COME ON! WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THEY'LL BE THROWN INTO A FICTIONAL UNIVERSE? Who actually gets thrown into one?! Maggie apparently. As the daughter of Daemon Targaryen and Laenys Velaryon she had a duty.
A DUTY TO END THE WAR THAT WAS THE BEGINNING...
❝ YOU COLLECT SCARS BECAUSE YOU WANT PROOF THAT YOU ARE PAYING FOR WHATEVER SINS YOU HAVE COMMITTED. ❞
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──── early summer, 114 AC episode 3
─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───
❛ The life before this one was beautiful, it had iPhones, plumbing, cars, and air refreshers (which Kingslanding surely needed.)❜
YOUNG SHAENYA TARGARYEN
MAGGIE HAD BEEN MAYBE A WEEK OLD WHEN SHE REALIZED SHE WAS IN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Yet she still had not grown used to being a baby because being a baby entailed to things like sleeping all day, being changed and sitting in your poop or pee until you were, and sucking milk from some woman's boob.
Her mother was a gorgeous woman with long dark brown hair and eyes with a slight purple tint. She had the prettiest bronze skin that seemed to dull with every passing day but it wasn't like Maggie, or Shaenya as she was called now could see much because her vision was terrible. Oh to be a baby!
She found it suspicious when her mother spoke to her in a language she had never heard before and she heard roars that shook the building (which looked suspiciously medieval, Maggie could not live without wifi) but she chose to ignore it because maybe her baby brain was imagining things right?!
But the day that she truly realized that not only had she been reborn back in time but she had been reborn into House of the Dragon was when her father took her on a walk. Shaenya was peacefully napping when one of the roars again sounded and it woke her up. She prayed that she wouldn't start crying but alas her face started to scrunch and her lungs let out a loud wail. Stupid baby brain.
"Don't worry, rest, I have her,"
She expected to see her beautiful mother but was shocked when a tall gangly man with platinum (almost suspiciously white) hair picked her up. He looked like Matt Smith. Internally, Shaenya was fangirling but was also battling because shit if the attire, roars, white hair, and language panned out then that meant she was in Westeros!
Stupid murdery, rapey, Westeros.
His arms enveloped her and picked her up and they went on a walk. She didn't know that that was the last time she'd see this life's mother.
──── sometime, 117 AC
THREE YEARS HAD PASSED SINCE HER MOTHER'S PASSING AND SHAENYA HAD LIVED A GOOD LIFE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER. Rhaenys had called her a true Velaryon and Targaryen and had taught her Valyrian since she could speak and the ways of the sea even though it would've been better with Corlys or Laenor doing it as a true born Velaryon.
Grandmother had taken her for rides on Meleys and Shaenya found herself loving the thrill of being hundreds of feet in the air, the wind brushing through it and the breathing beast under her hands. That lead to her creating her plan: "tame a dragon."
Her egg had never hatched so that meant she had to find a dragon and survive trying to tame it. It sucked that most of them were on Dragonstone even including her mothers own dragon, Baelyx. The dragon went into a cave after their riders death and never left.
Shaenya didn't know how she could possibly convince her grandmother to fly her to Dragonstone. Her father was out fighting in the Stepstones with her grandfather and uncle and she found herself wondering what they were like. But she couldn't imagine missing them that much when she had her aunt Laena and grandmother.
The young princess was forced to practice Valyrian everyday and attend lessons as her grandmother saw how bright she was at such a young age.
It was two months later when Corlys and Laenor finally arrived back home.
Rhaenys, Laena and Shaenya stood on the port as the ships gradually started to come into sight.
Shaenya as a three year old had never met this side of her family and clutched her grandmother's hand in nervousness.
The ships got closer but she heard a dragon roar and saw one approach with a bronze skinned man with white dreads on his back. She stared up in awe as he landed on the beach.
Eventually the ships boarded and a tall dark skinned man with long silver dreads walked out. He was wearing blue robes, the color of their house and smiled at seeing Rhaenys.
Rhaenys handed Shaenya to Laena and immediately went to hug her husband. After they were done greeting each other, Rhaenys brought Corlys to meet Shaenya.
Corlys bent down to Shaenya's height and gingerly grabbed her hands. He kissed one as he whispered, "You look so much like Laenys."
He picked her up and hugged her tight as she said, "I missed you, grandfather." He then brought Laena in for one as he started tearing up.
Shaenya wasn't allowed to be there for the greeting of the King, his company and Princess Rhaenyra as she was deemed too young.
She did however eat breakfast with Laena and Rhaenyra. The princess couldn't seem to stop staring at her, it wasn't happy but sad.
It was awkward until Laena stepped in, "Cousin, Shaenya doesn't remember much of either of her parents but we do like to tell her stories. Would you like to share some?"
A smile came over Rhaenyra's face as she started, "Your mother and I were very close and whenever she visited Kingslanding we used to go on rides with our dragons. One time, after she found out she was carrying you, me and uh— I asked what it was like to be pregnant and she said it was her first time but she had just gotten over her morning sickness. Laenys said that you were going to be a girl and that you were going to change the world, she was very happy whenever she thought of you."
Laena added, "Your mother and father fought a lot but there was no doubt they loved each other. At Baelon's tourney, Daemon had asked for her favor and she had given it but she didn't seem upset when he lost she only chuckled while poorly hiding it."
Shaenya smiled while she contemplated, Laenys wasn't in the original series so she must've been added just so she could be born but why was she reborn was the question.
