not a vessel of the gods

Unless otherwise stated, all my x reader fics feature fem!reader

Long fics

Worth Remembering - Caracalla x reader x Geta (completed)

Crushing Depths - Johnny Storm x reader (to be rewritten)

Astray and Beyond - Aemond Targaryen x reader (completed)

Dreadful as the Dawn - Aemond Targaryen x OC (dark; regular updates)

Medium size

Listen For The Wind - Aemond Targaryen x reader (dark; completed)

A Rite of Spring - Geta x reader (completed)

One shots

À Quatre Mains - Dmitri Kravinoff x reader

loosely connected one shots

Consolation Prize Repechage

Dreams Dwell Within - Daeron Targaryen x reader

Egyptian Summer - Emperor Geta x reader

Given your wording and the line you refer to (which is Aemond talking about his wedding night), I assume you are talking about the way Aemond approaches having sex with M’rone vs. with Rhaena. Just as there is a difference in how he treats and views these two women in general, outside of sexual situations, there is a difference in how he behaves when he sleeps with either of them.

It all comes down to the different “functions” he ascribes to these women in his life. M’rone is hedonistic pleasure, Rhaena is biopolitical duty. M’rone is a pastime, Rhaena is a task he fulfils to reach a political goal (an heir; but also a sign of dominance vis-a-vis Jacaerys and Baela in Pentos, legitimacy toward the Realm (Targaryen bride)). I know he at one time thought that the wedding night would be enjoyable because Rhaena is pretty, but… we’ll see in next chapter what he actually experienced.

Anyway, because he has sex with/rapes these women for entirely different reasons, his approach in both cases is different as well. You will likely have caught onto M’rone being distressed because when she is with Aemond, even if she does not want to, she almost always has an orgasm. For her, this is the ultimate perversion of this whole ordeal; he makes her own body betray her spirit, so to say. Aemond does not insist on this (entirely?) out of cruelty, I think he even thinks he is doing her a favor, because physically speaking he does not hurt her (in his opinion; M’rone would say otherwise). All this is due to this hedonistic function Aemond assigned to her; I think after his relationship with Alys he came to be of the opinion that true pleasure in sex only exists when both parties climax. And what he involved M’rone in did begin as a queeste for pure carnal pleasure (she is, in his opinion, the more “classy” alternative to a whore). For him, forcing that sort of sensations on M’rone is an achievement and also an inherent part of what he needs of her. He does not just desire her, but also needs her to desire him (he is slowly coming to realize this, and also the emotional consequences of this need, hence the final scene in ch9 in which he does not tend to his own sexual desires).

Bedding Rhaena is a different matter. As he does not do this in search of pleasure and holds a general disdain for her, I do not think he would think twice about what she is feeling (pleasure, pain, shame), let alone do anything in particular to redirect how she is feeling. On the one hand, this means he will not push that perverse kind of enjoyment on Rhaena, on the other hand I think he will not be going out of his way to brutalize her in specific ways (he would not hit her, I think, or choke her; in general this Aemond is not in mixing that sort of violence with sex). I think he would be quick, pragmatic and cold about it. Yet that is enough for the situation to be terrible for Rhaena. Then again, I also think him having found M’rone before his marriage has an impact on him choosing this more “pragmatic cruel” rather than “excessively cruel” approach. And more ironically I believe he views having sex with Rhaena as a sort of denegration forced on him, even if he would never admit that out loud.

Either way, in both instances, no matter how Aemond treats M’rone or Rhaena, it is rape. I do want to be clear on that, because when I write from his PoV in the fic I cannot state that so explicitly for the simple reason he does not think of it in that way. In his mind M’rone “enjoys him” so it cannot be rape; and Rhaena is his wife and there is no rape in marriage in Westeros.

Ah… I hate it here.