Hey everyone, it's been a little while, but I've been dealing with some IRL stuff. Apparently, I have depression and adhd at the same time how fun.
They got me taking these meds like once a day now or something but I don't really feel any different but whatever.
Also, I got CK3 so I could play the Game of Thrones mod only to realize I don't know how to play CK3 so I'm trying to figure that out. Bad news my daughter died. Good news I have another one. Bad news I only have one son. Good news he has a daughter. Bad news he has no other kids.
Also final vote on the name change.
A: Alduin
B: Ancalagon
Anyway, all hail King Noble_Prometheus 👑 long may they reign and whatnot. Your GIF was very funny good job.
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101 AC
The Red Keep
First Person POV
Aemon Targaryen
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I soon returned to the Red Keep after the funeral. It was a rather tearful goodbye between Granny and Rhaenys. I also said goodbye to Laena and Laenor as well surprisingly to me Laena actually hugged me and cried for me not to go. I'm not sure if it's got something to do with her just being a kid or if it's because she counts as a dragon-blooded creature and therefore has an increased fondness for me. Even so, I hugged her back and told her that we would meet again and that I would write to her as well. But she went as far as to even make me pinky promise something that I at the time regretted teaching her and Laenor. Somewhat concerningly Laenor made me pinky promise to write to him as well. I tried to get out of it but Laena threatened to cry again so I made the promise. Of course, it was in front of the basics all of our family members and several members of the royal court so they all ended up laughing at my helplessness.
Most lords had returned to their lands after that and the Royces were as well but I didn't go. Mother wanted me to of course but I convinced her that I was worried about Queen Alysanne. I ended up promising to return the next year even though a child my age would normally never be fostered so young mother decided to slow it after I convinced Grany Alyssanne to ask her.
When leaving Dragonstone oddly enough of one of my main regrets was missing my chance to speak with lord Corlys again. We still had yet to have a proper conversation and I had so many questions for the man. Of course, I would disguise them as the innocent questions of a harmless three-year-old boy. But in truth, I would try to pick through every piece of info he gave me for anything at all useful. Even if it was just a random story about bosts the man had been all the way to the lands of Asshai and back. Alas, it seemed not to be in the cards for me. How every other endeavor of staying in Kings Landing did bear fruit.
So I was going to send the year in Kings Landing. I was hoping that with Grany most of the time and I would be able to comfort her and also grow my relationship with the rest of the family. My uncle and father were still taking their father's death hard but they seemed to be growing more and more united than before. The only problem was the new animals I had left at Runestone. I had an animal bond with my horse whom I brought with me from home to Kings Landing seeing as he was still young enough to fit on the ship with no trouble. Plus he still didn't have a name but even with the bond the rest of my animals didn't have that benefit yet. Still, there wasn't much I could do except hope that my mother would take care of them while I was gone. At first, I wanted to have them brought to me but it didn't work out so they would have to stay in Runestone as well.
I knew for a fact that the king had been talking with Vaegon but it was my grandmother who confirmed that the decision had been made to call for a great council. So I knew I had to start making moves. Even if Viserys ends up winning like in canon I knew I couldn't pass up this opportunity. Mainly because the great council would be the one time that all the lords of the seven kingdoms would be gathered in one place. Not only will it be an opportunity to garner my own reputation but also gather connections for my future endeavors.
I had also been attending court when the sessions were held and had been listening to the rumors in order to get as much information as possible. At some point, I'll probably have to set up a spy network although I really don't want to if I don't have to since spycraft is like the exact fucking opposite of me trying to live a pleasant life in the Vale where I'm bothered by as few people as possible.
But of course, any lord worth his salt will probably have one of their own. Still setting up a spynetwork and it actually being a good one will probably be a pain in the ass. Where the fuck is Varys when you need him am I right. But as much as I don't want to get involved I'm not stupid enough to not realize that from the moment I was born, I was already part of the realm's politics. But that doesn't mean I can't pull a lord Stark and stay out of most of it. Let's just hope I don't end up like poor old Ned or Rickard or Brandon or Jon or basically every other Stark who went to King's Landing during the series. Maybe pulling a lord Stark isn't the best idea after all.
So I had been taking the time to secure my own moves. For the past few months my father and uncle have been winning over lords both in court and other lands and my father specifically has been gathering swords and men-at-arms if it comes to war. But I've heard rumors of the Velaryon fleet and its size. It's apparently one of the largest in the world and that's not entirely unexpected considering that they will later go on to fight a war on their own for the most part.
I want to raise House Royce to a similar level but I don't have a comparable fleet to theirs and currently, they are the wealthiest house in Weastaros. I do however know my previous life and the system that will allow me to pull ahead. But what truly made House Velaryon gain its immense wealth was lord Corlys' nine voyages around the world. If I could tap into even a fraction of the trade networks that he did I could gather a level of wealth to match or even surpass them. Plus there are a few other methods I plan to use. For example in case of emergency need to bolster my forces I could always either challenge a Khal or pull a Danny on the unsullied. Of course that would require some careful planning and I'd rather not accidentally fuck over one of my descendants on accident because of that.
Even so, the best thing to do right now is to lay the seeds for my own future allies. Besides some mild training though I have been speaking to some of the younger lords at court and although I wouldn't call us friends I would say I now have several pleasant acquaintances. Surprisingly there was lord Beesbury whom I had spoken to on several occasions mainly just because it was kind of fun. He struck me as a genuinely good man who was very kind to a person he saw as just a child. But he was not the only important figure I spoke to not the least of which was the daughter of the hand of the king.
Alicent Hightower was a nice child to be around compared to most actually. She was polite even at her sge and we often spent time talking with Granny and the king as well. I think the main reason we were encountering each other so often was the machinations of her cunt of a father however. I do not doubt that he saw that we got along and he immediately pushed his daughter into my arms. Not that I'll fully reject her company as one thing is for sure Otto has to stop being the hand of the king of things are going to get better and Alicent just might be the key to that arrangement. Plus she was my key to House Hightower as well. There were theories in my last life that they conspired with the faith and the citadel to plan the downfall of House Targaryen. The dance of dragons is another one of their schemes to end our rule. That combined with how several dragons simply went unaccounted for after the dance.
Even so, I haven't encountered Otto that often. Even so, I'm sure his opinion of me is somewhat negative considering that he is already on rather poor terms with my father. I'm sure it's not as bad now as it will be but I don't know exactly how bad it will be. That being said I'll need to convince Viserys to be rid of him entirely from his council as well.
But that aside although I've been spending most of my days with my grandmother, Aemma, Rhaenyra, and Alicent as well as some others. I've been spending the latter half of almost every day with my father. Daemon has been basically checking in on me at least once a night for as long as he has been in King's Landing. Although he leaves often he also sometimes takes me riding on Caraxes and he also taught me Vermithor's song as well.
He even bothered to inquire about my lessons with Kingslandings' Maester. Of course, I've somewhat given up on hiding my intelligence as well so they've been going rather well. I have realized however that I did become a little too reliant on calculators though and god I miss the internet which is something I never thought I would say. I have managed to replace doom scrolling on my phone with reading books though. I'm a bit of a fan of history books as their fiction section is actually very dry in this world in my opinion. Plus it has been filling in some of my gaps in ASOIAF knowledge as well. I already know this isn't the world of the books but judging from how Targaryens have purple eyes and a few other things I'm not in the show universe either. It was bothering me some but the books helped me get over it. Plus I even started to interact with Vaegon rather frequently as he was staying in King's Landing for the time being. At first, he looked down on me for my age but I was kind of used to that and when he realized that I wasn't as dumb as a child my age should be he seemed to almost grow a begrudging respect for me.
Once Granny had even laughed at us when she caught us reading books together in the royal library. In truth, we had even started to come up with a few theories on old Valyria. Nothing too much but we did continue to speak of them for some time and I would probably need to continue writing to him later on after the great council.
I also mentioned a few of these theories to Viserys as well. I knew he was fascinated with old Valyria and just as I planned I used it to bring us closer together. He even let me in on helping him with his model of old Valyria. Just like that I managed to gain his favor and his ear spitting balling a few ideas on how the freehold was so well made and organized and how he could do similar things with King's Landing. By the end of our talks, I had convinced him that finishing King Jaehaerys's renovations to the city was quite a good idea.
Who knows maybe if we're lucky Kings Landing won't start to smell like shit in a few years. I even brought him in on my library time with Vaegon something the Maester didn't seem to mind as much as I thought he would. Our library time however was compromised once Rhaenyra and Alicent decided that they always wanted me to read them stories. Although I think it was more teaching Rhaenyra how and Alicent having another excuse to spend more time with me.
We played games and sang songs and other times read books and such. At that point, although only a few months had passed I actually started to consider them true friends. Rhaenyra was family so I basically cared about her already. Plus I would always have chats with her mother when she and Granny would drag me out of the library for afternoon tea with the ladies of the court. Still, I took the time to charm them all as best I could, and considering I had ever sore cheeks from all the pinching I think I did well. You never truly realize how effective cuteness can be as a weapon. And I was nothing if not a cute kid that was for sure or at least that's how they felt it seemed. I had never had so many women fawn over me except when I was a child in my last life but I was actually a kid then so I didn't mean anything to me.
But this time it was a major ego booster I won't lie, and why shouldn't I have a little ego though? In this timeline, I am the youngest dragon rider ever after all even if I hadn't ridden mine just yet I would soon. I had also planned on using my dragon tame skill to later make it look like Vermithor chose me as his rider so I would be the first in known history to have ridden two dragons at once. That'll go down in the history books for sure.
At first, I had thought to hide my abilities entirely but then I realized I could use some to my advantage as well. Plus it would be very weird if Vermithor just started obeying my commands out of nowhere. So I'll probably just make it seem like after the old king's death he chose me as its rider. True this could paint a massive target on my back or it could serve as a major deterrent to trouble. Who wants to fight the guy with not one but two dragons who listen to his commands? But I haven't finalized that plan yet.
Why? Because the time had come. The king had sent out all the ravens and soon the great council would take place in Harrenhal. So there I was outside the Red Keep having my things loaded into the language carriage compartment thingy a I was sure that I would be returning to Runestone after meeting up with my mother there and all was said and done.
But as I was watching the servants load my items to made sure that they wouldn't break anything. Plus the pressure of having a prince watch their every move would make them work better. At least that's what I thought but my actions were interrupted as a messenger said my father had summoned me to the dragon pit.
Soon I met him there and when I asked him why he summoned me there his answer was simple. He stood tall and dark facing the shadows away from me. I could immediately feel a powerful vibe almost dominating him. I felt like a fan boy meeting his favorite character. Although to be fair I was a Daemon fan in my last life. But that just goes to show why you should never meet your heroes. Not that he was a hero not by any means. He was a prince a knight a warrior a dragon rider a rogue for certain but a hero no perhaps never but that's fine because he was already doing so much without that last title. Then his answer came in a powerful tone of voice I had never heard him use before.
"We are Targaryens." He said "We do not walk or ride like common men my son." he finished speaking and as he did the shadows behind him began to change. Something within them glowed first red then orange and soon two bright eyes like blazing flames appeared behind him. They lifted up and slowly thundered step by thundering step they grew nearer. Out of the shadows red red-scaled and serpentine Caraxes crawled out the shadows his mouth red hot with blazing blood red and orange flames. The blood wyrm let out a roar so unique it was unmistakable as it lowered its head to be beside Daemon. No doubt that sound that was found was the last thing many a man had ever heard
"I have been neglectful in your training in ng all admit. But I told you I would teach what it means to be a member of the house Targaryen and to be of the blood of old Valyria. Do enough of your books and childhood games. Today you learn your first true lesson. Are you ready?" He said planting dark sister in the ground before him.
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I'm tired also thinking about maybe doing that MHA fic just for fun sometime soon but who knows. Plus I got logged out of my Crunchyroll and can't find the login info. Also hsbent watched World Mission or the Vigilanty series yet. What would be a cool name for Izuku as a hero besides Deku?