#daeron headcanon

[lockeswoodss]

Hi (*^▽^)/★*☆♪

So what are your hc how AKOTSK men deal with jealousy?

I'm so sorry this was in my inbox for so long 😭

5 Jealous Targaryens and 1 Baratheon for Good Luck

Baelor

I kinda head canon that in the moment he appears fine, at least to others. But you can tell immediately, his microexpressions give it away. The crease in his brow, the purposeful unclenching of his jaw, and the rolling of his shoulders to loosen his posture. The rational part of him knew the Ser who helped you dismount your horse wasn't trying to make a pass at you; the gentle cupping of your waist was merely meant to steady you when your footing gave way. He knew that, and yet he couldn't help but feel outrage bubbling under the surface. You were his partner, and as far as he was concerned, he was to be the only one to touch you. What made it worse was your immediate empathy, softly squeezing his hand and silently asking if he was okay. Your face warmed as he pressed a kiss to your forehead and gave back a reassuring squeeze. You weren't used to this level of PDA, let alone him pressing you against the stone wall of the castle's lower hallways as soon as you were alone. No, you were certainly not expecting him to sandwich his thigh between yours and pull you into a bruising kiss. Or for him to lower himself down onto his knees, like he was praying in the sept, and get you off right then and there like only he could. No, the hand of the king could never do anything that reckless.

Maekar

Maekar does not appear fine, and it is everyone's business lol. He was immediately prickly at the sight of a young lord asking you to dance. When he saw the same lord's hands begin to wander, he went nuclear. He didn't care if he made a scene as he wove through the dance floor and grabbed you while simultaneously cursing out the man who dared to touch HIS partner. He kept a firm grip on you until you were back in the privacy of your own bedchambers. Before he could go into a rant, his anger immediately simmers out when he catches the distraught look on your face. You were trying so hard to keep it together and bottle up how uncomfortable you were, but a few stray tears escaped. His face softened as he gently cupped your face and kissed away your tears apologetically, even adding a few more exaggerated kisses before softly pecking your lips. You laugh through your tears, enjoying the playful side of your husband that few non-Targaryens have had the honor to see. He then pulled you in, wrapping his arms tightly around, while resting his chin on the crown of your head, and gently swaying you. You loved this side of him.

Lyonel

I feel like with Lyonel's self-assuredness, he doesn't get jealous over anyone making a pass at you. I think he honestly relishes it and will agree that you're such a catch and gloat that you settled for him. I feel like he'd be more jealous of someone taking your focus away from him, no matter how innocent the intent is. Lyonel, underneath all of his vibrato, is a man who needs your reassurance and cherishes your love and attention. That being said, I think if he were to genuinely get jealous, it would be the biggest spectacle. Gods, you can hear Lyonel's displeasure before you even see him. To the extent that his loud voice echoes around the room, like he's in the walls. You love your partner, but with his gifted vocabulary, status, and volume, any time you need to reel him back in is equivalent to calming a toddler's temper tantrum. Honestly, sometimes you don't have enough energy and let the interaction run its course on whatever poor bastard made the mistake of crossing the laughing storm.

Valarr

Valarr is similar to his father in a way. He's able to mask his displeasure at the sight of the ladies and lords of the court alike flocking around you, but that does nothing to quell his jealousy building under the surface. He knew you were a catch and new to the courts of the red keep, but you were his partner. When you're finally able to break away for lunch, you can immediately tell something's off. He doesn't feel present when you're talking, and he's barely contributing to the conversation outside of nodding his head and a few sparing words. When he excuses himself back to his bedchambers, you follow worried he's ill. You immediately lose your concern when he presses you up against the closed inside of his chamber's doors and pulls you in for a heated kiss. While unsure of where this was coming from, you didn't question it. You loved your soft and caring partner, but you equally loved it when he lost control and was desperate for you. You could only stand there and take it as his lips skated down your neck and began to nip and suck hickeys above your collar. Your whines only spurred him on as he ground his pelvis down on yours, pulling deep moans from your throat. By the time he's satisfied and takes you to bed, it looks like you were on the losing side of a fight with an octopus. Not that you'd ever complain, though 😉

Daeron

Your relation to Daeron is fluid and does not subscribe to a traditional relationship. You agreed and were both happy with an open relationship built on transparency; at least you thought you were. That was until one night, Daeron had one too many and needed your help back to his chambers. While putting him to bed, the prince drunkenly confessed how insecure he was when you'd bed another man, worried you'd grow sick of him and replace him. You shushed his tears and assured him you weren't mad or unhappy with him. You opt to stay the night with your dreamer to make sure he is okay and geared up for a serious conversation with a hungover Daeron.

Aerion

Once again, we have another son who learned from his father (for better or worse lol). When Aerion sees anyone get too friendly with you, he immediately clocks it as a threat. It doesn't matter if he lashes out physically or verbally (or both), he's hammering across the fact that your HIS partner and no one is allowed to have what's his. Gods forbid someone touches you or does something that would warrant an excuse for his behavior. His already short fuse gets clipped in half, and he doesn't care about anyone catching a stray. You're the only one who can calm him down after incidents like that. Between a soft, but firm, squeeze of his hand or distracting him long enough for the perpetrator to get away, you were the only one who could wrangle the hot-headed prince.

[pacificheights]

I can see daeron and wifey trying to have their daughter be heir but she just gets passed over like every other girl in the line of succession (shout out to my girls rhaenyra and rhaenys)

also, if your nsfw asks are still open I was wondering if you think daeron has any specific kinks or things that he's into? I feel like one of them would definitely be a praise kink

ah, sexism! kind of you to rear your head again.

they are! i'm hoarding a few in my inbox right now because i want to write proper, 3,000+ word pieces for them, but this one i can answer quickly enough (nsfw under the cut, as always)

i do think that daeron has somewhat of a praise kink. he likes to be told that he's doing well. i think that this really stems from how insecure he is as a person.

praise kink:

this one is the most obvious. he has a low self esteem. he needs to hear that he's doing a good job. he needs to hear that you love him, that you find him attractive, that he's a good boy.

he goes through his day to day life believing that he's a failure, so he obviously likes to get a little bit of praise in bed.

he would never ask for this or seek it out, since then it wouldn't be genuine, but if you tell him that it feels good, that he's doing a great job? oh, it's over for him.

creampie/hickey/marking kink (kinda sorta?):

this one is a hear me out, but i think that he likes having some sort of proof that he was the one in you.

the creampie kink is very slight (not in a breeding kink way, we already established that he doesn't want kids), but he loves seeing that he spilled himself inside of you. he loves that he left a little part of himself there, where nobody else can. he loves that you let him, that you willingly accept receiving part of him. he isn't that into it - he's not generally one of those guys who watches it drip out (but he finds it hot if he happens to catch sight of it) - it's just more the concept that he gets to cum inside of you that turns him on.

for the hickeys and markings, it's a similar train of thought - you are his, and he would be glad if everyone else would acknowledge and respect that. he loves leaving visible marks - something to prove that you're taken, that you're his.

(very mild) pregnancy kink:

he doesn't want kids, he's terrified to be a father, the kink isn't surrounding getting you pregnant, but he's obsessed when you start showing.

it's a pride thing, just like with the hickeys - he left his mark. there is some obvious, physical sign that he did that to you, that you're his, that you aren't for anyone else.

he catches a glimpse of you, when you first begin showing. it's the first time he notices it, you're still fairly early. the way that your gown clings to your lower abdomen is different now. he walks over to you and hugs you from behind, his hands resting right under your bellybutton, his chin pressed against your shoulder, his nose against your neck. he places a kiss there.

"i did this to you," he whispers, and you nod.

and then that gets him all hot and bothered, so you fuck 🤷‍♀️

that, and i've already said that i think he likes bigger breasts. your breasts swell up in the later months of pregnancy, so he's alllll over that.

he (very slightly) likes to be dominated/used:

this one is also a hear me out, but, he wants to feel useful. he wants to feel like he can give you something. he wants to feel like he's doing something for you that nobody else can.

it isn't that he likes to be held down or anything like that, but he likes to be told what to do. he knows that, if you tell him what you want, he can make it happen. he's okay to be bossed around in bed. he's okay if you use him for your pleasure.

he thinks it's hot when you're on top. when you really want it and don't care about his pleasure. he likes to watch you take what you want from him, when you want it, and exactly how you want it - he's happy to oblige.

(this would only work with his wife, whom he loves to death 🥺 he doesn't care about anyone else receiving pleasure, he's not naturally a giver - he just loves his wife)

idk, what do you guys think that he'd like? most of these are just about him proving himself.

[pacificheights]

I religiously believe the headcanon that dyanna was the one who would comfort daeron after his dreams and after she died he had no support, as maekar didn't believe him (this is canon I think)

his siblings believed him but I think aemon amd egg didn't know how to help him, and aerion only used daeron's dreams to have further evidence that he was a dragon or something

it's kind of unclear when she died - the wiki has it between 201-209, daeron was born in 190. i choose to believe that the onset of his dreams began right when she died (around age 12), and her death was a large part in awakening it.

otherwise, yes, 100%, he would go run into mommy's arms and cry 😅 he'd be like

moooom

i had a nightmare

can i sleep with yoooou

and maekar would hate him for it (because you know he and dyanna shared a bed for sleeping), and he would be mad that his teenage boy was always in their room. he'd sit dyanna down every morning after daeron had left and tell her that she needs to stop babying the boy, that's why daeron is so soft. maybe if she stopped babying him, he could grow into a warrior.

and dyanna would just be like, 'but how can you say no to that face??? how can i turn him away when he's crying?'

so maekar would sigh, shake his head, and it would happen again the next night, since he couldn't deny his wife

[pacificheights]

On the topic of Daeron again, because I can’t not share this.

I know we kinda characterize him as being somewhat lazy when it comes to swordplay and all that stuff in the training yard, but I do wonder if because of his terrible diet consisting of a lack of sleep, causing him to crash and sleep for up to 12 hours every like three to four days, wine and more wine, which probably causes him to either have a lack of hunger or increased hunger, but I’m betting on a lack of, as we can see in the first episode when he’s passed out on the table, all he really has is the goblet of spilled wine.. that while he’s slim, his body would be more inclined to hang onto any nutrients he actually gets, meaning it clings to the fat his body produces.

So while he’s not like Aegon IV (I believe) who was practically like King Henry VIII with no doubt gout and all that other nasty shit - he does have kind of a sleeper build? He’s slightly muscled, but in a softer way rather than a toned one that Aerion or Valarr would have, like he would have a little pudge around his stomach. Do you think wifey would be pleasantly surprised by his appearance? We all know they’re attracted to one another, considering the three previous pregnancies, but at a time when they were closer, would she have been the one to reassure him when he got insecure about it while having sex?

Insert this photo of Henry Ashton, Daeron’s actor, who takes more care of himself than his fictional counterpart lol.

sooo, a few different parts to the answer here:

in regards to wifey, they were married fairly young (i think i put 17 & 19), so daeron definitely still has the slimmer body of a young man, is pretty hairless, and will still develop a little more. when you see someone every day, you don't really notice the changes, y'know?

another part of this answer is that daeron is an alcoholic, and alcoholic fat distribution is usually around the abdomen. he would also likely retain a bit of water from all of the alcohol and appear slightly puffier than he really is. that being said, i do not think that he eats a lot, so he probably is sort of skinny-fat? like, he's definitely not a big dude, he's not fat, but he has some pudge/softness in his abdomen. i think that, later in life, if he was still drinking, he would probably have a slight belly & the beginnings of gynecomastia (enlarged male breast tissue) given the alcohol dependence.

in the grow a pear verse, we will see daeron stop drinking (whoohooo!!!), so he will end up losing the pudge and water retention. (and, like a lot of recovering alcoholics, he will pick up doing a bit of outside exercise to clear his head, so i would imagine that he'd tone up and look like mr. ashton ;) )

canonically, we know that daeron looks fucking rough. his skin is vaguely jaundiced, he has greasy ass hair, etc. - i think that it would be a fair assumption that, canonically, at the ashford tourney, he is 19yrs old and has the average to slightly-pudgier-than-average physique of a 19yr old boy, and then in later life would look like an alcoholic with the beer belly, gynecomastia, etc. as described above.

i love daeron in ways that george r r martin did not, and therefore want to have slightly more favorable opinions about his looks. i think that george r r martin intended him to be... not so pretty.

[pacificheights]

what daeron said about aerion being a glad child once made me think about daeron himself being a lovely boy until the dreams began to develop 💔 in my mind I envision little daeron being gentle natured and very well spoken for his age, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it

i 100% agree. maekar and dyanna were probably so glad - oh, he's the perfect boy! he's so sweet and quiet, he loves to read, he helps out with his younger siblings, what an easy and wonderful son!

and then he just turns into the worst™ around twelve years old (until aerion unseats him and claims the worst™ title for himself a few years later)

i think, even as an adult, he's generally good natured and sweet. he seems to have a good sense of humor, some intelligence, and a sort of gentleness about him, at least.

[pacificheights]

do you ever plan on making more daeron childhood headcanons? I feel like there's so much to his childhood that grrm didn't explore but that gives us a lot of room for imagination

here are some!! some are repeats :)

more childhood headcanons!

daeron has a dragon egg:

we know that aemon and egg both had dragon eggs put in their cradle, so we can assume that daeron did too. as a kid, he was really fascinated by it. he started getting his dragon dreams around puberty, and after that, looking at the egg would make him uneasy. out of desperation, after waking up from one of his nightmares, he hid it away somewhere in the castle. he forgot where he put it when he woke up, unsure of if he had dreamt of hiding it or actually did.

he got his first dragon dream around twelve:

on top of dealing with puberty, poor boy got the onset of his nightmares. his first dream was benign compared to some of his later ones, and he didn't think anything of it until he saw it happen in front of him a month later. it wasn't that he witnessed it happen that he even remembered that he had had a nightmare at all. he thought it was a coincidence, but then it happened again... and again... and again

out of all of his siblings, daeron most closely resembles dyanna in looks:

maekar is conflicted about this. daeron got her sandy hair. i would like to think that he's shorter (i've definitely said this before but in my mind he's 5'8 lol), and i'd like to think that he got the general shape of her face.

and, similarly, daeron was the closest with their mother out of all of his siblings:

first of all, he's the oldest, so... duh. but also, he and aemon were always the gentlest of the maekarlings, i think. they probably had the most fun sitting with dyanna and reading. aerion and egg were your typical boys, daella also enjoyed hanging out with dyanna, and rhae... was out terrorizing insects and lizards with egg.

daeron was well-read and quiet as a kid:

he much preferred to be inside to outside. maekar would be trying to teach daeron how to use a sword and daeron would be running off to the library to go and read his poetry. he was very astute, quiet, and kind.

he was a good baby:

he was maekar and dyanna's first, and gods, they didn't know how good they had it. he didn't cry, slept through the nights, reached milestones when he was supposed to - everyone was so surprised when he turned into a teenager/preteen and became such a little shithead.

he was also a good kid:

he liked to help out with his siblings, taking his role as big brother very seriously. he and maekar butted heads, as maekar wanted him to take up more physical activities, but he was, in general, well behaved. again, everyone was very surprised that he turned out the way he did.

his mom was his source of comfort. he is a huge mama's boy:

when he started getting his dragon dreams, much to maekar's dismay, he would go and climb into bed with his parents. dyanna would allow it. her death, in part, resulted in them becoming more frequent and more intense. around the time of her death is when his drinking really began to pick up. she never got to see him like he is now, being such a wreck. he likely wouldn't have become so bad if she was still alive.

teenage daeron is your quintessential teenage boy:

he looooves to sleep, he eats everything in sight, he neglects to shower and smells like ass, and his voice cracks are of epic proportions. he's definitely greasy and has acne (and the drinking most certainly does not help with his complexion), and he has that teenage boy attitude. he just wants to lock himself in his room and drink all day. is it depression? fuck yeah it is

[pacificheights]

I really do wish grrm gave us more info on daeron's childhood, or just the maekerlings in general 🥀 ig that's what headcanons are for

i know, i wish that we had something to go off with the maekerlings - the fun part is that i get to invent my own lore, but im really just taking a shot in the dark.

[pacificheights]

I have a nsfw ask for daeron :) what do you think would be his biggest turn ons and turn offs, and also do you think he has something that he's secretly into but not very vocal of?

i had to think about this for a while. nothing really stands out as obvious.

nsfw under the line like always

turn on's: being on the receiving end of dirty talk, being praised, his hair being played with in the right way, pda going a little too far (i feel like he could have some exhibitionist and voyeristic tendencies, but not so far as to call it a fetish. like a casual exhibitionist. light exhibitionism), when you sit on his lap (especially with some earlobe nibbled or kisses behind the ear/down the neck)

turn off's: responsibility, being a functional human being, taking accountability for his actions, having to pull out 😞

if there's something he's secretly into, idk. i wouldn't expect him to have some hidden foot fetish. maybe there are some certain role plays that he'd like to try in the bedroom but won't ask for. i could see him wanting to try being pegged (modern day, unless westeros has strap ons 🤷‍♀️)

i need to think on this longer & i will reblog this with a few nsfw scenes if i can ever figure out a good answer to this question. i just feel like he's generally pretty vanilla.