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Writing and Describing Physical Appearance:

How to Describe Facial Expressions

How to Describe a Character's Appearance

How to Write a Character with a Prosthetic

Writing Dialogue:

How to Describe a Character's Speech

How to Write Dialogue for a Stuttering Character

How to Write a Mute/Non-Speaking Character

What to Do with Too Much Dialogue

Terms and Phrases:

Pirate Terms and Phrases

Cowboy/Wild West Terms and Phrases

Writing Villains, Monsters, and other Antagonists:

How to Write a Monster

How to Write a Good Villain

How to Make Readers Fear Your Villain

How to Write an Unreliable Narrator

Serial Killer Signature Ideas

Writing and Describing Emotions and Disorders:

Nightmares and Sleep Paralysis

Panic Attacks

How to Write a Character with an Eating Disorder

How to Write a Paranoid Character

Different Ways to Describe Fear

Writing and Describing Threatening Conditions:

How to Write a Character that has been Poisoned

How to Write Hypothermia and Frostbite

Writing and Describing Character Interactions:

How to Describe Emotionally Distant Parents

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When Alicent was young, I felt terrible for the way she was treated, the things she endured, the isolation she experienced. What she is now is a direct result of her trauma and abuse, and looking at her, I still feel that sense of hurt and heartbreak for her, but I think most of the hotd fandom (myself included) are quite young and therefore fail to fully account for what it means that Alicent is not only an adult now, but a parent. She has recreated the cycle of abuse and manipulation in all of her children, and she did it to spite Rhaenyra out of jealousy. Raising Aegon on the belief that he should be heir and would otherwise be sentenced to death was her choice. Treating Aemond delicately as if he were still a scorned child and not growing into a more aggressive creature because she favoured him was her choice.

In that same vein, if we got to see an accelerated timeline where Daeron's religious guilt and trauma caused him to grow up into a person who recreates the cycle and hurts more people, I wouldn't ever extend him the same grace that I do now, watching him be abused as a child.

What this essentially boils down to is that you have choices to make as you grow into an adult. You can only keep blaming your parents for so long before it becomes an excuse -- a lifeline that you cling to so that you can continue to be a terrible person without putting any accountability on yourself.

Alicent had control. We watched her exert it over Viserys while he was ill and even over her own father when she found Aegon before him back in s1 ep9. Which means its irrefutable that she is capable of making her own choices. Rhaenys' line is also incredibly important here: "You desire not to be free, but to make a window in the wall of your prison." Alicent made the choices that she did to feel victorious over Rhaenyra for something that happened when they were children instead of trying to move forward as herself.

If Daeron grew up and decided to start throwing fits when he loses a game or burning anyone who refuses to hail to the Faith with Tessarion, my sympathy would end. Because he is also no longer a child, and with the kind of power a dragon rider prince holds, he also can't blame Ormund for his actions anymore as a grown man.

This is coming from a kid from an abusive home whose father was abusive because he also grew up in an abusive home, and so on and so forth going back generations btw. But what he did to me is not excused by the environment he grew up in, and I make active choices not to be a product of my environment and continue the cycle. Because I'm a grown ass adult who can take accountability for my own actions. So I take all of this just a little but personally, if you didn’t notice.