Daemon succeeding to hatch a new baby dragon several years after Caraxes died
It's always fun to get the popup about a new dragon but this one had me all emotional.
So maybe 10 years before, Daemon had tragically and suddenly lost Caraxes. Wasn't even in battle, though at the time they were constantly at war establishing the Stepstones Kingdom. No, Caraxes died a stupid, pointless death to a trophy-hunting dragonslayer, a nobody who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I (as Rhaenyra, ruling Dragonstone) gave Daemon access to the Dragonstone dragonpit, but he never came to bond. I don't know if he tried in King's Landing.
Then he lost Rhea as well - they had mended their marriage over the Stepstones wars they fought side by side, and have a daughter. (Their battlefield marriage counseling had so many butterfly effects! Rhaenyra's teenage crush on him went nowhere, he didn't marry Laena, Laena never died and freed up Vhagar, Aemond bonded Grey Ghost instead)
Somewhere along the way, Daemon had gotten sick as well, catching leprosy.
Since he didn't go for an adult dragon, I tried gifting him an egg, and he put it in his Trinket slot, but the profile picture didn't show him cradling it like other folks trying to hatch one. I accepted that he just wouldn't ever be able to get over Caraxes's loss.
And then all of a sudden, years later, I get this popup!
So now this withered old warrior king has a tiny little hatchling to love.