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First he has to relearn EVERYTHING because he’s now blind in one eye. This isn’t just fighting, this is navigating his freaking home. Possibly even how to talk to people so that it looks like he’s acknowledging everyone in a conversation. This is mounting his new dragon of a horse. This is him having to be very aware of not flinching or reacting when people startle him on his bad side.

And then he has to relearn everything AGAIN because of his growth spurt.

When my brother (who has no disability) shot you like a weed during puberty, he was in martial arts and he had to relearn everything because his arms and legs were now different lengths so his reach were different. He’s had to stand differently and hold himself at a different distance from his opponents or the dummy or the board he needed to break. He needed to adjust how he fought people because if he was too close and went full force, he might hurt someone he doesn’t mean to in competition. My brother used to jump down the stairs at my grandmother’s house and he nearly knocked himself out because he ran his face into the wall because he was taller now and his legs took him father. Only reason he didn’t is because my dad grabbed him by the back of his shirt and minimized the impact.

Aemond would have had to relearn everything twice. Not just once.

Wildfire and Blood

By @fromtheboundlesssea

He was dressed in plain clothes, the only thing marking him as a Targaryen prince were his silvery hair and Darksister strapped to his hip. He stepped forward and took her wrist and held up her hand to his line of sight. Blood had smeared across her pale skin like the sap of a weirwood tree. 

On instinct, she tried to pull away, but his grip on her wrist tightened ever so slightly so she could not. 

“A pretty bird seems to be plucking her own wings.”

She swallowed. “I have no wings, your grace.”

“All birds have wings. Yours were clipped a long time ago, no doubt.” He let her hand go and she held them both behind her back.

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I kind of love the idea of little Sansa deciding for herself they needed help and sitting those boys down to tell them how to do things properly. There’s an adorable fan art of her telling Jon about complimenting a lady’s name that has sold me on this head canon 😂

(Not to say that it isn’t a totally valid reason. I don’t have kids myself, but I imagine I would pick them over my parents and brother if the choice came down to it.)

I don't see it that way. Alicent has many similar traits with Sansa, both responsible, dutiful girls, especially in comparison with Rhaenyra, who sounds similar to Arya: "I don't want marriage and children, I want to fly my dragon to war and glory."

But Alicent and her sons won't die murdered by another claimant to the throne. Aegon was crowned king, ruled the 7K and is acknowledged by History books as Aegon II. Alicent's sons will eventually die at war or as consequence of war. Also, at the death of her husband the king, Alicent's family supported her and her sons. OG Sansa's arc was different.

And about the small print, I think that a mother choosing her baby over her paternal family is completely valid, and in most cases is the only option. OG Sansa was married with the king, so opposing the king for her paternal family would have been treason and she would have died leaving her baby alone. Also, marriage kind of means that the bride renounces her paternal family to enter her husband's family, and if an elopement wasn't mentioned (similar to Rhaegar and Lyanna), that means that Ned Stark consented the marriage. So I don't know why GRRM called OG Sansa a dubious character for choosing her baby.

My first thought is, if he was, we would know. There’s no way that the brother and sister-in-law of the Queen could have a child without anyone knowing about it (even if that child was born before Anne became Queen).

iirc, it’s been suggested that Mary I had some type of gynecological disorder (cystic ovaries, endometriosis, etc) as she suffered from painful menstruation among other health problems, but I have no idea why they would have chosen to have her one scene in Wolf Hall be while she was on her period. Maybe to show she was ill and therefore not a viable heir in addition to being a woman? Or womanhood made her sick and if she were only a man? I honestly have no clue