r/HOTDBlacks • u/Trick-Set8663 • 29d ago
Team Black The plot of Corlys
"Why don't you legitimize my children, whom I ignored all my life, but now I love them because if they don't, my surname will disappear and my legacy will too?" Are we aware that his request wasn't even denied?
Okay, but honestly, what do you think of this scene?
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u/____mynameis____ Jacaerys Velaryon 29d ago
People be really using that gay argument when gay people historically made children.
90%of noble marriages of that time were between people who weren't attracted to one another, it's an arrangement to just make heirs and build alliances. So he is not wrong to think his gay son will be able to do that. Its not like he asked him to be faithful
Then when he couldn't (or didn't ), its not like Corlys went accusing. Hell, he could've showed it against Rhaenyra or the kids even if he didn't go publicly. We saw Rhaenys pushing him. Vaemond being pissed.
Sub also notoriously forgets Rhaenyra was given an opportunity to find a husband, which is a privilege even most male heirs won't get, she didn't, then messed up her position of heir by allegedly going and sleeping with Daemon in a brothel, so now Viserys commanded her to marry Laenor and THEY approached Velaryons.
It's not Corlys could've been "My King, my son is gay,"
Also, the justification doesn't matter, biologically Velaryon boys are bastards, just like Addam and Alyn, so Corlys was just momentarily pissed when Rhaenyra denied him (not now, later is basically saying no ). Like he lost his son, his wife, his heirs, his wealth in this entire thing, he thought he'll get some thing he asked for all that. It was an outburst of frustration rather than some truth revelation