A sad prince. Daeron Targaryen ×fem! reader × Aemond Targaryen
A/N: Omniscient narrator, the reader is Daeron's twin sister, not physically described. Sensitive topics. You would help me a lot with a like.
At the start of the catastrophic battle, which the bards called the Dance of the Dragons, the House Targaryen divided into two factions: the Blacks and the Greens. The former were under the command of King Viserys I and Queen Aemma Arryn's eldest daughter, Rhaenyra Targaryen. The Greens fought in the name of Aegon II Targaryen, King Viserys I's second son and Queen Alicent Hightower's firstborn. The peace agreements perished when Aemond Targaryen, second son of King Viserys and Queen Alicent’s union, slew Lucerys Velaryon, the Black Queen’s second son.
The Greens possessed Aemond One-Eye, later called Kinslayer, with his mount Vhagar, the Green she-dragon and sole survivor of King Aegon I's Conquest, and Sunfyre, King Aegon II's dragon. However, after a battle against Rhaenys, the Queen Who Never Was, the Green King ended up severely wounded. With only Vhagar as an ally, as Queen Helaena refused to fly with her dragon Dreamfyre, it is said that two moons later ravens flew to Oldtown. Prince Regent Aemond requested that his two younger siblings, along with their dragons, present themselves and fight alongside him.
Daeron and his twin sister were tutored by Ormund Hightower, Queen Alicent's cousin. They spent their final years in Oldtown, serving as cupbearers and squires. It is said they were well-loved, both by those of high birth and those of low. Bearing the characteristics of the dragon's blood, they drew glances and stole sighs. Daeron rode a she-dragon who grew with him: Tessarion, the Blue Queen. His sister, a maid also of fifteen years, was the rider of Silverwing, the mount of the beloved Queen Alysanne.
Following the crippling of their brother Aegon, they received the command to fly towards King's Landing and put an end to the Blacks. Although we have no evidence, Maester Orwyle adds that Aemond Targaryen promised his sister's hand to Jason Lannister's eldest son, Loreon Lannister. From here on, the versions are told differently, though we leave it to the reader to choose which seems most accurate for the events to follow.
According to Septon Eustace, following Valyrian customs, the princes grew up with the notion that upon reaching the age of majority, they would marry like their siblings Aegon and Helaena. Upon receiving the Prince Regent’s command, they merely looked at each other with sadness and sealed the fate each would have to abide by with a kiss. However, Mushroom, the lewd fool of Queen Rhaenyra, says something completely different regarding the reaction. He recounts that on that day, Prince Daeron Targaryen stole the maidenhead of the Princess, his twin sister, and vowed to fight his brother Aemond for forcing her to marry a man she did not love. Although we cannot vouch for either account, as neither was in Oldtown when the Targaryen princes received the news, the only thing we can confirm is that both departed at dawn on their dragons.
From this point, the twins separate. The maid fought fiercely in the Battle of the Gullet with the support of the Triarchy fleets (thanks to her grandfather and former Hand of the King, Otto Hightower) against the Velaryon fleets and her nephew Jacaerys Velaryon, heir to Rhaenyra Targaryen. She lunged at the rider, calling him a bastard, and brought about his death that very afternoon. It should be noted that Silverwing was larger than Vermax. She made the victory her own when she opened the gates of Driftmark to the Triarchy sailors. They sacked, robbed, killed, and raped any survivors. As history tells us, the Princess forbade the defilement of children, grandmothers, maidens, and newly delivered women. Because of those she saved, she was called the Silver Martyr, alluding to her dragon’s scales. She held a banquet in the name of her brother, King Aegon, that lasted five days and five nights. Her hastened departure from the seat was divided in opinion. Septons Munkun and Eustace affirm that she received her brother’s order to pursue her betrothed after Lord Lannister's death and secure the support of Casterly Rock. Mushroom says the Princess planned to secure the support of whoever she could, and that the seat would be a new Dragonstone where she would receive the father of the child she was carrying: her brother Daeron, recently knighted and called “The Daring” after his victory at the Battle of the Honeywine. Aemond, he claims, would accuse them of high treason and they would pay with death if the Princess refused to comply with his order. According to the dwarf, fury was unleashed in the castle and the Princess allowed herself to be defiled by any stable boy or kitchen maid to spite her brother. However, given the compliant nature of the Targaryen twins, who were known by those familiar with them as more willing to take orders than to give them, we prefer to trust the writings of the maesters.
Be that as it may, and however those who read the historical annals choose, what cannot be denied or contradicted is that neither Prince Daeron nor his beloved sister ever met again in life. The maid departed at nightfall with her dragon Silverwing, after serving her some sheep to her liking, intending to meet her betrothed in war. The Lords of the Rivers had the Lannisters subdued in their attempt to advance. Perhaps it was the certainty of reuniting with her beloved brother that the Princess was ambushed by surprise while burning a Tully encampment; she and her dragon fell, ending the life of the last daughter of King Viserys I Targaryen and Queen Alicent Hightower.
The news did not take long to spread among the Green supporters. The seasoning was added and, by the time it reached the ears of Queen Alicent and Prince Aemond, her end had been so twisted that it was claimed she was being held as a whore in the camps of the Riverlords. The Green Queen wept, heartbroken for the daughter she had and never truly possessed, and the One-Eye Prince did not shed tears but instead departed upon Vhagar. He swiftly annihilated every garrison, camp, peasant, boy, girl, highborn, and lowborn Lord inhabiting the Riverlands who supported his half-sister and celebrated the passing of his beloved little sister. Those who managed to hide affirm that Prince Aemond dismounted from his dragon when he reached the place where the Princess had fallen. He found not a single garment of the woman nor any Black knights, but only a squire upon whom his fury landed, beheading him without mercy.
If the accounts were already confusing before, they were even more so for this part. Perhaps it was the rage that led them to act this way, the sadness that overwhelmed them. But when Prince Daeron the Daring met his brother near the town of Tumbleton, all concur on one thing: the dragons roared as soon as they saw each other and fought in the sky. Tessarion was not even a quarter the size of Vhagar, but she fought bravely against the old beast. She ripped a part of Vhagar's torso, until Aemond dealt the final blow, tearing the head from the bluish beast. Vhagar roared with rage and flew off, beating her wings. It was Loreon Lannister who found the body of Prince Daeron, something shockingly surprising. Per Munkun’s words, the Lannister plunged his sword into his chest as revenge for attempting to steal his lady, but we doubt he even knew what the Targaryen felt. This is refuted by the fact that it was he who delivered the body of the valiant prince to the Queen. Alicent wept for a whole night and it is said she would never recover from having lost her twins again.
That was the end of Daeron Targaryen and his lost princess in 130 AC.
Stories of love and terror were told. They were sung and mourned by those who knew them. The narrators were right about one thing.