
INCONSEQUENTIAL
❝MOTHER,
DON'T EAT ME.
MOTHER,
I'M TRYING SO HARD
TO GET BETTER."
-andrew mcmillan
❝IF THE LAMB SEES THE KNIFE,
SHE PANICS.
HER PANIC SEEPS
INTO HER MEAT,
DARKENS IT,
FOULS THE FLAVOR."
-george r r martin
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Maerya Targaryen was made into a violent child. One that grew like an uncontrolled and directionless wildfire that burned everything it touched. This learned violence was fostered by her negligent father who only ever noticed her when she angered him. And so she learned to make him angry, confusing his ire for affection.
She wore defiance like a crown, one that her mother chipped away at with punishment. The queen molded the princess into a lady proper, taking the flame for flaw and suffocating the fire within Maerya with tenderness and the affection her father refused to show her.
By fourteen, she found the one soul who would not shy away from the flame within her. Evalina Greyjoy, her lady in waiting who would stick her hands into Maerya's fire, call it holy and would come out unharmed...unscathed. Their love was hungry, and sweet, and selfish. Their love left teeth marks soothed by wet tongues and a type of yearning that made girls into legends.
By sixteen, she was the coin with which the Crown paid off its sins. Handed off to Dilen of Myr, a foreign son with loneliness threaded through his ribs and in the company of ghosts. The boy was patient and he did not demand she change for him. He let her burn beside him. Easy to love. He carried himself with a straight back, carrying the generations before him that demanded he upkeep the glory of his house. Their love bloomed quietly. All curious hands as they pretended to be old enough to understand what duty demanded from them. Their union was brokered in desperation and signed on a parchment of old wars and new debts, with ink of blood from unnamed soldiers.
Tradition shadowed duty closely. And a marriage of three was offered; Maerya, Dilen, and Evalina. And they took it. They would be entwined in bone and spirit under the blessing of a god who's name tasted like a curse when spoken. The three would take branches from their family trees, mangled and dying, graft their rot together and call it family .
Years later, Maerya returns to her father's court with children on her hip. Her children bore marks and silks from her new life. She showed them off with pride, like proof she had survived the fire that had once threatened to consume her. But old kings die, thrones splinter, and dragons dance. Maerya must choose an heir to serve and in choosing she had to kill. Had to become cruel once more. Had to bloody her hands to keep the ones she loved safe.
Maerya Targaryen: the daughter of a house that had cannibalized itself halfway to death. Mother of a new house that rested in the palm of danger. She becomes the blade and the shield. But there is no glory in survival. And when the last dragon falls from the sky she will question her actions in this war, if anything was of any consequence.
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE
MAERYA TARGARYEN,, emily bader
───flamewrought. whose mount is the quiet storm, arkos. mother of maryna and jakab drahar. wife of dilen of myr and evalina greyjoy. "the dragon had not burned her and she was only half relieved by that."
EVALINA GREYJOY,, sophie wilde
───kraken's daughter. mother of lukas and asherah drahar. wife of maerya targaryen and dilen of myr. " the blood of the innocents painted her lips carmine with their memory. ghosts whispered in her ears and their names still clung to her teeth."
DILEN DRAHAR OF MYR,, cha eun-woo
───the creator. father of lukas, maryna, asherah, and jakab. husband of evalina greyjoy and maerya targaryen. "friends and enemies surrounded him but he could not discern one from the other."
ADDITIONAL CAST
SER VAEMION VELARYON,, michael workeye
───reaper. father of alyssa velaryon, vaemond and triston velaryon. husband of celyna maar. "there was honor in duty well performed. but duty was but sea foam come to die on shore when in the arms of the woman he loved."
PRINCESS ALYSSA VELARYON,, willow smith
───dragonsinger. whose mount is the selkie. daughter of rhaenyra targaryen and vaemion velaryon. "beasts and men alike sang her praises. she was good and gracious, albeit timid and quick to frighten."
LORD BAELYX TARGARYEN OF THE RUNESTONE,, robert pattinson
───the blade of runestone. whose mount is the stoneman. son of rhea royce and daemon targaryen. "the dragonsong was intoxicating and he could not refuse it. whatever the beast was made of , he was made of it too...to the bone."
SER DAERON TARGARYEN,, wiktor baltaki
───the daring. whose mount is the blue queen, tessarion. son of alicent hightower and viserys targaryen. "blood and fire muddied the lands below and left the field in ruin, but he would not let up. Maelor's killers would have no mercy, only his retribution."
MAESTER PAYTEN,, archie renaux
SEPTA MAYGEN,, megan follows
NETTLES,, taylor russell
ALYSANNE OF LYS,, anya taylor-joy
DARYA OF LYS,, liliana dominguez
LUKAS DRAHAR (adult),, aaron joshua mitchell
MARYNA DRAHAR (adult),, kiko mizuhara
ASHERAH DRAHAR (adult),, chanel iman
SAERA TARGARYEN,, meryl streep
HOTD CAST AS their respective characters
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IMPORTANT DATES BEFORE THE DANCE
96AC..... ALICENT HIGHTOWER is born to ALYRIE FLORENT and OTTO HIGHTOWER
97AC.....RHAENYRA TARGARYEN is born to AEMMA ARRYN and VISERYS TARGARYEN
99AC.....VAEMION VELARYON is born to ORELIA CELTIGAR and VAEMOND VELARYON
110AC.....DILEN DRAHAR of MYR is born to TATEYANNA of VOLANTIS and EGAN DRAHAR of MYR
111AC..... EVALINA GREYJOY is born to PRIESTESS ANDRA OF JHALA and LORON GREYJOY
ALICENT marries VISERYS;
112AC.....MAERYA TARGARYEN is born to ALICENT HIGHTOWER and VISERYS TARGARYEN
113AC.....AEGON TARGARYEN is born to ALICENT and VISERYS
114AC.....HELAENA TARGARYEN is born to ALICENT and VISERYS
115AC.....BAELYX TARGARYEN is born to RHEA ROYCE and DAEMON TARGARYEN
AEMOND TARGARYEN is born to ALICENT and VISERYS
116AC.....DAERON TARGARYEN is born to ALICENT and VISERYS
JACAERYS VELARYON is born to RHAENYRA TARGARYEN and HARWIN STRONG
117AC.....ALYSSA VELARYON is born to RHAENYRA TARGARYEN and VAEMION VELARYON
118AC.....LUCERYS VELARYON is born to RHAENYRA and HARWIN
126AC.....JOFFREY VELARYON is born to RHAENYRA and HARWIN
128AC.....MAERYA TARGARYEN marries EVALINA GREYJOY and DILEN DRAHAR
LUKAS DRAHAR is born to EVALINA GREYJOY and DILEN DRAHAR
JAEHAERA and JAHAERYS TARGARYEN are born to HELAENA TARGARYEN and AEGON TARGARYEN
AEGON is born to RHAENYRA TARGARYEN and DAEMON TARGARYEN
129AC.....MARYNA DRAHAR is born to MAERYA TARGARYEN and DILEN DRAHAR
ASHERAH DRAHAR is born to EVALINA and DILEN
130AC.....MAELOR TARGARYEN is born to HELAENA and AEGON
VISERYS TARGARYEN is born to RHAENYRA and DAEMON
131AC.....JAKAB DRAHAR is born to MAERYA and DILEN
132AC... the DANCE of the DRAGONS begins
death of LUCERYS VELARYON
death of JAHAERYS TARGARYEN
AUTHOR'S NOTE───
Hello! First off thank you so much for picking up this book, I hope you stick around until the end. This fic is mostly for myself and kinda like a character study for Mae and how she fits with/mirrors other characters like her mother (you really think you fell out of a coconut tree?). She is the oldest from Alicent and Visery's marriage. I am team black, but I'll be honest team green has the more interesting characters. This will be a team green-centered fic and I will be changing or keeping things from the show, for example I'll be keeping Rhaenicent's relationship and age the same, but I won't have Helaena be a dragon rider who doesn't like dragon riding. I will also lean more into the book characterizations (minus some problematic things that I don't want to depict or agree with). I have changed the ages of some of the characters too, and relationships stay the same as the show, like Vaemond being Corlys's brother instead of his nephew. My main OC's, Mae, Dilen, and Eva are also polygamous and Eva and Mae are girlkissers, and while Mae and Dilen have an arranged marriage, they do end up loving each other. Dilen also follows a different faith where polygamy is common, but they'll have to get around explaining that to the faith of the seven (more tension and issues, yay!). Also a few notes on some of my OC's:
───Vaemion: a knight in service of Laenor, his cousin. He is Vaemond's youngest son and he is 2 years younger than Rhaenyra. They end up developing feelings and have a daughter, Alyssa. He is in an arranged marriage and he has two sons with a Lyseni woman. Their relationship is amicable, but he truly loves Rhaenyra although he loves his children equally.
───Alyssa is the secondborn, so she's a year younger than Jace and a year older than Luke. She's also a dragon rider and at some point she will be betrothed to Daemon's son, Baelyx. I have named her after Alyssa Velaryon, Aenys's wife, and she's also inspired by Daella Targaryen. I'll also use this subplot to give more importance to the inheritance crisis for the Driftwood throne.
───Baelyx: Daemon's son with Rhea Royce. Since his mother was the heir to Runestone, he naturally inherits that title. Daemon is kind of a deadbeat towards him and for this reason Baelyx rejects everything to do with being a Targaryen. He has a dragon that hatched to him, but has not bonded with/ridden the dragon. There's also a lot of tension between him and his father.
─── Alysanne and Darya: granddaughters of Saera Targaryen. Saera'll be around 65-70ish in this fic. They are noblewomen from Lys and Darya will end up in Westeros after Saera's passing since she wishes to learn more about her heritage.
───Maester Payten and Septa Maygen: these two will follow Mae to Essos where Dilen has promised to build them a Sept from where they can spread the word of the Seven, recruit members, etc. Payten is just a few years older than our trio, so he's more tolerant of their union and their children, but Maygen is much older and is less tolerant.
───The Drahar Children: Lukas is the oldest of the 4, Maryna is the eldest girl, and Asherah was born on the same day hours later, Jakab is the baby of the group. Maryna is the rider of Sun Eater (Vekisagon), and Jakab is the rider of Turtle (Qintir).
───The Mounts: Arkos-Mae's dragon, a large burgundy red dragon, with a long tail, 4 horns on its head (2 horns on each side, one behind the other, but the ones on the left are broken), and it's a mute dragon. He is a bit smaller than Meleys in Westeros, and grows to be about the size of Caraxes in Essos. Vekisagon-Maryna's dragon, a plum colored dragon with two horns and a tail double the size of its body roughly the size of a horse. Qintir-Jakab's dragon, a periwinkle colored dragon, with two horns, and split/double tail, roughly the size of a small dog. Vekisagon and Qintir come from a clutch laid by Dreamfyre, who often took Arkos as a mate. When they move to Essos, the dragons are not kept in an enclosure like the dragonpit, so their growth isn't hindered like the dragons in Westeros. It's assumed that their proximity to their homeland (Valyria) also strengthens their dragonfire.
Major trigger warnings and content warnings for violence, abuse, incest, and other things that are depicted in the show/book. I will also put warnings before each chapter for triggering content. Also spoiler warnings for future seasons. THANK YOU!!!
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"a crown of death" is an INCONSEQUENTIAL inspired playlist, for your listening pleasure
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"INCONSEQUENTIAL" by mali
2024-
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