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princess Viserra✨🌺
Soo pretty!!
Rhaenys The Conqueror👑
Sister, mother & Queen✨
Saera & Viserra doodles
Dove Cameron could’ve been a great Viserra or Dany and Anya Taylor-Joy could’ve been a great Daenys or Saera but they’ve both had work done that makes them no longer belong in this setting to me
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
The daughter who followed her parents' teachings to the letter of being considered a goddess and marrying her brother, but was punished by her parents for it. Logic when? You deserve much more, my little girl
Viserra and Visenya are the product of Targaryen bad breeding. They only followed to the letter what they were taught, if what they were taught was culero. It's not their problem or mine
Every day I just think about how Viserra just wanted some attention, something that she discovered she could get with her beauty, the only attribute of her that always stood out. That she, like all adolescents of that time, dreamed of marrying a handsome and brave young man, that she put those wishes in her brother because that is how they raised her in her house, that she was always aware of her position .
And that everyone branded her as a vain evil for being aware of her beauty, that Baelon was left to blame for aspiring to his brother's position, that her mother decided to get rid of her so as not to stain her brother's reputation, that she I brand her disobedient for not wanting to accept such an unworthy marriage, that history preferred to blame her before accepting that the good queen Alysanne and the brave Baelon could be trash.
She was just a girl that she wanted on her last day to enjoy freedom, how did you think she would think that she could be so bad?
the fact that both Viserra and Saera don't have a dragon, just like Gael. It is that they were no longer fit for the Targaryen house, they could not marry their brothers, so they simply were not worthy of it, because they were only fit to marry another house and obviously they were not going to allow them to have their dragon, only Dragon's blood it matters in women when it is useful for men.
I can't understand the fans of Viserra who send her to Baelon, get that bad brother usurper away from my little girl
Princess Viserra Targaryen daughter of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alysanne. Viserra was the prettiest of the Kings daughters and she knew it, she would entertain young men and would often flirt and play games. She desired to become Queen and sought to marry one of her older brothers, in order to prevent this her mother betrothed her to an old lord. At the age of fifteen she was to be sent to white harbor to marry Lord Manderly, she escaped her rooms and rode her horse around kings landing in a last night of fun. She was thrown from her horse and died at the age of five and ten.
A Defense of Viserra Targaryen
I just realized I've never actually collected these thoughts in one place, so it's time for me to do so.
This is the main quote from F&B used as character evidence for Viserra:
No squire was ever going to win Viserra, Queen Alysanne knew; not her heart, and certainly not her maidenhead. She was far too sly a child to go down the same path as her sister Saera. "She has no interest in kissing games, nor boys," the queen told Jaehaerys. "She plays with them as she used to play with her puppies, but she would no more lie with one than with a dog. She aims much higher, our Viserra. I have seen the way she preens and prances around Baelon. That is the husband she desires, and not for love of him. She wants to be the queen."
EXCEPT PRINCE AEMON IS STILL ALIVE AND HEALTHY. BAELON IS NOT THE HEIR. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO INDICATION FOR VISERRA THAT MARRYING BAELON WOULD MAKE HER THE QUEEN. ALYSANNE WOULD HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THIS.
So, what gives?
Maybe this is a situation of "George forgot." He's infamously bad with numbers, after all. Maybe he got his timelines mixed up, and didn't realize that Prince Aemon outlives Viserra by five years and Baelon isn't the heir at the time of her death.
Except Fire & Blood is deliberately written as an in-universe history, and we're supposed to treat it as such, with the understanding that some of what Archmaester Gyldayn says is biased or not 100% accurate. This quote is supposedly from Alysanne to Jaehaerys. Who would have heard this? Who would have written it down? Combine that with the straight up factually incorrect information it's based upon, and this has the makings of an apocryphal quote from a bad source. The factual error undercuts the validity of this entire section, and I don't think it can be blindly accepted as proof of Viserra's character.
So, onto the Baelon incident.
(note: the entire existence of the Baelon Incident can also be called into question, given that Gyldayn begins that section with "if court gossip can be believed." We are not all maesters at the Citadel with access to his bibliography and primary sources, though, so I'll leave that alone for now and choose to treat it as fact.)
Here are our facts: Viserra Targaryen is 15 years old. Her parents have arranged a marriage to an old Northern Lord who has been widowed 4 times already. They have refused to break the betrothal. Viserra has a drinking problem. While drunk (and apparently unsupervised) she manages to sneak into Baelon's bed, naked, in an attempt to "seduce" him.
What's the more likely motive here? That she's a sly manipulative ambitious girl who's just so determined to be queen that she'll seduce poor widowed Baelon? Or that she's drunk and desperate and scared and trying to get her brother to rescue her the same way Jaehaerys once rescued Alysanne?
I rest my case.
Explain to me like I'm 6 why (as a Targaryen) Viserra wanting to marry Baelon is deeply shocking
I don’t get it. Why did Alysanne marry Daella and Viserra to old men who already had heirs? They were princesses in their own right. Surely they could’ve done better than dead-in-childbirth-at-18 and tried-to-seduce-her-own-brother-to-escape-four-times-widower-only-to end-up-dead. Then she allows her 11 year old granddaughter Aemma to marry an 18 year old Viserys only to suffer the same fate as her mother. Good Queen sure, but good mother?
The youngest of the four, PRINCESS VISERRA, had a will of her own as well, but she never screamed and certainly never cried. Sly was one word used to describe her. Vain was another. Viserra was beautiful, all men agreed, blessed with the deep purple eyes and silver-gold hair of a true Targaryen, with flawless white skin, fine features, and a grace that was somehow eerie and unsettling in one so young. When one stammering young squire told her she was a goddess, she agreed.
If the princess was intent on marrying her brother, the queen was equally determined to prevent it. Her answer was Lord Manderly and White Harbor. “Theomore is a good man,” Alysanne told her daughter, “a wise man, with a kind heart and a good head on his shoulders. His people love him.” The princess was not persuaded. “If you like him so much, Mother, you should marry him,” she said.
Laughter rang through the night and spirits were high until the racers reached the foot of Aegon’s High Hill, where Viserra’s palfrey collided with one of her companions. The knight’s mare lost her footing and fell, breaking his leg beneath her. The princess was thrown from the saddle headfirst into a wall. Her neck was broken.