#((poor daemon))

[daemon-is-perfectly-unhinged]

You are safe, you are loved, and you are wise.

- Daemon Targaryen, to his sons

[mostdisconcerting]

Rhaenyra PLEASE come get your poor homicidal husband from Harrenhal before he goes completely bananas.

[all-about-the-tea-parties]

While I’d like to think that house of the dragon only has Alicent continue to not know how to comfort her children due to her own emotional repression, it doesn’t negate the harm.

Once again, women in stories of power and strife are boiled down to it. Are you a good mother?

If yes, you are a good person.

If no, you are a wretched whore.

Men? Men can be vile fathers and still be permitted to have nuance.

[alinahams]

Many characters in the show are getting destroyed for the sake of Show! Rhaenyra

Just about every single main character was ruined.

Alicent was an antagonist on par with Cersei and Tywin Lannister. Delusional yet smart, ambitious and capable, cruel and cold yet certain vulnerability in the way she loved her children and tragic in how her own choices led to her children's ruin.

Alicent was ambitious/power hungry but it didn't mean she didn't love her children and wish them all the happiness in the world.

Daemon Targaryen was THE most complex character grrm's ever written. Dashing and dangerous, selfish yet loving, ambitious yet loyal, cruel yet honest, flawed yet capable. He was a villain to all he perceived as an enemy yet loyal to those he cherished. He was spoiled because he was loved so much and he was desperate because he was afraid of losing the ones he loved and who loved him back. He was a hero because he would stop at nothing for those he viewed as family. He went from a spoiled prince to ambitious consort to loving husband and father and a broken man who just wanted everything to stop. To end.

Daemon was ambitious/cold but that didn't mean he wasn't happy and content to be a husband and father, spend his days with his family just watching them grow and enjoy the best of what the world had to offer. What he believed they deserved.

These two were two of the most vicious, cunning, loyal yet flawed individuals of he Dance. Both had plenty in the books to be "grey" except her fundamental goal was wrong (Maybe you can't begrudge Alicent for wanting to "protect" her sons but it does not erase the fact that she actively chose to gamble everything and lost.) while his was rooted in defense. (And Daemon Targaryen was terribly good at destroying what he perceived as a threat.)

And the show saw all of that and was like, "They were just sad, pathetic, useless and spineless puppy dogs in love with Badass Girlboss Rhaenyra."

Their entire existence was just to chase after scraps of love from the most unlikable character I've ever had the misfortune of seeing on screen. All in the name of "Strong Female Characters" bullshit.

What a waste.

[zaintastic]

Daemon's own words coming to bite him in the ass! 😅

[baelor-the-based]

If Daemon had kids with Elyse while she was married Otto, would he be distant or try to spend a little time with them?

Gahhhhh!!! That's such a difficult question! Cause the man is banished half the time, and the other half of the time, he's just lurking in Flea Bottom or something. Not exactly the highest quality establishment to bring a young child to.

It'll probably be easier to figure out when we get to see him interacting with his children on screen (hopefully), but I think he'd want to see them. And he'd probably be upset that he wasn't able to place a dragon's egg in their crib.

[zaintastic]

Daemon did not want to make the same choice his brother made. I think to save him that torture, Laena killed herself. She was a good person who deserved more.

I want to say so much but I cant find word to describe the feelings shown by these two as partners and individuals.

This episode was deep on all accounts.

[askprismaticscribe-blog]

I'm STILL crying Over that stupid game!