Let’s dreamcast A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight
By Daniel Roman
Robert Sheehan as Daeron Targaryen
Opposite Aerion we have Daeron Targaryen. We meet Daeron in the opening pages of The Hedge Knight, but at the time he’s just a random drunken lordling at a tavern. It’s only later that we find out he’s another one of Egg’s older brothers, the one who was supposed to be minding him when he ran off to squire for Dunk.
Daeron is the proverbial slacker who will do just about anything to avoid his duty. He’s basically the Targaryen version of Paul Bettany’s character from A Knight’s Tale, minus the gambling.
Robert Sheehan plays Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, another legendary slacker. Daeron fills a similar sort of space in The Hedge Knight, a sympathetic character you want to like except for the fact that his cowardice and dereliction of his duty puts others’ lives at risk.
Even then, he does come through and promises to aid Dunk in his trial of seven…by falling off his horse at the first glancing blow and not getting back up. As he says: “My brothers have my measure when it comes to fighting and dancing and thinking and reading books, but none of them is half my equal at lying insensible in the mud.”