House of the Dragon Stories

House of the Dragon is HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, set roughly 170 years before Daenerys and built around the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons. The source material is a dynasty that marries within itself, raises siblings as rivals, and treats an uncle taking his niece to bed as a legitimate succession strategy. The show already films sex as politics: every kiss is a claim, every bastard is a succession crisis. Fanfiction just stays in the room after the camera cuts away. That is the appeal in plain terms — these characters want each other in ways that are forbidden even by their own world's standards, and the story rewards them for it with a crown.

The pairings readers hunt for are mostly canon-adjacent. Rhaenyra and Daemon lead the pack: the possessive uncle-husband who taught her what her body could do, the heir who refuses to be managed, and the breeding subtext that the show barely bothers to hide. Aemond and Aegon come next, two brothers whose hatred is the most intimate relationship either of them has, which makes them perfect for degradation, humiliation, and forced-worship scenarios. Alicent and Rhaenyra carry the yearning contingent — childhood friends turned enemies who still touch each other's hands under the table. Beyond that you'll find Alicent and Criston Cole's guilt-soaked affair, Green-versus-Black hate sex, dragonrider bond stories, canon divergences where the losing side wins and takes its prize, and the usual crossover kinks: omegaverse, regency AUs, modern settings, and dark-Targaryen power fantasies.

The stories on this page right now cover that spread well. There's a slow-burn alpha/omega regency AU that transplants the Green prince and his aged-up nephew into a world of debutant balls and courtship rules, letting a childhood rivalry ripen into heat-driven attraction. There's a Rhaenyra and Daemon reconciliation on a Dragonstone balcony that starts as an argument about court intrigue and ends as a possessive, primal breeding scene about continuing the bloodline. And there's a dark canon-divergence where a one-eyed Aemond sits the Iron Throne and his defeated brother crawls to his chambers to worship him, brotherly contempt turned into ritual submission. Between them you get slow burn, breeding kink, and total-power-exchange, all wearing Targaryen silver.

If the pairing or ending you want isn't here, RedQuill lets you generate your own House of the Dragon story — pick the characters, the point in the timeline, and how far the scene goes — and publish it back to this hub if you like the result.

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Awakened Desires in the Drawing Room

By whybimbo

RedQuill

RedQuill

In a regency world where everyone is gay, an alpha duke returns home to find his childhood friend has grown into a stunning omega debutant, sparking a slow-burning, titillating courtship filled with forbidden desires and a deepening connection. Aemond, the alpha, must navigate his newfound primal attraction to Lucerys, while Lucerys grapples with the realization that their once innocent friendship has evolved into something far more intense and erotic.
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Planting the Seed of Dragons
Driven apart by court intrigue, Rhaenyra and Daemon find each other on their balcony, trading sharp words for slow, possessive kisses that ignite into a desperate, primal night of breeding and raw surrender.
Kinslayer King Breaks His Brother
King Aemond has conquered the Iron Throne. He returns to his chambers where his hated, broken brother crawls to perform a ritual of worship on his body.

Prisoner seduced by enemy prince

By abanner67

RedQuill

RedQuill

Imprisoned Rhaenyra loyalist Bri faces cruel interrogations until Prince Daeren arrives torn between duty and the desperate prisoner who once knew him as a child.
Daemon lives but forgets
A dragon prince with no memory awakens in a cave, nursed back to health by the woman who saved him, but he chooses a quiet life with her over a crown he can't recall.

House of the Dragon FAQ

House of the Dragon fanfiction is fan-written fiction using the characters and setting of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, which covers the Targaryen civil war called the Dance of the Dragons. Erotic HotD fanfiction focuses on the show's tangled pairings — Rhaenyra and Daemon, Aemond and Aegon, Alicent and Rhaenyra, Alicent and Criston Cole — and pushes canon's implied sex, incest, and power struggles into explicit scenes the show only hints at.

No. House of the Dragon is a prequel set about 170 years before Game of Thrones, adapted from George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood rather than A Song of Ice and Fire. It follows the Targaryen dynasty at its height, before the dragons died out, and none of the Game of Thrones cast appears. On RedQuill the two fandoms have separate hubs, though crossover stories that mix eras do show up in both.

Because the show makes it canon and treats it as normal for the family. Rhaenyra marrying her uncle Daemon is a plot point, not a scandal, and the Targaryens openly breed to keep the bloodline pure. That framing gives readers a taboo that the fiction itself has already sanctioned, so the guilt sits with the characters rather than the reader. Add possessive dynamics, breeding kink, and sibling hatred, and you get some of the most-read pairings on the site.

Team Black backs Rhaenyra Targaryen's claim to the Iron Throne and includes Daemon and her sons; Team Green backs Alicent Hightower's children, chiefly Aegon and Aemond. In fanfiction the split doubles as a shipping divide: Black-leaning stories favor Rhaenyra and Daemon or Rhaenyra and Alicent, while Green stories center Aemond, Aegon, Alicent, and Criston Cole. Cross-faction pairings tend toward enemies-to-lovers or outright hate sex.

Rhaenyra and Daemon is the most-written pairing, followed by Aemond and Aegon, Alicent and Rhaenyra, and Alicent and Criston Cole. Aemond is the fandom's favorite character to write, so he turns up in a large share of stories, including dark canon-divergence where he wins the war and alternate-universe settings like omegaverse or regency. Alicent and Rhaenyra dominates the femslash side, usually as yearning and betrayal.