I find it so incredibly fascinating that it has been revealed that Criston Cole and Alicent have been having an affair for years and they are both still incredibly obsessed with Rhaenrya! like yall been banging and still just the mention of Rhaeneryas name sends Criston Cole into a straight dude punches the wall rage and Alicent in a, I am a catholic woman who upholds the traditional values of family and womanhood and I am superior to you.
you can't make this shit up is so funny😭😂
It’s so wild to go back and listen to rhaeneryas speech when Alicent WANTED TO TAKE A CHILDS EYE WITH HER DAGGER, about how exhausted she must be under her cloak of self righteousness 😘🤌🏽 good shit because Alicents reaction makes so much more sense, she thought Rhanerya knew of her little secret.
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Iruma Ficlet: Meme
The Netherworld has an Internet, websites, social media, etc.
Eventually, as high schools do, Bablys becomes riddled with the equivalent of the worm meme:
Would you love me if I was a human?
Iruma… does not participate.
He listens, closely. He watches when others ask it, watches the shape of the word ‘human’ around their lips and the face they make with it. He watches the faces of the responders and memorizes their answers. Despite himself, he ends up making mental lists— lists titled maybe okay (laughter/maybe/I’d find a safe place for you/we can be humans together),
and maybe not (no/how would loving a human even work??/ew gross),
and definitely not.
(Sure I’d love you… for dinner!)
Iruma does his best not to let it all bother him, the questions, or the reactions, or the places various classmates and teachers have on his new lists.
He fails.
Iruma does not ask the question. Of anyone.
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Someone scrapes together enough nerve to ask Balam-sensei in the middle of Iruma’s class. The teacher freezes.
Someone else takes the moment to cut across that Balam-sensei would eat them and write research on what they tasted like; Balam goes pale.
A third demon says Balam-sensei wouldn’t eat them, since it’d be like eating an endangered species. He’d probably keep them in a jar like a pet. Balam-sensei’s hands begin to shake.
He finally interrupts. And doesn’t look at Iruma. “I’d keep you safe,” he says. “I’d fight my hardest to keep you safe. Of course. You are my students.”
Balam-sensei gets teased by the class and his coworkers for how soft he is for the rest of the week. The next time they have tea, Iruma doesn’t even give a cursory squirm about the hug, and just squeezes back tighter.
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Ameri does not participate. She serves anyone who does, in her hearing range, a debilitating axe-kick to the chest.
(Those who respond a… certain way receive kicks to the throat.)
People admire her dedication to spending school time on productive tasks and not foolish games.
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Clara asks Iruma.
Iruma freezes, skin gone pale, hands gone shaky. He can feel his internal defensive beast starting to rise, but he squashes it.
Azz starts to scold her for wasting Iruma-sama’s time on foolish games (he was one of those who admired Ameri’s response), but Iruma doesn’t listen to him. Can’t.
Iruma takes Clara’s hands, gentle, still shaking. “Yes,” he says, immediately, fervently, looking her directly in the eye and all but pushing what he can’t say through his gaze and into her mind. “I’d love you, and Azz, no matter what you were, or what I am, or where we are. There isn’t anything that can change that. Ever.”
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I want more religious Alicent Hightower in s2. I want to see pious, bitter Alicent that can only turn to the Faith of the Seven to find comfort. I want to see her guilt. I want her ugly grief. I want to see her mourning all that she’s sacrificed.
I want her to find herself outside of her role as mother, daughter and queen. I want her to remember the friend she used to be. I want her to light a candle for the little girl she used to be.
I want her to fully realise the gravity of her loss.
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Maybe some Alicent fans don't agree with my opinion, I don't know. But I see where Alicent's idea of freedom would come from when entering into a sexual relationship with Criston Cole. What would be more freeing for her than doing exactly what she hated Rhaenyra for daring to do? Rhaenyra who enjoyed her own freedom and privilege that she was denied.
Alicent envied this freedom that Rhaenyra dared to have for almost her entire life. I don't think her attitude comes from hypocrisy, unlike Criston in this situation. It comes from the exhausting desire to have what Rhaenyra had. "Now I will have something for myself, something that she had, something that was greater than my importance to her, greater than her duty. Now that I have nothing then I will have this."
It will be a shame that this rebellion will not bring any satisfaction. And perhaps this will bring even more hatred for Rhaenyra. This won't solve anything, it will only make her feel like a sinner in her own right.
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