I've fallen down a House of the Dragon rabbit hole and I love the gender swap aus where Rhaenyra’s children by Laenor (Harwin) were all daughters.
As if these kids didn’t have enough issues, let's make them girls in a fundamentally misogynist society on top of everything else
anyway, I wanted to share some of the Faceclaims I would use for them
Princess Jacaera Velaryon -
My first choice would be Adelaide Kane - Henry’s features are very dark and sharp and I think Adelaide has a similar look. Honestly she looks exactly how I pictured Jocelyn Baratheon to look, which I'm sure would be used to contradict the bastard rumours
Rose Williams would be another good choice - tho tbh she looks very similar to Alicent.
My Baby Jace would be Bailee Madison
Princess Lucerra Velaryon
Lots of people choose Jennifer Connely in Labyrinth - who is honestly biblically accurate - like damn they look very similar - only downside is its harder to get good gifs of her
Another choice I personally like is Anamaria Vartolomei - she has the same big eyes, dark eyebrows and hair - and tbh she kinda looks like the actress that plays Aemma
I also like Hailee Steinfeld - who doesn’t look that similar to Elliot, but she has that softness to her looks and the hair she had when she played Juliet is just perfection
Baby Lucy would be Billie Gadsdon - who is stupid cute in the Spanish Princess. And of course baby Luke has got to be cute af
The face that haunts Aemond’s dreams
Princess Jocelyn Velaryon
Joff is supposed to be only six, so I think someone like Cansu Kuru (who played young Kaya from Magnificent Century: Kosem) would be a good pick. She’s cute and she's got brown hair and brown eyes.
But if you want to use a slightly older actress , Robyn Betteridge from My Lady Jane, who has the energy I would like for Jocelyn. She's so funny honestly.
The Dance of the Dragons begins on a lie, and Aemond owes a debt, one Lucerra will see repaid in Fire and Blood // Main Masterlist
Aemond x Lucerra Velaryon (fem!Lucerys)
Warnings for this chapter: 18+, spoilers for F&B and future seasons of HotD, canon divergence, descriptions of violence, angst, mentions of death and war
Full chapter is on AO3
Light sears through Aemond’s skull like a fire. It hurts, another sensation of pain and what difference does it make to him? Half of his body is wrapped in bandages, his chest, his shoulder, his sword arm kept in a sling. Discomfort has been the one truth of his life for days, weeks, moons. He welcomes it.
He blinks his one eye open, his vision obscured from the days he has spent in darkness. The air is cold and thick with grey mist, he feels the weight of it as he breathes. He listens for the sharpening of steel, the sounds of armour and horses, the sounds of soldiers, but Harrenhal is silent.
A guard has him by his left arm, tightening his grip wherever the Prince dares to fumble his steps. Not long ago his every movement was made with intention and pride; he would have taken a man’s life for handling him like a beast.
They walk through the courtyard where he had the Strongs on their knees, through the castle gates, then a little away from the road across uneven ground towards the lake. The shape of two dragons await them through the mist settling around the God’s Eye. One is far larger than the other, with bronze and brown scales, one of the wild dragons. His rider sits atop the saddle, a common girl, watching him with her hands on the reins. Aemond wonders if he tried to run, or tried to take the guard’s sword, would she bathe him in dragonfire?
The colour of Grey Ghost’s body fades into the fog, but his yellow eyes are piercing and cut right through it, the slim slit of his pupils trained directly on Aemond. It unnerves him to his core. At the dragon’s head stands his rider. Luke strokes her hand over his snout. She looks painfully familiar in her riding leathers and her hair braided away from her face. She wears a red skirt and a red cloak, not dissimilar to the one she wore when she walked into the Round Hall at Storm’s End, the cloak he took from the shore of Shipbreaker Bay while a storm raged around him, the cloak he left in his chambers in the Red Keep.
Would it still be there now? Would Rhaneyra have had his belongings burned? Would she have destroyed any remnants of the family she never wished to claim? Not that Luke’s cloak was his to keep, and yet he could not part from it once he had found it.
The guard gives Aemond a slight shove forwards but he holds his balance.
Luke turns to face him, her expression agonisingly passive. “I will mount the dragon and you will follow,” she says. Her voice sits in her chest rather than her throat.
At first he does not move. The guard unsheathes his sword. The rider of Sheepstealer glares at him. Aemond finds it in himself to huff a laugh.
“Will you have difficulty following my instructions, uncle?” Luke says.
He feels the corner of his mouth quirk, content to toy with his life because what else can he possibly lose? “What makes you think I will not seize this opportunity to put a knife in you?” he says.
“Do you have a knife?”
His eye trails down her waist, to her belt and a golden hilt concealed in a sheath. “You have one.”
“I do,” she says, pulling on her riding gloves, “but I would advise against trying to kill me just yet. Grey Ghost will not take kindly to you.”
Her dragon huffs a cloud of smoke through his nostrils, his yellow eyes narrowing. It’s a different kind of beast to the one she rode as a child. Arrax grew alongside her, he would coo and nudge at her with his snout. Grey Ghost has scars in his flesh, sharp and uneven teeth, the look of a dragon that has had to hunt and truly fend for itself.
He watches her as she mounts the dragon.
He used to watch the others, Jace, Aegon, Helaena, Daeron in the Dragon Pit, when they’d be brimming with excitement to fly. Arrax was small, but Luke was a small thing herself, hauling herself onto the back of her mount with pure determination. She couldn’t stand it when Jace and Aegon would go darting off into the sky without her.
When she settles in the saddle she looks down at him. He watches her chest as she breathes deeply. Is she nervous? Is she frightened of what he might do? Or merely eager to return to her Queen with a prisoner in tow?
She makes an expression of disgust, bites her lip and raises her eyes to look ahead.
Aemond obeys her to spite her. His limbs are weaker than he’d expected them to be. Sharp pains shoot through his chest as he makes the climb, manoeuvring himself with only one useful arm. The scar over his eye starts to sting again and he digs his teeth into the flesh inside his mouth. He will not appear weak to her.
Having reached the saddle, he swings his leg over the dragon’s back, placing his hands on Luke’s waist to steady himself. He feels how she flinches, though he’s barely touched her.
Perhaps she does fear him. The thought tugs on the corner of his mouth.
Im looking for face claims for fem!jace, fem!luce, and aged up fem!joffery.
For jace- someone with more chiseled features and preferably someone on the taller side who gives off extremely noble and respectable vibes
For luke- I'm pretty I'm gonna go with hailee steifeld mostly because in the 2013 Romeo and Juliet movie she's giving the exact vibes I'm picturing for this story. Very sweet and innocent but with the fact she does really age I can use Dickinson for inspo when I need a more fierce image in my mind but if you have someone better pls comment it
For joff- this is the one that's been giving me the most trouble because I want someone who I can picture as a menace. That's not afraid to threaten the king or her pompous uncle but I can also see as very genuine and caring to her young brothers and idolizes her older sisters
Pls if you have suggestions tell me them I genuinely need this to help me to finally start writing what I have planned
Princess Aemond is famous for her difficult temper and obsession with her niece. how glad she is that the blacks have visited them today. she wants to see how the eyes of Lucerys run around the hall, just to forget what happened five minutes ago in the.
Princess Luceris's knees buckle and her throat dries up as Aemond looks straight into her eyes. She blushes and covers her face with a glass. The dress becomes damp, there is not enough air.
'Is everything okay, daughter?' - asks Rhaenyra
'It's stuffy in here, I need to go to my room'
Aemond watches the blue skirt disappear behind the doors and comes up with a plan to sneak into the princess's room at night to finish what he started.