The worst of this (from Viserys's perspective) is that his knee-jerk reaction would be to deny Rhaenyra knighthood by moving the goalposts, but there's nowhere to move the goalposts TO. There's none of the typical excuses of "you only won through points" or "you only faced no-name opponents." She unseated 3 heirs to noble houses and freaking Criston Cole.
Yup, at that point the only thing he
could say is no anointment til she actually won at live combat but then again she also won a Trial by Combat where her life was on the line. And even then, he'd probably be afraid she'd just go "
bet" and fly off to the Stepstones (we prolly won't, but he doesn't know that)
Honestly that'd be a bit ridiculous lmao like by those standards 90% of Westeros knights don't deserve the knighthood, but we'll see.
She needs that harp grindset, eventually, her voice will bring people to tears. I will see that happen, it will happen.
We need to get a harp and then make people cry, also somehow learn Jenny of Oldstones like 200 years in advance so we can be sad and emo like Rhaegar, that somehow attracted bitches like nothing else. We can't lose at the rizz grindset to Rhaegar!
Daemon's categorization of Rhaenyra is simple
She's a threat
Honestly, going by show-canon, is Daemon even a misogynist? Like I imagine him being kinda like Cole in regards to that but at the same time it could just be him being a "Valyrian supremacy" asshole so it doesn't apply to Rhaenyra.
Either way, it could be interesting/dangerous to have someone so clearly positioned to usurp us disregard the fact she's a girl at all and treat Rhaenyra like the worthy opponent she is; but I could see his hubris getting in the way of that lol
Mans has a serious, serious case of hubris.
Anyways disregard all of that and just imagine the glorious time we may be able to style on Daemon using Blackfyre so he can stop feeling like a special snowflake about Dark Sister.
