#alicent hightower textpost

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[lislemons]

asoiaf characters with posts that remind me of them pt 1

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HotD as textposts bc I’m bored:

[mrsjadecurtiss]

Viserys and Alicents relationship fascinates me... He desires her company, especially in vulnerable situations (like after his wife's death, or when hes being medically treated), but it doesn't seem like he necessarily truly loves her or is that fond of her for her own self's sake... it's more like that in this medieval society, with him as a man and king, the emotional comfort a wife may give him is the only one he is truly "allowed" to have, and she is the one who is bound by law to be loyal to him and dependent on him

He cannot get comfort from and show weakness to his political partners even if he may consider them friends, as he needs to at all times project a sense of power and superiority as a man and king (comparable to how alicent says, ever since she became queen she has had " few friends" because her status changed so much); and all the family he has left is estranged or far away (and even if he was not on shaky grounds to rhaenyra, as a father hed be unlikely to want to put this emotional labor/vulnerability on her, as again he has to project a certain power dynamic)

So while he might confide in his maesters or trusted lyonel strong, in the end it falls to little alicent, who can't say no, who has seemingly no station or power to be dangerous to him or do political machinations with the gained knowledge, who is young enough to not be able to exert power over him, to give his soul the most personal comfort in the bad things he goes through...

A dynamic that depending on how the show adapts things might bite him in the ass in the future as alicent emancipates herself (as seen in last episode where she is suddenly nowhere to be found when viserys needs her, and no longer quite plays the pliable wife)

[cruelsummergorl]

Is it so wrong that the only thing I want from season 2 of House of the Dragon is for Alicent and Rhanerya to kiss!!! It would literally end the war i swear!

[silver-horse]

That convo between Alicent and Rhaenyra was so funny.  Rhaenyra  “I did not fuck MY UNCLE not yet. I swear this to you upon the memory of my mother.” and Alicent thinks “Oh, good, what a relief that you are still a maiden.”

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Rhaenicent in a nutshell

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Alicent shitposting pt.29

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Alicent shitposting pt. 15

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This is her post

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