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Later, after it was all over, Rhaenyra found that she remembered very little about the day of her mother’s funeral. She couldn’t recall conversations, the names and faces of the strangers and near-strangers who came to pay their respects, or even what she had done or where she had gone once the pyre stopped burning. When she tried to close her eyes and conjure up the last moment she ever saw her mother, all that came to her were other images, other feelings: the way the cold wind whipped her tear-streaked face; the distance her father placed between himself and everyone around him; Daemon’s low voice in her ear; and, most vividly of all, the weight of Otto Hightower’s hand on her shoulder, grasping her quickly but firmly as he walked past her and back toward his children.
It was strange. He had never touched her before. He had never paid any real attention to her at all. She had seen his probing gaze directed at her father, at her uncle, at Alicent, but never at her. And yet that day he chose to acknowledge her, and she was so grateful to be acknowledged at all that she never thought to ask him why.
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17 Feb 2026
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like father, like daughter by PrincessOnTheTrident
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
06 Jan 2026
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Alicent Hightower has been appointed Hand of the Queen by her long-time lover, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. As a succession crisis looms between Rhaenyra's children and Alicent's nephews, Alicent finds herself in conflict with a heir she didn't choose, and struggles with divided loyalties between her lover and her family, her passions and the realm
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15 Feb 2026
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“When we met you were eighth in line to the throne.” She’d whispered, eventually. “Your royalty was so obscure and your name so ungoogled and as beautiful as it is your face so unknown that our life was almost normal—it almost seemed like it would be. Like it would be always, even.”
“I couldn’t predict the accident.” Rhaenyra had seethed. “Or the referendum.”
“I know, Rhaenyra.” Her eyes were long and deep and sad. “But neither could I.”
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13 Feb 2026
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The Annulment (That Never Was) by lullaeby
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
28 Aug 2024
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Aegon III and Jaehaera had known from the night they should've consumated their marriage, that they never will — their one agreement had always been to reach an age they can petition for annulment.
When the time comes, it is harder to come to terms with it than expected.
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- Part 2 of Jaehaera/Aegon III Fics
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11 Feb 2026
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“But I don’t want to marry Rhaegar,” a bewildered Alicent tells her father. “He’s my friend.”
(In which Rhaenyra was born Viserys's only son and heir, Otto's plans take a different shape, and Daemon - for better or worse - remains Daemon.)
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10 Feb 2026