gwayne is a deadbeat trust fund uncle (funcle) and b-list athlete crashing at ormund’s after his potentially closeted bi situationship (criston) who he first met when he was briefly his sister’s situationship during one of her annual rhaenyra breaks went off his mood stabilisers and killed himself shortly after gwayne abandoned him to the most catastrophic loss of his career at a major international sporting event and quit team green after enduring one too many nights being eaten alive by bedbugs in a shitty hotel (but only after helping him to unethically sabotage the competition in the vain hope of getting closer and maybe finally figuring out the whole straight guy thing). turns out criston had a homicide and multiple assault charges that the hightowers pulled some strings as his sponsors to get dropped and otto has recently passed away under mysterious daemyra-shaped circumstances, so with all the scrutiny on both of them and the nature of their relationships to him, plus alicent currently being in a rough patch in her on-again-off-again relationship with rhaenyra (again), gwayne has no one else who can put him up until he finds an apartment right now. ormund is a semi-successful trad male lifestyle influencer/podcaster who’s homeschooling daeron to own the libs and avoid the possibility of him ever being subject to the authority of a woman. daeron has not been allowed to get vaccinated because it might give him autism or turn him gay like gwayne and besides if he was a real hightower and not an effeminate limp-wristed targaryen he’d never get even a mild upper respiratory infection, nevermind that ormund burns enough incense (more respectably masculine than scented candles) to induce asthma in anyone with an intact nasal cavity. he’s counting down the days until he can leave for college like his life depends on it and probably going to wind up coming out as a she/they transfem named tessa in the next 5-10 years or so. tessa the first, aka tessarion, is an iguana who clings to daeron’s shoulders whenever she’s allowed out of her cage (which is rarely) and attacks anyone who gets too close. she’s protective and a pretty reliable ormund deterrent but she’s also sent multiple people to the ER. despite his objections to her continued existence ormund refuses to have her put down or sold because that’s woke nonsense and his anger issues mean he’s not allowed to own a gun.

this got long and goes into some detail about the social power dynamics of sexual abuse and incest so i’ll put it under a cut 👇

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