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i think aemond is the last of his siblings to find out that his mother's love is conditional (because, as you said, otto's love for her was conditional) and that he was always going to have serious "mommy issues" that we are now being shown plainly how deeply he is affected by this revelation

No, I 1000% agree. I think he probably sees with Aegon that his mother doesn't always have the most love for her first born due to his actions, but there's an arrogance to Aemond because he's never screwed up before. He really doesn't know what to do when he stops receiving the attention he's used to. I don't think he wants to necessarily apologise to gain it back either, because that's admitting he's not as superior to Aegon as he thinks he is, and it also suggests his mother has a reason to be disappointed. He wants her love back, and like you said it's hitting him really hard to be without it. We really are just watching him have a breakdown, while clammering to keep the nonchalant, untouchable image he wants the world to see, up.

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Alicent Hightower thinks to be loved is to be used, and there's no clearer example of that than how her children turn out. I don't think it's necessarily her fault, she doesn't know any better, she's never experienced normal parental love from her most prominent parental figure. Otto Hightower pratically sells his daughter out to a man old enough to be her father, and when Alicent married Viserys, Otto's love and pride comes only when that price is paid. She is used again by both Viserys and Otto in the birth of Aegon, and once again because she is useful, because she has given something away, she is momentarily granted affection she does not usually recieve. To Alicent, people have only loved her once they have used her, and I think this trauma cycle really echoes in all her children.

I saw someone suggest that Season 2 Aemond's "mummy issues" did not fit the image of Season 1 Aemond, who is objectively a mummy's boy. I get maybe where this view comes from, but I do disagree. I think, in a very unspoken manner, we see that Aemond's (and Aegon, but this post is already getting long) relationship with his mother is similar to Alicents relationship with her father. I don't think she does it intentionally at all, and she's obviously not selling Aemond out, but there's a lingering feeling of almost love bombing in their relationship. Alicent loves Aemond when he's of use to her, because that's the only way she knows how to love anyone. She loves him when he's hurt, when he gains a dragon, when he goes to find Aegon, when he's comforting her. But she cannot face him when he has disappointed her. I don't think it's her intention to come off that way, in private with Otto she defends him, almost understands his actions though she does not agree with them, but she doesn't know how to show she still loves him, because he's not of use to her at the moment.

And Aemond? Well, his issues develope from all of this. He has always been loved, because he has always been of use, especially emotionally, to his mother. He doesn't know how to deal with this absence of affection. To an extent, Alicent is prehaps the person who knows him best, especially in his anger at Lucerys, and without her, he seeks both love and understanding from a woman that looks and is aged close enough to her that he can delude himself.

I think something a lot of people overlook with Aemond is that he's, in the grand scheme of things, still very young. I thinks he's supposed to be 19 in the show, and though that of course is no excuse for his attack on Lucerys, it does shed light, and rationalise, his emotional instability. Here's a young adult who, in his eyes, has never been good enough to experience parental love from his father, and has seemingly ruined his relationship with the one person who might truly understand him. I think there's a big point to be made in Aemond's scarring to. He has been permanently disfigured by Lucerys, he's missing a main feature in his face, and has highly visible scarring. That's a big thing for anyone to deal with, but especially a young adult who's family, for all intensive purposes, are prehaps the most attractive in the seven kingdoms. There's a big insecurity there, seen in the fact that his face is always covered in all but once scene, and I think its fair to assume Aemond might feel that no one may ever love him romantically, or atleast choose him, when he is both a second son, and the scarred member of his family.

In my opinion, Aemond seeking out comfort makes perfect sense. He wants love and understanding, and is never quite sure if he'll get it again, due to his mother's distance, thus he pays for it.

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Aemond Targaryen claiming the largest dragon in the world at 10 years old is the most Targaryen thing I've ever seen.

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The fact that people apply the Reign fantasy world to history really annoys me. Mary Queen of Scots was not a competant ruler, she was not the one true Queen of England robbed of her throne either. If you are going to say with your full chest Mary QoS had a better claim to the English throne than Elizabeth I, then you must be insane. Like where has this idea come from? Mary Qos traces her claim through her GRANDMOTHER, who is elder sister to Henry VIII, you are telling me that claim has more substance to it than Henry's actual daughter. I can already hear someone saying 'Elizabeth was a bastard', let's be real, no she wasn't, Henry was playing stupid games, but yes let's for historical accuracies sake acknowledge Henry called his marriage to Anne illegitimate and Elizabeth a bastard. He restores her to the succession, in his will he specifically names her third inherit, even if he didn't, but it must be acknowledged that he does, her sister and Mary I (Queen of England) names Elizabeth as her heir. Mary is not robbed of the throne of England, because she has no right to it while Elizabeth is living, the only reason anyone in that time period tried rebelling against this perfectly sound series of inheritances, and trying to put Mary Qos on the English throne is because some people didn't like the fact Elizabeth was protestant. Also the idea that Mary would make a better monarch to England is genuinely insane, in the end Scotland doesn't even want her, she makes so many political mistakes that I don't have time to sit and mention them all here. Reign is a great show, but at the end of the day it is just that, a show made to paint an arguably terrible political mind into a lovable character. And is Elizabeth I perfect, no, by absolutely no means, but suggesting Mary was a better ruler than the woman who brought about a golden age for England, especially within the arts, is just idiotic and historically incorrect.

(Is this my usual content, no, but by God I've seen one to many just insane comments)

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Arya Stark is the love of my life, so I hope I've captured her nicely in this.

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Someone has probably suggested this before, so forgive me. But, do you think the reason the doctor likes Earth so much, can never truly seem to leave it behind, is because there are moments, few and far between, where if he squints, he can almost convince himself that Earth is Gallifrey. On days where the sunrise bleeds blood orange across the morning sky, when frost has covered the trees, making the leaves shimmer silver in the right light, where spires and cathedrals clutter a city skyline, a planet alive with people who look Timelord. Do you think the Doctor stays because its as close as he can get to home, even if just for a moment. Do you think a small part of why he fights so much to save this silly little planet is so he doesn't have to watch Gallifrey burn a second time.

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Might sound strange, but a headcanon I have for Arya Stark is that she's a phenomenonal haggler. Anything this girl buys, the price is coming down. This girl knows the going price of everything in Braavos, and verbally rips into any one with the Trade Tongue if they try to upcharge her, thinking her a clueless traveler. And when she returns to Westeros? You bet nobody is upcharging her there either, she's not paying a penny more than she would in Braavos. Arya Stark gets some of the best Trade deals Winterfell has ever seen, simply because she wears these people down. A piece of Arya Stark will always be a fiery oyster seller, and the North has never economically benefitted more.

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Do you love your mother?

Yes. I love her enough,

That on the nights I dream I kill her,

I wake regretful of what I have done.

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I don't think I've ever wanted two charecters to interact more than I yearn for an (impossible) meeting between Oberyn Martell and Arya Stark.

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Ravenclaw Aesthetic, probably going to show all the houses love at some point.

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Fem Percy Jackson Aesthetic, our favourite seaweed brain but female.

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People seemed to like my last slytherin aesthetic so I made another for you all. Hope you like it!

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Not my best work but I think it's pretty all the same. Slytherin aesthetic.

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Dark Fem Harry Potter x Tom Marvolo Riddle

Love interest aesthetic

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Moodboard/Charecter aesthetic I made inspired by some dark Fem Harry Potter fanfictions. Dont know if it's any good but I thought it would make a half decent first post!