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My problem with Rhaena replacing Nettles:- If she does claim Sheepstealer in the show, then she might also reconnect with her father and become close to him. Some have speculated that she will face Rhaenyra's wrath for having left her little kids go to Pentos alone, and leave with Daemon. While such an arc could have its merits, it also fails at several things. Yes, Rhaena would solve the main frustration that defines her as a character: not being recognized by her peers, her family and mostly her father. Becoming a dragonrider, she will gain the attention that he never gave her, as she revealed to her mother Laena on the episode she was introduced (1x06). But the problem with this progression is that it she will have no part in it. Yes, it appears she will go and dare claim the dragon, but it is something she has already dared doing in the past, as Rhaenyra said in 2x05. So Rhaena becoming a dragonrider will be due to nothing but the writers forcingly putting a dragon in the Vale (which GRRM hates) and Rhaena finally managing to mount it for whatever reason. Then Daemon will respect that and, having done his own progress in Harrenhall, might wish to spend more time with his daughters. Except that this progression relies only on Daemon's arc and takes away all agenda on Rhaena's behalf, which seems to be a running thread in this adaptation..... Rhaena suffered all her life from her father ignoring her due to his own feeling of supremacy and, instead of chosing her own path, she will simply... manage to meet the expectations that she always suffered from and will become another dragon-riding Valyrian. And that's it. Not unlike book Sansa (with which she shares the Vale as her training ground), Rhaena could found her own way, different from her sister's warrior path, as a politician, a Targaryen who makes her way not through dragon terrorism but through diplomacy, eloquence and mastery of court skills. She could be the one who manages to negociate the Vale sending armies, despite the departure of the young dragons. And the end, at the end of the show, alone at last, she eventually sees an egg hatch, not for her own advancement but for her house. In this way, Nettles keeps her arc. Daemon keeps his arc. His worldview is shattered and his feeling of superiority is crushed, he is humbled. But his arc, in the book, was never about building something, whether a family, a legacy, an everyday life. He is chaotic. It would fit his character that, in the end, he recognizes his failure as a father, and accepts to die for Rhaenyra whom he groomed, to make up for his failures, saving Nettles and the rest from Vaghar. Rhaena keeps her arc: instead of desperately trying to be as all her family, she grows on her own, learns to dissociate herself from her father. It would be interesting, at the end, to see Baela having a sort of nostalgia, a dependance on her father's memory, she who always checked the boxes of Valyrian girls, while Rhaena has outgrown him. Instead, think about this if Rhaena gets Sheepstealer, and Nettles' story, then we will have a character whose growth is about finally fitting the delusions of grandeur of their absent parent and becoming what they expected of them. Without Nettles, Rhaena's arc becomes dependant on chance and on Daemon's character instead of going its route, which sucks.
