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THIS. You can see his weakness only ever with Rhaenyra or whenever Rhaenyra is involved...

His whole life SHE always was his alpha and omega.

Only ever to her did he yield.

Only ever for her was he ready to do literally ANYTHING.

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Daemon love language.

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I love how Otto always totally knew... :D

...Daemyra getting it on as soon as they possibly could (whether we're speaking about the book version or the show version) :) ... and little Aegon then being born in October... well, well, well... Little Aegon must have been conceived right when Laena died / before even...

The moment they could, they got intimate. The moment they could, they got married in the tradition of their house, Old Valyria style, in a blood magic soul binding ritual :") Nothing could have stopped Daemon and Rhaenyra from being TOGETHER.

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this is still the greatest piece of asoiaf twitter ever btw

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I would've loved to see the Daemon courting Rhaenyra era :")))

Just imagine seeing that on the big screen... People would've understood from the get go... 'cause for the book readers things had always been clear...

The necklace was a nice touch BUT: it shouldn't have disappeared and it should've been her most treasured gift from Daemon, one of many! Where's the jade tiara? All the books, all the poems Daemon read to her at night?! Yes, it should've been mentioned at some point at least 'cause it indeed was a big deal! But then people who haven't read the books wouldn't have spent the whole season 1 pondering whether Daemon would try to usurp her or not🤦 how very funny...

In HOTD I also really missed book Rhaenyra's vanity, feminity, sass, spite, pride - and all of those clearly encouraged and defended by Daemon.

In HOTD we also didn't see how not only Daemon pleaded Viserys for Rhaenyra's hand, but how book Rhaenyra also pleaded to be wed to Daemon! In book it was made clear they both very much wanted to marry each other!

...Well, what can i say, as it happens, showrunners just wanted drama... If at least the Daemon courting Rhaenyra part had been done faithfully to the book, people would never have raised the following topics: Alicent being Rhaenyra's one true love (🤦), Laena being Daemon's one true love, Harwin being Rhaenyra's one true love, Daemon wanting to usurp Rhaenyra (🤣), Daemon just wanting Rhaenyra physically / considering hurting her/actually choking her (🤬), Daemon and Rhaenyra marrying SOLELY for political reasons, and other examples of absolutely absurd BS...

These two had always been such a badass team...

...I missed Rhaenyra and Daemon always being on the same page. Even adult Rhaenyra was at least just as dark and bloodthirsty as Daemon was, that was also what made them Westerosi's nightmare.

Book Daemyra were true dragons, both of them. But TV series Rhaenyra lost their fire the moment she grew up - i can understand being, as they say, responsible because she's got children, but c'mon, many mothers actually become even more ferocious exactly because now they have children to protect! So, what were the showrunners thinking??? Their choice made Rhaenyra and Daemon seem incompatible, it made Daemon seem an abuser and Rhaenyra the victim, THIS was NEVER the case, i am forever pissed at how they butchered Daemyra's story :"(

hey i'm really not a fan of how

"At night he would smuggle her from her rooms dressed as a page boy and take her secretly to brothels on the Street of Silk, where the princess could observe men and women in the act of love and learn more of these "womanly arts" from the harlots of King's Landing"

(according to mushroom, who is known to be untrustworthy) turned into Daemon and Rhaenyra having no chemistry and then out of nowhere, him taking her to a brothel then abandoning her there half naked. so out of character, so annoying, honestly i was confused the first time i watched it and honestly it seemed like a bait n switch idk

this is a part of a broader problem i have with the show. taking events from the book, either watering them down or sensationalizing them, and acting like the original effect is still there.

another example is

"Daemon spent long hours in her company, enthralling her with tales of his journeys and battles. He gave her pearls and silks and books and a jade tiara said once to have belonged to the Empress of Leng, read poems to her, dined with her, hawked with her, sailed with her, entertained her by making mock of the greens at court, the "lickspittles" fawning over Queen Alicent and her children. He praised her beauty, declaring her the fairest maid in all of the Seven Kingdoms."

being turned into Daemon giving her that necklace in the beginning of season 1 which DISAPPEARS AFTER EPISODE FOUR🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😞😞😞😞😞🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤 it leads you to believe this necklace represents everything else he did for her in the book so you're like "ok, this must be like the most important thing ever since all of her other gifts got written out for it, really sentimental valyrian steel n all that blah blah blah" but like, nope. that whole paragraph like, really drives home the point that Daemon is in looooove with rhaenyra like that inseparable type of honeymoon phase love or at least infatuation just for the show writers or whoever is crafting these terrible moments in the show to ignore it all (placing my bets on it being sarah's fault). it would be fine if they took this part out and replaced it with something else that gives the same vibe but they don't !!! they literally don't care !!!

i feel like the reason for this specific paragraph's events being written out is the "show don't tell" concept but like. you decided not to tell us. but you did nothing to show us either.

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i usually love when i'm not told something in a show and the decision is made to instead show how characters feel through scenes with few or no words ; usually hotd does really well with this but not in the romantic relationships department !!! so like, please, tell us at this point. i'm tired of having only daemyra crumbs, less than crumbs at that. have daemon write in a little diary "i 🩷 rhaenyra soooo much" like 500 times and it'd be better than whatever that dumpster fire of a finale was

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are you to haave a child? . . .someday.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.02/1.08.

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#couplegoals

Calling book daemyra's relationship "ambiguous" just because you can't stand that Rhaenyra was loved and you want to diminish her is such a mysoginistic move. Because what exactly was even remotely ambiguous in how Daemon was always attentive and always thinking of her while he was away in his travels? What was ambiguous in love poems, sailing and spending lazy hours in her constant company? In them being called lovers? In Daemon wanting to marry her and asking for her hand? In either of them only getting with other people only when they were completely apart and had no way to reach other? In them making a baby long before their wedding and him going on a killing spree to free Rhaenyra for himsef? In him being known as so possessive of her he was thought capable of murder out of jealousy for her affections? In them marrying in secret to the extent that absolutely everyone was scandalized and the memories of their spouses tarnished? In them living happily and peacefuly for ten years in their marriage? In him organizing what was arguably the blackest act of his entire life to avenge her boy, who wasn't even biologically his? In him crowning her, raising an army for her, fighting and dying for her? Some of you spend so much making up headcanons and forcing people to agree with them that you don't even speak about canon anymore. It's embarassing.

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Perhaps one of the greatest proofs of how Daemon acted towards Rhaenyra in their intimate life lays also in how Aegon III was very much paralleled with Daemon in how he acted towards Rhaenyra: being "ever at his mother's side", being day and night at her side after Daemon's death, picking up a sword to defend and protect his mother etc. All of this speaks volumes on how Aegon perceived his father acting towards his mother and emulating him.

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Aegon III is described as being 10 years old at the time of Rhaenyra's death, which occured on the twenty second day of the tenth month of 130.

Which means Aegon was born, at the latest, in the month of october (tenth month) of 120. 🤭

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Not to mention, Daemon and Rhaenyra chose to be SOULBOUND in an ancient Valyrian blood magic wedding ritual :")

They were sealed in FIRE and BLOOD...

Daemyra being the only Targaryen love story that didn't have their ashes laid to rest next to each other after death, yet Grrm made sure to give them the exact same day five months apart for their deaths to make up for that 🥲

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Daemon's devotion to Rhaenyra truly was absolute, inspiring and epic... She was his life, his alpha and omega.

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^ THIS. My thoughts EXACTLY.

If I’m remembering right, didn’t Geeta Patel say that young Rhaenyra loved Daemon more than older Rhaenyra does? That doesn’t make much sense to me cause I feel like throughout time Rhaenyra has been completely in love with Daemon.

Maybe she meant that because of their fight, to Daemon, it felt like young Rhaenyra loved him more… what do you think

I especially think that Emma D'Arcy's older Rhaenyra suffers from a huge writing problem in terms of character coherence. And not just with Daemon. She is supposed to be a loving mother but is willing to give Viserys II and Aegon III hostage to the greens and is angry that Daemon did not let her consider this offer. It's just lunar. And I'm not even going to start on her obsession with peace and her hesitation to go to war. Not to mention any type of improvisation that is accepted for Rhaenyra's character, like the stupid kiss with Mysaria. Daemyra suffers from writing problems like the rest of the show. But in fact, the romance is preserved. They just don't know what to write or how to write. But yes, even if in theory that shouldn't be the case, with the inconsistencies and inconsistency that Emma's Rhaenyra has, we have the impression that Milly's loves Daemon more, whereas in theory, no. It's quite strange to say. But really, it really all comes down to the writing that sucks for the character. Sorry if what I'm saying sounds garbled, but I'm exhausted and sleep is calling.

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^ THIS

1) "the way they made it clear that even in an AU where Daemon is king his first action would still be to marry Rhaenyra and take her as his queen and rule together because he loves her."

...He was always gonna choose HER.

He was always gonna rule TOGETHER WITH her.

And yes, she was Rhaenys to his Aegon. Even in the scenario where he couldn't get the permission to divorce Rhea, he was STILL going to MARRY RHAENYRA as his second wife :")

...Rhaenyra was one constant in ALL of Daemon's realities.

One genuine win for me was 1) the way they made it clear that even in an AU where Daemon is king his first action would still be to marry Rhaenyra and take her as his queen and rule together because he loves her and 2) how they had Daemon clearly state that for him Rhaenyra was the Rhaenys to his Aegon ("that didn't stop Aegon from taking a second wife").

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