If Rhaenyra reconciles with Alicent in any way that’s just not her. That’s Condal & Hess’s self-insert OC. Because in F&B, Rhaenyra’s children are her joy, her pride, her strenght, her greatest love and reconciling with a person who actively participated in bringing the war that doomed her children ? That’s character assassination. And since the only similarity between TV!Rhaenyra and Book!Rhaenyra is the name, and Condal & Hess are obsessed with Rhaenicent, I wouldn’t put this theory past them.
Which is why I don't "hate" or "like" characters in the same way that one hates a character as if they could be real...bc I don't think of them as their "true" selves and thus its a waste of energy to "hate" them and not the writing for them. This show is that un-seriously insidious.
The assassination of Rhaenyra's character has really begun in the first episode, where, again, she's apparently only bosom friends with a girl who the show fails to show how they ever got to be in each other's confidence as you NEED to do with the "opposites Attract" trope AND how Alicent has never truly understood or accepted Rhaenyra's feelings and ideas about herself or her troubles.
Other post about Episode 4, their Confrontation.
@rhaenin-time 's breakdown of why Rhaenyra & Daemon were not Abusive
@pessimisticpigeonsworld' explanation for How the show isolates Rhaenyra from Woman And Perpetuates the "Female Friendships Can Never, No Matter what, Be Real" Stereotype
My TikTok on Rhaena being isolated from her Targ Side due to Anti-Targness
Pretty Much Every Single I wrote Post about How BKRhaenyra's Love for Luxury is erased, Twitter or Otherwise
Arguing against Rhaenrya being a NLOG or "selfish"
This Master Post with All the other Relevant Linked-Arguments about BkRhaenyra
