Game of Thrones/Ships

= Bonella = 

Bonella is a het ship between Bonifer Hasty and Rhaella Targaryen from the Game of Thrones fandom.

Novels
When Rhaella Targaryen was still a princess, she fell in love with a landed knight from the Stormlands named Bonifer Hasty; who won a tournament and named her queen of love and beauty.

After Rhaella's father, the future Jaehaerys II Targaryen, heard a prophecy that the Prince who was promised would be born from the line of his children, he forced them to marry even if they disagreed. Being too low in the social hierarchy to marry a princess, Bonifer and Rhaella ended their relationship and Hasty joined the faith, with rumors saying that only the Maiden could replace the queen in his heart.

Years later, while the now named Bonifer the Bold became the leader of a militant group known as the Holy Hundred, Rhaella lived a difficult life as the sister-wife of Aerys II Targaryen, aka the Mad King and died, giving birth to their last daughter, Daenerys.

A Dance With Dragons
As Daenerys prepared for her wedding to Hizdahr zo Loraq, she asked her queensguard, Barristan Selmy, whom her parents would have married if they could have followed their hearts. Selmy briefly explains about the relationship between her mother and a knight from the stormlands; he never revealed the name but it is implied that it was Bonifer.

Fanon
The ship is relatively rare or obscure since there isn't much information about Bonifer Hasty or Rhaella, and the little there is belongs in to the books and is left out of HBO's Game of Thrones. As of March 2023, there are 53 fics related in one way or another to the ship in AO3.

Fans who support the ship do so because it gives Rhaella a chance to be happy with someone who loves her, as opposed to her brother-husband, Aerys II.

Generally speaking, Bonella appears as a minor ship in many fanfics, mostly those where the Targaryens manage to win Robert's Rebellion or where the Mad King dies earlier than he did in canon. On the other hand, there are also those who explain the relationship until its inevitable breakup or its aftermath.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION