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Introducing Riyo Chuchi!!

Riyo Chuchi is a doctoral candidate in law at Columbia University in New York City, one of the relatively few women to have made it that far in the program. She lives in Hartley Hall with her roommate and close friend Seris VanTessa, which was a pairing that started as a random assignment in 1942 and stuck.

Law school takes up most of her time, but Riyo has always been clear on what the degree is for. She intends to go into politics. A Senate seat is the goal, and treats that as the plan rather than a dream. She votes in every local election, volunteers regularly at food banks around the city, and puts consistent time into advocating for women’s rights. She believes that ordinary participation matters, that everyone has some part to play in making things better, including bringing soldiers home safe.

She met Echo in 1940, during her first year at Columbia. He was finishing his bachelor’s degree, and they shared enough beliefs and values that they’ve been together since. He shipped out in 1941, and she writes to him when she can.

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- Not Daemon casually standing in the field with three dragons behind him, what a power move

- you know he is posing extra hard as well, he is FEELING HIMSELF

- “Only bend the knee and swear your allegiance, and you may return to Oldtown and live your lives in…” *severely disappointed pause* “…peace.”

- no i get it sweetie you want to murder him but we are trying to UNITE the realm (this is how i imagine rhaenyra talking to him when she sent him to do this)

- here baby, have this for now, i’m sure you won’t get to keep it for long:

- HIS FIT TOO LIKE WHAT

- Daemon is stepping up the outfit game damn (although in comparison to last season that doesn’t seem,,, difficult)

- i do NOT trust that Ormund guy, that surrender has got to be ploy

- FLASE SURRENDER IS A WARCRIME, SER

- THATS NOT VERY HONOURABLE KNIGHT OF YOU (said the girl who claims Daemon has never done anything wrong in his life)

- Daemon is trying so hard not to grin from ear to ear when he orders Daeron be turned over to him its hilarious

- Daemon whenever he gets to bully a Hightower:

- i was unfortunately semi-spoiled for this but i think they hand over a decoy Daeron though, right?

- which tracks with my gut feeling about Ormund being a little fucking liar who lies all the time

- okay fr has Daemon actually met this kid before

- like how long has he been in Oldtown? and before that did Daemon ever see him? bc yeah then it’s a lot easier to trick him

- also are they just leaving his dragon behind?? because if he is a decoy then obv the dragon wouldn’t obey?? but i cant imagine Daemon just leaving a dragon behind in the field ESPECIALLY with a Hightower

- Rhaenyra looking at her father’s bed, probably triggered memories of the last time she saw him in THAT state and reminiscing about her happier childhood years and then Daemon’s just like “hey guess what happened with Ormund?? like I still think we should’ve grilled them all, but like…”

- hhhhh I know Daemon isn’t heartless, he’s driven, he wants her to stay focused on establishing her rule AND it’s probably a bit harder for him to open up certain doors in his mind BUT DAEMON NOT EVERYONE CAN JUST COMPARTMENTALISE THE SHIT OUT OF EVERY BAD THING THAT’S HAPPENED

- IN FACT I REMEMBER THAT COMING TO BITE YOU IN THE ASS LAST SEASON

- Rhaenyra meeting that poor Daeron kid like “yooo, i know all these people around you have been trying to kill your entire family but DON’T WORRY I’M THE COOL BIG SIS YOU’VE NEVER MET BEFORE! Oh and the guy with the three swords on his person at all times is my husband, our uncle!”

- don’t get me wrong i am team black all the way but i gotta take the piss out of them a little bit alright this shit is hilarious

- idk how old this kid is but he looks about 13 at most and here is Queen Just Murdered Dear Old Grandpa like “hey were you involved in this plot at all? what about the guy who raised you? or your brothers?” THE KID IS SCARED BABY TRY BEING NICE MAYBE??? (again I AM TEAM BLACK OTTO GOT WHAT HE DESERVED BUT LIKE CAN WE TRY TO IMAGINE THINGS FROM THIS KID’S PERSPECTIVE??)

- guess we are kinda regretting killing the Lannister’s off without questioning them first right??

- “I don’t believe he knows where the gold is.”

- “NO ONE ASKED YOU.”

- the pissing contest these two have started is genuinely one of my favourite things about this season

- like i was wondering what they were gonna do with the kiss scene and i didn’t think Daemon would be so aware of it but THIS is the best way they could have incorporated it into the story

- Daemon just being ANNOYED that the people THEY SERVE need FOOD

- nooooo Daemon looked so sad when he heard Simon was dead

- not ANOTHER outlet for his daddy issues taken :,(

- ohhhh Daemon knows that Alys has done something

- damn all these people just crowding her like GIVE HER A MINUTE

- i really don’t get why Alicent and Halaena are just chilling in her old room?

- like FIRST OF ALL right, Rhaenyra believes that Alicent had a part in Aegon’s disappearance and the treasury BUT ALSO they now have money problems, so why keep around 3 more mouths to feed?

- i guess she does need Alicent for information now because so many people who knew about the happenings in the Keep are dead

- high key love how easy going Halaena is talking to Rhaenyra though, girly really has no fear, she knows how all this ends

- ohh girl is gonna have a massive panic attack soon

- oh good lord they are getting Joffrey back??

- they’re gonna kill him off too

- noooo not her beginning to see Jace around the castle

- that whole Aegon is dead lie is gonna start haunting her as well very soon, i’m gonna call that now

- she’s gonna grow ever more unstable and paranoid AS SHE HAS EVERY REASON TO like it’s totally understandable

- and will probably make for great cinema

- but also heyhey what if we took all that pain and grief and gave it to the greens

- ohh she’s gonna have the priest guy killed

- godddd then there’s Corlys asking her for something that is an OBVIOUS trigger for the memory of her two deceased sons, then running into Baela, THEN having to come to terms with sleeping in her dead father’s bed who she hasn’t even been able to mourn properly

- Daemon where the fuck are you, your wife needs a hug

- awwww she went to him

- okay that is genuinely very sweet i love that he still gives her comfort and makes her feel safer despite the tension lately

- AHHHH AND HE HUGS HERRRRR

- MY LOVELIES

- NO not her getting her period right nowwwww

- BUT THIS SCENE

- so one thing I’ve noticed is that ever since she was locked in her room and Jace died she hasn’t worn dresses

- we have only seen her in her night gown and riding leathers (you can tell because they are shorter than dresses for court and allow more movement)

- she refuses jewellery but considers wearing her sword

- basically, she is sacrificing parts of her femininity because she has learned that being a woman will never get her the same respect the kings of the past have held

- she is shedding more and more things that are traditionally associated with femininity in order to be respected and look it seems to be working and it does seem to empower her, like i genuinely believe that she is growing closer to who she always was (in the very first episode young rhaenyra tells us she’d rather be a knight than a wife) BUT STILL the fact that this is the only way for the RULING MONARCH TO HAVE SOMEWHAT OF A VOICE IN HER OWN HOUSE

- AND THEN in a scene where she makes such careful considerations about how feminine she can present she gets her period, something that most every woman deals with and is something that she cannot simply rid herself of, like a constant reminder that she is of “the fairer sex” like,,, damn the showrunners are coming for us this season

- these shots are so dope too, like the way that everything around Rhaenyra keeps kinda blurring more and more and she is seen to be growing more restless when stressed

- god this poor woman, all that she went through and she is finally on the throne only to be pulled every which way with limited resources and no real way to lighten the load

- like she is not in the right headspace to rebuild everything the Hightowers picked apart

- ohhh rhaenyra is NOT ready to make them Velaryon

- POWER MOVE AT THE DINNER TABLE

- LETS GOOOO

- OH I THOUGHT THE RATS WERE GONNA BE IT BUT NOOOOO

- honestly, claiming resources and redistributing them fairly while she has little money is SO FUCKING SMART

- like yeah, the nobles will be angry about it, but i feel like the lowborns approval carries a weight that has been underestimated in the past

- Daemon looking at her with so much love and then basically telling her that SHE (not “them” as per last season) is the most powerful ruler to have sat the Iron Throne, trying to make her see that she could have all the riches in the world (HE’D GET THEM FOR HER) if she only asked and that she doesn’t need to play her hands so carefully

- and like LOOK he is right but if she wants to pull that off she NEEDS to make sure that her home front is secure, that her rule is cemented and her people respect her and her rule otherwise it will crumble

- THE DREAMER AND THE REALIST THEY COMPLETE EACH OTHER (not Daemon having become the dreamer in this dynamic i love it)

- Daemon scampering off all pissy because his wifey won’t let him go declare war on the world and then just yelling over his shoulder “by the way the 12 year old boy still needs to be killed!”

- icon, queue up toxic

- GIRL don’t stand over his bed while he’s sleeping that’s so fucking creepy

- OKAY LOOK I GET WHY CORLYS IS ANGRY

- BUT DOES HE REALLY THINK

- THAT CALLING HER SONS BASTARDS NOW WILL MAKE HER CHANGE HER MIND???

- GIRL THAT IS NOT HOW TO CONVINCE HER

- Rhaenyra: tells Alicent Daeron will be sent to the wall to take the black

- Alicent: “Do you wish me to thank you?”

- Me: “YEAH???”

- TWO OF RHAENYRA’S SONS ARE DEAD, AS A CONSEQUENCE OF ALICENT’S ACTIONS AND MISTAKES WHILE ALL HER CHILDREN REMAIN ALIVE AND NOW RHAENYRA OFFERS TO SPARE HER YOUNGEST’S LIFE DESPITE HIM BEING A DIRECT THREAT TO HER RULE AND ALICENT THINKS SHE HAS ANY RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT???

- SHE SENT DAERON TO WARD HERSELF, SHE HASN’T SEEN HIM IN YEARS BECAUSE OF THAT AND NOW THAT WILL CONTINUE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE

- HEY ALICENT

- AT LEAST YOU CAN FUCKING GO VISIT HIM THERE ONCE YOUR OTHER SON (WHO KISSED YOU LIKE A WEEK AGO AND NEARLY MADE YOU THROW UP ON HIS SHOES) HAS BEEN KILLED

- istg Alicent is so getting under my skin this season like i already didnt like her that much but it was always like “oh she blindly follows and obeys men and then gets angry at Rhaenyra for refusing to be like that” but now she is just acting SO entitled and as though SHE is the victim here GIRL YOU DID THIS WHEN YOU ASSUMED A DYING MAN’S RAMBLINGS DECLARED YOUR SON KING EVEN THOUGH HE NEVER SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS OF SOUND MIND

- me looking at Alicent this entire season:

- called it not Daeron!

- would have been more satisfying if i hadn’t been spoiled but oh well

- okay this ep was super hype

- and this is a great cliffhanger for ep 4, because like Daemon has gone to collect gold for Rhaenyra, she is at odds with Corlys and by extension his sons, she cannot bare to even look at Baela, so WHO will go to deal with Tumbleton? RHAENYRA THE CRUEL THATS WHO

- also like,,, again i don’t like Alicent as a character but i do from a story telling perspective, like the attachment between her and Rhaenyra makes for such a compelling dynamic

- i mention this because all Rhaenyra had to do to know that this was NOT Daeron was look at Alicent’s face

...Now that I've made it through the first year anniversary of the loss of my kitty, I thought I might share something special from @ladykagewaki sent to me a year ago:

Here is The Baby Batch, providing some much needed mental health support!

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For so long, when I saw the face of the enemy… it was your face. - No matter how much you hate this face, Katara… I hate it more. - It's not what I see now. I see someone in pain.