Yeah I'd have liked for Otto to bite it here, but Daemon becoming an enemy of the realm simply tips the current balance of power too far in favor of the Velaryons. The crown goes from ostensibly having two dragons to its name Caraxes and Syrax, giving it perhaps a moderate advantage in a potential fight against the Velaryons who have Meleys and Seasmoke, to having only Syrax to the Velaryons two dragons. Without Daemon the Velaryons could just take the crown by force if they wanted to.
Well, I doubt that they would try to take the Throne by force, but I can definitively see them strongarming Viserys and Rhaenyra so that they can secure a double marriage with Laena and Laenor, making it so that no matter which line end up sitting the Iron throne it is going to be their grandchildren...
And the other thing is that Viserys would have been devastated if he had been forced to declare him an enemy of the realm, which would have made his illness to advance even quicker
If we're going to have a romance with Alicent we're almost certainly going to have to keep it secret, which means Otto would still be pushing her to get married to Viserys. If said romance get discovered though, it may end up being our version of the Daemon/Cole scandal in terms of making Viserys lose the last bit of his patience with regards to getting us married, and if its discovered Otto would probably be pressuring even harder for her to get married.
On the upside this sort of affair at least can't result in illigitimate children.
Honestly yeah. Our traits mean that we won't be willing to let go any young love we may develop before our marriage, in which case an affair with a woman at least doesn't bear the same risk of us having obvious bastards as our heirs like Rhaenyra did in canon.
Something to take into account is that our cousin Jeyne Arryn was also lesbian, everybody in both the court and the vale knew and despite that, she ruled over the vale for 37 years and passed away in the arms of her lover...
I'd wait for the next update. So far, we only know that Otto survives, but not how.
For all we know we get a big hero moment and arive just in time to prevent him getting incinerated, putting him deep into our debt.
Hey, in Canon Rhaenyra also prevented Otto and Daemon's pissing contest from ending up in tragedy, and he was not impressed or felt indebted to her afterward...
Eeeeeehhhh even if she hypothetically was fully on Team Rhaenyra, I don't see like anyone caring if Alicent spends 24/7 screaming about Rhaenyra being the legit heir if she pops out a penis-having Targaryen baby. Otto and pretty much any dude he recruits into his faction would like just ignore her.
Very much so, the only difference would be that the Greens would put Alicent on home Arrest once Viserys bites it...
And besides that, even if Alicent remains our friend and ally during her marriage with Viserys, that doesn´t prevent any of her children from being a total fuckup, a sadistic asshole, or any other flavor of Targaryen craziness.
But okay, as a personal coward (I voted for wait), I do legit get the people going "why wouldn't she be angry?" and wanting to roleplay.
Well, because we can also roleplay as Rhaenyra knowing perfectly that her uncle is acting like an immature asshole and throwing a temper tantrum to get the attention of his brother, and we decide not to indulge him...
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