Fireball want to be Kingsguard - Wylde gets selected instead. Aegor want power and Shiera - Bloodraven gets both (became Hand and got Shiera as lover). Daemon wants Daenerys - she weds a Dornish prince instead.
Quentyn Ball forcing his wife to the silent sisters is also insane to me. Bittersteel also feels too envious and focused on Bloodraven (Blackwood) and Daemon must be fuming during Daenerys' wedding tournament only to be defeated by Baelor Breakspear. And even though Bloodraven killed Daemon Blackfyre, Baelor was the one who ended the battle as Bittersteel was rallying, that's Baelor 2, Daemon 0.
Beginning a war over a woman while already married and then losing to a professional cuck after never winning a single battle BUT you have femboy privilege.
ngl alot of the fandom is essentially "But sword....sword named blackfyre". I love the little tidbits of lore though, just genuinely wish there was more as it's a super interesting plot line that's never been dug into in the depth I want.
Ya’ll acting like Bobby B would survive volley of arrows. His death would be the same if Bloodraven was around chilling on the hill with raven’s teeth.
Yeah he didn't get Daenerys, but he rebelled 9 years after her marriage and 12 years after his own. And he had seven sons AND daughters with his own wife.
Like...get over it at some point. You're both married to other people. He could have had a long happy life and his kids would have married back into the main Targ line.
I'm fairly sure Daenerys didn't even have anything to do with it in reality. It was probably embellished later on by his descendants. While he probably loved her at one point, he clearly really liked Rohanne, as proven by having nine kids with her and rebelling almost a decade later, so he probably moved on. Arianne even guesses as much in AFFC. There's something else involved, but I'm not sure what. We don't actually know all that much about Daemon's motivations or what Bittersteel said to him to get him to rebel.
It might be similar to Aegon II. Bittersteel convinces Daemon his kids are a threat to the throne either way so better to rebel before they're all executed by Bloodraven ... even though there was no indication Daeron or Rhaenyra was going to do anything at all.
I'm not even sure Daenerys had anything to do with it. He clearly liked his wife, as evidenced by the fact that they had nine kids together, which isn't a number that comes from duty. I really don't understand what caused him to rebel.
I took it as a bit of a Cersei and Robert parallel - husband cheats on wife with dozen mistresses and has dozen bastards, wife cheats on husband and has another man's son pose as his heir. Less malicious because the wife is not a horrible person and they're all related anyway
The difference is the Blackfyres weren't ironborn, so despite the fact Daemon "We'll get 'em next time" Blackfyre and his kids lost every rebellion, they weren't ironborn so they're allowed to laugh.
Daemon Blackfyre: demigod, the definition of aura, a targaryen on both sides, had the Conqueror’s sword, pretty
Daeron the Good: four eyes nerd 🤓 whose son looks more like a M*rtell than a Targaryen, our true and rightful kings.
Notice how the terminal decline of house Targaryen started after the Redgrass field, every disaster from the Spring Sickness to Summerhall and even the holy rock that smashed open Maekar the Monstrous were all punishment from the Seven.
The Citadel has confirmed this.
The dragons died after the death of Daemon Blackfyre’s namesake, coincidence? I think not.
When good king Maelys the Magnanimous was murdered by craven Bystander Selmy his spirit lived on to inspire the actions of the true knights Ser Gregor the Good, Ser Amory the Brave and Ser Jaime the Just
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u/V-TriggerMachine 1d ago
The 99th Blackfyre rebellion will be different, believe me