Genuinely what is anon and op talking about?
It is truly hilarious to watch you confidently type out an entire manifesto regarding "book Rhaenyra" and the lore of the Dance when you clearly haven't read a single page of text, let alone paid basic attention to the television screen. To claim Rhaenyra started the war out of "ego" completely rewrites the basic plot: Team Green hid a rotting king's body, staged a literal political coup in the middle of the night, and murdered a Small Council member before she even knew her father was dead. Defending a twenty-year legal decree of succession against an illegal, armed insurrection isn't "declaring war over a spoiled tantrum" it is reacting to a treasonous ambush. But please, do go on about how the person reacting to a violent coup is the one who "started it." Your deeply emotional rant about her personal life completely exposes your inability to comprehend how feudal politics or narrative catalysts work. To suggest that a global war happened because she had illegitimate children or went to a brothel as a teenager completely misses the explicitly stated motives of Otto Hightower, who openly planned to usurp the throne regardless of her choices simply because she was a woman. Trying to turn a complex political tragedy about systemic patriarchal oppression and a literal military coup into a puritanical moral judgment about "unwillingness to fulfill her role" is embarrassingly simplistic. Next time you want to lecture the fandom on "surviving book Rhaenyra," you might want to actually crack open the book first so you don't get completely embarrassed by the actual timeline of events.
