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aesthetic & development sideblog for ROSEWULF. do not follow.

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COSTUME APPRECIATION ↴ Reign | 1x06  ( Chosen ) 

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ADELAIDE KANE as MARY STUART 1.22 Slaughter of Innocence, REIGN (2013-17)

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ROSALINE (2022) dir. Karen Maine

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[scarletwinstons]

If you could see what I see.

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Lyanna Stark as a warg, commissioned by the wonderful @xdarksistahx thanks again for the opportunity!!❤

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could you draw lyanna stark? 🥺

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Arya-Lyanna parallels.

Sansa-Lyanna parallels.

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Sansa-Lyanna parallels. Now onto the Arya-Lyanna parallels.

[lorelei-4]

What in your opinion were the relations between Lyanna - Brandon , Lyanna - Rickard and Lyanna - Benjen ?

Thanks for the ask, anon! As these characters don't have much canon material, everything I'm gonna say is mostly just my personal opinion and my assumptions based on my own perception of the books.

I think, Benjen was the closest one to Lyanna, they were close in age and had the same interests as children. Also, it's not mentioned whether Lyanna had any friends or companions the sort of Sansa's Jeyne Poole, and I tend to believe that she hadn't any and Benjen was not only her brother, but also her friend and her playmate. I have a theory that Benjen was also her confidant in the family and he knew more than others. Most probably, he knew about Rhaegar and that is somehow connected with his decision to join Night's Watch after rebellion.

With Brandon it was more complicated. He was much older (difference in 4-5 years mattered a lot especially at such a young age), he was the oldest and he was the heir. Brandon was second in House Stark after Rickard himself and he was in position to tell Lyanna what to do, which might have caused arguments between two wolf-blooded siblings. If Lyanna knew of his reputation and his treatment of women she definetely would be displeased with him, like she was with Robert. I want to believe, they loved each other, but their relationship wasn't very familiar. Lyanna didn't share her thoughts and feelings with him and Brandon was blind to see her true personality and character. Apart from that, like most young men with his background, he considered Lyanna a property of House Stark. And, I believe, that was making her angry. It's only my supposition, to be sure, but if he believed right away, she was abducted, he truly didn't know and notice much about her.

Rickard loved Lyanna, I'm quite sure of that. At the same time he was the victim of his own upbringing and traditions of the society he lived in. He was biased, that's visible in him not allowing Lyanna to train with the sword (which later is seen by Ned as a mistake he doesn't want to make himself with Arya) and him most likely perceiving Robert as a good match. He sees the form: rich great lord, young, healty and strong, suitable to fulfil Rickard's ambitions, but not the content: shitty person, who treats women as rubbish. He wanted the best for Lyanna, but it was what he thought best, not she. In my opinion, Lyanna loved and respected her father, but at the same time she was also sad he was unable to leave his biases and ambitions behind.

[lives4lovesworld]

It's enough for people to obsessively hate Rhaegar Targaryen for being one of many to speculated about the prophecy of Azor Ahai Reborn and wholeheartedly proclaim that Rhaegar was mad (as bad as Aerys) and has abducted and used Lyanna as incubator because of his "obsession" with said prophecy.

Despite both ideas not being backed up by the source material; i) Rhaegar is remembered fondly, capable and worthy (x, x, x, x, x, x, x) and "would have been a fine[r] king". ii) Rhaegar's "abduction" of Lyanna was even in-verse known to be motivated by (romantic) love, not because he believed her to be a part of the prophecy. (x, x, x, x) iii) Rhaegar believed the prophecy has already been fulfilled in his son with Elia Martell (x, x,)

Besides this, Rhaegar even had valid reasons (at least more than Stannis Baratheon ever had) to believe he could indeed be Azor Ahai; he was born amidst salt and smoke, it was prophesied that Azor Ahai Reborn will come forth from Aerys II and Rhaella's line (and for the longest time he seemed to be their only child to reach adulthood) he was the trueborn, rightful Lord of Dragonstone, "the place of salt and smoke" and dragons.

What takes the cake however, is their unironically projection of a character's flaw onto another, one that is designed to serve as a foil* and their refusal to apply the same moral belief system to all characters; they do not condemn Stannis Baratheon for his obsession with him as Azor Ahai Reborn and will use Jon Snow's parentage as proof that he is indeed Azor Ahai, using and validating the very same thought process they accuse Rhaegar of and condemn him for.

(*Stannis is a foil to Daenerys, and thus indirectly to Rhaegar, since Dany is constantly compared to him)

So while Stannis Baratheon can want to burn his child nephew, actually burn his uncle-in-law, consider burning newborn babes (x, x, x), loyal men (x, x, x) and will apparently burn his own daughter all for the sake of 'his duty' (x, x, x, x,) they will still proclaimed him as TKwC, The Best Man to Rule, while condemn Rhaegar and Daenerys Targaryen, mostly for sins they did not commit, but Stannis did; burning people and commit(/consider) atrocities with the excuse of being "The Chosen One" and it all being for "The Greater Good".

[goodqueenaly]

So, I was thinking, what exactly was Rhaegar’s plan post-pregnancy for Lyanna+child? Or at least, what was the best case scenario for her? (Assuming that Aerys had a weird period of sanity and doesn’t kill Brandon & company and doesn’t ask for the head of Robert & Ned, so the situation doesn’t implode in a full-on civil war) Was she gonna be relegated to Dragonstone as a favored mistress with her bastard son? Would Rhaegar had insisted in keeping them in court so Jon could bond with his (1/2)

siblings/fellow saviors of the world? or do you think he would have pressed the “legitimate polygamous marriage” narrative? (I don’t think he thought that far ahead, but it’s fun to consider what were the endgames)

Honestly, I don't think Rhaegar was really considering the more detailed aspects of his relationship with Lyanna. After all, this is the same man who decided to spectacularly sabotage his own political position by simultaneously insulting his wife, her brothers, the Starks, Robert Baratheon, and his own supremely paranoid father through his stunt at Harrenhal. This was also the man who, upon returning from the south, made a vague comment that "changes [would] be made" following his return from the Trident, totally oblivious to the impossibility of such a plan thanks to his father's tyranny and his own military defense of that tyranny in that very moment. This is also the man who did literally nothing to make sure his wife and children were safe from either his deranged father or anti-Targaryen forces even late in the rebellion, I think because he believed they were prophetically safe.

I think Rhaegar believed that there was an apocalyptic crisis coming. I think Rhaegar came to believe that his children were the key to solving this apocalyptic crisis. I think Rhaegar believed that he needed three children fathered by himself to be the heroes of this apocalyptic crisis. I think that Rhaegar decided Lyanna made a worthy candidate to birth the third child that Elia, so he had been told, could not. Anything beyond these points I think Rhaegar considered secondary, if not totally unimportant. Who cares what Lyanna's title would be at court when the apocalypse is coming? Who cares if Lyanna would be considered legally or officially his wife when the apocalypse is coming? The important thing was that he did his duty - and his duty, so I think Rhaegar saw it, was to make sure the children he believed were necessary to fight the apocalypse got conceived and born. When you've believed since the age of about eight that your entire destiny, your very reason for existing, is tied up in a millennia-long-gestating apocalyptic crisis that you have to solve, I think you'd get pretty good at dismissing the "little" stuff (whatever you consider that to be) in favor of facing that crisis.