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im on commission lockdown so its old wip posting time . 12yr old aerion+myrielle for my fic pondering

#moart #asoiaf #oc tag #asoiaf oc #idk #myrielle tag #aerion brightflame #aerion targaryen

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hihi not sure how fond myrielle and aerion are of each other (would love to know more about their dynamic if you are willing to share <3) but they remind me of the “who tf is burning down my kitchen” “making breakfast for my beautiful wife” twitter meme

anon ... i giggled .

as for marriage dynamics well .. i feel like by default any relationship with a guy everyone hates for good reason is going to be a bit strained . but somehow they're both kind of deranged enough to make it work (er.. well... somewhat...).

ive talked very briefly about it in my little myrielle post already but it kind of had to grow into anything beyond hating each other . right when myrielle gets to court she holds a lot of resentment toward him, mainly because he's the second son of a fourth son - not really heir to anything, and even when she's young she wants to aim higher than that with her betrothal. she spends a lot of time pining after the concept of another man that she deems 'better' (valarr, matarys, even daeron etc - the actual people matter less than the fact that they're further up in the succession than aerion) just because she's decided to herself that she deserves more. a little girl playing into the idea of being a wife and centering her whole worldview about that ala really twisted westerosi expectations and societal structures

it's kind of what you'd expect from two very willful very spoiled preteens; a lot of petty squabbles and little disagreements that have them bickering and squabbling and it's a bit of a mess . in time though it breezes over kind of because they both grow up and 'mature' in the sense that they aren't calling each other stupid and pushing each other over in the yard anymore LOL

by the time they're married ... well . it's .... . myrielle is fond of him and finds him handsome and dashing while they're in public and in private he at least treats her well a couple days a week which is enough . i think it's very shallow in the sense that ... i'm not sure if they ever truly know each other fully . myrielle projects her ambitions onto him and steadily heads down her path to making sure he becomes king (after the tourney at ashford meadow and the great spring sickness when things get a little crazy in how many targs are dying off) and aerion projects some idea of the wife he'd imagined himself to want onto her . in my mind he's kind of giving targ man too caught up in the idea of his ancestry and his family traditions given his whole deal with the dragon delusions etc so its lots of hey what if you pretend like you're (targ woman of his choosing) and ill be (her evil husband) and then we'll be a Proper Couple instead of a Fake Arrangement between me (perfect prince) and a lesser non-targ woman . you can see that there might be some issues here .

definitely not good . they hold resentment for each other mutually for a variety of reasons but theres also some deep seated dedication there especially from myrielle . she gets so deep into the thought of the both of them rising further than they're expected to that she in turn essentially drops everything for him and makes a lot of questionable choices and does a lot of questionable things to keep him happy and to assist him in whatever way she thinks he needs . i feel like she gets very caught up in the idea of really feeding into the idea aerion has of their marriage . tries to play into the thought of being more of a targaryen and tries to shift and change herself which never really works because she does treasure her own family and her identity but also because things just don't go the way she wants .

errr. ride or die i guess but it's weirrddddddd . which is funny to say because in practice they both cheat on each other and lie to each other and fight and bicker but they keep going back for more . why...? well.. maybe duty maybe genuine care maybe a third more evil option. me when i go out and cheat on my wife but its okay because i come back and bring her nice gifts and we do our historical targ roleplay which isn't weird at all guys i promise please guys listen its not weird its not w

rubs my chin. a lot of thoughts but i'm bad at putting them into words. i hope this is anything . probably not. one day you'll get something better from me .... .... <3

#txt #asks #oc #oc tag #aerion targaryen #aerion brightflame

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hii! i follow you both here and over on twitter and i just wanted to tell you how much i love your art like. i dont understand That much abt historical targs so im always a little confused but your art is just so so beautiful and you can see how much you love these characters and i love the way you do textures and anatomy and!!!!! your art is so so SO great i just hope u know this!!!! everytime you show up on my dash or tl i start jumping up and down in joy because it makes me so happy to see your art!!!! have a great day!!!!!

anon . youre everything to me .

#I LOVE YOU . #physically restraining myself from crying in the damn office today #every time YOU show up in my inbox i start jumping up and down in joy. #thank u forever and ever #also ill be honest i also get confused with historical targs sometimes . its ok . never be scared . #uwaahughuhghguhguhugauhguhguhguhaughughuhaughuhauhuhuhguhgu bwaaaguhguhghuhgh #txt #asks

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do you take real life historical inspirations for the different asoiaf eras of your oc designs? hope this question makes sense i love your ocs!!

thank u anon ❤️

it depends!! a lot of the time it'll be sort of that middle ground that the asoiaf tv shows seem to want to take where they're sort of vaguely trying to make things look like they could be thrown in some kind of historical setting with some fantasy elements to it.

especially for the dance era i struggle to nail down a historical period that would fit fashion-wise... so there i just throw logic out the window and do whatever feels right LOL but i am admittedly pretty fond of the tudor fashion looks that a lot of people seem to go for there .

for pretty much anything dunk and egg-related i draw whether it's oc designs or canon characters i feel like i draw much inspiration from medieval era clothing; specifically a lot of female silhouettes i do are based off 1300s fashions, while my male fashions tend to lean more towards 1200s styles (very broad timeframes, but nothing i draw is 100% super-accurate anyway so it's just a generalization .... you understand ..)

the heavier medieval focus is mostly because the official illustrations and the graphic novels seem to go for that period of history in how the characters dress - making it a little funny that timeline-wise my more 'modern' designs tend to be put further back in the asoiaf timeline ... but it's fantasy so anything can be real !

tl;dr - yes but also no, a lot of inspiration from lots of historical fashion choices but i try not to stick too closely to dedicated historical accuracy. a lot of details are there just because i think theyd look fun! :-)

#historical fashion is a big interest of mine though little known fact #i think fashion history is sooo interesting but with fantasy stories its also fun to take creative liberties in my mind #especially since asoiaf as a whole is a little silly fashion-wise. people dress pretty funky in the books especially and i like it #smile . thank you for the question anon #txt #asks

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circa 209 ac

#sorry this is so fucking stupid #8t23905893205ir92 #oc tag #moart #asoiaf oc #aerion targaryen #aerion brightflame #asoiaf #digital painting #fanart #asoiaf fanart #house targaryen #a song of ice and fire #dunk and egg #a knight of the seven kingdoms #a song of ice and fire fanart #house lannister #lannister oc #bwaghhh

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Oooooo are we talking about more Bolton OCs rn? Cuz I TOTALLY agree! The house is so underutilized OC potential like come on!

I’ve been trying to think of some good ones myself. Obviously I need to fit so much tragedy in these bad boys. Because it’s a requirement

honestly it's a little shocking to me how little oc content there seems to be of the boltons. given that they're a pretty big part in the northern plotlines in the main series and how we know very little of them pre-game of thrones i feel like it's the perfect opportunity to insert your own guys in the plot ...

just so fun thematically to me . so much to say about them and their themes and presentation!

#txt #asks

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Hello op tis me again!! Apologies for taking [checks notes] 84 years to get back to you I have had A Week. However!!! Cayn and Ysabel continue to live rent free <3 like I'm just so obsessed with how gothic they are which is like. My favorite thing tbh. Part of me is gratified bc everything you said I kept nodding and going yeah I thought so, because your art was so *clear* the vibes were just. So easy to read (in the best way). I THOUGHT the ring was a match with Aegon's and also rip the rat tail long live the rat tail. I have to say Ysabel haunts me but Cayn scratches an Itch. Like. U feel me? Cayn belongs squarely in Hannibal NBC with his palatable person suit that is doing very little to distract *him* from the fact that he's about to eat someone whole and raw and it's probably going to be someone he loves before he moves on to someone he hates. Maybe it'll even be the same person. Who knows!! There's this tragedy to them both but Cayn is almost trying to tell himself he can Change it and Control the way the tragedy will fall (and getting humbled bad lmao) while Ysabel is like. Carrion carted away by the waves. Never stood a chance and at some point she stopped fighting very hard. Also I feel like. There's this Deep Intimacy yet Huge Emotional Distance between Aemond and Ysabel where neither knows how to communicate or really Approach someone so instead they have to consume maim kill leave a mark. I cannot touch you except to hurt you ect. And her obsession with him is in and of itself so haunted bc it's like she wants to Eat Him but she Doesn't but that way she can Control It but. And we stay at that but. While with Aegon and Cayn it's like yes I do like you. I fear writing the stronger word. Instead I will eat you whole and you will remember me by the imprint of my teeth on your side and I will remember you by the way I bloat with desire for you and choke on your blood <3 and it's like wooow. Wooow. Love it. Obsessed with it. As you can tell I do not like them normal. Do u know what happens to them at the end of the war? I can't imagine Ysabel ending up any better than Helaena. But also. I gotta say. Big fan of tragic siblings I am—I have So Many Feelings about these two relating to each other qnd hoe The Love Was Apparently There and it Didn't Change Anything. Too many feelings to put it too words. After all that word vomit (thank u if you read the whole way through) I wish to tell you that u have inspired me to make my Bolton oc more weird and unsettling and haunted. My disgraced Lenora and her legion of skinned animals and skulls <3 My Shadowskin Lady. I want her to be such a Freak while also being so tragic and doomed to being nothing but a third wife <3 but anyway!! I have stolen enough of your time and wish you good luck with your commissions!! Thank uu for replying to me and I look forward to future works on these doomed suckers 😌

under the cut because this got long ..

IM JUST GLAD TO BE TALKING ABOUT THEM !

it did make me sit and stare and giggle a little bit because its true you were very on the mark with them . i do think part of the charm with the boltons Is their inability to be anything but very un-subtly gothic and weird and strange . you look at them and you can immediately clock what's going on here .

and its very true… ill be so real and genuine i STILL havent watched hannibal the whole way through but ive absorbed the vibe enough through many years of being a gay person online to where yeah definitely this guy has some hannibal in him . that bit of restraint in really really trying to put yourself in a square that slowly but surely begins to crack under the weight of at the core needing to feed the urge to hurt something . believes himself to be strong enough to keep it away but ultimately the same fate waits each time …… similarly to ysabel . they both end up in the same place of hurt inflicted on others and in turn on themselves but while cayn fights against it and tries to rise above it ysabel leans into it and accepts it regardless of how much it scares her because she's always been taught to lay down and take whatever comes her way as a polite nice lady that doesn't fight and doesn't say no .

i do like to spin their relationships around in my mind . both separately and between each other . with ysabel i feel like her most intimate moments Are when she gets to be a little unhinged ie biting and chewing on someone etc because its very raw . so entirely separate from anything she knows and anything that's expected of her and so desperate and pleading that it gets very real . whereas cayn for a long time sees that violence as a failure to himself and in turn prefers to sit down and have a polite conversation and only thinks of how it would be to reach across the table and strangle a man . ultimately though that violence is inherent to him i like to think he wants to feel in control of it . wants to have the upper hand no matter what and doesnt like when it becomes an urge that just drives you without thought or reason . ysabel starving animal who cant help it vs cayn predator on a calculated hunt etc in the end theyre both very much formed by being raised by a dad who was so much worse . united in misery and a root of violence and hate and death that was planted in them from the moment they were born . they both have it and they will never escape it because there was never a point where it wasnt there. as for endings ….

i'm a little conflicted on them both partially because i still need to iron out some war details etc but as a general frame of reference it ends aaaalmost the same as in canon beyond the fact that the greens win a little more vividly . well . as much as you can 'win' a terrible tragic war with your own family . in the end jaehaera + aegon + alicent + cayn + ysabel and her kids are alive . aegon iii and viserys ii hang around too like in canon . i imagine errhhmmmm… (taps my noggin) aegon remarries . ive been fond of cassandra baratheon stepmom to jaehaera lately . well.. king's landing politics ensue . everyone is sort of miserable . i swear that i'll get to figuring it all out one day . i swear!!!!

most relevant to court i guess would be ysabel since i imagine she remains in the red keep for most of the war and after it . mentioned somewhere i think but she has two kids - a daughter (aelora) and a son (baelor) both of which make it through the war - but baelor is weak and sickly kind of partially because ysabel is basically left half-bedbound after her second pregnancy that probably shouldn't have happened in the first place . … he dies of illness pretty young which sends ysabel spiraling even worse than she already was post war . girls who have their bodies irreversibly ruined and torn apart to where they can barely function anymore in the hopes of having a son - giving a little boy to a husband who is bound to die at war and having your son follow closely behind and having it all be for nothing . i think she grows to resent her daughter silently for being a girl (westerosi misogyny so deeply seated even in its women) and i don't think they ever really grow all that close . sits and rots in her chambers or in the gardens and dreams about her dead son and her dead husband instead of looking to the family she has that are still there .

i think she's kind of disconnected from court just based on the fact she's entirely too hurt physically and mentally to really even be able to contribute much . she's allowed to sit in her misery because she's family to the targs atp but it's a little rough . in a little twist of weird connections i think she would get along with aegon iii pretty well in the sense that they're both horrendously miserable and she projects some sort of son onto him. sits and reads with him and talks about whatever kids talk about and acts like nothing is wrong for a few hours

i played with the idea of her eventually joining the silent sisters as a sort of final frontier of guilt and shame and horror at what her life becomes but i don't think she would even have the drive to do that much at the end of the war LOL

and cayn …

this one is trickier because he's …. … ……..? i dont know. i think its tough to find a real direction for him in my mind and i cant figure out why . but i think i got it.. more context first > their dad dies during the war, i imagine somewhere around rook's rest after the north is openly split apart or a bit later on when they actually try to go against the starks directly, and in my mind it kind of leaves cayn in (similarly to ysabel) in a state of being trapped in the past in a place he can never return to . their dad represents everything cayn believes he should be and all he should live up to and all his house and family stand for and seeing him die really does get to him . not to mention he also gets hurt pretty bad - just that chunk of harm that comes with war and what it'll do to a man. forever stuck on some field of battle far away and the world keeps spinning but you never quite spin along with it . dons his dad's armor and now suddenly he's saddled with the weight of responsibility and duty and all their family's pain both literally and metaphorically . kind of resembles the bolton skinchanging theories if you really get insane about it ie you take on a man's skin (his weird flesh armor) and now you're just as much him as you are yourself etc

i imagine he returns to king's landing for a while after they've duked it out with the starks for a bit and the north cools off a little . comes back and he's hurt and aegon is hurt and barely conscious half the time and his facade probably drops pretty harshly . spends some time taking care of aegon and doing what he's told and dreams about the fact that there has to be a purpose and a meaning to fighting a war . goes against what he used to want (restraint) and drives himself to violence and hate because if he doesn't then he'll sit down and think and realize that his dad died for nothing and theyve been fighting stupid battles for a cause that he doesn't really care about . rabid guard dog off the leash with no true goal he wants for and no true cause he believes in .

by the time the war ends and aegon remarries i imagine he leaves court because admittedly he would actually seethe a little bit seeing aegon married again . with helaena it was okay because i think he recognizes neither of them chose that and neither of them (from my perspective) really love the other in any romantic sense but when it's an active choice he gets really really upset . silently of course . <3 the gay yearning catches up with him and he faces the fact aegon is barely a person anymore and he has no place at court in turn . goes home to the north and with the greens sort-of-winning he's given winterfell and titles and they settle into some kind of peace for a little while. he marries a karstark girl because it's what his father had intended for him and they're about as unhappy as you can get in a relationship. maybe they have a son in time but more than likely not. i think while everything kind of holds up for a while there are a lot of issues here that don't seem to ever really get resolved properly - lots of unhappy lords and lots of bastard siblings who think they know better and lots of rumors and disagreements and a steady swirling pot of disaster boiling under the surface. i can imagine he goes off to fight off some rebellion after a good few years and ends up dead . maybe for the best .

i dont know if ysabel even really processes it . i think if she wasnt already so unresponsive she WOULD just step out a window

in another reality that im going to manifest in my mind space cayn stays in king's landing after the war and has someone else manage the north . sticks around and tries to ignore the fact that he's jealous and angry and feels no satisfaction or ease even when they've won and the war is over . sticks around and has a toxic evil homosexual relationship with the king that grows strained when he has a new wife and a kingdom to run properly this time and they settle into a horribly tense unbearable distance that's broken only when cayn steps up and poisons him or just chokes him out or something and proceeds to kill himself ala your first gay situationship where dying feels like a good alternative to having to process the fact that you cant really be together . hope you understand . either way the boltons (well . the ones that are relevant in this case there are always cousins and second cousins etc in asoiaf to pick up the slack) fizzle out and end up miserable or dead even after the promise of power and status is fulfilled . don't aim too high or you'll have that much further to fall if you will a whole lot of nonsense being put out here but i hope you enjoy whatever's cooking …. really really appreciate the interest and im glad to provide whatever u might be wondering about + more ramblings… would LOVE to see more freakish bolton ocs also . there is nothing like a horrible house that raises horrible people who reek of tragedy and terror and a doomed narrative and SO many chances to make something so fun please tell me more !

#txt #asks #oc tag #taps my noggin. subject to change . #i was going to do some doodles for this one but i got hit with the commission panic beam so itll have to be for another time . #skipping and giggling and playing etc

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weird girls who bite you at night

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i think you are so creative your characters are so amazingly fleshed out both visually and in terms of characterization!! sooo intrigued by the fucked up family dynamics of your bolton ocs and adore your lannister oc relationship with the men around her (father, brother, aerion, her sons) and the way you are able to express them eloquently in words too for us you are genius

anon... 😭 my goodness gracious . sat and stared at this ask for like an hour sorry makes me sooooo happy to hear ... ... . always get a little nervous posting oc content just because its tough to really insert a wholly original character into an existing universe to me but they are very near and dear to my heart .. more coming soon!!!!!

love u sweet stranger . i treasure you and your kind words so dearly

#sniffle sniffff sniffs sniffs #< me acting like im not deeply touched #txt #asks

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maekar & dyanna

#moart #asoiaf #digital painting #fanart #asoiaf fanart #house targaryen #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf art #valyrianscrolls #house dayne #dyanna dayne #maekar targaryen #maekar #dunk and egg #a knight of the seven kingdoms #fire and blood #targaryen #blackfyre rebellion #blackfyre rebellions #game of thrones #game of thrones fanart #got fanart #got

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Princess Jaehaera, King Aegon II, and Queen Cassandra Baratheon

(Requested by Anonymous)

#yesssss #asoiaf

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asks to keep me entertained while i venture into doing my commission sketches ...?

#ill throw in a doodle alongside them if i have the energy #boy king asking to be entertained esque #txt

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For that possible great bastard OC. I know it might be rather far fetched but just…. The idea of a Bolton great bastard. Maybe not for your OC but…. Just… what a concept

she ended up being a reyne based off twt suggestions mostly because it's really funny considering my other blackfyre rebellion/s era oc is a lannister . big cat themed homosexuals a plenty i guess ...

ill consider cooking up a bolton concept for u as well anon when i have time . love you .

#too lazy to write anything about her but if u want to hear ... well ... maybe #moart #oc tag #txt #asks #asoiaf #asoiaf oc #house reyne #house targaryen #house blackfyre

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how many eyes does lord bloodraven have? a thousand eyes, and one.

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might swap my branding around here so i can keep consistent usernames hrmm.. maybe ill reuse this username and make a spam side acc or something

#ill let you know #txt

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Thought I'd upload some of my art from twitter :-) did this Daenys a while back! I'm very fond of her...

#go follow chloe NEOWWWWWWWWW #asoiaf

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do you have a great bastard oc?

i don't ... but wouldn't that be something ! maybe i'll ponder it and get back to that thought anon . could be awesome . if you have any mom-house suggestions feel free to send em over and i can cook something up

#admittedly i have to be honest and say the one part of the asoiaf timeline that i really can not wrap my head #is the blackfyre rebellion era . i really try but somehow it never sticks #which is funny because i love love love dunk and egg which ties into that but i try to look away #maybe this could be my opportunity to learn #asks #txt