"How could you not draw Aemond?" — A friend asked me once.
"Well, I actually started drawing him..." I muttered.
A sketch of this art has been lying around in a computer folder since October. It took me a kick and a couple of days to bring it to a more or less finished look.
And so ... Eymond and the granny Vhagar. Possibly at the Gods Eye lake, but this is not certain
After the tragic deaths of her lovers Meraxes and Balerion, Vhagar believed that she would spend the rest of her life alone. She hasn't been interested in bonding with other dragons for years and she thought she would continue like this, but everything changed when her human Aemond got a partner and there she met him, Arrax, the young dragon who became her lover and saved her from loneliness.
Aemond will be seen as the worst dragonrider alive thanks to Ryan, but Rhaenyra and Daemon's dragons will react to their every thought and feeling 100%
This is exactly the issue I have with what they did to Vhagar.
I mean, one can argue that Arrax was also a bit uncontrollable and didn't obey Luke's orders and pleas at Storm's End but Vhagar is such a gargantuan that her 'errors' stick out like a sore thumb.
And yes. On top of all that, it is not like they will ever show Syrax or Caraxes ignoring Rhaenyra and Daemon's orders. They're the 'perfect' and ideal dragon riders according to Ryan Condal who has big wet dreams about Syrax achieving Sunfyre's status of glory lmao.
Leave it to them to use the Greens dragons against them. But on the Blacks side...crickets. They're unquestionably flawless as far as they're concerned.
Visenya usurped the throne because Aenys was weak and unfit to rule. Visenya would see Aegon as unfit to rule, he’s a lazy, unambitious, self-indulgent, lecherous, and gluttonous alcoholic. And Aemond LITERALLY FAILED HIS FIRST DIPLOMATIC MISSION.
And let’s not forget that Visenya/The Conqueror’s trio advisor was a dark-haired Targaryen bastard and very likely their half-brother, Orys Baratheon, who later founded house Baratheon.
If Visenya was around during the Dance, what she’d do to the Greens would make Castemere look like a joke.
*EDITED POST* 4/15/24
No disagreements. It is just a straight delusion to think otherwise, that she'd congratulate the greens in any way shape or form. I think this is the green stans way of combating the black stan headcanon that Rhaenyra favored and aspired to be like Visenya or recognize that Aemond rides her dragon, and thus wishes to claim/twist more of her to legitimize him...forgetting that she also ushered in Maegor, so what does that make Aemond?
And the greens themselves would not thank Visenya even if she were inclined: she's a woman-warrior who was reputed to have done magic arts, is not their direct ancestor as Rhaenys was (even if she was her sister, it is not through her womb/blood the Targs continued) and, again, MAEGOR--the most hated pre-dragon-loss Targ king.
Why would any of them want to associate anything of themselves with her except to make use of her dragon? Funny.
Still, all of this describes her best intentions and not the fuller picture. It IS true that she usurped Aenys' heir Aegon, and not Aenys AND that she also very likely was willfully blind to Maegor out of love [headcanon post by hamliet] and a desire to have a legacy/grow a lineage with him. She was not perfect & willfully blinded herself, but hardly as evil as some people try to make her out to be.
In my opinion, she clearly came to have regrets about Maegor ("Sons of the Dragon"):
Unlike Maegor, Visenya knew when to be diplomatic but also be effectively threatening AND not overpower those who she needed to collaborate with (how she dealt with the Vale; her partnership with her siblings).
"A fire burns inside you, fueled by everything that
You've ever been through
Every battle you fight goes uphill
But nothing can ever break your iron will
Young and angry, with every right to be
Bent but not broken, hanging on by a thread
Looked past by most, looked down on by all
We don't need them, it's forever us against them all."
The grief and rage of losing a child could burn down the world. - Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) Game of Thrones - Histories & Lore: The Dance of Dragons
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS...MAMA RHAENYRA IS GOING TO BURN SOME SHIT DOWN AND I WILL STAND BEHIND MY QUEEN.