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[witchyhagz]

Day 3: Quotes | Elia Martell & Aegon Targaryen

“We will not be alone. Dorne will join us, must join us. Prince Aegon is Elia's son as well as Rhaegar's”

──for @eliaweek done by novaakuin

[frontallobedamaged]

Let him be the king of ashes.

[frontallobedamaged]

🦁 (30) & 🦁 (17)

[pintadraw]

Elia Martell of Dorne🌺

Comm for @/Riverbankerss(x)

[jonsawilldanceanon]

You'll go to war, I'll go missing

[ophelias-lamentation]

Elia Martell and AegonTargaryrn

[theotherdragomirgirl]

Princess Elia at the Tourney of Harrenhal, the moment her husband shames her for all the realm to see.

By vivisenya1989

[visenyaism]

the whole point of the Kingsguard is that they’re unbelievably fucking washed like zero heroic deeds on the board just morning noon night overtime fraud aura farming. Complicit in every act of patriarchal violence of the monarchy. Not even that good at fighting. Hypothetical victories only. Like “noooo Arthur Dayne would’ve—” except Arthur Dayne lay down his life to stop a pregnant 15 year-old dying in childbirth from seeing her big brother on her deathbed and then got fucking hosed by teenage Ned Stark and his gay best friend who does not hit 5 foot two. “Ohhhhhh aemon the dragonknight” kept his sister in that damn cage for decades and then died in the service of his brother which is dickrider behavior. Bystanderan Selmy? Washed.

[geungwang-archive]

Ladies of House Blackwood

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[ginny-lala]

[depressed-overthinker]

I think The Dance of The Dragons was inevitable. If it was not Aegon vs Rhaenyra, it would have been someone in their descendants.

It was Jahaerys who started this trickling of civil war circumstances that finally was overstuffed during Rhaenyras claim. Rhaenys had full right and to certain right extend full might to fight for her claim yet she didnt. But it finally boiled up when due to viserys indeciseveness.

If Rhaenyra and Aegon had not fought someone else may have found a reason to do so in their name and dragons would still go extinct because house targaryen is full of people who should not have had children but did it anyway with people they had no business being involeved with romantically. Say what u will but invreeding does breed instability even if bad looks due to incest are not part of grrm universe.

It just got some poetic name like 'targaryen madness' or 'everytime a targaryen is born, god flips a coin'.

Also this is a headcanon on my part but if the war did not happen, dragons would still die because the eggs were increasingly getting petrified and the dragons smaller in stature. Perhaps the latter issue stems from the chaining of the dragons perhaps not. Who knows?

Technically speaking, even the blackfyre rebellions were civil wars like dance of the dragons.

[miniaturewizardstudentsworld]

I think the dragons dying is more symbolic of how house Targaryen fell and was losing what made it “great” during the Conquest due to thier own greed and personal ambition.

As for the Dance and the it happened yeah. Jaehaerys at least had the cover of “we had an election” to shove Rhaenys out of what was rightfully hers. And she didn’t fight for it, choosing peace and stability over personal ambition. Which is good.

The downside is Viserys basically got handed the throne. And since the rules were bent to make him king he thought he could do the same for his favorite child. Never mind the circumstances are different and he didn’t even try to help Rhaenyra build a power base to secure her throne (because again he was handed the throne so why would it be different for her?). Never mind that of course there was going to be a problem. His family has never really been that good at not stabbing each other in the back for personal power.

On top of that. There’s Aegon’s line as the first born son of the king, Aegon’s brothers’ possible kids also as true born sons of the king, which by Andal law, are before Rhaenyra and her kids. And on top of that her “heir” was an obvious bastard. And on top of that she had “true born” sons with Daemon. Like even if the Greens all died or didn’t want the throne or left for Essos or whatever Rhaenyra’s sons line would have had thier own Dance because one side is from obvious bastards but would have the “Queen’s decree” and the other would be her true born kids. She literally set up an almost identical set of circumstances as her dad for her kids when she died-but with bastardy instead of sexism at the core.

The Dance was inevitable because the Targaryens played fast and loose with inheritance. They treated themselves as above the law when they as the ruling family were supposed to represent it. And conquering is easy. Especially with dragons. Ruling is hard and sometimes “Do what I say because I have a dragon and you don’t” doesn’t work.

The dragons died off not because of Maester conspiracies or the Targaryens adopting Andal law and tradition (if they had stuck to tradition as early as determining Jaehaerys’s heir the Dance wouldn’t have happened in the first place) the dragons all died because the Targaryens destroyed them in pursuit of absolute power in a system they set up themselves and the couldn’t maintain. The same thing happened in Valyria and I have a bad feeling about how the last books are going handle Dany and her dragons too.

[waterandsilver]

one of my favourite cersei slays is when she commissions a warship and names it after her dad because she wants to hear him be referred to with she/her pronouns

[guaguataibushizhuada]

show love and respect as GOOD brothers should

[addamvelaryon]

Though barely a man grown, and bastard born as well, he was wed to the king’s half-sister, had all the power and wealth of House Velaryon at his command, and had just become the darling of the smallfolk.

Artist: vats9_9

[hxjiime-art]

A bit old—my daughter jon snow and his big fluffy sentient pillow

[ollyaemond]

Jon and Ghost

[noxaelo]

house stark from when i drew jon and lyanna a while back except i never finished them all (maybe i'll come back to it eventually)

jon, lyanna, benjen, brandon

ned, catelyn, sansa, robb

arya, bran, rickon