"these two white women look exactly the same this is proof he wants to fuck his sister" my guy...

If Helaemond becomes canon I am actually going to scream! OTP

this newfound love for Helaeg0n among green fans is very startling. Ship what you want, of course, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of them are giant hypocrites and were going after Helaemonds for shipping incest just months ago and acting like that ship would be the worst thing ever that could happen to the greens. Besides, it's very annoying how there some out there saying "Helaeg0n was romantic in the book", "the ship had romantic undertones" and the show ruined it by claiming the writers didn't and don't understand the ship and when you go and read their arguments well all you can find is "he listened to her opinions" once or twice, didn't ignore her or call her stupid, didn't force himself on her after B&C to get a new heir in case something also happened to Maelor, he didn't flaunt his mistresses and bastards in front of his wife like Aegon IV did with Naerys (and who made her life a living hell basically) nor did he legitimize them and other stuff that is basically human decency a husband can have for the wife he never agreed to marry in the first place, you know? Sure, the show making Helaena autistic coded and giving Aegon every single negative trait (including him being a rapist) and going out of their way to highlight how weird he finds her, the marital rape hints (who wants their husband's attention when drunk? no one) doesn't help either and I get why shippers are mad at this (I would be too!) and neither does all the Helaemond stuff if it's real but then Aegon was still a serial cheater in the book, he fathered bastards (I know some are even disputing this but really? Gaemon was most likely his son and considering how much he was sleeping around there were others we didn't know about for sure) and yes he was also sexually harassing and fondling the castle's female servants? Does this sound like a man who actually loves his wife? And before someone says "it was normal for men to cheat on their wives in this universe, him cheating doesn't mean he didn't love his wife romantically" (yes this is an argument a shipper made in favor of their ship) please no, there are men even in Westeros who weren't doing this. Maybe they would've found love together eventually, who knows, but the little we have so far in the book doesn't indicate this ship was one of those marriages between Targaryen siblings that were romantic in nature like Jaehaerys/Alysanne or Baleon/Alyssa. It wasn't anything atrocious like Aegon IV/Naerys or Aerys II/Rhaella, it was just another arranged marriage like most Westerosi marriages were. For green fans to gush over this ship however as if this is THE good incest ship and we should all like and defend, well, it's certainly a choice.