"Daemon spent long hours in her company, enthralling her with tales of his journeys and battles... he read poems to her, dined with her, hawked with her, sailed with her, entertained her. He praised her beauty, declaring her to be the fairest maid in all the 7 Kingdoms."
So I really don't see the syraxes teg. Don't tell me you don't call them syraxes... They are as pretty together as their Targaryens. That perfect couple deserves more attention. Syraxes in first place.
A little doodle of a scene from chapter 11 of the fic in which there is a flashback to a young Alicent meeting Syrax for the first time.
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“Dragons are incredibly empathetic creatures. They often will share the same feelings as their rider.”
“Oh.”
Alicent felt herself flush a little. Rhaenyra was watching her.
“Do you want to try touching her?”
Alicent looked at her incredulously.
“What? No! Isn’t it considered sacrilegious for common folk to touch a dragon?”
Rhaenyra shook her head, rolling her eyes a little.
“That’s just a rule someone made up to keep fools from getting their arms bitten off.”
“I don’t want to get my arm bitten off, Rhaenyra!” Alicent hissed. Rhaenyra raised an eyebrow.
“Well you aren’t a fool, are you?”
“What if I am? How could I know—,”
“Alicent,” Rhaenyra said, stopping her anxious rambling. “I’ll be with you the whole time. It’ll be okay, I promise.”
Alicent might have kept arguing but she was distracted from that when Rhaenyra stepped behind her, close, so close they were pressed against each other. She wrapped an arm Alicent’s waist. With her other hand, she laced her fingers through Alicent’s.
“Ynot, Syrax! Demas! Lykiri!” [Come to me, Syrax. Sit. Be calm]. “Be calm,” she said again, this time for Alicent, who let out a shaky breath.
Carefully, Rhaenyra guided Alicent’s hand to touch Syrax’s forehead. Alicent squeezed her eyes shut. Her breath hitched.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
I bring art!! Yayyyyyy. Anyway I bring Syraxes and uh..an unnamed character! I kinda have had this character in the works and his design wasn’t final until now. I like the human look. I also have a Timelapse so yippie. Now the funny thing is that they both don’t like each other. I also like how Syraxes looks like Sasuke lmao