ladyofdragonstone:

Listen, I might be reading too much into it, just because we don’t have that many asoiaf female friendships to compare it to, but this is all SUPER gay. 

Her childhood traits“shy” and “timid” all seem to point at “closeted” 

 Rhaena made her first friend in the person of her cousin Larissa Velaryon. For a time the girls were inseparable. 

This all sounds like friendship.

until Larissa was suddenly recalled to Drift mark to be wed to the second son of the Evenstar of Tarth. 

Until it doesn’t. It sounds more like they got caught doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing (I don’t think it need be sexual, but touching at romantic) and the families separated them and married the girl off right away to hush any scandal

The young are nothing if not resilient, however, and the princess soon found a new companion in the Hands daughter, Samantha Stokeworth.

No longer a friend, but a companion. Weirdly phrased right after that suggestion. 

Princess Rhaena reverted to her former shyness. At Storms End, Orys Baratheon’s maester went so far as to write, “ The princess did not seem to want to be there, nor did she approve of anything she saw or heard She scarce seemed to eat, would not hunt or hawk, and when pressed to sing–for she is said to have a lovely voice—she refused rudely and returned to her chambers. The princess had been most loath to be parted from her dragon, Dreamfyre, and her latest favorite, Melony Piper, a red-haired maiden from the riverlands. 

Her latest favorite ginger??? Listen, if George R.R Martin says “Aegon’s favorite friend, a man of dark curly hair” I would definitely give pause. 

It was only when her mother, Queen Alyssa, sent for Lady Melony to join them on the progress that Rhaena finally put aside her sullenness to join the celebrations.

Could be just a friendship I’m not denying that, but it just seems to hint at something more 😉 

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EDIT:

Princess Rhaena had many a suitor as well, but unlike her brother she gave encouragement to none of them. She preferred to spend her days with her siblings, her dogs and cats, and her newest favorite, Alayne Royce daughter to the Lord of Runestone, a plump and homely girl, but so cherished that Rhaena sometimes took her flying on the back of Dreamfyre, just as she did her brother Aegon. More often, though, Rhaena took to the skies by herself. After her sixteenth nameday, the princess declared herself a woman grown, “free to fly where I will. And fly she did. Dreamfyre was seen as far away as Harrenhal, Tarth Runestone, Gulltown. It was whispered ( though never proved) that on one of these flights Rhaena surrendered the flower of her maidenhead to a lowborn lover. A hedge knight, one story had it; others named him a singer, a blacksmith’s son, a village septon. In light of these tales, some have suggested that Aenys might have felt a need to see his daughter wed as soon as possible. Regardless of the truth of that surmise, at eighteen Rhaena was certainly of an age to marry, three years older than her mother and father had been when they were wed

OKAY there’s not even a doubt in my mind Rhaena Targaryen was bisexual that’s that