what if you were raised in court under your politically minded father and you were religious and believed that the most important things in life were the values of your religion, your virtuousness, your sacrifice, etc. and you have one true friend who you are aware must live under different rules and have different opportunities than you and you love your friend so dearly and she loves you and one day her mother dies and your father makes you court her father, the king, and have children with him when you are barely seventeen and this ruins your friendship and with each child born, you know it is a betrayal and still you believe each other to still be friends who love each other and this is all for your father who is gone and it is also your duty and you believe that your friend is as virtuous as you, but she is not and the world does not end for her as it would have for you and this mars the affection you both hold for each other. so you both grow up and you still hold your values close to you while your former friend has bastard child after bastard child for all to see and still there is no consequence, while you give your youth and future to your duty and you have children that you love and hate because you had never wanted them and none of them will be as valued by their father than his firstborn daughter and your father and the rules of your world have dictated that when your former friend is queen, your children will die and one day the eye of the child you love and hate is taken by the bastard son of your former friend and no one is being punished for taking his eye so you take the king's knife to deliver justice and repay what was done for years and years because where is the justice? where is the sacrifice? trodden under her pretty foot again? only to be rebuffed and you have scarred your former friend and a line has been drawn and years pass and you have had to rule and barter your dignity for more power and the king raises himself from the throes of death to defend the child he loves and over dinner, there is an air that is so close to the past and this woman was your friend as a girl and you haven't been a girl in a long time and so you trace the scar you have given her and maybe things can change but viserys says aegon's name. he says your son's name and things must change so you arrange to put your son on the throne because your a fulfilling the wishes of the men around you and it is your duty to do so and it will protect you as well and your son kills your former friend's son and as revenge, your poor daughter's son is killed and are they not all so young? were you not young too? and everyone makes war without so much thought and you lose more and more power and your children are so hurt and it is your fault because you have sinned and the gods must be punishing you father, I have sinned and you do not wish to hear it and my son, who I love and I hate, you are in pain and I do not wish to hear it. every day is a new indignity against you and your children who you love and who you hate and your former friend tells you that viserys did not say your son's name and all of this was for nothing and you have sacrificed for what? but you rebuff her and now your son was nearly lost and your other son has grown into a thing that you cannot control and you have lost all the power you never truly had and what was the point? what was the point of duty? of sacrifice? the lake calls to you and your life does not matter and how you wish you could go back to yourself, but where was I last when I was myself? so you return to your former friend to save yourself and your daughter who you love and you hate and must choose between your friend and your son who you love and hate, but in the end? you want peace. you want your daughter who you love more than you hate to be in peace. and you want your former friend who loved you to come with you, but you are rebuffed so there is only your peace left and your sons will die and in there, there must be peace.
and you're gay. so given all that, the season 2 finale was inevitable.
