sweetly, unintentionally ragebaiting ormund // simple targ!reader
You have no idea you're making Ormund grow insane with rage during his stay in the Red Keep, which makes said rage all the more unbearable. His sweetling whore is neither clever nor cruel enough to enjoy getting beneath his skin. You are not his ward, he cannot punish you by hand or mere word. You are also not his wife, he cannot fuck you into knowing obedience.
...He can only dream about doing both as a means to soothe himself.
// or: you gift ormund an ironic piece of literature after his constant jabs concerning your targaryen heritage //
WC: 2.1K // ormund crashing out but also trying not to, obsessive!ormund x afab targ! reader, anger issues, manipulation. some mentions of filthy descriptions, slut-shaming, hypocritical ormund (hating tarygaryen incest but imagining reader as his adopted daughter??) // headcanons based on some draft scenes that will not be shown in savor pt 2. // ormund hightower!tag
next up: reader accidentally exposing Daeron by mentioning that he has written to her about Ormund's sensitivities to odors before...
When Ormund keeps making little…remarks about Valyrian customs, you do not know better than to sense he's jesting. Badly, snarkily jesting. It's the same when he "jests" about dragonriders, asking if your beast has ever eaten a man. It's also the same when he questions the habits your blood has preserved that ought perhaps to have died with Old Valyria.
Lord Ormund seems particularly interested in said blood and their habits when he catches you with Aemond, or when you speak too fondly of Daeron.
"I have to ask, Princess, will you be married off to your brother the way your sister was, or will there finally be some sense of healthy, right-by-the-faith tradition by your mother having you wed a good lord who didn't come from the same womb?"
"...I am not sure, my lord---"
"I only ask since it appears that the Targaryen men of your family keep mistaking the lines of genealogy for a map to their kin's bedchambers. Or am I mistaken?"
Now, how can you not reach the obvious conclusion?
Lord Ormund is very interested in Valyrian marriage.
In a bout of kindness...and possibly the need to please the Lord of Oldtown, you find Ormund an old book. You're very pleased with yourself as you carry the volume against your chest to his guest chambers.
"I have brought you something, Lord Ormund."
Ormund looks up. Your words are enough to improve his mood, which he will not perceive as weakness. High spirits must be kept in a city as disgusting as King's Landing.
And a gift from you? Interesting.
Perhaps it is one of those little devotional texts you have begun discussing with him, or something concerning Oldtown, and he can only hope either indicates that his efforts to dry the dragon from your blood have begun producing results.
Yet, he hopes you don't think this gift is tempting or a means to get closer. That is whore behavior, sweetling, and it's a shame he doesn't have the right to beat it out of you---
"Here. I thought of you."
You set the book upon his desk. Ormund looks down at it.
Quite immediately, his ears begin to wash out all other sounds with ringing.
CUSTOMS OF UNION AMOUNG VALYRIA.