You've not been told? He has two sons by Rhaenyra, bearing our colours. Pale of hair, pale of skin, purple of eye. Joffrey alone would remain of Rhaenyra's get before Daemon, and Joffrey's six.
He sent assassins to have me killed, when I took my nephew's life fighting on dragonback. They found my sister instead, and made her watch as they cut my nephew's head off in his crib.
I have not spoken with him, but I've met with Daniel Molloy who in turn knows of him. Daniel is a dependable character, and currently indisposed through means unknown.
There are only so many of us here as guests, it stands to reason that friendships and alliances overlap. But these are too close to my understanding. Too easily connected in a tight web.
If it is not an enemy masquerading as a friend, then it's someone who knows enough to pretend to be one.
[ he will absolutely read into that, thank you. his uncle never married someone he didn't know as a minor by choice, great-grandma alysanne had to have arranged the royce marriage for a reason. ]
I'm proud of my family. Though it's true that I've not been the most diplomatic, naming my half-sister and my nephew as I have.
[ take it as a win that he's even admitting to that much. ]
It's...my schooling was in history, not science, but when you mix genes too much, you run the risk of birth defects, poor fertility, certain diseases. Have you had any experience with that?
We haven't undergone any testing like that, no. But we don't make a habit of marrying our cousins.
Hm, but the smallfolk have a saying. When a dragon is born, the gods flip a coin. Madness or mediocrity, they would say. We are otherwise ourselves whole.
If anything, our blood is ever fertile. My mother has four children, my uncle four, my sister two, my half-sister five.
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Date: 2024-10-05 07:06 pm (UTC)What about Jacaerys?
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Date: 2024-10-05 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-05 07:40 pm (UTC)Leaders are elected, I mean.
And do you think him cowardly enough to remove them in secret in the dead of night?
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Date: 2024-10-05 07:46 pm (UTC)He sent assassins to have me killed, when I took my nephew's life fighting on dragonback. They found my sister instead, and made her watch as they cut my nephew's head off in his crib.
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Date: 2024-10-05 07:50 pm (UTC)So, yes, he's an animal.
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Date: 2024-10-05 07:59 pm (UTC)[ add it to the list of crimes his father has committed against his mother. ]
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Date: 2024-10-05 08:01 pm (UTC)10 minutes later after he's PUNCHED SOMETHING FIERCE
Date: 2024-10-05 08:09 pm (UTC)I am not the only one with blond hair in this keep.
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Date: 2024-10-05 08:23 pm (UTC)There's your uncle. And one of the vampires, Lestat. Another woman was drained of blood.
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Date: 2024-10-05 08:26 pm (UTC)The selection of victims is rather pointed, if I might say.
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Date: 2024-10-05 08:33 pm (UTC)Parisa was the suitemate of Embry Moore. It might not be a coincidence.
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Date: 2024-10-06 03:06 am (UTC)There are only so many of us here as guests, it stands to reason that friendships and alliances overlap. But these are too close to my understanding. Too easily connected in a tight web.
If it is not an enemy masquerading as a friend, then it's someone who knows enough to pretend to be one.
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Date: 2024-10-06 03:20 am (UTC)[ Do NOT read too much into that. Thank you. ]
I think anyone who saw your butler profiles could put enough pieces together to wreck havoc if they wanted to.
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Date: 2024-10-06 03:57 am (UTC)[ he will absolutely read into that, thank you. his uncle never married someone he didn't know as a minor by choice, great-grandma alysanne had to have arranged the royce marriage for a reason. ]
I'm proud of my family. Though it's true that I've not been the most diplomatic, naming my half-sister and my nephew as I have.
[ take it as a win that he's even admitting to that much. ]
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Date: 2024-10-06 04:18 am (UTC)You should be, messy or not. Family is important. I miss mine horribly.
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Date: 2024-10-06 04:40 am (UTC)[ yes, he mislikes it already. ]
Has your family ever given you cause to desire their deaths?
That was rude of me. I'm sure your family was less... intricately entangled as mine.
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Date: 2024-10-06 04:47 am (UTC)I mean, not royalty. My father is an accountant. My uncle a priest. Our problems are more mundane.
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Date: 2024-10-06 05:12 am (UTC)Your father was a man of numbers?
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Date: 2024-10-06 05:20 am (UTC)But...yeah. It's frowned upon in most societies. Science has learned a lot of things about inbreeding, none of them good.
Yeah, he is.
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Date: 2024-10-06 05:56 am (UTC)That it does.
Is inbreeding a genetics thing? I've heard tell of it from another, how it can read the lineage in one's blood. A dna test, I think it was called.
Did you have one of these things? Is it something you undergo with your own family?
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Date: 2024-10-06 06:06 am (UTC)We haven't undergone any testing like that, no. But we don't make a habit of marrying our cousins.
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Date: 2024-10-06 12:02 pm (UTC)No.
Hm, but the smallfolk have a saying. When a dragon is born, the gods flip a coin. Madness or mediocrity, they would say. We are otherwise ourselves whole.
If anything, our blood is ever fertile. My mother has four children, my uncle four, my sister two, my half-sister five.
Three, I suppose.
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Date: 2024-10-06 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-06 09:27 pm (UTC)50s understanding of mental illness incoming
Date: 2024-10-06 09:56 pm (UTC)Mental illness is like, madness. Sick in the head, unstable.
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