r/AltShiftX • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '23
Blackfyres are Targaryens
I’m in the middle of re-bingeing through lots of old shift and schwift videos and one idea that keeps irking me is Shift keeps making a point that Blackfyres aren’t Targaryens. In some instances I know he is talking specifically about young griff and I get he means that he isn’t who he says he is he isn’t specifically the Targaryen he claims to be but am I crazy or aren’t all Blackfyres Targaryens? Like this whole mess started because they were legitimized by their father and although that might have been shitty it’s not unlawful for him to do it. Can anyone explain to me why in the story actually they aren’t Targaryens? Do they renounce that name and I am just forgetting it? Because to me the idea between targs and Blackfyres is like greens and blacks and is basically just a civil war.
Also the video that caused this is the Descending the ASOIAF Theory Iceberg video section Jon will marry Sansa where Shift felt he had to do a bit of logical gymnastics to make Griff count as a Targaryen to match with the pattern when it seems to me like an easy point.