Heavy is the head that wears the crown

by QueenNothingness

Million of stories have been told about Aegon the Conqueror and his sister-wives. But what if he had a third wife? Daenys Targaryen is nothing like her brother and sisters. The third queen is clumsy, has no skills at all and is plain. But if your brother/husband brings you a crown, you wear it. Even against your will. Drabble-series.

1. Chapter 1

Beginning

Most people don't know about her. The third queen. She only comes when they have built Aegonfort and when the first battles have been won. When Visenya and Rhaenys have crowned Aegon king and he them queen consorts.

They often say Aegon married his youngest sister out of duty and pity. She has the telltale silver hair and purple eyes, and when asked what her most beautiful feature is, most people will answer it is her hair. For it is the longest of the four and it shines like spun silver.

But that is the only thing they will say is beautiful about her. The third queen is in comparison to her sisters, plain. Where Rhaenys is sensual, playful, curious and has more men than she can count ready to do her bidding; Visenya is stern, hard and austere, but she is a beauty nonetheless. People often joke Aegon and his two oldest sister-wives got all the good genes and their youngest sister, well, she got what was left.

She is not as lean or skilled with a sword as Visenya, nor as seductive as Rhaenys. Daenys, named after Daenys the dreamer, is clumsy and will rather read for hours than train in the art of swordfighting. She has always loved eating, and though you can by no means call her overweight or even chubby, she has more curves than her sisters.

Daenys knows the people call her The Ugly Queen behind her back, but she has learned to ignore them. Rhaenys has reminded her more often than not that she is not like any Targaryen before her, that she does not belong here. Even Aegon has joked for years that she is probably not even their father's daughter, but born out of a secret affair.

Visenya barely talks to her, but even her lips crack a smile when Rhaenys tells for the millionth time she fell into the mud on the day Rhaenys and Aegon married.

Daenys knows deep in her heart that she is her father's daughter, that she is the third daughter of Aerion Targaryen and his wife Valaena Velaryon, but when even your siblings treat you as if you don't belong, even your strongest truth can waver.