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GEMELOS TARGARYEN (ILEGTIMOS Y LEGITIMOS)

Princess, you must make this choice as well—else the scales are tipped, and justice is undone.

Neither heaven nor hell can grant you or me any solace. There is only ourselves, small, alone, cruel, and ravenous with ambition, set against one another. We pray to no gods but ourselves; we kneel before our own will. Knowing the pain, we still offer flesh and blood all the same. And do you, as I do, possess such resolve? Would you pay the same price?

Some of the characterizations are carried over from the original work：Fire and Blood

I like that, in the original work, Alicent can to some extent be said to treat her children as tools in her own struggle for power—pushing Aegon to claim the throne, sending Aemond to negotiate with the Baratheons, and so on. Rhaenyra, by contrast, is much more reluctant to throw her children into the war.

miss the book alicent so much.

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𝐗𝐕𝐈 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫

Your children all fell to ambition—yours, and their own, though theirs was for the most part born of you. Only this set you apart: You perished before them. You will never know whether they came to regret it, or whether that knowledge would have tormented them. Yet now, none of it matters. With your own hands you consigned them to The Warrior, and the merciful Father consigned you to The Stranger. Before long, He will lead your son and daughter to stand before you as well.

Seen thus, it may be counted a mercy of fate: that a father should perish before his own creations, spared the sight of all that followed.

Inspired by:

susellesie

alicent & otto hightower.

Psalm 103:13. S1E9, "The Green Council". Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss. The Incest Diary by Anonymous. S1E1, "Heirs of the Dragon". Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca. Untitled by charze3. Supernatural S2E1, "In My Time of Dying". Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King.

silvervvings

Helaena Targaryen as paintings

whodied66

-𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴-

[ book version]

Sadly couldn't get enough time to draw others.

aydahare

the feast of 127 AC

sekikotakagi

𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝐷𝑎𝑒𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑘𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑒

𝑫𝒂𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒏𝒚𝒓𝒂

Eustace, the less salacious of the two, writes that Prince Daemon seduced his niece the princess and claimed her maidenhood. When the lovers were discovered abed together by Ser Arryk Cargyll of the Kingsguard and brought before the king, Rhaenyra insisted she was in love with her uncle and pleaded with her father for leave to marry him.

Yet hardly had Ser Otto arrived at the Red Keep to take up the Handship than word reached court that Princess Rhaenyra had remarried, taking to husband her uncle, Daemon Targaryen. The princess was twenty-three, Prince Daemon thirty-nine.

𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏

Queen Alicent did not share his displeasure, however; soon after, she asked that Ser Criston Cole be made her personal protector.

Denied Rhaenyra’s favor, Criston Cole turned to Queen Alicent instead. Wearing her token, the young Lord Commander of the Kingsguard defeated all challengers, fighting in a black fury.

irlplasticlamb

season of the witch.

prints + merch + commission info

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THE CHILDREN OF KING VISERYS I AND QUEEN ALICENT HIGHTOWER

quote by katie maria/ “portrait of a gentleman” attributed to george romney, late 18th century/ “study of a young girl” by sophie gengembre anderson, 19th century/ unknown portrait/ “portrait of a boy” by albert anker, 1874/ fire and blood by george rr martin, 2018.

hauntedbythenarrative

Salt, Nayyirah Waheed//House of the Dragon (2022-)

jewelry-by-irene

#laena velaryon aesthetic

gretaatarg

Gwayne Hightower moodboard

thepinkpestilence

A Song of Ice and Fire/Giovanni Segantini-Petalo di rosa/Arthur Hacker-Fire-fancies/Gustave Moreau-Young Thracian Woman Carrying the Head of Orpheus/Andrea Solario-Salomé riceve la testa di Giovanni Battista/Jean Jacques Henner-Portrait Of A Young Girl With Red Hair, Blonde Girl