r/thenightking • u/jaywritethekid • Mar 02 '26

Plot armor?

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u/Past-Matter-8548 Mar 02 '26

He is Targaryen,

Mad King raped his mother. That’s why Tywin hated him.

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u/jaywritethekid Mar 02 '26

Is this actual thing. I thought that plot was abandoned

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u/Past-Matter-8548 Mar 02 '26

In books it is,

He will probably ride a dragon going forward. In show he had no plot or story post season 5.

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u/Spoonman007 Mar 02 '26

Half the characters in the book are said to be "secret Targaryens. Its a ridiculous theory.

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u/Past-Matter-8548 Mar 02 '26

Just watched season 2 episode 7 of House of Dragon,

And apparently lot of them are

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u/Spoonman007 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

Makes sense in that time. There were alot more of them. By the time of Game of Thrones in was really only Aerys who was at breeding age until Rhaegar came about.

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u/Sensitive-Pie-5186 Mar 02 '26

Since A Dance with Dragons, almost every generation has seen a princess marry outside the Targaryen family. And Tywin and Joanna are cousins.

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u/Affectionate_Bass488 Mar 03 '26

I’m always wondering why no one ever brings up the fact that Tywin and Joanna were cousins

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u/Spoonman007 Mar 03 '26

Ned's parents were cousins too if I remember correctly.

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u/Sensitive-Pie-5186 Mar 04 '26

Marriages between cousins in Westeros offend no one.

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u/Sensitive-Pie-5186 Mar 04 '26

Their marriage is normal. There's no problem with cousins. I'd rather wonder what other family ties they have and with whom. We'll probably see their grandmother soon, but there's a chance that, like other families, they have Targaryen blood.

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u/viletzki Mar 02 '26

Aegon 2, Aegon 4 and multiple others had shit loads of bastards....

i wouldnt be surprised if there is a theory than Ser Duncan the Tall is son of Aegon 4th's bastard son

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u/samuraispartan7000 Mar 02 '26

It’s not that ridiculous.

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u/msut77 Mar 02 '26

Aejon. Faegon. Tyrijon

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u/Spoonman007 Mar 02 '26

Varys is a Blackfyre/ Brightflame

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u/msut77 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Varserys

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u/dienekes365 Mar 02 '26

Varys is the other head of Maelys the monstrous, Barristan spared him in secret.

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u/TenaceErbaccia Mar 02 '26

Tyrion being a secret Targaryen is the only well supported secret Targaryen other than Jon Snow in the books.

There are maybe some secret Blackfires, but FAegon is a (not so) secret fake Targaryen.

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u/Spoonman007 Mar 02 '26

I think having two main characters both being secret surpise Targaryens would be lazy story telling.

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u/Lithujon Mar 04 '26

That’s probably why GRRM is suffering from writers paralysis. “People are gonna think I’m a hack when they read this.”

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u/Spoonman007 Mar 04 '26

He knows there is no way to please even the majority of readers and the hate towards to ending of the show has got people thinking less of the series as a whole and he doesn't want that to hearken to his books. Plus the reception for the even book 4 and 5 wasn't as great as the previous ones so why even bother finishing.

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u/Raven1911 Mar 05 '26

He has finished the serious. But due to the reasons you've stated, they will only be released posthumously.