continueing my unplanned asoiaf obsession, welcome, jahaera targaryen, daughter of helaena and aegon
see it's a shame that so many people buy into the idea of Daeron as this sweet perfect angel who does no wrong when his real personality is actually very cynical and judgemental.
"It's been a week in the pursuit of these dry histories". "I had no choice. No. But neither did it grieve you to run away". "Will you raise an army against his savages?" "How will that help when the winter wolves are clawing at our gates?" "Am I to sit by while a madman offers up for the slaughter?"
obviously he is a good and kind kid but he CAN and WILL call it what it is and be a little shitty about it.
Daeron the daring~ house of the dragon
also i can't get it out of my mind— it seems like ormund intentionally insinuates that gwayne would sa daeron (keep your back against the wall ?). i wonder if ormund purposely feeds the confusion on that aspect so daeron can't read right from wrong. ormund is highly religious and he demonizes gwayne so hard for his sexuality, yet he is the one constantly touching daeron lol at the end the poor boy can't see through the abuse
I think Daeron knows quite well that Gwayne is a safe person. One thing I absolutely love about their relationship is that Daeron is a completely different person around Gwayne. He is not afraid to speak his mind or argue with him, and he seems to trust Gwayne's judgement.
I think if anyone's confused it's Ormund. He seems to know that Daeron is very dear to Gwayne - that jibe with 'keep your back against the wall' was meant to hurt Gwayne, not Daeron, I believe - but he doesn't seem to realise that the opposite is true as well: that Daeron holds Gwayne in high regard. He completely underestimates Daeron because he only knows the fawning version of him and not the real one - not until he is told that Daeron ordered Gwayne to parley with the enemy. It completely blindsides him because he's so used to Daeron doing everything he asks to please him that he doesn't realise that Daeron isn't acting this way out of love for him but out of fear.
