An excessive amount of unstated stress culminated in some dramatic verbal exchanges on Sunday’s episode of Home of the Dragon. Following Jaehaerys’ loss of life, Otto (Rhys Ifans) confronts Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) about his brutality and snap selections. Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) finally informs Daemon (Matt Smith) that she will’t belief him. Whereas these two sequences are extremely charming, some of the insightful dialogues in Episode 2 is between Rhaenyra and Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno), also called the White Worm. Rhaenyra is opened up by Mysaria’s strategic but sympathetic monologue, even when there’s a lot much less melodrama.
The tone of their discuss shifts as she learns that Mysaria is the woman Daemon used as a pawn in his act to seize King Viserys’ (Paddy Considine) consideration all these years in the past. Their shared historical past with Daemon forges a particular bond between them. One of many essential themes of Home of the Dragon and one among Rhaenyra’s biggest anxieties are introduced up of their discuss: whatever the validity of a lady’s declare to the throne, she would by no means be seen as an equal or an appropriate candidate to rule simply because she is a lady.
Although Rhaenyra doesn’t prefer it, she sees herself in Mysaria
Mysaria is introduced again to Dragonstone as a prisoner after being discovered as a stowaway on a Velaryon ship. There, Daemon questions her about her actions as a spy in King’s Touchdown. Mysaria is barely loyal to herself, and sharing info with the Hightowers doesn’t suggest that she is a Inexperienced supporter, particularly in gentle of the truth that Larys Sturdy (Matthew Needham) would subsequently burn her home on fireplace with Alicent’s (Olivia Cooke) consent. Although Rhaenyra doesn’t belief Mysaria at first, she does trace that Mysaria could also be an ally in her quest.
In an effort to realize Rhaenyra’s belief and show that she has no loyalty to the Hightowers and no motive to betray them, Mysaria is prompted to share a bit of portion of her life narrative along with her. She talks about her life as a slave, how she needed to labor onerous and promote her physique to make ends meet till rising to the place of informant and having all she had labored so onerous for destroyed by the Hightowers. “For too lengthy, I made it my intention to be of consequence,” says Mysaria as she concludes her assertion. However wanting again, I can see that was a baby’s hope. Otto Hightower, Daemon, doesn’t care. I’ll by no means be accepted by them. I may have simply continued to be a whore.”
As Mysaria says this, an extended view reveals Rhaenyra understanding in actual time that she’s been in an analogous circumstance. Nonetheless, the time period “whore” appears to activate a swap in Rhaenyra. With a cold expression on her face, Rhaenyra says, “How did you get that scar?” pointing to the white mark that Mysaria’s former slavery left round her neck. Rhaenyra discovered that Mysaria’s remarks resonated a bit of too strongly, particularly in gentle of her most up-to-date chat with Daemon, wherein he knowledgeable her that Viserys had chosen her inheritor solely as a method of getting even with him.
Her response to the time period “whore” additionally harks again to the primary season, when she and her youngsters have been humiliated by Vaemond Velaryon (Wil Johnson), who branded her as a whore in entrance of King Viserys and the court docket. Though it’s a transparent case of double requirements, Rhaenyra’s illegitimate offspring with Harwin Sturdy (Ryan Corr) have solely served to undermine her declare to the dominion and solid doubt on her ethical character and skill to control.
Rhaenyra finds it awkward to acknowledge herself in Mysaria. Regardless of her being form sufficient to consider Mysaria when she says that Daemon would fulfill his vow and launch her, Rhaenyra first makes it clear that they aren’t the identical. Throughout their discuss, Rhaenyra learns that Mysaria is making an attempt to attract comparisons between their circumstances in an effort to win her belief and possibly affect her decisions. Her inquiry on Mysaria’s scar serves as a pointy reminder for Rhaenyra to remain in her lane. In the long run, Mysaria will at all times be a slave to a different grasp, whereas Rhaenyra is descended from royal Targaryen blood.
