TAKE UP OUR STRINGS.

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WE ARE PUPPETS DANCING ON THE STRINGS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US. independent writing blog , multi muse from grrm's a song of ice and fire. low activity, mutuals - only & iconless. as written by sophie ( she/her, twenty six years old ). established november '23, re-established june '25. AND ONE DAY OUR OWN CHILDREN WILL TAKE UP OUR STRINGS AND DANCE IN OUR STEADS.

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been trying to write and absolutely no words are flowing so in the meantime — this is a meme call. like this and i'll send memes (do give me ideas of muses / era or i freeze though please)

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i am every handful of weeks reminded of how much elaena hates aegon iv .... and she'd probably hate him less if viserys plumm didn't exist, but here we are

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"why didn't rhaenys marry viserys to consolidate their claims" aemon knew better than to try and make her do that. she would have made that everyone's problem.

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rhae targaryen , daughter of maekar / rhaelle targaryen , daughter of aegon v / elaena targaryen , daughter of aegon iii

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rhaelle any time she's starting to get irritated : i shouldn't even be in this situation, my father was the forth son of a forth son, i shouldn't even BE here —

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does jason technically have a personal stipend he's supposed to spend? yes. does he dip in the rock's coffers because he's the lord of the rock and therefor he can do it? also yes.

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if i'm talking about changes i'd have liked, making corwyn closer to rhaena's age might have been one but i'm sure there's something to be said about the council pushing rhaena to be married and her 'choosing' a man she thought was 'safe' and would make a good consort and not, you know, usurp her if the worst did happen with aegon iii. about her choosing a man she had had the chance to meet at the vale rather than risking it with a stranger — none of it erases that he was sixteen years her senior.

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i do love how resentful jeyne is of her cousin trying to replace her that she counts that first argument from when she was barely out of toddlerhood. technically speaking ? he rose up in rebellion twice. it's at the second time she throws him to the sky cells. but she counts that first argument from when she was literally three years old.

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THE WOMEN OF F&B + LADY JEYNE ARRYN, LADY OF THE EYRIE, DEFENDER OF THE VALE, WARDEN OF THE EAST, LADY REGENT.

your prince daemon used his first wife most cruelly, it is true… but notwithstanding your mother’s poor taste in consorts, she remains our rightful queen, and MINE OWN BLOOD BESIDES, an arryn on her mother’s side.

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the thing about rhaenys and her ? 'let's bring out the dragons let's kill everyone' is that she has played by the rules. jaehaerys named baelon as heir and she tried to argue not even for herself, she tried arguing for laenor because she realized he wanted a boy to inherit, and yet it did nothing. then baelon dies and she tries arguing for her son again at the council, and then tries bribery because sure, she'll do that too. and that fails. so years pass, and eventually viserys names rhaenyra heir. and she's still usurped. same arguments wielded against her suddenly didn't matter anymore when it was a woman on the other side. so she does end in 'fine. then we kill them. if this is the language this is the language'. and she can never regret dying at rook's rest — she did it to defend the people on the ground, the people who would have been her people, to show they didn't retreat. she can never regret that.

[wweskywalker]

“And on her back, in steel and copper armor that flashed in the sun, rode Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was.”

A modified bust commission of book Rhaenys in her copper armor for @/rhaenyrasgal on IG. Thank you for ordering!

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rhae does like napping a lot because she stays away until very late hours of the night at times for experimenting. the only person who can wake her up is, i fear, her maid because she tells her when she wants to be woken up (or maekar, if he needs her, but he'd rather he did not need her). her siblings absolutely cannot enter her room, for any reason but much less when she's napping.

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actual plan for this week too, since i'll have two national holidays and therefor more time in theory, is i will be in my other multi because i need to add radzig to it, i just need to, you know, make progress on kcd2 too to do it.

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been trying to write and absolutely no words are flowing so in the meantime — this is a meme call. like this and i'll send memes (do give me ideas of muses / era or i freeze though please)

[userkhael]

ANYA CHALOTRA as Yennefer of Vengerberg

In The Witcher Season 3, Episode 2 "Unbound"

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rhae favors her nieces so much out of egg's children, it's not even a competition. unfortunately i don't know how good it'd be them interacting. she'd find shaera's antics amusing only because they are ruining egg's life, and she would tell rhaelle to poison her brother for what he's done (non lethally, of course. she's reasonable). so perhaps no aunt time with rhae.