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Hi there 🤗

Thank you so much for your very lovely words and the compliment <3 I do love other characters besides Daemon and Rhaenyra - though they are number 1 for me XD - so I do like to add them to the story, and I try my best to make every character feel real, not like a prop that's there because I need them.

Concerning your question not sure I understood it or not. If you are asking how he found out it's explained on chapter 51 😊 as to why I chose to write it that way and have Addam and Alyn become his squires I think I have explained it in a comment but it's perfectly understandable you missed it because

And,

F:ck me...

So, I chose to have this change in the AU because, as I have mentioned, there will be no seeds plotline. To be quite honest, besides Addam and Alyn I did not like it at all in the original story and found most of it didn't make a lot of sense. It's a bit like do I have a better solution? Probably not, however just like seeing someone trying to cut off a foot because they bumped it somewhere, I knew this would not work.

However, I did love Addam and Alyn and wanted them in the story, so this was what I came up with and honestly I am very proud 🤗 most people love Addam and his POVs, and he's such a great character in canon that deserved so much better. It was really a pleasure to write him and try to develop who he was in canon.

Concerning your comment about why Daemon isn't more offended, well although Rhaenys was his cousin we have no indication of what relationship they had in canon. During the Great Council, Daemon stood by Viserys and was ready to go to war against the Velaryons. Other than that, the two have no interactions. Daemon and Corlys on the other hand are shown to be allies and sort of friends. Of course anyone is free in this case to interpret Daemon and Rhaenys's relationship as they like, but me personally, I don't headcanon them as being close, so Daemon doesn't really care 🤷🏽‍♀️

Again this is my view, and because this is my story, I wrote it like that. But in canon we really have no indication so anyone can roll with whatever they prefer.

All the best to you and thanks again! 😊

PS: My inbox is currently closed and will be for the next couple of months because I have more than 100 asks to answer.

Hey there Anon and sorry for this delay!

I actually have to give you major props because you sent this ask the day I was dealing with the RIP incel at our comment section and here on tumblr, so it was maybe the only thing that day that made me laugh 😂

Me: having drama

You: but what are your thoughts in Baela/Jace and Baela/Alyn though?!

Thank you ❤️

So answering your question, well I think I have mentioned it in the past but I have a lot of mixed feelings about the “Velaryon” princes. For once I think all three of them were very interesting characters who actually have a personality, and for the most part everything about them is positive. They were brave, bold, Jace was smart and shrewd… they were definitely from Baelon and Jaehaerys’s line and though they did not look Targaryen I think inside they were as Targaryen as they could be ❤️ I wholeheartedly believe Daemon kept looking at them and thinking “F:cking hell these should have been MY sons as well!!!!! Imagine just how much better looking they would be!!!! F:ck you Viserys! I could have FIVE boys! 😤” named Daemon, Daemion, and Daemond 😂

I also think they suffered terrible deaths that they did nothing to deserve.

And to all of you who think they did deserve to die because they were bastards, maybe reassess yourselves. It’s one thing for people in the asoiaf to think so, quite another for us here in the real world to think like this. If you need to be told: the circumstances of our births do not define us. Our actions do. You’re welcome!

But (here comes that round juicy 🍑) in the story I felt that they were always destined to die in a way. Kind of like Laenor, Laena, Harwin… like you could tell where all of this was heading to and even from how baby Aegon’s birth and he is described that he was the one destined to have the throne… so I could never get too invested in them, or I tried not to because I just knew it was leading to nothing - and because I new how the story ended before reading it, I mean Aegon III came after Rhaenyra - I just accepted it 🤷🏽‍♀️

I felt about them like I did about Visenya (though I still like Visenya more), in the sense that I like them, but I kind of don’t want them to succeed. While they x10000 better than the Gangreens, their rule would not have worked out, not with Aegon III and Viserys II existing, sorry but no. And if they had gotten the throne Westeros would not have known peace imo. An AU where the Blacks win and the “Velaryon” princes become kings is just not something I think I could believe in. I think Daemon accepting this would be to ooc for him (again imo) and my rule for reading aus is that I have to feel that the characters are still the same while reflecting the change the AU introduces.

This all to say that I think Jace was a great man and he had every trait (except the dodgy circumstances of his birth) to become a great king. Do I think he was better than Alyn and would have made Baela happier? Without a shadow of a doubt. Alyn for the most part was not a good manager and did not make wise decisions and he was a manwh0re who kept cheating on a Targaryen princess. Like b🐕tch! How DARE you?! Also his scene of “I’m a have a son name him Corlys and maybe he will be king” is just 🤮🤡🤮🤡 moment. Like calm down. Way down, Alyn. Like way down!

Also yes, please worship a f:cking dude who did not care about you and your brother for years 🙄

And yes I still love Corlys as a character so y’all Karens can go lurk someone else. And yes I also still love Alyn despite all of this I am saying.

In the end, I kind of feel that despite everything him and Baela were destined to be together. I did love their secret marriage and though he was a cheating sack of 💩 he did seem to love her. I just loved when he talked about her you know? Like I could feel it.

All in all, gun to my head I will still pick Baela/Alyn. Do I still also like Baela/Jace? Yeah I absolutely do!

All the best to you, Anon 😊 and thank you again!

Hi :3

Unfortunately I can't answer that because I am not giving such a huge spoiler XD

I do agree, however, that that bothered me a lot as well, especially with knowing what will happen between Alyn and Elaena later on 🤢🤮. Baela deserved better and I wished the old man would STOP with older men having affairs with ridiculously younger girls 🤦‍♀️ and that he could tone down the cheating (like way down).