#eihf

[kingcunny]

in your opinion is there any situation (besides EIHF, but if you were to explore it using this angle i would be down bc your thoughts are always immaculate) where viserys doesn’t remarry and focuses on rhaenyra properly as heir?

i think Honestly the only scenario where i could see it would be eihf or adjacent au where rhaenyra really leans back into the emotional incest. viserys remarriage tldr is about his loneliness and fear of death. if rhaenyra started fulfilling the role of his Wife, it would at least resolve his loneliness if not the fear of (her) death. rhaenyra would have to essentially dangle something shiny and attractive infront of viserys to keep him ‘distracted’ enough to fulfill his duty to her.

viserys not getting remarried means the entire legacy rests on rhaenyra, and she doesnt have the luxury her father does of being separate from the birth of her children. rhaenyras mother died in childbirth, her maternal grandmother died in childbirth, her parental grandmother died in childbirth. her combined great-great grandmother died in childbirth. jaehaerys had 13 children and the son of his Second son succeeded him. those are Not Good odds.

if viserys doesnt get remarried i image hed be even more picky about rhaenyras husband. she would Not have a bachelorette progress. hes not letting her out of his sight. any suitors that want to try for her hand have to come to Them. and viserys would find one reason or another for why none of them are suitable for her. maybe rhaenyra ends up having a few kids despite not being married. viserys immediately legitimizes them. detongues anyone who questions their existence.

[kingcunny]

Emotional incest horror fic where Rhaenyra starts cosplaying her mom to convince her dad not to remarry. Doesn't say a word about it--just starts wearing her mom's dresses and her mom's perfume and starts showing up for consort duties at court.

oh anon you are INSANE for this i am OBSESSED!!!!

a slightly more politically minded rhaenyra with a grim acceptance that viserys will never see her for who She Herself is. so she might as well play off his guilt and get something out of it for herself and shore up her position as heir???

a sick way to try and reconnect with her father after her mothers death drives them apart and he cant even bare to look at her???

rhaenyra feeling a responsibility to replace what he took away from them????

[kingcunny]

EIHF Anon again. Hello. :)

Hear me out. Alternate EIHF where Rhaenyra spends a few weeks on Dragonstone after her father's wedding to Alicent because she Needs Space. In the village, she meets Baelon's bastard who is Viserys' TWIN and brings him home to King's Landing. He is both things she desperately wants and cannot have--her father who gives her his undivided attention and her uncle who fucks her through the floor.

LMAO PLEASE???

electra complex rhaenyra finding a man who looks exactly like her father but acts nothing like him who will be Eternally Grateful to her for plucking him out of the slums. her unclefather who will pay constant attention to her and never leave her, its the best of both worlds!

bonus if viserys has no idea his bastard half brother even exists until rhaenyra shows back up in court with a man on her arm who looks exactly like him.

live viserys reaction

[kingcunny]

1) Rhaenyra moves into her mother's chambers either because she asked to or Viserys wanted her to be closer. The absolute horror of sleeping in the bed her mother died in and being dressed by her mother's ladies every morning. It's ritualistic death and resurrection every single day, and Rhaenyra starts to think her face doesn't even really look like herself anymore. But! The best way to convince your father not to take a new wife is to make him believe the first one isn't really dead. And at least they are talking now, so she's not going to stop.

2) Rhaenyra comes back from retrieving Baelon's egg on Dragonstone knocked up by Daemon. But Viserys won't let anybody say shit because obviously that is Baelon come again in her womb. The gods put her brother in her belly via immaculate conception to bless her for defending her brother's honor. Or something.

its a mix of it right. rhaenyra was the one to grab viserys by the scruff and haul him out of his depression and force him to be a king again. if rhaenyra is going to act like the queen and dress like the queen she might as well save herself some time in the mornings and move into her mothers chambers as well. and viserys develops a fucked up seperation anxiety with her. if you thought she was always by his side before, now theyre practically joined at the hip.

so every night rhaenyra sleeps in the bed her mother died in and every morning her mothers ladies dress her in her mothers clothes and she puts on her mothers jewerly. she looses a little peice of rhaenyra everytime even as she gains a peice of aemma. but every time otto or the small council or anyone else brings up the idea of viserys remarrying he quickly and angrily shuts it down. and he keeps her by his side always, shes his only true confidant. so she cant stop. because this is what she wanted. right? right?

some time after the dragonstone incident, viserys stumbles drunk into aemma/rhaenyras chambers one night. hes wasted and forgotten who she is. rhaenyra has to Stop him and Remind him before he takes it too far. viserys is horrified and sick and breaks down. rhaenyra tries to comfort him and lets him sleep in her bed that night cause thats what he always did when she was a girl and had a nightmare. and thats all this was. a nightmare. for both of them.

its that morning while aemmas handmaids are helping rhaenyra get dressed, (while trying to pointedly ignore her father in her bed), that viserys realizes shes pregnant.

(and rumors go flyyying. larys has to work overtime in the cutting out tongues factory)

viserys either doesnt/refuses to put two and two together, that Something happened while rhaenyra was at dragonstone with daemon. and confidently claims that the gods have blessed them. that theyre giving him a second chance with his son. that theyve given rhaenyra the ‘honor’ of carrying her brother since she was the one that saved the other half of his soul that was in the dragons egg.

(rhaenyra sleeping with daemon to try and reclaim a part of herself?? only for it to backfire in the worst possible way?)

so rhaenyra has to go her entire pregnancy listening to her father claim thats his son in her belly. she cant tell him the truth cause 1. it would crush him and 2. he might actually kill daemon this time.

then she has to lay down in the bed that her brother was conceived in, that her mother died in bringing him into the world. and she has to scream and cry and bleed just like aemma did, bringing her own son into the world. only for viserys to walk in and take him from her. to give her son her dead brothers name and her dead brothers egg. to claim him as his own son, reborn. and maybe rhaenyra even starts to think hes right.

[kingcunny]

EIHF Anon here and listennnnn my head has been spinning about this.

As Rhaenyra's pregnancy progresses, the king gives her more and more authority and power. Initially, Rhaenyra is thrilled, but the bitterness starts to kick in when she begins to wonder if her father denied all of this power and autonomy to her mom because she had not given him a son. Her mother had the smarts and the temperment for all of this--why did he deny it to Aemma?

Otto is Not Having It. He enlists Alicent to find out what the hell is actually going on. And she's not received warmly. Rhaenyra is extremely uncomfortable with the "miracle" pregnancy but also just as defensive of her newfound worth in her father's eyes. Otto figures His Grace just needs his eyes opened--to see that there are other women in the world, live ones. And so after months of watching Rhaenyra swan about the Red Keep in her mother's gowns, Otto tells Alicent to put on one of *her* dead mother's gowns and go to the king. Maybe she walks in on some boundary-crossing weirdness, and Rhaenyra realizes what's going on and doubles down HARD.

And idk where the rest of this goes. But Alicent loses her damn mind because her dad's making her have a Dead Mother Off with her bestie. And it ends up with Alicent luring Rhaenyra to the Sept to make her repent, and the resulting screaming match sends her into labor.

in my mind rhaenyra has to really compartmentalize her feelings about her mother and father, especially how viserys treated aemma. but that becomes harder and harder to do when shes literally stepping into her mothers shoes and has to experience firsthand the similarities and the differences in how viserys treats them.

viserys is uh. absolutely one of those men who dont realize women are people until they have daughters.

theres a bitterness there cause if rhaenyra is so much like aemma then why couldnt aemma have been allowed this power too? and theres a fear as well like, since viserys only gave her this extra authority after getting pregnant, that he only believes in her because rhaenyra is ‘giving him a son’ and if she ‘fails’ him (loses thr baby like her mother lost all hers. doesnt have a boy) hell take it all away from her. and even if she does give her father what he wants. whats to stop him from naming her son his heir instead?

rhaenyra is dealing with this pregnancy she maybe doesnt want, that she cant tell anyone the truth about, feeling very uncertain and insecure AND THEN her bestie alicent walks in on a very intimate and uncomfortable and very un-father-daughter moment between her and viserys. (im picturing viserys maybe like fawning over her baby bump. singing valyrian lullabies. or something) (and for alicent its maybe. somehow. strangely. reminds her of herself and otto? but that cant be right. they arent like this) all dressed up and pretty and now she has to worry about her father.. cheating on her?? with her best friend?? does she have no one she can trust?

so rhaenyra sends alicent away that night and every night she shows up and that only solidifies her decision. rhaenyra has to double down. cozy up even closer to viserys. make him depend on her as much as she depends on him.

alicent is horrified. shes been watching silently as her friend slowly becomes unrecognizable to her. rhaenyra isnt even speaking to her anymore. and otto is now trying to do the same thing to her. after what alicent walked in on and rhaenyras harsh reaction shes become convinced that rhaenyra is fucking viserys. that hes the father of her baby. thats more than rhaenyra losing her virginity and lying about it, more than run-of-the-mill targaryen ‘queer customs’. parent/child incest is a sin even for them. so alicent tries the only thing she knows and tricks rhaenyra into going to the sept with her. to make her repent. to convince rhaenyra to end this relationship with her father.

screaming match happens cause rhaenyra cant tell alicent the truth. its not like alicent would think the truth was much better, even if she would, rhaenyra is so fucked up by now she cant trust alicent. what if that truth somehow got back to viserys?

we have a few choices for what happens next….

if rhaenyra loses the baby, viserys tries to kill himself (convinced the gods have cursed him to never have a living son) if rhaenyra has a girl, viserys tries to kill himself (realizes he was wrong about rhaenyras virgin pregnancy and baelons rebirth. that his daughter CHEATED on him) his attempts arent successful though, cause viserys cant do ANYTHING right, but he does become basically catatonic for a good while afterwards.

now rhaenyra has to deal with the trauma of losing her baby/being a teen mother, essentially/nearly losing her father, AND having the entire weight of the realm fall to her. cause its not like viserys can rule in this state. and its not like she can pass off the rule to the hand or name a regent, cause then the realm will think shes weak.

OR… rhaenyra does have a boy.

and she has to deal with the horror and trauma of having her child taken away from her. being raised by her father as HIS own son. having to always refer to her son as ‘brother’ never being able to hold him as a mother. the terror that shes going to wake up one day and viserys is going to decide to name her son his heir over her. having to vie against Her Own Son for her fathers affection…

[kingcunny]

rhaenyra and viserys (alicents recording)

[theskyexists]

Utena ep 3 S3 (25)

It must be fun to be my follower. Anyway. I've...forgotten what the episode is about. People whining about dueling. Miki wanting to resist manipulation, then going for it anyway OH YEAH. Kozue hates her parents but somehow their dad has married Anthy. Like....

And kozue's struck up a relationship with Akio and knows what they say in student council meetings.

Does the cardrive put them back into their old headspaces? Except Kozue and Miki seem on better terms

Akio 'seduced' Touga. Lol.

Grand unifying theory of Utena please. Somewhere.

I like the new elevator animation. It's very pretty.

Aaaaand Kozue makes out with Anthy in the car going a hundred miles a minute on only two wheels.

????

What is going on???

But for some reason Kozue thinks Miki is a coward even though she distracted him what the fuck does all of it mean!!!!

[renfields--moved]

emotionally invested in historical folks -> The Man With The Thousand Watt Stare // Dwight Iliff Frye

"As I shall always say, the fascination... and the ever-present reason for being an actor, or for my being an actor, is that I may play different parts - different characters from life!"