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[frostedpuffs]

Since you reblogged your ml ponies I have realized, the emo designs. Emo ponies.

these horses are EMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[rennybu]

hi.... i'm just a poor boy . who does not know the loam lore. would you be willing to share.... a summary.... (so curious i am a loam enjoyer)

oh my gosh hi griff..! oh there is so much to tell... i will h ave no choice but to put this under a readmore. the shortest answer is that he is my character of 3+ years in @jawsandbones homebrew dnd campaign and he is like a son to me. but to start off with baby pictures:

LOAM was born 52 years ago in a city called TILDEN, which is blocked off overland by a CURSED* SWAMP that creeps closer every year.

*Misremembered and only Recently Re-Contextualized Major Historical event

His mom is a shy, worried, and loving woman named Bayla - she's a druid and sells medicinal mushrooms of all sorts. His dad is an unwaveringly positive (but incredibly serious) mason named Uttara who proudly works on all sorts of projects around the city, especially major infrastructure. Yay stoneworkers!

(Because fantasy lifespans are strange and somewhat silly to me I just imagine Firbolgs to be stuck in their mid-20s existential dread until they're like at least 150. The backstory part of this spans literally 51 of his 52 year s of life. he's so young)

He got equal enrichment from time spent in nature with his mom as from time spent in the city with his dad. His nickname in the Tilden Firbolg community To This Day is "Always With Questions" - a kind of affix to differentiate him from any other Loams. He may not know much but he really would like to find out, please!!!! He sees a lot of beauty in the natural world, but his idea of what's natural is skewed somewhat by the uh, Curse. He once fell through some algae into a deep body of water and had a very fun memento mori experience as a kiddo (beautiful golden sunbeam shining onto a silty skull)

He got the name Loam very young from his interest in both his parents' work, which lead to him learning about soil types and uses in gardening and construction aklfhglskg. Loam was important for both jobs so he (in guess-what-I-just-learned little kid fashion) told everyone who would listen about it. The association STUCK and he's Loam now :].

His birth name is actually Rahara! but that's secret knowledge only his bestest friends and Tzip and some scarycool important NPCs know.

He loves beasts and magic and plants so much. And on the flip side he also loves and is fascinated by architecture and engineering. He never got any like, higher academic schooling or whatever, but had many many different apprenticeship type training relationships from his parents, other tradespeople in the city, from the senior rangers etc etc.

Small break to plug @jawsandbones lore packets for the Quarter Cities (including Tilden), Scarabae, and the overall campaign setting!!!! I'm just gonna talk about stuff without adding too much context of my own because AAA WORD COUNT!!!

The hole in Loam's ear was brought about by a shit ass Tilden local trying to tear his earring off him, since he'd bought it from a foreign merchant from a city Tilden/the Quarter has historically warred with. Loam's always been open minded and deeply curious about other cities, due to how isolated the bog is. Any visiting merchants are sources of wonder!!!! Even though he only bought the one hoop earring from the Quietus merchants (Mirjam and Mihail, mother and son!), after the ice was broken he stayed by their stall the rest of the day and talked about all kinds of things, and befriended Mihail!

Loam trained as a ranger as soon as he was old enough to do so!!!! He saw it as the next logical step past what his parents would be able to show him and was incredibly eager to get hands-on experience in the wilds. He met his first ever boyfriend among his peers there!!! Bragi... he has had many lovers and situationships in Tilden since, BUT only recently feels comfortable trying monogamy again after meeting Tzipporah.

Bragi unfortunately died badly to a creature in a traumatic backstory incident that left young Loam super fucking bereft and hyper aware of how easy it is to die. (Big monster attack + group of trainee rangers accompanied by a few more senior rangers + chaos and bloodshed. Loam carried Bragi to safety and tried resuscitating him but he was already gone. The experience made him uncomfortable with the idea of being in a defined, monogamous intimate relationship for the next like. 19 years. He felt like he got ripped in half!)

After the ranger's guild recovers from THE CREATURE ATTACK, Loam meets his close friend, Reece, a fellow ranger and Kenku (she looks like a masked shrike)!!!

He gets his septum pierced by the same visiting merchants from Quietus a few years after Bragi's death. It's a very important moment for him, where it feels like he can finally start to let himself change and grow beyond that event. He also spends more and more time in the city, away from the more rural/overgrown districts, and chases a love for the arts and partying and people, where he meets Kallirhoe (human, not a even a classed bard but like. an indie musician. an eboy if high fantasy had eboys. a tattooed twinkish fellow. you know the type)! They are very good friends who also have sex. Many days spent waxing poetic about THE BIG WIDE WORLD and how they'll never get to see it. (Spoiler: He sees it)

Loam gets into tarot as a hobby, and makes his own deck in a very scribbly freehand style with ink and charcoal!!!! he's slowly replacing them with more Worldly artwork - the deck he left home with was very. Tildencore

Many good years of being a party girl who has to go work a construction job tomorrow and then go be a ranger at 6. A rich and storied life. AND THEN THE GAME TIMELINE STARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A path Through the bog has recently finished being built by Dagda, the Southern representative to the other Quarter Cities, making more trade possible overland, and making local tensions go even crazier. Also there are strange Awful Huge Scary Monsters appearing WORLDWIDE, so the Directions and the Three Kings of Scarabae and the remote island of Geest (ADRA'S HOME!) and the mysterious magical Widow's Wood are all like "STOP WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING RN". Trials are held in the Western city of Dina to appoint FOUR TEAMS OF FOUR to help defend against the new threat. Loam is like. Well I've gotta fucking do that. I've got to try. If I'm not chosen, at least I've set foot outside. He has a fight with his mom about this, because she is terrified she will lose him, like she lost her mother in a previous conflict when Scarabae was occupying the Quarter, before Loam was born. He stands firm and his dad has his back, and ultimately he leaves with both their blessings, but his dismissal of his mom's feelings weighs heavy on him the longer he's away from home. (He has a big cry and reconciliation about this when he is next able to come home.)

I'm clapping and cheering and skipping joyfully because now he HAS MET HIS BESTEST, DEAREST, CLOSEST FRIENDS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD: ADRA ILSA AND TALEE!!!!!!! I have to be so careful now because we have no joke hundreds of pages of notes. I cannot read that shit on google docs mobile app. We are approaching session one hundred and fifty of this game. They love each other so fucking much. THEY ARE THE INFORMATION GATHERERS!!! A PARTY OF SLEUTHS!!!

He also has his meet-cute with Tzipporah at the trials, which in hindsight is hilarious, because of the whole, "Tzipporah was sent to the trials as a spy (by the very people responsible for the giant awful monster crisis) and immediately pegged Loam for an easy mark to get information from" thing. And he was 100% correct. But a lot has to happen before that gets revealed. They took a nice night walk and write each other big long letters. And Loam tells him soooooo much <3

At one point while exploring a wizard tower he attunes to a lightly cursed ring and forgets what his parents look like, like their likenesses are Gone from past and recent memory. Which is a big thorn of homesickness that he writes to them about. He has a big cry and stares at them both for a LONG time when he next sees them.

Also they save an orphaned Kenku from some bandits and now Loam has a little shoulder-sniper named Bubby. We have a son. A perfect little crow son who is really good at killing, with arrows. He hides things in Loam's hood regularly

Other major things include ummm umm Loam's TWO deaths, one during a dungeon-rescue type scenario in a room that was Flooding and full of Phantoms and also a charmed Druid (Feyan, good friends now) wildshaped into a big scary water snake. He was hurt bad and (comedically) levitated so he wouldn't DROWN but then got Phantom Speared right through the torso. Second one was because Tzip's evil half brother Vences was like, mad at him for being a good influence on Tzipporah and interfering with the spy duties. Chill touch so no healing + dagger in the ribs! Ow. Also the reveal that Tzip was a spy was happening like, simultaneously here so we were yowling and screaming. (Well. Talee and Co had their long time hunches about this. Loam and I had turned a beautiful blind eye to all suspicious activity)

ANYWAY HIS DEATH SCARS LOOK LIKE A COMET ABOVE HIS BELLY!!!! The spear scar made a patch of his fur turn white (front and back), and the dagger scar is its crude tail!

I am skipping over so many plot revelations i. This is just the Loam Cut. and it's not even all of it.

His buzzcut was for emotional superstitious reasons!!! He cut it after Death 2 and Tzipporah getting taken against his will back into Evil Gang. Loam's mom has a lock of his hair at home now. ALL THIS TO SAY TZIP IS OKAY, NO LONGER SPYING, WE RESCUED HIM AND RIPPED A MASK OFF HIM AND SAVED HIM FROM GETTING HIS MIND EXCAVATED ! SO LOAM IS GROWING HIS HAIR OUT AGAIN!

The deaths of his close friends and their allies have also been. insane for him to process. To return someone to life in this setting u need to like. entreat a Titan. plead on the deceased's behalf and offer something up for the chance to revive them. (NO player spells like revivify. house rule) So interacting with these entities he sees as like Both forces of the natural world AND of huge religious/cultural importance regionally. And to have their requests be HEARD? He loves magic he loves Titans. And the plot is unfolding in such a way that scares me so bad. He loves his titan (The Curious Spear) SOOOO MUCH he has like the foundational belief that it can see through his eyes. Even if not true it motivates him to always seek understanding of strange new things.

Oh my god I didn't even talk about his multiclass into druid. He's a druid also. Circle of the Stars!! As a navigational point. He loves them. He loves space. He loves geography and regional interpretations of constellations. He used to just do freehand observations but truly became dedicated to charting the skies of every place the party travels to, after Tzipporah gifted him a grid-lined journal <3 <3 <3 STARRY FORM!!!!!!

His awe and inspiration and hunger for knowledge is the well he draws magical power from. My Boy is thematically bound up in the soggiest parts of this earth and also the unknowably distant stars above and I'm normal about it (lie) (There is a new and scary Third Thing rising which is the space between. I <3 Void). I know i draw him beige and green but his like, character colour theme is. Dusk to me. Gloaming. When the world is lit like a dream <3

In summary. In conclusion. He and Adra and Ilsa and Talee (and the rest of the Four of Four) are trying to prevent Global Disaster of an existential scale never before seen and are being very brave about it.

Loam wants to understand everything about Everything. Because understanding is love. Unfortunately there are hostile resentful and vengeful forces making this hard to do. Most recently by saving a city we Unmade a magically sustained centuries-old library. And we haven't had time to like fully let that sink in. Because of the horrors of war and being Four of Four means responding to emergencies and protecting cities as best we can against a foe that was forgotten by history until like, 10 months ago. Less, even. I hope this is anything. I hope u are his friend now too because he is yours

good lord how could i forget. His gender is male in such a way that he does not give a shit about it. He's one of the girls. He's genderless. Like a knight. His sense of identity is built on Living Laughing and Loving.

his personal goals are 1. to uncurse the bog in such a way that the wrongs committed by Tilden historically are brought to light and righted, 2. to get super married to Tzipporah and build a house together, and 3. to somehow, eventually, through great teamwork and effort, cure(?) the dreadful lingering soul plague on the island of demeter. HUMBLE! OH and to make a finished star chart covering the entire planet. humble.

thank u for reading here are his current stats

#titan campaign #loam #aart #theres some secret goodies under the readmore btw #IM SOOOOOO SORRY FOR THE CHAOTIC FORMATTING AND HOW MUCH I JUMP AROUND #i will happily answer more questions. and i wont take months to respond i promi #GRIFF... THANK YOU SM

[2manyfandoms2count]

THE SPECIAL WAS SUCH A RIDE!!! what were claw noir and adrien saying when they were talking abt their mum? 🥺

IT WAS!!!

Here's the scene, there's just so much to unpack omg (Adrien thinking about making the wish--- my heart </3 🥺)

Chat Noir : Why do you want a Miraculous you already have? Griffe Noire : Don't you know? We can make a wish by merging it with the cockroach's. CN : So you need Ladybug's, not mine! GN : It doesn't work with ours. But with yours... CN : You don't know what it means! The combined power of both Miraculouses is too powerful. There's a price to pay! GN : Nothing is too powerful, and no price is too high to pay if it's to reunite with my mother! CN : Your mother? She's... GN : Dead! And my father doesn't care! He's too busy making dresses and costumes, too busy creating, as if he's already forgotten her! He doesn't realise... How much I miss her. CN : I know what it's like. --- GN : If I can make a wish, I'll have a chance to get the one thing I'm interested in, to get my life back in order, to reunite with my mother! Cata-! CN : I understand. GN : Huh? Adrien : Because I know you. GN : You don't know anything, we're not the same. If it were the case, you wouldn't be the bedbug's friend! If you were me, then your mother would also be... Adrien : She is! GN : But... If you knew about the wish, why didn't you try? Adrien : I won't lie to you, I've thought about it. Of course I've thought about it, but there's always a price to pay, if I got my mother back... GN : No, our mother. Adrien : To get our mother back, another would have to lose theirs. And I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I... I've gone back to my life, trying to be happy, like she would've wanted. I have friends who support me, I'm alright now. Well, as alright as possible, let's say. But I can't imagine how painful it must be for someone who doesn't have anyone to comfort them. GN : For someone... like me. Adrien: It's up to you not to be alone.

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[the-holy-ghosted]

were they in love here yes or no

#the heron speaketh #i wanted to be included in being annoying in this tag. erin is having a good time and so am i #theyve made me nuts about these two idk whats going on. here. idk how this happened #the answer is yes by the way they were but erin knows that already #black death (2010) #john lynch #wolfstan black death #griff black death #WHATEVER ERIN IS TAGGING IT AS IS WHAT IM DOING

[starrr-cringee]

draw griff as a human but make him cunty slay

here you go monarch i tried

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[hollowwhisperings]

Blackfyre Conquest: An Autumn King

i've struggled to find any Meta on how Young Griff's conquest will go, politically & logistically, that don't immediately interrupt themselves with "...but then Dany will show up with Dragons".

A lot of fans are very pro-Targaryen and pro-Conquest: a lot of Westeros would probably be on board too, though for less romantic reasons. No one "loves" the commander of a foreign army & Ned successfully rallied a Rebellion with very good reasons. The Targaryens were never entirely welcome in Westeros but the War of the Five Kings certainly made a "return to stability" with a Targ King an easier sell than it would have been earlier in the series. That this Targ King is non-incestuous, seemingly sane, has a sizeable Army, has multiple houses already sworn to him... and seems to be an Actual Politician? The Lords might frown at exactly "how" legitimate their King really is but, overall, "Aegon VI" would be vastly preferable to who Westeros has currently:

1) an increasingly unpopular Queen-Regent whose family Did The Red Wedding & whose claim rests on a toddler-king of Dubious Parentage.

2) a King who's lost his Lands to the foreign invader, has a Pet Witch (called his "true" queen) who burns people alive, has converted to a Foreign Religion (& burned religious sites), is a rumoured Kinslayer, and was Never Very Popular in the first place (Stannis doesn't take bribes, keeps insisting his disabled daughter is his Heir, went to help the Night's Watch for Some Reason, wasn't as fun as his brothers, makes poor conversation at parties, etc) .

3) Euron Greyjoy.

4) a theoretical infant child of King Robb of the North & Trident... and the Treacherous Jeyne Westerling whom he Lost a war over.

5) Robb's legal heir as per his last Will, his "brother" Jon whom he legitimised as "Stark" but is currently busy being the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch (it is unlikely that Jon's getting murdered by his men would be Advertised to the Realm & though Jon is almost certainly going to pull a Dany in WoW, he is currently a Ghost).

6) the allegedly sole surviving non-bastard Stark, Prince Rickon, who's spent the past few [books] entirely raised by [Freefolk] & is a toddler.

7) Some Targaryen Girl in Essos, last seen while... on fire & being abductes by her own dragon, apparently.

While most Lords will see Aegon's commanding the Golden Company as a Pretty Obvious allusion to his not actually being the miraculously surviving son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen & Princess Elia Martell. The "truth" of Young Griff's identity is pretty irrelevant to his successfully conquering Westeros (which seems very likely, give or take a Kingdom). Robert Baratheon's kingship was won by conquest: his grandmother being a Targaryen princess was an afterthought, an extra touch of "legitimacy". Tommen's claim to the Iron Throne is through his legal status as King Robert's surviving Heir. Stannis's claim is through the illegitimacy of Joffrey & Tommen's claims making him Robert's heir instead.

Aegon's claim to the Iron Throne is not actually his alleged parentage: it's through Conquest (the same would be true for Dany, Euron and any Heir of King Robb). Most Lords would see the Golden Company, famously founded to make a Blackfyre king, and conclude that Aegon is a Blackfyre Pretender: this is, in the short-term, irrelevant.

Some might rejoice at the alleged survival of one of Prince Rhaegar or Princess Elia's children: Targaryen Loyalists, the Dornish, smallfolk out of the loop on why there was a Rebellion. Ned Stark Loyalists would know Ned mourned for Princess Elia & her children, that Robert became King because Ned wasn't interested & be more concerned about Winter than how recently incestuous the latest Southron King's family tree may be.

As far as most of Westeros is aware [going into Winds], its Key Requirements for a Monarch are: being Alive & (ideally) Sane, being Old Enough to reign unsupervised (15 at minimum), having a loyal Army (see: Euronpocalypse, the Red Wedding, the lawlessness of the Riverlands), being Male, not being the immediate product of incest (Tommen aside, Prince Rhaegar only had 2 great-grandparents), not being a blasphemous arsonist, & not being in debt to the Iron Bank.

Robb Loyalists, those still surviving, would Wisely stand back and allow the Golden Company to deal with the Bolton-Lannister-Frey alliance: even if Jeyne Westerling is found alive & with an infant son, few would accept her and most would be unwilling to replace one child monarch with another (that applies to Rickon too). Northerners are proud but, as one of those Dead Starks might say, Winter is Coming.

The Wars over the series have made the southern land route impassable: the Twins are held by the treacherous Freys, the Riverlands are a lawless hellscape, King's Landing is run by Lannisters & Tyrells, and the Reach is itself "Tyrell Territory". With such a dangerous land route, the North relies on itself & seatrade. While the North does have eastern ports that allow trade with the Vale, the Vale itself is currently held by Petyr Baelish, publically aligned with the Lannister Regime. The North's primary port, White Harbour (held by Lord Wyman Manderly, known Stark Loyalist) is on its western coast, along the Narrow Sea. Euron & rogue Ironborn aside, Aegon's Armies have already seized Storm's End after coming across said sea. Having already seized Storm's End and with Aurane Waters' having Absconded with the Crown's Fleet that would guard the Blackwater... The Golden Company can comfortably blockade all traffic from Westeros to Essos (give or take a Lys). Even assuming Aurane Waters isn't in cahoots with Team Aegon (he's a Velaryon bastard), he took the Crown's fleet to the Stepstones and thus holds control over naval passage between the eastern & western coasts of Westeros (& to Dorne).

So, unless Sansa usurps control of the Vale from Baelish within the first third of Winds; unless Prince Doran or seadragons take out Aurane Waters' pirate fleet; unless the Golden Company's AND Euron's respective fleets get taken out without ANOTHER navy taking their place... Westeros really, really needs Aegon to successfully conquer Westeros if only to quickly reestablish vital trade routes for Winter.

Speaking of Euron's fleet and Trouble at Oldtown... there is Trouble At Oldtown and no one is equipped to keep it contained: on land, the sons of Lord Hightower have been taking the Ironborn threat seriously (with Lord Hightower seemingly having Anticipated the supernatural threat Euron seeks to invoke though how successful his & his daughter's Efforts may be remains Unknown); at sea, the Redwyne Fleet is Worried & very probably in Cahoots with Aegon. It will be a Trip, going back to sea from the Stormlands & then South to Oldtown, but a Redwyne-Velaryon-Blackfyre Naval Alliance is the Best and Geographically Closest forces available to Oldtown.

There are a few characters who've been sent to seek aid from Essos, given the Ironborn threat & the general political instability: Prince Quentyn was one (RIP) and Lord Hightower's youngest son, Ser Humfrey, is another. If the Hightowers weren't Team Aegon before, they soon will be.

The Reach is an increasingly vital kingdom to the survival of Westeros: with the Riverlands in the state it is & with the ongoing socio-economic fallout of Dany's very sudden conquests of half the Free Cities, The Reach is the most reliable source of food for the entire continent. That's part of why the impending Euronpocalypse is so Worrying to those otherwise removed from the Oldtown plotlines: Oldtown is one of the most important ports of Westeros, exporting grain from the Reach & importing goods from Essos.

Oldtown is also the Headquarters for the Citadel, where maesters are trained to: manage rookeries, the interkingdom communication system; learn histories, including those of long Winters past & who survived to give tips on Resource Management; and study medicine (to varying degrees of competency but Still).

The maesters are imperfect, often outright incompetent (as much by accident as by any potential Conspiracy): they're still the ones in control of the [telegram] network, the meteorologists, the ones able to not only access the historic archives but how to read them & any knowledge therein. It is certainly more helpful to have scholars than to not have scholars, especially with Winter nearing and many surviving Lordlings having known only Summer (& never educated on "How To Lord" due to how far down the line of succession they were before the Wars).

For those in Westeros who hold to the Faith of the Seven, Trouble At Oldtown would be an apocalypse all of its own: Oldtown is the centre of their Faith and its destruction would greatly demoralize persons of all stations, especially with increased Magical Activity and rumours of [fire zombies, ice zombies, wolf zombies, dragons].

Team Aegon seems the most likely to "contain" the Euronpocalypse, having both method (naval power) & means (the Golden Company, 4 kingdoms' worth of vassal lords) to do so. Aegon's also one of the few "primary" characters who would even know that there IS a Euronpocalpse: Team Aegon, Prince Doran, Queen Cersei, Lady Olenna, Lord Manderly, Asha's faction of Ironborn, the Reacherlords, the Iron Bank, & (probably?) Brynden Rivers are the only ones who could plausibly know of a Euron Threat, let alone organize a Timely Response to it. Regardless of how successful said Response may be, Team Aegon helping with Oldtown smooths the way for his becoming recognised as a Legitimate Leader for Westeros.

I'm fairly certain that Team Aegon will conquer (most of) Westeros over the course of Winds, I doubt he'll have the time to be crowned King or even spend time on a throne: he'll be too busy.

Aegon's Conquest being successful is Pretty Dang Important to the greater scheme of things: it will introduce Key Characters to each other (Arianne & Dorne, Sam & thus the NW, "Alayne" through Baelish, Team Oathkeeper through Jaime's controlling the Crown's armies); restore supply routes; "consolidate" power to enable discussion of Continental Threats long neglected (through both Regional & Interpersonal Conflicts). Aegon's Conquest would act as a kind of "triage" for Westeros, a quick means of uniting different groups (for & against him) and he won't actually need to sit the Iron Throne to do it. It is most likely that, after securing the Reach & Stormlands, Aegon will find that the Frey Civil War had "taken care of" the North & the Riverlands, with Robb Loyalists willing to Play Nice but (understandably, thinketh Aegon) wary of bending any knees. Dorne, regardless of Prince Doran's personal opinion on Aegon's identity, would act "compliant" due to Arianne's involvement & the Rocky Dornish having been in Cahoots with the Blackfyre Regime from the get go. Even a false Aegon would be preferable to a Lannister, as far as the North & Dorne are concerned. The Ironborn post-Euronpocalypse would go back to battling themselves internally, likely while facing heavy [sanctions]: they'd be too busy licking their wounds to be much of a threat to anyone.

That leaves three kingdoms: the Westerlands, cornered at all sides & bereft of much of its Leadership through Wars & the Frey Civil War; the Crownlands, King's Landing likely being besieged for Cersei to later blow up; and The Vale.

Who runs the Vale? The worst, most consistently dangerous backstabber of them all: Lord Petyr Baelish. It will probably be Baelish who undoes all that triage work Team Aegon started, likely via assassinating the kid or "exposing" him to the Right Wrong Crowd (whether Petyr has actual knowledge or evidence against Aegon is irrelevant: this is not his first Smear Campaign).

Assuming it hasn't happened already (in great tonal dissonance with the Euronpocalypse), Little Lord Robert Arryn would get his Tourney at the Gates of the Moon just in time for Aegon to secure his "final" kingdom.

The Frey Civil War would have affected the Vale just as it affected the rest of Westeros (Dorne excluded) but, from the clues I've found in the Vale & Darry-branches of Freys, it's likely that the Vale Freys will have fared better than every other branch of their extensive family tree, likely due to their joining the Aegon Bandwagon prior to Lord Walder's death.

Others have drawn parallels between what we know of "Alayne's'" Tourney and the historic Tourney of Ashford Meadow: essentially, the Tourney is implicitly tied to the themes & character arcs of both Sansa Stark (in the role of "Lord Ashford's 13 year old daughter", defending Queen of Love & Beauty) and Brienne of Tarth (in the role of her ancestor, Duncan the Tall: knightly but never technically Knighted underdog). The Ashford Tourney is best remembered for being the Introduction of Ser Duncan the Tall, a Sudden Trial of Seven, a quietly averted Blackfyre Rebellion, and the tragic death of the greatly beloved Crown Prince Baelon "Breakspear" (& Some Guy from House Hardyng).

Yeah. Dany doesn't even need to leave Essos: Aegon's doom will come courtesy of Thematic Parallels and Foreshadowing.

Prince Baelon "Breakspear" was a living representation of a Westeros at peace: he was the product of one of two political marriages that peacibly joined Dorne to the Seven Kingdoms (the Second Marriage featured one of those Princesses Daenerys); he was a Competent ruler, becoming his Father's Hand at age 26; his nickname was gained when he bested Ser Daemon Blackfyre (yes, THAT Blackfyre) at a tourney (the Wedding Tourney of his Aunt Daenerys); he had two adult sons, presumably with a wife (the sons are the only proof of her existence); and one of Baelon's sons was healthy enough to score 7 victories at the Ashford Tourney!

Which he. Uh. Very unexpectedly died at. Baelon, that is. The Crown Prince. The People's Prince. The Golden Child who promised a Peaceful & Prosperous Future. The son of a Targaryen prince & a Martell mother. A character who Very Strongly Reminds One Of Young Griff, the hopeful Aegon VI.

Aegon is likely to attend the Vale Tourney in order to diplomatically add the Vale to his collection of Kingdoms: Baelish is likely to trade [Sansa]'s betrothal with Harry the Heir for the Shinier Prince Aegon (whether he dissolves the existing betrothal via Having Harry Killed By Tourney or by outing Alayne as Sansa "Key to the North" Stark-Lannister, who was, btw, Spared the marriage bed bc Child Bride so Totally Eligible my dude just Sign Here).

Then Brienne will show up, probably with Jaime, and Some Kerfuffle will Ensue (if only because Sansa & Brienne are Alleged Kingslayers) that leads to Robert Arryn's Tourney becoming Brienne's Trial of Seven for Sansa's Innocence, just as Ser Dunk's defense of the (common) maiden Tanselle so changed the Ashford Tourney.

There is a Rather Formidable enemy of Young Griff whom I have only hinted at: allow me to combine the Clues.

There exists in the ASOIAF series a Certain Character who Knows More than they Should, who has an implied past connection with a young Euron Greyjoy, who is infamously opposed to Blackfyres, who was present for the Ashford Tourney, whose Past & Present can connect just about every active plotline in the series: a disappeared Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, a Hand to two Targaryen Kings & the Master of Whispers to more (with his "thousand eyes and one"), one of the three Great Bastards born to Lady Melissa Blackwood by King Aegon IV, and current tree-wizard mentor to an entirely separate Kingly-coded character.

Brynden Rivers.

If Aegon survives Euron, Cersei, Jaime, AND Baelish? He certainly won't survive Brynden. Whatever Brynden may be right now (tree abomination, Old God Hivemind, puppet king to Feyfolk, Bran Stark's lunch, the distant Blackwood cousin of every surviving Stark), there is no reason to believe Brynden would allow a Blackfyre to go unchallenged, especially in the guise of a "true" Targaryen.

(not that i believe Brynden hopes for a Targaryen Restoration via Dany or Jon: it very much appears that Brynden & the Singers are grooming Bran Stark for kingship, though where & who exactly they expect him to rule is still Unclear)

I hope to do more exploration into what Aegon [Blackfyre]'s Conquest might look like, cobbling together clues from Quentyn's Doomed Quest and Queen Marge's Court (as "microcosm' to the Reach in macrocosm) and historically Targaryen/Blackfyre loyalist Houses. I'm fairly certain I can figure out how the Aegon Conquest will play into the resolutions of the Frey Civil War, (some) Winterfell Conspiracies, the specifics of the Euronpocalypse, & my "Dornish Spring" Theory as well. I'm much less certain on how Stannis would fare against Aegon: would he demand Legitimacy? would he sic Melissandre on him? would Stannis Get Over Himself in service to the Looming Winter? would he even have a leg to stand on the matter?

And would Aegon survive long enough to meet Daenerys, let alone Argue Legitimacy with her? (They'd both be rulers by conquest, not inheritance & it's not like Dany has any backing for her identity beyond "I look traditionally Valyrian" and "these are some dragons i hatched from stone mid-resurrection". The layyer it should be noted, is considered a Death Magic-induced Miracle, not some Secret Targaryen Blood Limit: it's Unique to Daenerys Stormborn, not to "House Targaryen")

#asoiaf theories #blackfyre conquest #valyrianscrolls #young griff #tourney of ashford meadow #tourney at the gates of the moon #euronpocalypse #geography as a plot device #the many conspiracies great & northern #frey civil war #the golden company #which child king would westeros like best #the answer is none of them #nobody wins musical chairs #brynden rivers meta #apocalypse at oldtown #blackfyre rebellions #that awkward moment when the targaryen loyalists team up with blackfyre rebels but no one knows if they should point it out #dany doesn't even go here #team not-lannister #winds of winter spec #baelon breakspear #dunk & egg meta

[infinitestalia]

who do you think Young Griff is?

Parentage theories for ASOIAF have finished me, he could be Illyrio's son, a Blackfyre or just a random orphan, IDC at this point, but I just know who he likely isn't- and that's Elia and Rhaegar's son. Even beyond the deliberate ambiguity needed for his story, I don't see how the baby switch makes any sense because Elia has to be in on it. Elia's daughter Rhaenys gets stabbed fifty times, but Elia dies trying to protect a stranger's child rather than her own? Eh.

But all that matters is that he thinks he is, and whether Westeros will too. He's been raised as the son of Rhaegar and Elia, half Dornish, groomed to rule and of major significance in the upcoming story, even if he's ultimately just a pawn. His identity is never going to be confirmed, it will be left ambiguous and that'll make the whole thing all the more tragic when Daenerys shows up to scream usurper to someone who has no knowledge of any deceit, whose only crime is being in her way. What if.

I just know he's my boy, probably a better potential ruler than all the other options and I'd rather see him on the throne over anyone else but Stannis, Rhaegar's son or not. To see him interact with anyone in House Martell and to talk about his mother Elia is the dream. How sad it would be for to love and mourn a mother that wasn't even his, to yearn for a sister he never actually had, to reclaim Westeros in the name of a father and family that never belonged to him. Will be backing him all the way.

#sorry for the late response. won't be able to answer all the asks #anonymous #aegon vi targaryen #young griff #elia martell #asoiaf #faegon #house martell

[theblackqveen]

“‘That’s so,’ the boy said, ‘and who is there left in Westeros to oppose us ? A woman.’” No wonder Daenerys haters and Greens love Young Griff. He’s a misogynist like the rest of them. Insulting Cersei simply on the basis of her being a woman. The way they cusion him from all the criticism that they'd be dragging Daenerys for if it was her in his place. If Daenerys kicked a game board down and made a disabled man pick up the pieces, could you imagine what Young Griff's fans would say ?

Edit: Anon lifted @brideoffires tweet thread.

They would be very happy to see her acting this way, having a valid reason for being antis Dany instead of their misogynistic rhetoric. But Young Griff can do whatever the hell he wants, he's a man and they can't wait for the people of Westeros to love him when they recognize their true King, especially since he'll defeat the evil woman who's not fit to rule and save all the innocents she was gonna kill. Make it make sense without any misogynistic argument or slavery apologism. Young Griff is written as a literary foil to Daenerys: he was raised to be King while Dany wasn’t, but the qualities Varys list as the ones a good King should have are the ones Dany has showed, not Young Griff.

#ASOIAF #Daenerys Targaryen #Young Griff #answered

[visenyaism]

this is somewhat inspired by your historical Targs parallels stuff, i kinda thought that Dany's parallel is actually Egg. since y'know they both have this great PR with the smallfolk, generally good intentions, but then the feudal & prophecy tragedy happens. then again, Dany is her own thing given the diff contexts just thought that its an interesting tho sad parallel between them

i want to call them foils if we’re comparing them honestly. Egg tried to hard to make a different and better world and that damn wheel crushed him anyways and then he died reaching for a magic he could never have. Dany has the magic and the power to break the wheel but she is struggling to know her people and is always reaching towards a home she will probably never be able to return to. cycle of bad

#asoiaf #I’m just putting all the dumb jokes I didn’t answer this with here. #egg is an ally who legalized gay marriage and dany throws fruit at gay people. foils #maester aemon is batting 0 for 2 with his terrible terrible advice #if jorah is her dunk i am killing myself. jorah you are not even a criston cole you could NEVER be dunk #i think young griff is the egg parallel because is he a targaryen? UNLIKELY!

[spacedustmantis]

I saw the ‘got stabbed’ post and was about to send a ‘ARE YOU OKAY???’ But then saw it was a piercing, congrats on the piercing!!! -griff

thank you!!!! big self actualization moment, becoming more of a fag every day

#buggy thoughts #buggy answers #better than drinking alone #do i have a mutual tag for you griff? #i don't remember

[2manyfandoms2count]

Hello! Yeah, the special was a ride indeed. Thank you for offering to translate\explain some bits! I have a question myself. I think Marinette asked Tikki why she didn't tell her about parallel universes? What did Tikki say to this?

Hello Anon!!

You're very welcome, this is giving me an opportunity to go back and watch the special in detail dince there's so much to unpack hehe

Here's the scene with Tikki and Marinette:

Tikki: Are you okay Marinette? Marinette : Yes? No? I don't know Tikki. Huh? Alya: Marinette? Did you escape from that supervillain? Marinette: Look! I think he's a Butterfly Miraculous holder, but in a superhero version, not a supervillain? Alya: Huh?! Hesperia: Look around you! A better world is possible! Griffe Noire: All I'm going to look at is your face you're going to make... Toxinelle: When you'll gaze upon your defeat. Alya: They have the same powers as you and Chat Noir?! Tikki: They're the holders of the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses, from one of the billion universes that exist. And these two aren't very nice. Marinette: Thousands of parallel universes? Why did you never tell me about this?! Tikki: Well... I've existed for billions of years in each of those universes, simultaneously, and since your human life wouldn't be enough to tell you one thousandth of it all... I prefer to focus on the essential bits, and spend some quality time with you. Hesperia: The Supreme is manipulating you. Toxinele: It's your fault, you're the one who started stealing his Miraculouses! Hesperia: The Supreme is abusing his power! Power should be shared! Marinette: How can the use their powers several times without detransforming? Tikki: Using Miraculous powers draws from the vital energy of the Kwami, but also in the holder's. Therefore there's a security system for those who are still too young, like you and Chat Noir. You two detransform before it becomes dangerous. Marinette: What about them? Tikki: They're using their Miraculouses for evil, and that derails the security system. No more automatic detransformation. But the price to pay for that is... Marinette: Dreadful.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous spoilers #miraculous paris special #paris special #paris special spoilers #tikki #marinette dupain cheng #alya césaire #hesperia #toxinelle #griffe noire #shadybug #claw noir #elle translates #elle answers #anonymous

[galli-halli]

Nina - nicht, um Druck zu machen, sondern einfach nur aus Neugierde: Magst du uns einen musikalischen Spoiler zum nächsten TB-Kapitel geben?

😇☺️💕

JK werfen grade zum dritten Mal meine Planung für das Kapitel komplett um, und mit dem Inhalt steht und fällt leider auch der Song, also kann ich das momentan noch nicht beantworten.

#jk ask #joko x klaas #jk fic #tausendmal berührt #ich wünschte das wäre übertrieben #aber tatsächlich bin ich plötzlich der ursprünglichen idee des kapitels wieder näher weil klaas schon wieder eine 180° drehung gemacht hat #und solang ich ihn nicht im griff habe kann sich das jederzeit wieder ändern #ich füge den song gerne an sobald ich mir sicher bin #es schwankt zwischen zwei bis drei liedern #answered

[mads-is-tired]

Happy new year!! -Griff

Happy new year Griff!! I hope you have a fantastic 2024!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

#i was almost going to do the 2014 joke #or the 2004 one but i wanted to do a nice one :) #griff you’re so awesome!! your posts light up my dash and i love seeing your art!!! i was very excited to see you in my inbox :D #i can’t wait to see what you do next! #anyway i hope you have a wonderful 2024 because you deserve it! #mads answers a post

[duusu-peacock-kwami]

I wonder why you and Nooroo have the highest amount of evil holders.

-Your friend, @eelec-knife-fish-kwami

That's honestly a good question

Probably because we can create akumas or Sentis to fight battles so our holders can use us to be evil from a distance

Or we just have really shitty luck

#I've heard of a few evil Black Cats and one evil Ladybug (not counting Shadybug and Griffe Noir because alternate dimension) #But it's usually me or Nooroo or both who ends up being used for evil #fellow kwami #answered asks #ask duusu #🦚

[sweetestpopcorn]

could it be planned or could it ever happen that daenerys is aegon the conqueror come again.

so griff or aegon is visenya (she marries him for duty)

and jon is rhaenys (she marries him for desire)

Hi there Anon,

Sorry for this huge delay, please forgive me.

I definitely think that Daenerys is Aegon the Conqueror come again. It's too heavily hinted in the books to be ignored, as are the multiple parallels between her and the Conqueror. Hell, multiple characters say it, and Tyrion says it best when he says she's "Aegon the Conqueror with teats". I am not sure about the exact words used but I even believe that George has also compared Dany to Aegon. So there I would say there's no debate. Dany is a Conqueror like Aegon was, and in a sense, the prophecy that began with Aegon, the threat he saw, I think Dany will be the one ending it.

As for the second part of the ask I don't think so, no.

I think Young Griff very much is the "Mummer's Dragon". What will happen there though, I honestly have no idea though my gut feeling is nothing good. I think I mentioned this in the past, I have no idea what George is doing with a lot of plot points and my very limited imagination doesn't really help.

I do not think however that Jon will be the "Rhaenys" to Dany's "Aegon". If anything I think they are in a sense "The Song of Ice and Fire".

All the best to you and sorry again ☺️

#daenerys targaryen #aegon the conqueror #jon snow #young griff #asoiaf speculation #popcorn answers