some people say simon bothers them and that heโs selfish which yes, he can be, i probably would be too, BUT ITS ALL FOR MADDIE. he just WANTS HER BACK and no one EVER listens to him. they moved maddie when he said NOT to. they didnโt even GO BACK to find him. heโs been grappling with almost this mess for TWO SEASONS and i still donโt feel like people give him credit for it, sometimes not even maddie herself. and now he could be STUCK for all we know and him and maddie are still apart and just UGH no one understands you like i do simon elroy
no bc this boy is the ULTIMATE ride or die, I will NOT tolerate any slander to his name bc if I go missing I need someone to ride for me like Simon rides for Maddie bro
Please tell me I wasnโt the only one full on sobbing when Wally saw that doorโฆugh, the music, the cinema ๐ its been a while since Iโve genuinely cried over a show
omfg WHY does every show have to kill off beloved characters just for โshock factor?โ I am so sick of it. We watched OBX for good, happy vibes and bc of the pougeโs friendship and now itโs just like every other show trying to have some โdeeper meaning.โ WRITERS, YOU DONT HAVE TO FUCKING KILL CHARACTERS TO MAKE US CARE ABOUT THEM!!!! ITS OKAY TO NOT BE REALISTIC SOMETIMES!! ITS OKAY TO HAVE HAPPY UNREALISTIC ENDINGS WHERE EVERYONE LIVES!!
Stop this shit in the name of feminism. This is truly insulting. Feminism doesn't mean hating your femininity, being a warrior, or act selfishly. Just wearing pants doesn't make you a feminist. The first clause in feminism is to have the ability to choose and to respect and appreciate all women. A feminist woman feels for other women, so she won't run away with Someone's husband Just because of love. Do not spread your hatred towards women. Like Elia Martell, Catelyn Stark and Alicent Hightower, just because they decided to do their duty.
โA son for a son!โ oh just you wait, you inbred audacious psycho.
I love Jace, but I can't wait to see Rhaenyra suffer. I hate her so much, she has no brain, no attitude to rule.... what a idiotic character
Team Rotten Cucumber Color thinks they're incredibly funny when they laugh at Jace's death. You know, the Jace who got on his dragon and went into real combat to save his little brothers, and died along with his dragon. But they believe that Daeron, who died crushed by the burning tent, and Aemond, who in terror tried to unfasten himself from the saddle before being pierced by a sword like a shish kebab, died the death of heroesโฆ Those who slaughtered entire cities and burned the realm. To whom Aegon wanted to build great golden monuments while the realm was in war and famine. Because, you know, they have "brains and the ability to rule." Obviouslyโฆ
And they think the death of these "inbred bastards" is funny, because you know incest, haha โโhihi, butโฆ I guess they don't know that the children of the niece and uncle are much less "inbred" than the children of siblings ๐ค (Before someone says "Rhaenyra wanted it, Aegon didn't!" let me remind you that Aegon was the heir of absolutely nothing, so he didn't need heirs and didn't have to consummate the marriageโฆ like Daemon and Rhea for example.)
Does that mean that since "the children are inbred" and the parents are "audacious psychos" that means we can make fun of their deaths? In that case, the deaths of Jaehaerys, Jaehaery and Maelor should also be hilarious jokes, because they are also "inbred freaks of nature".
Have you seen TB's posts about "You want revenge, not dignity? Oh just you wait, you rapist audacious psycho. You'll get revenge! (Here's a picture of Jaehaera thrown out of the window/Maelor torn apart by the crowd)". Strangely enough, I don't ๐ค
poor pitiful greens, who wouldโve been slaughtered had Rhaenyra taken the throne. They had every right to usurp her because obviously they and their children deserve to liveโฆobviously they deserve to live more than Jace, Luke, little Joffery, Aegon, Viserys, Baela and Rhaena who also wouldโve been slaughtered had the Greens succeeded, right?
It kills me when people say that the greens would have been slaughtered had Rhaenyra taken the throne because they were too much of a challenge and use that to justify usurping her. Like you do realizeโฆif theyโre a challenge to Rhaenyra and her kids then itโs vice versa? If they canโt live while Rhaenyra reigns then that means Rhaenyraโs kids canโt either. But apparently itโs okay for Jace, Luke, Joffery, Viserys, Aegon, Baela and Rhaena to die if it means your favs get to win. All of a sudden, youโre okay with children dying if it means a man can now rule Westeros. A woman and her innocent children dying is okay to you because what? Itโs โnormal for a woman to rule?โ Aegon should be King becauseโฆheโs a man? Because Viserys spent years advocating for him, right? Because this rapist, abuser piece of shit and his psychotic brothers who burned millions and allowed for the rape of little girls are somehow better than their sister who only raised taxes?
Alicent can fear for her childrenโs lives against the woman whoโd never even think about harming them, but Rhaenyra canโt fear for her kidsโwho Alicent literally tried to get executed for years?
And donโt give that bullshit: the Greens would never!
Uh, canonically, they did! Unprovoked! Before they even got the fucking throne! They did it with Rhaenys and Lukeโwho, no matter much you call him Strong, is still related to them from Rhaenyra. Team Green has personally harmed their own family, their own blood in broad daylight and have celebrated doing so, so what makes you think theyโd spare the rest? What honestly makes you think theyโd let them live? Luke was a child, so no, even the children wouldnโt be spared.
Alicent has spent over twenty years fear mongering and terrorizing her own children to the point where it just could not happen. They would execute every single one of the Team Black kids down to Visenya if she had lived.
Yes they wouldโve killed two year old little Aegon and Viserys and theyโd have been happy to do it. Lest we not forget these are the same people who threw a party, canonically, when Luke was killed soโฆyeah. Aemond and Daeron probably wouldโve forcibly married Baela and Rhaena and raped themโฆBut thatโs okay to you people, right? Because at least it isnโt happening to the fucking misogynist Greens who didnโt deserve the throne anyways.
The difference between them and Rhaenyra is that she has never given any indications that she thinks Kinslaying is right. Book or show, Rhaenyra understands the weight of such titles and what it would mean. She understands it would forever stain the name Targaryen if she killed not one, but SIX members of her own family. Obviously itโs this fucking Rhaneyra that wouldโve killed them all though, right? Itโs Rhaenyra, and not the Greens or her idiot brothers who canonically been classified as Kinslayers and usurpers, who would not have let TG live.
Book or show, you cannot even argue that theyโre not Kinslayers because hopefully even TG stans arenโt so delusional to outright deny what weโve seen. Which means that YES, they wouldโve killed all those kids and then used their big scary dragons to terrorize anyone who didnโt agreeโas they did the exact same media youโre seeing them in.
In the same book or show, nothing ever indicates that Rhaenyra would kill them. In fact, she actively gives them a chance to bend the knee after they kill her son, and furthermore, she does not spend years terrorizing her children with the idea theyโll be slaughtered so they have to kill the other side, even the children, because if not theyโll do the same to them.
The only difference in this scenario is that the people who raised the TB kids would have spared the Greens, while the people who have been raised to be hateful and spiteful against even the innocent people in their family wouldโve given the TB kidโs death not second thought.
You guys simply donโt understand the tabooness of Kinslaying, and itโs becoming a popular trend that people think you can just get away with it and nothing will happen. You cannot just go around killing people of your own fucking family with no consequences. No matter how delusional you and Alicent might be, it cannot happen without major consequences. Itโs the main reason majority of Westeros DID NOT support the greens bc itโs an AWFUL thing to do. There is nothing worse to the people of Westeros than a Kinslayer, not even a rapist. It is the ultimate crime to commit and it shows your lack of understanding of this world if you think Rhaenyra would just do this. Even if you donโt like her, her character was described as someone that would NEVER.
Meanwhile, you know who went down in history for doing this? Not once but twice? And one of those was a child? You know who still fucking did and was willing to keep doing it until an entire side of their family was wiped out?
The Greens.
The difference between them and Team Black is that TG spent twenty years harboring hate for a woman and her kids who did not even give them a second thought. Itโs almost laughable how unimportant they were to Rhaenyra until the day they killed her son. The day Aemond killed Luke and Aegon threw a feast to celebrate the worst crime imaginable to a Kingdom he was supposed to rule, is the day you shouldโve realized how different and how much more deserving Rhaenyra Targaryen is compared to her monster brothers.
I do not fucking care that Alicent was young and dumb and manipulated once. The women who poisoned her own children, the woman who was willing to kill a fucking newborn and said I quote,
โI hope the whore dies in childbirth.โ Was a grown ass adult and would not show an inch of mercy. Even show!Alicent would have no choice, because it was her idiot planning that put her psychopath of a son in the ultimate position of power so she couldnโt even stop it if she tried.
So tell me, what makes you think Helaena, Aemond, Aegon (who were all adults during the dance, mind you), Jaehaera, Maelor, and Jaehaerys deserve to live more than Jace, Luke, Joffrey, Baela, Rhaena, Aegon, Viserys, Visenya (possibly), or anyone that stood as a threat to Aegonโs reign?
Surely you canโt say itโs because Jaehaera, Maelor, and Jaehaerys are just children.
You root for the one Team whose succession will end up with them all dead, as canonically it did, instead of the woman that wouldโve spared them. Book or show, thereโs never any evidence she would harm them unlike the literal people you root for. Thereโs only one scenario where everyone lives and itโs when Rhaenyra Targaryen sit the throne. Because weโve seen how well it turned out for those kids and everyone when she was usurped, so rooting for Team Green bc you want to โspare the childrenโ is a contradiction in itself.
Or, just say youโre a misogynistic asshole like we already know and be done with it.
thereโs just something about people saying that helaena deserves to be married to jace instead of baela because she deserves one of the few good men in Westeros, as if baelaโwho jacaerys actually likes, mind youโdoesnโt deserve that as well
like idk, helaena and jace shippers just irritate me because he wouldnโt even like that girl. heโd be nice to her and thatโs it, but book and show jace is NOT attracted to girls who act like helaena
When are yโall gonna get it through your heads that no one actually cared if the Velaryon boys were bastards or not? They could have come out with white hair, violet eyes, the whole shebang and the rumor still would have been spread because it was meant to undermine RHAENYRA and her claim, nothing else!!
It was a misogynistic attempt to paint her as reckless and irresponsible and another way for the greens to push for Aegon. It was fear mongering, meant to say โHey! Choose Aegon because you guys donโt want a bastard on the throne, right?โ And it didnโt fucking work, save for on the idiot audience that still eats this shit up and genuinely believes that the dance happened bc Harwin and Rhaenyra werenโt married, rather than realizing the whole theme is MISOGYNY!! ITS ABOUT USURPING A WOMAN NO MATTER WHAT SHE DOES, SOLEY BC SHES A WOMAN AND NOTHING ELSE!!
If she had no kids = Vote for Aegon cause sheโs barren!!
If she had kids = Vote for Aegon cause theyโre bastards!!
If she has kids that look exactly like her = Vote for Aegon bc her kids are clearly Daemonโs bastards am I right? Vote Aegon bc heโs clearly the more responsible of the two with his trueborn kids!!
It. Does. Not. Matter.
And it makes me so mad, especially when people say that the realm wouldnโt have accepted Jace like DUDE. Nobody is just casually going around saying these kids are bastards, save for the people that KNOW they can get away with it if theyโre caught bc Viserys wouldnโt dare punish them. Aka:
Alicent, Otto, and her nightmare kids. Thatโs it. No, some random Lord in the Reach wasnโt preaching about Jace, Luke, and Joff being bastards. I sincerely hate to burst your bubble (NOT!) but you guys as an audience care more than the actual people that live in this world and itโs so funny.
Basic media literacy will tell you that NO, Westeros did not care. How do I know? Well itโs simple really. If they cared then majority of them simply wouldnโt pledge to support Rhaenyra, clearly knowing that Jace is her heir??
I mean, these are all of the houses that supported Rhaenyra AND Jace:
I mean do yall honestly think Cregan Stark thought Jace was a bastard when he swore an oath in BLOOD with Jace, marched PERSONALLY to the south AFTER Jace was dead, and tried to literally kill the CHILDREN of the Lordโs who rose up against him and Rhaenyra?
Do you think Lady Jeyne gaf when she personally pledged to support him? Lord Manderly? Hm.
No, they didnโt lmao.
So please, kill this narrative that โThere was going to be rebellion if Jace ascended the throneโ and โThe realm wouldnโt accept him bc all of them secretly knew he was a bastard despite having no proof because his father, his grandfather and THEIR KING never said otherwise.โ
It would not have happened yโall. And one day you blood purist, Velaryon boys haters are going to get it through your head that YES !! They were legitimate because no one ever said otherwise. It was never proven. Rumor isnโt proof. Hair isnโt proof for fucks sake. You need actual words from Laenor himself saying that RHAENYRA cheated and those boys are Harwinโs. You need Corlys passing over Luke for Driftmark and outright saying itโs because heโs a bastard to even get a SHREAD of doubt from the great houses.
One day you guys are going to realize that those boys were loved and no matter how much you try and discredit them, they will always be legitimate. Whether you like it or not, Viserys was content with Jace being on the throne after him, THE REALM was content, and Corlys Velaryon was ready to die peacefully knowing Luke was going to be after him. Hell, he damn near handed that boy the keys so donโt you dare say Luke didnโt deserve to inherit anything.
And sorry for the long post but some of yall are really starting to piss me off. Never mind that this is fiction, your attitude towards these boys is disguising and saying that they donโt deserve a good life, that they dont deserve things that were literally GIVEN to them with no complaints, and even going as far as to call them dirty or saying they deserve to die all because their mommy and daddy werenโt married is fucking disgusting.
This โbastards donโt deserve anything,โ attitude needs to stop being preached by real life people. Hell, some of the people saying this are literally in the wedding photos of their own parents wedding LMAO. It concerns me on how much disregard you guys have for adopted kids (which is basically what they are to Laenor), and Iโd hate to see the shit you preach in real life. Acting like blood actually matters in order for someone to be considered family.
Because regardless of what you believe, had their mother not been usurped because she was a WOMAN, Jace would have ruled, Luke wouldโve gotten Driftmark and, yes, the world of Westeros wouldโve kept fucking spinning.
By law these boys were legitimate and people seem to forget they came out of Rhaenyraโs coochie so REGARDLESS, they are Targaryen. Like unless Viserys or Daemon was their father, they were always going to be half NOT Targaryen lolโฆJust like Alicentโs kids. It just so happens that theyโre half Strong, but again, it doesnโt matter, because Jace gets his claim from RHAENYRA, not his father, so even if Harwin was married to Rhaenyra he still wouldโve been the heir?? Even if it wasnโt Laenor who was his father, heโd still be heir because of his mother and being married to someone does not change that.
Some people even go as far as to argue that theyโre not Targaryen so Jace shouldnโt be the heir which is stupidest thing Iโve ever heard and the most blatant case of misogyny ever. Like unless your father cloned himself then you STILL get half your genes from your mother dumbass. They are as much Targaryen as the Hightower kids with their DARK HARIED PARENT, it just so happens that their Targ side is from a woman, not a man. Which, like I said, if you donโt consider them Targaryen just bc they donโt get their claim from their father then we know what you are. ๐
But anyways, to make a long post short, yes these boys are legitimate, they were recognized as such by:
The King himself (who theyโd be inheriting from)
Rhaenyra
Laenor (their father, who theyโd be inheriting from and wanted Luke to have Driftmark)
Corlys (their grandfather, who Luke would be inheriting from and wanted Luke to have Driftmark)
Rhaenys
The Realm
History
And if you still donโt believe me, hereโs the official Targaryen family tree from Fire and Blood which all of Westeros sees :)
You see how theyโre listed as Velaryon? You see how theyโre directly linked to Laenor and thereโs no little astric saying how theyโre bastards? Yeah me too.
PS - Read Fire and Blood as well. This whole argument about them being bastards is literally stemmed from no more than two paragraphs, IF that. And their legitimacy is never brought up again.
Remember when we thought that Lucerysโ death would haunt the narrative and weโd all be sad whenever people bring up how it was unfair that he was murdered and Aemond would actually be called a Kinslayer for it? Yeah me too
I need yโall to realize that Targaryen men are not Henry Cavill. These are skinny, pretty boy blonde twinks. These are very delicate looking men ๐ญ Aka if you saw them from the back, youโd think they were women
Also, Harwin put those kids in jeopardy by hanging around them. Let's not forget his 'my turn' when Leanor was holding baby Joffrey in front of Luke and Jace, who at the time still viewed Leanor as their father...Every adult in their life was selfish when those kids should have been the priority
Yeah. People always try and make this seem like a fairytale love to me which is weird considering the kids lives were literally in danger? Viserys even says so ๐ญ Like just fuck Jace and Luke ig. Doesnโt matter if they have to live with the consequences if everyone else is happy
Lol Rhaenyra and Laenor didn't even try! Jace was born within a year, so Rhaenyra and Harwin slept together after three months of the wedding.
Idk what they did nonnie but considering they both have very thin patience and Laenor was in mourning (show) I doubt they really sat down 100% determined and was like โweโre gonna try and give it our 100% until itโs proven we canโt make a baby.โ My guess is they tried like two times, Rhaenyra saw harwin and that was it
daenys the dreamer: straight up predicts the doom of valyria, no bullshit, no riddles just the clear cut future
aegon the conqueror (in the show): straight up sees the long night, no bullshit, no riddles just the clear cut future
helaena, for some reason?: โroses are red (maybe), violets are blue (or are they!) I was made to be a dragon dreamer by writers who havenโt got a clue ๐ซต๐ป
like WHY is every other dreamer out here seeing clear visions and helaena can only speak in vague riddles that add absolutely nothing to the story? oh right, cause the HOTD writers donโt understand the story and only threw that in there to make helaena โinterestingโ without making any of her โdreamsโ the least bit of helpful. like girl if you saw the destruction of your family WHY didnโt you say something?? why is she the fucking riddler while everyone else is like โWHELP, I just saw the future lemme do something about it!!โ why is she only one thatโs just straight up incompetent??