#rhaegarweek2021

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RHAEGAR APPRECIATION WEEK 2021: ↳ Day 5: Family

As a young boy, the Prince of Dragonstone was bookish to a fault. He was reading so early that men said Queen Rhaella must have swallowed some books and a candle whilst he was in her womb.

[aerltarg]

Rhaegar Week 2021

Day 5: Family

Rhaegar and his siblings

Rhaegar Targaryen, born in 259, died in 283 AC, aged 24.

Shaena Targaryen, 267 AC, stillborn. Rhaegar was 8.

Daeron Targaryen, 269 AC, lived only half a year. Rhaegar was 10.

A child, gender and name unknown, 270 AC, stillborn. Rhaegar was 11.

Aegon Targaryen, born in 272 AC, died the following year. Rhaegar was 13-14.

Jaehaerys Targaryen, born in 274 AC, died later the same year. Rhaegar was 15.

Viserys Targaryen, born in 276 AC. Rhaegar was 17. The only one who outlived him and died in 298 AC, aged 21-22.

Daenerys Targaryen, born in 284 AC, after Rhaegar's death. The only one still alive.

[thesunwillshineonusagain757]

Rhaegar: Name a more iconic duo then my fear of abandonment and my constant self hate

Lyanna:

Lyanna: You and me!

Rhaegar: *tearing up Okay

[lorelei-4]

Rhaegar Targaryen Appreciation Week

Day 3: Personality traits and skills /  Music and poetry

Modern AU — Rhaegar as a musician

[vivacissimx]

fic: all eternity to love the dead (rated: T, 4K, oneshot)

characters: aphrodite!meraxes, ares!caraxes, athena!meleys, hera!balerion, zeus!vhagar, rhaegar targaryen, arthur dayne, elia martell, lyanna stark, daenerys targaryen, jon snow

summary: "for she, terror-inspiring, breathes on all things, and flits like a honeybee." —Euripides, Hippolytus

From her perch in the heavens, Meraxes blesses those she chooses. Those blessings do not always have the desired effect.

[imaginaryvane]

Them: y'all Lyanna self-inserts

Me, the bookworm: if anything, I si into Rhaegar 😭😭😭

[redrobbrivers]

RHAEGAR APPRECIATION WEEK

day 1: fancast (heath ledger in a knight’s tale)

Many a night she had watched Prince Rhaegar in the hall, playing his silver-stringed harp with those long, elegant fingers of his. Had any man ever been so beautiful? He was more than a man, though. His blood was the blood of old Valyria, the blood of dragons and gods.

[frostedheavens]

Rhaegar Week 2021, Day 6: Relationships (and how the prophecy messed with them)

*skids into class just as the bell goes off* i made it!

[fireandbloodsource]

RHAEGAR APPRECIATION WEEK 2021: ↳ Day 3: Skills

As a young boy, the Prince of Dragonstone was bookish to a fault. He was reading so early that men said Queen Rhaella must have swallowed some books and a candle whilst he was in her womb.

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He would go there from time to time, with only his harp for company. Even the knights of the Kingsguard did not attend him there. He liked to sleep in the ruined hall, beneath the moon and stars, and whenever he came back he would bring a song. When you heard him play his high harp with the silver strings and sing of twilights and tears and the death of kings, you could not but feel that he was singing of himself and those he loved.

[fireandbloodsource]

RHAEGAR APPRECIATION WEEK 2021: ↳ Day 1: The King Who Never Was

Then Prince Rhaegar would have ascended the Iron Throne, mayhaps to heal the realm.

— A Dance with Dragons, The Queensguard

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Jaehaerys, Aerys, Robert. Three dead kings. Rhaegar, who would have been a finer king than any of them.

— A Dance with Dragons, The Queensguard

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On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

— A Feast for Crows, Jaime I

[fireandbloodsource]

RHAEGAR APPRECIATION WEEK 2021: ↳ Day 2: Book moments

his. But the next morning, when the heralds blew their trumpets and the king took his seat, only two champions appeared. The Knight of the Laughing Tree had vanished. The king was wroth, and even sent his son the dragon prince to seek the man, but all they ever found was his painted shield, hanging abandoned in a tree. It was the dragon prince who won that tourney in the end.

[aerltarg]

Rhaegar Week 2021

Day 7: Lyanna

[...] “But I am not certain it was in Rhaegar to be happy.”

“You make him sound so sour,” Dany protested.

“Not sour, no, but… there was a melancholy to Prince Rhaegar, a sense…” The old man hesitated again.

“Say it,” she urged. “A sense…?”

“…of doom. He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days.”

Viserys had spoken of Rhaegar's birth only once. Perhaps the tale saddened him too much. “It was the shadow of Summerhall that haunted him, was it not?”

“Yes. And yet Summerhall was the place the prince loved best. He would go there from time to time, with only his harp for company. Even the knights of the Kingsguard did not attend him there. He liked to sleep in the ruined hall, beneath the moon and stars, and whenever he came back he would bring a song. When you heard him play his high harp with the silver strings and sing of twilights and tears and the death of kings, you could not but feel that he was singing of himself and those he loved.” (ASOS, Daenerys IV)

“At the welcoming feast, the prince had taken up his silver-stringed harp and played for them. A song of love and doom, Jon Connington recalled, and every woman in the hall was weeping when he put down the harp.” (A Dance with Dragons, The Griffin Reborn)

“The dragon prince sang a song so sad it made the wolf maid sniffle.” (ASOS, Bran II)

“By night the prince played his silver harp and made her weep. When she had been presented to him, Cersei had almost drowned in the depths of his sad purple eyes.” (AFFC, Cersei V)

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“No one knew,” said Meera, “but the mystery knight was short of stature, and clad in ill-fitting armor made up of bits and pieces. The device upon his shield was a heart tree of the old gods, a white weirwood with a laughing red face.” (ASOS, Bran II)

“Whoever he was, the old gods gave strength to his arm. [...] the common folk cheered lustily for the Knight of the Laughing Tree, as the new champion soon was called. When his fallen foes sought to ransom horse and armor, the Knight of the Laughing Tree spoke in a booming voice through his helm, saying, 'Teach your squires honor, that shall be ransom enough.'” (ASOS, Bran II)

“He could hear her still at times. Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned. The fever had taken her strength and her voice had been faint as a whisper, but when he gave her his word, the fear had gone out of his sister’s eyes. Ned remembered the way she had smiled then, how tightly her fingers had clutched his as she gave up her hold on life, the rose petals spilling from her palm, dead and black.” (AGOT, Eddard I)

“Robert will never keep to one bed,” Lyanna had told him at Winterfell, on the night long ago when their father had promised her hand to the young Lord of Storm’s End. “I hear he has gotten a child on some girl in the Vale.” Ned had held the babe in his arms; he could scarcely deny her, nor would he lie to his sister, but he had assured her that what Robert did before their betrothal was of no matter, that he was a good man and true who would love her with all his heart. Lyanna had only smiled. “Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man’s nature. (AGOT, Eddard IX)

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“It was said that Rhaegar had named that place the tower of joy.” (AGOT, Eddard X)

[aerltarg]

Rhaegar Week 2021

Day 6: Relationships

“[…] Myles Mooton was Prince Rhaegar's squire, and Richard Lonmouth after him. When they won their spurs, he knighted them himself, and they remained his close companions. Young Lord Connington was dear to the prince as well, but his oldest friend was Arthur Dayne.”

“The Sword of the Morning!” said Dany, delighted. “Viserys used to talk about his wondrous white blade. He said Ser Arthur was the only knight in the realm who was our brother's peer.” (ASOS, Daenerys I)

“The Red Keep had its secrets too. Even Rhaegar. The Prince of Dragonstone had never trusted him as he had trusted Arthur Dayne. Harrenhal was proof of that. The year of the false spring.” (ADWD, The Kingbreaker)

“But the most formidable of all Rhaegar's friends and allies in King's Landing was surely Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning.” (TWOIAF)

[aerltarg]

Rhaegar Week 2021

Day 4: Quotes

“Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.” (ADWD, The Kingbreaker)

“Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.” (ASOS, Daenerys II)

“Her brother Rhaegar had died for the woman he loved.” (AGOT, Daenerys VIII)

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Rhaegar Week 2021

Day 2: Book moments

The brazier warmed a chamber at the bottom of a shaft where half a dozen tunnels met. On the floor he’d found a scuffed mosaic of the three-headed dragon of House Targaryen done in tiles of black and red. I know you, Kingslayer, the beast seemed to be saying. I have been here all the time, waiting for you to come to me. And it seemed to Jaime that he knew that voice, the iron tones that had once belonged to Rhaegar, Prince of Dragonstone.

The day had been windy when he said farewell to Rhaegar, in the yard of the Red Keep. The prince had donned his night-black armor, with the three-headed dragon picked out in rubies on his breastplate. “Your Grace,” Jaime had pleaded, “let Darry stay to guard the king this once, or Ser Barristan. Their cloaks are as white as mine.”

Prince Rhaegar shook his head. “My royal sire fears your father more than he does our cousin Robert. He wants you close, so Lord Tywin cannot harm him. I dare not take that crutch away from him at such an hour.”

Jaime’s anger had risen up in his throat. “I am not a crutch. I am a knight of the Kingsguard.”

“Then guard the king,” Ser Jon Darry snapped at him. “When you donned that cloak, you promised to obey.”

Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime’s shoulder. “When this battle’s done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but... well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.”

Those were the last words Rhaegar Targaryen ever spoke to him. Outside the gates an army had assembled, whilst another descended on the Trident. So the Prince of Dragonstone mounted up and donned his tall black helm, and rode forth to his doom.

(AFFC, Jaime I)