ever thought about how aegon was alicent‘s first and her last left? your house is burning and your children are gone. except him. except him. he came back to her, unrecognizable, burnt and twisted, but he came back to her. she has him still.
i have done everything you’ve asked me to. i try so hard but it will never be enough for you. and it wasn‘t. she asked him to save their family, save the realm, save her. he didn‘t, he couldn‘t. he did come back to her. he had cursed her on the day he was born.
do you love me? you imbecile. i love those bones of you. i love you so much i have sacrificed everything to see you on the throne. i have sacrificed my youth. sacrificed my decency. sacrificed my oldest. i have sacrificed you. i love you. my oldest, my firstborn, my sacrifice.
and as he walks towards his mother like an animal to his butcher she plants a kiss on his forehead. her little sacrificial lamb, he came back. came back to her. did i do well mother? did i do enough? no. i love you. you came back.
i wonder who he thought about when the poison touched his lips.
You can 100% don't like rhaenyra and that not misogyny. But if people start deny that she was the rightful heir, and claim aegon is because is a man that sounds a bit misogynistic
I don't give a damn which of these two is the "rightful heir." We aren't smallfolks in Westeros and we don't discuss who will rule us, they're all just imaginary characters. By the way, Aegon and Rhaenyra both had rights to the Iron Throne, which is why some of the people supported Aegon and even the book said that the fact that he was a man made him the rightful heir in the eyes of many. Sorry, they lived in such times. But I personally support the greens because I consider their actions to be the only logical ones in the situation that has developed thanks to Viserys. They took the throne defending themselves, so I think they're right. Plus, I generally find them to be more interesting and fascinating characters.
"You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"
I posted this on twitter a couple months ago, but I thought I might as well crosspost onto here. Rhaenicent has quickly become my favorite ship of all time and thinking about how their story ends makes me a little feral.
Refs: this painting by Gerald Moira + Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
made a post a while ago about the implications of hotd criston being dornish and got some angry he was raised in the stormlands he’s not culturally dornish anons. if he’s visibly ethnically dornish enough that alicent comments on it immediately after seeing him that would obviously still affect his life in a pre-dornish-conquest westeros