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Please remember this is all based on the books alone, and there also might be SPOILERS for Fire and Blood and the Game of Thrones book series.
ALSO I might open the requests for Game of Thrones fics and headcanons, and maybe for Baldur's Gate as well once I get back into it.
Okayyy so here we gooo.
1. Maegor's story doesn't add up
Don't get me wrong, he must've obviously been a horrible king and a shitty husband, but reading the chapters that talk about him in Blood and Fire, it all just felt like a list of rumours and versions of all nefarious crimes he would've committed. There are about five versions of whatever he did with each wife of his, each of them more depraved than the one before.
Again, I don't think he was an angel or anything, but my theory is that his history was written by biased sources. His reign was made illicit by Jaehaerys, so it would've been in his best interest to have him remembered as nothing more than a viscious monster.
It's a form of "damnatio memoriae" that we've already seen, in a way, with Mushroom and the Dance of Dragons. When in a conflict, and especially after a victory, each side wants to depict the side they beat as badly as possible Caesar did a similar thing in "De Bello Gallico", the book about his conquest of the modern French and Swiss territories. In this book he excuses his conquest with the supposed preparations for an attack by the Helvetians, a fact that was proven to be misinterpreted as it was a mere pacific migration. And again, he did the same thing when he accused them of cannibalising each other while being under siege, another untrue fact made up to just make them seem worse.
So in a way, Maegor's reputation could've been made worse by following historians to legitimate Jaehaerys' reign over Aerea's claim.
2. Incest has no effects on Valyrians
Okay, this is a bit weirder. My theory is that Valyrians practised incest because it had no effect on their offspring.
Looking at the Targaryen family tree, I noticed that the cases of madness increase the more Targaryens marry with other houses. Baelor the Blessed was the first mad Targaryen, and he had a grandmother of house Harte and a great grandmother who was half Arryn.
Before Baelor, Helaena is questionably considered mad as well, which would prove my theory furthermore had it not been for the amount of trauma she endured in her life so I'm honestly not gonna count her as "mad". Rhaegel Rargaryen was the second confirmed mad Targaryen, with a Martell mother; his daughter Aelora is questionably considered mad too, and her mother is an Arryn.
Aerion Brightflame was another mad Targaryen, with a half Martell father and a Dayne mother. The last two mad Targaryens were Aerys II and Viserys III, but at this point, the bloodline was mixed with others enough to make the Targaryen madness an unpredictable factor.
3. There is no good or bad in the Dance of Dragons
So I think we could theorise that Valyrians can perform incest so long as it remains within pure Valyrian blood.
Edit: some of you have pointed out how there were other signs of incest complications in the Targaryen family such as malformities and stillborn babies. I really am no biologist and I don't want to dwell into that "Valyrian race supremacy" craziness, but those cases are once again always correlated to marriages between Targaryens and other houses, for example all of Maegor's stillborn and unborn children (as 5 out of his 6 wives were not Targaryens/Valyrians) or the following cases.
Rhaenyra had a claim on the throne because of Viserys' will, but Aegon had a claim on the throne because of the laws of Westeros themselves. You can argue that Alicent wasn't the nicest stepmother, yet you can't look me in the face and tell me a woman in the middle ages married to a KING to whom she had given THREE SONS wouldn't complain when the king dismisses all of them and their claims in favor of his firstborn daughter.
Otto may have manipulated Alicent, but that was just how a Lord was supposed to act in that situation: have her marry the best candidate (the king), have her birth at least a son (she did) and make sure those children are first in line for the throne (as it should be, by the laws).
Viserys shouldn't have remarried if he already had his heir, period.
At the same time, Rhaenyra had every reason to fight for her claim and try and go against the actual laws of Westeros, but it was inevitable that many would've seen badly her attempt at claiming what was Aegon's birthright.
Lucerys was an asshole for mutilating Aemond and never showed remorse, quite the opposite. Aemond was an asshole who shouldn't have had all the power he had, plus I hardly believe his and Alys relationship was really consensual so there's that..
In the end, they all had their rights and wrongs, but that doesn't matter at all. The only point about the Dance is the fact that a pointless conflict led to the downfall of one of the strongest families in Westeros history.
4. Rhaegar didn't love Lyanna
I hate the series for making them marry. Like, seriously, have D&D ever read the books? Have they not read what happened between Maegor and the Faith when he took another wife??
Never, not even in the most twisted of universes, would the faith let Rhaegar kidnap and marry a Stark girl while he was still married to Elia. That just wouldn't be plausible.
And I also don't think he'd just fall in love at first sight with a random girl at a tournament. She was a beautiful soul and had many qualities, but she had nothing that could truly make a man throw away his whole life to pursue her.
He needed another child. The dragon has three heads. He had Rhaenys and Aegon, but Visenya was missing (I just made up the name for the third possible child considering he was naming them after the three conquerors lmao). He needed Lyanna to have that third child, and he knew how to get her to get what he wanted.
Perhaps we'll find out this isn't true. Perhaps Rhaegar really was head over heels for Lyanna, but I honestly really really doubt it.
5. There is no certainty on who the Prince that was Promised is
No matter what the show wants us to see, we still don't know who it is. It could be Daenerys, it could be Jon, it could even be Stannis and we're not gonna know it until Martin reveals it.
I honestly think Daenerys is Azor Ahai, but I'm still curious to see why we would need to revive Jon then. And considering Stannis' sword possibly being Azor Ahai's sword, is it a fake one made by Melisandre to get what she wanted from him, or does he actually possess the original sword?
Well, these are the first theories and opinions I could think of right now, I might post more in the future. Again, please don't slander me in the comments, these are just my personal opinions and I respect all others.
His entire family was literally dispossessed by the Soviet authorities before the events of TF2 began, and he and they had to go live in the eternally snowy mountains of Siberia, away from repressions and the danger of ending up in the Soviet gulag. It's not only goes for art, but even community cosmetics and his whole picture, as if Misha loves the politics of the country that made his family end up living in wild snows and hunting for bears. PLUS, would he even end up go work for Mann. Co to feed the family if he would actually love USSR so much?
dianounais I agree with you very much! I always wished Mikey was more than the prankster of the group and not considered the turtle who has all the looks and characteristics of a classic fun teen. Don't break me guys I like you Mikey that way he's always been my favorite antripomorph animal ... after Usagi Yojimbo. But as you wrote, I always thought that he could be so much more (as if in the future he could become a great teacher like Splinter) and become mature, responsible but keep his positivity and support which helps a lot has to keep his more united and cheerful family. Sorry jade and dianounais I was too long and detailed especially he has to write at this time of the evening eh eh eh. But I hope you both appreciate my sincere opinion. Good night and HAPPY DAY for tomorrow !!!
Ok your Once human au is so so cool, I love the designs and the new weapons AND I love that you made mikey the leader!!! My boy doesnt often get the character development he deserves and is often just the "funny guy" but like hes more than that!!! So thanks for giving him an important role!!! Its really cool!! Also splinter looks like the kind of dad every body wants akdbsjfkejfjj anyway have a nice day!
aahahowaoa!!! Thank youuuuuu! I’m really glad you like them!!!
I have a lot planned for Mikey! I wanted to take other versions of Mikey’s personality and use stuff like their positivity and their moral compass as a driving force for plot! I think that there’s a lot of potential in his character to be leader-like, it’s just never used as such.
Similarly with Splinter, I took a lot of the aspects of other iterations’ Splinters and took the parts I like to make my own ultimate dad-Splinter!
Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful day, too!
Juleka's song was amazing. I love that she got to shine, but I can't get over not hearing the battle. To me, it was weird and felt empty. I wish there was at least like thuds and clanging, some callouts🧍♀️
It might be the 'tism, but it took me aback lol
My own take on why the Enlightener was trying to expose Nice would either be:
He found evidence of cover-up with Nice and the Hero Smile incident. Cause indications and screenshots of that has been circle both here and Twitter. Even LH0 has been teasing about dark turn Nice possibly committed.
He is a petty paparazzi troll. He was probably jealous of Nice's personage and status as a hero that he maybe believe digging up or fabricating dirt would bump his own ranking.
Hopefully we get more Villains similar, in motivation, trying to expose the Hero Commission being picked up by the Spotlight Organization. It adds a layer of dark gray, if Spotlight is mostly trying to expose the hypocrisy in the Commission.
By making heroes essential brands, and having their own villains on payroll within agencies, I certainly can say that it would be interesting if Spotlight is composed of the former Golden Age of Villains and they are feed up with how they themselves have been pushed out of the spot light.
*Ba Dum tss*
But real talk, we'll probably learn with time, probably in the episode focused on Hero Tower.
man why was enlighter even looking into nice. he wasn't just trying to dig up dirty laundry, he was framing it as exposing nice for the good of the public. he even looked into the mistreatment of contract companies by nice('s pr team). i feel like we all glossed over the part where treeman legit fucked over lin ling's previous company for no other reason except to cover its own ass after og!nice dies.
obviously enlighter is framed as the antagonist (and he also is the antagonist) but like what's his motive? he seems genuinely convinced that nice is this goliath figure he has to fight against, but he somehow never entertains the idea that nice could be just as constrained by his trust value as enlighter is, or that nice is also beholden to treeman as an employee. i'm so curious about this guy. what does he know about og!nice that we don't?
I will explain when I return from school at around 2:45, but it is my belief that even though the Nightmare Critters are a bit of .. walking red flags in certain ways.
They would be FIERCELY loyal to each other.
I shall explain later
I’m thinking of designing a Dimentio variant to fit with an OC story I’m writing, but since I never really played the game, I wanted to rewrite their backstory to fit the story, but was curious about what to make their gender, sooooo…
I just have to say something, I hate apple, apart from the fact that it's unnecessarily expensive and you could buy a good gaming PC for the money, it's just a status symbol, according to the motto "hey guys I have enough money to put a penis extension in my pocket", filled every 3 months a new Iphone comes out which has just as few new functions as the old one, but has become even more expensive. I don't know any self-respecting IT supporter who is seen with an iPhone, and there's a reason for that: Apple makes you pay to repair their devices, also overpriced, unlike Android, remote access for support is not possible unless you are an Apple customer and pay 10 dollars per minute. So I ask you before you buy the next overpriced piece of plastic, think about what you can do better with the money… more useful things you could buy.