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who: rhaegar targaryen, lyanna stark
where: the kingswood
when: skipping a bit ahead of current times!
what: a totally unexpected meeting & a farewell

( We could have been great friends. )

who: jaime lannister, wenda the white fawn, rhaegar targaryen & lewyn martell
where: the red keep. then, the kingswood
when: back in king's landing
what: a survivor of the massacre of the kingswood brotherhood has a price to extract

( Survived. Thrived. The Kingswood is my mother; I have need of no other. )

who: rhaegar targaryen & elia martell
where: king's landing, post-harrenhal
when: directly after this
what: discovery and reconciliation

( Anger takes us in such ways, Rhaegar. )

who: oberyn martell & rhaegar targaryen
where: back in king's landing, post-harrenhal
when: right about the time of this exchange
what: a poisoned book

( You have no right to tell me what to do. You see poison but I see a Westeros united behind a strong and nurturing leader. )

who: aerys & rhaegar targaryen, with a cameo by jaime
where: harrenhal
when: the day right after the major faux pas
what: father and son actually see eye to eye, even if it's for a moment

( Ice and fire, Father. Three Targaryen children, two of Martell blood and one from the Starks. )

who: cersei & jaime lannister, with appearances put in by aerys & rhaegar targaryen and tywin lannister.
where: harrenhal
when: er. well. this is the raising of jaime to the kingsguard do. so before the royal wedding.
what: omg hello massive backlog of posts. aerys and tywin, though they hate each other, actually make a great cockblocking team.

( Your blood, my blood. It is the same. )

who: rhaegar targaryen & elia martell
where: the red keep's godswood
when: a couple of days after elia arrives in king's landing
what: the high septon would not approve...

( he lay beside me, my hand grazed the skin of his shoulder )

( A raven from King's Landing to the Wall. )

who. rhaella & rhaegar targaryen
where. king's landing.
when. directly after this.
what. some mother/son bonding time.

*****

( The queen's shoulders were not so weak that they could not bear the duty they must -- or so Rhaella dearly hoped. )

( A raven to Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, from the desert. )

who: aerys targaryen, arthur dayne and rhaegar targaryen
where: king's landing
when: after the burning of that unfortunate storm lord
what: rhaegar takes a stand

( Could dragons chill? )

who. rhaegar & an apparition in the shape of things to come (i.e. his brother).
where. in a ruinous landscape.
what. the metaphors are flying thick and fast. gotta catch them all!
when. after rhaegar watches the burning of mister storm lord and watches outside the queen's door, holding his father off from his mother.

( The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. )

who. several folks. a veritable cluster-fuck of who's who in king's landing. and lots of honourable mentions, btw. the main players are, however, aerys, rhaegar and arthur dayne.
what. aerys doesn't have to wake his dragon. the damn thing never sleeps.
when. after elia's consent but before the twins' meeting.
when. king's landing; the throne room and the white tower.

( Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young and from the intolerant, Move among the lovers of perfection alone. Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light And take you wounds from it gladly. )

who: arthur dayne & rhaegar targaryen
where: the red keep
when: just after rhaegar speaks to jaime.
what: bromance between blonds.

( Speak to our muscles of a need for joy. )

who. jaime lannister & rhaegar targaryen
where. the red keep; king's landing
what. rhaegar, drilling his troops, comes to meet the lioncub of lannister.
when. after rhaegar sends the first letter to elia but before she responds.

( I know that Quiet / Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart / Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer, / Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs / A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee. )

( A raven from King's Landing to Sunspear for the Princess of Dorne )

who. king aerys targaryen & his son, rhaegar with a bb viserys. appearance by ser gerold hightower & lewyn martell!
where. the apartments of the king; the red keep; king's landing
when. upon rhaegar's return to westeros from dorne.
what. discussions of marriage.

*****

( I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly / As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. / I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. )

who: myrah allyrion (npc), oberyn martell & rhaegar targaryen.
where: the water gardens, dorne.
when: the evening after rhaegar's day with elia.
what: oberyn launches the "pleasing the ladies school" and kids? class is in session.

( I go a journey in galleries of sound / I flow among the resonant presences / going, a blind man passing transparencies / one mirror cancels me, I rise from another / forest whose trees are the pillars of magic / under the arches of light I go among / the corridors of a dissolving autumn. )

who: elia nymeros martell & rhaegar targaryen
where: the water gardens, dorne
when: the day after oberyn receives rhaegar and sends for his sister.
what: elia and rhaegar meet, and take the measure of each other. :)

( This breeze of yours is scented, West-- / its winds are fragrant with apple and balm. )

who. oberyn nymeros martell and rhaegar targaryen.
where. the water gardens; dorne.
when. perhaps approximately a year after oberyn returns to dorne.
what. under the auspices of seeing after the rhoynish tribute to the iron throne, prince rhaegar comes to take stock of the martell princess. he is received by her all too interesting brother. :}

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( Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages, / And all the drop-scenes drop at once / Upon a hundred thousand stages, / It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce. )