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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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Negotiations by calenlily for bluegoldrose
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
28 Jul 2025
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“I am truly sorry, Daena. But you were born to be a dragon bride, and I cannot waste a princess of the blood on a lesser match. There is no other prince who could wed you.”
Has she truly seen an answer he has not? A smirk curves her lips, pleased to count herself quicker than him for once. “And here you’re supposed to be so clever. You’re forgetting one, Uncle: I could wed you.”
Viserys stares at her a moment. Rubs a hand across his eyes. “You don’t want me. I’m a bitter old man.”
After a year of unconsummated marriage to Baelor, Daena appeals to her uncle for an annulment. She’s prepared to discuss alternatives.
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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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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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- Part 1 of Rhaenyra Studies The Blade AU
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The day that news of Daemon’s annulment is made public, he spends the evening in the lower city. While in the Red Keep he’s often held in suspicion at best, on these streets he’s always been beloved.
In a crowded tavern where he might as well be lord of the land, where morals are loose and spirits are high, Daemon toasts to freedom.
It should be a true pleasure. Somehow, it fails to satisfy.
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- Part 4 of Sex Lessons AU
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In which Daemon starts reconsidering his impulsive plans a little sooner, Rhaenyra gets a chance to assert herself, and the course of history is changed.
A sex lessons/secret courtship AU branching off from an alternate version of the ep 4 brothel scene.
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An early Daemyra marriage AU, following on from my Sex Lessons series.
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Vignettes exploring Daemon and Rhaenyra’s marriage and family life on Dragonstone during the six years between ep 7 and ep 8. Stories are organized approximately in chronological order, but don’t expect an overall narrative arc, this is more a collection of self-contained fics related by time and setting. Will probably mostly focus on mostly on the first year or two post-wedding.
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Strange how you know inside me
I measure the time and I stand amazed
Strange how I know inside you
My hand is outstretched toward the damp of the haze
And of course I forgive
I've seen how you live
Like a phoenix you rise from the ashes
You pick up the pieces
And the ghosts in the attic
They never quite leave
~Eric’s Song by Vienna TengThis is a story about resilience and hope and second chances. This is the story of a world where everybody lives, and while the good fight goes on forever our heroes manage to make it just a little easier for those who will come after them. It started out as a retroactive fix-it for the brutality of AtS s5, and turned into a wide-open future’verse that’s one part Bangel, one part Buffy and Faith being work wives, and one part institutional worldbuilding.
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Smoke & Mirrors by Lialathuveril
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
21 Aug 2016
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Éomer, King of Rohan, has had many losses in his life; of his family only his sister Éowyn survived the Ring War. In the future, he decides, he will guard his heart better and thus avoid further hurt. However, he also needs to find a wife. Luckily there is an answer to his problem: that wonderful Gondorian invention, a marriage of convenience...
A tale of loss, love and limpets.
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Bookmarked by calenlily
11 Jul 2025
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The time he spent on the Stepstones made him forget how dull Viserys and his court were. Daemon was gone for eight years, yet the Red Keep has not changed at all in that time. He notices it as soon as he returns. Viserys has grown fatter, yet he’s still the same oblivious fool who wants to please every grasping lord and scheming lady. Every day, a feast or banquet is hosted to entertain the pompous lords and empty the Crown’s coffers, and merely a sennight after his return, Daemon is dying of boredom.
There is only a single bright spot amidst the crowds of droning lords and ladies draped in ridiculous garments. Viserys’ daughter and Daemon’s niece – Rhaenyra.
Bookmarked by calenlily
22 Apr 2025
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we will be better than i was by jaimeslannister for calenlily
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
12 Aug 2024
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Daena once dreamt of kissing boy-kings.
Viserys has not been a boy for a very long time.
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02 Jan 2025
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you should see your faces by ginvael
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
27 Apr 2024
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When Daemon left her in the brothel, Rhaenyra did not despair. Instead, she plotted.
or: Rhaenyra chooses to control the narrative and lie about how far Daemon has actually gone - if her reputation was ruined, she might as well ruin it completely.
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25 Apr 2024
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daughter's wrath by ginvael for grapefruitsalot
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Mar 2024
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Her father intends to marry Alicent Hightower - and Rhaenyra cannot take it, cannot accept it. Unable to prevent it from happening, she comes up with her own plan - she will be damned if she lets her new position of an heir slip through her fingers. There is just one nuance - aged five-and-ten, Rhaenyra is not of age to claim Dragonstone for herself.
Luckily for her, there is a loophole - the one that will turn her petty rebellion into the best decision of her life.
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Bookmarked by calenlily
15 Mar 2024