyes widened as the grip on your mother’s hand tightened, your heart threatening to beat out of your chest.

When you finally made it outside you almost crashed into your neighbors, your home had completely been engulfed in flames by now as you maneuvered through the crowded city. It was complete chaos. When you heard a monstrous screeching sound you stopped in your tracks, turning around to locate the sound.

Your whole body froze, eyes wide as you took in the sight in front of you. A huge beast with wings hovered in front of you, teeth barred and its silhouette casting a shadow over you – swallowing you in complete darkness.

It was a dragon.

Remembering the tales from your childhood your eyes immediately looked for a dragon rider – it had to have one, right?

And sure enough, your eyes spot a knight with blonde-silver hair on the back of the beast – just like the prince of your dreams. But instead of swooping in to save and love you he wreaked havoc over your city, burning everything and everyone without a second thought.

Fire and blood.

[laurikarauchscat]

Reference pose : https://www.instagram.com/p/C5jUomCxAoG/?igsh=M3RqbzlnYXl5ZDN3

Rhaenys the conqueror loved music, and dancing. She spent more time on dragonback than either of her siblings.

I drew Rhaenys as Aphrodite. This idea is from @charlottegospocic, who suggested Rhaenys as Hera. That was the original plan, but I ultimately think Hera fits better with someone like Rhaenyra, and the more I thought about it, the more Aphrodite fit better for Rhaenys.

[alicenttully]

nettles being one of the very few survivors of the dance is so important because so much about her characterisation makes her "disposable". smallfolk. bastard. orphan. daughter of a whore. the only thing that makes her valuable to these people is her dragon and she uses it to get to safety in the very end. love that for her!

[oliviakookes]

aemond basking in the glow of being a fiancé

House of the Dragon [1 x 10]

[artist-ellen]

Rhaenys in Mourning

At the beginning of the end of S1 Rhaenys is in mourning for her two children, Laenor and Laena. While the show has Laenor fake his death and leave Westeros... Rhaenys doesn't know that and blames Rhaenyra. Even years later Rhaenys still wears heavy blacks, and even more pearls. All the pearls. Her crown is much like Rhaenyra's 'everyday' crown but with the strings of pearls. The style of her fashion hasn't changed much but with more fabric and layers.

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[pookiebearsnookumsalicent]

The Dragonseed Nettles

[drakaripykiros130ac]

I feel I must say it again: It’s not Rhaenyra’s job to ensure that firstborn daughters get a chance to inherit their father’s positions in the Realm.

Rhaenyra is not a crusader for women’s rights. She is a woman who fought for her own rightful claim to the Iron Throne.

Other women who feel they have been wronged by the patriarchy, can/should fight their own battles…or not. But it’s not Rhaenyra’s job to hold their hands through this, especially not at a time when her own position is unstable.

The point is that with Rhaenyra seated on the Iron Throne, she is living proof that yes, it is possible to have a woman sit a throne in Westeros. And as such, she helps other young women fight for their claims, and also gives the lords of the Realm the possibility to choose their daughters to succeed them.

So enough with the preposterous accusations that Rhaenyra gave something something to second sons over first daughter bla bla whatever. You cannot turn a whole system upside down overnight, and Rhaenyra followed the advice of her own Hand, Corlys Velaryon, when she made those decisions.

Just because Rhaenyra is Queen, you expect her to take away everything the lords have and give them to the ladies born before them?

Rhaenyra has sons, who would inherit everything from her after she passes. This isn’t about turning Westeros into Barbie Land, it’s about slowly allowing women the possibility to inherit in the future (but not women exclusively!!)

[czerwona123]

If AlIcEnT wAs LiKe ShE wAs In ThE bOokS wE wOuLd LiKe HeR.

NO. NO YOU WOULNT.

Me and the Alicent stans and team green members would love to see that side of her but, not all of those „book Alicent fans” who constantly make her out to the be the devil, because obviously Alicent at 18 years old was having sex with Jaehaerys, Daemon and Viserys. She was obviously the worst person to ever exist and needs to be tortured in as many ways as possible.

They don’t want Alicent from the books, they want to be able to be as misogynistic and hateful to her as possible with little to no consequences.

They literally couldn’t handle Alicent as a child, and were making fun of her being raped, and were rightfully called out on their disgusting behaviour, yet still continued doing it.

They just want a woman that they can hate.