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ASOIAF fancasting –> House Targaryen: Georgia Hirst as Valaena Velaryon

“He was the only son, and second child, of Aerion, Lord of Dragonstone, and Lady Valaena of House Velaryon, herself half Targaryen on her mother’s side.”

Naturally, this fancast evokes a lot about Visenya, who was Valaena’s eldest daughter. I am in love with the theory that Valaena, being half-Targaryen herself, was the original rider of Vhagar . . . even if that requires her to be dead by the time of the Conquest.

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ASOIAF fancasting –> Mistresses of Aegon IV: Ellise Chappell as Bethany Bracken

“Bethany was groomed by her father and sister expressly to win the king’s favor and displace Missy Blackwood. In 177, she caught Aegon’s eye as he visited at Stone Hedge to see his bastard son, Aegor. By now, the king was fat and foul-tempered, but Bethany delighted him, and he took her back with him to King’s Landing. However, Bethany found his royal embraces distressing. For comfort, she turned to a knight of the Kingsguard, Ser Terrence Toyne. The pair was discovered abed by Aegon himself in 178. Ser Terrence was torturned to death and both Lady Bethany and her father were executed.”

Just one example of Aegon the Unworthy’s over-the-top sense of entitlement. We get the feeling that Lady Bethany never had any real choice in her life, becoming little more than grist for Aegon’s atrocity mill.

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ASOIAF fancasting –> Mistresses of Aegon IV: Marley Shelton as Jeyne Lothston

“Jeyne was brought to court by her mother in 178, when she was fourteen. Aegon made Lord Lothston his new Hand, and it was said (but never proved) that he enjoyed mother and daughter together in the same bed. He soon gave Jeyne a pox he’d caught from the whores he’d been seeing after Lady Bethany’s execution, and the Lothstons were then all sent from court again.”

This veteran actress has an irresistible horror-movie air about her, evoking the sense of belonging to a cursed family with a haunted hall, and being involved in an affair with (possibly) her own father . . .

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ASOIAF fancasting –> Consorts of House Targaryen: Jessica Brown Findlay as Jeyne Westerling, wife of Maegor the Cruel

Lady Jeyne of House Westerling had been married to Alyn Tarbeck, who had died with Prince Aegon in the Battle Beneath the Gods Eye. A few months later, she had given her late lord a posthumous son. Tall and slender, with lustrous brown hair, Lady Jeyne was being courted by a younger son of the Lord of Casterly Rock when Maegor sent for her, but this meant little and less to the king.

It’s interesting how proud and highborn the Westerlings really are, with scions of this house mixing in with the Lannisters every few generations, and producing some of the most memorable characters. Perhaps part of their mission in the main series is to regain some of that lost glory.

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ASOIAF fancasting –> Consorts of House Targaryen: Joely Richardson as Elinor Costayne

“Only one of the seven speakers was known to the common folks of the realm when they set out: no less a person than Queen Elinor herself, the Black Bride who had found Maegor dead upon the Iron Throne. Clad in her queenly raiment, which grew shabbier and more threadbare by the day, Elinor of House Costayne would travel the Reach giving eloquent testimony to the evil of her late king and the goodness of his successors. In later years, giving up all claims to nobility, she would join the Faith, rising eventually to become Mother Elinor at the great motherhouse in Lannisport.”

Did I sort of mix up my fancasts for Elinor and Ceryse Hightower? Maybe. Still, I like the serene energy of Joely as one of the wives who survived Maegor - and most likely had the happiest life afterwards. We do know more of her than Maegor’s other non-Targ wives, at any rate.

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ASOIAF fancasting --> House Tully: Charlotte Hope as Celia

“Jaehaerys had been betrothed to Celia Tully, daughter of the Lord of Riverrun.”

A very pretty fancast for a girl who I imagine to be the jewel of the riverlands, well versed in courtly manners and fit to be consort for a prince.

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Random fancasting --> Favorites of Rhaena Targaryen: Hannah New as Elissa Farman

“The scant writings she left behind show that even as a child Elissa Farman was convinced the world was ‘far larger and far stranger than the maesters imagine.’ Not for her the merchant’s dream of reaching Ulthos and Asshai by sailing west. Hers was a bolder vision. Between Westeros and the far eastern shores of Essos and Ulthos, she believed, lay other lands and other seas waiting to be discovered: another Essos, another Sothoryos, another Westeros. Her dreams were full of sundering rivers and windswept plains and towering mountains with their shoulders in the clouds, of green islands verdant in the sun, of strange beasts no man had tamed and queer fruits no man had tasted, of golden cities shining underneath strange stars.”

Another shoo-in from Black Sails for ASOIAF’s seafarers, this is one lady who perfectly looks the part for this fascinating character.

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Random fancasting --> Children of Elaena Targaryen: Dan Stevens as Jon Waters // Saoirse Ronan as Jeyne Waters

“Following in Daena’s footsteps, she bore the bastard twins Jon and Jeyne Waters to Alyn Velaryon, Lord Oakenfist.”

With Valyrian blood on both sides, these twins were probably as beautiful as true Targaryens.

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