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jelmor: (β€” xii.)

thanks for moving this over!

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-06-18 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't been depriving him!

[ welcome to jon snow™: dutiful and loyal to a humdrum degree, but also not super into siting on the northern throne and very new to the targaryen experience. ]

Yes, I agree. Let us take our dragons out.
jelmor: (β€” xiv.)

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-06-20 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ thing is, ned wasn't the one with "good taste"... his sister was, but jon has kept that under wraps. he doesn't want anyone to know that his father was actually prince rhaegar and that he's actually a legitimate targaryen with claim to the throne.

he doesn't want it.

he's fine with people assuming that ned stark bedded some bastard girl with targaryen lineage if that means he doesn't have to sit on the iron throne. ]


Race? I thought you wanted to set things ablaze.
jelmor: (β€” vi.)

sorry for the delay! the extreme heat wave in my area fried my ability to brain tags for a while.

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-06-28 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ why must everything be a competition? jon was far more competitive in his youth at winterfell when he was constantly trying to prove his worth by outdoing robb and theon. now on the other side of dying and coming back to life and learning things about himself he never knew, jon's just tired. ]

Of course not. You and your dragon just have more experience than Rhaegal and I do.

[ jon doesn't even have a saddle to sit upon. he just holds on and hopes for the best, just like dany taught him. ]
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[personal profile] jelmor 2023-06-28 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's not dany's fault for not knowing any better; it's been over a century since dragons were last sighted and the knowledge of how to care for and handle them has been lost to time. everything she knows, she figured out on her own through trial, error, and the advantage the literal magical blood of her lineage granted her. it's a feat in and of itself that she's kept three dragons in line as well as she has. a feat jon is now beginning to understand as he navigates his own way around being bonded to one of her dragon sons. ]

There's only one way to find out.

[ meet you there, great uncle? (great uncle times seven, apparently.) ]
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[personal profile] jelmor 2023-07-14 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ in the wake of being named king in the north and having bran with his newfound bluntness calling him aerion at every available opportunity, having someone address him by the faux moniker that protected him from the wrath of robert baratheon is a breath of fresh air. he doesn't correct his princely ancestor, content to be regulated to that which he spent the majority of his life believing he was: a bastard. ]

Aye, a fair challenge.

[ or as fair as a challenge could get when it came to racing an experienced dragon with an experienced dragonrider when he knew next to nothing about what he was doing. ]
jelmor: rhaegal (β€”β€” 119.)

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-07-17 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ perhaps it helps that jon no longer has the same fear of death that he used to. where once being atop a dragon and racing at speeds no horse could hope to run would have unnerved him before, the danger of it all (especially without a sturdy saddle to sit upon like aemond does) completely alludes him. the threat of death is no longer a dangerous form; it's one made of ice and darkness, of glowing blue eyes and rotting flesh that peels off the bone as corpses snarl and crawl and bite.

jon knows a handful of valyrian words and phrases. some he picked up at the wall from maester aemon, others were taught to him by daenerys in the wake of him bonding with one of her children. case in point as jon grips the spikes protruding from his mount's back: ]
Rhaegal! SōvΔ“s! [ and likely sounds very interesting, to say the least, with his thick northern accent.

obediently, the dragon lifts into the air. it's unlikely they'll win, but there's no denying that jon finds joy in the thrill of flying faster than any horse could ever hope to run. it's a rush like no other, a rush that actually makes him feel something when he's been numb to so much else in the wake of his assassination and resurrection. ]
jelmor: rhaegal (β€”β€” 127.)

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-08-02 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's a bond that jon has only recently begun to clue himself in to, a bond that transcends the simplicity of a dragon allowing him to ride. a bond that daenerys likely did not fully understand herself, else she would have taken a closer look at his ability to be near her dragons without being perceived as a threat when no one else could, let alone take flight on one.

the targaryens were called dragonlords for a reason. (a reason westeros's last two dragonlords are, sadly, woefully unaware of.)

jon isn't so bold as to fly up into the clouds, though he does take a moment to tilt his head back and marvel at the shadow of vhagar's massive form passing over him. an extraordinary beast if there ever was one. vhagar dwarfs rhaegal, yet where he ought to feel some sense of intimidation, if not fear, all jon feels is an overwhelming sense of pride that this relic of the conquest survived for as long as she did. it's remarkable, and it's still incredibly surreal for him to know that this, the dragons and the now-evident connection they share with their riders, is part of his family's legacy.

he doesn't know if he'll ever stop feeling like a stark bastard, but he's warming up more and more to the idea of being a trueborn targaryen with each passing day. ]


Adere! [ likely not the right word or form of the word to use, but let the record show that jon makes an attempt to encourage rhaegal to fly faster. ]
jelmor: rhaegal (β€”β€” 123.)

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-08-05 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ jon could take control of rhaegal by other means, but doing so with a creature as intelligent and aware as a dragon seems cruel. it would be a violation, an insult to both the bond between them and the legacy of his ancestors β€” both stark and targaryen alike. lacking in practice with warging aside (even if bran insisted he had a natural talent for it), it wouldn't be right.

and would be cheating.

also, probably dangerous to do while atop said dragon without a saddle.

aemond's words are indeed swallowed by the wind, and jon is once again distracted by the sheer massiveness of the dragon he rides. he's a competitive person (he had to be, growing up a bastard, he had a lot of prove) but he's content in this moment to lose to such an extraordinary beast. ]
jelmor: rhaegal (β€”β€” 141.)

[personal profile] jelmor 2023-08-12 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's the one command that daenerys had him practice that he's yet to put into actual practice. he hasn't had reason to and did not want to go about needless scorching the earth because he wanted to know what it felt like to give the command, what it felt like to have a dragon breathe fire while perched upon it's back.

the lone cow flees, but it doesn't make it to freedom. jon brings rhaegal around, and lower, closer and closer untilβ€” ]


Dracarys.
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[personal profile] jelmor 2023-08-13 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ jon's dismount is surprisingly graceful given the lack of saddle, sliding easily down the dragon's side and landing firmly on both feet. he gives rhaegal's side an affectionate pat before leaving him to his meal and meeting his great-uncle halfway.

there's a rare grin on his face, a sign that yes, he did indeed find enjoyment in commanding his dragon to burn something. ]


Invigorated. Alive.
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[personal profile] jelmor 2023-08-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's... amazing. I'm not sure I have the proper words for it.

[ especially since jon, a man who has literally died and was dead for days before his revival took root, struggles with actually feeling alive these days. most are spent going through the motions and completing tasks like he's checking them off a list; it's rare for him to actually feel something even remotely close to satisfaction, let alone exhilaration. the truth of his lineage and the bond he's formed with rhaegal may just be the key to living again β€” truly living. ]

Makes me wish I'd known sooner. [ oops, slip of the elated tongue wrt masquerading as a man that's always been and always shall be a bastard. ]
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[personal profile] jelmor 2023-08-29 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ jon's always been lonely, and for the vast majority of his life, he attributed that loneliness solely to his supposed bastardy. it wasn't until fairly recently when the truth was revealed to him and he bonded with rhaegal that he began to realize that there had always been more to it; something missing beyond not being ned stark's trueborn son.

because he wasn't. he was rhaegar and lyanna's. ]


I did, [ he admits. ] And I had no way of knowing what it was.

[ those lies protected him, and he was grateful to his uncle for guarding him against the wrath of the baratheons and all those who would have seen to his end. for keeping his promise to jon's mother and ensuring that in spite of being labeled a bastard, jon grew up knowing that he was loved and wanted. just as lyanna (and presumably rhaegar) had wanted him.

jon contemplates lying further himself, but what would that really accomplish when he's here instead of where he ought to be? ]


From my father, [ he admits after a moment, looking away from his ancestor and towards his dragon. ] Rhaegal was named for him. Rhaegar Targaryen.
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[personal profile] jelmor 2023-09-02 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ jon laughs, because someone questioning what he was told is (bitterly) hilarious in hindsight. ]

To understand what I've been told, you would have to be willing to believe that I'm not from here. That I won't be born for another hundred and fifty years or so.

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