1. suicidal boytoy knight she tolerates at best

2. creepy ex-bff who makes her show toes

Rhaenyra/Cersei

women trying to be on the iron throne, who will do anything to achieve this

devotion to their children

bastard children passed off as true born heir

become incredibly paranoid

beautiful women who embody their houses, but eventually their beauty fades, leading to them becoming self-concious

disastrous choices once in power

valonquar prophecy vs rhaenyra being killed by her little brother

jealous of someone they perceive to be prettier than them

relationship with kingsguard member

firstborn daughters

mother died giving birth to younger brother

maegor with teats/mother of madness (nicknames)

kid named joffrey

mother to two kings

disliked by smallfolk

forced by their fathers to marry men that they aren't in love with

parallels between mysaria and taena Merryweather

alicent/catelyn

want to keep their children safe by any means necessary

show!alicent asking rhaenyra for safety for her, helaena, and jaehaera is a lot like catelyn trading jaime for sansa and arya

bastard haters

mother to a king

both outlive all their children (or think they do in catelyns case)

her fear of rhaenyras children getting the throne is like catelyn thinking jon threatening robbs claim

tully words are family, duty, honour. THIS IS LITERALLY ALICENT. where is DUTY, where is sacrifice?

alicent demands lucerys's eye, and as soon as her children are threatened catelyn kidnaps tyrion

alicent stands before a dragon for aegon, catelyn fights off an assassin

master of whisperers who's in love with them: larys strong/littlefinger

aemond losing an eye is never punished, and he is threatened by his own father. sansa loses her direwolf for the actions of others

ROBB AND AEGON PARALLEL EACH OTHER SO MUCH

In his head, despite it being a very manipulative relationship, I think there is a sort of sick, weird affection. . . I think he can see the real her. . . He can see what she's capable of, and he wants to draw it out. (x)

go to court as a closeted lesbian, get groomed by dad, come back a daddaughter truther

have a decades long homoerotic beef with your childhood bff/crush that leads to nothing but doom for you and your entire family (kinda your fault tho) cos you're mad she loves her uncle more (and now is in a throuple with her uncle's ex, you wish that were you huh)

fall in love (?) with the knight who had an incel meltdown when ur teenage lesbian crush rejected him, said knight is still semi-obsessed with you but also depressed and suicidal (and fucking your brother/suicide pacting with him)

meet a chill disabled guy at court who turns out not to be so chill, wanks over your feet, kills his own family and makes u feel guilty about it, then elopes with your eldest son (who you wrote off anyway gg) who has shifted his weird psychosexual obsession from you onto ur son, and probably doing mommy play with in the forest

your other son menaces the shit out of you and kisses you, then fucks off to a haunted castle to make out with a milf witch who is DEFINITELY doing mommy play in the forest

your youngest son is getting molested by your cousin, who also molested your brother. said youngest son desperately trying to get your brother to stay so there's someone there to protect him from said freak. but your brother is ptsd traumatised and still mourning the knight guy you forgot all about (there were, in fact, no songs sung about him)

Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower