#sophia catherine devereaux

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We’ll forever have the scars.

Part IV - patron saint of my demise.

“You look so much like your mother in that light, especially with that temper. I wasn’t expecting that.”

“I’m sorry, do I know you?”

“That’s Daemon,” Aegon says flatly. “My uncle.”

The fact that I had to put a tag for “daemon being daemon” is the biggest red flag I could wave and yet here we are, folks.

Honestly at this point, everyone needs therapy. It’s a modern!au why isn’t ANYONE IN THERAPY??????

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Noticias de series de la semana: 'Russian Doll', renovada

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado Russian Doll por una segunda temporada

Comedy Central ha renovado Corporate por una tercera y última temporada

Netflix ha renovado Love, Death + Robots por una segunda temporada

Spectrum ha renovado L.A.'s Finest por una segunda temporada

Noticias cortas

Paul Wesley volverá a Tell Me a Story para su segunda temporada, esta vez interpretando a Tucker, un novelista que pasa las noches en vela en una cabaña en el bosque tratando de demostrar que es suficientemente bueno para su bella prometida. Esta temporada adaptará La Bella y la Bestia, La bella durmiente y Cenicienta.

Erica Gimpel (Trish) será regular en la segunda temporada de God Friended Me.

Steven Ogg (Pike) será regular en la segunda temporada de Snowpiercer.

La cuarta y última temporada de The Good Place tendrá catorce episodios.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise, The Accidental Tourist) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de GLOW como Sandy Devereaux St. Clair, antigua showgirl y ahora directora de entretenimiento del hotel y casino Fan-Tan en Las Vegas.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Swiss Army Man) se une al episodio musical de Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Elizabeth Banks (30 Rock, Wet Hot American Summer) será Jill Ruckelshaus, una republicana que fue elegida por el presidente Ford para avanzar en los derechos de las mujeres, en Mrs. America.

Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical) sustituye a Bonnie Dennison como Jenny, hija de Carol (Patricia Heaton), en Carol's Second Act.

Sophia Lillis (Sharp Objects, It), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Episodes), Wyatt Olef (Guardians of the Galaxy), Sofria Bryant (The Good Wife), Aidan Wojtak-Hissong (Falling Water) y Richard Ellis (Veronica Mars) protagonizarán I Am Not Okay With This.

Imelda Staunton (Pride, Harry Potter), Russell Tovey (Looking, Years and Years), Stephen Rea (The Honourable Woman, Counterpart), Francesca Annis (Dune, Lillie), Claudie Blakley (Lark Rise to Candleford, Grantchester) y Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack, Absentia) protagonizarán Flesh and Blood, sobre tres hermanos adultos (Tovey, Blakley y Leonard) cuya madre Vivien (Annis), de setenta años y recién enviudada, confiesa estar enamorada de un nuevo hombre (Rea). Staunton dará vida a Mary, la vecina de Vivien. Completan el reparto Sharon Small (Trust Me), Lara Rossi (Crossing Lines), Keir Charles (Love Actually), Vincent Regan (Victoria), David Bamber (The Bourne Identity), Stephanie Langston (Ransom) y Clara Indrani (Vera).

Kim Dickens (Treme, Fear The Walking Dead) se une como regular a Briarpatch. Será Eve Raytek, jefa de policía que deberá averiguar quién mató a la hermana de Allegra (Rosario Dawson).

Goran Visnjic (Timeless, ER) será recurrente en Dollface como el doctor Colin Brooks.

Ana Ortiz (Devious Maids, Ugly Betty) será Isabel, la madre de Simon, en Love, Simon.

Melanie Field (Heathers, Shrill) se une como regular a The Angel of Darkness, la secuela de The Alienist. Será Bitsy Sussman, protegida y ayudante de Sara (Dakota Fanning). Matt Letscher (The Flash, Narcos: Mexico) y Rosy McEwen serán recurrentes como el poderoso y adinerado Hearst y la enfermera Libby Hatch.

Judith Light (Transparent, American Crime Story), Gethin Anthony (Game of Thrones, Aquarius), Jay O. Sanders (Sneaky Pete, The Sinner), Desmond Harrington (Elementary, Dexter), Arliss Howard (Moneyball), Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid's Tale, Pitch) y Ness Bautista (Sense8) se unen como regulares a Manhunt: Lone Wolf.

Laura Haddock (Guardians of the Galaxy, Da Vinci's Demons), Marta Milans (El embarcadero, Shazam!), Juan Diego Botto (Good Behaviour, Plenilunio), Nuno Lopes (São Jorge), Daniel Mays (Good Omens, Rogue One), Laurence Fox (Lewis, Victoria) y Angela Griffin (Turn Up Charlie, Ordinary Lies) protagonizarán White Lines.

Josie Totah (Champions, Glee) protagonizará el piloto de Good People junto a Whitney Cummings y Lisa Kudrow.

Natalie Gumede (Jekyl & Hyde, Doctor Who) será Mercy Graves, guardaespaldas de Lex Luthor, en la segunda temporada de Titans. Participará como recurrente.

Amir Wilson será Will Parry en His Dark Materials.

Julissa Bermudez (106 & Park), Becky Ann Parker (Men in Black), Josh Mostel (Big Daddy), Miles G. Jackson (The Last O.G.) y Jonno Davies (Spotless) se unen como recurrentes a The Hunt. Serán una enfermera, la secretaria de comercio, un rabino, un periodista y un guardaespaldas.

Huang Lu (She, a Chinese), Geoff Stults (Grace and Frankie, The Odd Couple) y Paul Yen (Magnum P.I., Young Sheldon) serán recurrentes en Little Fires Everywhere como Bebe Chow, residente ilegal; Mark McCullough, el marido de Linda (DeWitt); y Scott, dueño del restaurante chino en el que trabaja Mia (Kerry Washington).

David Costabile (Billions, Breaking Bad), Amy Landecker (Transparent, Doctor Strange) y Matt Lauria (Kingdom, Parenthood) se unen a Little Birds. Serán el padre de Lucy (Juno Temple) y su esposa y Bill, un camarero del club nocturno El Sirocco y artista bohemio.

Aasif Mandvi (A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Brink), Tobias Menzies (Outlander, The Terror), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther), Sorcha Cusack (A Discovery of Witches, Father Brown), Chris Geere (You're the Worst, Modern Family), Kadiff Kirwan (Chewing Gum, Strike), Ricky Grover (Zapped, Getting On), Ekow Quartey, Pik-Sen Lim, Todor Jordanov, Jassem Mougari (Legends) y Daniela Spataru protagonizarán This Way Up junto a Aisling Bea y Sharon Horgan.

Danny Vasquez (Ant-Man) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de You como Fincher, un policía quemado con su trabajo.

Pósters

  Nuevas series

Syfy prepara Lobo, un spin-off protagonizado por Emmett J. Scanlan (The Fall, Butterfly), que interpretará al personaje en la segunda temporada de Krypton.

Don Cheadle (Avengers, Black Monday), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns, La librería) y Helena Howard (Madeline's Madeline) protagonizarán Don´t Look Deeper, en desarrollo para Quibi. Ambientada en Merced, California, quince minutos en el futuro, se centra en una alumna de último curso de instituto que no puede evitar sentir que algo va mal. No es humana, no es una de nosotros. Esto pone en marcha una serie de acontecimientos que de pronto ponen su vida en peligro. Dirigida por Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Miss You Already) y escrita por Jeffrey Lieber (Lost, NCIS: New Orleans).

Sky y HBO producirán The Third Day, creada y escrita por Dennis Kelly (Utopia), sobre un hombre que es arrastrado a una misteriosa isla británica cuyos reservados habitantes y sus rituales comienzan a abrumarlo y le obligan a enfrentarse a un trauma de su pasado. Protagonizada por Jude Law (The Young Pope, Cold Mountain). Dirigida por Marc Munden (National Treasure). Seis episodios. 

El servicio de streaming de Warner encarga Tokyo Vice, que cuenta la historia de Jake Adelstein, el periodista americano que se infiltró en la policía metropolitana de Tokyo para destapar su corrupción. Protagonizada por Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, The Fault in Our Stars).

Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect, Shrill) producirá y dirigirá la adaptación de Over My Dead Body para el servicio de streaming de Warner. Es un podcast que sigue a Dan y Wendi, dos abogados cuya boda apareció en el New York Times pero que tendrán una ruptura que provocará un asesinato que involucrará a abogados muy valorados y conspiradores inesperados.

El servicio de streaming de Warner encarga Dune: The Sisterhood, visión femenina de la novela de Frank Herbert (1965). Escrita por Jon Spaihts. Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Prisoners) dirigirá el piloto.

La próxima adaptación de Agatha Christie para BBC será The Pale Horse. Sarah Phelps repite como guionista.

Morena Baccarin (Homeland, Deadpool), John Noble (Fringe, Sleepy Hollow) y Johan Glans (Swedish Dicks) protagonizarán Home Invasion, comedia de ciencia ficción que emitirá Viaplay en los países nórdicos y trata sobre una familia alienígena que debe invadir la Tierra. Seis episodios.

Dave encarga Meet the Richardsons, comedia sobre un matrimonio frustrado inspirada en Jon Richardson y Lucy Beaumont, protagonizada por ellos mismos y escrita por Beaumont.

Sandra Bullock desarrolla para Amazon una dramedia musical ambientada en los años 80 e inspirada vagamente en su vida en la universidad. La serie tratará temas como el SIDA, la salud mental o la cultura drag. Escrita por K.C. Perry (The Originals, Damien) y producida por Akiva Goldsman (Fringe, Titans) y John Legend (Underground, La La Land).

Hulu ha encargado ocho episodios de Fertile Crescent, sobre la guerra en Siria a través de los ojos de Antoine, un joven francés que busca a su hermana. Protagonizada por James Purefoy (The Following, Rome), Félix Moati (The French Dispatch), Mélanie Thierry (La Douleur), Souheila Yacoub, Joe Ben Ayed, James Floyd, Dean Ridge, Julia Faure, François Caron y Céline Samie.

Cinemax encarga Trackers, thriller basado en la novela de Deon Meyer (2010) que cruza tres historias en Cape Town en una violenta conspiración que une crimen organizado, diamantes de contrabando, seguridad estatal, rinocerontes negros, la CIA y un plan terrorista internacional. Protagonizado por James Gracie (Madiga, The Wrong Mans), Rolanda Marais (High Rollers) y Ed Stoppard (Knightfall, The Frankenstein Chronicles). Dirigida por Jyri Kähönen.

Bridget Regan (Jane the Virgin), Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful), Barbara Hershey (Once Upon a Time), Nick Nolte (Graves), Gail Bean (Snowfall), Danielle Deadwyler (The Haves and the Have Nots) y Shane McRae (Sneaky Pete) protagonizarán Paradise Lost, una serie de misterio estilo Southern Gothic que emitirán Spectrum y Paramount. Escrita por Rodes Fishburne (Blood & Oil) y Arika Lisanne Mittman (Dexter), trata sobre una psiquiatra (Regan) que se muda con su familia desde California al pueblo natal de su marido (Hartnett) en Mississippi, donde descubrirán vergonzosos secretos que cambiarán para siempre las vidas de todos los involucrados.

Netflix encarga la comedia alemana The Last Word, sobre una oradora de elegías en funerales (Anke Engelke) que pierde la fe en su trabajo y trata de sabotear el funeral de su marido. Seis episodios. Escrita por Aron Lehmann y Carlos V. Irmscher.

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Tráilers y promos

Succession - Temporada 2

Undone

Pennyworth

Divorce - Temporada 3

Harlots - Temporada 3

Godfather of Harlem

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We'll forever have the scars.

Part VII. miss universe.

Rhaenyra likes the idea of someone young and beautiful, someone like an ornament she can display to the world, flaunting all sense of propriety. Sophie understands that in a way, because Rhaenyra enjoys oversized blazers and Vitalumiere foundation and she also likes to win. She likes to surround herself by comfort and beautiful things, because that is what her father has made clear since birth, that all those beautiful, precious things are hers by right.

All, except the one.

I think I could make some commentary on how psychologically messed up Sophie is by the past and by everyone in her life, but at this point, why would I write that commentary when I can just watch as she and Aegon just get really fucking unhinged.

rip my soul, i need baby jebus to forgive me for how fucking terrible this.

We'll forever have the scars. @ AO3

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We’ll forever have the scars.

Part III: the dead wife.

“There’s this rumour that the Russian prince who had the house previously never wanted to risk the last of the existing Romanov jewels to be found by anyone else. So, he sunk it to the bottom of the lake, tied to the body of his second wife.”

He pictures Viserys weighing Alicent down with all of Aemma’s jewels. He sees Viserys and Daemon throwing her into the lake and she slowly sinks down.

This chapter should be summarised as “AEGON GET YOUR ASS TO THERAPY” with side notes of “Alicent’s shitty marriage makes me want to get violent” with the commentary of “Aegon really be there going on a date with a girl he hates because she’s his Alicent 2.0”

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We'll forever have the scars.

VI. The ghost of hamlet's father.

“How much longer am I here for.”

“An hour.”

He shifts over in the gurney, and Sophie stares.

You don’t want sweet and normal. You’d die if a man tried to protect you with chivalry and honour. You want the dickhead who is stupid enough to yank out itchy IV lines. You would be bored within minutes if you had nice and normal. You’d eat them up and spit out the bones, dab your mouth with a napkin and move onto the next course.

And you stayed.

(When was the last time someone stayed.)

The title honestly just gives it all away.

Every time I wrote the name "Cathy", I just heard @theonngreyjoy screeching "MY WIFEEEEEE" in the background.

Also, justice for Alicent because honestly every time I wrote about her shitty marriage, I wanted to commit violence.

We'll forever have the scars @ AO3.

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Where do you end and where do I start.

I don’t think I’ve ever known a life where who I am isn’t informed by who she was.

The original aesthetic face claims, I always saw Cathy as similar to Rachel Weisz. Hooded eyes, elegance, high cheekbones and cool demeanour.

Soph is more like Ana de Armas—very big doll like hazel eyes, full mouth.

They’re not identical but somehow, fic wise, Sophie just reminds people of Cathy just by breathing, the way she carries herself, despite spending an entire lifetime TRYING TO BE ANYONE ELSE BUT HER MOTHER.

Where Daemon sees Cathy, Aegon and Rhaenyra see Alicent.

Basically, Soph is never going to know peace ever again.

Honestly I think for Aegon it’s just a lifetime of seeing Alicent’s big eyes and the pain and all of that sorrow and anger hidden behind those expressive eyes, everything just simmering under the surface and then he sees it in Sophie who is constantly agitating him for constantly being perfect because if she doesn’t pretend everything is fine, her whole world falls apart—Aegon basically falling for his mum. Send help pls now.

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Aegon: I hate this girl and we have nothing in common and I have no interest in her whatsoever

Also aegon: basically going out in attempt to seek a more well adjusted version of his mother

(Meanwhile, somewhere Robert Devereaux 2nd Earl of Essex is twirling his moustache from the afterlife, cackling bc honestly, bold of you to assume any descendant of mine can be well adjusted.)

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THE ANSWER IS YES, AEGON.

THE ANSWER IS VERY MUCH YES SHE THINKS YOURE AN IDIOT DID YOU NOT LISTEN TO A SINGLE THING SHE’S EVER SAID TO YOU??????

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x. you take everything from me.

She wants to see you, she knew that. She just had no idea what to say.

Just fucking stop, and he asks that of her as if it’s so easy.

It should be. Sophie knows it should be.

“It’s just dinner.”

“I’m on shift.”

“I know.”

But it hangs in the air, until Sophie lets the sword fall upon her own head. “Dinner then. I’ll switch off with someone on cover.”

She hears the delighted laugh in Rhaenyra’s voice. Sophie hangs up the phone, leans against the shelf in the dark of the linen closet.

She shouldn’t have to stop, even if he asks. But Aegon wasn’t wrong, he kissed the palm of her hand and he asked her to stop and she thinks she wanted to, in that moment she wanted to. She believed in that moment, it would make sense.

Aegon asked her to stop, so this is her trying.

We'll forever have the scars. @ AO3.

It's been a good ride, who knows where it goes from here.

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If your OC was canon, how would the fandom treat it? - For Sophie

So, I basically had to wait to finish writing Part VI before I could actually answer this question.

Welcome to the giant essay on the Honourable Miss Sophia Catherine Devereaux that absolutely no one wants.

Up until Part V, I would say that fandom's opinion and treatment of Sophia wouldn't be great. Sophie is exactly who she appears to be; beautiful, rich, inaccessible, perfect. She keeps it that way, she likes it that way, she puts on the mask and keeps it on for as long as she can. The little slivers of Sophie, who she is, it starts slipping out all the way through Part I to V. But most of fandom for Part I to V would find her incessantly frustrating, good, and empty and unapproachable--which is, you know, a very deliberate writing choice.

There might be a good amount of Sophie apologists, especially as parts of her get revealed. The hints of her eating disorder, the ambiguous reference to something that happened in her childhood, the slow revelation that she either has been pushed into being exactly like her mother or the opposite of her mother. I think there's a good amount of fandom who would be on the Sophia Devereaux Deserves Better train, because Sophie is very much, deep down, a broken, traumatised girl who has spent her life being repressed and manipulated by every single person around her.

Aegon and Sophie's relationship is probably polarising, because it's a slow burn that isn't very exciting, and the moment they fuck, she pushes him right away. She incites his jealousy by flirting with Rhaenyra. She basically activates Daemon's Creepy Batman mode. Why does she need all this when she has Aegon? This would probably be one of the most frustrating things for fandom, either the people who WANT her with Aegon, or the ones who want 'better' for Aegon. Honestly, it's easy to paint Sophie as a bit of a bisexual bicycle slut, considering that it's hinted that she and Cassandra Baratheon had also been a thing.

Sophie's beauty is something that would also have this great discourse in fandom--is Sophie more than her physical asset, which is her beauty, or is she just this shallow vessel that people project their desires onto? Who the fuck is Sophie fucking Devereaux and why does everyone want to fuck this girl who doesn't give anything away except a witty remark and a dry laugh. She's a projection of ideal feminine beauty, with modern career drive. She's nice and compassionate, she can be a judgement upper class bitch--she's been raised that way, she's a sheltered and manipulated trauma victim--she would inflame a lot of hatred and love. I also think that for some people, she's boring or she's annoying. And then for others, they might identify in her traits about themselves that is a reaction to trauma in their own lives, or a projection of how they react to society--some of this might or might not be writer projection, la la la.........

Fandom's favourite thing for Sophie would basically with a generational comparison to Alicent. Deliberately set up, Alicent and Sophia--two white, wealthy, well bred girls who are being hunted by Targs left and right. Alicent and Rhaenyra in their girlhood versus Sophia and Cassie in theirs. Rhaenyra and Alicent versus Rhaenyra and Sophie. Alicent's distance to Aegon versus Alicent's distance to Sophie. Their physical appearance--although, Alicent has distinctly auburn hair, she and Sophie both have very big big eyes that emote their every thought. It's revealed that Dalton's nickname for Sophia is 'puppy' and her eyes are the reason for that. Those big big eyes, which actually was one thing that Aegon subconsciously draws comparison to his own mother about. The parallels are all there, setting up Sophia to be preyed upon and targetted and ruined by a Targaryen man (or woman), and then...

HELLO THE GHOST OF HAMLET'S FATHER IS HERE TO SUE ME FOR CREATIVE LICENCE.

Enter, Cathy fucking Devereaux.

The ghost of Cathy Devereaux running around like a demented version of Hamlet's dead dad is the best thing about this fic, and I won't hear otherwise because Cathy brings me too much joy as she has singlehandedly devastated every man I put in her fucking path.

The parallels of Sophie and Cathy take over slowly, the shift around Part IV. There's a lot of Cathy in Sophie's memory, even though Sophie stated in Part I that Cathy died when she was ten years old from a sailing accident. It's a throwaway line, drawing this comparison of her and Aegon's relationships with their mothers that then does this face turn, and that's when I think fandom gets really either frustrated as fuck with Sophie or actually want to just put her into therapy. Cathy is this phantom looming over Sophie's shoulder. The beautiful dead girl, the one and only late Catherine Devereaux who Sophie bears a strong resemblance to--I would live for the fucking gif comparison for these two. But to basically be a projection of her mother's memory, I think that's where there's this concern for Sophie. It's taken a toll on her mentally for her whole life--she's described herself as having 'battled nature in my own heart', which is a key thing: is she battling being like Cathy or being the opposite of Cathy? Which is it? How confusing would that be? Who the fuck wants to spend their entire life being compared to the one who came before? I think that's where the fandom view of Sophie slowly slips a bit, they'd honestly either love or hate the amount of influence Cathy has over Sophie even though she's been absent for most of Sophie's life.

Part V, aka the Daemon interlude because how the FUCK did Daemon get his own fucking chapter (I cannot even, I still cannot even--you know what, fandom can either be outraged or happy, I don't fucking know. Daemon's fucking interlude exists bc Hamlet's father deemed it worthy); you start seeing hints of Sophie from a lens that isn't Aegon's or her own. Albeit a Cathy fogged lens, but you still Sophie and Daemon talking, you see how she pushes and pulls a person away with such nonchalance, but you also see that Sophie deliberately plays with fire.

There's going to be one small part of fandom that would gif the fuck out of 'Sophie's staring at someone' to discern whether she's thinking of ruining their whole career. I would again live for these gifs. I will also live for the comparison of them to Alicent and Cathy.

Fandom would also have a blast discussing the Sophie - Alicent - Rhaenyra - Cathy - Laena soft power versus hard power. I wish I could touch more on Laena's divorce, but that's not happening due to the narrative (or for now, because let's face it, I want to see her obliterate Daemon and call him out for being a crappy dad). It adds into the viewpoint of how women either have to push or manipulate and the way they do it. IDK, to me, I would be fascinated over that sort of thing.

Okay, so all of this builds until Part VI where for one gloriously horrid scene that had so much fucking dialogue I wanted to punch every single man in the room (hey Larry!), Sophie's attractiveness, her charm, her appeal, her standoffishness ruins her in the eyes of the viewers and in the eyes of Aegon. A man killed himself over her! She fucked her teacher! She broke up a marriage! She's had an abortion! She's done this to so many people, she's fucking Rhaenyra, she saw you and put you in her crosshairs.

Sophie is a wicked bitch.

She's her mother's daughter.

Beautiful, selfish, wicked.

She's slept around on them, she'll sleep around on you, Aegon. She's the cold perfect bitch you knew she was, and you fell into that trap anyways. Fuck her.

Why is it that Aegon can't have nice things. Did he do this, does he just keep choosing shitty people? He did coke off his brother's fiance's D cups, he drives his lambo into hospitals. Aegon isn't a saint, he's down in hell, but she fucking knew he was damaged and she still decided to toy with him.

And then well.

It makes you wonder, how many people forget the thing that made Rhaenyra worthy of protection, how many people forget that just like her, Sophie was just a girl as well. Alicent was just a girl. They were just young girls in a world where the wolves feast on girls lost in the forest of old country estates.

Fandom, I think, would have no idea what to fucking do about Sophie at this point, because dear readers, no one ever really knew Cathy. She was a beautiful ghost.

Her daughter is exactly the same.

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Okay fine, I was being dramatic as fuck.

I think by the end of Part VI, fandom will erupt into two camps where you will either love her or hate her. You can believe what was said at the intervention, or you can question it. How much of it was true? How much of it was real? What part of her 'relationship' with Aegon so far has been real? And then, and be united in the question of "what the fuck happened and what truth are they hiding?" and also united in the camp of "alicent's marriage makes me want to commit violence" and many other things. I'm firmly in the "raise your hand if you've been personally victimised by Cathy Devereaux" camp because I'm writing the whole fucking thing.

Some of the things they said about Sophie at the intervention was true. I won't tell you what was true, you can work it out yourself.

Yes, Sophie has been seeing Rhaenyra since the benefit, one and off.

Aegon, the inflamed little hypocrite, has been fucking Cassandra. I like to think that this is equal opportunity sluttiness for them both.

But, there is something that I think fandom can appreciate about Sophie in a way. I think that Aegon's compassion towards Alicent, how he says to her what Sophie said to him, seeing him lost and broken, the first compassion he's shown to his mother in a long time, I think that some of fandom will appreciate the fact that this was something Sophie has influenced. She's never tried to fix Aegon, but there is an influence there. She's not going to tell him to stop being a trainwreck--she's a bit busy, being haunted by ghosts, being a doctor, telling Jace and Hannah off for being so cute together--but she has gotten through to him without forcing it onto him. It's a rare thing, but it's one of the parts of the story that I've been trying to build towards.

Also, in other breaking news, I now have to write the rest of this fucking melodrama, so excuse me as I go fling myself into the lake with the exiled Russian prince's drowned wife.

Stay tuned for another episode of meta and insight no one asked for, next week featuring the rom-com known as Jace Velaryon and Hannah Kim and how Jace mispronounced bulgogi!

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“She was a bitch. She was cold and she was selfish and she was awful, but she could make anyone laugh, and she never hesitated, and she was fearless,” she takes a shuddering breath in, letting it out slowly, “I can never not remember the good even when I remember how wicked she could be, and all I ever wanted to know was whether she loved me.”

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I'm very interested in seeing Alicent and Sophia as mother-in-law and daughter-in-law

Oh man this is something that’s rattling around in my head. They’re definitely going to meet very very soon. I mean, the similarities aren’t lost on Helaena and Aegon, I’m pretty sure Alicent would see them too and tell her to run.

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daemon: she wanted to spare you

soph: wtf who are you and why does my mother have a creepy ex who lives next door

cathy running around like a demented impersonation of the ghost of hamlet’s father: lol new phone who dis

side note, marcus watching this bs unravel being like “I’m getting too old for this”

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Am I reading this wrong or is Rhaenyra flirting with Sophia

You’re reading it very very right. Rhaenyra is definitely flirting with Sophie, very very definitely flirting with Sophie.

At one point, there will be a chapter from Rhaenyra’s POV but I’m not sure when that will happen.

My internal joke now is that Sophia is a bisexual bicycle, in that everyone wants to take a ride.

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Honestly, it’s basically just copy pasta at this point.

Aegon dates Sophie because she reminds him of his mother.

Sophie’s first love reminds her of her own mother.

CAN YOU ALL JUST GO GET SOME FUCKING THERAPY.

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I mean it’s so early but does it even count as a spoiler if we even talk about Sophie’s own way of trying to compartmentalise her own trauma?

But in this trial, she is not the guilty party.

She was never the guilty party in the other either. She was fifteen years old. Idek why but this moment between her and Marcus still gets to me in a weird way bc she would have been fifteen and shrouded in scandal and gossip and painted as the slut when she was the child in the situation, and having to explain it to her legal guardian who sees someone else instead of Soph—ahdhcjsjxkskxksjxjx

The fact that Soph blames herself still. Be still my beating heart because Idek if this will even get unpacked in the course of the fic.