Ominous Monsoon Clouds Over Tanuri Ridge, Tucson, AZ — Image by kenne
Far on the desert rim, the thunder breaksAnd white clouds turn to steel above the plain.Now it will rain.
— Sylvia Lewis Kinney, “August,” in Arizona Highways, 1968
Do you ever think that the Green kids resent Alicent for being on Rhaenyra's side?
Because um. Obviously watching their gaslit, grief-stricken mother charging and making the Princess bleed for Aemond loosing an eye with no justice is harrowing and incredible and terrifying. (Our mother loves us! She's begging for our Father to care! She slashed the Princess! She does love us!) And then years later Alicent is telling Aegon to spare Rhaenyra, holding Rhaenyra's arm infront of them at supper.
Did they ever feel as if they were the late ones? The invaders? Do you think they felt as if it was a constant fight for their Mother's affections? Can you imagine the reproach they mustve felt, knowing that they were unwanted (What have I done but what was expected of me?) watching their mother raise hell for them, then always looking around for one of the objects of their agony?
My friends keep sending me Instagram reels with different monsters/spookies/urban legends like “which one will you and a friend pick to survive the night with”
and it’s a problem because I have to keep explaining that they’re not coming with me in this scenario.