Do you think Daemon really wants the throne? I keep seeing people saying that but personally I don’t think it’s true at all? Since you are so good at analyzing characters I would love to hear your opinion on it!
oh no I don’t think daemon wants the throne at all! I think he never really wanted it. he’s motivated by something far more primal and pitiful. ‘I’ll show you the meaning of true loyalty!’ most of daemon’s actions can be understood as desperate attempts to prove himself. and that all originates from his anger at viserys, who never seemed to need him :‘you send me from your side. ten years you have been king and you never asked me to be your hand. you are weak but I would protect you.’ I think this is where daemon gets interesting - he is rebellious, unpredictable, a wild dog running free in a prison. but he wants to be leashed. he wants to be useful. he wants to be used. that’s why he lashes out when he finds out viserys chose rhaenyra over him, that’s why he chose rhaenyra to begin with - he loves his family and he’ll do anything and everything to be loved and needed by them. and if kingdoms needs to be put to the torch for it, then so be it! literally ‘after everything I’ve done for you that didn’t ask for’! I love that about him - his desperate pathetic need to be used!
