Our Lady of Sorrows .ᐟ Fire and Blood.

Daella Targaryen was shaped as a monster.

She wailed out of her mother's womb like she was a dragon scratching her way out of the egg, nails digging in the soft skin around. She was unconsolable for the next few hours – she cried for her mother, her skin, her arms, her warmth. She did yet not know her mother but she craved for her touch. Her mother fought for her life well, the Maesters wrote.

Daella was then a sickly child grown from a sickly babe. Though not expected to live pass few moons, she reached early childhood. She grew as the apple of her mother's eye – the Aemma Arryn who lost multiple babes beforehand, now held her child in her arms and didn't want to let her go. Daella grew attached on her mother's hip, afraid of her father. She believed she was cursed by being the first child – the Heir of her father.

Her father grew fonder of her younger sister Rhaenyra then – she was far more fearsome, even in her youth, than his first born was. Rhaenyra was everything Daella could never be: outspoken, loud, not afraid to state her opinion, not afraid of dragons and beloved by everyone. She was glad in a way – at least now she wasn't the centre of attention.

In 105 AC, Aemma, a Queen beloved by all, passed in childbirth. In a sense, she was like Daella then – she screamed, wailed, begged, trying to claw her way out of it. Viserys watched, allowing the Maesters to cut her open like a lamb for slaughter. It's all she ever was to him, really – a machine for babes. Unaware to the King, his eldest living child watched from within the walls: by the age of eight, her uncle Daemon showed her the secret passages underneath the Red Keep. She watched her father allow the Maester to cut her beloved mother open in hopes of bringing out a healthy male babe. Because that's what Daella Targaryen never could be – a healthy male Heir.

By the age of fourteen, her father betrothed her to two suitors – one was from House Tyrell that died from an unexpected disease and the other one was from House Martell that died by falling off his horse. In a way, Daella believed it was her mother protecting her from above.

But by the age of eighteen, Daella was betrothed to lord Adrian Celtigar – a son of the head of his House, older by the princess by two years. House Celtigar had the blood of Old Valyria running through their veins, her father would tell her one day, what suitor would be better?

By then, her father remarried – the lady Alicent of House Hightower entered the court with her father Otto. With the new power as the Queen, Alicent shrunk Daella's power to the minimum – there was no more talk of her ever becoming Queen. Suddenly, Daella felt relief: a stark difference from what her uncle felt all these years thinking his brother chose his daughter instead of him.

And while Rhaenyra welcomed a healthy babe by the end of the year, her sister was too scared to have children. She watched Adrian entertain himself with fresh whores of King's Landing thinking he might do the same to her as her father did to her mother. Therefore, whenever he seeked her company in the late nights, she'd drink moon tea in the early mornings.

By then, life suddenly changed for her: she wished to be someone else, not the princess of the crown or the baby machine. And by those reasons, she found comfort in the newly knighted Ser Criston Cole.

Jodie Comer / Daella Targaryen
Lady of Sorrows  .ᐟ

Jacob Collins Levy / Adrian Celtigar
Most devoted follower  .ᐟ

𓂃⋆.˚ author's note .ᐟ

i. sigh... yes, asoiaf brainrot is so real. i had this idea in my head for the longest time & i got a random urge or writing so everybody cheer !!!

ii. i (obviously) don't own fire&blood or the asoiaf universe, so all the credits go to their creators. i do, however, own daella, adrian and any other original character that i mention. this book will include triggering topics such as abuse, incest, murder, death, manipulation, alcoholism, miscarriage, torture, child birth, sex work, sexual assault, thoughts of suicide and others. read at your own risk!

iii. this book will (mostly) follow the storyline of the book (that's why some moments such as the driftmark incident or blood&cheese will be different) because i have some personal beef with the show... so ! the ages will be different that their show version !! starting off in 120 AC, daella is 24 & aegon is 13!

iv.          this has once been named 'cherry wine' and it was focusing on daella x criston. i not only changed the title but the entire storyline so we're focusing on daella's story more (but pathetic yearning knights are still here🫵) i'm so very normal about courtly love🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️

v. this layout was made by the lovely blodmelse  !!! 🫶

vi. dedications; junorots kazzIedazzIe -sunfyress yllwjckts star_keys blessedhqrts verxou chaosmagicc iadymcbth Siihayaa sunfliers sacrificialfawn dreamingmxxn