Daemon's Diegetic, In-universe Fatal Flaw Is That He's Usually Right But He's Also A Stubbornly Bad Communicator

Daemon's diegetic, in-universe fatal flaw is that he's usually right but he's also a stubbornly bad communicator to the point that all the true misunderstandings are centered around him.

Daemon's exegetic, out-of-universe fatal flaw is that he's usually right but the writers don't want you to know it.

I'm just living it up over how s2 is just constantly making Alicent's hypocrisy front and center. Like they're finally committing after the totally insane shit they tried to pull last season.

Like this woman hated Rhaenyra so much for having extramarital sex and "endangering the realm". But now she's leaving her grandchildren unprotected by sending the guards away just so she could get some extramarital dick. On top of that, she, you know, literally started the war.

Then she literally tried to stab out a six year old's eye in revenge and wouldn't accept any apology at Driftmark. Yet her son literally murders a thirteen year old envoy, and she expects a condolence letter and some prayers to make up for it.

Alicent is a fucking delusional hypocrite and I'm so glad HOTD has finally stopped trying to gaslight the audience over that.

(Granted they're still failing with almost everything else, but I'm trying to be more positive this summer, so I'll just focus on this lmao)

"Rightful queen" is a fucking meaningless phrase. Also Dany burned her slave alive as a sacrifice to get her dragons, sexually abused Irri and plans to "conquer" (violently colonize) westeros with a foreign army and dragons. Y'know, like a villain.

I assume you're referring to my bio. Since you seem to have read it, how about you take what I said to heart?

Argue with the fucking wall until you learn some media literacy.

I've said this before and I'll say it again:

One of our biggest hurdles towards justice in Palestine is forgetfulness.

One of the main reasons Israel continues to commit replicas of the same massacres weeks, sometimes days, apart with complete impunity is because Israel is counting on the world to forget. Israel's founders have said exactly that.

But since generations of Palestinians have made it very clear that forgetfulness is not an option, this meant that Israel's next target became the selective amnesia of the west, which has consequently become the cornerstone of Israel's impunity.

The one thing I'm absolutely loving about HOTD s2 (other than the costumes) is watching Otto suffer the consequences of his actions. Dude is realizing that no, an absolute incompetent rapist drunk is not the better successor just because he has a dick. It was also every bit as satisfying watching him get fired as Hand again as I had imagined.

No matter how much they fuck up everything else, at least we'll always have Otto's horrified realization and Criston's incompetence.

I’m almost certain Alicent is gonna take Aegon III’s place during Rhaenyra’s death scene.

I got this ask awhile ago, and it's been sitting in my drafts for awhile, I'm so sorry about that anon.

However, now that we're like halfway through s2, I am even more inclined to agree with you. It honestly seems like Alicent's arc is ramping up to her having a "come to jesus" moment where she repents of all her wrongs and tries to reconcile with Rhaenyra (again).

Considering how Aegon III is basically just a set piece (along with Viserys II), I wouldn't be surprised if they gave this formative scene to one of the more "important" characters. And which character has benefitted the most from stealing from others? Alicent. The only difference in this situation would be the writers are stealing from a male character for once.

I also definitely think that if they include Alicent's death (which I'm willing to bet they will), she will be regretting everything with Rhaenyra, not her children. She'll be obsessing over the forced sapphic drama the writers are obsessed with over her own children.