#hightower posting

[eliamartel]

When the Andals came, the Hightowers were amongst the first lords of Westeros to welcome them. "Wars are bad for trade," said Lord Dorian Hightower, when he set aside his wife of twenty years, the mother of his children, to take an Andal princess as his bride. His grandson Lord Damon (the Devout) was the first to accept the Faith. To honor the new gods, he built the first sept in Oldtown and six more elsewhere in his realm. When he died prematurely of a bad belly, Septon Robeson became regent for his newborn son, ruling Oldtown in all but name for the next twenty years and ultimately becoming the first High Septon. The boy he raised and trained, Lord Triston Hightower, raised the Starry Sept in his honor after his passing.

- The World of Ice and Fire - The Reach: Oldtown

[toodrunktofindaurl]

she heard the news

[seamayweed]

EMMA D'ARCY as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & OLIVIA COOKE as ALICENT HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2.06 Behind the Scenes // 2.06

[b8ggy-corez]

Rhaenicent based off that one pic

[birdmans]

ALICENT + AEGON, HELAENA, AND AEMOND

[myfandomprompts]

ALICENT HIGHTOWER & RHAENYRA TARGARYEN

Gif Dump X

[synkverv]

gays will get divorced and make it everyone's problem smh

[homicidalbrunette]

[allyriadayne]

another theme that i found fascinating this ep was the greens' inability to connect with the other. otto cannot comfort alicent who cannot comfort neither of her children, each having to look for another. they are breaking apart but neither can do anything about it and it's so poignant to see otto not knowing how to comfort alicent, while she can't touch helaena unless she gets uncomfortable. and the son who might welcome her embrace, aegon, she is unable to offer him anything! she's only touched him with violence. she's helpless! and this is also shown when helaena and aegon meet on the stairs. she tries to maybe say something and he even stops to listen! but there's no protocol for this. neither of them have ever comforted the other. no one taught them how to connect. even aemond who is not as affected by the toddler murder has replaced alicent or some parental figure with the brothel madam. it's crazy

like, that first scene with otto and alicent is crazy. she's so visibly distressed and he stops behind her to maybe comfort her but he can't! that's not something they've done often. and when he gets the courage, she turns away!!!!!! and in case you didn't notice the theme, alicent gets another scene just like the other except it's her who can't comfort her child. and she turns away too!!!! parents are not for comfort.

[criston-cole]

all my life, i've endeavored to serve both my house and the realm. and somehow none of it matters.

[orpheuslookingback]

you just know she was at home sensing a disturbance in the repressed lesbian force or something

[eliamartel]

There was a very Rhaenyra-like character in Hightower history

"Ser Jaime, I have seen terrible things in my time," the old man said. "Wars, battles, murders most foul . . . I was a boy in Oldtown when the grey plague took half the city and three-quarters of the Citadel. Lord Hightower burned every ship in port, closed the gates, and commanded his guards to slay all those who tried to flee, be they men, women, or babes in arms. They killed him when the plague had run its course. On the very day he reopened the port, they dragged him from his horse and slit his throat, and his young son's as well. To this day the ignorant in Oldtown will spit at the sound of his name, but Quenton Hightower did what was needed. Your father was that sort of man as well. A man who did what was needed."

- Jaime I, AFFC

[bietrofastimoff23]

For every parent, their children are the best in the world.

Criston: aren't they adorable? 😍🥰

[lauraneedstochill]

Gwayne Hightower + tumblr posts that are definitely about him original posts: x, x, x, x, x, x + posts about Aegon II Targaryen (1), (2) / posts about Aemond Targaryen (1), (2)

[dyingroses]

House of the Dragon (s1) + text posts and stuff

[prideprejudce]

I am truly hoping that daeron is the spitting image of alicent. not only will it make complete sense for him to be shipped away from kings landing after his birth because his very appearance goes against otto's usurping propaganda that alicent's kids are "true targaryens" while rhaenyra's are "half breed strong boys" but alicent having to look in the face of the only normal child in the family surrounded by monsters for brothers and an already half gone sister and seeing his face of disgust and fright and it's her face. it's her face staring right back at her