How do you think nettles would feel or say when she hears how daemon treated Rhaena basically ignoring her then giving baela to rhaenys like a trade or how he slept with Rhaenyra after laena’s death then got married? Me personally I think she would make him realize that his actions have consequences and the life he wanted so bad was worth nothing in the end.
Yeah, she’d be really disturbed. If anything this makes her more weary about him. She already questions his motivation behind why he even likes her in the first place, but now she’s especially suspicious.
Nettles is going to question if he is with her because she's only a(young) dragon. She will wonder if he will or more like when he will grow bored with her and abandon her for greener pastures.
Daemon better pray to the Gods that she doesn’t find out about his misdeeds before they meet because if she has he’s going to have more of an uphill battle proving himself.
Honestly, this is where the show majorly messed up because book Daemon a. did love Laena and I’m pretty sure a large part of why he got married to Rhaenyra so quickly was because they took comfort in one another and she got pregnant so 🤷🏽♀️b. He would never send Baela off to Driftmark and b. While I do think Baela was his favorite kid/daughter it didn’t sound like Rhaena was treated like Cinderella for not having a dragon. He made sure that she at least had some dragon eggs🥚 whereas with the show I’m pretty sure Rhaena is just going to have to ask someone for them or take some for herself 🤦🏽♀️
They made Daemon more of a jerk than he is in the books because his one light spot outside of Nettles was Laena and their girls.
Rant aside, yes this would be an opportunity for Daemon to realize he’s majorly screwed up in the past. What he did wasn’t normal or okay and it broke the spirit of an innocent girl(Baela faired better cause she had Rhaenys, but Rhaena seems like she’s a neglected doll trapped in time, for Christ’s sake she hasn’t changed her hair in 7 years🤦🏽♀️).
Since this is based on the show cannon, Nettles may even meet and converse with Rhaena(she probably met Baela in the books) so she can see the effects of neglect. She recognizes what it’s like to be neglected. She’s going to draw attention to that.
Nettles will tell him how she wishes that she had more time with her mother(cause I personally headcanon that she did try to raise her, but she died from some illness when she was young). How much she wishes that she knew who her father was. How she’d give next to anything to have them there with her.
Daemon can not go back in time and redo his mistakes, but he can be a better father in the present. He can be a present father. He’s the only parent they’ve got(and since Rhaenys is gone he’s the only parental figure they have) and they deserve more from him. That they want and need more from him(they are only 14-16?).
They are in the middle of a war and people are dying left and right so now is the time to hold on closer to what you have especially your children.
