What if baelon ii lost his eye instead of aemond because he was just trying to stop a fight that gone wrong? how would everyone else react? he isn’t mad at Luke but appalled that the boy had a knife in the first place, so he solely blames rhaenyra for being careless. So far the greens are only enraged on his behalf, especially aemond.
Did I wait until i got home to answer this because i wanted to expand on it? yes, yes I did. So here’s my thoughts on this.
Baelon II Targaryen had been ten and two when his stepmother had died and he saw his father once again, and now he had two half-sisters. He had no interest in any of that. No interest in his father or his half-sisters. He was content never knowing his stepmother but he told Princess Rhaenys that he was sorry for her death.
My father ruins everything he touches, he had told her as bitterness filled his face as purple eyes connected with purple and he turned away as Alicent beckoned him over.
He had returned to his temporary room after escorting Helaena to hers, making sure of her safety but he couldn’t fall asleep, not with the feeling that something was wrong.
He left his room, only to be led towards the sound of fighting. Who could it be at this time? A fight after a funeral? Who was capable of such disrespect.
He got his answer soon enough as he saw Aemond, Jace, Luke and his half-sisters fighting. The glint of a knife caught his eye and out of a sense of loyalty to his cousin, he surged forward, just in time for the knife to slide of his right eye like butter.
Pain was blinding, blood gushed from him as his vision blurred, there was so much screaming.
“Baelon!” Aemond screamed, alerting a knight who gasped at the horror of what had occurred. The knife held in the tiny had of Lucerys had fallen in the boys own horror.
Baela and Rhaena could not contain their horror at the sight of their older brother as they held onto each other.
All of the were brought before the adults and other children. Baelon was mostly silent as his eye was stitched. Alicent held onto his hand as she looked on with tears in her eyes.
“It will heal, will it not?” Alicent had inquired with anguish in her voice as she held onto the boy she had raised since he came to them at six namedays. He had always protected her and helped her and yet the second they come to driftmark, he is maimed.
“The flesh will heal but the eye is lost.” The maester sorrowfully revealed as Alicent gasped in sorrow.
“Where were you?” She hissed at Aegon but refused to remove herself from Baelon as she tried to comfort him.
Baelon could still feel the pain but his anger was worse. This could have been Aemond, his cousin who had done nothing but yearn for a dragon.
“I care not for my eye.” Baelon dismissed the concerns as he slowly turned his head to look at Rhaenyra who had just entered with his father.
How typical.
“Why did a child possess such a blade. It matters not who started it or who brought it. Why? Princess Rhaenyra, why was your child aiming to kill?” Baelon didn’t even look at his father as his newfound resentment for his cousin came to life.
Viserys came forth from his spot to look over his nephew. “How could this have happened? To my own flesh and blood.”
“They attacked Baelon!” Aemond hissed, glaring at his bastard nephews with fiery distaste. His cousin, maimed by those animals.
Helaena stood off to the side, her purple eyes locked on Baelon with concern in her eyes even as he looked back at her as if to reassure her.
“He called us bastards!” Jace defended, still deathly pale. He didn’t mean for Baelon to get hurt, truly.
“Prince Aemond and Prince Baelon must be sharply questioned on where that idea came from.” Rhaenyra insisted, making bitterness grow inside of Baelon.
“Aemond, where did you get that idea.” Viserys forcefully asked.
Baelon glanced between Alicent and Aegon before answering for Aegon. “It was some men in the training grounds.” He lied, to save the person who had always cared for him after his mother.
Viserys nodded but Alicent wasn’t satisfied. “That’s not enough! Baelon has been permanently injured! Baelon, our blood. Our ward. Viserys.” Tears filled her eyes again as she choked back a sob.
Daemon watched with anger coursing through him, Baelon was his son, his blood. Not the blood of this Hightower cunt.
“Don’t mourn me, Aunt.” Baelon got up with Aemond’s help as he walked forwards slowly to grab at her hand.
Baelon didn’t want Alicent to be viewed as vengeful or evil for how far she might go to protect him against Rhaneyra. “Let’s go back home. I’m alright.” He rested his head on her shoulder briefly to calm her down.
His lone purple eye gazed at his cousin with resentment that had never been there before and it made Rhaenyra and Daemon flinch.
I will never forgive you or forget this. His gaze said. He pulled away before walking over to Helaena and leading both her and Alicent away. There was no need to stay here when he hated nearly everyone in this room. Especially his father.
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if rhaenyra had succeeded in ascending the iron throne, do you think daemon would have somehow found a way to secretly have the strong boys killed so his sons would be the heirs?
So Daemon is not a long-term planner. His whole thing is that he is extremely impulsive. I think it’s a pretty good indicator that when Rhaenyra DID succeed in ascending the iron throne Daemon was not planning and plotting to dispose of Joffrey to put Aegon on the throne but instead decided to abandon all of them to go on his suicidal riverlands bender with the sixteen year old dragon rider he met like 4 months prior.
like. sure naming a kid 4th in line aegon is suspicious as hell but was DAEMON machinating? no the only thing he ever fully calculated in his life was the angle of his final 720 helix spin eye sword dragon jump trickshot. which is why daemonomics was such a disaster when he was master of coin.
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So, there's a scene in Game of Thrones where Podrick is given a bag full of gold and left in a brothel, he shows up the next day with the bag intact (not having spent a coin) even though the prostitutes have served him. IMAGINE THIS SAME BUT WITH THE SON OF DAEMON.
As if Daemon found out that his son spent the night in a brothel and didn't have to spend a single coin, IMAGINE THE INSTANT PRIDE OF THIS MAN.
(He doesn't even try to hide it)
people are enamoured with him. if he were in a show, he'd be the harem protagonist and its so funny, like he's not even trying and people are tripping over their shoes to get him to like them while he only has eyes for helaena.
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