“She’ll soon be as big as Caraxes” and then Syrax just never grew again 🤦🏽♀️
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
↳ Princess Rhaenyra and her she-dragon, Syrax
Rhaenyra Targaryen was a precocious child, bright and bold and beautiful as only one of dragon’s blood can be beautiful. At seven, she became a dragonrider, taking to the sky on the young dragon she named Syrax, after a goddess of old Valyria.
— Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon (A Question of Succession) by George R.R. Martin.
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There had been a time when she had been well loved by highborn and commons alike, when they had cheered her as the Realm’s Delight. Many a young lord and noble knight had sought her favor then…though how many would still fight for her, now that she was a woman wed, her body aged and thickened by six childbirths, was a question none could answer.
I fucked around a lot w rake brushes on this one and I'm not sure about them, still. However, book Nyra!
I've been reading fire & blood (to keep myself from rereading asoiaf, mostly) and if there is One thing GRRM does very well is making you forget that the characters live in a hellish lovecraftian world by distracting you with mundane politics and misogyny. Or maybe the misogyny is part of that, who knows.
Wondering if I will have the time or the willpower to also do book Alicent
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Do you ever think the dragons get sad that they arent small enough to be held by their riders anymore?
Do you ever think Syrax longs for the days when she and Rhaenyra were young and she could curl herself on her riders shoulders and feel her heartbeat through her skin?
Do you wonder if Dreamfyre ever misses when she was still slender enough for Rhaenas arms to fit around her neck and hold her, when she was still small enough to rest her head in Rhaenas lap and longs to be able to be that close to Helaena?
Do you imagine that maybe Silverwing longs for the days she spent curled around the baby Alysanne as they grew together?
Do you worry if in his last moments of panic and pain, Stormcloud wished he was tiny enough to be carried around and doted on by Aegon iii one last time?
Do you think that as Tessarion died, her mind reached out for the one person she had never known a life without?
Cause i think about it all like a lot.
Ps if you like dragons you should def go look at my dragon inspired makeup looks, namely my latest of Meraxes https://www.tumblr.com/ladyofthebears/748888503847403520/finally-finished-my-meraxes-makeup-look-hope-you
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“At seven, she became a dragonrider, taking to the sky on the young dragon she named Syrax.”
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103 AC
King Viserys I Targaryen with his wife Aemma Arryn, brother “The rogue prince” Daemon Targaryen and daughter Rhaenyra Targaryen, so far only “The Realm’s Delight”
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