Rhaegar had his silver, white hair, while Lyanna had the dark hair.
Rhaenyra's children prove she had an affair, and Jon's very dark hair helped hide the fact he was a Targaryen until the final season. "It's just storytelling, it needs to be done to move a plot forward," he told Newsweek.
It isn't explicitly stated in the show, but because we learn after episode six that all three boys have dark brown hair — and despite Rhaenyra and Laenor's matching blond color — it has been strongly implied that they are actually the children of Ser Harwin Strong, the Lord Commander of the City Watch.
Though Rhaenyra is married to Laenor Velaryon, all three of the young princes have brown hair, instead of the signature platinum locks that the Targaryens and Velaryons are known for. Here, we explain what to know about her kids' lineage.
The Targaryens have white or silvery blonde hair because the family is originally from Old Valyria, where lighter hair colours and skin were extremely common. Thanks to generations of inbreeding, the Targaryens have managed to preserve their distinctive Valyrian features.
Targaryens are no immune to greyscale or at least the ones without Dragons aren't, remember Maegelle died from it.
Jon Snow Isn't The Only Major Targaryen Without Silver Hair
Even Daemon and Viserys' mother Alyssa Targaryen was said to have dirty blonde hair without any silver. There are various Targaryen bastards in history who also have dark hair, such as Aegon IV Targaryen's son Aegor Rivers.
Aegon III, aka Aegon the Younger: Rhaenyra and Daemon's first child together.
Rhaenyra's three eldest sons all died fighting during the Dance of the Dragons, but her two youngest sons, the sons by her second husband, Prince Daemon, survived the civil war.
In 117 AC, Rhaenyra gave birth to her third son, whom Laenor named Joffrey, in honor of Ser Joffrey Lonmouth.
Prosthetic designer confirms: the baby was deformed
“When the babe at last came forth, she proved indeed a monster: a stillborn girl, twisted and malformed, with a hole in her chest where her heart should have been and a stubby, scaled tail. The dead girl had been named Visenya.
In Fire & Blood, the book House of the Dragon is based on, Daemon and Rhaenyra go on to have two boys: Aegon and Viserys. Yup, another Aegon and another Viserys. They also have a daughter, Visenya, but she is sadly a stillborn baby.
When finally did give birth to the baby, it is said that the child had a hole where her heart should have been, a tail, and scales for skin—a monster, as her mother had cursed her to be. Upon her death, Rhaenyra swore yet another vow. “She was my only daughter, and they killed her.
1 Daemon Probably Loves Rhaenyra
However, Fire & Blood gives some insights into Daemon's character, which House of the Dragon only touches on in the last episodes of Season 1. Daemon shows his genuine care and attention to Rhaenyra several times before the two marry.
As such, Rhaenyra's baby in House of the Dragon wasn't born with greyscale, but rather a blood-related, Targaryen-specific dragon scale defect sometimes seen in their stillborn babies.
They casted them younger for a reason. Aegon and Aemond actors are in their twenties while Jace and Luke actors are in their teens. Besides the obvious age difference, Aegon and Aemond are clearly being trained to fight by Criston.
According to the accounts of Septon Eustace, prior to her turning sixteen, Rhaenyra lost her virginity to her uncle, Prince Daemon, after he seduced her.
Rhaenyra has had a tough couple weeks. First, she finds out that her half-brother Aegon II has usurped the throne and that she will have to fight for her claim as queen. Then, she gives birth to a stillborn child. And finally she loses her second eldest son Lucerys to a dragon battle.
Harwin fights to get into his father's room as the fire rages around him, but Lyonel is locked in. Both Lyonel and Harwin are burned alive as the cursed Harrenhal burns again. Rhaenyra, Laenor, and the boys make their way to Dragonstone just as the tragedy at Harrenhal occurs.
The episode doesn't really beat around the bush when revealing that Harwin Strong (Ryan Corr) is the father of Rhaenyra's children. He's there soon after baby Joffrey is born so he can meet him, and later on in the episode Jacaerys (Leo Hart) even asks his mom if Harwin is his real dad.
Daemon and Rhaenyra share two children together: Aegon III and Viserys II.
The shock of the loss of her father, combined with the Greens' ruthless betrayal sends her into early labor. Without modern medicine, a baby born so early had very little chance of survival in the best of circumstances - and in these terrible conditions the baby, a girl named Visenya, is stillborn.
Meaning Jon's and Dany's baby has a pretty good chance of being white haired. In case you're confused: Dany will pass on silver hair no matter what, as those are the only genes she has (her father, Aerys, and her mother, Rhaella, were brother and sister—nice!).
Unlike the above earwax example where wet earwax is dominant over dry earwax, these Targaryen traits are recessive and therefore, a child would need to inherit a recessive allele from both parents for the trait to show.
No,Jon Snow is not immune to fire. In season 1, episode 8 he fought with a wight to protect Lord Commander Mormont. He threw a burning lamp at the wight and in the process,his hands was burned with fire. Hence, unlike Danaerys, he is not prone to fire and is easily hurt by it.