#and that the choice to have it be otto isn't a slight against him like he's crying on about

[navree]

the one thing i always hate about that line about daemon whinging on at viserys for not making him the hand is that the hand of the king is a political position that requires political skill in order to function well and get the job done and daemon has spent the entire series showing us that he has the political instincts of a lobotomized tuna fish

#personal #house of the dragon #the reason why otto worked so well as hand of the king was because he knew how to do the fucking politics #like him trying to get himself in rhaenyra's good graces in ep 2 once she was made heir #by giving her advice on how to talk to knights she was picking for the kingsguard #that was smart politics #getting on the good side of the future ruler and trying to make yourself invaluable from the getgo is a smart political decision #daemon pissing off everyone and their mother every five minutes and not trying to do anything to curry favor #is bad politics #daemon refusing to try and play nice with otto and get on his good side is bad politics!!! #maybe you'd have been heir if otto wasn't determined to campaign against you for it because you're an idiot daemon!!! #like this is a core element of the literal main series #cersei had a daemon style mindset of fuck you got mine and eschewed politics in the favor of her own gripes about things #and it ends badly for her! trying to do the hand's job without the skill required really fucks her over! #it's why tywin worked as a politician and she didn't!! #this fucking country would have fallen apart if daemon had been the hand #i also blame viserys for somehow failing to point out that daemon would be a profoundly shitty hand #and that the choice to have it be otto isn't a slight against him like he's crying on about #but a tactical and political choice that is made to keep the politics running smoothly so the country doesn't collapse into the sea