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fruitageoforanges · 1 year

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not reblogging because i don’t want to drag one specific person, but re: my last post, no, the blacks don’t have the same conquerors parallels. more specifically, daemon isn’t a visenya.

now, don’t get me wrong, he has his own fucked-up psychosexual relationship with his brother (which i think is the most compelling part of him), but if anything he’s an anti-visenya. just because he wields dark sister and is a skilled warrior doesn’t mean he’s like her. visenya wasn’t a tantrum-thrower. visenya didn’t run away across the sea. i don’t think aegon i could’ve sent visenya away if he tried, and he never had cause to in the first place.

the difference between daemon and aemond is much more stark in my mind than a lot of people think, and it can be summed up by what alicent says to rhaenyra in ep 7: ‘where is duty? where is sacrifice?’. aemond is governed by duty and loyalty, daemon is governed by his own wants.

#hotd #greens <3 #aemond targaryen #judith.txt #anti daemon targaryen #< just for people who don’t want to see this kind of post #because again just because daemon isn’t like visenya doesn’t mean he isn’t a fun character #i personally find him more interesting in the early episodes #when he’s being absolutely deranged re: viserys #but he’s much more capricious than both visenya and aemond #this is also why saying ‘aemond looks up to daemon’ gets on my nerves #sure he admires physical strength #but they’re so different!#also ‘aemond is impulsive’ gets on my nerves because we need to remember we see so little of him this season #and both times when he does something kind of stupid #ie the strong toast and chasing luke #it happens in extreme circumstances and under a lot of pressure #particularly the dinner - he took several more jokes and clear indications that jace & luke aren’t really sorry #the pig was just the last straw

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