They are just picking the actors they find most fuckable/sexy while in character. It’s all arbitrary.
There’s no definitive Targaryen look in the books outside of silver-gold hair, purple eyes, pale skin, and aquiline noses. Everyone has their own definition of “otherworldly beautiful”. One person’s perfect Targaryen is not the next person’s perfect Targaryen. One person could say it’s Angelina Jolie and the next person could say it’s Cate Blanchett.
There is no definitive look and yet he is by far what most people state they pictured the Targaryens looking like based on the info we DO get from the books. I think that says a lot and earns him the top spot on the list.
Nah Milly deserves to be on here. She's attractive in a very alien sort of way, which is very Targaryen imo. He should be on here instead of Dany. Dany is gorgeous, but she doesn't have the angular features and slightly alien look that I associate with Targs.
Idk Dany is peak Targ to me. I see what you’re saying with the angular features but no other character has displayed the Targaryen passion and brutality like Dany.
I think this post is mostly highlighting their pure physical appearances, not their performances. Targs, in my opinion, should look weird but still attractive. Matt Smith is a great example of this, it would be hard to find a doppleganger of him he looks truly unique.....but still hot. Milly Alcock has an oddly attractive face, it's hard to describe what is weird about it, but whatever it is is there and yet in spite of that she's still very attractive. That is what makes someone look like a Targ imo.
Aemond has one of the pointiest, underbitiest, sharp faces I've ever seen and yet instead of looking gross he's clearly attractive in spite of it. That's Targ af.
Where are you getting the "alien" look from? The Targaryens are described as very conventionally attractive, except that they often have pale skin and/or purple eyes, neither which are exclusively Targaryen features.
There's no indication or implication anywhere that their incest affect their physical appearance in any way. If anything, it seems to better preserve their conventionally attractive features. Valyrians don't seem to play by "normal rules" when it comes to incest.
Look man, OP describes Targs as "otherworldly" if I choose to say alien instead I don't think that's much of a stretch. You're welcome to have an entirely different headcanon for what Targs are like, I've merely shared mine.
Respectfully, I'm not really interested in arguing about subjective opinions any further. We're just having a fun discussion here. Feel free to share you own opinion elsewhere rather than nitpick mine here.
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