things that probably would have happened if daemon won:
he kills daeron and all of daeron's kids and their kids. people say daemon would not be this cruel. i disagree. he'd feel bad about it, but i don't think he's letting any of them live. plus aegor would be the world's worst enabler
he keeps jena and dyanna as "guests" at court to keep the daynes and the dondarrions in line
prior to the loss of the war, myriah was able to flee back to dorne so as soon as she's in sunspear dorne secedes immediately. cue something like a hundred years' war about this partly bc of the secession and partly bc maron claims his kids w daenerys are the rightful heirs to the throne
daemon thinks he executes brynden & he's sad about it (aegor's popping bottles though)
in reality, brynden skinchanges into a raven
the surviving members of the raven's teeth take the black as permitted and take the brynden-raven with them to the wall, where some promptly desert and go north of the wall
one particularly loyal member ends up willingly giving up his body for brynden to skinchange into, not really realizing what he's agreeing to. who doesn't love a little violation of human rights in the name of stalking your half brothers to destroy their dynasty from afar
if they survived the rebellion, daemon sends mya back to raventree but keeps gwenys at court
he probably marries or betroths his zillion kids to various children of the high houses to bind them to him
like daeron did in the actual post-war, daemon keeps 'wards' at court ie children of several of the high houses who didn't declare for him during the rebellion
the farming-out-his-kids-for-political-stability only partially works bc even though he thinks he's being chivalrous in allowing aelinor and alys to return to their families, he holds on to dyanna to keep the daynes from siding with the martells. obviously they then reject any offers of marriage to make the holding-of-dyanna more palatable and when she dies, they immediately join the martells in warring with the throne
the penroses are happy to have their daughter back so they do take up arms against dorne (#xenophobia) but the arryns are frostily standoffish and basically unassailable up there in the eyrie. literally switzerland but in an understandably bitchy way
he also pisses off some of the high lords bc he has to make good on his promises to elevate the lesser lords who supported him and he names some completely random set of people to fill half the roles on his small council
if aegor actually isn't lord commander of the kingsguard, then daemon would name him hand of the king – but if he is in the kingsguard, daemon probably offers the position to manfred lothston
he marries daemon jr to shiera and that has the potential to go poorly in fifteen different directions
he sends rohanne, calla, and their younger kids to tyrosh during the great spring sickness. he survives but aegon, aemond, haegon, and aenys die. bc of aegon and aemond's deaths, daemon jr becomes second in line to the throne. several of the wards he was holding from the high houses also die, thereby diminishing his power over them. whoopsie
all this conflict + the great spring sickness + the drought + brynden's remote-weirwood scheming massively destabilizes the realm and it's just the memory of the high death toll brought on by the rebellion & the general unifying xenophobia against dorne that keeps the other high houses from fully revolting during daemon's reign. daemon jr might not be so lucky
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