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Prince Aemon once won a tourney as a mystery knight so he could name Naerys the queen of love and beauty, instead of said title going to one of Aegon's mistresses.
The singers claim Naerys loved Aemon, and Aemon loved her.
Aemon Targaryen the Dragonknight
commissioned by nevaehh_355 on instagram
BROTHERLY LOVE Artwork by Borja Pindado
When Larra gave birth to her second son, a boy named Aemon, Lord Torrhen arranged a celebratory feast. The court was delighted by the birth of yet another potential heir to the Iron Throne…or at least, most of it was. Aemon’s brother, the year-and-a-half-old Aegon, was discovered one day striking his infant brother with the dragon egg in his cradle, but Lady Larra intervened before any harm could be done.
aemon & naerys needed to put my designs for them together
Naerys and Aegon’s “merry” wedding, commissioned by @/boredhag on IG 💖
The imperfect and very unhappy family of Viserys II
Can I just ask because every now and then I see these ‘eww incest’ posts on the tag. If fictional incest is so taboo and wrong, if it’s a line that cannot be crossed, then how can one be okay with a story set in a world where the author has described Alysanne and Jaehaerys as a ‘great Targaryen love story’? Shouldn’t he be describing that as one of the most disgusting Targaryen love stories given their platonic love for each other as children and siblings clearly turned into romantic and sexual love at some point?
Clearly biology and science and sexual attraction works differently in GRRM’s magical fantasy world.
Why are there love songs being written about Aemon the Dragonknight and Queen Naerys in Westeros? These two are also siblings. Here is Sansa talking about her great love for Joffrey and comparing it to the love between siblings Naerys and Aemon:
I love him, Father, I truly truly do, I love him as much as Queen Naerys loved Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, as much as Jonquil loved Ser Florian. I want to be his queen and have his babies.” - Sansa, AGoT
Naerys loved Prince Aemon the most out of her two brothers, as he knew how to make her laugh. Aemon was also more like Naerys in character, while Prince Aegon was not.
Part of a little project I began working on on Patreon, of some significant Targaryen trios. I really loved working on this, and especially drawing Aegon who has a different body-type and face than what I usually work on. Hopefully I’ll be able to work on the next trio soon!
Do you think that the showrunners are trying to push Aem0nd x Helaena down our throats? When there is zero hints in the canon source material? When Aem0nd has the largest dragon of that time yet did not bother himself to save his mother and sister. One of the worst aspects of this show is the the whitewashing of this h*ler in disguise.
Answered HERE.
Can I say too that Aemon the dragon knight was the previous owner of Dark Sister, that later got to Bloodraven's hand, a lord commander of the nw, and disapeared beyond the wall? I'm like 99 sure that jon is going to hold dark sister, not wielding it cause claw, but hold it. it would also contrast with him wielding the sword that a bastard used to protect the targaryens, instead of blackfyre, that ended giving the name to the blackfyre line and that fAegon probably descents from.
Anon, it is so interesting that you mention Bloodraven, because Jon does share similarities with him as well! Here is a great post that highlights theie parallels. Plus if the theory that Bloodraven wargs Mormont's raven is correct, he has been watching Jon and trying to keep in contact with him for a good time. Not to mention the speculations that Jon will come back with white hair and red eyes — such as Ghost and Bloodraven hahahaha.
We have to remember that Blackfyre and Dark Sister are above all family heirlooms. They are not easily bestowed upon someone and hold many symbolisms.
Blackfyre is the sword of kings, wielded by the Conqueror himself and his successors after him. It represents the legitimacy of the Targaryen monarch. It is kind of ironic, when we think that a bastard branch of House Targaryen was named after it. It might go to Dany's hand in the future books, as she is the head of House Targaryen.
Dark Sister is more special, though. It is the very sword that has protected the Targaryen dynasty generation after generation. It is the sword Visenya used to conquer and defend Aegon. The sword Daemon used to defend Rhaenyra against the Green usurpers. Aemon the Dragonknight wielded it to glory. Dark Sister is Bloodraven's prowess and loyalty. These are only a few examples. She is bestowed upon only the most worthy warriors in the Targaryen family.
It would be poetic if Jon came to wield Dark Sister or have it bestowed upon him. He is the bastard boy who dreamed about wielding Ice. That's not possible anymore, but he could still have the honor of wielding Dark Sister, a symbol and a heirloom of his Targaryen heritage.
Are they trying to force Naerys/Aemon dynamic to Helaena/Aemond in the show🤢? There is absolutely zero hints/implications in the book that Aemond cared about helaena as a sister let alone having a crush on her or something. I'm tired of them trying so hard into forcing "tis a who studied the blade and philosophy" Aemond down on our throats
I mean the show is really trash and they drop the ball when they decided to Whitewash the worst of the greens Aemond/Alicent. If they're are desperately want to make this conflict "grey" they've Daeron/Helaena out there instead they choose Maegor reborn again?!
Yes, they are trying a Naerys/Aemond dynamic on these two. However, Aemond is only like Aemon in that they are both men, princes, Targaryens, and warriors. They have nothing alike personality or motivation wise.
While Naerys and Helaena are alike in that both:
These are for how feudal patriarchy makes these women victims, not full characters or persons. Granted, there's nothing much Gyldayn writes about Helaena besides her grief, madness and great fit for motherhood, but that's the fact of Gyldayn. We don't know if Helaena had her own sort of inner strength that was ignored, discounted, or never discovered. (EDIT yes she did) I personally think that there's room for it. And other distinctive traits that could actually make her her own person.
Despite what Aemond says, motherhood does not make one weak. HotD failed to make Helaena into a person, as her autistic-coded self still makes autism a personality trait (when it isn't) with her only ever showing some distinctiveness through it, that part in HotD where she talks about Aegon drunkenly abusing her and ignoring elsewise, and her playing with bugs.
The love for Helaena is mostly about how she suffers and her added, useless-to-the-greens, powers -- not who she is or how it sho s the greens' negligence. Because you will see many fans just take her powers as is
Naerys and Aemon are described in A World of Ice and Fire (written by Maester Yandel) as:
Queen Naerys—the one woman Aegon IV bedded in whom he took no pleasure—was pious and gentle and frail, and all these things the king misliked. Childbirth also proved a trial to Naerys, for she was small and delicate. When Prince Daeron was born on the last day of 153 AC, Grand Maester Alford warned that another pregnancy might kill her. Naerys was said to address her brother thus: "I have done my duty by you, and given you an heir. I beg you, let us live henceforth as brother and sister." We are told that Aegon replied: "That is what we are doing." Aegon continued to insist his sister perform her wifely duties for the rest of her life.
Matters between them were inflamed further by Prince Aemon, their brother, who had been inseparable from Naerys when they were young. Aegon's resentment of his noble, celebrated brother was plain to all, for the king delighted in slighting Aemon and Naerys both at every turn. Even after the Dragonknight died in his defense, and Queen Naerys perished in childbed the year after, Aegon IV did little to honor their memory.
("The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV")
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She had skin so pale that it seemed almost translucent, men said. She was small of frame (and made smaller by having little appetite), with very fine features, and singers wrote songs in praise of her eyes—a deep violet in hue and very large, framed by pale lashes.
She loved Aemon best of her brothers, for he knew how to make her laugh—and he had something of the same piety that she possessed, while Aegon did not. She loved the Seven as dearly as she loved her brother, if not more so, and might have been a septa if her lord father had allowed it. But he did not, and Viserys instead wed her to his son Aegon in 153 AC, with King Aegon III's blessing. The singers say that Aemon and Naerys both wept during the ceremony, though the histories tell us Aemon quarreled with Aegon at the wedding feast, and that Naerys wept during the bedding rather than the wedding.
("The Targaryen Kings: Viserys II")
So we also know little about Naerys but more about her than we do Helaena.
There is nothing to suggest, nor nothing in Aemond's personality that shows he and Helaena would have ever been attracted to each other. I also think if we were to grey-ify anyone it would be Daeron or Helaena, even though Daeron did kill a whole town for Maelor's death when it definitely wasn't it or its lady's faults. Maybe make Daeron promise to be his nephew and niece's protector after seeing and showing how Aegon and Aemond don't care about them, favoring Maelor because of his secondary son status (secondary, not second) and then feeling guilt for their deaths, IDK. Honestly, the jump cut between the 5th and 6th episodes made us lose so much. I already complained about it multiple times, but yeah. Goes to show how much the writers and show runners feel for the side trying to win on the basis of male privilege and greed.
