#ormund daeron

[ormundaeron]

ormund intentionally putting daeron through the hightower Psychological Horrors because he knows that regardless of what he does each and every time daeron will still look for his affection, and ormund, in a twisted version of it, will offer and provide those needs.

there's a push and pull of daeron needing fulfillment and ormund needing self satisfaction. daeron endures because his only source of love is from ormund and ormund fosters their relationship because there is genuine affection born from pride in raising a son the way he's done

[ormundaeron]

ormund's fostered an environment through codependency where daeron cannot receive any other influence. "and devour me from within until there's nothing left" is insane to me. daeron is verbalizing that he's being shaped by ormund to his liking, that he'll lose himself by the end of it all and retain nothing of his autonomy. "then who will protect me then" to rather and knowingly discard your identity because no one else is there to love you, no one else would care for you or fill that parental role you have needed to be filled your entire life

[ormundaeron]

ormund presumably has children but this isn't stated in show canon aside from norton's comment on how ormund does have some type of family in oldtown. daeron is the most important person in ormund's life (another statement by norton that he quite literally phrases as such) daeron himself carries multitudes of concepts that would contradict ormund's ideology, but he doesn't acknowledge any of them. he instead claims that all the best parts of daeron are due to how he's raised him and all of his "faults" are due to his ancestry/lineage. ormund feeds into his narcissism through self ideological praise, because this would mean he as a hightower has "cleansed" or saved daeron from becoming another "vile" targaryen. he's developed a savior complex from raising daeron and to him that's the biggest reward of it all; no one else could claim they've done the same feat