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   Greatness In Black Silk by RedandBlack (izumi2)

   Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Underage Sex
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   22 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Underage Sex
   • Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen
   • Alicent Hightower/Viserys I Targaryen
   • Joffrey Lonmouth/Laenor Velaryon
   • Harwin Strong/Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys)
   • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Helaena Targaryen
   • Aegon II Targaryen/Helaena Targaryen (brief-ish)
   • Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys)/Others (very briefly)
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Period-Typical Sexism
   • No beta we die like Criston and Otto should have had
   • Viserys is dumb
   • I feel that this should be an official tag
   • BAMF Rhaenys Targaryen Velaryon
   • BAMF Daemon Targaryen
   • BAMF Rhaenyra Targaryen
   • Daemyra Discord's Dawn of Daemyra Fest 2022
   • Incest
   • I mean... Targaryens... they are their own warning so...
   • Mentions of Rape
   • Heavy Angst
   • Depression
   • Underage - Freeform
   • I mean in Westeros you're an adult at 16
   • but yeah
   • Spoilers for the books (and thus possibly for the series)
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Torture
   • sometimes graphic
   • i will warn in the chapter
   • Green Kids Canon Characters
   • I'm not gonna be very kind to the Greens
   • messing with lore
   • Major character death - Freeform
   • Major Character Death not Daemyra
   • Not for team Green fans
   • Team Green Bashing
   • Public Slow Burn
   • Not Actually Slow Burn
   • medium burn?
   • Mentions of Suicide
   • Happy Ending
   • For Team Black that is
   • Fix-It for team Black

   Summary

   Viserys always let himself be led. And when having Dreams, it was a simple matter of following them as well. Dreams foretold the Doom. Dreams showed him a son. Dreams warned him of the dangers his daughter faced.

   But he was not the only one to have them. The difference is that Rhaenyra understood the Dreams for the warnings they were.

   As King Viserys debated with himself to name Aegon II, the first son with his second wife, as his heir, he believed that he was saving his daughter. As Rhaenyra watched, she knew it was the realm that would pay the price.

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