#argella is weird about pregnancy and childbirth

[faerune]

HI.. 🧥🐈🍼🍸🧵 for argella :-)

What’s their style like? Do they put a lot of effort into what they wear? Argella typically wears more darker colors and more simple silhouettes. She favors high collars, structured bodices and sometimes lower necklines. She wears quite a few rings but any other kind of jewelry is minimalist and simple even hair pieces. Always gold though of course.

She wears Baratheon colors though sometimes she'll wear red and black more out of loyalty to Rhaenyra than the family she married into until her and Aemond grow close in their third year of marriage. A few months before Viserys dies, she occasionally wears things that feature both stags and dragons in their embroidery or metal work. She also adopted her late mother's love for heavily embroidered pieces which unbeknownst to her is popular Tyroshi fashion!

Hair is more of a nuisance to her than anything but she likes having long hair so it's a catch 22 for her. So, she usually wears it up in like crown braids or some other type of braid to get it out of her face.

There are exceptions to this of course and she typically wears a nice doublet and hunting leathers along with archery gloves when out riding and hawking. Around those she feels comfortable with and/or when it's hot, she lets go a little and wears more flowy, breathable fabrics and lace.

Are they a cat or a dog person, or something else? How do they feel about pets? She's a horse girl, unfortunately. Argella loves all her pets previous and current. Her current horse is a big black stallion named Balerion by Aemond before he gifted him to her because he heard that she liked to ride and is trying to make her less miserable (if only because it hurts his pride having his wife sulk around lmao).

Argella has a soft spot for the few hawks she owns too! She'll often be in the rookery petting them and feeding them treats.

How do they feel about babies and children? Would they ever have any? Argella avoids thinking about actually being a parent because she's terrified of birth and becoming pregnant which is completely reasonable. Her mother died in childbirth and she was present for both Aegon III and Viserys II's births. Her thoughts never get that far before she shuts down and tries to get her mind to go elsewhere.

When Argella and Aemond actually begin sleeping with each other, Argella takes moon tea to prevent pregnancy which she keeps from Aemond. I think he'd be hurt so translation he'd be furious with her and it would end up in a big blow up between the two so she just keeps it to herself.

Unfortunately, moon tea isn't modern birth control and is less effective so she's ends up becoming pregnant anyway and finds out during the Dance which is quite possibly the worst time considering she just betrayed Aemond and left to pledge for Rhaenyra. It's a mess and she disassociates so hardcore from it even she sometimes forgets she is pregnant. She just can't Deal.

The idea of having the child she doesn't really deal with until Aemond finds out (which is a whole other situation entirely) but he basically pledges himself to her and her child because that is who is family is.

And then he gets himself killed and Argella flees and has the child in Tyrosh. Argella loves her daughter more than anything but she's very changed by everything. Traumatized, paranoid, absolutely mentally ill to the max. She tries her best but doesn't end up being the best mother. She has her daughter for Aemond, for the brief hope they shared. Because Argella needed a beginning after everything.

Do they drink alcohol? What kind do they prefer? Yes! Argella drinks a moderate amount I guess, at least at parties enough to cool her nerves/deal with being in the same room as Aemond's family (besides Helaena mwah they love each other). She loves hippocras from the Reach!

Can they mend their own clothes? Have they ever knitted, embroidered, or the like? Argella can do a basic stitch but she's never mended her own clothes. She's a rich girl who has other people do it for her smh. She doesn't have the patience to knit or embroider either.