#many of these fans ship alys x aemond and while I like them too you really can’t say daemon x nettles is worse than that relationship

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I see “fans” are concern trolling about Nettles again

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I think the major reason why Al*smond isn't (at the moment) more popular than Lucemond (imho this will surely remain the most popular Aemond ship by far), Helaemond, or OC ships with Rhaenyra's daughter is simply because of the fact that Alys hasn't yet been introduced in the show as his love interest…obviously most authors won't write something with a character that doesn't yet exist in the show. Most shippers are mainly show watchers and most fan fic writers are also basing their most of their stories on the show's characterization of Aemond (it's not hard to guess why, book!Aemond was unhinged while the show version is much more sympathetic) and there's also the fact that whatever he had with Alys in the book was pretty sketchy therefore no one can say for sure what direction they're going to take with the ship in the show. The thing is though that the ship, despite being canon, may never become more popular than some of Aemond's non-canon ships. Like you said, people have different tastes, they like different tropes in fiction and non-canon ships being more popular isn't something out of the ordinary in fandom. Also, the ship is def not something for everybody which is funny because many shippers pretend this pair has a super healthy dynamic and hold a holier-than-thou vs most other F&B and HOTD ships simply because it's not incest while ignoring the prisoner x captor dynamics and the massive age gap. Somehow all the bad aspects about this ship are to be ignored (because they're lies told by the maesters) and we should just go along and pretend it was just a tragic love story between a lowborn woman and a prince and nothing more. Yeah, I don't think so.

Yes, exactly that's what is annoying sometimes the way some delusional alysmond Stans try to present this ship as something extremely romantic which it wasn't is stupid. I enjoy this ship too but I would never say it was any dreamy or romantic stuff. Honestly I don't think any ship was romantic in Fnb dance story. Not a single ship in dance is good or healthy maybe except Jace / Baela. All of them are equally toxic, fighting for one and hating another is nothing just bullshit