Saw this post and couldn’t stop thinking about this:
Grumpy old grandma Vhaegar adopts a hyperactive hatchling. It’s like watching an elderly cat interact with a kitten/puppy, just climbing all over it and (pointlessly) biting her legs and Vhaegar shows her love by tolerating it and not immediately eating it and only occasionally smacking it away at 1/4 strength. But if any other dragon tries to hurt her annoying baby? It is ON SIGHT.
Kid!Aemond starts off arrogant like ‘look how pathetically small your dragon looks next to mine, it’s practically a lizard’, then annoyed like ‘get your stupid lizard off of her!’ and you being like ‘why? she seems fine with it, stop being a baby’
Because she’s so old Vhaegar mostly sleeps when Aemond isn’t with her, so your dragon usually just wriggles around in her general proximity or sleeps near/on her, though Vhaegar is seen to be more interactive/aware with this dragon, opening her eyes or lifting her head to watch.
Watching them get along forces Aemond to think about you, how the two of you interact, and the massive crush he’s been aggressively repressing for ages. He kinda wishes he could be as tolerant of your teasing/playfulness as his dragon is of yours, but after a lifetime being on the receiving end of far less good natured jokes he just can’t help but get defensive all the time, especially when he’s young and hot-blooded and hasn’t quite learned how to control himself yet.
Imagine seeing each other after years apart. While you and your dragon are just as playful you’re both gentler. Your dragon will still roll around or lay on top of Vhaegar there’s no more biting, as if it recognises Vhaegars age now, and while you’re definitely still gonna tease him, relentlessly, you don’t poke his sore spots.
He’s mellowed out, at least enough to control his worst impulses and has grown a thicker skin, every joke doesn’t feel like a personal attack anymore, he’ll even tease back. He no longer feels, or acts as if watching your dragons irritates him, he actually seems… pleased?
Whyyyy can I never just send one paragraph aaahhhh
omg don't apologize at all for sending long messages, I love seeing people's ideas and headcanons in my inbox!
and honestly, I already had an idea for a fic based on this post and I have a whole story in my head but somehow I find it difficult to write it down for some odd reason... it's frustrating...
now, speaking of your idea... it would be adorable as hell. also, dragon riders being like their dragons. grumpy x sunshine dynamic + if Reader is small (or at least smaller than Aemond and I think most women are) then they would totally be like their dragons. I can imagine Reader's dragon being small for a dragon in general and unfamiliar with any sort of fighting. Aemond wouldn't feel the urge to make fun of it and the Reader anymore, though. now, seeing them after years, he feels the urge to protect.














