i am at the whims of my hyperfixations

i am thrilled that we are acknowledging the actual skills required to run the realm and that alicent HAS those skills while rhaenyra does not

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.

SADISTIC MUTUAL: it is a moral imperative to push the princess around, and punch her in the stomach, and roundhouse kick her in the throat, and cut her with blades ANTIMONARCHIST MUTUAL: [confused but enthusiastically going along with it] and line her up with her family and shoot her dead, and orchestrate a lie that they fled the country so that they are not remembered as martyrs

based on the preview for the upcoming eps ik alys is in there pegging aemond raw

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. what we’ve seen on screen shows him to be kind and considerate as well. but it’s clear that he was raised by a cruel and mercurial man who treats him as nothing more than a dynastic tool, in much the same way that otto viewed alicent. he is truly his mother’s son and that is the great tragedy of it all.