#Aemond Apologist™

[arcielee]

Arcie please give your honest opinion. do you think aemond will now be mean as hell to alicent because he murdered luke hurray he can feel better about himself. Why he was weirdly looking at her like this?

Hello my darling anon 💜

Here is my speculation on that scene from Green trailer that dropped yesterday. This is based on my Fire & Blood knowledge as well as my blatant favoritism of my darling baby girl war criminal.

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HBO's interpretation of the aftermath of what I will tastefully (pun intended) refer to as The Incident, shows Aemond's reaction to Lucerys becoming a snack for Vhagar as him looking shocked. Possibly remorseful?

In the least, it is a definitive oh shit moment.

Anyway, in the book Fire & Blood, after The Incident, Aemond then returns to King's Landing to share what happened at Storm's End. The book details the reactions of his mother and grandsire:

Queen Alicent went pale when she heard what he had done, crying, “Mother have mercy on us all.” Nor was Ser Otto pleased. “You only lost one eye,” he is reported to have said. “How could you be so blind?”

If HBO commits to this decided scene (as we later got a snippet of his other possible reactions*) that shows his remorse, it may have carried with him in the small council chambers and is only lifted by his brother.

My theory (and mind you, this is me being hopeful, reading far too much into this, plus my tagline is literally Aemond Apologist™, etc.) could be that smug reaction is in response to when Aegon finally speaks up to defend, as he does in the book:

The king himself did not share their concerns, however. Aegon II welcomed Prince Aemond home with a great feast, hailed him as “the true blood of the dragon,” and announced that he had made “a good beginning.”

So that moment we see between Aemond and Alicent in the trailer could be the guilt/grief/whatever he was feeling prior just being lifted with how Aegon responds to Aemond's news of The Incident.

“Good. To war then!”

Guess we'll see on June 16th. 🥰

*Shoutout to @zaldritzosrose for helping me try and find that alternative scene HBO shot. We both knew it existed somewhere.

[inthedayswhenlandswerefew]

Another day, another fic where I strive to keep my Aemond's Official #1 Apologist (™ pending) title.

^^ My Mans Did Nothing Wrong, an essay by Arcie

This first chapter was amazing and I know it's only going to get more wild from here. 😭😂

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