#c;; Daemon Targaryen

[legends-and-savages]

@firebloodicee sent: [ LAP ] ― my muse sits on your muses’ lap and teases them. (For Daemon from Alicent)

🐝  *  ―  𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘  𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃  𝐎𝐅  𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆. | Accepting

It wasn't terribly late, but he was awake in his rooms. He had heard the door open and leaned back in his chair. He wasn't entirely surprised to see Alicent in his room. "This is a surprise." He said and then she was in his lap. One hand going to her hip. "A good one."

[somefirewhiskeyfortheway]

Rhaenyra: how could they possibly believe I had a hand in this monstrous act?

Daemon:

[legends-and-savages]

He was breathing heavily himself as the came down off their high. He considered there was no knocking he was comforted that it was still okay. A nod from him as he shifted so that he could take more of her weight when they finally decided to move from the door. A nod from him. "I wouldn't want to disappoint my queen." He said.

"I would."

Alicent felt Daemon's lips on her own muffling the last of her moans and cries. Now her body shook while she rode it out. Panting, Alicent laid her head on the door and closed her eyes. "D--Don't go... Not yet." Her eyes soon locked with Daemon's as she felt her legs weaken beneath her. "I---I want to please you again. I want to make you cum over and over again."

A small smirk then formed on Alicent's lips. "Would you like that?" She asked softly.

[witheredoffherwitch]

😭😭😭

[bietrofastimoff23]

Okay, it's funny how Aemond calls his uncle a challenge, but the only person Daemon is talking about is Aegon-Aegon-Aegon-Aegon-

so real hate triangle: Aemond thinks about Daemon, Daemon thinks about Aegon, Aegon doesn't think about any of them lol.

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

“After that sequence when Blood and Cheese infiltrate Aemond's bed chamber, you have that scene in episode two where Aemond finds the coin. And that coin, I actually carried with me for the rest of the shoot. I put it in my shoe. I wanted to just remember that everything that coin represents very much lives in Aemond's head rent-free. The idea that Daemon got this close, and ultimately Aemond's nephew paid the ultimate price, that's something that does haunt Aemond.”

EWAN MITCHELL TALKING ABOUT BLOOD AND CHEESE.

[legends-and-savages]

A small shrug from him. That was the part of difficulty of being a royal. There was always a line that they had to walk. "I would not dissuade you from it, but a dragon rider without her dragon is lonely." Daemon said. "This whole thing is a balance that we are all navigating together." He said.

"We could always try a few weeks and see how both you and Galzra do." Just so that nothing could go wrong. "But I'm sure your mother just wants you to be happy, and if you won't be happy there then we shouldn't try."

What was she supposed to say? What was she supposed to do? Duty… If it were a physical thing, it felt as if it were strangling her at this current moment. For she dreaded a decision like this. It was a moment in which she needed her mother. “What am I to do?” The princess felt utterly and completely weak. Nervousness overtook her mind, her fingers twisting a ring that laid upon her finger, one that signified the previous proposal that had been done, in which was all but dead. “Mother requires something, anything that will help. And right now, I do not know what is right or what is wrong.”

[anotherlikeyou]

Fr fr

[daemon-is-perfectly-unhinged]

Ser Thoren: You have children!? That's amazing!

[ Jon and Rhaegar run past. ]

Ser Thoren: See? They’re so cute.

[ Baela and Rhaena run past. ]

Ser Thoren: Oh. There's more-

[ All of them run past. ]

Ser Thoren: Many. Oh my. You are definitely not related to that one, or that one, or that one. What's happening? How many children do you have?

Daemon: Nine. Plus one on the way, dragons, and this really cool table that lights up. We also have a cat.

[legends-and-savages]

@amarvelousmencgerie sent: “ don’t go in there. there’s something…it’s not good. ” (For Daemon from Kyra)

paranormal prompts| Accepting

"We can't just not go in." Daemon said. "We need someplace to stay, and Harrenhal is loyal." At least that was the hope. And it was better then to just drop in on the Twins or Riverrun without notice.

[legends-and-savages]

A hum from Daemon. "Vermithor was down here with her, but you're right it must have been lonely." Dragons were dragons after all. There was still plenty that they didn't really know about them. It was easier with bonded dragons all things considered.

The moment she said her mother's name he mentally started connecting dots. It was really very likely that she was his. He hadn't expected to have a child, but he certainly hadn't been the most careful. He watched her expression click at about the same time he came to the same conclusion. "I'm sorry she got sick." He looked at her. "That is a surprise." He knew that he wasn't always the best person so for her to have nice things to say was a surprise. He was almost sure that Mysaria likely didn't have good things to say. And he wasn't sure what she would want for him. She was grown after all, and it didn't seem like she need him to be a father.

"Well she must have been a lonely girl it has to be hard to be on her own for so long. Well not on her own but without a rider." Lucy Gray wasn't sure how these things worked with dragons. Did they get lonely? Did they want to have a rider or was it just something they had to do? She wished he could read their minds as silly as it sounds just to know the truth. She is a curious person and wants to ask a million questions but she knows no human would have those answers.

"Flora Rose was her first name. She was a talented seamstress she even made this dress herself. I kept it after she died and always perform in it call it my lucky charm." She says before holding onto the rainbow colors of the skirt. She had worn it here because she figured if she was gonna die it may as well be in her mother's dress. She finally looks at the King Consort really looks at him. It clicks in her head and she takes a small step back. Maybe it's wrong to do so but she just can't help it. "She got real sick toward the end and talked a lot about you. I think she loved you even if she wouldn't say it."

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Ryan Condal literally stating that he expects people to switch sides after they see B&C (as if the murder of Lucerys Velaryon and Queen Rhaenyra’s terrible miscarriage mean nothing).

Those many, many, many viewers like me who actually read the book (unlike the showrunners):

[thesunfyre4446]

as expected, now that ep 1 with b&c will be aired in 2 weeks, people are getting weird.

please keep your "b&c wasn't that bad" shit takes out of the general tags <3 mind you, these are the same people that have been whining about "misogyny" for the last 2 years, but are now apparently ok with an innocent woman being tortured to the point of literally becoming a shell of her former self & a 6yo girl being threatened with rape.

and to all of the pro-b&c weirdos saying "bUt iT wAs aBoUt AeGoN", so 1. b&c is justified because aegon threw a party? 2. daemon also threw a party when his nephew and sister in law died, but y'all don't want to talk about that. 3. even if aegon was the one to kill luke, it still doesn't justify what daemon did to helaena and her kids - you're actually justifying a woman being punished for the crimes of her male relatives - and it doesn't matter if it's aegon or aemond.

[witchering10123]

blood and cheese

ok, so for me this one's about fifty-fifty

i do think that we need to bear in mind that this needs to actually be filmed and give the child actors as little trauma as possible, so the psychological trauma of the children??? yeah, glad they didn't go down that route tbh

while maelor was an important part of b&c in the book, that would again have required a LOT from the child actors and I very much appreciate that they didn't traumatised the child actors

the change they made to make helaena choose between her son and daughter would have been just as emotionally torturous as making her choose between her two sons, and i thought that the actors did that really well

I did like that rhaenyra told daemon that she wanted aemond specifically, and he then went forward and added the whole "if you can't find him kill jaehaerys", it really adds to him grasping for more and more power and acting against rhaenyra's interests, it's going to make the rest of the season incredibly interesting

I also like how they're showing the bad and the good on both team black and green (after all the trouble to divide the fanbase lmao)

I think we should have gotten more scenes with jaehaerys and jaehaera - I thought that b&c was going to happen like next episode and it would build up the children and their relationship with helaena and aegon a bit more so we could be really gut punched during b&c. while it was horrific... we didn't get the chance to meet the family

i thought that cheese not knowing how to get to the upper levels and that they accidentally happened upon them was... not very good writing. the whole point was that b&c knew exactly what they were doing and they were very effective at what they did. it added to the horror that people could use the red keep against its inhabitants and do such an atrocity as b&c

this could be attributed to shock on helaena's part but I feel it was more a bad writing decision that they changed helaena offering her life to helaena offering her necklace??? like idk, obviously she has grasped the situation and maybe she did think that she could persuade them with money but surely when that failed she could have offered her life - obvi not wanting helaena dead I love her to pieces but it would have made the situation seem so much more horrible if helaena had been pleading for them to kill her instead only for them to wait for her to choose between her children

helaena walking in on alicent and criston felt like it was for shock value, and the fact that alicent and criston had sex earlier in the episode completely cancelled out the shock imo. I think it would have been far more effective to find aegon (as jaehaerys' father), aemond (as the initial target), or ser arryk (because I'm sorry where exactly were all the guards??? how the everlasting fuck did b&c walk through the castle without using the tunnels and only encounter a handmaiden???)

soooo on the whole, it was good??? the aftermath of b&c is really what's going to make it either be brilliant or not

[emynarnen]

Daemon Targaryen in his Crime Hoodie™ from the latest 2024 Spring/Summer Collection

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.01 "A Son for A Son"

[ride-thedragon]

My blood and cheese thoughts.

I want to get it out of the way and say I didn't hate the adaptation. I think it was a bit underwhelming in terms of the atrocities committed and positioned in the books, but for the changes the show made, I think it's a really good adaptation of one of the worst aspects of the dance.

To go in further though a pros and cons list because I didn't entirely love it.

Pros:

1. PHIA SABAN. She was just excellent. I saw a lot of people early on hating on the delivery, but to me, it worked extremely well. That's Helaena experiencing this disaster without anyone at her side. That's show Helaena, it's amazing that she understands the character so well. Her immediate reaction is her discomfort at someone being so close yet still being terrified. The necklace handed over because she didn't know better, she's never had to know better. The way she reacted to Alicent and Criston, running through the castle muttering things to herself. It was all so excellent and she really sold it. "The boy is dead" sounded like a part of the prophecy she couldn't face when she was afraid of the rats and the way she's trembling as they believe her, that she sacrificed her son. It was incredible acting so early on, and it was excellent.

2. The trade-off. It was set up so well to me. Aegon confuses Jaehaera from behind in their first scene. Helaena is the one who can tell which child is which. The mother knows, is haunting, and the fact that she was checking on her kids that late in the night was so saddening. Then she, the only one so far who we see keeping track of who is who willingly is just beyond heartbreaking. The fact that they had the killer look her in the eye and admit to the other that she wasn't lying when she pointed to her son was just insane.

3. It was Aemond. In the books, they say Daemon, Mysaria, and Rhaenyra purposefully tried to kill Jaehaerys and traumatise everyone involved as payment for Luke. The fact that it was Aemond in the show made a lot more sense .

Cons.

1. World Building.

Helaena is the Queen of Westeros. Her children are the heirs to the throne. WHERE ARE THE GUARDS?!. Where are the at least 2 guards that should be obligated to be at their side. The handmaid's that would go with her to the kids' room in case they wake up, her maids who'd prepare her for bed after?. It makes absolutely no sense for them to be alone in that moment. It's not Criston’s responsibility. He's Alicent's guard. Helaena and her children should have guards.

2. Cruelty.

The cruelty of the killers was lost in the adaptation for the worse. Obviously, they don't have a personal stake, and the way it's set up, Cheese finds Helaena, and blood is trying to work it out, but I do think they should've been worse. There was just a menacing quality missing from the killers, especially when we followed them around. I think having it from Helaena’s perspective isn't the best, but it would've been better to have it interchange. To build up to the suspense.

3. Brutality.

No, I did not need to see a child murdered on screen, but I think the brutality of the situation was lost as well. Helaena is terrified because she's a princess left alone with criminals doing something unknown. Why not make it clearer. Have some bashed in heads of fallen guards, have a murdered handmaid, and the kids left sleeping. Decorate the place with the cruelty of what hey intend to do, have it resonate what her choice means, and when we see her run and hear the noise, it's past what they've already done. This also means blood is more a part of it and it isn't a split decision. This leads to more last issue.

4. LET DAEMON BE ACCOUNTABLE.

Why is he not? Why is it left ambiguous? It's so strange. When Aemond killed Luke, you could tell it was him overestimating the situation, its a mistake only to the extent that Aemond was playing a cat and mouse game with a war shipment because he didn't think of the consequence. It makes jo sense to do that with Daemon. This man wants to burn and kill and go to war the entire episode only to not have him say any prince would do. He schemes and plots, risks himself in King's Landing only to not have the final call? Let him be extreme. Now I'm going to have to sit through Daemon and rhaenyra again, misunderstanding each other and Daemon being sad because no one trusts him because he's a horrible person to be loved by and I'm sure by the end it'll be rectified. But I wanted that call from him, on screen for his anger towards what happened, towards the delay in action, when Rhaenyra gave him an inch by saying she wanted Aemond, I needed him to take a mile because that's who he is.

Overall,

I think it was a good adaptation for the show. I don't want to watch the episode back because the sounds of Jaehaerys' death made me sick. I don't think they could've done it better off-screen or more responsibly for the current events of the world. It was simply effective. I just had my expectations as a book viewer and as someone who was excited to see where the writers are taking the world they created because either like a lot of their choices.