#pro Nettles isn't anti Rhaenyra

[ride-thedragon]

don't be a hypocrite you don't love rhaenyra's character, what you do is always criticize her, better focus on netty and alicent and leave rhaenyra alone.

she is a victim of alicent but you ignore that fact because you want her to be a villain from the beginning. i bet,you think that book rhaenyra did something bad to criston cole when she was a child and that she deserves what he did to her.

(i agree with you that she is not a good person tho.but there are worse people/characters than her).

Do I say anything that's wrong?

Do I say anything that makes it seem like I'm so unempathetic to her that I can't fathom a world where people support her?

Criticism isn't hatred. I wish that was more normal.

I think I'm really nice about her and her family. I've never gone out of my way to hate on her as a character or outside specific circumstance.

I think I'm unambiguously weary of her as a character when I talk about Nettles. I push for an understanding or avoidance of her in that context because I don't think it's fair to blame her for the things Daemon does. I love blaming Daemon.

I don't make Rhaenyra a villian. What do you think is the system Alicent is perpetuating? What is she upholding?

Rhaenyra will always come short because she's not a man, her usurping is so normally justified because she's a woman.

Why would I think a 14 year old girl is egging a grown man on? Are you okay?

That's like saying show Alicent is doing the same thing or Baby Laena.

I love women, with a bias towards them anytime I talk. This isn't an in depth character analysis. This is a generalization for the benefit of understanding her complex character.

Saying this about her isn't saying that Daemon isn't burning in hell, or suddenly upholding Aegon II or preventing Larys from brutally dying (hopefully) .

When I care about them as characters outside of their multiple atrocities or one redeeming quality (Daemon core), I'll consider writing a character post about them.

I love Rhaenyra. I just talk about Nettles more because I like her more, and no one's corrupting Rhaenyra’s story to the point of mischaracterization and active plot denial.

I'm not denying that Rhaenyra is a victim.

And we agree that she's more complex than people allow for, which is the point I'm making.