#bastards of aegon IV

[highgardenart]

Megette, and her daughters with Aegon IV Targaryen: Alysanne, Lily, Willow, and Rosey.

[cheryroseart]

Shiera Seastar cause I love drawing her🪷

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[rynnthefangirl]

It must have been so weird to be Daeron II. He is a generation unto himself, too young to have grown up with his aunts and uncles, too old to have grown up with his siblings. He is the ultimate elder brother, he lived 17 years of his life an only child with no cousins before suddenly being saddled with several younger bastard siblings and a true born sister. Do you think he loved Daemon Blackfyre as a little brother, and was heartbroken at his treason? Or was the gap between them too great, and Daemon was only ever a reminder of his father’s spite, a burden to be treated well but never trusted?

[rozsesandart]

Serenei of Lys, ninth mistress of King Aegon IV Targaryen and mother to Shiera Seastar 🌊

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[alienoryva]

"Mya and Gwenys Rivers "

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—Bastard Daughters of King Aegon IV Targaryen and his mistresses Lady Melissa Blackwood.

[25inthelaketonight]

My headcanon is that Missy Blackwood was so kind and good-natured that her friendship with Queen Naerys is based upon "I'll take this ugly fat abuser off your plate and I'll entertain him for you because you don't deserve this, kween"

[coldraindropsss]

Mya Rivers and Gwenys Rivers

Bloodravens older sisters

[daenystheedreamer]

aegon (visenya rhaenys) [aenys maegor] aenys (alyssa) [rhaena aegon viserys jaehaerys alysanne vaella] maegor (ceryse alys tyana jeyne rhaena eleanor) jaehaerys (alysanne) [aegon daenerys aemon baelon alyssa maegelle vaegon daella saera viserra gaemon valerion gael] viserys (aemma alicent) [rhaenyra baelon aegon helaena aemond daeron] rhaenya (laenor daemon) [jacaerys lucerys joffrey visenya aegon viserys] aegon (helaena) [jaehaerys jaehaera maelor] aegon (jaehaera daenaera) [daeron baelor daena rhaena elaena] daeron baelor (daena) viserys (larra) [aegon naerys aemon] aegon (naerys) [daeron daenerys] {daemon aegor brynden gwenys mya shiera willow rosey lily balerion bellenora narha} daeron (myriah) [baelor aerys rhaegel maekar] aerys (aelinor) maekar (dyanna) [aerion daeron aemon aegon daella rhae] aegon (betha) [duncan daeron jaehaerys shaera rhaelle] jaehaerys (shaera) [aerys rhaella] aerys (rhaella) [jaehaerys shaena rhaegar viserys daenerys] viserys daenerys (drogo hizdahr) [rhaego drogon viserion rhaegal] I AM THE BEAST

[visenyaism]

Share with us your Shiera headcanons please 🙏

since shiera is such a nothing character who just happens to have a really cool premise i do have a lot because you can just make stuff up (apart from my goofy shiera hightower theory). so here’s a big ol list under the cut:

-raised primarily by her half brother daeron since her mother died having her and her father died when she was an infant and seeing as how her mom had dubious origins (maybe from lys but no family, maybe a witch) she had literally nowhere else to go. Also because as a GIRL bastard she was just less of a threat. Because she’s just there on the goodwill of her brother the king, internalized from a young age that the only way to get what she wanted was to be extremely self-interested and perform her part very well.

-spent most of her childhood in the library reading political theory and trying to Learn Real Magic to get closer to her mother. fixation on appearance and performance led to her picking glamour magicks as her primary field of study, which is also what she heard they’re into in Lys.

-Spent a lot of time with Aerys I as a result because they had similar special interests and his general disinterest in women meant he was one of the few people who was not Weird to her as a teenager so they just stayed research buddies.

-Everyone at court’s preoccupation with her physical appearance from a weirdly young age (thank u george rr martin very normal and cool) led to teenage shiera just deciding she can say or do pretty much whatever she wants within the confines of the social role she’s been assigned. None of it matters unless she wants it to so the worst thing she can be is bored.

-So as a result of that she manipulates people when she gets bored but can you blame her if it’s the only way to get what she wants as a bastard and they’re probably not listening to what she has to say anyways and also making people fight is really entertaining?

-Not being taken seriously as a bastard AND a girl helps her realize that the entire game of thrones is in fact a made up game—one she enjoys her and her loved ones winning, but not something to stake her whole personhood in—and her family are not literal dragons or serious people.

-Unlike the other great bastards shiera is not wrapped up in the existential identity crisis about whether or not she is a True Targaryen because she’s never been interested in being anyone other than herself. Terminally bored whenever Bloodraven or Aegor or Daemon start doing this.

-Blackfyre rébellion happened when she was sixteen so of course she backed Daeron over her annoying other brother. Definitely made Bloodraven’s arrows that took him and his kids out.

-the blood magic thing WAS true. shiera was maybe not as practiced in it as her notable sisterniece danelle lothston but she did partake

-Eventually fell out with Bloodraven because it was really fun at first to be cooking up schemes nonstop to hold the realm down under Aerys, but then she realized that’s the only thing he wanted to do for the entire rest of his life. and the game is just going to repeat itself over and over again so she got out of there because that’s soooooo critically boring and there are other things in the world.

-accelerationist in that she does not believe things can actually get better for people under a targaryen king unless circumstances get bad enough that the people rise up and take back power, but not in the sense that she’s interested in being the one sparking that. She just has very little faith in the system at large.

-i don’t think she’s quaithe but definitely she spent the rest of her life travelling learning new magic and stuff. Not alive by the main series but no known records of death, she just sort of fell off the map eventually.

[makesitprecious]

LET'S CAST THAT ⤵

Sasha Luss as Shiera 🌊🌟

Though she never wed, she had many offers, and several lovers through the years. Duels were fought over the right to sit beside her, men killed themselves after falling from her favor, poets outdid each other writing songs about her beauty. Her most ardent admirer was her half-brother, Bloodraven, who proposed marriage to her half a hundred times. Shiera gave him her bed, but never her hand. It amused her more to make him jealous. -- So Spake Martin

[qyburn-in-the-black-cells]

So here’s the thing with bastards in Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon/ASOIAF -

1 - While it’s clearly established why legitimising them into cadet branches (see A Storm of Swords) in universe has the potential to set up generational cold wars and animosity (see Blackfyres and Kar/Greystarks), GRRM uses almost every illegitimate character to deconstruct bastard prejudice (conniving, lustful, inherently untrustworthy, unbaptised original sin that would make an evangelical balk)

ex. Jon Snow. Just everything about Jon Snow.

ex. Addam Velaryon recruiting an army, flying to his death to protect his men and the Queen who’s tried to arrest (torture) him etc. ex. Jacaerys Targaryen is the only Targaryen adult in the room after the Battle of Rook’s Rest. From his management of feudal relationships to military strategy to the Sowing of the Seeds, Fire & Blood makes it abundantly clear that he is better suited to be a wartime king (and probably a king in general) than either Rhaenyra or Aegon or Prince Regent Aemond.

[andloveisenough]

i love how aegon, helaena, and aemond mirror aegon, naerys, and aemon the dragon knight. i've got a VERY soft spot for the not-aegons in these sibling dynamics

helaena and naerys, you two deserved the world

[rynnthefangirl]

Daeron II: hate me all you want, but I am your true born son and Daemon is a bastard.

Aegon IV:

[rozsesandart]

Lady Barba Bracken, fifth mistress of Aegon IV Targaryen and mother of Aegor Rivers, known as Bittersteel ⚔️

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[oh1theseus]

rip to jaehaerys I kids!!!! you would have loved getting into twitter fights. if there’s anyone in the entire asoiaf series i want to see get into twt drama it’s his kids. i KNOW saera is getting cancelled and uncancelled every other week. there’s alyssa discourse. “is it okay to stan princess viserra? she’s my problematic fave..” etc etc.

[horizon-verizon]

People keep forgetting about Daeron II, like there was the rumor that he was a bastard, rumors literally spread by Aegon IV, yet he still became king.

Daeron II becomes king despite rumors of bastardry in part because his illegitimate siblings were "obviously" bastards from birth (since Aegon IV openly fraternized with their mothers who also stayed at court with him during their trlationships so one can witness their pregnancies and laboring) while outnumbering him and his legitimate sister Daenerys--he was the only legitimate-son-from-birth (officially) kids--AND because he was of good enough character, esp juxtaposed against the cruel Aegon IV. And he was male.

Looks like circumstances outweigh true, "proven" parentage.