Rhaenyra: So... where's my gold?
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Rhaenyra: So... where's my gold?
Alicent:
“Rhaenyra is kind of seeking the approval of her prisoner. As though you’ve locked up your conscious in the castle and you come in periodically to sort of check in and see how they think you’re doing.”
rhaenyra when anyone asks her to do something for them: *queen face* *retail smile* *panic behind the eyes* *armor on* *leaves*
rhaenyra when alicent asks her to do something for her: *breathes for the first time that day* yes of course baby girl
rhaenicent realness AND the notion that viserys is the true villain of this story seeping into rhaenyras mind. YUM
rhaenyra’s harem being her literal uncle, her uncles ex lover, and her stepmother is INSANE. only in the targaryens truly
My name is Alicent Hightower…
You killed my father…
You could’ve done it with ceremony.
rhaenicentmaxxing on main again
Ugh, seeing baby Rhaenicent is always a stab in the heart 😭
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 3 "Rhaenyra Triumphant"
Helaena lowkey like, “I’d like it if you’d have slain my shitty brother-husband as well.”
# clearly not here # I checked
RHAENYRA, ALICENT, & HELAENA in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON ── season 3, episode 3.
The first time Rhaenyra’s ever spoken with one of her siblings.
Ok so who’s writing the Robinhood!Rhaenyra AU?
House of the Dragon S03E01 // S02E04
Something I appreciate about the Rhaenyra and Alicent fandom is that, regardless of whether people ship Rhaenicent romantically or see them as tragic friends, there’s a widespread tendency to engage with them as people first. Fans meme them, analyze their flaws, poke fun at their disastrous communication, celebrate their strengths, and argue over their choices with the same energy traditionally reserved for popular male characters. That kind of investment feels significant. For once, two female characters are driving the conversation. Of course some people are bitching about who is prettier or more moral, but most people are just enjoying their complexity.
Don’t get me wrong. Fandom is still misogynistic when it comes to women, but it is nice to see this. Maybe there is some hope after all.
i’ve never been less interested in the “correct” adaptation of a book than in this moment. the entire rest of the season could be comprised of hour-long episodes of alicent bouncing on rhaenyra’s strap and i’d be like and what of it
Hey, before there was Fire and Blood, there was The Princess and The Queen. The people complaining about them being the main characters either don’t know the history of the series, or they’re misogynistic and/or homophobic, or all three.
Also Fire & Blood was written to be a biased history textbook, not an impartially narrated account.
Gal pals, Sappho and her friend, etc.
I'm gonna think about this scene for the rest of my life alicent's eyes going from otto to rhaenyra and being met with the most charged complex look in human history ouch ouch ouch
house of the dragon is fundamentally a story which centres rhaenyra and alicent and their persisting tragic love for each other and there is genuinely no way this ends without alicent on dragonstone bearing witness to rhaenyra and aegon's confrontation. the dominos are lined up to fall like this. between "i want to fly with you" and "come with me" we are hurdling towards rhaenyra making that bid again and alicent finally taking that leap. them running away together is chekov's gun primed to go off
and another inevitability of this narrative to me is aegon's death and the central role i think alicent has to play. rumours abound in f&b as to who does it but for this show, for this story, alicent has to be the hand at which he meets his end.
what is aegon truly if not the very physical manifestation of Alicent's duty, created from her very flesh and blood. the son viserys wanted so badly, the boy otto sought after so much he shoved his daughter into marriage with a man old enough to be her father, the son alicent schemed and plotted to put on the throne because she believed it was her duty to heed a dying man's words (not matter that it was a misunderstanding). aegon is the symbol of the rift between rhaenyra and alicent, the first crack in the fissure.
and the love that alicent and rhaenyra share persists throughout the entirety of the show, beyond reason in the minds of other characters, none of them able to grasp the nature of it. otto and aemond and aegon consistently accusing alicent of her love for rhaenyra, jace pleading with his mother to not trust a word alicent says, rhaenyra sparing alicent's life when she retakes kings landing
what kills aegon if not that persisting love that exists between them?
what sees rhaenyra's blood on the throne if not alicent herself?
and what is love, if not the death of duty?