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Actresses who should play Targaryens:
LADY GAGA and I am so serious about her as Shiera
TILDA SWINTON: Elaena, anyone? Or actually even Visenya. I know everyone loves making gifs with that one woman from Vikings but Visenya is said to be austere. Elaena is a great choice too because I think Tilda really could embody “more beautiful at 70 than at 17”
Mia Goth: she’s got that otherworldly look. Could be Daella or Deana the Defiant
Hunter Schaefer: she has a very striking facial structure and with her smile that’s a bit angled up to one side, I think she’d be a great Alyssa
Gemma Ward: EXTREMELY ethereal. I’d pick her for Daenys, Rhaenys the conquerer, Naerys, or even Dany
Julia Garner: perhaps Rhaena the black bride or Deena the defiant?
Abbey Lee Kershaw: perhaps Saera as an adult? She has such striking features and a real intensity to her
Bella Heathcote: Rhaena daughter of Aegon III, perhaps? Could also do Naerys or Dany
TARGARYEN NOVEMBER 2021 || 25: The Queen Regnants Who Never Were and the One Who Is and Will Be
three maidens in the tower
“daena was targaryen to the bone; strong, beautiful, willful.”
Aegon III and his daughter Daena Targaryen 🖤
"Daena often dressed dramatically. As a child, she always wore black in emulation of her father."
I know Daeron had one of those teenage wispy moustaches before Daena bullied (laughed her ass off and he took it personally) him into taking it off.
I'm thinking of the incredibly vital role Rhaenyra was given after her mother died, becoming the first ever female heir to the iron throne.
How revolutionary this was, and what an opportunity it presented for all women in Westeros (outside of Dorne).
How the sexist society she lived in was less than pleased of this title and how happy it would have been to strip her of it. And how easy Rhaenyra made it for them to do so.
She knew the importance of the title she bore, she knew that every noble man in the continent would look for anything to discredit her because of mysogyny, she knew that how she behaved would determine whether or not women would ever be considered capable of taking the weight of the crown and rule.
And she completely fumbled the bag by:
Being extremely rude and bratty to all of her suitors, refusing her arranged marriage, obviously cheating of her husband and claiming her bastards were true born, murdering said husband so she could marry her uncle (who has a terrible reputation) days after his own wife's death.
What was she thinking?
Didn't she even bother to wonder what the realm would think of her unlawful actions?
She literally proved the sexist society right, by being the most scandalous princess she could be, and that only solidified in the minds of everyone in Westeros that if you put a woman in a position of power she's gonna abuse it to do whatever she wants.
The girlboss black queen is the reason why no other Targaryen woman ever sat the iron throne after her, as her scandals and treachery turned the population against the mere though of a female ruler, in fear of having a new "Maegor with teats".
Consorts to the Iron Throne ♕ Queens of House Targaryen
The Three Heads of the Dragon: Part 2
by nataa.draws on instagram
from left to right: Queen Naerys, King Aegon IV, and Prince Aemon (1); Septa Rhaena, Princess Elaena, and Princess Daena (2); Princess Daenerys, King Daeron II, and Ser Daemon Blackfyre (3)