#aligon

AEGON + ALICENT + AEMOND

Bonus:

Because yes, she has lost Helaena, but Jaehaera is still alive, and suddenly Alicent has something to protect again. And then imagine her discovering, one by one, that Aegon is alive, Aemond is alive, and PLEASE, hopefully, Daeron is alive too. Imagine the realization hitting her that her family isn't gone. It's scattered, broken, traumatized, but alive. And suddenly the woman who thought she had nothing left to live for has a reason to live again. Except this time, I don't want her crawling back into the same cycle of guilt. I want her emerging from it completely changed. Because maybe she was wrong to believe that surrendering would end the bloodshed, wrong to believe Rhaenyra would necessarily be the better ruler, wrong to believe that if she sacrificed enough pieces of herself and her family, eventually there would be peace. And maybe, horrifyingly, painfully, she realizes she was right to trust her instincts in the first place. Maybe putting Aegon on the throne wasn't simply Otto's ambition or Alicent's misunderstanding. Maybe she looks at everything Rhaenyra has become and thinks: "I was right to fear you." And she stands beside Aegon because that's her son, that's her King, and this time she chooses him with her eyes completely open. Give me the Green Queen again. Alicent who tried surrender, reconciliation, sacrifice, mercy, tried choosing peace over pride, and lost her daughter anyway.

If history insists on painting Alicent as the villain, then let her finally be her. Let Rhaenicent enter its bitter divorce era. Just two women staring across the ruins of everything they once meant to each other and realizing that whatever love remains between them has finally become inseparable from resentment. Give me Alicent looking at Rhaenyra and realizing: "I loved you. I trusted you. I chose you over my own instincts. And look what it cost me."