#rhaenyra: i love alicent

[fanfictionroxs]

The way Jace is like "You saw Alicent?!" is just like when girls are banging their head because their their other friend decided to go see her ex lmffaoooo

Jace totally knows his mommy is in love with step-grandma/the step-mom that never was

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

“There is a childish juvenile level to us that comes to life in those moments. You saw Olivia Cooke bite her nails and become childlike as Alicent, you saw Rhaenyra become this brat at times…those are choices the actors made.” 

— Dir. Geeta Patel

[lesbianelsas]

alicent + using viserys as a proxy

Is it the King's command? Yes, but it n- - Then at once, Your Grace. But it needn't be. None of this needs be this way in truth, Rhaenyra.

[toodrunktofindaurl]

youth

[theirondragonrants]

I love you all, but you have the wrong parallel. We love Rhaenyra asking Alicent to fly across the narrow sea and eat only cake, but it's Rhaenyra and this Alicent that mirror each other. It's the smiles, and that halting breath.

[honeyandsalted]

The part where Alicent covers her mouth with a sob and Rhaenyra’s challenging expression melts away completely and it is completely clear that who she is seeing now is Alicent— the girl who’s hand she once held in the godswood, the girl she once loved— hurt and grieving and broken, and Rhaenyra swallows back her own sob. And you can tell that watching Alicent fall apart physically pains Rhaenyra, and that in the moment, all she wants is to hold Alicent and offer her comfort.

[cardvngreenbriar]

RHAENICENT APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 [1/7] parallels: paternity test (x x)

[lemonsharkgirlfriend]

so rhaenyra starts s3 with a god complex, believing herself to be the prince that was promised from aegon the conqueror's dream... but hugh and ulf will betray her, mysaria will misunderstand her, coryls will undermine her, bartimos will underestimate her, daemon will abandon her, her people will turn against her and burn her castle and kill her dragon. and when everyone who accepted rhaenyra as queen rejects her, the only person left to love rhaenyra will be alicent, who never loved rhaenyra as queen but rhaenyra as a person ("she was the vision that sustained him [...] it was his love for her that kept him resolute in his choice of heir."). alicent, who abandoned her gods and duty to go to rhaenyra on dragonstone and appeal to the person beneath the crown ("i cast myself on the mercy of a friend who once loved me."). alicent, who's made a god of rhaenyra, not as queen, but as the girl she read with beneath the godswood ("come with me.").

[theghooligan]

aemond: i love that my uncle tried to murder me in my own bed. he’s soooooooo afraid of me—

daemon, living it up in harrenhall:

[rhaenyras-alicent]

[turnipoddity]

love comes in at the eyes

[zendayacolemann]

Otto Hightower using Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower's love for one another against them.

S01E05 | “We Light the Way” S01E09 | “The Green Council” S01E10 | “The Black Queen”

[rosehathaways-sidepiece]

god it really is so tragic for rhaenyra and alicent to have that conversation, for them both to realize the mistake that was made, and know that it is utterly unfixable. the wheels of war are already turning and alicent as dowager queen cannot roll them back. she does not have the political power anymore to make that happen. the two women at the core of the story carry the truth of the conflict--that it shouldn't be happening, that this was a mistake, viserys always meant to enfranchise his daughter--but the world is bigger than them, and reality a much starker, harsher thing. this is war. not because it is right, or just--war rarely is either--but because blood demands blood, and there is no stopping it

[nataliescatorccio]

[greenqueenhightower]

Alicent: "Please, Lord, give me a sign that Rhaenyra thinks of me"

The sign:

[notalicent]

La tristesse durera toujours.

Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon Season 2