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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 16:42:41 GMT -5
"I'll have to, even though it pains me," Joanna sighed. "A dragon is the one thing I have wanted all my life and now I have tasted the joy of riding Valyria I cannot give up. What is left for me if I cannot have a dragon? Lonely widowhood, marriage to some lord who likes my looks and my name but does not really love me? Must I stand to one side and burn with envy why Daemon flies the beasts I love so much?"
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 16:52:08 GMT -5
"Everyone else does Joanna, do you think that other people love the dragons and are just as jelous if not more? When I came to you about Oscar and I, you told me that I would have to marry, even though we both knew that I always wanted Tybolt.
If we hadnt have run away then I would be married to Oscar, wishing everyday that I could swap places with whoever Tybolt would see. You would be in that same place."
"It is your choice though. I cannot say not to, I mean I know that I upset alot of people with the choices that I have made in the past. And some choices not come to light. As our mother must have done. It is difficult, but only you can chose the right one. Take what you desire and watch as a woman that we took into our family crumble, maybe hurt Daemons time in history as King or be content with what you already have."
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 17:02:54 GMT -5
Joanna stood and walked to the window, gazing out unhappy at the sea below.
"You are so strong, Mari," she said. "You were willing at one time to put your life on hold to do your duty as decreed by Steffon, until you realised that you wanted Tybolt more than you wished to be dutiful. As for me, well, I don't think I can be content with the little I have. I don't want some humdrum life such as is given to most women."
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 17:10:17 GMT -5
Marianne shook her head.
"I am not strong sister, I am stupid. Being strong would have been listening to what Steffon had said, and doing what was best in the name of Baratheon, what I did was follow my heart. But what I did was no more then hurt more then a few people in truth, thought it was the people that I care about the most in this world. What you plan to do is hurt the whole realm."
Adelene looked at her aunt and giggled, Mari ignored her child.
"Whatever you do is your choice, as is what I do with my life, no-one can decide that for you. But no life has to be mundane. I am happy with what I have, it hurts no-one, but you will tear apart a marriage and put a black mark on your own name. People will see Morgan as the rightful Queen and rebel against you."
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 17:23:49 GMT -5
"Don't you think I don't know that?" Joanna demanded. "Of cousre I do. I don't want that. A dragon is my chief desire. I don't want to be queen, not truly, but I have to keep Daemon happy if he is to make me happy. I don't think there is anything else for me."
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 17:28:24 GMT -5
"I didnt say that you wanted to be Queen, but how can others know that. They would think that you are usurping Morgan. Whatever your true reasons for it mean nothing. You would always be seen as the one in the wrong, and Daemon would lose popularity too, letting you be his second wife. What you choose reflects on all of us Joanna."
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 17:50:03 GMT -5
She turned around with anguish in her eyes.
"If there were a way for me to get a dragon without all the rest of it I would do it gladly."
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 17:55:24 GMT -5
"I know you would." Marianne said, as Adelene played with the folds of her dress. She picked her up and hugged her daughter.
"You have so much to lose in order to gain a dragon though sister, and Daemon has too in order to get what he lusts for."
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 18:01:19 GMT -5
"I have nothing to gain if I don't do it. I don't have even the comfort of a loving husband, nothing to call my own."
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 18:04:00 GMT -5
"You can find another husband Joanna. It is not so hard, I managed with Tybolt and got what I wanted from it." She indicated her daughter.
"You can do the same, Dragons arent the be all and end all."
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 18:11:56 GMT -5
"They are to me," Joanna said quietly. "I love my daughters but I lack the talent for raising children that you seem to possess already.. Besides, what is the point in raising daughters to marry and go off to some lord's castle to raise yet more daughters to be married off in a neverending line?"
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 18:23:32 GMT -5
"My daughter will not be raised to just be someones wife." Marianne said a little coldly. "She will be given the choice, and if this one is a boy then he will be given the same treatment, neither Tybolt or I will allow the same thing to happen to any of our children that happened to us.
"If I have any skill bringing children up, it is because I havent relied on anyone else to help me. All that I have done for Adelene has been me, not some wet nurse or Septa. If I am blessed with more children, it will be the same. No-one can ever take that away from me.
"We all have changed Joanna, and at the moment I think that your head is in the clouds, like I said, everyone is envious of Daemon and the Dragons, I think you and Daeron are the most, simply because you are the royal triplets. But just think about what you are doing to so many. Even our mother, how would she feel about this?"
Marianne was just upset about Joanna's comment about her daughters, otherwise she wouldnt have said half of what she thought.
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 18:39:55 GMT -5
"Mother would not understand about Daemon and me, but she loves the dragons the same as I do, so she might have some sympathy with my predicament. I don't know."
Joanna sighed, deeply troubled by the whole conversation.
"The world is not like us, Mari. Most people think a woman's only purposes are to make useful alliances for her kin, to satisfy her husband's physical needs and to bear and raise children. Well, I have done those things and I didn't mind doing them but I cannot make those things the sum total of my life. All my life i have dreamed of dragons and the dream is close to being fulfilled now. Should I not be rewarded with what I really want now?"
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Post by Viea Greyjoy on Jan 7, 2010 18:47:00 GMT -5
"It is your choice Joanna." Marianne said indifferently. "You are my sister so I will follow you whatever you decide. But I will not be in court, just remember whatever you do you will have to live with what happens."
She stood and put Adelene on the floor, pulling her into a standing postion. Adelene gurgled up at her.
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Post by Marie on Jan 7, 2010 18:56:10 GMT -5
"I don't want to do it. My life woudl be so much easier if i could take my joy from marriage and children and such matters but that's not who I am."
She looked down at Adelene with a twinge of regret.
"I am a Royal Targaryen. The dragon is not just a sigil to me. It's an important part of who I am. If I am not a dragon, what am I? I don't know the answer to that."
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Hope you all are well and happy.