#and even then it was jace's knife and it was jace who attacked first and it was jace who was being protected by the final slash
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need the current hotd ao3 economics explained to me like I'm five, what happened there with aemond and luke?
and like don't get me wrong, I understand that those targs are built different and there's no avoiding alabama dynamics, that's okay ig. but the least y'all could've done is chosen the velaryon brother that isn't 13, come on now šš the bar was already low, how did y'all manage to still be limbo dancing with the devil
#jokes aside though I'm not really judging or certainly not looking to attack anyone I'm just genuinely curious#cause i am 2 years late to the fandom and all#and I wanna know what caused this as I didn't see anything that interesting in what aemond and luke got going on#except for the eye thing obv#and even then it was jace's knife and it was jace who attacked first and it was jace who was being protected by the final slash#and if you go through the show all aemond's parallels and most interactions go through jace as well#so what did happened there can someone pls enlighten me#was that some inside joke that got really out of control or#hotd#house of the dragon#aemond targaryen#lucerys velaryon#hope y'all are not forgetting to age up luke in your works though omgšš
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I'm gonna say it: it's aemond's own fault he lost his eye in both the show and the book. Both times, he snuck out to claim vhagar. In the show, he wasn't stopped. In the book, three year old Joffrey Velaryon was with his dragon because he was an early riser and told Aemond to stay away from Vhagar, so Aemond - who was much older - pushed little three year old Joffrey over and, in his fear of being caught because he knew he was doing something his parents would like, claimed Vhagar and flew her for the first time.
Baby Joffrey, all of three years old, then of course runs to get his big brothers, likely crying and terrified. Because he's, y'know, A BABY.
In the show, Aemond claims Vhagar and with arrogance and smugness returns to the castle, high on the fact that he'd just claimed Vhagar, uncaring of how rude/insulting it may have been to claim Vhagar on the night of her previous riders funeral, like A NORMAL PERSON.
When, in the show, Rhaena and Baela confront Aemond with Luke and Jace, they're clearly upset. Their mother has just died, its her funeral, and their last tether to her - Vhagar - has been claimed by Aemond. They say he stole her, and while dragons can't be stolen, he did use underhanded tactics to obtain her and bond with her. And his haughtiness afterwards, towards the daughters of the woman whose dragon he just claimed, is what makes the altercation his fault.
Baela, upset: Vhagar is my mother's dragon!
Aemond, uncaring: Your mother is dead, and Vhagar has a new rider now.
Rhaena: she was mine to claim!
Aemond: then you should have claimed her. Maybe your cousins can find you a pig to ride. It would suit you.
Rhaena then hits Aemond, provoked into this by his cruel words and actions. Was it right? No. But it's literally the night of her mums funeral, Vhagar has been claimed by someone who clearly doesn't care about her mother, and he just insulted her. Aemond pushes Rhaena to the ground, so Baela slaps him in defense of her sister, and he punches her in the face.
Aemond: come at me again and I'll feed you to my dragon!
Now aemond is threatening to murder his cousins, which is par for the course for hid character. He always had kinslaying in him.
The fight devolves even more, and Jace and Luke get involved, defending their cousins. Luke, a little kid, is whacked and shoved to the ground, so Jace jumps in. Then Baela decides to help, and she and Luke - both of them younger and smaller - start wailing on Aemond (u go kids).
Aemond kicks Luke off of him, throws Baela off, and stands only to grab Luke - only five - by the throat and hold a rock over his head and threaten him.
Aemond: you will die screaming in flames just as your father did, bastard.
Luke, terrified and upset: my father is still alive!
Aemond, amused: he doesn't know, does he? Lord Strong.
This is when Jace pulls his knife, literally the size of my thumb, and attacks. Jace us quickly unarmed by Aemond, who is still holding the rock, and Luke sees the blade. Aemond holds the rock over them, smirks at Rhaena and Baela, then gets sand thrown in his face and Luke slashes at him wildly, not even aiming for his eye, just aiming to stop Aemond from hurting Jace and himself and his cousins, because at this point Luke has heard death threats, and seen Aemond take on him and the other three easily and win, so of bloody course this terrified little boy used a weapon to defend himself when it became necessary.
After, Alicent makes the situation about her because she's a poor uwu baby (gag me with a chainsaw, I loathe her) and attacks Rhaenyra as though Rhaenyra and her kids were in the wrong? Gurl.
Aemond will then go on to use him losing his eye as an excuse to use his war dragon to chase fourteen year old Luke on tiny baby Arrax and have the FUCKING AUDACITY to look shocked when it went wrong? Aemond is still at fault for Luke's death even if "he didn't mean it" or "he lost control" (he's not a true dragon lmfao)
In the book, Joffrey - who is three - returns with Jace and Luke, who grabbed wooden swords - they won't help against Vhagar bbys - in defense of their brother.
Despite it being three on one, Aemond was winning the fight until Luke slashed him, and good thing he did otherwise Aemond wouldn't have stopped in my opinion. He'd have kept going, beating the boys to bloody pulps. It was stable-boys who had to end the fight, where were the guards? Cole was probably simping over alicunt tbh.
Also, Alicent was the first to demand Luke's eye in recompense for Aemond losing his soz not soz ya uwu Queen is a cunt heh
Aemond will then, years later, attack Luke because of this and kill him and start the Dance of Dragons in full because not only did he cause the events that took his eye, but also the worst war in history, all because he's a little bitch baby sociopath with genocidal tendencies lmfao
Also, Aemond got off lightly, merely losing his eye - do u know what the punishment is for people who attack a princes' daughters and the heir to the throne sons? Calling them bastards, which is treason!!!! Death. Bitch shit should be exuberant that he merely lost an eye. Unfortunately viserys is a bitch and didn't send Aemond to the Wall like Jaehaerys would have for fucking real lol
#pro daemon targaryen#anti aemond targaryen#anti alicent hightower#anti alicent stans#anti aemond stans#anti team green#pro rhaenyra targaryen#pro blacks#team black babey#pro Jacaerys Velaryon#pro Lucerys Velaryon#pro baela targaryen#pro rhaena targaryen
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Jace and Luke are perfect?? They were 8 and 10 year old bullies. So what if Aegon was the ringleader, they were bullies too. Aegon didnāt threaten them, they did it of their own will and they had fun doing it. They werenāt remorseful about it, thereās no scene where we see them have a moment of reflection like āhey this isnāt rightā, they donāt look over their shoulder at a sad Aemond, there no reluctance about it. They just laugh.
Aemond when we first met him wasnāt a bad kid, out of all 4 boys- Aemond was the sensitive kid. The bookish, well behaved, dutiful and respectful one. Driftmark was the first time he stood up for himself, the first time he insulted them to their faces. The first time we see him have unkind words for anyone and still thereās no excuse to assault someone over words. Aemond was the one who was physically attacked there first. He wouldnāt have laid a finger on them if they didnāt touch him first and it was 4 to 1. He grabbed a rock to defend himself after being kicked and punched by 4 other kids. He raised his hand and dropped it a few times while Jace was swinging the knife wildly in Aemondās direction intending to mortally wound him.
Everything after Driftmark, his personality- the anger, vengeance, calculated coldness all of that is a direct result of what happened to him. Being the target of bullying because he was dragonless and a deeply sensitive boy. Having Rhaenyraās son maim him and seeing that nobody, not even his father cared except for his mother, Criston, sister and brother. Despite that he still was the dutiful, respectful son he just hated Rhaenyraās spawn and rightfully so. They took his eye and got off Scott free. Then Lucerys came and laughed in his face about a cruel joke and he paid for it with his life. You canāt say that Aemond deserved to lose his eye because he insulted the Blacks kids with WORDS, then accuse him of being evil for killing Luke who took his eye. Maimed > Insults. Also even though Aemond had reason to kill Luke, it was Vhagar who ultimately did it. Arraxās human attacked Vhagarās humans and Vhagar never forgot that. Vhagar felt Aemondās pain that night and felt his anger and injustice afterwards.
Jace is soo far from perfect, Rhaenyra is an unreliable narrator about her sons. Especially Jacaerys.
Jace was an a-s-s-h-o-l-e.
He thought less of and bullied Aemond for not having a Dragon. He has an elitest mindset that nothing matters or can oppose him because heās a Targaryen. Heās not even an amazing brother like people make him out to be. He is dismissive of Lukeās feelings and his depression over his life and the position he was born into. Then thereās the scene of him beating him and throwing him around on the beach, insulting and yelling at him. In Darksvisterās release of the expanded scene thereās this exchange:
Steffon: āYou might go easier on him, my prince. So he can learn what you're trying to teach.ā
JACE: āHe needs to be ready if he ever means to be respected by his enemies.ā
*Jace directs this at Luke, brow-beating him. The younger boy's shoulders sag. He is having a tough day already.*
STEFFON: āRespected? Or feared?ā
JACE: āBetter to be feared than mocked.ā
*Steffon frowns at Jace, not as convinced.*
He is literally bullying his brother, it would definitely be seen that way if it was the Green brothers.
Jace was an elitist and was on his way to being a tyrant.
āDragons will win the lords over quicker than ravens.ā
Meaning he meant to threaten Houses with Dragonfire if they didnāt join Rhaenyra.
These are all things that team black would hate Team Green for but somehow theyāre excused and misconstrued as noble when itās Rhaenyraās sons.
I agree with all of this. All of Jace's and Luke's nastiness is erased by the fandom in the name of propping up Rhaenyra, because acknowledging that they're assholes would inevitably reflect badly on Rhaenyra and we can't have that, now can we? After all, it certainly would not make any sense for Rhaenyra, who's been enabled and told her whole life that she's special and better than everyone else for being a Targaryen, a dragonrider, and the heir to the throne would herself become a toxic, enabling parent who raises her kids to believe they're better than everyone else...
I've been accused by TB stans of hating Rhaenyra because I'm willing to criticise her for her mistakes, which feels really unfair because I think there's a lot to like about her character - I just prefer my characters to have flaws. Erasing those flaws does the characters no favours. That is especially true with regard to Jace, who has so little personality to begin with. Like you said, what little we do see of him does show that he's not a good person. I don't know how Team Black managed to forget that this is not Heroes vs Villains, this is War Criminals vs War Criminals and we're simply meant to choose which war criminals we like the most. The characters themselves might deny that they're bad people, but the audience sure as hell isn't supposed to do that. That's missing the point.
This is largely the reason why I think Luke's death is ultimately Aemond's fault, even if it wasn't his intention. (Whether that was a good choice by the writers is another matter.) It's understandable, and considerably less bad than if he'd killed Luke intentionally, but it's still not excusable to me. I lean toward the opinion that revenge does more harm than good, but I do not blame Aemond at all for wanting it. I'd want it too if I were him. Considering that formative trauma he experienced as a child it's no wonder he would become pretty messed up as an adult. Of course he's become resentful and obsessed with getting revenge on Luke. Of course his obsession with revenge would make him reckless and not consider the potential consequences. Does that make him a bad person? Maybe, but it sure as hell doesn't make him any worse than Luke is for mutilating him to begin with. Luke absolutely deserved to be punished for what he did; I don't want to get bogged down by arguments over whether he truly deserved to be killed. YMMV.
As you say, Vhagar felt Aemond's pain and rage and acted on those feelings despite him not actually wanting her to, but at the end of the day it was Aemond who got reckless and forgot that dragons have a will of their own. If he didn't actually want Luke dead, he could've chosen to not fly after Luke to toy with him in the first place. As understandable as his actions are, in my opinion it was a very stupid thing to do, especially considering that the family is already on the brink of war and killing Rhaenyra's beloved son isn't gonna help them avoid war, is it? (Though I guess good on him for taking one for the people by kickstarting the war that spelled the beginning of the end for the royal family... we stan a communist icon) None of this makes me like or sympathise with Aemond less, though. Again, unlike the Team Black stans, I prefer my characters to have flaws and make mistakes.
#i hope this makes sense#i really don't like to deny that the characters i like and sympathise with do bad things bc that's exactly what annoys me about tb stans#aemond targaryen#anti lucerys velaryon#anti jacaerys velaryon#anti rhaenyra targaryen#<- not really but iām tired of her stans jumping in my inbox
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What consequences should Luke get for cutting Aemondās eye? He was 5. Would scolding him have made a difference? Kids donāt even understand and he never hurt anyone like that again so clearly he ālearned his lessonā. Should he have been beaten? Had his eye taken? He was supposedly so wrong for laughing at Aemond at dinner even though Aemond in the past and later that scene threatens their lives and their momās claim every time he calls them bastards. Also Luke did suffer for what he did, he got KILLED.
Well first of all, anyone should talk to him about his role in the conflict - not just him but his brother as well. After all, they are the one who brought a knife to ambush Vhagar's new rider in the middle of the night. They didn't have to do any of that. It's also clear in the fight that the decision to use the knife was made after Aemond called them bastards, not in supposed self-defense against Aemond's counterattacks. The decision to use the knife to maim Aemond was made out of a desire to hurt him for his words and taunts. And by the way, neither Strong kid knew that such an insult was somehow damaging to politics. They're kids, and Luc didn't even know that Laenor wasn't his father at this point! They just knew it was something bad to be called that, and so they wanted to hurt Aemond for it. At this point, in the show anyway, Luc is 7-8 years old, and Jace is likely 9-10, so both of these kids are old enough where they should know it's not cool to be beating up on another kid. Aemond is about 10-11 here, so not much older than the other kids (Baela and Rhaena likely being 8-9).
Should Aemond have been mean and said this to his attackers? Well no, but if I got jumped by four kids and mercilessly beaten by all of them at once, while I was also a kid only a bit older than them, I probably would also be hurling insults and trying to hurt them back. Especially if I just claimed the biggest dragon in the world and was feeling a confident from that.
The point is that Jace brought a knife to an ambush of four on one and then tried to use it to cut Aemond, and then he threw sand in his face so Luc could actually cut him in the face. And then nobody - not their mother, father, or grandfather - questioned their role in a four on one jumping of a kid with a knife and instead threatened that kid and his mother with further torture and/or mutilation if they spoke about it or spoke the truth of the situation.
I feel like the right move would have been at least for their mother to talk to the boys about what happened and address the situation at all. Better yet, discuss the impact of Aemond losing an eye on the boy himself or on future conflict that could come out of violent or angry impulses and how heirs to the throne need to know when to choose their battles, or something like that. She could even tie it to her conversation with Daemon about how she knows the Greens will be against them and they need to be prepared. Ideally, Viserys would also require some kind of apology from Luc for Aemond's eye being lost. But obviously their mother is kind of known for her inability to think things through long term, so I guess it makes sense that she would never try to talk to them about any of this or even discuss her sons' true nature with them (so that they could be better equipped to face the challenges ahead of them). And Viserys was too weak-willed and favored his daughter too much to want to upset her or anything, so of course he just ignored the circumstances of how Aemond lost an eye and the impact it had on him and his family. All of this just means that the Strong boys never had to really reckon with their actions and choices in this event, what had happened, and how it changed things for a lot of people.
Basically, the lesson the boys learned here was that they can do what they want because ultimately their mother and the king will always have their back, and they were justified in jumping and disabling their own family member over an insult and his claiming of a dragon. And this lesson of their untouchability and justification at others being maimed/killed to protect them was retaught to them when their mother pushed their claim at court, despite everyone, even themselves, knowing it to be based on lies, and the king defended the dishonesty and allowed for the man upset about his family's seat being given to someone without Velaryon blood to be savagely executed from behind in front of everyone with no consequence (despite the punishment of the man for speaking the truth being only that his tongue should be cut out of his mouth).
The dinner scene then directly follows this. These boys have seen their mother and the king will always support them over other people, even the king's own children, no matter what, and they believe that their past actions were justified and those who question them deserve injury or death. So of course when the pig is brought to the table with one eye facing Luc, he stares right at Aemond before laughing in his face. Because he knows Aemond can't really do anything about it! And because he genuinely sees nothing wrong with laughing about old harms like permanently disabling someone in front of that same person they disabled. Except oops, now there's an indirect toast that Aemond makes in front of the immediate family (note: not in public or to the court, which could actually do any political damage or supposedly "threaten lives and claims") to provoke a fight from one of the Strong boys, who started the fight last time against Aemond, but this time Aemond and Aegon actually know how to fight and are prepared to work together.
Then, war is looming and Storm's End happens. As tragic as Luc's death is, it is a natural consequence of the entire situation going on with the Strong boys and the Green kids. The Strong boys felt invincible with the support of their mother and the king, and the Green kids felt isolated and vulnerable, but then the threat of war came, and Aemond sought out the justice he believed he was always owed but denied.
It's tragic. And I believe that if Lucerys was talked with or had been made to apologize to Aemond, some of Aemond's desire for vengeance might have been lessened. As Aemond's actor put it, Aemond got over the loss of his eye, but he never got over the fact that it was taken and there was no justice or consequences whatsoever for those who took it from him and made him permanently disabled. Had Luc's actions been properly addressed by literally anyone, Aemond may not have been so driven by his desire for justice and the situation with Luc at Storm's End might not have happened the way that did it. So yes, there should have been consequences for Luc. It very well may have saved him that day.
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Jacegan week 2024: Day One, Ritual
AU, where instead of training the dragons, Valirians were taught to turn into them, albeit the Doom still happened. However, instead of conquering Westeros, they decided to concentrate on Essos and create their kingdom at former Slaverās Bay lands. So by the canonical Dance of Dragons time, Westeros is divided between Hoarās kingdom(which includes not only the Iron Islands, but the Westlands, Reach and half of Riverlands)(another half is held by Arryn kingdom). The North is still an independent kingdom and Cregan is its king, newly got rid of his uncle Bennard. One day, Cregan decides to take a ride to Deepwood Moot with his half-sister Sara and lord Servin, his friend. The Hoar still attempts to conquer the North, and the castle is still the stronghold against them.
Once they get near the castle, it seems that a big shadow flies over it, but it disappears as soon as Cregan looks away.
And the next day, a young man appears at the village nearby. This man looks quite ordinary - dark hair, grey eyes, slender build - and wears simple clothes but no weapon but a simple knife. He wanders along the shore and village, chats with smallfolk, exchanges drinks with guards and relentlessly asks if some strange things happened here.
At first, Cregan doesnāt notice him - until he notices that the boyās clothes are not really made for Northās weather. They are made of linen, and not of wool or leather and totally are not suited even for summer in the North, yet the man seems not to give a damn about this. He doesn't even seem to feel cold.
Cregan is overcomed by curiosity and, despite Lord Cervinās and Lord Gloverās objections, calls him in, while at the same time attempting to dig where this man comes from.
At first, it seems itās necessary, because the man(whose name is Jace) seems to wear his heart on his sleeve. He simply talks that he came from the Bay of Free Men in Essos, where he lived with his mothers, father, four little brothers and baby sister and he just came to travel the world. He tells of high pyramids and earthly gray rocks, of deep blue sea, orange trees and the dragons living among the people. He is ready to tell about long channels of water built and the gardens of thousand trees and flowers blooming in the places where there was nothing but sand one hundred years ago. He tells how the family running from the Doom of Valyria had taken these places for themselves and rebuilt these Bay from nothing.
From the distances of thousand miles, the story of the place is like a fairytale or a legend dating back to the Long Night, and maybe it is hard to believe it here, but Cregan finds it interesting. So, he starts to spend more time with the man from the Free Manās Bay. He is still interested in why this man came to the North.
When he asked Jace about it, he just shrugged his shoulders and said:
ā I need to complete one ritual here.
Cregan doesnāt understand. He knows of rituals people practice: of blood oaths and self-sacrifice, which was used by heathen priests of the Old Gods until the said priests were caught and executed. But what type of ritual does this man want to complete?
It does not help that Jace is actually a very interesting person to speak with. He is smart, knows a lot of things, is ready to talk a lot about everything including the history of different lands and their legends, and nevertheless, never seems like he wants to boast about everything he knows. He is ready to allow other people to express themselves and listens to them patiently before starting to speak. He does not seem the man who is ready to immolish himself for unknown reasons. And so he soughts to spend as much time with him as possible.
One day, the Ironborn of Hoar attack the coast. Cregan, of course, canāt just stand and watch and enters the battle alongside Cervin. However, since the forces of Hoars are stronger than canon Greyjoys(because their kingdom is bigger and richer), the battle ends up being bloody and Northern men lose a lot of their men.
Until the green dragon arrives. He flies over Ironborns ships and burns them, and then attacks and starts to kill those Ironborn, who are standing nearby them. The remainings understand what that means and start to throw themselves at Northern positions and one of them hits Cregan into his head and the latter loses his consciousness.
He wakes up at the cave. Nearby, the sea hums. The first man he sees here is Jace, with part of his clothes torn and the green-grey scales on the cheekbones.
Cregan asks for answers.
And Jace - who reveals himself to be Jacaerys Velaryon, son of the ruler of the Dragonmen of the Bay of Free Men - tells him everything. Tells not only about the kingdom, which is ruled by his mother now, but about his relatives as well, about his brothers and little sister, about his uncles and aunts. He also explains what brought him to the North. The Dragonmen have their special initiation rituals and the young dragonman should make his 12 feats - 6 by his own volition and 6 by anotherās choice. He already completed 11 of them and now is doing another the last. He came to the North to complete his ritual and rise to full-blown member of Dragonmen society.
Cregan remembers the stories coming from Vale about dragons kidnapping young maidens, and asks if it is a ritual too. Jace laughs and says that they do not kidnap only the maidens but the handsome knights too - it is how his mother meets his father. However, they do not cause them any harm and the only dragon who burned them alive was his great-granduncle Maegor, who is considered a monster by their tribesmen.
Cregan doesnāt remember, for how many time they kissed eachother after this.
After that, Jace suddenly gets more serious and tells Cregan about the reason he came to the North - to stop one of the sea snakes terrorizing the costs of the islands. The sea snakes are the bitter rivals of Dragonmen like the fireworms(From whom they descend) and unlike them, are pure animals. He says that those creatures crave human blood and arrive at the places of battles to eat it and leave them after catching humans to be eaten alive. He says that smallfolk believe that giving a young woman to them to fend it off and bring prosperity in winter. For a lot of them this is the ritual. Cregan suddenly understands what those implications mean, gets what to do with it and gets up to rush to the shore to help. Jacaerys understands and goes with him.
And they turn out to be right. After the sea snake comes to the battlefield, the smallfolk uses the usual panacea - Sara ends up as the sacrifice for this sea snake. She ends up chained to the rock formation.
But as the day closes, and the nobles and smallfolk meet an unlikely couple - a dragon and thought to be a disappeared young lord - who come to rescue the chained lady and get rid of the attacking sea monster forever.
#house of the dragon#hotd#jacegan#jacaerys velaryon#cregan stark#jace x cregan#AU#jacegan week 2024#fire and blood#asoiaf
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Apologies, I know it's fictional, but I find it very uncomfortable every time I see lots of comments stating that Aemond should've 'gotten over' or 'moved on' about losing his eye. Because no child should've experienced the horrible pain of losing an eye but sadly they don't see Aemond as a child, but a 'theft' and a 'hightower' and the fact that being insulted was given more care and attention than losing a part of your body, that made me sympathized with Aemond, I understand why he is still angry about it for years. He lost an eye, that's not something to be brushed under the rug so quickly. I would've been more sympathetic towards the strong boys for being called bastards but they were shitheads with no character to speak of (their older counterparts too) so why would I vouch for them.
yeah jace being "forgiven" by the fandom for pulling a knife on aemond for calling him a bastard because he's a kid, but aemond - who's 1-2 older is an adult and should just "get over" his eye being cut out is insane.
aemond did not start the fight. he claimed his dragon and was ready to go to bed and call it a day. the kids approached and attacked him first. it's one of those situations where you can understand where everyone were coming from.
baela and rhaena just lost their mom and this stranger just claimed her dragon. their anger was justified. aemond, who was finally getting the upper hand on his bullies. and jace - who was already feeling insecure from prev convo with rhaenyra & panicked and pulled the knife (i still think that he should've been scolded & held accountable for that. he's old enough to know better)
at the end of the day, it was a children's fight that without an adult supervision went out of control. i can understand and sympathize with all of the kids.
but while we, the audience, understand that luke was a kid and didn't mean to cut aemond's eye out - it's ridicules to expect aemond, the victim, to realize that. he's ANGRY. he lost his eye & luke got away without punishment & rhaenyra tried to blame him and his mom (and i can also understand that. she was protecting her own). & his father confirmed that he didn't give a shit about him.
so yeah, i can def understand and sympathize with aemond's anger and feeling of injustice. i do, however, hold luke accountable for his behavior in ep 8. he laughed at aemond, completely unprovoked. can you imagine seeing someone - a family member that you accidently permanently injured and laugh at his face remembering the days you used to bully him??? wtf??
after that, aemond prob wanted his revenge even more.
and no, luke didn't deserve to die. but i can def understand aemond in this situation.
#hotd#house of the dragon#pro aemond targaryen#aemond targaryen#pro team green#team green#asks#lucerys strong
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do you really think aemond is innocent? yes he lost an eye but luke was defending his brother since aemond almost killed jace with a rock? he didnt cut out his eye on purpose. he purposefully claimed laenas dragon at her funeral when everyone was asleep, knowing it was her daughters birthright to at least attempt to claim it first, then he punched a little girl in the face
I think the answer needs to be broken down if few parts so, bear with me.
Vhagar. The moment Laena passed, anyone had the chance to try and claim her. She's not something Laena owned that she could pass down to her children, because dragons don't belong to anyone and there is no birthright to try and claim them before someone else. As crude as it is, it's a come first, first served kind of situation, not "my mom owned Vhagar, therefore I have the precedence here". Dragons can't be owned, nor inherited. They choose their rider, not the other way around. A rider survives the feat because the dragon chooses them, it's the dragon's choice that matters, not the fact that the late parent of the rider used to ride that dragon.
The fight. He was attacked by other four kids, that he would try to fight back and not just take it, it's normal, considering that he was being taught how to fight.
The rock. If he truly wanted to kill Jace, he wouldn't have stood there with the rock in his hand, he would have hit him, period. To me he was a way to try and scare the other kids away, otherwise he would have used it immediately.
The knife. The moment someone attacks another person with a weapon, and I underline attack, not stand with a potential weapon in his hand, they have to accept the fact that they might hurt/maim the other person. Luke went for the face, with a knife, accepting fully that he was escalating a fistfight into something bigger and uglier. He could have tackled Aemond to the ground and the whole situation wouldn't have had such a terrible conclusion. By bringing a knife in, he knew he was going to hurt him badly, wherever the blow would have landed.
Innocence. No one is innocent in the HOTD world, not even the children, because they are being poisoned with hate within the womb. The TV series did a huge disservice in dividing the camp between the "good" ones and the "bad" ones, because they're all shades of grey and no one is truly innocent.
One last thing: losing a limb, any limb, is a traumatic experience that should never be discounted. It causes the person chronic pain, body dismorphia and makes navigating a world that is made for people who are "healthy" a nightmare. It's a huge trauma that can never be justified.
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The smell of copper
Warning lol this is me cringe posting about Frostkettle
Uhhhh. Vague desc of blood warning. Doomed Yuri fr
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You have just killed the girl you love.
There is this unimaginable guilt that wracks your body as you wait by her side. It feels like the first time you ever had a panic attack. But you don't have those anymore. You're grown, you know how to breathe through it. Its just the smell of corpses wafting up your nose and choking you. It's just the corpses. It's just the blood. The distinct copper smell. Like the family tea kettle. It's just copper.
There's no doubt in your heart that she'll come back. He promised you forever with her. It's right at your fingertips yet you can't feel the warmth of glory. You can't hear the beating drums of success. Why can't you hear her heart? She should be back by now. She should be clutching on to you and thanking you. She should be back.
You hold your head to her chest. Maybe she's just...taking a few minutes more. Lucy was always one to lag behind. Especially in the forest... she'd take her time. She always said it was to examine the flowers. You love Lucy, she cared too much. She was too busy with the ethical options, that's what you liked about her. She was your canary, your red alert, she always stopped you when you went too far.
But she didn't stop you here. Some part of her- must've agreed? Right? Lucy wouldn't hide things from you. You're best friends.
She's your best friend. You love her. She knows that right? Even in her last moments, she knew right? You told her it... Often. You think you did. You hope you did. But you can't remember The last time you did. When's the last time you told her you loved her?
You feel your necklace Press against your bloodied uniform. The Ritual looks much different when you're willing to give up your life. You tried to get her to give it up as well. You tried to make her see reason. But by the end of it. All of you had to take drastic measures, and Lucy put up a good fight. You could barely managed to keep focused on her through the volley of spells and counter spells.
Your knife grazed her half of the necklace. When you snuck up on her. And stabbed her in the heart. It felt a little bit too on the nose to stab her in the back. You find that almost comedic. This was good for her, you knew this would be good for her! It's the way to beat the bad kids, to be successful, you have been trying your entire life to succeed. To be a hero. And you were so considerate letting her and the others come with you.
You squeeze the dirt. And move your hands up to squeeze her sweater. Waiting for something. Her blood and the dirt mix together to create a copper color. And you feel so guilty for staining her ivory turtleneck.
You did this so you wouldn't be alone in your successes, sharing it with an ego maniac like Porter. He's just a means to an end.
She's supposed to be your end.
She's supposed to be in your end.
When you and her were kids. She would wrap her hands around yours, behind the school building. You would just sit and cry together, with the few minutes you had between classes. It's hard to be a halfling in a school dominated by people who are bigger and scarier than you, who mock you for your appearance, who mock you for your family name. You thought the family kettle was cool, so you brought it to show the people you wanted to be your friends. And by the end of the day it ended up with four different dents.
You were so angry. You were so hurt. She made it better. You know she made it better so why isn't she making it better now? Why isn't she back already? You yell at her. By this point you're begging. Sobbing over her body. You can see Jace looming like the coward he is right behind a tree in front of you. You scream at him. Telling him to go away.
You think on some level. Jace thinks of you as what he was, a failure, it's no secret that he has no confidence in himself without the other. You're gripping onto Lucy and Ruben, by this time has already been walked away by the others. The last of them to leave you alone? Is Jace surprisingly. It's hesitant you can tell, by the way his footsteps pause. But it's not long before he hurries off.
Maybe it's out of some twisted form of respect for your grieving. You don't even know. At what point did it set in? The smell of copper, the taste of copper, the color, the feeling. The fading warmth of your favorite cup of tea, a fire put out, burning passion that's faded. Lucy Frost blade will never see her next birthday.
She can't make it better this time.
She's dead.
It's been hours.
You've ruined it. You don't get to have the ending you wanted.
You'll get the ending you deserve.
Whatever it takes.
#kipperlilly copperkettle#dimension 20#d20#fhjy#lucy frostblade#this is bad cause i wrote it in less then an hour
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Hello @spacerockfloater! This is going to be kind of long but I would like to have a genuine discussion about the post you made regarding Jace, Luke, Baela, and Rhaena. Some of the claims you made are things I have not seen in the books/show, but I am open to knowing I'm wrong and learning more about the characters from hotd.
"theyāre some of the most vicious, aggressive, cowardly, snotty brats weāve ever seen in this franchise..." --- I'm genuinely curious, do you consider them to be on the same level as Aegon II, Joffrey, Gregor, Ramsey, etc.?
"Lucerys is a hypocritical twat that bullied the boy he grew up with because he didnāt have a dragon, but then heās totally okay hanging out with Rhaena who doesnāt have one either." --- I'm not sure if youāre a book purist or regard the show as more truthful, regardless, I think it's acceptable to assume Lucerys is not an evil mastermind. In the show, Luke is portrayed as being influenced by Aegon II to play jokes/make fun of Aemond. In the books, itās explained less in depth, but consider that Lucerys is a 5ā6-year-old child, I think itās safe to assume every person didnāt have the best judgment/were rude as children.
"He pulls out a knife and blinds Aemond for no fucking reason, after his gang attacked him first..." --- Once again, I believe both the show and book disprove this, or at least add nuance to the situation. In the book, Aemond pushed Joffrey which incited the incident. While being pushed is not an excuse to blind someone, it can be inferred that there was an escalation to a fight that proceeded after Aemond claimed Vhagar. In the show Aemond was attacked first after taunting Rhaena, however during this fight he shouts āYouāll Dieā. If I heard this, I too would probably start blindly swinging with any weapon I had at my attacker. I don't believe Lucerys sought out Aemond with the intention of blinding him.
"He tries to boss lord Borros around by telling him that heās obligated to ally with Rhaenyra even if there isnāt anything in him for it." --- From what I can tell, the book and show disprove this. Lucerys was sent as a messenger, in the book, he was said to have given Borros the message, explained that he couldnāt wed one of his daughters and then tried to leave. Aemond then instigated an argument which prompted Lucerys to say he was sent as a messenger, nowhere in any of this conflict did Luke demand anything from Borros. He simply delivered the message and intended to leave.
"Jacaerys is also very two faced for the exact same reasons as Lucerys, with the addition of having anger management issues." --- Like Lucerys, Jacaerys didnāt tease/exclude Aemond because of his lack of a dragon, it was most likely because he insulted his mother and questioned his parentage. I assume you mention 'anger issues' because of the dinner scene and the sword fighting scene? In the dinner scene he was being provoked, but yes, in the swordfight scene Jace seemed angry for no reason.
"He beats the living shit out of his little brother when theyāre training at the beach, kicks him to the ground and grabs him by the throat because he is upset their uncles are better warriors than them?" --- Iāll admit I don't like this scene much either, but he doesnāt violently beat Luke up. It was a standard sword fight, yes Jace did push Luke and speak to him harshly, but He didnāt grab him by the throat he grabs him by the arm. When in the book or show was it mentioned that Jacaerys was envious of his uncleās prowess? This wasnāt mentioned at all in the sword fight scene from the show.
"He is already obsessed with the idea of becoming king, to the point that his own mother has to remind him that sheās actually alive and well and he would have to wait a good fucking while before his dreams come true" --- What scene is this/when did this happen in the book? Are you referencing when Rhaenyra was miscarrying Visenya?
"He very likely married Sara Snow, betraying his fiancĆ©e, in order to gain the Starksā help, which is very dishonourable" --- This is a rumor spread by mushroom, the same person that claimed Alicent ādid more than just reading with Jahaerysā, yet I don't see anyone taking him seriously when he said that. It is never confirmed that Sara Snow is a real person, or that Jace married her. Jace didnāt win the North by supposedly marrying a member of house Stark, it is very clear that Cregan didnāt want to break his familyās oath (what the Starks are known for), and respected Jace, therefore he pledged his allegiance to Rhaenyra
"Baela is a deranged evil girl who was ready to throw hands on sight" --- Why do you consider her evil? She was fighting the war for her stepmother and the woman she considered her queen. Are you referencing the fight with Aemond?
"She becomes a drunkard and whoremonger who spends her money gambling in the rat pits, the places where children fight one another in Kingās Landing, once she grows up, or is it wrong only when Aegon II does it?" --- I feel that it's understandable for someone to turn to drinking and other escapes after losing their dragon, father, step-mother, step-siblings, and their betrothed. Also, she bets in the rat pits, these mostly consist of rat fights and occasionally dog vs rat fights, I do not believe it is ever mentioned that she watched the child fights. Itās wrong when Aegon does it because he would actively bet and watch the child fights (also he was just a bad person), whereas it's not confirmed that Baela ever did.
"Rhaena is an aggressive coward who seems more preoccupied with the acquisition of a dragon than her motherās death." --- In the show, Rhaena is seen visibly upset and in mourning at her motherās funeral. I don't believe it's selfish of her to want Vhagar. Would you not want to have something of your mothers after her passing? To Rhaena, possessing Vhagar was most likely a way to honor and remember her mother, as well as a way to gain a dragon.
"She didnāt have the guts to go and claim Vhagar, but she feels powerful enough to confront Aemond when she has three people backing her up." --- She has enough respect and awareness to assume that taking her motherās dragon on the day of her funeral is not appropriate. According to you, itās concerning that Rhaena apparently isnāt mourning her mother, but Aemond shows no hint of remorse or respect for Laena or her daughters on the day of his auntās funeral. He displays little to no emotion over the death of his cousinās mother/his aunt, and then claims Vhagar the same day as her funeral.
"Lucerys does not convince Borros to side with his mother and drops dead like a fly" --- Lucerys was not sent to āConvince Borrosā, he was simply delivering his motherās message. He doesnāt ādrop deadā, he was killed (or murdered depending on how you interpret Aemondsā intentions) by Aemond.
"Jacaerys is immediately killed during his embarrassing attempt to fight the Triarchy, not to mention that he was the reason his youngest half siblings were captured and nearly killed because he had the brilliant idea of sending them away" --- Jacaerys wasnāt immediately killed during this battle. Why is it a bad idea to send away people you love who are too young to fight/defend themselves, especially after a young boy (Luke) was killed already in the war?
"Baela loses the only dragon fight she was ever part of to Aegon II and Sunfyre who were very injured by a previous fight already" ---Aegon and Sunfyre were already injured, but Baelaās dragon, Moondancer, was a baby in comparison (Size of horse), yet still prevailed in killing Sunfyre. Baela may have ālostā the battle, but so did Aegon and Sunfyre (Aegon was severely burned/never fully recovered and Sunfyre died due to its wounds)
"Rhaena is justā¦ there. Doing nothing. Never avenging her husbandās death, eventually marrying a Hightower. Yikes" --- Rhaena had no dragon, and has never been shown/described as having sword training or battle experience like Baela. Even when Rhaena did have a dragon, it was still too small to ride/do damage with. What would you have her do? She was sent to the Vale for her protection, and likely couldnāt leave. She married a Hightower, but it is never stated that she wanted or chose to marry him. Most likely she had no say in it, it was probably arranged by her brother or another lord. With how much you and other greens talk about how Alicent was forced in an arranged marriage to the king (I agree it was an arranged marriage and I pity Alicent for being forced to endure what she did), you don't seem to consider that many if not all other marriages in Westeros are arranged, Including Both Baela's and Rhaena's marriages
Sorry this was so long lol, also my apologies for any grammar/spelling mistakes in advanceš
Actually thank you for being such a polite and sweet person, itās always so nice to have a civil conversation with someone else and discuss opposite ideas! ā¤ļø Please never apologise for any typos, we all make plenty!
So to answer all of your questions (my answers may be a bit short, excuse me for that, I have a terrible headache and Iām working on my thesis):
- Absolutely the fuck not, I make sure to clarify in the last paragraph of my post that there are much more evil kids in ASOIAF, such as the one you mentioned. Itās just that in HOTD they are in no way pure angels and the fandom assigning them the ābaby that can do no wrongā title baffles me.
- Iām in no way a show/ book purist, I choose to treat both of them as entirely different pieces of media because thatās what they are to me. I canāt say one is canon and the other is not. I believe that they are standalone versions of the same generic story. Generally, most of my posts are HOTD critical (like the one about the kids youāre referring to) and I only cite F&B as source when it comes to events that have not yet happened/ or were altered in the show, e.g. the deaths of Jace and Jof, Rhaenyra disinheriting two eldest daughters etc. But youāll never seen me cry that āOh, Aegon was never a rapist in the book!ā because the book is a different version and this is no longer canon in the HOTD show. So until these events are proven to be non canon either, Iāll reference them, as they are thoughts I had when I was reading F&B. That being said, in HOTD Lucerysā and Aemondās age difference was drastically reduced so I will not be giving Luc brownie points for being a couple of years younger than Aemond. To me theyāre both children at first, and then theyāre both teenagers when Luc laughs at Aemondās face. He may not be an evil mastermind, but I donāt see anything less than problematic, let alone praise worthy, in him. Side not, I also think kid Aegon II was a despicable little thing for the way he bullied his brother, but at least he made up for it when it really mattered, am I right?
- As I said, my post concerns characters in HOTD and their equivalents in F&B are only brought up when their actions are not proven non canon in the show. Jof was never part of the incident in HOTD, hence why I didnāt mention him, but likeā¦ shoving your unsupervised younger family member back because heās trying to get you into trouble for something that does not concern him in the slightest, still doesnāt sound worthy of being ganged up and disabled to me. Both show and book Rhaenyra should have really taught these kids to mind their business. Aemond insults Rhaena after she challenges him. Aemomd tells them theyāll die screaming after 8 pairs of hands have tried knocking his teeth out. I donāt know about Luc, but I wouldnāt be shocked when someone that I kicked down to the ground with 3 other people wants me to die, but thatās just me. Maybe donāt throw hands in the first place? Say youāre sorry before you pull out a knife and try to de-escalate what you started? Lol.
- Luc is not simply just a messenger, he is in line for the Iron Throne and a core member of Rhaenyraās family. Sending him as an envoy to Borros with nothing to offer back was obviously his motherās fault, yet this doesnāt make the way he demanded Borrosā loyalty any less disrespectful and unimpressive to Borros himself who received him. Aemond, on the other hand, who in HOTD is only slightly older than Luc, came baring a logical proposal.
- Aemond insulted Jace after he laid hands on him. Jace attacked Aemond because everyone else was doing it. He is violent for all the reasons I stated. And at the dinner table, he is violent because his immediate reaction to hearing something he doesnāt like is to throw hands.
- Jace kicked Luc in the chest and knocks the wind out of him, grabs him by the collar and screams āwhat was that?ā. He is violent and jealous of his uncles, that was the whole point of the scene where they see how good of a fighter Aemond is and they just stand there sulking, and he is upset that Aemond folded him in half during the dinner fight that Jace started. He is upset theyāre not as good and he takes it out on his brother.
- I am referring to the scene in which heās speaking Valyrian and tells his mum what kind of king he is determined to be to which Rhaenyra replies that he should take it down a notch because thereās plenty of time until that happens āunless youāre planning to depose of your own motherā and Jaceās answer is to say nothing.
- I donāt bring up Alicentās rumoured relationship with Mushroom because itās not show canon and this is a show discussion. I bring the Sara rumour up because it is not yet proven to not be canon. So sorry for being repetitive about that, I hope I have conveyed my way of thinking, lol! ā¤ļø And to be fair, we donāt personally know Cregan or what he wants, lol. He did conveniently wait for the winter to end and marched down only after the war was over, so he definitely is the type of person to look after his own people and interests first. In the new leaked dialogue of his it sounds like heās berating Jace for the way he treats the people of the nightās watch. So weāll have to wait and see.
- I consider her evil both because of her fight with Aemond but also because she pulled out a knife and sliced the face of the guard who asked her not to approach her brother when he was king. I think youāre a bit confused about the rat pits, lol. The first time we hear of them is from Mushroom when he said that Aegon II was found in a rat pit in which heās explaining that children fight. So a rat pit was never about rats lol. Rats is a nickname for the poor kids there. And then it is confirmed that Baela also frequented there and placed bets, by betting her money or clothes, so fuck them both lol.
- I donāt consider Rhaena making it her priority to claim her motherās nuclear weapon for herself when her corpse wasnāt even cold yet a galant action to honour Laena. I see it as desperation to gain Daemonās approval, but to each their own.
- All the other points you mention were made in order to clarify that all of these kids completely failed in whatever task they sought to accomplish and have no achievements, making them unimpressive and not praise worthy. (Btw, Sunfyre actually survived for months after and ate Rhaenyra? HE was the one to kill Moondancer, not the other way around? Sunfyre died due to the combined damage he received during the war because he was the dragon that participated in most battles and won them all.) Like, kudos to them for trying if you wanna applaud them for that, but they all likeā¦ failed. So Iāll not treat them as if theyāre the best next thing after sliced bread, lol. Iāll treat them as they are in canon and not peopleās head-canons about them: violent entitled underachievers.
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Team fandom fights has rotted the brains of some I fear. Iām mostly team green but that person is embarrassing! Loud and Wrong! A lot of people are projecting hard onto these characters to the point where they no longer understand the characterization or the relationships between everyone
Absolutely, it is projection bc they didnāt get it from F&B or even the show. Especially onto Aemond. Half the takes on the show are peopleās headcanons they collectively decided to treat as canon while what actually happened on screen is ignored. Itās also people who have been in their own little fandom bubbles and echo chambers since season 1 so they feel comfortable saying bullshit and donāt think anyone will even question what theyāre saying. Echo chambers where people tell each other every character that isnāt their fave is secretly a horrible person and their faves are perfect and should be defended no matter what.
The characters during the dance are not a monolith of a āteamā, they are individuals. For example, Aemond and Rhaena are much different than Aegon and Baela. Totally different; each pair one on team green one on team black yet totally different characters and interactions with each other. First off Aemond is absolutely wrong in his interaction with Rhaena and thatās not the first time Iāve seen people try to justify the āride a pigā comments seconds after acknowledging it as bullying when itās said by one of the strong boys.
Aemond and Rhaena barely interact, and adding up all their interactions, there is no normal person in this world that would say Rhaena is a bad person and not only that, but that Aemond or literally anyone would be justified in attacking her in any kind of way. Thereās literally people in the fandom saying she should be killed by Aemond like wtf š¤Ø Literally going off the characterization of them, Aemond is STILL pissed at the strong boys and there is absolutely no reason anyone should be falsely claiming he hates Baela and Rhaena at the end of season 1. Hence why the WRITERS of the show have him ranting endlessly about strong boys despite Baela and Rhaena being randomly added to the fight scene. Heās not mad because a younger girl hit him, heās mad because he doesnāt like the strong boys and his eye was taken out. Aemond doesnāt give af about being pushed by a girl years younger than him, much smaller than him, and who isnāt trained to fight. And heās not mentioning them in his little toast for a reason. Especially not Rhaena, when Aemond is a character that absolutely knows he was wrong in how he spoke to her and mocked her for not having a dragon, but would not admit it. That doesnāt mean heās besties with them, that means they would literally just have a ācordialā relationship post time skip if the dance never happened. Even Baela is cordial with Aegon and calls him cousin despite not knowing that mf and this is after sheās hearing him be disrespectful for the first time.
This takes me back to the dinner moment where Rhaena raises her cup to Aemond after Viserysā toast. Anyways, I just think itās funny. Iāve also seen people creating fan art showing Baela and Rhaena flipping off Aemond and being antagonistic towards him when they literally arenāt like that whatsoever. This seems like the false characterization of Baela and Rhaena and their relationship with Aemond specifically that fans are constantly trying to push despite that not being on screen. Donāt even get me started that Aemond literally watched Rhaena clearly disagreeing with him and Jace fighting. Disagreeing with both Jace pulling out a knife and Aemond grabbing a rock.
People are not paying attention to this show and just seeing what they want to see atp.
Aegon and Baela interact multiple times and Baela genuinely canāt stand him. Then we add in the show interactions with him sexually harassing her, they have a fight and legitimately have no reason to give af about each other. Baela is not some mindless violent person despite what people keep pushing, she literally jumped in shock when Daemon killed Vaemond. Aegon is not a good person to Baela, and no amount of people saying Baela went to the rat pits is going to change that.
The interactions between Aegon and Baela is more obvious and itās just impossible to misinterpret what type of people they are and their moments. The events of the dance and Aegonās behavior leads Baela, someone who has never killed anyone, to risk her life attacking him. They are supposed to oppose each other. Their dragons names are literally Moondancer and Sunfyre.
That being said, despite what the chronically online claim, as of the end of Season 1 Iām absolutely under the impression neither Aegon or Aemond (or Daeron) hates Baela or Rhaena or want to kill them over Aemond getting pushed or simply because their father married Rhaenyra. Neither the show or the book is as simple as team black v team green and people need to start comprehending that sooner rather than later. Iām 99% sure Aegon on screen in the future will have an opportunity to kill Baela and will not take it. Baela and Rhaena are innocent, hence why so many things that happen purposefully donāt involve them. So much for these people and their āBaela and Rhaena are the villains and the green boys should go fight themā headcanons and wishes. People ignoring that these characters are related, and that does mean something. There is no blind āI want to kill them!!ā going on. Whatās not clicking š Aemond didnāt even want to kill the kid that actually took his eye but you want to headcanon that heās eager to kill Baela and Rhaena? Please go sit tf down š Aemond and Aegon are not some mindless brutes trying to kill everyone on team black. How has this NOT been understood by someone claiming to be a team green stan. I donāt even like the show but I understand it better than itās fansā¦..
#house of the dragon#baela targaryen#house targaryen#rhaena targaryen#hotd#asoiaf#aemond targaryen#fire and blood#aegon targaryen#team black#team green#daemon targaryen#jacaerys velaryon#aemond one eye#aemond kinslayer
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Favorite AU for Dettles?
Oh gosh, there are honestly so many great au ideas for them. I think my opinion on this fluctuates depending on my mood.
Right now though, because of the Hunger Games resurgence, I really like the idea of mentor Daemon with mentee Nettles.
Like, imagine heās a bit disheartened by life in general. year after year seeing his mentees die takes its toll.
To top it off, he pulled some trick like Haymitch to win his games which landed him on the president's naughty list. His entire family(including his wife who was pregnant at the time) was murdered as a result. Heās pretty much checked out and self-medicating at this point.
Then Nettles games come along. Just by looking at her, heās like Sheās gonna die within the first couple of minutes if not by the end of the first day. Sheās small for her age and clearly malnourished. Sheās an orphan, a social pariah(lol she made an enemy which is why she got reaped in the first place), and sheās been crying ever since sheās gotten on the train to the capital.
Lol, the fact that Nettlesā story is already suited for the Hunger Gamesš
Her male counterpart(Addam of Hull or Jace who is book!Jace not the wimpy show version) shows some promise. However, he's also very self-sacrificing. Daemon can easily see him trying to help out one of the weaker tributes early on in the games(like Nettles) and losing his life because of it.
He knows they both wonāt last long. The career pack is going to make a meal of them if nothing else so why even bother with them?
The career pack includes Ulf and Hugh š¤£ Letās just say they arenāt the smartest career pack which is partially why Nettles is able to win her gamesš I mean she has some skills, but they made it easier for her.
Addam(or Jace, IDK pick your poison) tries to interact with him and pick his brain, but heās totally non-receptive. Heās rude and crass. He smells of booze and he keeps bringing up how they are going to die.
Addam: How do we get sponsors?
Daemon: You wonāt need sponsors, youāll be dead from helping her out(points to a crying Nettles who has almost reached her breaking point). There is no we in the arena. That was your first mistake.
Addam: š
Nettles:šš” Iām not dead yet you drunkš¤¬
By this point, Nettles has had enough. She understands that sheās not in the best shape. She knows what will happen if she canāt pull herself together. She understands that out of the twenty-four children reaped only one is walking out of there alive.
She knows sheās probably on the lower end of the pack and even though Addam admittedly has better odds than her he is unlikely to win, but she doesnāt want to die. She certainly doesnāt want to die without a fight.
While Daemon is in mid-rant telling Addam all the ways the careers can and will kill them she picks up a knife at her side.
Itās a small thing. A butter knife really. It wonāt do much damage, but she doesnāt want it to do damage. She just wants him to stop it and be their mentor, and not see them just see them as if they were already buried six feet under.
So she chucks the knife at his head.
The knife ends up grazing his ear before sticking into the door behind him. A nearby avox flinches. Even Addam is freaking out when Daemon moves his hand up to his ear and pulls it back to reveal a bit of blood on his fingertips.
Nettles is too busy yelling at him to stop attacking like their lives mean nothing to really feel any fear, but he interrupts her when he starts laughing.
He looks her square in the eyes(she almost wants to look away but she holds her ground) and tells her that she needs to work on her aim. She tells him that her aim was fine and that if she meant to hurt him she wouldāve aimed for something more vital which only causes him to laugh some more.
They both know that itās a lie. Nettles did mean to get his attention, but she had not been aiming for him.
Itās not until then that he actually takes notice of her.
Nettles is very small. She needs to get some meat on her bones(he almost immediately starts pilling onto her plate food and telling her to eat). She could surely use some dressing up and training, but sheās not hopeless. Sheās got gumption which is more than the tributes before her had.
Itās then that he realizes that the little runt girl just might make it out of this thing alive.
#he does all that he can to get her out alive after that#daemon and addam have a deal that the goal is to save nettles#dettles#bnask#bnasks#daemon targaryen x nettles#if anyone wants to steal this and write about it please do and tag me#I have too many fics as it is#donāt make me write thisš#daemonx nettles#nettles x daemon#dettles au: hunger games edition
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alea iacta est
alea iacta est; the die is cast.
cw: canon typical violence, fight scene
Andy tumbled through the Portal with the rest of the New York Institute, looking over the army of red-robed demonic Shadowhunters. She couldnāt bite back the snicker that arose from her, mirroring Simonās, when she realized they could no longer use her seraph blades. She muttered the name of hers and gripped it tightly in her hand, prepared for the oncoming onslaught. She was dressed head to toe in gear and completely decked out in weaponsādaggers, seraph blades, her collapsible bo staff all decorated her belt and various sheathes pulled tight around her legs and arms. And on her hip, calling for her to use it, was her latest refurbished gadget: James Herondaleās revolver.
She set out with the group, running ahead with Aline and Helen. Despite the stakes, she had to enjoy the adrenaline of battle. Sheād never felt more alive than fighting in the Mortal War alongside Maia, who was there tonight. She tried to keep an eye out for her but the sea of werewolves and Ahadowhunters, Endarkened and seraphic, made that hard. A knife sliced past her arm, pausing her in her tracks, and she whipped around, blade in hand. She recognized the man in red robes, vaguely, maybe from a picture. Maybe he was another friend of Valentineās sheād seen in old photos her mother had hidden away in the attic. He smiled cruelly, before lunging for her, his blade narrowly missing her throat. She spun and jumped, wrapping her legs around the manās neck. She landed feet first, cutting off his breath with her legs. Without another thought, she grabbed his knife and drove it through his heart. Blood spattered on her hand and arm. There was no time for pityāSebastian was going to die and she had to ensure that happened.
From a few feet away, she could see Magnus and Rowan, leading Simon through the brunt of the attack. At all costs, they needed to get to Sebastian at the back of this all. Some leader, she thought, before making for high ground. She saw a familiar face, Alec, and ran to follow him to high ground.
Her footsteps alerted him and he spun on her, an arrow poised to strike in his hand. She put her hands up quickly. āEasy, tiger,ā she said with a smile.
Alec rolled his eyes and shot the arrow, flying past her head to strike an Endarkened Shadowhunter in the chest. Heād had a knife raised, prepared to strike her from behind, but crashed to the ground instantly.
She turned back to him and smiled. āThanks for that.ā
His eyes narrowed at her. āYouāre welcome. Just watch your back.ā
The two continued up the hill and onto the tombs. She observed the battlefield for a moment, crouching next to him for just a moment, looking for a place to break into the battle. She saw Sebastian better from here and wondered if she could run along the side of the army and get to him that way. āCover me, would you?ā she said. āIām gonna get to Jace if I canāā
She dropped the seraph blades in her hands. The hood of a woman blew back, revealing brown, graying hair and a stony, blood covered expression. Even from this distance, she recognized the womanāher mother. Running towards Simon.
She nor Alec could move fast enough. The multi-colored magic shooting from Magnusās hands suddenly stopped as Amatis Herondale plunged a dagger into his chest. Magnus crashed to his knees, and Alec, mid-step and watching the scene unfold before him, fell off the tomb and rolled into the mess. Rowan fell next to Magnus as Amatis reared back, prepared to strike again.
The world moved in slow motion. Against the Endarkened Shadowhunters, taken by surprise, Simon and Rowan had slim chances of defending themselves or keeping Magnus alive. She heard Alec, despite a red-cloaked man attacking him while he was still on the ground, call out to her. He only said her name, but she knew what he wanted. She had her opening to go after Sebastian, distract him or die trying until Simon got there, but he was pleading with her to save Magnus.
Like sheād done with target practice a million times, she pulled the gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger. The sound distracted several people over the sounds of battle, but she didnāt careāshe watched the bullet fly through the air and strike her mother in the shoulder. It was the first time, with runed bullets, that the gun fired. It should have been a moment of pride, celebrating the years of work that went into this, but she watched Amatis fall face first into the ground.
She took off like a bat out of hell, cutting through any Endarkened Shadowhunters that dared get in her way in the rush to Magnus. By the time she got there, Simon had run off, no doubt trying to get to Sebastian. That was the plan from the beginning. Rowan was trying to stop Magnus from bleeding out to little avail, and Amatis turned back to them for round two.
āWhat has he done to you?ā Andy called over the clanging of swords and cries of the injured.
āHe has made me tougher,ā she said, breath heaving as she clutched her arm. āFaster. Better. Join us, Andromeda. You can be stronger than youād ever dreamed!ā
Andy scoffed. āJoin you?ā she asked. āYou know I've never been one to follow orders, Mom.ā
She sneered. āYou will die tonight.ā She rushed towards her, not before Andy could pull the gun again and fire one, two, three bullets at her, walking closer as she did so. All missed, save for the last one, that hit her shoulder and knocked her off balance. It startled her enough for Andy to pull her staff out, narrowly blocking an attack from her motherās sword swinging for her head. She grunted and dug her feet into the ground, using the training her mother had personally taught her. Amatis attacked again and again, blade flurrying by, leaving Andy barely enough time to defend herself, let alone attack her too.
āYou can fight this!ā she insisted, pushing back against her, pleading with her mother. She aimed to hit the bullet wound on her arm, hoping the pain would cripple her without injuring her further. She made solid contact but it didnāt stop her; it was like she didnāt feel pain. āMom, youāre one of the strongest women I know! Donāt do this!ā
Amatis paused, and for a moment, she thought she broke through to her. She saw a flash of the real Amatis, the one who may have struggled to show her affection, but she was still her mother. She wouldnāt hurt her like this. When she looked up, her bloody sword glistening in the moonlight, she wore the same cruel smile as the man Andy killed minutes before. āYou are no daughter of mine,ā she said, and sprung at her. Andy cried out, feeling the blade slice her knuckles and back of her hand as she put the staff up to block her attack.
Amatis cackled, and a sinking feeling appeared in Andyās chest. No longer was she confident, enjoying the adrenaline rush of battle, swinging swords against the ābad guysā. She now wondered if she would survive the night.
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āø» being aemond's niece, who he abducted, would include:
Ā· tw: abduction, drugging, abuse, non-con, dub-con, stockholm syndrome, brainwashing, incest, victim-blaming Ā· a/n: modern!au | gif
Since the day you were born, your Uncle Aemond has always adored you.
Heās not always gotten along with your brothers, especially after a particularly nasty fight when they were children & your younger brother, Luke, brandished one of your fatherās pocket knifes against him & took his eye.
But youād been there to comfort him as his mother loosed her wrath upon your own for the transgression.
Youāve always been there for him.
Have always made everything better.
You are the light of his life.
The apple of his eye.
His heart.
The other half of his soul.
His life, his blood, his absolutely fucking everything.
As children, the two of you had been inseparable.
Heād spoiled you with toys & books & soft things, which turned to fine clothes & jewelry & perfume & flowers & whatever else your heart desired as you grew older.
He was ahead of you in school, so besides passing one another in the halls & sharing lunch together, you didnāt get to spend much time together there, unfortunately.
But outside of it, he drove you home nearly every day, even if Jace tried to insist upon it himself once he was gifted a car at sixteen.
And if any of your male classmates so much as looked at you a way he disliked?
There had been one particular boy whose brakes went out in the brand new car his parents had purchased for him only a month prior to him winding up in critical condition in the ICU at a local hospital...
Aemond hadn't said anything of it, but had been rather pleased at his sudden absence from school, if nothing else.
He often invited you over to his house, or came over to yours, even if he was forced to begrudgingly tolerate the sight of your middle brother while there.
But once the two of you were closed away in your room together, he was able to relax as he took you into his arms, & took you often in your bed.
Being between your legs was being in heaven.
Whether he was pleasuring you with his mouth, his fingers, his cock, or the many expensive toys he bought for you, all that mattered to him was that you were wanton & relaxed.
Aemond gently kisses your warm, wet folds while slowly tasting your delectable, flowing nectar. āMy beautiful niece,ā he drawls lowly before nipping along your spread thighs. āI love you more than life itself. I would do anything for you. You know that, donāt you?ā You nod your head and your eyes flutter closed as you smile happily. āYes,ā you whisper. Aemond fists his cock tightly in his grip before crawling atop you and easing between your slick walls. āYouāre all mine.ā He begins to rock his hips against your own. āYou belong to me,ā he whispers in your ear. You swallow thickly. āNo one will ever love you like I do. We canāt be apart. Ever. I canāt live without you.ā He crushes his lips to yours as a hot tear slips down your cheek and you cringe slightly away from his sudden possessiveness. āI wonāt,ā he breathes.
It feels as is life is perfect so long as you are in it.
So long as the two of you are together & have your sweet secret between you, he is content.
And then comes the day that he discovers college applications on the desk in your room.
He feels on the verge of either a panic attack or a violent display of anger when he begins to flit through them & sees that some are far, far away.
How could you do this? How could you even consider taking yourself away from him?
You fucking belong to him.
Belong with him for forever.
You should know better.
You do know better.
He has taught you as much from a young age.
So why, then?
Why?
Why?
WHY?
When you enter your bedroom, Aemond is sitting at the foot of your bed with a small stack of papers clenched tightly within his hands. You open your mouth to ask him what seems to be the matter, but he breaks the taught silence first. "How could you do this?" He whispers. His one good eye flits to yours then and you watch as a tear rolls down his pale cheek. You pad cautiously over to him and seat yourself next to him. "They're just places I'm thinking about," you say softly, reassuringly. You rest a hand upon his knee. "No matter where I go, we'll stay in contact. There's texting, callā" "Texting," he repeats quietly before dragging his malicious gaze back to you. He explodes then. He rips the documents in half before tossing the now-torn papers across the room, then he grabs a snowglobe he purchased for you some years ago from one of your bookshelves, and he throws the object against a wall but a few feet from you and you yelp in terror as the glass shatters. You act on instinct then and make a run for the door, until he grabs you by the hair at the back of your head and your feet slip out from under you as he tosses you back onto the bed. He climbs atop you and wraps one hand around your throat while the other tugs at his belt. Your eyes grow wide in fear and you shake your head fervently, unable to so much as scream for help now. And then your door bursts open and Jace begins screaming for him to get off of you. He begins striking him again and again, until the two of them fall onto the floor and Aemond quickly gains the upper-hand as he begins beating him mercilessly with his fists. Adrenaline is now racing through your veins as you scream for your father, for your mother, for anyone. You grab Aemond's arm and pull just as he's raising his fist to hit Jace again, and he instead clocks you right between the eyes. You hear something crunch, and then blood begins to pour from your nose, which you quickly cup between your hands. Blood seeps between your fingers and drips onto the carpet, and it's only then that Aemond forgets entirely about your brother as he turns back to you and takes your face roughly between his hands. He begins to shake his head fervently, and tells you repeatedly that he hadn't meant to. That he would never harm you. You know that. He loves you, he loves you, he loves you. Your father, Harwin, enters your room then and when he sees Jace lying injured on the floor, and that your face is a bloody mess, his vision goes red.
No one presses charges, because everyone involved knows that they're in a catch-22. If you or Jace press them against Aemond, then he'll press them against your father.
So the incident is dropped.
Until your phone begins blowing up with calls and texts and FaceTime requests from your uncle. Hundreds upon hundreds of them.
They all go unanswered, but nevertheless become more & more unhinged. Some bordering on being violent in nature.
You catch him sitting in his car across the street, right outside of your bedroom window one night.
You go & file a restraining order against him the next morning out of fear.
And because you'd been smart enough to take photos of when the fight happenedāthus giving proof of his transgressionsāit's granted.
And Aemond promptly loses his mind when it's served to him.
Until he comes up with a plan.
And he begins to calm.
Because he knows a way around this.
No piece of paper will ever keep him from you.
Not the police, not the law. Nothing.
He'd made a mistake, had allowed his anger to get the better of him.
So then you go & do this? Punish him for it? For what? Loving you too much? This isn't you. Someone has gotten into your head & turned you against him, he's sure of it.
Perhaps your mother. Perhaps your brothers.
It matters little, because he will get you back. One way or another.
And then everything will be perfect.
Will be exactly as he wants & needs it to be.
And you will both be happy & together again.
While you go off to your foolish little college, he throws himself into his work.
Literal & otherwise.
During the day, he works diligently to earn as much overtime as possible at his late father's company.
He rises through the ranks.
For he will need many savings for what he intends to do.
He buys a plot of land far from town.
He begins taking paid time off from work when able to work on building himself his new home.
The location is perfect: quiet, reclusive, far from civilization. It's an hour's drive just to find blacktop again.
He's an intelligent young man. And while it comes with its fair share of difficulties, he makes great progress in designing your new dream home together.
He knows with it being so solitary a place, that an in-law suite may not be entirely necessary, but...he's lost you once already. He can't do it again.
It will be your home until you prove yourself to him that you can be trusted above ground.
He gives you a large master bedroom, which in some ways is a recreation of your room at your parent's house. Most of the furniture from it is not difficult to find.
He knows most of it came from Ikea, Amazon, Target, a couple things from Walmart.
He wants things to be familiar for you to help you adjust.
He gives you a full kitchen, a beautiful bathroom with a large tub, a laundry room, and a comfortable living room.
Some things he knows he cannot provide you right away, such as kitchen knives.
But, in time, as you give him good behavior, you can earn it.
It's over a year later before the house is ready to be lived in.
He nearly bankrupted himself more than once in working on it, and his hands are now full of calluses, but he deems it all more than worth it for you.
You are worth everything to him.
He will be able to show that to you now.
Will be able to give you his love in fullānothing held back as he devotes himself entirely to you in this new place you'll be meant to call home.
You will be so happy. So excited. He just knows it, his lovely, darling niece.
It's late when you leave work.
Maybe that was your first mistake.
Or maybe it was when you stopped looking over your shoulder for him.
Because your family had decided to forgive him when he came by one day, begging for a second chance, convincing the lot of you that he had changed. And once he had their forgiveness, as well as yours most of all, he returned to his life. And all seemed right in the world again.
You'd had no idea the real cause of his faux display of sincerity.
You would learn as much in due time, however.
A solid form comes up from behind you.
They clamp their hand tightly over your mouth.
You don't get a chance to scream before you feel something sharp being jabbed into your neck.
Everything goes black.
Aemond shifts, turning further onto his side as he watches your brows furrow while you begin to come-to. Your hand slides slowly across soft blankets and clean sheets, and you feel warm fingertips ghosting across your flushed cheek. Your eyes flutter open lazily and you blink at unfamiliar surroundings. And then they widen in fear when you take in the man lying next to you. Your breathing turns ragged and heavy and your chest begins to rapidly rise and fall as you attempt to turn away from him. He quickly cups your cheek in his palm. "Welcome home, my beloved niece." He presses a firm kiss to your forehead then and you whimper as he traces the apple of your cheek with the pad of his thumb. You sit up and nearly fall off the bed at the feel of your head spinning. "W-What? Wh-Where amā" He sits up with you and wraps an arm around your waist while tugging you closer toward him. "You're in your new home. One which I built with my own hands for you. For the both of us." He crushes his lips to yours, ignoring the way you shove against his chest and struggle to relieve yourself of him. "It took me a long time," he states. "It was not easy to do, and primarily on my own, at that. But nevertheless, here it stands. Two stories." He glances around, then back to you. "Every nail, every piece of plywood was placed with you in mind, my love." He softly drags his knuckles down your cheek. "Would you like to see the rest of it? The basement, that is. It wounds me to tell you how I don't yet trust you enough to allow you above ground. But in time, once you've earned my forgiveness, I shall reconsider." Your eyes grow wide. "B-Basement?" He hums his response. "Technically, it's referred to as an in-law suite. Nevertheless, you have your master bedroom here, a full bath, a kitchen, a living room, and even a small laundry room with a closet for extra storage." Tears begin to well in your eyes and you choke back a sob. "P-Please, Aemond, let meā" "Uncle," he hisses, tangling his fingers painfully in your long strands. "You will refer to me as 'uncle' from now on. Do you understand?" Your chin wobbles as your eyes flit between his. "I'm so scared. Please let me go. I won't tellā" He clicks his tongue. "You think me so easy to fool now after what you did? After leaving me behind? After filing a restraining order against me? The one man in all the world who would never harm you. Who would do anything for you. And you claimed you needed to be protected from me?" He rises from the bed then, and you watch silently as his shoulders steadily rise and fall as he takes even, measured breaths. His nostrils are flared and his hands are balled into tight, trembling fists at his sides. "You betrayed me," he whispers. "We were meant to be together always. I thought you understood that. I had thought our hearts beat as one. And then I came to discover that you were intending to take yourself away from me." You shake your head lightly and crawl closer toward him, desperate to talk him out of this, or to otherwise let you go. He's gone mad. It's finally happened: he's snapped and lost all sense of reality. "To college, Aemond. Iā" "Uncle," he interrupts through gritted teeth. You swallow nervously, then nod tersely. "Those applications that day... They were all just places I'd been considering. I'd planned to narrow my choices down to two or three schools, then... Then discuss it with you. We would choose together. I would...have your approval that way. But you got so angry and...and you hurt Jaceā" "You mean to place the blame upon me, then?" He spits. Your heart hammers painfully between your breasts. "N-No, of course not. You just...you didn't even give me a chance to explain myself. Instead, you justā" "Then I suppose we are even." Your brows furrow. "What?"
"You did not allow me that, either, before you took out that protection order against me. You know I didn't mean to hit you. That it was...an accident. Did not so much as allow me to apologize before you did what you did. You left me behind, forgot about me as you moved on with your life." He leans in toward you while sliding a hand up your thigh. "You should've known that I would never do the same. My devotion to you is unbreakable." āUncāā Aemond crushes his lips to yours then, and your battling against him is done in futility as he crawls atop you and pins your arms to the mattress above your head. āYouāve forgotten my adoration for you. So I will remind you of my love. Tonight, my beloved niece.ā
You cry & choke on your tears as Aemond fucks himself inside of you.
You stare up at the ceiling & try to focus on anything else except the feel of his long, thick cock between your tight walls.
Try not to listen to the sick, possessive things he whispers in your ear between lustful thrusts between your thighs.
"Mine, mine, mine. All mine. My niece. Mine forever. I love you, I love you, I love you."
"You'll stay here. We'll never be apart again. You'll never leave me again."
"I'm the best thing for you. You'll see. You'll be happy here. We both will."
When he cums, it's in long spurts inside of you.
He groans your name against your breast.
He laps at your nipples and squeezes your hips and kisses your lips again and again, drinking down your tears.
He tells himself they are tears of joy. You just don't know it yet.
You don't want to sleep.
Are terrified to close your eyes.
But you're exhausted.
So you fall asleep in his arms.
And when you wake, he's gone.
You spend the next day exploring the space he's confined you to.
You deem him not as intelligent as he must think himself.
He's forgone supplying you with kitchen knives, but in truth, anything can be used as a weapon if you wish for it to be one.
Like the toilet tank lid.
It's heavy. Perfect for striking someone over the head with.
You try the keypad by the door over and over again.
You first try your birth date, to no avail.
Then Aemond's.
Then his mother's.
His father's.
You try combination after combination, and all it does is blink angry red at you in return.
You cry out of frustration.
There's a small window in the living room, directly above the couch. And you can see daylight shining through the frosted glass.
You throw things at it and bang against it with your fists, but it doesn't break.
You scream for help, but no one comes.
You begin to wonder where you are, exactly.
There's no way to know from down here.
You worry about your mom and dad and brothers.
They'll be worried about you.
They'll assume the worst: that you're lying dead in a ditch or a field somewhere. In a lake in the trunk of a car, perhaps. Bound and trussed up like hunted prey.
You won't let him win yet. You can't.
Aemond is sick. Something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
Maybe it did a long time ago.
You have to save yourself.
As soon as he's stepped through the door, you smash him over the head with the lid and make a run for it. You bound up cement steps and wrench open the door at the top of them and run. You run and run and find only trees and broken branches around you. There are no houses. No people. No buildings. No sidewalks. No cars. There. Is. Nothing. You turn around in circles, this way and that, gasping for breath, desperate to discover which way you need to turn which will lead you back to civilization. You jolt when you hear twigs snapping, but as your eyes flit around and strain against the dying light of the day, you don't see him. Perhaps it's just an animal, then. Perhapsā
When you wake, there is a throbbing pain at the back of your head...and you're right back where you started. You squeak in fear when you hear his low voice from a corner of the dark room you lie in. "I do not blame you. I'm trying not to, at least. I understand it, yes, but not you. You never behaved like this before. You were always so sweet, docile, non-combative. This isn't my darling niece." A tall, lithe shadow moves through the dark and you begin to hyperventilate as warm hands move up your legs before gripping your knees and forcing your legs apart. "You will learn to obey me once again. One way or another." You begin to sob in terror as he shoves himself inside of you.
Your days begin to blur into one, long, endless stretch of night.
You lose track of time.
There are clocks on the stove and microwave, as well as one on the flat screen in the living room, and one in your bedroom, but still you feel unable to truly tell itātime, that is.
You begin to make up a routine, because you don't know what else to do.
Running away...seems also futile now.
You could be dozens of miles away from people.
Even if you kept running, what if you got lost?
What if it got dark before you so much as heard the engine of a car?
What if you died out there, all alone & afraid?
So, everyday, when you wake, you make your bed, then tend to yourself in the bathroom.
You make breakfast and eat, then load the dishwasher.
You watch TV, or read, or play games on the computer provided to you that has no internet connection.
Sometimes, you play single-player board or card games, or you color.
Sometimes, you move decorations around in your room.
Sometimes, you sleep.
Sometimes, you cry.
Sometimes, you consider killing him.
When Aemond awakes, it's to you atop him, straddling his waist, the handle-arm from the toilet tank gripped tightly in your hand as you hold it against his jugular. He's made sure not to fall asleep down here next to yet, because he had known this would eventually happen if he did. Not this exact scenario, perhaps, but something similar. He'd been careless tonight. "I should fucking kill you," you whisper, jabbing it against his hot skin. "Give me one reason I shouldn't, you pathetic fuckingā" He slides his hands up your thighs, gently, lovingly. "What would that accomplish, my love? Hm? You don't know the combination to the door." You grow silent, so he continues. "You think you know me so well, don't you? There's clearly facets of my personality you never got a chance to become acquainted with. Hence this place. I would rather you die here than ever leave me again. I made you a promise that we would remain together. It's been broken once already. I won't let that happen again. No matter the cost." You swallow thickly. "Go on, then. Shove it into my neck. Let me bleed out. Before long, my body will begin to bloat and rot. The smell will become unbearable. Even if you managed to sequester me away in this room, perhaps with towels shoved under the door, how long before your food runs out? Before you starve to death?" His lip twitches and he fills with an immense amount of satisfaction when he speaks again. "You can't live without me now. I'm all you have left. Your shelter. Your provider. Everything. Without me, you will cease to exist." At last, you see the truth. He knows it, because you lower your hand. You see...that you belong to him. And that there is nothing in all the world you can do to change it.
Once Aemond has fixed the toilet yet again, he returns to the bedroom to find you curled into yourself, crying so hard you struggle to breathe.
He takes you into his arms and you initially pound your ineffectual fists against his chest, until you begin to calm as you enter a state of exhaustion.
And then it happens.
You curl your body around his for warmth and comfort.
You press your palms gently to his chest and close your eyes.
You hate yourself for it.
For being so weak and disgusting and pathetic.
But you're so lonely here.
So cold and tired and afraid.
Isn't it some sort of self-preservation, thenāsick or notāto give into him, even slightly? So as to preserve your sanity?
Or does giving into him mean it's finally beginning to slip away?
You struggle to care as you enjoy the feel of his strong arms around you and his lips against the crown of your head.
You willingly take the affection he offers you greedily.
He tells you he loves you.
You smile softly at the words.
He tells you that you're safe.
You think maybe he's right in that, perhaps.
After all, down here, you don't have to worry about being attacked by strange men in parking lots when leaving work anymore.
Don't have to worry about them drugging and raping you.
Don't have to worry about holding down a meaningless, empty job.
Don't have to worry about struggling to get by in such a cruel and callous world.
Don't have to worry about anything at all.
All thanks...to Uncle Aemond.
Hope stirs within you once more, however, when you see it on TV: your very own missing person's report. You cry as you watch your family do so as well in front of a camera. As they beg and plead for you to be returned home to them, safe and sound. They offer to pay any price your kidnapper wants. If it's ransom money they desire, it's theirs. All they want back is their little girl, their sister, their granddaughterāfor even Alicent is there and in tears, asking for anyone who even thinks they may know something, no matter how tiny or inconsequential, to please, please call the police at once. And then he enters the camera lens. He's dressed sharply in a suit and tie, his smooth, silver hair perfectly parted over his shoulders as he knits his hands together behind him. "Please," he says, his voice faltering for a moment. "If it is money you want, consider it yours. All I want is for my niece to be returned to her family. I'll pay any price you ask. None is too large to have her returned home. You cannot imagine the grief her disappearance has wrought upon all of us. She is an innocent. If you want someone to go afterāI know not if this has anything to do with my family's company, but if so: come after me. Do with me as you will. Just let her go, I am begging you."
You wrath returns to you tenfold that evening.
You scream and curse at him and throw things.
So in turn...he hits you.
And it leaves you stunned into silence.
He wraps a hand around your throat and sneers, telling you that you will be obedient. A well-behaved young lady, just as he knows you to be.
He glances to the couch then, which also doubles as a pull-out bed, having a sudden idea.
He will pound into your head one way or another that this place is now your fate and you would do well to finally relinquish yourself to it in whole.
You whimper quietly beneath your uncle as he rocks his hips against your backside, easing in an out of your warm, wet cunt while he stares at the TV before the both of you with a satisfied smirk. Tears slip from your tired eyes as he forces you to watch the glossy flat screen as well. A middle-aged news reporter, with a thinning hairline, stands in front of your college in the sprinkling rain, speaking about your sudden disappearance. The screen then cuts to a photo your mother took of you this last Christmas Eve while you'd been wrapping presents with her. There's a broad smile on your ignorant faceāas you'd been completely unaware that as you packaged a gift for Aemond...he'd been preparing this place for you; to hold you against your will. You'd decided to forgive him. Because he'd convinced all of you that he had changed. Had grown into a fine young man through hard work and discipline. And you all had bought it like the empty-headed fools you were. Your father had been reluctant in doing so, but after a long talk between the two of them on your back patio, he'd shook his hand...and welcomed him back into his home. He'd fed you all honeyed words from a serpent's venomous tongue. The man's face returns to the screen, and he urges anyone, who has any information, to please call the police's tip line. Aemond lowers his lips next to your ear. "They'll never find you here. You're all mine now, my love. All mine. I won't stop until that fact is cemented in your fucking head." He begins to rut away violently between your legs then, and you sob into the mattress as the hope of one day leaving this place...slips impossibly further away.
You accept your fate.
Day-by-day.
Not all at once, but you do.
You even begin to look forward to him coming home every day.
You keep your part of the house neat and tidy and you make him dinner every evening. For he does work so very hard to take care of you, after all. All so you don't have to worry your pretty little head anymore.
You greet him with a smile and a kiss.
You press yourself to Aemond's chest and breathe in the comforting scent of his expensive cologne. "I missed you," you whisper, winding your arms around his waist. He cups the back of your head and kisses you passionately. "And I you," he whispers against your soft, full lips. You grin from ear-to-ear at the handsome sight of him. "I love you," you say quietly. He smiles broadly. Finally. You've finally said it. Have finally admitted it to yourself. And now to him. "I love you, my darling. More than anything in all the world," he coos.
That night, you initiate love-making between you and your uncle.
He finds you to be pleasantly wet for him.
And as he rocks his hips against your own, you mewl against his lips and wind your limbs around him, as if you are unable to get yourself close enough to him.
And when you finish in his arms, it's with love in your heart, tears in your eyes, and affectionate words from your comely lips.
"Who do you belong to?" Aemond whispers to you in the dark as he slips his fingers through your hair. You snuggle closer to his naked body with a smile. "You, Uncle Aemond. It's always been you." He begins leaving the door unlocked then. And you remain in your cage, content as can be, as his perfect little prey.
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The showrunners also did everything in their power to victimize Aemond in every possible way. In the book, everything that happened that night was mostly Aemondās fault and the fact that he was the one who suffered the worst injury, does not take any blame from him.
First of all, he beat up Joffrey, who was what? 3 years old? Literally, a 10 year old boy beat up a 3 year old boy. Do people think that this was fair? The truth here is that Aemond started the violence that night. Joffrey, like any normal little brother who was beaten up by an older boy, went to tell his older brothers to seek their protection. And Jace and Luke, like any normal older brothers who want to protect and defend their little brother, went to face their brotherās attacker.
Aemond was bigger and stronger than them and he was actually winning the fight, so it wasnāt really that much of a challenge for him until Luke took his eye. However, Luke did it to protect his brother. He saw that Aemond was beating Jace to death. Aemond had no intention to stop. And Luke, like any normal brother who is seeing how his brother is about to be killed, did the first thing that he could think about in order to save his brother. Besides, itās not like Luke had the calculated plan to take Aemondās eye. He just grabbed the knife and swung it randomly in a desperate attempt to save Jace. He wasnāt even thinking about taking his eye.
What was Luke supposed to do? Sit back and wait for Aemond to kill Jace and then beg him not to kill him too? He did what he needed to do. I would have done the same thing in his place. If I saw someone trying to kill my sibling, I would take out both of their eyes if itās necessary.
And about Alicent, I understand her anger and pain at seeing her son hurt. But she was literally asking for a child to have his eye gouged out as punishment. She was a full grown adult asking for the king to commit an atrocious violent act against a child no older than 5 or 6 years old.
And then she used the phrase āHeās your son, Viserys. Your bloodā as if Luke wasnāt Viserysā blood as well. She was asking Viserys to severely hurt his grandson to avenge his son. Viserys was painted as a villain in this scene because he chose not to violently punish his grandson. We also have to understand that Viserys was in a very difficult position that night and even though I do agree that Luke should have received some kind of punishment, Viserys did right in not doing what Alicent asked.
Viserysā failures, in my opinion, are in the fact that he should have shown more concern for Aemondās well being. Viserys should have prioritized Aemond being properly attended and not focus on who should be punished and who shouldnāt or who was right and who was wrong. He should have waited for Aemond to be better and then try to solve the matter in an appropriate way. Not by gouging out Lukeās eye. Besides, Luke wasnāt the only one who should have been punished. All of the children were involved in the fight, so all of them should have received a punishment appropriate for children, especially children of the royal family.
And who else should have been punished that night? The one and only Alicent Hightower. Alicent shouldāve been punished for two very serious crimes that night: 1. Publicly and deliberately hurting the heir to the throne. 2. Openly disobeying the orders of the king in front of an audience. These two things were crimes that were punishable by death. She was lucky it was Viserys and that Viserys was a weak king, because any other king would have had her head. It is one thing to bully the heir to the throne behind closed doors, but to hurt her intentionally, publicly, and most importantly in front of the king, right after he very clearly ordered everyone to cease fighting, is high treason.
I donāt understand TGās obsession with Luke being punished. He didnāt exactly come out of that fight unscathed. Obviously not nearly as bad as what happened to Aemond but, Aemond broke his nose and then Alicent tried to attack him and take his eye out. Imagine being 7 and the fucking Queen disobeys the Kingās order in front a room full of people so, she can attack you with a Valyrian steel dagger that she wants to use to try and gouge your eye out with. Like? Aside from maybe lightly scolding him, Iād say he was punished enough after Alicent tied to inflict her own.
What's sick to me is the thought that people living in the 21st century actually think that the best way to punish a 6/7-year-old child would be to gouge out his eye/cut off a limb/send him into slavery to serve the TG (because that's what it would be)/murder him dragon. Yes, Luke should be punished. And I think he would have stayed if Alicent hadn't screwed it up. She attacked Rhaenyra and stabbed her to the bone while trying to attack Lucerys (the heir of Driftmark while she was in Drftmark). How to punish Luke for hurting the king's child without punishing Alicent for hurting the king's child? Gouge out Lucerys' eye and cut off Alicent's hand?
The truth is that they couldn't find out who started the fight and how because they didn't have monitoring, lol. They had five children who might say otherwise. The facts were that Aemond had slipped away without permission to take Vhagar and had lost an eye, and four children had been injured, and Aemond had been charged with grave slander. Jace's head had been smashed and Aemond had threatened to kill him, and the truth was that Jace was higher in the line of succession and importance in the family than Aemond as heir to the throne. So Viserys would have to severely punish everyone, including Aemond, or punish no one at all. And since Viserys didn't like conflict, he chose the easier option. And Luke might have been punished if it weren't for what Alicent did.
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can u explain why u dislike lucerys so much?
because atleast from my pov he was a 7year old child who thought his brother was going to die and retaliated against someone older and stronger than him with a weapon he didnāt even bring
also the bullying he was following his older brother and only companion as well as his much older uncle, an authority figure.
yes he should have apologised, but when should he have? when he was being treated by the maesters for his broken nose? when aemonds mother said to have his eye cut out? when he returned half a decade later and his uncleās hatred was already there AND his own dislike likely pushed by his family?
lucerys definitely shouldāve made amends but there are a lot of factors in it so i donāt rlly see the dislike? idk i just wanna have it explained, no hate just curious (:
Just going to preemptively say that I understand this isnāt hate, so anon, please know that if I have any sort of aggravated tone in this answer itās not against you. Iām just very passionate about this topic lol
Also this is a crazy long post. Sorry yāall.
āā¦he was a 7 year old child who thought his brother was going to die and retaliated against someone older and stronger than him with a weapon he didnāt even bringā
When it comes to the fight, Iām mad at all four children who ganged up on an innocent kid and started beating him mercilessly. People love to focus on the fact that Aemond might have done something with that rock, but they completely erase the context, which is that he was tackled to the ground and being punched by four people.
The real context is that Aemond was on defense in that fight. He didnāt seek anyone out. He didnāt start the argument. He didnāt throw the first blow. All Aemond did was fight back to protect himself and grabbed a makeshift weapon to ensure he doesnāt get beaten by four people at once. He was in survival mode and doing anything to keep himself protected.
When it comes down to Lucerys in that fight. He had no business running in and joining in the group beating of another child. It wasnāt his fight. I understand heās a child, but most kids understand that beating up someone is a bad thing to do. Even at 7. I knew not to punch people at 7, and I can guarantee most others did too. Age can excuse a lot of things but mercilessly beating someone who is on the ground being beaten by three others? I donāt think so.
But letās look at why Luc cuts his eye out. From your perspective itās to āsave his brotherās lifeā. But is that really the case? Letās really take a look. During the fight, Aemond pushes all four kids off him while he is being beaten on the ground. Once gaining the upper hand, he grabs Luc and holds a rock over his head, andā¦talks. He threatens to kill them and calls them bastards, but he doesnāt actually do anything. In fact, when Luc says his āfatherā is alive and Aemond realizes Luc doesnāt know heās a Strong, he lowers the rock. At that point Aemond is no longer a threat. His weapon is down, and heās speaking relatively calmly. Itās only after Aemond calls Jace āLord Strongā that the knife is drawn. The knife isnāt drawn for self-defense or to save Luc. Itās pulled for the fact that Aemond called the boys bastards.
From there Jace keeps attacking him with a knife. Aemond gets the better of him in the fight once again, and Jace is on the ground. Hereās where the āsaving his lifeā comes in. Aemond stands over Jace with the rock in his hand raised high andā¦.does nothing. Again. I counted, and Aemond stands there still for about 10 seconds doing absolutely nothing. He breathes deeply. He looks at Baela and Rhaena who look back in fear. But he does nothing. In those ten seconds Luc scrambles to grab the knife, exchanges a look with Jace, and then Jace throws sand in Aemondās eyes and Luc leaps at him and slashes his eye out.
Now, personally, watching that scene I really didnāt get the feeling Aemond would do anything. Every time he gets the upper hand and will supposedly kill one of the kids with a rock, he stops. He lingers. He doesnāt deliver the blow. By the time Luc gets the knife Aemond has been still and not hit Jace at all for quite a bit of time. He waits long enough for Luc to get the knife and for both boys to silently agree on a tactic to hurt him.
This also begs the question. If Jace had enough time and space to grab sand in his fist and throw it at Aemond to temporarily blind him and get away, why the fuck didnāt he do that before?! We see that Aemond yells and is disoriented by the sand in his eyes. Jace couldāve easily thrown it and kicked aemond and gotten away and they couldāve ended the fight by running away. But instead he waited until his brother had a knife and they could stab him. These boys werenāt doing this in self-defense. It was a coordinated attack with the intention to stab Aemond with a knife. They wanted to stab him. We saw that with Jace pulling it out first.
That whole fight is not Jace and Luc fighting to survive. Itās Aemond fighting to survive. Itās not Luc jumping to save his brother. Itās Jace wanting to stab someone for calling him a bastard (he is), and both boys working together to hurt him. I genuinely believe that the long pauses Aemond took are proof enough that he had no intention of hurting actually killing them. I think it was more of an act of intimidation to show they should leave him alone. So I hold all four kids responsible for what happened to Aemond, but most especially Jace and Luc because while the girls stopped beating Aemond and left after he pushed them off. Jace and Luc kept going because they got angry at the title they were rightfully called, and teamed up to deal a blow that resulted in permanent damage and blinding one eye.
āalso the bullying he was following his older brother and only companion as well as his much older uncle, an authority figureā
As I said earlier. I understand seven year olds are dumb as heck, and they donāt always know what is an is not ok. However. Just as I would think most seven year olds know beating someone is bad, most seven year olds know bullying is bad. Hurting peopleās feelings isnāt ok. At seven, I knew bullying wasnļæ½ļæ½t ok. All the boys knew what they were doing was insulting and mean. Thatās why they did it. They wanted to be hurtful to Aemond. Yes, Luc was following Aegon and Jace, but that doesnāt absolve the fact that he fully knew what they were doing was mean and found it funny like the others.
yes he should have apologised, but when should he have? when he was being treated by the maesters for his broken nose? when aemonds mother said to have his eye cut out? when he returned half a decade later and his uncleās hatred was already there AND his own dislike likely pushed by his family?
We can agree he should have apologized, anon. But you seem to be under the impression of how Luc simply couldnāt apologize because of everyone else or the circumstances. You seem to be incorrectly putting the blame on Alicent and Aemond for why he didnāt apologize. Even thought Aemond is the victim.
But letās see, when should Luc have apologized? āWhen he was being treated by the maesters for his broken noseā? Sure! Aemond had to answer interrogations by his father and calmed his mother down while having his eye socket sewed shut. Iām sure Luc couldāve apologized then. A broken nose is not nearly as awful and having an eye gouged out, and he seemed pretty ok at that point so yeah. He couldāve spoken up and said he was sorry.
āWhen Aemondās mother said to have his eye cut outā? Iām sorry but this reeks of Alicent anti. There was plenty of time before and after Alicent had a literal mental breakdown for Luc to apologize. Why even blame or bring up Alicent? She has nothing to do with this. Lucās responsibility to apologize is not dependent on anyone else. Least of all the woman in the room who is the only person who cares that Aemond is hurt.
āwhen he returned half a decade later and his uncleās hatred was already there AND his own dislike likely pushed by his familyā? Absolutely. I assume youāre talking about the dinner scene, and yes, Luc absolutely could have and should have apologized. Yes, Aemondās anger was pretty much set because it had been a decade of no apology for literally being maimed. But a late apology is better than no apology. During that dinner, Alicent and Rhaenyra, two people who had two decades worth of resentment between them, were heartfelt and kind to one another. Luc couldāve easily toasted to Aemond. He couldāve lifted his glass and said āTo my uncle. Long ago I did horrible things to him, and Iāve carried the burden of resentment and guilt all these years. I am truly sorry for the pain Iāve caused, and I hope that my heartfelt apology can be a new beginning for usā or something else sappy like that. Team black may or may not have solidified resentment in Luc against Aemond (about what I wouldnāt know because Aemond didnāt actually do anything wrong). But that doesnāt take away from the fact he shouldāve apologized.
You seem to be pushing the idea that because Luc grew resentment because of his family against Aemond, he couldnāt apologize. But he very much could. He just didnāt want to. Because he didnāt care. He didnāt think he was wrong and didnāt feel he had to apologize.
The simple truth of the matter is that Luc didnāt apologize because he doesnāt feel remorse. Itās not because he was too injured to apologize at first. Or because Alicent was mean for five minutes. Or because his family solidified resentment. He didnāt apologize because he isnāt sorry. And that is best exemplified by the dinner scene. Like I said earlier he couldāve apologized. But instead, what did Luc do? He saw a pig and began to laugh at the cruel prank and bullying he did against Aemond. He still relished in the mean things he did as a child. Thereās no remorse there, only smugness and sick enjoyment in his past cruelties. That is why I hate Lucerys so much. The burden of responsibility to apologize was on Luc, and there is no excuse for him not apologizing. He just wasnāt sorry, and thatās not on anyone but Luc for beingā¦just not a good person.
TLDR: Luc has had a long pattern of being cruel and mean and never felt an ounce of guilt. You are right that thereās many factors, anon. But they donāt take away from the basic facts. Luc intentionally hurt Aemondās feelings and found joy in it, Luc intentionally maimed Aemond with Jace (instead of opting for a less violent conclusion), and Luc never apologized and never felt remorse for his cruelty instead opting to continue to take pleasure in his negative acts.
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author's note: last episode, aemond beat the shit out of baela and rhaena, and daemon didn't gave a single shit about his daughters being blooded and bruised. i thought i should rewrite that, specially because the day aemond lost his eye is a thing in our dad!daemon au. also, i'll make aemond a little bit ooc because he needs to be an asshole, AND, I changed the way aemond loses his eye.
reblogs, feedbacks and likes are appreciated. i hope you like it!
warnings: mentions of animal cruelty, descriptions of children getting harmed, aemond is his own warning, children cussing, this headcanon is pure chaos so be prepared.
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this takes places months before part 1.
Daemon hated Aemond.
At first you thought it was funny that a grown ass man had such hatred towards a little boy, but then, you saw it with your own eyes.
You and Daemon once watched the kids' dragon training lessons, and you noticed how Aemond's eyes squinted once your son commanded Araxes to dracarys.
So it started there. Your son had his own dragon ā and so did your daughter ā , and prince Aemond had none.
Daemon would always complain to you how Aemond was picking on Rhaegon during sword fighting training.
"He should be more violent, I don't want Rhaegon to let that prick hurt him."
"Now, you're the one who's picking battles with Alicent." You warned.
Aemond never liked the fact that Alyssa could watch their fighting training. She was a girl, and wasn't supposed to be there.
He couldn't hurt Rhaegon outside the training camp, so he discovered that it was easier to mess with the Targaryen girl.
When Alyssa found her pet cat beheaded under her covers on her blood stained bed, she left her shared room crying, not even answering to Helaena's questions.
She went to the boysā chambers, where she found her brothers, and Jacaerys and Lucerys sleeping.
Alyssa woke them up and went downstairs to find their parents, hoping they could do something to punish Aemond for his actions. But unfortunately, they found the boy first.
"Cousin Alyssa! I see youāre crying... What's wrong? Didn't like my present?"
Alyssa ran to punch him in the face, but he punched her first.
It started a huge fight, where Rhaegon, Luke, Jace and Alyssa were against Aemond.
Aemond threatened to kill Luke and Alyssa, and Jace tried to stab him with a knife.
Aemond was the most gifted in body combat, so he quickly dodged the Velaryon boy's attack, and kicked him away.
Luke threw sand in Aemond's eyes while he held Rhaegon by the neck, and Jace threw Alyssa the knife.
"Take your fucking hand out of my brother!"
Alyssa wasted no time to cut Aemond's eye.
Aemond fell to the ground screaming, but it was too late when the guards finally came to his rescue.
"What's the meaning of this!?" Daemon stormed into the throne room where everyone was reunited.
"Alyssa! Rhaegon!" You cried out, taking your beated children in your arms.
"What did you do to them, you freak!?" Daemon hissed towards the sewed-eyed boy.
"You're seeing this, Viserys!?" Alicent yelled, "Where do you think your brother's children learned to bully our son?"
"His own brother bullies him!" Rhaegon pointed out.
Aegon was just as unbearable as his brother, but at least he wasted his time drinking instead of making your children's life a living hell.
"Aemond killed Alyssa's cat and punched her in the face!" Lucerys told his uncle, and Daemon groaned in anger.
"That bitch cut my eye!" Aemond uttered.
"You were suffocating my brother!" Alyssa remarked.
"That is enough!" King Viserys yelled, "I want you all to make up and forget this all happened."
"That is insufficient. Aemond has been damaged permanently, my king." Alicent stated.
"I know, Alicent, but I cannot restore his eye. What would you have me do?"
"There is a debt to be paid. I shall have one of Daemon's daughter eyes in return. Ser Criston, bring me the eye of Alyssa Targaryen."
Your eyes opened wide in horror as your daughter ran out of your embrace to hide herself behind Daemon.
"You will do no such thing!" You warned the queen.
Ser Criston stayed in his position while Viserys warned, again, that the matter was finished.
Alicent took the dagger that the king carried around, and came towards the girl, that was still being protected by her father's body.
Daemon acted quickly and unsheathed Dark Sister, pointing the blade to the Queen. All the guards took off their swords.
"Father!" Alyssa cried out.
"Give one more step and both of us will die." Daemon warned, "I'll cut your throat open like a piece of ham, and the King shall have my head. I don't mind dying for my family, your Grace."
Alicent threw the dagger to the floor and left.
Daemon gave you an apologizing look after putting himself in such danger.
You both took care of your childrenās wounds, and find out that Maegon stayed in his room after Rhaegon ordered him to.
You took the boys to their room with Rhaenyra and her kids, while Daemon took Alyssa to hers.
"You acted bravely tonight." Daemon whispered against your little girl's silver locks, and gave her forehead a kiss, "I'm proud of you, my little stormfire."
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