there's something about the fact that caraxes' first rider was rhaenys' father aemon and meleys' first rider was daemon and viserys' mother alyssa that just gets me.
like do you think that sometimes rhaenys would see this silverhaired man riding caraxes and her heart would skip a beat, thinking she sees her beloved father but then he would turn around and it's just her cousin daemon, her father's gone. do you think that when daemon heard of rhaenys and meleys' dying at rook's rest, he thought of his mother taking him and viserys' flying with her when they were only days old and how now the last thing reminding him of her is gone. in this essay...
believe it or not, i can make it even worse
92 AC:
"I slew a thousand of them, but it will not bring him back." - Baelon weeps to his mother Alysanne after avenging Aemon' death.
129 AC:
At Rook's Rest, Baelon's grandsons kill Aemon's daughter.
Truly, the only thing that could tear down House of the Dragon was itself.
