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Thank you @h0kagenarut0 for the idea! This is the harder question for sure 😆

Michael:

Alicent Hightower

The book: a strong, ambitious woman who adores her children. She wants to make Aegon king not only because of her thirst for power, but also because she understands perfectly well that Rhaenyra will execute all male pretenders to the throne as soon as she becomes queen. She remains true to herself and her family until the very end, and also wants revenge for her grandson after Blood and Cheese.

The show: except for a few scenes, she's a weak, spineless victim. Rhaenyra's best friend and remains loyal to her after Luke cuts out Aemond's eye and even after Jaehaerys is murdered. She wants to put Aegon on the throne because of a misunderstanding, because she thinks that this is the last will of Viserys, and when it turns out that this is not true, she betrays her family. Also, Alicent hates her sons.

Aegon Targaryen

The book: apart from what Mushroom says, he’s a typical Medieval prince. He doesn't want the throne, but he agrees to become king for the sake of his family. He has an amazing bond with Sunfyre. Loves Helaena like a sister, because he's offended by Jace's offer to dance with her. Fires Otto after some serious failures, like Daemon's capture of Harrenhal. During the war, Aegon participates in battles like a king who should be with his army. After his injuries, he can still have children and is going to get married, he wants to get strong heirs.

The show: a rapist, a coward who is literally dragged to the coronation. No proper interaction with Helaena. Doesn't speak Valyrian. Fires Otto for no reason. He goes to the Battle at Rook's Rest purely to spite his mother, drunk. Tom was specifically told to play it as if Aegon couldn't control his dragon. He remains a eunuch after injuries.

Aemond Targaryen

The book: is devoted to his family. He kills Luke deliberately, for the sake of revenge (and I write this as a good personality trait). He can make jokes about his brother, but he'll never betray him.

The show: hates his family. He kills Luke by accident, later feels guilty about it (and I write this as a bad personality trait). Betrays Aegon. Threatens Helaena with death.

“Knowing that this child’s fate in the original work wasn’t much better than his own, Shen Qingqiu couldn’t help but look at him with the pitying gaze of a fellow victim."

Also, where are you getting that SQQ wants to kill MF? I couldn't find any passage like that. SQQ even complains that MF's mistreatment of Binghe is going to get *Ming Fan* killed. While SQQ certainly doesn't care about MF as much as LBH, he neither dislikes MF nor is he ambivalent to his fate. 

While there's nothing wrong with disliking a character, but in the future, please don't put this kind of baseless hate in the Shen Yuan tag. 

"superficially" shen yuan himself thinks for a second he's killed Ming Fan. why would he think that if it's superficial?

and it doesn't matter if its superficial. assaulting children is child abuse no matter how you try to twist it. this hypocrisy is what is pissing me off. child abuse is child abuse whether its a one off incident or years and years of it.

also where the fuck did i say these two are equivalent? i'm just saying child abuse is child abuse, whether its one incident or many. incredible how you've moved the goal posts on what really counts as child abuse so you can pretend shen yuan didn't literally assault kids.

i'm sorry, they were bleeding, how the fuck is that superficial? is lbh getting beaten up also superficial to you bc it didn't leave any scars? is it only really child abuse if it happens for many years? what the fuck is wrong with you?

here you are justifying child abuse in my inbox bc your fave is doing it. how sad and pathetic is that?

and you honestly think sy likes ming fan from that quote? bc he looks at him with the pitying eyes of a fellow victim? do you think pitying someone is the same as liking them? sy later on literally says this in his head lol. please look up the meaning of the word pity for me.

And moreover, as a fellow victim, Shen Qingqiu always felt a kind of pity for this cannon fodder disciple who, in the end, Luo Binghe would throw into an ant pit so that he would be bitten to death by tens of thousands of ants…

also sy thinks ming fan is a good disciple bc he's obedient and worships him like a god. not bc he actually, you know, likes him as a person. now onto the actual incident.

first sy literally says he wants to beat up ming fan

As a bystander, Shen Qingqiu desperately wanted to reach out, beat up Ming Fan, snatch back the jade pendant, and toss it to Luo Binghe. Also, if he did that, maybe Ming Fan wouldn’t thoroughly offend Luo Binghe? Then, later on, he could keep his paltry little life.

his paltry little life. that's how he thinks of ming fan's life. also i think sy nearly killed ming fan bc sy literally fucking thinks it himself. i didn't say sy wants to kill him. i said he didn't care if he did. please learn to read.

The leaf shot toward Ming Fan like an airborne knife. As Ming Fan’s long and horrible scream split the air, Shen Qingqiu shook out his hand and wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead. No wonder they said that to an expert, even a flower or tree could be used to hurt people! But he hadn’t killed Ming Fan just now, right…?

which part of that sounds fucking superficial? it's literally likened to a knife. a long and horrible scream. sy literally thinks he might've killed ming fan. can you like? read?

“Did you see clearly? Was he holding a knife?” Ming Fan interrogated the other disciples as blood seeped out of his back—like he’d been cut with the edge of a sword.

out of his back too. like he'd been cut with a sword. wow sounds really superficial to me. he also attacks the other disciples after this.

yes there is the ooc lock but he could've done any number of other things, like shouting his head off. he chose to start throwing knife like, sword like, spiritually enhanced leaves at kids. he does regret it, but only for a second. he certainly doesn't go to make sure those kids are okay or anything decent like that.

sy's primary motivation is to save himself not others. this is how he reacts to qin wanrong dying. this is after the ooc lock has been lifted btw.

Five or six disciples had been washing their feet and playing in the creek. Now two of them had disappeared, and one of the missing was Qin Wanrong. You see! Told you that you should have gone earlier! Wonderful, a perfectly good wife is now gone, just like that! Shen Qingqiu thought, frustrated and disappointed. Now you can’t complete the Qin Sisters bouquet for that grand threesome scene in the future. Now what?!

honestly i love how he doesn't give a shit. why would he? he doesn't care about anyone but his blorbo and that's what makes him so entertaining! idk why you want to pretend like he's some bleeding heart maiden when he literally fucking isn't.

HIM?!?!!?

THIS LITTLE GUY!?!?!

ho did u just twist the knife?

I am fully convinced that Azulon really did order Ozai to kill Zuko.

Azulon's characterization was concise but very precise in the short time that he had on screen - he seems slow to move but very very sharp and cruel in anger, trapped in his own mind. He adored Iroh, additionally because Iroh embodied all of Azulon's desires for what his heir should be - powerful, clever, cunning, gifted in his understanding of rhythm in war and combat. Never showing all of his cards. "Slayer of the last dragon." (Unfortunately for Azulon, he didn't predict that Iroh would later aid in the dismantling of their imperialistic construct!)