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Though his fifteenth nameday was still half a year away, Prince Jacaerys proved himself a man, and a worthy heir to the Iron Throne.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

obsessed with how jace’s death is so reminiscent of robb’s. “his flight jerked to a violent end” is basically the two of them in a nutshell - vermax and grey wind representing jace and robb’s fast rise and sudden fall as the two promising young heirs of their houses. grey wind is known for his speed (especially in battle) yet dies locked up in the kennels and tangled up in netting during the red wedding vs vermax flies so fast through the battle that the grapnel prong gets driven deep into his stomach and rips him open alive (his own speed kills him!). both jace and robb are separated from their dragon/direwolf and are killed alongside them at 15/16, being shot at with crossbow arrows like animals.

also it’s worth noting that their grief for their younger siblings plays a major part in their deaths. robb sleeps with jeyne out of grief/guilt after finding out that bran and rickon were “murdered” by theon because he feels responsible for sending theon to winterfell in the first place (which indirectly leads to the red wedding). jace throws himself into battle out of grief/guilt because it was his idea to send aegon and viserys away to pentos in an attempt to protect them, just like it was his idea to send luke to storm’s end as an envoy (which of course ends in his death). he freely burns the triarchy’s ships because he assumes that viserys is already dead (like robb assumes that arya is dead!). except all of this leads to jace and robb’s deaths and leaves their younger siblings to grieve them instead.

Broken by the loss of one son, Rhaenyra Targaryen seemed to find new strength after the loss of a second. Jace’s death hardened her, burning away her fears, leaving only her anger and her hatred. Still possessed of more dragons than her half brother, Her Grace now resolved to use them, no matter the cost. She would rain down fire and death upon Aegon and all those who supported him, she told the black council, and either tear him from the Iron Throne or die in the attempt.”

and then ofc we have rhaenyra and catelyn mourning their firstborn sons. rhaenyra reacting to luke’s death with despair vs jace’s death “burning away her fears, leaving only her anger and her hatred” - cat holding it together as she loses every single one of her children vs being reborn as lady stoneheart after robb’s death, driven by her need for vengeance and her hatred for her son’s killers. rhaenyra’s “either tear him from the iron throne or die in the attempt” vs cat’s “she wants her son alive, or the men who killed him dead”…rhaenyra and cat being “hardened” by the deaths of their firstborns, feeling like there’s nothing left to them except for vengeance.

Though his fifteenth nameday was still half a year away, Prince Jacaerys proved himself a man, and a worthy heir to the Iron Throne.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

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