She definitely won’t be a part of my story! If I decide to include any other love interests, they’ll definitely be age appropriate haha! Vanora and Aemond are endgame for sure though!

If only, right? But then my story would be very boring, and I live for drama and suffering!!

And it’s sort of realistic, I think? When it comes to power/money, people are willing to do anything - including betraying their family.

I’m sorry if you like her but I cannot stand Alys and for that reason she won’t be in my fic. I feel like she is super manipulative and their relationship made me feel icky because of the age difference.

As for Nettles, I don’t feel anything for her and there’s so little of her in the book that I don’t feel like she’s worth bringing into my fic.

Daemon loves Vanora but if she chose to side with Aemond he would not forgive her. He wouldn’t actively try and harm her like he would with the rest of the Greens because he loves her. BUT he would feel betrayed, and I don’t think he’d ever see her the same. He would pick Rhaenyra’s side for sure!

Thank you so much!!!! I should be posting one soon! <333

Hmm I wouldn’t say he necessarily “prefers” her over the twins since they’re all his children and he loves them equally. But I would agree when you say he has special affection! It’s partly because of the first child thing you mentioned but also because he relates to her the most. I feel like the twins (because they’re young and their mother’s child) don’t really get him. Vanora understands him on a level they don’t because she’s her father’s child. Daemon doesn’t really see Rhea in her and just sees himself!

Things won’t be perfect all the time but at the end of the day, they love each other and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to protect her!

Hey!

So at the root of this fic is family dynamics, especially the father daughter relationship between Daemon and Vanora.

She is unaware of the relationship Daemon had with Rhea but she will find out in the future. It will impact her relationship with him for sure!

Rhea was there first and she’s very special to Vanora even if they didn’t have a lot of time together. To find out the person she looks up to was so hateful to his wife/her mother will be a huge blow and change how she sees him.

It will be a whole plot point! I dropped some scenes in the earlier chapters where she notices interactions her father has with others and how they seem to fear him. As a child, she doesn’t really get why - but as an adult she’ll slowly start to understand, and it will begin with Rhea!

Hope this helps! <3

I love this question! I’m still debating whether to go more into detail in the fic so I’m going to use this as an opportunity to explain!

There are several layers to this, so I’ll just start with saying that Baela/Rhaena are still planned to be engaged to Jace/Luke. In the background somewhere, Rhaenyra had discussed it with Daemon so they wouldn’t be free, even for a fake engagement.

Vanora is unattached so she’s the easiest option. Using Balea or Rhaena would make things complicated since Rhaenyra has political plans based on them getting engaged to Jace and Luke!

As for Corlys and Rhaenys, their reasoning is a bit different. Corlys knows his brother - and by default - his brother’s son. At the root, Vaemond and Daemion are power hungry and ambitious. Daemion would not be willing to be engaged to Baela or Rhaena because they have a more secure claim to Driftmark. If he were to marry either of them, he would be the less powerful one in the relationship. He craves a relationship where he’s the one who holds all the power. Vanora would give him that. Corlys knows this, and he’s using Daemion’s ambition to his advantage.

As for the Velaryon blood, it doesn’t really matter because Vanora would take on the Velaryon name upon marriage. Also, she is a Targaryen, and they go way back to Old Valyria so there’s some Velaryon blood in here for sure!

I hope this helps! If it doesn’t, feel free to ask me to elaborate! <3

Thank you so much! I’m glad you’re enjoying the story<3

I had enough of everyone writing him as some abusive dad. Distant and cold? Yes! But he’s never harmed his children

Vanora is definitely going to be torn between the two for a while. But she does make a decision!

Right now, everything is slowly building up. I wanted things to be a little calm before everything goes to crap. But you can expect the next couple chapters to kind of show how the dynamics for the war will be!