#I'm sick of this daemon is just manipulating and evil bullshit

[theroguequeen]

What people easily overlook is that daemon has a soft side. Yes, he is reckless. He is brutal. He is chaotic and restless. He did and will do bad things. But still there is this other side.

He cares about viserys, their relationship is complicated and has a lot of conflicts but in the end he is his brother.

He could treat mysaria badly but still let's her fly with him on his dragon and just that he let's her get close to caraxes is a big thing.

He gives rhaenyra the necklace, talks to her in high valyrian, always has an eye on her and watches her grow up, becoming a beautiful young women. He stands beside her at her mother's funeral, speaks to her in a way viserys can't. He sees her struggling, he sees her pain and in a way he shares it with her.

The way he always lays his head on people he trusts, the way he showed rhaenyra the world outside the red keep, what a pleasure it can be to me intimate with an another person.

And I know, when he took her out to the borthel it was a game at the beginnig, he knew what he was doing but that all shattered into pieces when he realized that he could not go one, that he not actually wanted to ruin her and that rhaenyra is more then he could ever imagined.

When he asked viserys for her hand, when he said I want rhaenyra that was daemon speaking, showing that he really wants her.

Even in the few scenes with laena you could see this soft fragile side and no I don't wanna act like he was the perfect husband or even father in the last episode, but the way he touched her belly, the way he said my brave girl and the horror and shook in his eyes when he saw laena die was a honest reaction.

Daemon is not only the rogue prince, not only a beast at the battlefield or a man that shows no mercy to people who piss him off or are his enemy's.

He is chaotic and goes with the flow, but when he is loyal to someone, when he loves someone he would and will do everything to protect them.

He had to deal with viserys rejecting him, his brother that did not once called him to become his hand but still he makes it very clear that he will not let anyone talk shit about him. When he came back from the stepstones and they hugged you could see that this was meaningful to him.

It makes me mad when I see how people tend to act like he is pure evil or just manipulating everyone and that the only person he truly cares about is himself.

And i don't like some of the decisions the directors of the show have made, like him killing rhea or cutting scenes out where he actually shows feelings. Especially not showing the scene where he hugs his daughters after laenas death was awful and I'm scared that they are trying to make him the villain while he is clearly so much more and by the way they are portraying him people easily tend to forget that he is vulnerable and human.

I really hope that when he and rhaenyra finally are together we get to see more of daemon showing his feelings, that he becomes a better dad and that the viewers see that he is capable of loving someone deeply and that he will protected his family with his last breathe.

And no I don't see him as a perfect human being and I'm not ignoring that he has a cruel side but this character is way more complex then that. He is a grey character but he is not a killing machine or a lovely little flower that wants the best for everyone but let's be honest both of that are not things that make us all love a character.

It's the range, the complexity, the way you never can be sure what he will do next but still knowing that it's not all black and white.