The Hated Ladies of Westeros

- viserys chose her to be his second queen.

- she bore him legitimate sons who lawfully should be in line for the throne before rhaenyra

- viserys was an awful husband and father to her children

- otto and alicent have both stated that her sons would be a threat to rhaenyra’s claim which she would cut down if needed and 1x07 proved that to be true

- alicent saw what happened to people who tried to tell the truth about the bastard children

- alicent believes rhaenyra and daemon had laenor killed

- she suffered all those years for what????? if i was in her shoes, i would have wanted something for it all to be worth it

“Do as you're told, sweetling, it won't be so bad. Wolves are supposed to be brave, aren't they?”

Aegon is as real as a devastated and soul-crushed father gets whose grief translates to anger and violence. Helaena’s silent inner turmoil and anguish haunt the Red Keep. Alicent has become a wreck as she weighs this tragedy the only way she knows how: against her own failed moral compass, holding herself responsible.

Otto sees his strings of power stretch and snap as he pursues the unattainable dream once more. Criston feels unworthy and consoles himself with the deception that he remains unsullied by still bearing a white cloak to his name, having been absolved of his original oath-breaking years before. And Aemond refuses to acknowledge any weakness or softness in front of his family so he seeks consolation elsewhere.

This green family doesn’t know how to process emotions, doesn’t know how to grieve together, and can’t find solace in each other’s suffering despite yearning for comfort. Otto doesn’t know how to comfort Alicent, Alicent doesn’t know how to comfort Aegon, and Aegon doesn’t know how to comfort Helaena.

Larys exerts his influence and puppeteers Alicent to his own liking by giving her a much-desired grasp of agency over political affairs. Alicent finds escape in undiscovered indulgences that give her the intoxicating illusion of control over a lifetime of servitude. Criston succumbs to the addictive drug of being desired and wanted on equal terms. The Greens live in a vicious circle of unhealed trauma, a bottomless pit of fears and insecurities, and a tangled web of deception and control.

Seriously? Because he's not actually the sadistic mafia dom of your fanfics? Because he was vulnerable? Because it's mommy issues and not horny girls proudly screaming daddy every two seconds?

but let's talk about her and aegon, and her not comforting aegon. these are coming from the same people who want to stone alicent because she 'put a rapist on the throne'.

to me it is telling how people either laughed at how otto shut alicent out in the scene before, when she was crying to him for absolution and for him to listen, but when alicent did the same thing to Aegon they crucify her for it. i know this fandom doesn't know what media literacy is, but alicent had just been rejected by her own father and that is basically how she was raised. in that instant we saw how her childhood would and how her emotions were neglected. it is hard, if not impossible for her to be emotionally available to Aegon. and you know, that isn't completely true. Alicent was there for Helaena.

But a lot of you forget that Aegon has just wounded them. He killed hundreds of innocent people, co-signed a awful, assinsation attempt on Rhaenyra and then made Criston Cole of all people, hand of the king. Aside with dealing with her own emotions and grieving, she is angry at him.

And this is right after Aegon was allowed to excuse himself from the procession but Helaena and Alicent were forced to do so like puppets.

Of course she is angry at him. She loves him, she cares for him but she is angry. And how can she not be, when all the work that she had done just crumbled before her, when her own father rejects her.