#let me fucking tell you as someo who lives in an arid country

[tweedfrog]

What kind of clothes aesthetic do you imagine for a grown up Rhaenys? For a modern au Rhaenys?

HELLO THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME THIS HERE ARE SOME DRESS UP DOLLS I PREPARED OF RHAENYS EARLIER:

In a Rhaegar won AU (she is carrying a spear that was a joint gift from Obara/Oberyn)

This is Rhaenys in the murder mystery story I have planned. It’s set in a more modern Westeros

In a 2021 Westeros I would see Rhaenys dressing like....IG baddie but professional if that makes sense. Pale pink blazers and baby blue acrylic nails, she has an instagram where she goofs off and posts aesthetic pictures, and her room is all pastels.

In 'middle ages' Westeros i think whatever Rhaenys wears would be very modest clothing to combat the hypersexualisation she would face because she is visibly half Dornish. Clothes (especially in the middle ages) werent just about what you wanted to wear - they were a political statement and reflected your position in society, so I think Rhaenys’ clothes would be very modest, and would also be black and red as a very in your face demonstration that she is a Targaryen (kind of like Rhaenyra)

It’s one of my pet peeves when artists draw Rhaenys in sexy scraps of clothing. I can even understand the logic for drawing characters like Nymeria and Arianne in those sort of clothes because in canon they do wear them. Although the portrayal of dornish women in the text is one of the most blatant examples of the exotic/erotic tropes I’ve ever seen so thats not great either. But its especially blatant when it comes to Rhaenys - why would she dress as a dornish woman? She would probably be in Kings Landing (a colder climate than Dorne), and would be raised in a court that would judge her for even the smallest show of “dornishness”. It makes no sense.