Rhaenyra served as her father’s cupbearer, defying the belief that poison was a woman’s weapon through her proximity to the King’s cup, which foreshadows how her adversary would later die to poison— a death far removed from the hegemonic ideals of masculinity that empowered him.
Daemon and Rhaenyra having a whole intimate conversation in front of their armies in High Valyrian but then Daemon switches to common tongue so that everyone hears him calling Rhaenyra the only rightful ruler 😩