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i knew you / tried to change the ending / peter losing wendy

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Happy pride with modern Alicent and Rhaenyra 💚🖤

I’m in my HOTD era and i’ve sketch some modern AU. Let’s start with my beloved rhaenicent

+ bonus Rhaenyra with tattoo

How Rhaenyra and Alicent look at each other knowing that they were having sex with toxic men instead that look after their children and then something horrible happens to the kids while they weren’t there to protect them,because they were too busy having sex.

i’m just like you

you are just like me

knight rhaenyra

Couldn't have said it better

Sorry people this is gonna be a long post, but I needed to vent.

A lot of people in the HOTD fandom are so quick to say that everything Alicent does "against" Rhaenyra is because she's judging her for not following the "rules" of the patriarchy, but imo the anger and conflict between them is way more personal than that. After Alicent is chosen by Viserys as his new wife, Rhaenyra, showing all of her immaturity (understandable, she's so young) feels betrayed by Alicent and starts treating her poorly. Of course Alicent in turn feels betrayed by her closest friend cause Rhaenyra abandoned her when she needed her the most. She was too sheltered and comfortable in her privilege to realize that other women cannot simply say no, Alicent was considered her father's property and then her husband's to do with as they pleased. She is continuously raped by a man she did not choose to marry, forced to carry child after child and on top of that she is refused the only comfort she had, her only friend. She never had the luxury of choice, but Rhaenyra in her naivety, still punished her for it. Alicent tried to hang on, still caring about Rhaenyra and still trying to reconcile with her and being constantly denied and judged by her.

Then, the moment Rhaenyra did something that would surely put her in trouble, she lied to Alicent's face. Alicent believed her and defended her with the king, insisting that Daemon must have lied, that her father must have been misinformed. Viserys knew this to be false, he knew Rhaenyra had lied, but still she was not punished for it. Instead Alicent is indirectly punished again, losing her only ally (Otto is a vile person, but still for Alicent he was the only piece of home, of familiarity she had) because of Rhaenyra. Naturally when she learned that Rhaenyra had lied to her, it was another huge blow to Alicent's heart, because trusting Rhaenyra has literally cost her the only bit of protection she felt that she had left. It's only natural at this point, that Otto's claims about Rheanyra's character began to take root in Alicent's mind. Rhaenyra proved that she could not be trusted and Alicent wasn't about to put her children's lives in the hands of someone who had betrayed her so. She realized that no one would protect her, not Viserys, not Rhaenyra, so she must do it herself.

From then on things were bound to go downhill cause Alicent began resenting Rhaenyra as she still remained oblivious to her privilege and she benefited from it again and again, perhaps even using her father's affection for her to her advantage. And Rhaenyra (understandably) grew tired of Alicent's treatment of her.

In light of that, what happened with Aemond inevitably had a massive impact on their situation, especially on Alicent, whose faith in Rhaenyra was already broken. Her son lost an eye (taken by one of Rhaenyra's kids). Rhaenyra refused to even acknowledge the magnitude of this offence, so quick to defend her kids (and their birthright), who would never do anything wrong and were simply defending themselves (despite there being 4 of them against Aemond) And even in such a dramatic circumstance, all Viserys cares about is protecting Rhaenyra from what essentially is, the truth.

So in my opinion Alicent is not only saying "it's not fair" because Rhaenyra constantly did things that were not "proper" and was never punished for it, what she's saying is more along the lines of "Rhaenyra abandoned me, betrayed me, punished me, hurt me, my son and others to fulfil her selfish goals and nobody ever punished her for it or even had the decency to admit that she might have been wrong".

Alicent is not questioning Rhaenyra's claim to the throne because she's a woman, she's questioning her integrity and wether or not she's trustworthy, she's doing it to protect herself and her children, who she feels could never be truly safe as long as Rhaenyra rules with Daemon by her side.

And feelings like these cannot be simply dismissed, not even with an apology, one must really work on rebuilding trust in each other in order to fix years of betrayal and mutual hurt and resentment, and sadly they just didn't get enough time to do it.

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN and ALICENT HIGHTOWER commissioned by @nikolaislanstovs

Alicent/Viserys: Violence isn't the answer!

Daemon/Rhaenyra: It's a question and the answer is "yes".

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ℜ𝔥𝔞𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱

"𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓯𝓵𝔂 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓸𝓷 𝓭𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓸𝓷 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴, 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓬𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓸𝔀 𝓢𝓮𝓪, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓬𝓪𝓴𝓮." - 𝓡𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝔂𝓻𝓪 𝓣𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓪𝓻𝔂𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓗𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓣𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻

"𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚗'𝚜 𝚋𝚎. 𝙽𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚢, 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑, 𝚁𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚗𝚢𝚛𝚊."

CD:DCNYRA @tiktok

"𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢 , 𝘙𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘳𝘢!"

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I swear they should just run away on dragon back

no thoughts, just "where is duty, where is sacrifice" and the way that alicent clings to abstract constructs like religion, honor, duty and sacrifice because her material life is so concretely terrible and empty. to have loved someone so dearly, and watch them be what you perceive as free while your entire personhood is reduced to a womb and made to serve the realm, a vessel for the rotting king to use and abuse. to not exist as a person for yourself but in only in service to others as you are ordered by your father under a patriarchal structure..........and then the contrast of that quote, which summarizes all of alicent's anguish and agony, to the classic, "what is honor compared to a woman's love? what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms...we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love.".................but alicent doesn't have love, not anymore. duty, honor, these concepts - they're all she's got, and the lack of the very elements that make them meaningful has corroded her inside and out. so: honor, duty, sacrifice, all without love. and here we are.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1x07: “Driftmark” (2022)

yeah I’m watching HOTD slowly… 

gratitude and apology.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1x08: “The Lord of the Tides” (2022)

More Rhaenyra and Alicent next season pls

More Rhaenyra and Alicent next season pls