#daemyra soulbound

[lanaisdoe]

Some things never change...

Husband and wife... Soulbound.

[lanaisdoe]

Oh, yeah... for Daemon, Rhaenyra was the epitome of Targaryen perfection, the best he could ever had.

He literally revered her. (...and she revered him)

We have never seen him/heard of him openly worshipping anyone the way he did Rhaenyra. The man sang praises to her every chance he got, declaring her to be the fairest maiden of them all. He never declared anyone else the fairest one...

She was the first and the only woman whose hand he so fervently pleaded for and truly hoped to marry...

And he did not marry anyone else until Rhaenyra had been married off. And EVEN THEN he married the sister of Rhaenyra's husband...

Rhaenyra was the woman he and his new wife continued spending time with all throughout their marriages. She was THE woman Daemon apparently still wanted to marry all throughout the years because he actually married her the first chance he got.

She was the woman Daemon got pregnant either even before Laena's death or right after because it was the very same year Rhaenyra gave birth to Daemon's first son.

Rhaenyra was the ONLY woman Daemon married in the old valyrian blood-magic soul-binding ritual in the tradition of their house, going against all social conventions, against the crown and general appearances...

Rhaenyra was the one he crowned, served, killed for and fought war for. The one he ultimately willingly died for...

Imagine that kind of devotion...

Whenever I read about Daemon praising Rhaenyra's beauty and declaring her the most beautiful woman in all the Seven Kingdoms, this is all I can think of djkxzcw

[simonlorden]

WIP game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips

If you see this, consider yourself tagged. I have several dozen WIPs (several several dozen if I count the older Genshin ones) so I’m definitely not tagging that many people and also not posting ALL. xD

These are all my October Daye WIPs. Maybe.

a candle at my chest, a head on his knee

amnesiac simon

bellajune

but i’ll still be here in the morning

café au lait

chelsea & etienne

[redacted]

copper and cedar

Copy of Ao3 Posting Script

countessverse / 14 years

daemyra au

dream simon & toby

falling

first date

foxfire

here we go again

hotel not-carmichael

june/august/raysel

june/raysel spinoff

[redacted]

Luidaeg & Gillian

November Nighte and the Marquise’s Death (Kingdom of Smoke #1)

oleander/toby

blood memories

anti-revenge

follow-up

soulbound threesome

ironsick

dungeon rescue

poison wine

s & t timetravel

simon & june

simon & lia

Simon Fetch

Simon raises Toby

simonaugust

siren song

teen toby

thy eternal summer

tiny toby

trans gillian

[calenlily]

Ask game from the lovely @anamazingangie (hugs and solidarity, girl, I’m also in the working a little on a lot and feeling like I’m not making much progress camp 💕)

Feel free to send me a title your curious about and I'll respond with an excerpt. I’m also going to tag some folks in case they would like to do the same!

The only “rule” is to post the names of every doc you’ve worked on in the last...week, I guess? Tagging people and including word counts is optional. Feel free to reblog this post or make a new one.

All of these are House of the Dragon and more or less Daemyra focused, because I remain in hyperfixation mode. Titles are my document titles since that seems to be the name of the game, some of which are very much shitty working titles

Dragon Girls - Rhaenyra and her evolving relationship with Baela and Rhaena during the first years on Dragonstone

hold the light given unto you - set in my early Daemyra marriage AU, 4 years into Rhaenyra’s reign, she decides she wants another baby (first chapter posted as a oneshot on AO3, now working on a self-indulgent breeding kink smut continuation)

desire is hunger is the fire i breathe - set in my Sex Lessons AU, first time blowjob ficlet

Ruined - set in my Sex Lessons AU but it’s all farce and no smut, revolves around Daemon being a drunken ass

Discovery - set in my Sex Lessons AU, probably the earliest scene after the start of Daemyra’s secret relationship, so far mostly just isolated thoughts and descriptions that I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing with yet

Soulbound - AU where Daemyra develop soulmarks when Rhaenyra first flowers, and no one is happy about it (first chapter up on AO3 under the title Twin Flame Bruise (Blossom and Bind), now working on chapter 2)

Celebration - set in my Sex Lessons AU, word of Daemon’s annulment comes from the Vale and Rhaenyra sneaks herself into his bed to celebrate

Cloudbreak - set in the timeskip between episodes 7 and 8, Rhaenyra takes newborn Aegon III for his first dragonride and Daemon worries about her pushing herself too much too fast

Mountains of the Moon - set in my early Daemyra marriage AU, several years into Rhaenyra’s reign, Rhaenyra deals with the succession crisis in the Vale following Lady Jeyne Arryn’s death, the most difficult part of which is convincing Daemon to stay out of it

Blood Roses - AU diverging from episode 4 but with fairytale elements: Rhaenyra is under a Sleeping Beauty curse, Daemon is forbidden to try to rescue her but that’s not going to stop him, and there might be more to the story than appears at first glance (first chapter up on AO3, now working on the second and final chapter)

Battlefields - Rhaenyra in childhood convinces Daemon to teach her to wield a sword, and after the hunt in episode 3, tired of not being taken seriously as heir, decides to prove herself by flying off to join the war in the Stepstones, my biggest current WIP

Tagging: @luthien-under-bough @whimsicalmeerkat @girlwithakiwi @mrpinniped @mswhich

[lanaisdoe]

...to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until death do us part...

Daemon always by her side...

HOTD + parallels:

1.07 "DRIFTMARK" 1.10 "THE BLACK QUEEN"

[lanaisdoe]

We should've gotten way more of their happy married life together... Happy, giddy malewife Daemon is the best kind of Daemon :")

...they were a TRUE POWER COUPLE... #couplegoals

Mom and Dad in the house, This is beautiful daemon comforting viserys with rhaenyra holding him in her arms

Will HBO be able to give us all the content that was deleted?

[lanaisdoe]

Epic... Soulbound... He was always a simp for Rhaenyra...

[lanaisdoe]

^THIS. Yes. For me, the moment Daemon's all joyful when he receives the letter from Rhaenyra and then all devastated when he sees what's written there combined with his words (never blaming Rhaenyra, not getting angry at Rhaenyra, not being scared or shocked, just being devastated, resigned, broken...), him feeling no guilt at all, just the weight too heavy to be borne, then just letting Nettles go and afterwards setting off for a suicide mission to destroy what he believes to be the last thing standing between his wife and their goal–for Rhaenyra and their children– to prove his absolute devotion to her one last time– well, to me THAT has always been the greatest proof of his undying love for Rhaenyra and Nettles being his daughter/daughter figure.

Someone once said "Daemon simply couldn't live in a world in which Rhaenyra didn't trust him" - and that is how it's always felt to me... His devotion to Rhaenyra and their family was absolute...

And GRRM would agree... after all, when asked to name 3 things he loved most about his favorite character Daemon, the first thing he named was "Daemon's relationship with Rhaenyra"

–Would he have said that if Daemon had been cheating on her or hurting her? Nope. GRRM made Daemon for Rhaenyra. He made them bind their souls. He even made them die on the same day just 5 months apart. Daemon and Rhaenyra's line is the one that prevails for centuries, their sons both become kings of Westeros, even Daenerys is of their descent... And these two are literally the ONLY two characters GRRM made secretly marry by binding their souls in an old Valyrian blood magic ritual...

Nettles is Daemon’s daughter and absolutely no one can convince me otherwise. First of all, her personality is incredibly similar to Daemon’s mother, Alyssa, which I don’t think is a coincidence. Both are anything but refined and ladylike, Alyssa is “as bawdy a wench as any barmaid in King’s Landing, as she herself was fond of boasting”, Nettles is “a filthy girl with an even filthier mouth”, both are tearaway tomboys, they are both described as not conventionally attractive, Alyssa has a broken nose and mismatched eyes while Nettles has a scarred nose and crooked teeth. And not only Alyssa, but also Baelon’s bravery, bopping Balerion on the nose, Baela and Daemon’s personalities all echo in Nettles, particularly in how she tames Sheepstealer. There are too many similarities between them for it to be random.

Second of all, if we look at Daemon’s reaction to “Rhaenyra’s” letter, there’s something a lot of people miss:

The prince greeted me politely, but as he read I saw the joy go from his eyes, and a sadness descended upon him, like a weight too heavy to be borne. When the girl asked what was in the letter, he said, ‘A queen’s words, a whore’s work.’

He was happy when he got a letter from his queen and wife, but became very sad when he read its contents, he was crushed with grief. He then blamed Mysaria for the content of the letter. This reveals several things:

1. If he lost attraction to Rhaenyra and was cheating on her, why would he be happy to get her letter ?

2. If he didn’t care about Rhaenyra, why would he be sad instead of angry ? Why did he feel no guilt or shame, or try to cover up the truth if he was cheating ?

3. If all he wanted to do was control Rhaenyra as a puppet, if he only cared about himself having power, why didn’t he fly back to King’s Landing after letting Nettles escape and come up with a way to gaslight Rhaenyra, who at this point was beginning to lose her handle on King’s Landing ? Wouldn’t he have wanted to prioritize winning the war ? Persuade Rhaenyra to name their son Aegon heir instead of Joffrey ?

4. A “weight too heavy to be borne.” That isn’t the reaction of a man who got caught cheating and regrets it, it’s the reaction of a man devastated that his queen and wife lost faith in him and made him choose between her and his daughter.

He blames Mysaria for the letter, instead of getting angry at Rhaenyra herself. Why is that ? Because he lived with Rhaenyra in an unconventional joint family for a decade and yet Rhaenyra is unable to accept Nettles and doesn’t trust him anymore. Rhaenyra and Daemon raised all of their children together. He likely expected that he’d be able to officially introduce Nettles as his daughter after the war. But those plans were dashed terribly.

Yeah, it's exhausting to point out all of the things you say abt Mysaria, Nettles, and Daemon time and time again over the past few years to people. As for Nettles being Daemon's bio daughter, I truly believe in it. At first I was like "🤨" but then "🤔" and now I've been on board for a while. It just makes sense to me, esp when you contemplate that Daemon absolutely would have been sleeping around on Rhea while a few feet/miles from the Stepstones or slept with some pirate or whatever. And yes, it adds so much to see Nettles act Baela-Daemon-like or have more...room to behave contrary to the ideal "lady" when she's had to look out for herself perhaps from very young childhood.

[lanaisdoe]

ALWAYS...

Get yourself a husband who will destroy the world when someone hurts you...

@malewifedaemon_targaryen

[lanaisdoe]

yeah, finally, thank god. Only, this should've been the ONLY Daemon of the Dance era. Book Daemon NEVER left her, he never left his family, his children, and book Rhaenyra never thought he was pathetic, never sent him away like that, never ever thought of anything with anyone else, only ever Daemon. She never freaking doubted his loyalty to her as his queen, and even when she was manipulated into thinking he cheated on her, she only just wanted him to come back to her! And Daemon never had any fantasies about his mother and never freaking ever thought of stealing his wife's throne, the wife he had CROWNED himself and made everyone bend their knees to, he had been fighting that war for HER and their children from the beginning till the end, and i could go on and on but i will just pretend the entirety of the fanfic that is S2 never happened. It's disappointing that this one scene here is the only scene that's even remotely similar to the real book Daemon and Rhaenyra's vibes...remotely.

Finally after spending the whole season hallucinating in harrenhal, THE daemon is coming back 😂

[lanaisdoe]

Rhaenyra's all he hears, all he sees, it's her, it's only ever been her...

If anyone needs this video with more distinct Rhaenyra’s "Daemon"

[lanaisdoe]

mentally i am still there

him losing laena to childbirth and his unborn child, having to see the pain in his daughters eyes, knowing laena has the right to choose for herself, him finally being together with rhaenyra, finally feeling at home, only to hear her screaming in pain, knowing there's nothing he can do, once again, knowing he will never hold her and visenya in his arms, knowing her pain but still feeling the need to function, not able to fully show his pain, going into war mode to protect his family but feeling a part of himself breaking while seeing rhaenyra holding visenyas body, having to once again stay at her side, unable to change what happened but ready to die right there not only for his queen, for the god damn throne but for his family, for his wife, knowing they feel the same burning pain

dear hbo, I fucking hate you for not showing this scene, I can already see the comments about daemons actions in the next season and you once again purposely robbed matt from showing daemon being vulnerable and caring. Daemon will never be black and white, there is a complexity behind his actions and he fucking feels things and I will stand behind that.

[lanaisdoe]

Well... It was always gonna be her...

He was always gonna marry her...

And he was always gonna RULE TOGETHER WITH HER...

even as the King, he was not going to rule on his own but TOGETHER WITH Rhaenyra.

At this point, (whatever your opinion on hotd), you can't even claim that Daemon married Rhaenyra for the throne and doesn't love her, when, even in his delusional sleep deprived drugged state in which he wants to be the king, he with his own mouth states that he wants Rhaenyra by his side as his queen consort to rule together. Like even as the king himself Daemon would still be like this towards Rhaenyra:

[lanaisdoe]

my sweethearts :"( the pain

next time u hear from me i will be writing from The Facility. The Institution even.

[lanaisdoe]

Uncle Daemon on his knees, adoring his niece-Queen wifey

So fucking good !

[lanaisdoe]

#couplegoals

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