#✮⋆˙ alicent hightower. ━━ ( study )

[purpleserpents]

need rhaenicent writers to lock the FUCK in and write alicent and otto’s relationship properly like LOOK AT THIS……..look at how they embrace each other……i don’t want evil otto with no motivations but be tradcath and mean to alicent……..i want deeply layered sexually repressed bicurious evil otto who hurts alicent so much and still loves her so deeply the poison needs to drip through what the fuck

[meyaoyu]

“what side are you on” the side of the women

[nonconfy]

the drawings I made for the animatic

[eclrr]

rhaenicent study

[thatscruelsummer]

AU: Jaehaera Targaryen survives and becomes Queen Jaehaera, the first of her name, wearing her father's crown and her grandmother's seven-pointed star necklace.

[fearmakess]

[greenknightofmalachite]

A Favor for Rook’s Rest

(Study, God Speed

1900, Edmund Blair Leighton)

In my fic she gives him one of Prince Jaehaerys’s baby blankets 💚

[francy-sketches]

trying to get better at capturing likenesses so heres a quick(ish) alicent portrait study :3

[nirrvana]

somehow none of it matters 🐍🪞

[anticurses]

who can be innocent in dealing with you there was never a blank slate anne carson (the task of the translator of antigone)

alicent hightower + franz kafka

(letters to milena, letters to felice, letter to his father)

[thekinslayers]

Alicent Hightower : Sins and Reprieve

I have seen lots of interpretations on Alicent's actions in the last episode and the most popular ones are pretty disappointing. So I will try to breakdown her thought process in this post :

Alicent's first scene begins with her breaking down into tears over the pain and suffereing that Helaena's been through. Then she blames herself and says that she was being punished for her sins. This part is important and acts as a layer in all of her actions in this episode.

Throughout the episode we see Alicent clutching her sides and walking around, touching her neck repeatedly. One of this is when Aegon questions Criston's failure to protect his family. The guilt and culpability she feels about B&C is suffocating her inside. She leaves all the decisions to Otto, and goes through with them trying to do her duty because she doesn't think she has any right to fix this on her own.

In the scene with Criston, she asks "have you (Criston) told anyone?" and we know that Alicent herself tried to tell her father and then Helaena. I believe that when Alicent tells him that he is "one who seeks absolution", it is both an understanding of their situation and also an admission of her own desire for absolution. Then Criston says what she's afraid to hear : there is no absolution for this, which is why I believe she tried to drown herself, as self punishment.

Later she once again tries to confess to Otto who doesn't want to hear about it. Then she goes to Aegon and she couldn't offer him what she doesn't have. She feels his pain, it's written all over her face. But she never knew how to console him, there's also the added layer of blaming herself for his suffering and she walks away.

I know many are tired of Alicole scenes, but this one is actually important. She goes to her room and Cristion was already there. She is an emotional mess built up with the inability to help her own kids, guilt over her sins and she takes all of that out on him. He accepts it because he feels that he deserved it. But their dynamic shifts. We see Criston taking control for the first time. They give into the toxic mess because neither could find the absolution they wanted and this is their only coping mechanism. The whole episode we see all the family coping through grief in their own way and this is Alicent's way, it's a mix of both relief and punishment for her.

Alicent is such a layered and interesting character in my opinion. Even when they give her almost nothing, there is still so much to unpack, all thanks to Olivia Cooke just devouring with all the micro expressions in every scene. This took longer than I intended. if you reach this far, thank you for reading! <3

[mono-no-ke]

emily carey as alicent hightower

experimenting with pencils more since they're kinder to my hand ✏

[meyaoyu]

round-up of all my house of the dragon art so far!

all of these are now available as prints on my inprnt :) head over there and check them out if you’d like to support me with some of my bills this month 🥺💗

and here’s my kofi if you’re just passing by and would like to help me out anyway https://ko-fi.com/meyaoyu 🌸

[nonconfy]

« My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What happened to my youth? »

[1-jar-of-stars]

there should be a study about the feminism leaving y’all’s body watching the house of dragon bc i am seeing the worst takes i have seen in my life

[thatscruelsummer]