#aegon and alicent

[bbygirl-aemond]

the scene where alicent asks about rhaenyra responding to her letters and another council member just dismisses her by sarcastically asking if she gave rhaenyra "an apology for the death of her son" hammered home this idea that no woman under patriarchy is exempt from the disdain of men. alicent has played her part in her father's machinations and she has elevated her son to the throne in what they both think is a necessary measure to protect his life and yet this council member still felt comfortable speaking to her this way. and in the reaction to his words we see why- neither otto nor aegon speak up for her.

[saintsunfyre]

aegon is really like. please look at me mummy. am i still your son. did you want me or was i forced upon you like the whole world was. would you give me up if you could. why was i never enough. please look at me. i am hideous i am rotten i am monstrously hungry. i need you. i wasn't ever your favourite but if i died tomorrow would you mourn me? would you cry out loud, would you demand vengeance. you won't, would you? they burnt me alive, mummy. i'm dying and it hurts. come soothe me. tell me i'm still your surly boy. tell me i can do better. tell me you love me.

do you love me?

mummy. do you?

[sunfyredefender77]

“you look so much like your mother in certain lights”

[franzkafkagf]

what did alicent think of while she sat by aegon's bedside? do you think she thought of his father when she saw how the fire had eaten away at half his face? half his face that is also her face?

is she maybe sitting there, replaying their last conversation over and over again in her mind? does she see her son, still whole—but so lost, so in need of guidance and love? she did not have any nerves left that day, no more tact. she had always been loving and soft with him, shielding him from the harsh truths of the world. but the one time she didn't, he flew off to nearly get himself killed. she should've known better. her firstborn was like that—impulsive, reckless, and so very fragile.

does she wonder if this is her penance? the gods had taken viserys from her piece by piece, and now they were doing the same with her firstborn. what had she done to deserve this relentless suffering? had she not always been a faithful wife, a devoted mother?

maybe she wished she could turn back time— a fool's hope, she knows, but she can't help but wonder what if. maybe she could take control of the woman she was just a day ago, hold her son close and tell him it would all be fine. to assure him that despite the weight of it all, he was never alone. but time bows to no one, and regret cannot mend what has been broken.

[silverspotted]

“ she felt young

at the same time;

unspeakably aged.

she was a girl,

gulping a woman’s grief. ”

[pompeianred]

Sunrise. Alicent has spent the night sitting by Aegon's bedside.

2x06: Smallfolk | HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

[rhaenyrathecruell]

“You have left the fruit of your labor inside of me. He gnaws on my organs, feeds on me, I can’t get rid of him. There is no room for hope in me only for him; and you. And when he finally comes out, he will be abominable and smell faintly of decay.

But he will be yours. Will I?” - nightataballet on TikTok

[soldierpoetconqueror]

ᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵒⁿˡʸ ⁿᵉᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˡⁱᵍʰᵗ ʷʰᵉⁿ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ᵇᵘʳⁿⁱⁿᵍ ˡᵒʷ.

ᴼⁿˡʸ ᵐⁱˢˢ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵘⁿ ʷʰᵉⁿ ⁱᵗ ˢᵗᵃʳᵗˢ ᵗᵒ ˢⁿᵒʷ.

ᴼⁿˡʸ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʰⁱᵐ ʷʰᵉⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵉᵗ ʰⁱᵐ ᵍᵒ.

ᴬⁿᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵉᵗ ʰⁱᵐ ᵍᵒ.

CD:HEARTS.4.HEARTSS @tiktok

[fictonrantsworld]

What i like about this is that while alicent is staring down at meleys, if youll look closer, she kind of comforts aegon by patting his arm then kinda just pushes him back so she is in front. Aegon also putting his arm back as if moving blackfyre away so it wont hurt alicent, but it can also be interpreted as him putting his arm in front of his sibilings and then he kinda realizes that theyre a bit far away. Then otto facing off meleys like i aint of afraid, aemond also being like his grandfather.

Then u kinda see how, right after alicent gets infront of him, aegon kinda tries to move forward (for like a sec), but alicent moves again infront of him.

[bbygirl-aemond]

aegon sleeping through alicent holding his hand and sitting at his bedside and cupping his cheek and waking only in time to see her retreating back and mumbling "mummy" is so sick and twisted holy shit

(gif from @joekeerys)

[bbygirl-aemond]

thinking about how aegon refers to his family as sacred and how he ran to the sept after his father's death and how alicent says the sept is where she felt close to her mother and going a bit insane actually

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2.02

[ziyuanyuann]

"She who, without asking, understood it all and still came to her fate."

Helaena Targaryen trapped in prophecy

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[thatrandomblogsays]

Low key want Aegon and larys and Helaena and Alicent to all run away to Essos purely so this can happen

[silverspotted]

“ your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing ”

[angelamcss]

2.02 | 2.05

[franzkafkagf]

what if you‘re alicent hightower and you gave birth to all your grief and your pain and your broken dreams and he wears your face