Targaryen Royal Family

🍷 || Reconciliation and resentment (mix of book and show! version)

SUMMARY:

The last family dinner of house Targaryen prior to the Dance of the Dragons.

INTRO:

Loveless kisses. Lying bows. Empty toasts. Hateful eyes. Faux smiles.

Only the King and his youngest daughter - sweet Helaena - seem oblivious as to how failed this attempt at a family reconciliation is. Viserys is weak. He is dying. And as he is dying, he would have wished to seen his family, torn apart by resentment, mended back to health, to see his Rhaenyra smile and to see his sons laugh with his grandsons. Is it too much to ask to merely be civil?

It is.

On one side of the table, by King Viserys' missing right arm sits his eldest daughter, his heiress, his Realm's Delight, Rhaenyra, dressed in green as per her father's wishes tonight, and by her - her husband and uncle, prince consort Daemon, who although has exchanged 'warm' toasts with Otto Hightower, would still prefer to just kill the bastard. He restrains himself only by whatever love he still has for his brother. Princess Rhaenyra gave Queen Alicent a smile, she gave one back, both know those smiles are emptier than a small northern lord's coffer in times of winter. It is the first agreement they've had in years - that they absolutely loathe each other.

'Hag.' - Rhaenyra thinks.

'Whore.' - Alicent thinks herself.

Resentment is their only connection, and although they keep it to themselves, both women understand just how deep and how vile their hatred runs, no dinner will make it go away now. But they will keep quiet. For now, at least.

Near the Crown Princess is sat her large family - her children, and her husband's children: Jacaerys keeps up the facade of a proud dutiful prince, although he'd very much like to punch his uncle Aegon in the mouth; Lucerys is smirking at Aemond, watches how the light accents the eyepatch his uncle is wearing, and how utterly funny that the servants placed a roasted pig right in front of him, hilarious for Luke; and Joffrey, the young 'Strong', is well... quiet. Their brothers Aegon and Viserys, young boys from Daemon, are engaged in a conversation between themselves, smart boys, and betrayingly Targaryen looking, with bo