#sometimes he explores those tropes more deeply like with the warrior woman trope with Brienne

[beneaththeshadows]

I gotta say, I don't really understand the discourse over how Rhaenys and Visenya can't have conflicts between themselves when George creates over and over, siblings who disagree with each other, fight, and yet love each other profoundly. Take Arya and Sansa, take Stannis and Renly, and even Rhaena and Alysanne fought, and none of that was "bad writing" or something created for some weak drama just to place women against each other.

I do agree that they don't need to be constantly at odds with each other, but conflicts are natural occurrences when you have two people with very different personalities, but people can work out their issues or even don't work them at all and still love each other.

I think wanting them to be this perfect trio is just so not consistent with George's writing, given that the man loves to see the heart in conflict with itself, and there's no bigger example than Ned and Cat. No one can say that they didn't love each other, and yet they had their conflicts, so it's not really about the conflict at the end but how the characters manage that between themselves.

Also, it is important to note that this is something said by George himself

I don't necessarily like this dynamic of competing for a man, but I think that could be adapted into a different dynamic (also, it could be interpreted in other ways to make this particular dynamic not so "man-centred")

I guess what I'm trying to say is that conflicts can happen in the best and most loving families, and yet people can love and protect each other besides their differences! So there's definitely ways for conflict to happen and still have characters who deeply love each other

#asoiaf #visenya targaryen #rhaenys targaryen #valyrianscrolls #I may write a bit more in the future about my personal interpretation of the dragon sisters' relationship #but that's for another day #also George can sometimes fall into tropes himself #sometimes he explores those tropes more deeply like with the warrior woman trope with Brienne #but sometimes he doesn't as the foreign savages trope with the dothraki can attest #so sometimes the original material doesn't have much to work with to begin with