Spoilers for House of the Dragon season-two finale “ The Queen Who Ever Was ” and the book Fire & Blood follow. It was catharsis in a finale full of cliff-hangers. The second season of House of the Dragon introduced Alyn and Addam of Hull , common-born brothers who are secretly the bastard sons of one of the show’s most powerful players, Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint).
“He chose to ignore us for the whole of season one, man!” jokes Abubakar Salim, who plays Alyn, a sailor and shipwright who’s the older of the two brothers. By the time of the finale, he’s had enough of the so-called Sea Snake’s too little, too late attempts to play the concerned father. Alyn delivers a searing rebuke of his father’s failings to the man’s face, letting out years of pain and resentment over being abandoned to fend for himself while Corlys and his legitimate children lived in luxury.
Salim says the intensity of the emotional explosion surprised even his character: “Alyn rehearsed this script in his mind for many, many years. Then suddenly it happened, and he’s like, Oh my God, that wasn’t supposed to be said like that!” Salim — who did standout work as the android called Father on the late lamented sci-fi series Raised by Wolves and has a side career as a video-game developer — says Alyn wanted to communicate one thing to his deadbeat dad: “I’ve got demons here, man, and you are the one who caused it.” Whether those demons will interfere with the char.