#otto might not be devoted to garmund per se but he is devoted to the family and if the lord is the embodiment of the family it fits

[spinef0ryou]

i think there might be something to be said about how arguably the three men who started the dance are all second sons. doomed to live in your older brother’s shadow forever so you devote yourself to him and make your own name through violence

#house of the dragon #hotd #otto hightower #daemon targeryan #aemond targaryen #aemond one eye #otto might not be devoted to garmund per se but he is devoted to the family and if the lord is the embodiment of the family it fits #and making your name through violence like daemon with the gold cloaks and his war in the stepstones to the point of becoming the king there #aemond with his knightly training and his love for the deadly art but no love for the pageantry of it and spurning gallantry #and otto in marrying off his child daughter to the king he is of age with in the name of self-promotion and the family name #alas luke was too normal by way of having his own title so he had to die #and larys is both the same and a foil because he makes his name through violence - torture - but kills his family #but i suppose if the harrenhal curse can’t get you the normal way the cannibalism of your own line is as good a way as any #larys strong #also i’m not saying that ali and rhaenyra had no hand in it cuz like. it’s the princess and the queen bits in the name #though i guess if this is anything someone else has probably said it better. oh well