Stay.

What if you had the face and the faith and the kindness of a mother you never really knew because she sent you away to protect you from the place that trapped and abused her but you ended up trapped and abused all the same stuck in the same cycle bound to a man supposed to protect you and love you but instead sees you as a means to put his blood on the throne and now despite the fact that you are so kind you must become so cruel to please him because all you have ever known is pleasing him happened to my good friend daeron targaryen

alicent thought she was doing a good thing by sending daeron to oldtown. in a way, she was right—he’s considered a good boy by most everyone who knows him, and what we’ve seen on screen shows him to be kind and considerate as well—but it’s clear he was raised by a cruel and mercurial man who treats him as nothing more than a dynastic tool, in much the same way otto viewed alicent. he is truly his mother’s son and that is the great tragedy of it all.

so people can in fact see that teenage daeron is being abused and manipulated by an older relative into a position he never wanted but have for some reason been unable to extend the same understanding and sympathy to alicent who went through exactly the same thing at his age……right.