fling me to the moon

"my brothers dreamed of dragons too, and the dreams killed them, every one."

"norton describes it as a sort of love triangle between ormund, daeron, and his dragon, tessarion,"

"ormund has as close as he is able to get to genuine love for daeron [...] he's cruel, yet he loves him."

james norton: ormund grooms daeron.

ryan condal: but. not in that way.

-daeron being adept at reading omund’s emotions, anticipating his anger, and then trying to protect other people from it

-tessarion acting protective of daeron around ormund

-ormund acting “fatherly” while raising daeron to dislike his actual father

-ormund raising daeron to think of himself as “different” from his “savage” family-but only thanks to ormund of course. if daeron disappoints ormund, he’s returning to his “savage” origins

-the irony of alicent thinking she saved daeron from a doomed upbringing while unknowingly sending him off to something worse