#daeron targtower

[horizon-verizon]

https://www.tumblr.com/horizon-verizon/712224861642162176/i-dont-understand-why-people-use-the-book-as-an

well i think the reason why Aemond has turned out to be the "dutiful son" because at first the showrunners didn't want Daeron to be in the show, and it was Daeron who has the dutiful son/the most popular son of Alicent and the closest to her, so obviously they give him a lot of Daeron's personality traits. But since Grrm confirmed that Daeron will be in S2 maybe we will see more of Book!Aemond characterization or maybe it's me just being too hopeful that we will not get more of the whitewashing of Aemond, and it has been very annoying that they literally adapted Mushroom's claims about every and each character except Losermond. They're very close to turning him into Gary Stu. Also Helaena is highly underdeveloped she doesn't even feel like she is human, she is more like a mere plot device. and they didn't put any foundation for their made up ship. Is it because he said he will marry her? will that because he is oh so dutiful and cares about his house legacy. they looked at each other? Well Aegon kept staring at Rhaenyra during the dinner scene, does that means he is in love with her or has fathered Aegon iii and Viserys ii? This is silly.

Yes, it is silly, yet anon that is what we have as a reason for why some fans ship those two.

Even if Daeron hadn't been in the show, Aemond's characterization should not change, because he was what he was and it is integral to how the Dance played out as it did toward the end.

And how could one not have Daeron and his bungling of the taking of Tumbleton, how things went down there, and his burning Bitterbridge thinking Lady Caswell was responsible for Maelor's death?! Were they thinking of making Ormund Hightower the leader of that part of the green forces?! Like, how boring, if so!

Hate all this for Helaena, the underdevelopment. The lack of it. She's a nonentity, despite having such power. Gone to waste altogether. Not even scenes with her trying to use it for her family of either side or see her try to connect with Rhaenyra (what stops her? fear of repercussions? direct tellings from Otto and Alicent? disinterest? depression? we'll never know because the writers think that action>character development). She may have only been mentioned at most 10 times throughout the Dance and never played an active role besides killing herself and talking one quote of displeasure and sarcasm in canon, but the show had its opportunity to make her a real person and it instead decided to make her a nearly silent decoration that happens to see images in her head that everyone just...brushes off?!

I'm afraid I can't be optimistic as you about Aemond's whitewashing ending by the first episodes of the next season. In any first season, you set up your character's motivations and values to lead into the rest of the next episodes until its end, where their selves either undergo great changes or continue to serve a lighter purpose -- depending on how central they are and what the writer/director wants to do with them. Everything hinges on what's presented in that first season, in the first portrayal of that character, in the first turning points in their personal development. For Aemond, that was him in episode 6 being bullied due to not having a dragon by his own brother and the V boys, him claiming Vhagar and "proving" his Targness/strength, and him obviously eager to battle at least with Daemon.

The firsts are not only supposed to let the audience know who this character is and why we should care about them OR what get us hyped for the rest of more rising action; they set this character up and lets us know what sort of person/role they are and what the writers want to do with their arc, and it presents their perspective of that character and their arc.

So if we see Aemond consistently get whitewashed and it being done in the first season...there's a 98% certainty that he will continue to be whitewashed. The other two percent is the abused hope I'm currently putting up only for me to pretend I never said anything at all if I'm wrong (I jest).

[gojuo]

Remember what they're taking from you

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[spacerockfloater]

“A son for a son”? After her faction killed a baby in its crib?

Otto was right from the start, Rhaenyra always intended to murder her brothers if it meant she’d get her hands on the throne.

Looking forward to this horrendous woman and her pathetic whelps getting annihilated.

[nxpthys]

Aemond: Can we please stay in your room?

Helaena: Why?

Daeron: We played with an ouija board and cursed ours.

Aemond: Aegon doesn’t know how to banish the spirits, so he just threw salt at them and yelled, “DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A HOTEL TO YOU?!”

[elcoffin]

daeron & alicent sketches

[ladyofthebears]

Do you ever think the dragons get sad that they arent small enough to be held by their riders anymore?

Do you ever think Syrax longs for the days when she and Rhaenyra were young and she could curl herself on her riders shoulders and feel her heartbeat through her skin?

Do you wonder if Dreamfyre ever misses when she was still slender enough for Rhaenas arms to fit around her neck and hold her, when she was still small enough to rest her head in Rhaenas lap and longs to be able to be that close to Helaena?

Do you imagine that maybe Silverwing longs for the days she spent curled around the baby Alysanne as they grew together?

Do you worry if in his last moments of panic and pain, Stormcloud wished he was tiny enough to be carried around and doted on by Aegon iii one last time?

Do you think that as Tessarion died, her mind reached out for the one person she had never known a life without?

Cause i think about it all like a lot.

Ps if you like dragons you should def go look at my dragon inspired makeup looks, namely my latest of Meraxes https://www.tumblr.com/ladyofthebears/748888503847403520/finally-finished-my-meraxes-makeup-look-hope-you

[vhagar-balerion-meraxes]

🐉 The Targtowers 🐉

[fangoria]

i just *clenches fists* think they’re so neat <333

[estrangedandwayward]

Dreamfyre, Vhagar, Sunfyre and Tessarion flying home

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

these writers are allergic to including emotional layers in relationships of targtowers and children of aegon & helaena.

the entire family dynamics of team green got bastardized to elevate team black and saint nyra's relationship to her kids.

'house of the dragon' is a show written by aegon and aemond haters.

they will never make me like or empathize with rhaenyra targaryen, it doesn't matter how bad the writing is.

[horizon-verizon]

Septon Eustace and Grand Maester Munkun both assert that Prince Daeron was sickened by all he saw and commanded Ser Hobert Hightower to put a stop to it, but Hightower’s efforts proved as ineffectual as the man himself. It is in the nature of smallfolk to follow where their lords lead, and Lord Ormund’s would-be successors had themselves fallen victim to avarice, bloodlust, and pride. Bold Jon Roxton became enamored of the beautiful Lady Sharis Footly, the wife of the Lord of Tumbleton, and claimed her as a “prize of war.” When her lord husband protested, Ser Jon cut him nigh in two with Orphan Maker, saying, “She can make widows too,” as he tore the gown from the weeping Lady Sharis. Only two days later, Lord Peake and Lord Bourney argued bitterly at a war council, until Peake drew his dagger and stabbed Bourney through the eye, declaring, “Once a turncloak, ever a turncloak,” as Prince Daeron and Ser Hobert looked on, horror struck.

Fire and Blood by GRRM, pg 495-496

[fadingstudentbananacookie]

The fact that the whole Dance is centered around a 30-year-old Rhaenyra and a 50-year-old Daemon having beef with some 14-20-year-old nepo babies—including an alcoholic with mommy issues, an autistic pixie girl, an anime villain, and a twink—will never be not funny to me.

C&H set the bar in hell and Rhaenyra still couldn't jump over it 💀

I mean, no one in Team Green gave a single fuck about any of Rhaenyra or Daemon's children. They were either casualties in the war or a minor annoyance for Alicent, Criston, and Otto. The Dragon Seeds were the ones who actually put up a good fight. Fuck, even Bloody Ben who was 11 in F&B, did so much more!

I literally just started laughing like a maniac alone in my room when I thought about this.

[franzkafkagf]

Imagine you're a fifteen-year-old girl, your father is the second most powerful man in the realm, and your life is not your own. You're fifteen and your father sends you to the king's chambers to keep him company. He says that he wants to marry you now, you're fifteen and you closest friend's father wants to marry you. Your father wanted this for you so you wanted this for you.

You're thrust into the role of queen, and wife, and mother before you even really got to know yourself. So then you had three children before the age of twenty and you don't know how to love them properly. You don't even know how to love yourself properly. Your friend (or is it step-daughter now?) resents you for it and somehow you can't blame her. And you're so lonely and you don't know where to find somebody.

Your husband crumbles before your eyes. He never really cared about you that much, you know. He doesn't even care for your children that much. You feel misunderstood and used and weren't they what you wanted? What did I do wrong?

Your children, your precious children. You love them fiercely, of course you do, but sometimes you don't like them very much. They remind you too much of yourself, of the mistakes you've made, of the person you've become.

Your eldest son, the reason for it all. He's your curse, you know? And your salvation. And he is your son. You tell him he isn't yours, but as you say it your entire being is staring back at you.

Your daughter is a mystery you cannot solve, she slips through your fingers like water sometimes. You reach out to her, try to connect, but you never quite get to touch her.

Your son is maimed before your very eyes. You watch in horror as his father doesn't seem to care. Is anybody else seeing this? No one seems to care. Why isn't anyone doing something?

And your youngest, you barely know him (it's okay, he barely knows you too). Sometimes you wonder if he sees your face when he thinks of the word mother.

You're consumed by fear and resentment, you're practically drowning in it; no one seems to notice. There's blood on your hands, or is there? You question every decision, every action, wondering if it was all for naught.

You lost your youth, your decency, everything that made you you. All in an attempt to save your children; you lost your children, too.

You are Alicent Hightower.

[alicentdeservesbetter]

The cutest of commission from aegonsfool

[elcoffin]

💙 daeron 💙 commissioned by lovely @addaerontruther

[newts-gay]

just read a comment somewhere saying “i swear team green stans just wanna be different”. oh so you agree? you think hotd’s writting and direction is fully biased, aiming for the audience to only sympathise with TB and rhaenyra’s cause?