#rhaegon fanart

[protector-of]

Rhaegon art inspired by Sergio Cupido’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’

The ship that would have saved the realm

[darejani-artist]

"…𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓑𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓭."

💔

"𝓔𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓐𝓮𝓰𝓸𝓷 𝓸𝓻 𝓡𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝔂𝓻𝓪 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓫𝓸𝓽𝓱…"

[snowprincesa2]

“I just told them they couldn’t spend the entire of the treasury to spoil their dragons and now they’re looking at me like this— Am I going to lose my job or my head?” — Otto probably

[fearmakess]

commission 🤲🏼

[vunnen]

Rhaenyra and Aegon

[nonconfy]

🐉 Day 3 of #rhaegonsweek 🐉

When I wake up, I'm afraid Somebody else might take my place...

Me and @twentyfiveweek (on X/twitter & telegram) did a collab in collab and we're excited to bring you our third Rhaegons this week, but only going forward and passing the baton to @sleepwalker-02-artist !🐉

[rosehearys]

Wings, hearts, some things are meant to be torn apart.

[marzankowo]

Otto Hightower sponsored this post

A bit of Rhaegon art, probably Au, for them to look this close in age tho. enjjoy

[toukacifer]

Rhaegon vs Rhaemond

Fanarts inspirados en los fics de velaryonjacaerysking en Wattpad.

Rhaegon en "Sacrifice"

Rhaemond en "Fire on Fire"

[thesilverlady]

Omg you ship book rhaegon and lucemond before the show? One of the rare few (sorry i just saw your prev ask while browsing those two tags). Because of that i would love to know your thoughts seeing these two ships pop off because of the show (especially lucemond since its top 3 popular ship in hotd fandom). What does it feel like seeing these crack ship before in your head to suddenly gain sm popularity now? Also i really want to know the difference between the book ships and the show ships and why the book ship attracted you initially? Thanks in advance if you ever answer!

hi! no need to apologize 🥰 Yeah I shipped both of these pre-show and it was definitely an experience. There were 0 lucemond fics and only 2 rhaegon ones to which I still have them bookmarked out of nostalgia 🙈

about the first question: my thoughts upon seeing these two ships pop off are kinda contradictory. For rhaegon, I'm glad people see the potential but due to hotd portrayal lots of the fics are smut (which I have no problem with ofc but I generally prefer plot fics) or some characterizations are entirely based on the show (like Aegon being an airhead and only a toy with 0 ambition /Rhaenyra being manipulative and always in control etc) So i leave a kudo for support and hope I'll find what I'm looking for later.

With lucemond I have a better luck because the community is much bigger, and there's so much variety to choose from. I'm very satisfied with them rising to top 3, and I hope they stay there.

So I'd say overall a mixed of bittersweet and smugness. Trust me, if I had a coin for the amount of times I've been called delulu for shipping these ships pre-show I'd be rich by now. There's also a certain amount of validation that comes with finally being able to actually speak about these pairs without worrying too much that a mob will start throwing you tomatoes. And all fanarts are absolutely a treat. 😊

in regards of the differences between book ships vs the show ships, keep in mind i don't speak for the entire rhaegon/lucemond community and I know a big bunch will even disagree with this:

for lucemond, I admit the show did more for them in certain aspects. Like growing up together, certain camera angle choices etc The big difference is again the characterization - which the show ignores a lot. Basically what hotd does is change traits but keep the results the same. So for example, Aemond in the show is supposed to be this calm/in control guy who is into philosophy and history and is more "suitable" to be king compared to his elder brother, but then you have his canon actions (insulting/challenging/chasing an envoy) coming up and that hardly makes sense. In f&b the antagonism is built more properly and you can see why the characters do what they do.

for rhaegon, we didn't even have any scene of the two together (a crime truly) but lots of people find the actors attractive and others love the people-from-opposite-side that goes on with team black/green. So I'd say show rhaegon is mostly vibes while in the book i found things to grab onto.

In f&b we already get seeds to plant the idea from the moment Aegon is born. Otto constantly brought up the succession order so many times he was fired because of it.

Then there's the entire post-daemyra drama when Rhaneyra is still looking for a husband and Alicent kept suggesting for Aegon to be betrothed to Rhaenyra. We learn from that paragraph that "the two half-siblings had never gotten on well" which let's be for real, already sets for an interesting drama if the marriage was to happen.

We also have Aegon's first refusal of the throne before Cole added preasure. “My sister is the heir, not me. What sort of brother steals his sister’s birthright?” I've seen some people (usually antis) believing that perhaps he never said this and the Septon lied to make him look good. Well, I say that's bs because I always believe the truth in f&b is somewhere in between so this moment definitely happened and given how we knew the two didn't even get along in childhood, I find it a very interesting development.

And of course I can't forget Rhaenyra's iconic death - which is by Aegon's dragon and I can delude myself into getting some crimes of passion ™ vibes

As for lucemond, I don't really have anything deep to say. 😅. The fight that costed Aemond his eye + the quote "Prince Lucerys might have been able to outfly his pursuer, [...] but the day was as black as Prince Aemond’s heart" were kinda enough for me to go 👀 oh he truly hates him..... You see, the fight that made Aemond lose his eye was kinda more brutal; he had 3 kids to deal with, not 5. And they were all so young in comparison. Jace was 6, Luke 5 and Joffrey 3 while Aemond was 10. He was able to beat them all until Lucerys slashed him across the face and I imagine he took such a huge hit on his pride because of it.

When they all have the family dinner years later we're told that "Aemond had become a dangerous swordsman [...] but remained a wild and willful child, hot-tempered and unforgiving." So I thought those scenes + lucerys death kinda serve the obsessed trope™ which I'm very into

I hope my reply was intelligible ♥ it's 3 am as I'm writing this so I imagine i may have not explained some stuff properly. Either way let me know and thank you for the ask.

[lovelykhaleesiii]

I’ve just saw theeee hottest Rhaenyra and Aegon fan art on X 🥵 I don’t even ship them together but, holy god it’s unreal! I wish I could show you but it’s not my post to send another person so I don’t want to cross that line if you get me bur it’s unreal!

oooooooh I don’t ship Rhaegon either but some of their fanart is wild, great for the imagination… I’m more than happy for you to share the post to me on messages or share a link if you can 💓

[dowagersqueen]

I think it’s very funny people are so bothered by Helaemond which, at the end of the day, is the same as any other Asoiaf non canon ship. There’s nothing particularly hurtful or even dramatic about it- it uses classic tropes of forbidden love and secret relationships. That’s it! I’m not to knock it because I enjoy the ship, just it makes me laugh antis get so upset and angry about it. Enough to hate on fanart and fics. I think some of them truly fear it being canon so badly, because if they were so convinced it was a crackship, they wouldn’t be mad. Nobody is writing essays about how Aegond will never happen in the show, they just leave shippers alone.

i mean you said the truth, only the truth and nothing but the truth.

this was never a crackship. no one is losing their minds and being hateful over aegond, daemond, rhaegon and whatever other 'crack ship' has come out of house of the dragon

helaemond is honestly one of the nicest ships on hotd

[darejani-artist]

💚Aegon & Rhaenyra🖤

[the-heartlines]

i’ve always been into rhaegon since i first saw fanart when the show was releasing but i read your fics and now i’m like. an animal for it, i am starving, thank you for the food you provide, also, have you listened to tom’s band?? he’s a great singer, I can’t stop listening to aengus’ fool as a rhaegon song

aww shucks thank you so fucking much. you’re too kind 🥹🥰.

and omfg i ADORE tom’s band so so so much! i had a sleep walking animals phase for like a full month last January where i’d listen to them almost everyday non stop, especially aengus’s fool and wild folk which are very much hotd/asoiaf songs for me! have been listening to them a lot recently as well :)!

need to write a rhaegon aengus fool inspired fic now =‘)

[fearmakess]

rhaegons week Day 8! ✨

[maxrepelion]

"Canyon” and “Dragonstone” My recent pixel art pieces.