starrology101 replied to your post “Say Lorch and Clegane get the wrong room and can't find Elia and her...”
Hmmmm �� I love the idea of Rhaenys as Queen but I absolutely loathe the idea of Renly as king. I’m torn on this. I think I like Rhaenys getting Dragonstone and making a stab for power in her own right better.
As what I’d like to see, I definitely agree. 😂 I, too, hate the idea of Renly as king.
It’s interesting to speculate on, though. I’m not sure I believe that it’s likely - there are just so many possibilities, it’s hard to know what’s most likely to have happened. In a fic draft that I’ve been trying to finish for months now, I touch upon the idea that a Rhaenys that grows up as a hostage would be in a sort of limbo, with people thinking of marrying her to a number of different candidates, but not actually doing it. From a political perspective, marrying her to Joffrey would be the smart choice because no one is going to wage a war to put the girl already slated to become queen on the throne. As a reader, I like it, because it enables the Dragonstone thing which intrigues me because the several year age gap between Rhaenys and Joffrey would mean she could potentially be hanging out at her own seat for a while, ultimately escaping having to marry him once the war breaks out. But Robert doesn’t often do the smart thing, and might just hate the idea of marrying his heir to a Targaryen. Renly would be the next option, and everyone would know it, but I also struggle to see Robert being decisive enough to veto the Joffrey-Rhaenys match until he has no choice but to make the decision when Joffrey comes of age, meaning the clock would run out and he’d get out of having to decide by dying. That would mean that Rhaenys would be neither married nor betrothed at the time of Robert’s death, and without that official arrangement, she probably wouldn’t be permitted to go to Dragonstone.
None of this is really relevant. I’m really fond of the idea of Rhaenys getting Dragonstone, though. It’s a super cool scenario that could have some really interesting ramifications.
