Archive of Our Own

Summary:

Prince Daemon fell in love with Laena, the singers would have us believe. Men of a more cynical bent believe the prince saw her as a way to check his own descent. Once seen as his brother’s heir, he had fallen far down in the line of succession, and neither the greens nor the blacks had a place for him... but House Velaryon was powerful enough to defy both parties with impunity.

What if neither the singers nor the cynics had the right of it?