HOUSE OF THE DRAGON#1.09 - The Green Council

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON #1.09 - “the green council”

I would love to write more for Aemond, I have a few ideas but I'd love to know more of what y'all wanna see!

also thank you so so much to everyone who read/liked/reblogged my most recent one shot. ily all of you sm.

Here I am, trawling the city, ever the good soldier in search of a wastrel who’s never taken half an interest in his birthright. It is I the younger brother who studies history and philosophy, it is I who trains with the sword, who rides the largest dragon in the world. It is I who should be–

EWAN MITCHELL as AEMOND TARGARYEN in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-) | 1.09 “The Green Council”

THE LAST THING HE SAW WAS VHAGAR. VHAGARS MOUTH WIDE FUCKING OPEN! HER NASTY ASS TEETH! I WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS.

Princess Rhaenys Targaryen! 🐉

Hi there, Throw Me to the Wolves anon here! Thank you for answering my other ask, it was great! I honestly might die of joy if I get to read Jaime and Robb interacting again. Two people who are fiercely protective of Alysanne, who absolutely hate each other but are also undeniably grateful to each other - the atmoshpere would be incredibly tense, and I have no doubt you'd do it justice if you ever decided to write it.

I do have another question: I was wondering if you have any example pics for Alysanne's appearance? For some reason I just really want to make sure the image in my head is right. For instance, her hair - I think you've referred to it as golden several times. I've always sort of imagined it on the paler side of gold - maybe just blonde enough to pass as Lannister and just silver enough to pass as Targaryen. I know that Alysanne's eyes are the traditional Lannister green, so I wondered where (if anywhere) the other side of her heritage made itself known. Now that I've typed it out, this kind of seems like a wierd question lol.

Sorry (again) for the long ask!

Hello! Sorry again for taking a minute to reply, I wanted to be able to sit down and really answer this. (Also, incredibly flattered that you think I’d do the conversation between Jaime and Robb justice, thank you ❤️)

And you’re not the first person to ask this! I’ve spent so long trying to find someone who fits perfectly my image of Alysanne I have in my head and it’s been almost impossible, but I’ve been playing around with art breeder, though, so I can attach that picture at the end :)

It’s not a weird question at all, and you’re completely right about the hair! It’s definitely on the paler side of gold, somewhere between Lannister and Targaryen. Her eyes are indeed Lannister green.

I think the shape of her eyes, though, comes from her mother. As does her nose, and both of those things to me come entirely from her Targaryen ancestry. There’s also some of that “Valyrian” beauty in her, a regal air about her almost. She has her mother’s height as well, and her chin, oddly enough. 

(A small little head cannon I have is that she isn’t overly fond of her nose, as most aren’t, but the only reason she doesn’t truly hate it is because she knows it comes from her mother)

Since her mother’s parents were siblings, she’s still half Targaryen in the sense that she still has a good bit of Valyrian blood in her. She just as easily could have been born silver haired and purple eyed like her mother, and so could her children someday. 

I’m still not 100% happy with how the portrait on art breeder came out, but it’s the closest I could get! The eyes aren’t perfect because I had to fix those after the fact with Lightroom, and I’m not very good at using that program lmao

Thank you again for the question :) 

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