#Serra

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the ask i got motivated me enough to draw this dumb idea ive had for months LMAO

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oc eating food

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If they wanted it to be a secret, now it won't be anymore

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Lil warm up.

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Reward art of Serra for Jun, for donating as part of the FE Rally for Gaza event!

👉 ferally4gaza.crd.co 📅 March 6th - April 17th

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i finished my playthrough of blazing blade! here are some of my favs < 3

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This is not a post I ever expected to be able to make honestly! When I started this blog “10 years from now” wasn’t something I ever seriously considered. It felt like forever.

Hello eternity!

In some ways it feels like nothing has changed at all, both in good and frustrating ways

In others, especially this month, things have changed way way too suddenly

I’m so incredibly grateful to everyone who’s stuck around, both since the beginning and since I restarted in 2020

Blogs cameo’d in order are @askteamshelds lyra-and-leon @ask-thepoketrio @askteamterry askjollydagonite @askomni @the-army-on-the-horizon @askunown @askthetraveller @asksavel @flake-n-rudy

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Richard Serra

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"*grumble* Thanks, I guess."

"What's that? Speak up and let me properly hear your praise for me!"

"I said THANK YOU for healing me, Serra."

happy @nagamas to my dear giftee @blubfishblue!! as a fellow serra appreciator i pounced on that prompt immediately, we love a gal who manages to be a menace even while healing, and her and matthew's supports are an absolute riot. thank you not only for the opportunity to draw them but also for your patience! hope it's worth the wait <3

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winter fashion serra

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A cleric in service to House Ostia. Headstrong and bold.

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Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022)

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Serra was Illyrio’s second wife, a sex slave from a pleasure house in Lys, and likely Aegon’s actual mother. She was a Blackfyre in the War of the Roses parallel of Margaret Beaufort, likely Daemon IV’s daughter sold into slavery after Maelys’s coup. 

Serra’s story sounds much similar to Daenerys’s: a young girl of Targaryen blood in Essos whose (proclaimed) royal father was deposed by a distant cousin, and then sold into marriage as part of a plan to take the Iron Throne. 

She did succeed in having a living son unlike Daenerys, but she never got to see him grow up as Illyrio states about her tragic death:

"A Braavosi trading galley called at Pentos on her way back from the Jade Sea. The Treasure carried cloves and saffron, jet and jade, scarlet samite, green silk … and the grey death. We slew her oarsmen as they came ashore and burned the ship at anchor, but the rats crept down the oars and paddled to the quay on cold stone feet. The plague took two thousand before it ran its course." Magister Illyrio closed the locket. "I keep her hands in my bedchamber. Her hands that were so soft …"

I think just as he doesn’t mention the actual details of her identity and the reason Illyrio married, he also may have been fibbing about her death. The best lies have bits of truth, the truth being the grey plague likely may have happened at the time. Note, he mentions that a plague came to Pentos, yet he doesn’t state that Serra herself got sick. 

At the end of the chapter, Tyrion sings a song by Symon Silvertongue threatening to reveal his secret about the sex worker who became his mistress, Shae. Shae herself (understandbly given her situation) betrayed him, and he would end up killing that very woman with the gold hands of the Hand's chain.

"A Braavosi trading galley called at Pentos on her way back from the Jade Sea. The Treasure

For she was his secret treasure

"I keep her hands in my bedchamber. Her hands that were so soft …"

For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm

Just where was the galley headed? As Illyrio said, it was on its way back to its home port of Braavos, a historical refuge for escaped slaves. 

Cutting off body parts with the tongues removed for little birds is part of Illyrio and Varys’s modus operandi, but it must be noted that the cutting off of one’s hands is the common punishment for thieves. What did Serra try to steal?

The thing of most value to Illyrio and Varys: Aegon.

While Illyrio and Varys were all in on the plan to crown Aegon, just what were Serra’s thoughts on it? The plan involved taking her young son from her for perhaps indefinitely to be raised by strangers to pursue the Iron Throne, a quest that has only resulted in death and disaster for her family.

Serra may have tried to run away with an infant Aegon to Braavos. Illyrio’s house slaves may even have helped her escape. Of course, Varys and Illyrio found out and stopped her, killing the crew on the ship. They would have been undoubtedly mad that she almost undid years of planning, and she likely threatened to reveal their secrets as a desperate last attempt. By that point, she had given birth to Aegon and fulfilled her part in the plan, so they didn’t need her anymore. 

They likely killed Serra, and Illyrio kept her hands as a memento. Serra was used a brood mare for her house's cause and when she tried to exercise some agency, she was murdered.