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After The Dragons Danced (A Rhaena Targaryen SI)

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Wolffils said:
"When the time is right, you will be queen of the Seven Kingdoms just as Father, Rhaenyra and Grandmother always wished you to be. But not yet."

What? Is this to suggest that Jaehaera is to be killed or set aside? Why? Marrying competing claims to unite the bloodlines makes sense politically. Secures peace within Westeros and a great symbolic presentation of the Dance being over. Can't just be irrational pettiness to undo this. Is it because Baela rides Silverwing 🤔?
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Jack-21 said:
Rhaena, Baela and Aegon hate the Greens. You have to remember that Aegon II, was torturing Baela & Aegon III and messing with their heads using death threats.
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Tertius711 said:
Why not? Why should you resolve competing bloodlines when you have absolute power? Why let the daughter of your enemy be Queen and let her children rule when you are the dragonlords?
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The lords can take up their symbols and political sense with Silverwing.

There's no way you put in all this legwork to restore your house and allow someone else to run it. Tis personal for Baela and Rhaena.
 
Wolffils said:
Also, just to point this out, the main reason Rhaenyra needed Baela to marry Jace was to secure Velaryon support because her son was a bastard. Not out of some personal wish or genuine care for Baela's station in life. Same with Rhaena being betrothed to Luke. Rhaena was meant to provide another cloak of legitimacy and protection to Lucerys 'Velaryon '.
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I'd argue that Rhaenyra married the twins to Jace and Luke to secure Daemon's support. Him, his dragon, and his wife's dragon were the most important thing in that calculus.
But, that 's besides the point.
Why does it have to be one thing or the other? The Black kids were close to each other, that suggests that their relation as a family unit was strong. Rhaenyra could have betrothed the twins to his sons to both secure support and due to the care she has for them, due to them being her best friend's daughters.
 
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neyra said:
The lords can take up their symbols and political sense with Silverwing.

There's no way you put in all this legwork to restore your house and allow someone else to run it. Tis personal for Baela and Rhaena.
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Valid enough reason I suppose. When you have fire-breathing dragons as your personal mounts, autocracy and absolutism are inevitable.
 
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