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highgardenart · 2 months
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“Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited (some say willful) daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall.”
a belated birthday present for my friend & ceo of eggbetha @wodania
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ladymarys-blog · 1 year
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Queen Betha Blackwood Aesthetic by: me.
Betha was a beautiful noblewoman from House Blackwood who marrieid King Aegon V and become Queen of The Seven Kingdoms.
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acewithapencil · 1 year
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Aegon V and Duncan the (very) small, plus a lil Betha Blackwood for @lcrdstannis! I imagine Aegon didn’t quite know how to handle the transition of “I’m never getting married” to “I’ve never met a more perfect being” very well
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lanastromborn · 9 months
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AEGON V - BETHA BLACKWOOD
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Aegon v Targaryen
"Egg had an innocence to him, a sweetness we all loved. Kill the boy witin you .I told him the day I took ship for the wall ,It takes a man to rule , an Aegon , not an egg ;Kill the boy and let the man be born "
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Betha Blackwood
She was a spirited women ,stubborn and willful.
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If Nettles was white, she would be as popular as Lyanna, Brienne or Arya, and y’all know it.
She grew up a homeless orphan (which is why it’s so insulting when people try to act like she’s a freaking idiot who doesn’t know how to bathe herself yet she can tame a dragon🤦🏽‍♀️ Put most of the highborn women in her position and they wouldn’t survive a day in her shoes).
She’s the only known non-Valyrian dragonrider who claims a wild dragon. A prince who believes in Valyrian supremacy falls in love with her to the point where he’s willing to sacrifice his life for her. Nettles singlehandedly disproves the whole idea of Targaryen exceptionalism and their blood purity. She slowly earns a dragon’s trust by bringing him sheep, and gradually he lets her closer, and then forms the dragonrider bond and lets her fly. up until this point, nobody had tried a strategy like that before.
Nettles is self-made. She’s self-taught. She’s loved for herself. She survives a freaking war and becomes a fire goddess/witch. Who wouldn’t want her ? Who wouldn’t want to be her ? Unlike Rhaenyra and Alicent, she’s the final girl of F&B.
Once again, I don't understand where you got that I'm anti Nettles? I'm anti Nettles x Daemon, but other than that theory, I very much am a fan of Nettles as a character. I won't say that there isn't racism and unfairness that happen regarding Nettles' character (though I haven't seen it personally), because people can be really shitty. But me personally, again, I'm not anti Nettles, I just dislike certain groups of her stans.
Again, I don't deny that Nettles was a strong woman. She endured many things most characters in F&B don't and most likely survived the Dance. However, I do disagree with some of the ideas you're stating as fact.
For starters, we don't know if Nettles is non-Valyrian; that's one of the many theories surrounding her, but it's not confirmed, so stating it as fact is misleading. Just because she lacks traditional Valyrian features doesn't means she isn't a dragonseed.
Jace and his brothers don't look Valyrian but they very obviously are of Valyrian descent. Rhaenys, the queen who never was, had black hair; Duncan the son of Aegon V looked like his mother, Betha Blackwood; Aegor Rivers also had black hair; Baelor Breakspear had dark hair; Daeron son of Maekar had sandy brown hair; Rhaenys the daughter of Rhaegar had her mother, Elia Martell's features.
Moving on, Daemon's relationship with Nettles is ambiguous. We don't know if they were in a romantic relationship or if his attack on Aemond was purely to save her (though I'm sure that was part of his decision). Again, you are stating a theory you believe as fact, even though it's unconfirmed.
I'm not going to touch the whole thing of Targaryen exceptionalism, because, as I said earlier, Nettles' parentage is unconfirmed. But the whole blood purity thing still hasn't been disproven at any point of GRRM's works; they intermarried to preserve their magic blood, the magic blood still exists in ASOIAF due to the incest.
Nettles is an important character in the story of the Dance, but she isn't the "final girl" you claim she is, let alone of the whole book. There are several dragon riders who survived the Dance and thrived. Rhaena is the ancestor of the Tyrells in the main series. Aegon III is the ancestor of Daenerys, the Baratheons, any remaining Blackfyres, and possibly Jon Snow and Young Griff. Baela and Alyn are the ancestors of Aurane Waters and the Velaryons.
The book of F&B is so much more than the Dance of the Dragons. Saying that Nettles is the "final girl" of the book doesn't make any sense when she only appears in a few sections. That's like saying Alys Rivers is actually the main character of the book. Nettles disappears after the Dance and doesn't appear in any other event. She does nothing else after her disappearance and has relatively little impact on the history of Westeros post Dance.
I have absolutely no idea where you're getting the whole "fire goddess/witch" thing. However, you have already been throwing out theories and your personal biases as fact, so I don't think it matters. I'm not trying to control who your fav is, I totally understand wanting to be a certain book character. But that doesn't mean you can act like everyone else is wrong for not having the same fav as you.
It's that kind of entitlement, thinking you're better than everyone else that makes people not like Nettles stans. It's almost on par with stansas and Alicent stans. People like you project so hard onto your favs, you take any perceived insult, critique, or argument as a personal attack. It's exhausting interacting with people like you.
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so I've been compiling a list of all the Targaryens whose cause of death we know, and almost all of those missing from the list are women: Septa Rhaella, Daena the Defiant and her sisters, Daenora and her son Maegor, Vaella, Aegon V's sisters Daella and Rhae, Dany's grandmother Shaera and her sister Rhaelle. do you have any theories or worries about how these women may be revealed to have died in F&B 2?
What, me worry about GRRM falling back on death in childbirth in order to get rid of female characters? What, me worry about GRRM showing less interest in female characters compared to their male counterparts? Who could ever have gotten that idea?
(Also I’m assuming you’re only talking about female Targaryens by birth who died post-Fire and Blood Volume 1, because we also don’t know exactly how Visenya died, or Rhaena daughter of Aenys I, or Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s daughter Saera, or if we’re being really technical Aenys’ youngest daughter, Vaella - and that’s not even counting Jaehaerys and Alysanne’s maternal half-sister and later daughter-in-law Jocelyn Baratheon.)
Anyway, yes, I am definitely concerned. My current position is that until and unless we have information guaranteeing that any given female Targaryen did not die in childbirth, I’m mentally preparing myself for news that they died in childbirth. Aegon III’s sisters Baela and/or Rhaena? May have died in childbirth. (I don’t like to think of the implications of killing the former like that in the context of her possibly declining marriage to Alyn and his relationship with Elaena.) Daenora? May have died in childbirth. (Unless she is more like The Accursed Kings’ Clemence of Hungary as the wife of the partial-Louis X-like Aerion Brightflame - I’ll have to think about that in another post.) Maekar’s daughters Daella and/or Rhae? May have died in childbirth. (Although hopefully the former’s possible romance with Dunk will save her.) Egg’s daughter Rhaelle? May have died in childbirth.
And even if childbirth isn’t involved, that doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily get any information on what ultimately happened to these ladies. Given how little GRRM apparently wished to have Dowager Queen Alyssa, crown princess Jocelyn Baratheon, or Princess Alyssa involved in the lives of their royal children, I don’t have a lot of confidence in, say, Queen Shaera lasting long after the accession of Jaehaerys II. Given how little GRRM detailed the lives or ultimate fates of the princess (and would-be heiress)-turned-septa Rhaella and the mentally disabled Princess Gael, I’m not at all confident that GRRM will spend much time on the fate of the princess-turned-septa Rhaena or the mentally disabled would-be heiress Vaella. The lack of any mention of Daena in TWOIAF, especially in connection with her son’s eventual rebellion (remember that she would only have been 51 at the time of the First Blackfyre Rebellion), doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in her surviving long past the birth of Daemon.
(Still hoping that Princess Elaena lives to be 70 and not only gets to be GRRM’s favorite sort of character - the sassy, confident, smart older woman/widow - but specifically sticks up for Egg’s secret marriage for love with Betha Blackwood, using both her own history of marrying for love and her seniority within the royal family. Give me one nice thing, GRRM!)
But hey, GRRM is a great writer! I would love Fire and Blood Volume 2 to tell us a lot more about all of these ladies, and I’m willing to trust that the author has the talent to do just that.
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lya-dustin · 1 year
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I Seek to Hold the Wind
I don't know where i am going with this.
Like maybe it will be another 70+ chapters of angst sprinkled with happy shit and romance or maybe just a one shot
Pairing: Robb Stark x OC, Aegon VI/Young Griff x oc
Taglist: @arrthurpendragon @ocappreciationtag
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The 7th day of the 7th month of the year 300
You are not them.
She repeats the words to herself when Aegon’s smile goes wider at the sight of her.
You are not Jeyne, he is not Robb.
At least in the matter of wealth and connections, she is not Jeyne Westerling whose house was as poor as a sept-mouse even with their rich history.
Jocelyn, despite being a lady to a house sworn to Stark and currently holding the dagger at the back of the new Warden of the North, is the great niece to Anya Waynwood and third cousin to the new lord of the Vale, Harrold Hardyng.
And yet, Jo has no dragons like Daenerys, but the Knights of the Vale are a damn good consolation prize.
She is not a princess like Arianne Martell either, but she has a maidenhead that will make sure their children’s parentage will not be put into question by wagging tongues or even her husband.
Queen Jocelyn even has a nice ring to it and, well, if people think she is beautiful now, they should see her in a crown.
She wears the cloth of gold cloak of House Dustin and the wedding dress she was supposed to wed Robb Stark in had Catelyn Stark not saddled him with a Frey before he eloped with Jeyne Westerling.
A dead king’s castoff, as Tyrion had so eloquently called her at the Sorrows.
Now she is marrying another dead king, well, a dead prince.
Aegon the Unlikely Survivor, Aegon the prince who’s head would have been cracked open like an egg but fortunately his mother’s septa switched him with her own baby without Elia Martell even knowing about it.
Aegon who says he loves her and she believes him so much she agreed to marry him against all logic and reason.
This would have been so much more comedic if mother had chosen to honor Grandmother Betha Ryswell instead of her goodmother when Jo was born.
A good story never tires in its telling, she supposed, even the gods love their stories.
You are not them, the voice in her head reminds her.
He is not Egg, you are not Black Betha.
“Father, Smith, Warrior, Mother, Maiden, Crone, Stranger. I am his, he is mine, until the end of my days.”
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asongofsilks · 2 years
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ASOIAF FANCASTING --> EVERY NAMED FEMALE CHARACTER ABOVE THE AGE OF FIVE, PART X
Beony Beesbury (b. approx. 260 AC): Wife of Raymund Frey, eleventh son of Lord Walder Frey, and mother of seven children. Fancast: Amelia Gething.
Berena Hornwood (b. approx. 260 AC): Wife of Leobald Tallhart, the castellan of Torrhen's Square, and mother of two children. Fancast: Hanna Mangan Lawrence.
Berena Stark (b. approx. 200 AC): Elder daughter of Lord Beron Stark of Winterfell and his lady wife, Lorra Royce. Beron was a grandson of Lord Cregan Stark through his father Brandon, Cregan’s youngest child. Fancast: Jodie Dorday.
Bess Bracken (main series era): Fourth daughter of Lord Jonos Bracken of Stone Hedge. My own headcanon: Bess is "half a peasant" and often dresses like a common woman, spending her time with servants. Fancast: Camilla Belle.
Bessa (d. approx. 290 AC): A girl of Hag's Mire, murdered by Chett after she rejected him. Chett fled afterwards, but was caught and made to take the black. Fancast: Phaedra Hurst.
Bessa (main series era): A tavern wench at the Smoking Log Inn in the winter town outside Winterfell. Fancast: Gwyneth Keyworth.
Beth Cassel (b. approx. 289 AC): Only surviving daughter of Ser Rodrik Cassel, master-at-arms of Winterfell. She is raised alongside the Stark girls. When Winterfell is taken by Theon Greyjoy, he uses her as a hostage to try and prevent her father from attacking. However, Ser Rodrik's army is wiped out by Ramsay Snow and Beth is taken as a prisoner to the Dreadfort. Fancast: Fifi Hart.
Betha Blackwood (b. 201 AC): Wife of Aegon V Targaryen and queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Betha and Aegon married for love long before he became king, when Aegon was so far back in the line of succession that it did not matter who he married. They had five children together. Fancast: Ginnifer Goodwin.
Bethany Blackwood (b. 292 AC): Only daughter of Lord Tytos Blackwood of Raventree Hall. She has six brothers. Fancast: Anna Paquin.
Bethany Bracken (c. 160-178 AC): Mistress of Aegon the Unworthy and sister of one of his previous mistresses, Barba. Bethany was groomed by her father and older sister to steal the position of king's mistress from Melissa Blackwood. When Aegon visited Stone Hedge to see his bastard son, Aegor Rivers, Bethany caught his eye and he took her back to King's Landing with him. However, she began an affair with Ser Terrence Toyne, a knight of the Kingsguard, leading to the execution of Ser Terrence, herself, and her father. Fancast: Ellise Chappell.
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horizon-verizon · 1 year
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[Canon] Ages of ASoIaF Characters When Wed (Pt.6)
Aegon V Targaryen (20) x Betha Blackwood (19)
Duncan Targaryen (19-23) x Jenny of Oldstones (?)
Jaehaerys II Targaryen (15) x Shaera Targaryen (14)
Aerys II Targaryen (*15) x Rhaella Targaryen (*14-16) [no clear wedding date; first child was born 259 A.C.]  
Rhaelle Targaryen (11-16) x Ormund Baratheon (10-11)
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onthesandsofdreams · 5 years
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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Betha Blackwood/Aegon V Targaryen, Marna Locke/Edwyle Stark, Rickard Stark/Rhaella Targaryen Characters: Betha Blackwood, Aegon VI Targaryen, Marna Locke, Edwyle Stark, Rhaella Targaryen, Rickard Stark, Jaehaerys II Targaryen, Gerold Hightower, Barristan Selmy, Pycelle (ASoIaF) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Betha is ready to fight, Aegon is still the King, Protective Betha, Marna is excited, Rickard is cautious, Don’t copy to another site Series: Part 1 of The Rhaella Stark Chronicles Summary:
"Has your crown grown too light that you forget it seats on your head?" Or Aegon is reminded that he is the King, Betha is ready to fight for Rhaella and the betrothal that changes the fate of Westeros.
[First in the “Rhaella Stark Chronicles”]
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samwpmarleau · 3 years
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[15/20] ASOIAF power couples → Aegon V Targaryen × Betha Blackwood
King Aegon, called the Unlikely, was forced to spend much of his reign in armor, quelling one rising or another, most notably the Fourth Blackfyre Rebellion. Though beloved by the smallfolk, Aegon made many enemies amongst the lords of the realm, whose powers he wished to curtail. He enacted numerous reforms and granted rights and protections to the commons that they had never known before, but each of these measures provoked fierce opposition and sometimes open defiance amongst the lords.
The most outspoken went so far as to denounce him as a “bloody-handed tyrant intent on depriving us of our gods-given rights and liberties.” A student of history and lover of books, Aegon was oft heard to say that had he only had dragons, as the first Aegon had, he could have remade the realm anew, with peace and prosperity and justice for all.
Even his sons proved a trial to this goodhearted king, where they might have been a strength. Aegon V had married for love, taking to wife the Lady Betha Blackwood, the spirited daughter of the Lord of Raventree Hall, who became known as Black Betha for her dark eyes and raven hair. When they wed at Summerhall in 220 AC, the bride was nineteen and Aegon twenty, so far down in the line of succession that the match provoked no opposition.
It had long been the custom of House Targaryen to wed brother to sister to keep the blood of the dragon pure, but Aegon had become convinced that such incestuous unions did more harm than good. Instead, he resolved to join his children in marriage with the sons and daughters of some of the greatest lords of the Seven Kingdoms, in the hopes of winning their support for his reforms and strengthening his rule.
With the help of Queen Betha, a number of advantageous betrothals were made and celebrated in 237 AC while Aegon’s children were still young. But Betha Blackwood’s children proved to be as stubborn as their mother, and like their father, chose to follow their hearts when choosing mates.
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arielseaworth · 3 years
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For shippy February, can you do Egg/Betha #13?
For the prompt: Aegon V Targaryen/Betha Blackwood, a story.
“Her name is Tanselle,” said Egg. “We looked for her in Dorne, but we couldn’t find her. We must have seen a hundred puppet shows. She’s a puppeteer. And a painter. She paints her puppets, I mean. And she painted Ser Duncan’s shield too.”
“A hundred puppet shows? You must have wanted to find her very much indeed. For what reason?”
Egg pursed his lips. “Because Ser Duncan likes her, I suppose.”
Betha stared at him, unblinking. “Is that so odd, for a man to like a woman?”
“He only knew her for a short while,” said Egg. “How could she be his true love?”
“His true love? What about this Red Widow you were telling me before? Isn’t she his true love? How many true loves does he have, your Ser Duncan?”
“My Ser Duncan? You’re the one who’s so impressed with him. Oh, you’re so tall, gallant ser. I have never met a knight so gallant and tall in my life.”
“I never said anything of the sort!”
“Oh yes you did! You were so busy praising him, you didn’t even notice he had a squire with him.”
Betha smiled a knowing smile. “Oh, that’s what this is. Ser Duncan’s rude squire is still nursing his hurt feelings about being overlooked.”
Egg sputtered, “Hurt … hurt … feelings? What hurt feelings? And I wasn’t the one being rude.”
“You were constantly interrupting my conversation with Ser Duncan. What else would you call that if not rude?”
“That was only because –” Egg stopped suddenly, spying Ser Duncan making his way towards them. He lowered his voice and pleaded, desperately, “Promise me you will not tell Ser Duncan that I’ve been telling you stories about his … his …”
Betha interjected, “His romantic adventures? His grand passions? His affairs of the heart?”
Egg winced at her choice of words.
She added, “He seems more like a man of the world, Ser Duncan, now that I know that he has had his heart broken, not just once but twice."
Egg despaired, waiting for the promise that was still not given. Ser Duncan was approaching, closer and closer with every passing moment.
Betha gazed at him steadily. “If I promise not to tell, what will you do for me, in return?”
‘Anything. I’ll do anything!” promised Egg, eagerly. “I’ll be in your debt forever.”
When Ser Duncan finally reached them, Betha said to him, “Your squire was just telling me a very interesting story, ser, about a gallant knight.” She paused, glancing at Egg, who looked about ready to pass out. “A gallant knight who lived hundreds and hundreds of years ago,” she continued.
Egg finally took a deep breath, relieved. But his nerve was soon tested again, when Ser Duncan made the remark, “Is he real, this knight? My squire has a very lively imagination, my lady.”
“Oh, he’s real, ser. Very much so,” replied Betha.
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ladymarys-blog · 1 year
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Queen Betha Blackwood and King Aegon V
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tatticstudio55 · 3 years
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When they'd been poling down the Greenblood, the orphan girls had made a game of rubbing Egg's shaven head for luck. It made the boy blush redder than a pomegranate. "Girls are so stupid," he would say. "The next one who touches me is going into the river." Dunk had to tell him, "Then I'll be touching you. I'll give you such a clout in the ear you'll be hearing bells for a moon's turn." That only goaded the boy to further insolence. "Better bells than stupid girls," he insisted, but he never threw anyone into the river. (The Sworn Sword)
Egg is adorable. And he’s Dany’s great grandfather, too!
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luchibelle · 4 years
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Tragic love in ASoIaF
GRRM is a romantic at heart and he loves to play with tragic love and its consequences. There is a fragment from Barristan's POV that sums it all up in a few lines.
Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.
The most recent example of what tragic love is, Rhaegar x Lyanna. We know very little about them but the last books have been hinting towads a love story, a tragic one but a love story nonetheless. And there is nothing more tragic than a couple that blossoms when a war is being prepared in Paris and Helen's style.
Daemon Blackfyre loved the first Daenerys, and rose in rebellion when denied her.
This has been rumored to be one of the things that triggered the First Blackfyre Rebellion. Not the main reason but it played a part in it. Every character involved had different reasons and Daemon's seem to be a denied love, reciprocated or not.
Bittersteel and Bloodraven both loved Shiera Seastar, and the Seven Kingdoms bled.
Even if they were Half-Bracken and Half-Blackwood, this ancient enmity reached the Great Bastards and it was fueled by the love they both felt for their half-sister. The black dragons and the green ones were bound to fight but this love made the war(s) crueller than they'd have been in normal circumstancies.
The Prince of Dragonflies loved Jenny of Oldstones so much he cast aside a crown, and Westeros paid the bride price in corpses.
A noble man and a commoner whose love crossed social boundaries but caused a lot of trouble. Specially after Duncan's brothers and sisters followed his example and married for love. If it weren't for Jenny and the ghost oh highheart, Rhaella and Aerys II wouldn't have married and we would be looking at a different story.
All three of the sons of the fifth Aegon had wed for love, in defiance of their father’s wishes. And because that unlikely monarch had himself followed his heart when he chose his queen, he allowed his sons to have their way, making bitter enemies where he might have had fast friends. Treason and turmoil followed, as night follows day, ending at Summerhall in sorcery, fire, and grief.
ADWD, The Kingbreaker (Barristan III).
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House Targaryen+Favorite Romantic Relationships (requested by @samwpmarleau) 
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