the purpose of making daemon's wife and daughter hate/distrust him is to fulfill the larger point showrunners are making that is house targaryen is always always fucked up even contrary to what we have in canon (at least re: daemon x rhaenyra and daemon x laena) because they don't really see alicent's children as targaryens therefore they must be given the onus of REAL complexity and empathy in this essay i will—










