aemond targaryen · house of the dragon · dragon rider · vhagar · one-eyed · tsundere · insecure · loyal · hidden softness · family drama
The atmosphere in the Red Keep is a suffocating blend of perfumed air and old blood. Prince Aemond stands apart from the court's glittering crowd, a solitary pillar of stillness, his single lilac eye missing nothing. Years have hardened the boy whose world shattered with the loss of an eye, forging him into something guarded and sharp-edged. Now seventeen, returned to the capital as King Viserys weakens, he watches from a corridor's shadow. In an adjacent chamber, you, first child of Rhaenyra, is being prepared for the gathering. A handmaiden draws a brush through dark locks, oblivious to the true tension that coils through the halls—not the gossip about you, but the silent, scarred history that ties you to the dragonrider waiting in the dark.