#aenys

[quiddling]

aenys & maegor !!!!!!!!!

[an-artist-who-loves-got]

The lords who had come to Dragonstone to bid their king farewell knelt and bowed their heads. When Prince Maegor's turn came, Aenys drew him back to his feet, kissed his cheek, and said, "Brother, you need never kneel to me again. We shall rule this realm together, you and I."

(Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon)

Series of drawing all Targaryen siblings #2 - Aenys & Maegor

[pumpkinthreat28blog]

A stolen kiss, a new promise

A drawing of Maegor Omega stealing a kiss from his older brother because it's only fair and necessary.

[nicetoseesofttotouch]

Do you know what's missing in Westeros? A big book with 1000 baby names, they would've avoided so much conflict with more than 2 names and it's variations smh

[bbygirl-aemond]

well now you've drawn all my interest. I love theory about aegon i being infertile too! I also have this silly little headcanon that visenya/aegon/rhaenys trouple was actually a quadrouple with orys. because why the hell not. what are your thoughts about this? could aenys be orys' kid or is he simply a bastard from one of the singers rhaenys loved to hang around? or did visenya do the valyrian mumbo jumbo here too?

okayyyy so i very much do subscribe to the theory that aenys is actually orys baratheon's child. i think it's likely that aegon/orys/rhaenys had a few threesomes, though i'm not sure how involved i think visenya might have been in this. we for sure have book material that implies aegon and orys were a thing tho!

i also love the idea that aenys was the son of rhaenys and orys, while maegor was the son of aegon and visenya through that dark magic ritual. it complicates the whole aenys-maegor succession crisis if you think about maegor actually being aegon's eldest son. and it adds a lot of nuance to visenya and maegor's actions--especially visenya's, who has been viewed very critically by history because of it.

if your husband died, and you knew for a fact that your son was not only his eldest son but his only child--that he was a healthier, stronger, smarter candidate in addition to being the only one with a true birthright claim--wouldn't you want your son on the iron throne? does it even really count as "usurping" the throne if you're putting the king's only son on it?

as a side note, i imagine that visenya probably thought aegon only made aenys his heir because he thought he was infertile. that she expected him to remove aenys from the line of succession in favor for a true son if she simply made it possible for them to conceive. and she probably felt some level of betrayal when maegor was born healthy, and when it became clear he was better suited for the throne, and aegon still refused to make him his heir.

of course, this does raise the question of why they wouldn't accuse aenys of being a bastard if they knew him to be one. i think this is where lingering affections for rhaenys, his mother, and aegon, who was willing to claim him as his own, come into play. also, politically it probably would have been dangerous to posthumously accuse aegon of such a thing.

[preasoiafsource]

AENYS TARGARYEN & ALYSSA VELARYON

“That Queen Alyssa wished to do the right thing, no man should doubt,” Septon Barth wrote years later. “Sad to say, however, she oft seemed at loss as to what that thing might be. She desired above all to be loved, admired, and praised, a yearning she shared with King Aenys, her first husband.

requested by @mydaylightruyi

[artbyval1]

New fanart, new tinfoil time and a poll!! Please see link below and vote!  The fanart: The Sons of the Dragon, Aenys and Maegor, and Dowager Queen Visenya, around Aenys crowing in Dragonstone.  “How can he (Aenys) rule the Seven Kingdoms when he cannot rule his brother?” The tinfoil:  Aenys’ will being undermined by a cursed crown provided by the Faith!! “There are conflicting written accounts about his coronation by the maesters. According to Archmaester Gyldayn, Aenys was crowned with his father’s circlet of Valyrian steel and rubies on Dragonstone, and later, when he traveled with his wife and children to Oldtown by the way of Riverrun, Lannisport, and Highgarden, was presented by the High Septon at the Starry Sept with a crown of yellow gold, with the faces of the Seven inlaid in jade and pearl. However, according to Maester Yandel, Aenys was crowned during a ceremony in the Red Keep with an ornate golden crown.“

“The king was easily influenced, swaying this way and that like a reed into the wind, like as not to heed whichever councillor last had his ear.” The poll: I’m doing three pieces named Rhaena’s Weddings, which one do you wanna see first? Vote! Here is the link: 

https://twitter.com/ArtByVal1/status/1230882295747350528?s=20

[wildlingoftarth]

George really, truly named one of his characters "Anus."