#jon's worrying 24/7 right now about rhaegar AND daemon

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so since Daemon will end up marrying Laena again and they will most likely have Baela and Rhaena again, i have to ask, will the girls also be twins?

i can just imagine westeros gossip flying “daemon targaryen has another set of twins!” what would everyone else’s reactions be?

daemon, thinking “huh, is it me or is it weird?”

otto finally happy there are SOME girls in the royal family (before remembering they’re daemon’s daughters and he’d rather cut his own hand off than let one of his girls marry into the hightowers)

rhaenys narrowing her eyes like dameon does, “huh, is it him or is it weird?”

what would VISERYS’ reaction be? is his instinct to betroth the half-siblings bc he sees signs in it?

when daemon remarries to rhaenyra, everyone starts wondering if her next pregnancy will also be twins

ooh what about the boys? jon and rhaegar have little sisters and they immediately agree they must protect them at all costs

personally i’m fine with either the girls being twins as well or them being like a year or smth apart. the boys still gain little sisters!

Ah, but is that a given? Daemon is feeling both very contrary right now in regards to Viserys's command and also so worried about the boys that marriage is not something he particularly wants to think about. If not for Viserys's command, he wouldn't think about it at all, honestly. (Unless it's marriage to Rhaenyra, which isn't possible.)

He's in a very different place than canon!Daemon, who had fallen into irrelevance over the course of the Stepstones conflict, especially given the circumstances of his last banishment. That Daemon had no children, no prospects, no power--freeing Laena, daughter of one of his few allies/friends, from her Braavosi betrothed was pretty much his only option, and at age thirty-four, with no children of his own, he probably felt that biological clock ticking.

Resonant!Daemon meanwhile has two sons to build a relationship with, Viserys's favor (though it doesn't feel like it at times), a potential seat for Jon, and 99 problems named Allard, Crayne, Otto, the Stepstones, the Triarchy, or Volantis. The poor guy needs at least a year or two to even consider marriage as a thing he might want.

Whereas Resonant!Laena, now freed from her Braavosi betrothal, will have far more pressure on her from her parents to wed and have a few children, ideally a girl or two, so that they can betroth one to Luke (as the likely heir to Driftmark after Laenor).

Like, Corlys and Rhaenys would love a match between her and Daemon right now, and you can bet that Viserys spoke to Rhaenys about it the very next morning, but they're not going to wait around for him to change his mind, and Laena herself will want to have some agency in her match after the disaster that was her previous one.

We'll get Baela and Rhaena, but they may not be Daemon's.

That said, if Daemon manages to produce another set of twins, it'll probably be taken as a sign of--something. (And if Laena's twins aren't his, there may still be some suspicious eyes turned his way.)

And regardless, I think everyone will be watching Rhaenyra's first pregnancy after marrying Daemon with interest, curious if Daemon's just Like That (TM).