House Baratheon

House Baratheon

of Storm's End

Ours Is The Fury

credits: divider created by @zaldritzosrose

this is the last house at the moment. ✨

Elia and Jaehaera WIPs.

Have I mentioned how much I love Elia??? 😭

Something striking about the relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent that the show tries to awkwardly scoot past is that time and time again, Alicent sacrifices her own interests and desires for Rhaenyra's benefit, while Rhaenyra never does the reverse. Alicent teaches Rhaenyra history, dresses and crowns her for her investment ceremony, comforts her after her mother's death, advises Viserys *against* naming Aegon heir, supports reconciliation between Rhaenyra and Viserys that ultimately gets her father and sole supporter fired, seriously considers switching sides to her despite the severe risk to her own children, and goes against her father to try and save her life. The most Rhaenyra gives Alicent is a few hollow words of praise in episode 8.

Though the show doesn't seem to realize it, their relationship isn't one of equals, but of master and servant. Otto and Alicent are parallels in this sense - both are in a sense, servants of the Targaryens who do not wish to merely serve. But the show buys into the expectation of their service and Targaryen masterdom uncritically: the great crime of Otto and Alicent is their attempt to subvert the natural order of things rather than meekly serving their Targaryen masters. It's why Alicent is most sympathetic when she is loyal to Rhaenyra, but the reverse isn't true, because why would Rhaenyra be expected to do anything for a mere servant like Alicent?

Which really just goes to show the big class blind spot the show has. By presenting "goodness" as solely a function of how closely one can follow Viserys' orders, they're regurgitating one aspect of medieval social customs to oppose another. With this context, Rhaenyra and Alicent's relationship feels less healthy and a lot more like a premonition of Alicent's relationship to Viserys, with similar power imbalances. Rhaenyra and Alicent love each other, but Rhaenyra sees Alicent as a sidekick at best, doesn't take her seriously as someone with her own inner life and desires, and is sensitive to Alicent's perceived disobedience ("questioning my virtue is an act of treason.")

I think it also gives context to Criston and Alicent's relationship, given that Criston is *also* relatively low nobility, and a servant to the Targaryens, who feels taken advantage of by them, and whose great crime is trying to be something other than a servant, to *make* kings, not just to serve them.

Rhaenys loved Viserys.

How could she love him?

How could she love anyone else?

How could she be anything other than reason for his sanity and insanity at the same time?

I am obsessed with this couple even though Viserys was... Not pleasant in cannon.

But let me introduce this story to you...

And again. May feel like pro Targaryen but that's just Vissy and Rhae being sad because no one in world loves them except Egg and Dany.

Elia smuggled her kids out with Rhaella when her the queen was leaving for Dragonstone with her son.

Rhaella dies. Aegon, Rhaenys, Viserys and Daenerys end up in Braavos with Ser Willem. Then Ser Willem dies. They end up in streets and pretty rich merchant houses just all like cannon but Viserys is little less insane because Rhaenys and Aegon are here....

She is like still princess of Dorne. But Elia was left there and was in the Throne room when Jaime kills Aerys. Robert (on insistence of Jon Arryn) marry her to Stannis. She actually births him a daughter (aka half Martell Shireen).

Lyanna wasn't much pregnant. Let's forget the timeline. The Kingsguard with her surrender. Robert marries her (since Tywin didn't do much because there were no dragonspawns to kill. Cersei marries some Random Westerlands lords. Actually loved a good rich happy life. Happy Cersei for win!!)

Robert forgives Kingsguard as they were following orders. Unknown to him, she is pregnant with Rhaegar's child. (That's why ToJ Kingsguard play along with this.)

(I am making everyone evil. Aren't I?)

Lyanna is like Cersei in here, I wanna write a evil Lyanna when I am gonna write a little less evil and child in another fic of mine. 😁

So is Jon because many loves to write Aegon as Joffrey come again. And I hate that.

“Blessed be the Daughters of Cain Bound to suffering eternal though the sins of their father”

- Ethel Cain “Ptolemaea”

Art of Rhaenys and Daenerys that I commissioned by @catlvur

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