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Rhaenyra faces a most intimate battle.
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- Part 3 of Rhaenyra Studies The Blade AU
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The faint strains of “The Queen Took Off Her Sandal, the King Took Off His Crown” and ribald calls from the celebratory crowd filter through the door to Rhaenyra’s bedchamber as Daemon swings it shut behind them. There has been no bedding ceremony – he’d threatened an intimate encounter with Dark Sister for any man who laid a hand on his bride, and whether it had been due more to fear that he’d be given cause to make good on his words or Viserys’s own aversion to seeing Rhaenyra publicly stripped, the King had swiftly agreed – so it’s left to them to disrobe each other of their wedding finery.
He wishes he could say their attire fares the better for it, but in truth their haste once finally alone is too great for care.
(Daemon and Rhaenyra’s wedding night, in the Battlefields universe.)
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- Part 2 of Rhaenyra Studies The Blade AU
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08 Sep 2026
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When Rhaenyra is nine, she complains to her uncle that she’d rather be a knight than a wife. Daemon tells her there’s no reason she can’t do both, and begins training her at arms.
Alas, the lords of the realm are determined to see her as an ornament rather than the dragon she is, and it doesn’t change much. Until, nine years later, in the wake of Aegon’s nameday hunt, Rhaenyra loses patience with being underestimated and dismissed. When her father tells her to find herself a husband, as if that of all things will solve her problems, she instead flies to the Stepstones to make her name in battle. (But perhaps she’ll find she can achieve both goals while she’s at it.)
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08 Sep 2026
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Hand of The King by Anonymous
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
16 Dec 2025
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She is crying, Viserys realized with a jolt. But her expression was strange, not one of sorrow. A faint, tremulous almost euphoric light was in her face, an eccentric intensity that unnerved him.
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30 Aug 2026
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Of King Baelon and the Dragons He Raised: Being Ten Years of His Reign by Ronni_Right for Fiora
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
14 Mar 2026
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Baelon, the spring prince, does not die of a burst belly and Otto Hightower does not become Hand to Jahaerys. When Baelon becomes king after his father, his two sons become his heirs and Viserys, the firstborn, is slowly adjusted to what it means to rule a kingdom and take responsibility (maybe he gets a position on the small council, working himself up to become hand or something)
Of course, Baelon loves both of his sons equally and adores his first grandchild Rhaenyra. So after not too much convincing, and careful consideration and input from his kinsmen of the Vale, he dissolves Daemon's first marriage, as he cannot bear to see his son so discontent.
But Baelon, in contrast to Viserys, is not blind. He sees Rhaenyra's affection for her uncle, the way even as a child she clings to him, begs him to take her with him when he goes on an adventure and wants to go flying with him. And Baelon knows his youngest son, knows the slight he perceived of not having a Valyrian bride...So he betrothes Daemon to Rhaenyra...
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28 Aug 2026