On what basis do you villanise alicent when you’re literally a daemon apologist? That manchild groomer? He k!lls his first wife with a stone, murders a random man to fake Laenor’s death, slut shames women when he’s the manwhore of town, AT THE THROAT OF THE QUEEN OF SEVEN KINGDOMS when things don’t go his way? Don’t try to justify his actions with “this didnt happen in the books” it happened on the show. If you simply choose to unsee it then youre fucking stupid-secondly you spend sm more time bad painting alicent when all her life she’s been the obedient wife and daughter, even if she did 1% of all crimes daemon committed you surely would make her the worst character to ever exist but you turn a blind eye to daemon? Don’t call yourself a feminist if you’d call out alicent for no wrongs she’s done and let everything daemon does slide? You choose to rant about alicent but at the same time would glorify an abuser!
talking about a piece of fiction and analyzing a fictional character on my blog (under the anti xy hashtags too), is not obsessive behavior, but sending anonymous long ass paragraphs to attack a real person is :) mommy should limit your screen-time fr.
there’s no hints of daemon being attracted to rhaenyra before she reached the age of majority (16), but only that rhaenyra was enamored of her uncle (not daemon, rhaenyra!) and that he kept her company as alicent isolated her. he gifted her things and entertained her with stories about his adventures. there are two groomers/pedos that i can think of in the dance (book) to make a comparison: aegon II and criston cole. aegon II: i think it’s clear- septon eustace never denied the age of his ‘paramour’ who was pleasuring him (she was 12) and criston cole: he crowned rhaenyra as the queen of love and beauty at the age of 7, and alicent herself hinted that he was a pedo: “ser criston protects the princess from her enemies, but who protects the princess from ser criston?” daemon has allegedly slept with her before marrying laena, but since the sources are very unreliable (one being mushroom and the other being a green supporter), i judge that paragraph as a rumor. they married once rhaenyra already had three children.
daemon is even more absent in the show than he is in the book: ep 1 (“you’ve always tried to send me away, to the vale, to the city watch, anywhere but by your side” - daemon to viserys). he was barely around to “groom” rhaenyra- and gifting her a necklace can’t be viewed as grooming. from the three interactions between them we’ve seen before ep 4 (when they kissed), he never made sexual jokes, talked about sex, touched her in any inappropriate and/or sexual way- he basically only gifted her a necklace. a groomer prepares a child for sexual intercourse and this did not happen in the show (nor in the book), so daemon can’t be labeled as a groomer/pedo. he then fought a war for 3/4 years, time in which he couldn’t possibly manipulate/groom rhaenyra. in ep 3 she was already “of age” and in ep 4 she was looking for a match (she was 19). they then didn’t see each other for 10 years and when they did, it was rhaenyra who kissed him and who proposed to him, in both cases he was hesitant. a groomer/pedo would never wait for their victim to grow up in order to have sexual intercourse. so there you go.
yeah it didn’t happen in the book, is true, but that doesn’t mean i personally excused him for killing her in the show. he was also forced to marry her at 15 when rhea was 19 and spent the rest of his years trying to convince his brother to divorce them, but you won’t see me excusing this crime like people excuse alicent for hers.
this was sadly an addition of the show, and while i don’t condone it, i can understand him just like i understood alicent when she physically harmed rhaenyra in ep 7. if people can understand alicent, why can’t they understand daemon too?
daemon doesn’t deny who he is, he’s a morally grey character, not a morally white character- and his fans never claimed otherwise. the issue with alicent stans is that they’re trying to portray her as someone she’s not. she’s wicked, she’s evil, she’s not an anti-hero (to be an anti-hero a character has to die as an hero or at least have some redeeming qualities), she’s not morally good either or even better than daemon. yes daemon might have killed rhea and a random servant in driftmark, but alicent pardoned cole for murdering joffrey, pardoned larys for burning harrenhal, mentally abused rhaenyra and put her and her children in constant danger (having bastards and lying about it could have been punished with execution), allowed aegon to bully aemond (“you may cuff him about as you wish at home”), forced helaena to marry at 13 (even though there was no rush, since rhaenyra was the assigned heir), paid aegon’s victims’ their silence instead of punishing her r*pist son, and only faced him when rhaenyra was at court (“how can you keep carrying on like this? especially on a day like today?”- shows it was the first time she had that conversation with him), replaced valyrian icons with the seven (religion and culture erasure), didn’t give viserys a honorable targaryen funeral, instead left his mummified corpse to rot in his chambers for at least 1-2 days, even more in the book, forced her r*pist son to usurp rhaenyra’s throne because she would rather have a r*pist ruling over westeros than a woman- and these are only show!alicent’s crimes. the rest of team green are even worse.
side note: daemon is grrm’s favorite character in fire and blood. if you think he wrote/described his favorite character as this sadistic criminal and pedophile like you portray him, you’re fooler than i thought.
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