Fire & Blood

Aemond: Mother loves you more. Aegon: No, Mother loves YOU more! Helaena: Could you do this later? Mother is busy canceling my bodily autonomy.

the way aemond thinks vhagar is the only thing in the world that makes him special but the things that aegon lists that he finds admirable about aemond are things like what a fast learner he is, how hes fluent in high valyrian and his skills with a sword i actually want to cry dont touch me

Aemond calling for his mother while feverish and delirious in a dark and unhospitable place as he recovers from his injuries. Aegon calling for his mother while he hovers between life and death in an equally dark and unhospitable place. Alys not leaving Aemond's bedside and fending off invaders. Alicent barely leaving Aegon's bedside, hoping he would wake. Aemond eventually getting a hug from Alys. Aegon being denied Alicent's hug and comfort as she exits the room before she can hear he's conscious. Both being so love-deprived. Both forming a relationship with someone who resembles their mother. Both believing the other was their mother's favorite. Both wanting to be their mother's favorite so badly. Both feeling like they failed her and failed themselves. Both hurting each other. Both craving, just aching, to be carried upstairs to bed. To be children. To be looked after right. To be small enough to be cradled again.

the actual book it’s fucking based on not being here is frying me

daeron looking like alicent and being kind and saying his prayers and being denied affection if he had her big brown eyes i think i would actually kill myself for real

the godswood is such a place of importance to alicent and rhaenyra's characters. from i want to fly with you in dragonback to the deleted confrontation after the announcement of alicent's marriage to alicent telling rhaenyra it needn't be this way to i've missed you too winding towards i swear this to you on the memory of my mother. rhaenyra ripped the page of the history book alicent had her father use to invoke love and peace out in this very garden. their relationship is shaped beneath the shade of the weirwood leaves and to see them in this space as adults after all the power struggle and strife, to have the ghosts of their younger selves all around them, as they watch helaena and jaehaera, as alicent picks at her nails and rhaenyra implores alicent to believe she would have spared daeron if not for ormund's trick, to see them in this place wrapped in their history is a heavy, heavy thing

ALICENT PLEASE COME PICK UP YOUR SON. ORMUND'S DAYCARE PROGRAM IS GONNA SCREW HIM UP. GET YOUR CUSTODY BACK.