tysm for sharing your daerion with us i am obsessed omg... i cant stop thinking about reverse "grooming" (not really, just using it as a shortcut) daerion where daeron, always desiring that sweet side of aerion, behaves so as to get that fix from aerion. because its so addictive once you get to taste it. becoming his father more and more in the worst way in the attempts (overlooking aerion's evils because aerion's sweetness makes them feel ecstatic and at peace). its all to the detriment of the younger maekarlings, but daeron is so selfish when it comes to aerion even if, unlike aerion, he cant admit it outright. (lots of thoughts on egg loving daeron and maekar despite their faults but hating aerion, partially because of what aerion has done to him, but partially also because it's easier to hate the temptress that corrupted his big brother/father than its to hate his big brother/father. because oh boy, would he need to unpack some things!) but the gag is: aerion cant himself be without daeron. but daeron is so blinded by withdrawal symptoms to even see aerion's depence for what it is. especially, as aerion grows up, daeron becomes increasingly insecure about his possession of aerion. and really he's always been insecure because he's always been forced to share aerion with his father to a degree. before maekar focused on aerion as his golden boy, it was tolerable, but now daeron is almost entirely barred and it drives him insane sgajsh. honestly he'd rather see aerion dead than not in his possession ā¤ļø blueballs-induced dragon dreams where aerion DIES a gruesome death. hes so normal about his littlebrothergf
absolutely fucking obsessed with this so thank YOU, anon, for dropping this masterpiece in my ask box.
iām hooked on what youāve proposed about daerion from eggās perspective and i love the idea of daerionās toxicity, codependency, and bittersweetness trickling down to every other relationship within the family as wellāhow aerionās abuse of aegon (and, perhaps, his other little siblings too) is constantly overlooked and disregarded due to the perverse favor for him that is held by both daeron and maekar. i constantly think back to the scene in akotsk ep4 where egg mentions aerion killing his cat, and daeron sort of silences him with a quick āalright.ā eggās suffering gone disregarded because it has been caused by aerionās pretty little hands. how egg blames aerion, then, for seducing his eldest brother and perhaps, too, his father, rather than either of them for their willful ignorance towards aerionās abuse of egg because, like youāve said, thatās an easier thing to grapple with, an easier finger to pointāeven if it disregards the clear fact which egg himself may perhaps never be able to conceive nor be able to accept, not until heās older and wiser: that aerion himself is a victim in his own right, even if his response to the way he has been groomed and sexually abused is to rather crave his abuser carnally, to grow irrevocably attached to him, and to desire and depend on the dynamic such abuse has fostered, rather than to resent or fear daeron the way egg resents and fears aerion.
and daeron has always been egregiously hedonistic, indulging himself in even his most perverse desires, never denying himself any of that which his temptations have been set upon, because heās not and never has been strong enough to, and thus he never denies himself the pleasure of having aerion all for his own. regardless of what psychological consequences it has on his little brother, really, because even aerion himself is not an exception to daeronās selfishnessādaeron who would rather freely indulge in the sweetness of little aerionās smooth skin and pillowy lips and flexible limbs and warm, soft insides, in the pleasure he takes of his own little brother, than protect aerionās psyche from the harms it brings upon him, the confusion, the dependence, the trauma bond heās grown to develop with daeron that blinds him to the harms of their sick, incestuous entanglement because in aerionās eyes, daeron can do no wrong, and what they have is love. aerion is thus horrifically dependent on daeronās love for him, on daeronās attention being solely fixed on him, on his own heart pumping daeronās blood through his veins to keep him alive, and, sooner than daeron realizes it, the consequences of his actions blow up in his face like a blazing wildfire when aerion acts out in unspeakably violent atrocities he does solely to assure himself and to assert to all around him that daeron is his own, and only his. because while daeron would rather see aerion dead than not in his possession, aerion himself would sooner take his own life than be made to live one deprived of daeron. and so the princeling harms himself and others in his own twisted way of asserting that daeron belongs to him and he to daeron.
and i love to think that aerion suffers in daeronās absence, throws tantrums and goes through horrific emotional meltdowns when heās made to be without daeron, suffering a pain so severe that maekar, who loathes to witness his sweet boy in such a state, wonders where he could have possibly gone wrong in rearing this dear child of his, having such pity towards aerion that his will to coddle and spoil the boy is only further reinforcedāand because it is daeron that aerion asks for (demands for), maekar has no choice but to relent and allow them to be together, even if there is no other pairing in the realm that could invoke from him a greater contempt. part of this, i think, is because maekar himself is so dependent on aerionās love for him that he cannot allow a scenario where aerion might possibly detest him, because he himself sees aerion as the one thing he can pride himself upon, the one thing heās preserved the purity of (or so he believes, in his blindness to all of aerionās violent acts), the one part of him he can allow himself to love. a reflection of him, but prettier, sweeter, stronger, better. his son, his baby boy. and yet still, daeron stands as a corruptive force to aerion in maekarās eyes, let alone a wretch and a failure, and still he despises of the pairing between his sons because he despises of daeron, still he does everything in his power to keep daeron away from aerion by all meansāand in my modern au that would mean sending daeron off to a university apartment to live on his own, and keeping aerion preoccupied with school and extracurricular activities, implicitly barring them from any contact with one another in a manner he believes will protect aerion, only for it to backfire, since aerion, rather than dedicating himself wholeheartedly to his studies as maekar intended, cannot bring himself to focus on anything other than the pain he feels with daeron gone. while daeron only grows more incessant, more forceful, much to maekarās dismay, he must see aerion, he says, aerion needs him, until being forced to share aerion with maekar becomes, to daeron, rather a battle (that he may very well be winning) with his own father for the possession of his little brotherāaerion needs me more than he needs you. i think of daeron as blatantly disrespectful of maekarās will, never heeding any of his fatherās rulings and making off to have his way with aerion the way he made off to some inn with egg to avoid taking part in that tourney. indulging himself in any vice that will lull away the horrors of his dreams, even as his behaviors only bring him to destroy himself and transgress against those around him. because he needs aerion just as much as heās caused aerion to need him.
in the end, i just want daeron to make a little wife of aerion. and thanks to you im from now on going to refer to aerion as daeronās littlebrothergf. <3
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