#i love u Alicent Hightower

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

watched that buzzfeed interview with the HotD cast and just for kicks decided to do the quizzes myself and. . . genuinely wtf

guess I’m just really Alicent Hightower-coded???

(like don’t get me wrong other than Helaena I don’t think there’s any possible more accurate result but like. . . 3 for 3? wild. also the only description that actually fits is the last one but it does really fit, mostly the book and keeping to myself bit, but I’ll give it to them.)

Links to all three quizzes for fun 🐉

[nataliescatorccio]

[maxanor]

TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE, Chelsea Hodson – for @alicenthighstower

[missygoesmeow]

you could never do anything wrong <3

[muadweeb]

team black could never serve this much cunt...

[sukibenders]

Aegon, Aemond, Helaena, and Daeron looking at Alicent after she washes her hands of a war, that she (and Otto) dragged them into, and the throne, that she (and Otto) forced them to grasp/fight over even though they obviously didn't want it, and goes off to live her best life while they are all still stuck in a cycle forced on to them without their input (obviously this is about the s2 final):

[pinkie-satan]

the holy trinity of motherhood vs prophecies, tragedies that can't be stopped, lust for power, sacrificing one's own children and being called the disease that ruins families and dynasties

[bietrofastimoff23]

it was 2024, and tb keep talking as if it was aegon at the coronation who ran to alicent to hide behind her back, when in reality it was her choice to come forward, shield her son with her body and cling to his arm to make sure that he would stay behind.

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

watching ppl on HOTD twitter fight between who is worse vs alicent and rhaenyra and it's like,, they're both terrible can't we just embrace that already </3

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

alicent and sansa with your bright red hair you are my enemy

stop trying to be ygritte you both could never

you have brown and auburn hair respectively with a side of some pretty misogynistic crazy fans who hate the hot dragon ladies

rhaenyra and dany you will both forever be famous

and stop stealing the winter roses rip my boy jon your symbolism is too cool too pretty so thieves are snatching it up bc for some reason little birds just aren’t good enough so a pretty flower is needed as well

i know this beef has long passed but almost every sansa fanart has a winter rose in it while i think i’ve only ever seen one fanart with jon holding some winter roses. the thieves have cleared my boy out and forced him into something so disturbing so gross so horrid so nasty and called it jonsa

they tried replacing satin with sansa it’s horrible

jonsatin is the real jonsa

it’s the truth

i’m a bi jon truther

i genuinely do not know what the point of this post is

[edgelordtozier]

sorry but alicent hightower isn’t “ruined” this season. you people just never understood her in the first place and think of her as something she’s not lmao.

of course she’s a hypocrite, she has been the whole time. her holier than thou persona is a facade. she wants freedom of choice and, with that, sexual liberation. she gets that now with criston at the price of her own shame and guilt tied to her faith, which is real (criston’s faith, at least in the seven, is NOT, but yknow. for another time). her going for what rhaenyra got and what rhaenyra had the freedom to partake in is not character assassination lmao. It’s what’s been set up this whole time. she’s not this saint that she and her stans claim her to be. she’s variably flawed CLEARLY (which is what makes her a good character) but isn’t going to stray away from the exact thing she claims to hate.

“duty and sacrifice” and “honor and decency will prevail” are shown to the viewer to be hypocritical statements. fucking obviously. why did anyone take that at face value LMAO. All those things are what alicent herself has been forced to align with since she was a child made to marry viserys. she wants rhaenyra to ALSO fit that mould and to feel that misery that she’s felt, just as she wishes she had the freedom rhaenyra has. that doesn’t mean she believes in these ideas. she clearly goes against them; that’s her character. she believes that she believes them, but her desire to leave the mould outweighs that time and time again.

to say that she’s an outlandishly different character in s2 after seeing one singular episode is insane. she’s the same. she and criston is not a left field decision, nor is it a particularly bad one, even if it did feel abrupt (which is more a pacing issue). alicent and criston’s joint hypocrisy has been pointed out the entire time. to further highlight it is not bad writing or character ruination. you just didn’t understand them in the first place. Alicent isn’t a blushing nun. she’s a woman whose old decrepit husband is finally dead and now has the freedom she didn’t get at 17.

[lullaebies]

Premise: Prince Rhaegal, the only male child of King Viserys I, navigates through schemes and trials by both sides of his family, while trying to defend the name of his sisters and children. Tensions rise at court as the seemingly odd and weak prince starts demonstrating traits of a suitable heir.

A genderswapped AU fanfic for the Green children. M!Helaena focused.

read on ao3 here || fanfic tag || this work is a part of a series! ઇଓ

[destinyh3art]

Are ya'll ever haunted by the fact that alicent essentially did the same thing to Aegon what her own father otto did to her? Forced to get married and have kids young? The generational trauma here...

[gayspacemonk]

once again people say they want evil woman characters but can barely deal with alicent hightower

[the-heartlines]

rhaenicent + 1950 by king princess 

so tell me why my gods look like you and tell me why it's wrong so i’ll wait for you, i'll pray i will keep on waiting for your love for you, i'll wait i will keep on waiting for your

[kingcunny]

book!viserys>

viserys x amma is a marriage out of duty.

viserys married alicent out of love.

viserys loves helaena.

i basically agree with this but i also think its a little more complicated!

viserys x aemma was 100% an arranged marriage. viserys was born and raised in kingslanding, aemma in the vale. you cannot convince me they ever met before their marriage. but i do think they grew to love each other. i like to think they had similar personalities and meshed well together. but their marriage was always held back by duty. had viserys never been named king i think things wouldve gone better between them.

(i had mandela’d myself when i read fire and blood into thinking alysanne arranged their marriage. i remember thinking that was so odd considering how upset she got at jaehaerys over daella. not to mean i dislike this idea, i actually think it fits with alysannes character very well. she martyrs her daughters once theyre gone but doesnt do anything to help them while theyre alive. but its probably a bit more likely that it was jaehaerys and baelon. viserys was eventually going to be king and aemma was his only living unmarried female relative.)

i think viserys loved the idea of alicent more than alicent herself, evidenced by the troubles later in their marriage, but i think alicent also did the same thing to him. seeing the man she wanted him to be instead of the man he was. but until those illusions were shattered i think they had a very loving, if delusional, relationship.

i like to think viserys first met alicent while she was taking care of jaehaerys and he was like “wow what a kind young woman :)” and then after aemmas death alicent again reached out to rhaenyra to comfort her. (i also like to think alicent lost her mother young, so she knows how hard it is and wanted to like, look after this young girl) he loved alicents kindness, but never saw her ambition.

(i do really like what hotd did with alicent and ottos relationship. her emotionally incestuous father pushing her to marry into the physically incestuous family i thought was very smart. but i also think alicent Is ambitious and, yknow, Wanted to be queen. wether or not this was something her father put in place-well. this post is getting long enough as it is)

viserys did love helaena! she was the only one of his and alicents children that he actually cared for and saw as His. maybe this was because subconsciously he knew helaena wouldnt be able to challenge rhaenyras claim, or maybe because viserys was meant to be a girldad and just deluded himself/was convinced/ that he needed a son.