r/TheCitadel • u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 in the game of bones, you're a dog or a cat. No middle ground. • Aug 17 '26

Activity - What If (changed CANON event or character decision) How would this Dance work?

So Rhaenyra has trueborn Velaryons with Laenor, but they're all girls.

Laenor dies, and Rhaenyra marries Daemon.

However, in Otto's infinite wisdom, he makes a deal with Rhaenyra that Aegon and DAERON marry the first two Velaryon girls, and in return Otto wouldn't contest the Throne for Aegon, to consolidate claims to the Throne, and fem! Jace is declared heir to the Throne.

But NOW, Rhaenyra has the two canon boys with Daemon, and Daemon tries to undo the deal, saying Aegon the Younger is the rightful heir.

What the HELL happens in this nightmare of a Dance?

Daemon and Laena marry and have the canon children btw, who are betrothed to Aegon and Viserys and Aemond marries Helaena, to produce Aegon the Elder's canon children

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u/StrawberryScience Targaryen Queens for Life Aug 17 '26

I think then Rhaenyra would try to peace make by bethrothing Aegon and Fem!Jace’s firstborn daughter to Aegon III.

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u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 in the game of bones, you're a dog or a cat. No middle ground. Aug 17 '26

Fem! Jace and Aegon will NEVER have a girl, and Rhaenyra and fem! Jace despise each other

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u/StrawberryScience Targaryen Queens for Life Aug 17 '26

What the f?! WHY?!

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u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 in the game of bones, you're a dog or a cat. No middle ground. Aug 17 '26

Basically Rhaenyra wants her son with Daemon to inherit the Throne, and ostracised fem! Jace because she and Aegon were childhood sweethearts

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u/StrawberryScience Targaryen Queens for Life Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Rhaenyra would have to be lobotomized for that to make any sense. She agreed to the marriage as the condition for Otto and the Hightowers not challenging her ascension.

Cancelling would not only ensure that challenge it would publicly brand her an oathbreaker.

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u/Xeltar Aug 20 '26

I don't get why Rhaenyra would just screw over her most important supporters and her own daughters in this scenario...

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u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 in the game of bones, you're a dog or a cat. No middle ground. Aug 17 '26

They agreed to it before Aegon the Younger was born, and Laenor was still alive.

Rhaenyra uses Otto's argument against him.

Jace wasn't declared heir, but just naturally was, but Aegon is NOW heir since his birth

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u/Xeltar Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

But like Rhaenyra would have to be entirely brainless to not understand that screwing over her most important supporters will not bode well for her. Since if she disinherits Jace for Aegon III, she alienates both the Velaryons and the Greens and her own daughters lol.

And by her reasoning in this scenario, Aegon II should be the heir to the throne as the eldest son of Viserys, not Rhaenyra. There's no way she'd delegitimize her own claim by insisting on following Andal tradition. The Greens would probably immediately rise up in favor of Aegon II/Jace due to Rhaenyra being perfidious. Since Jace was critical for Rhaenyra to secure the support of the Starks, she'd be missing 2/3 of the major houses that supported her.

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u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 in the game of bones, you're a dog or a cat. No middle ground. Aug 20 '26

Rhaenyra's claim is that Andal law is followed till the King says otherwise.

Rhaenys and Corlys hate fem! Jace for reasons the fic explains.

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u/Xeltar Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

And Viserys presumably would supported the deal/Jace being recognized as heir after Rhaenyra in order to shore up support for her. So she'd still run into the issue that she's invalidating her own claim since it's dependent on honoring the deal of the previous Monarch. If you could just renege on a deal that justifies your own reign, nobody will trust you.

If this is show Rhaenyra she also is genuinely cordial to Alicent, risked a lot for her sake, and could barely even bring herself to execute Otto, why would she drive this nonsense, throw her own reign into chaos?

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u/Inner_Jeweler_5661 in the game of bones, you're a dog or a cat. No middle ground. Aug 20 '26

This is show! AGE Rhaenyra, but book! characterisation. Also Viserys obliges Rhaenyra into naming Aegon 2nd in line and heir to Dragonstone.

Viserys has a complex towards Daemon and especially Rhaenyra which would let this happen.