i’ve been thinking about this extensively (read: too much) and a.licent crying over v.iserys’ death is actually so complicated. it would be stupid to argue that she didn’t hold some love/care for him but i think beyond just mourning her husband, she’s mourning the part of her that he took when he married her. the naivety, the youthfulness, the ignorance. and she’s also mourning the safety that him being alive provided for her. even if he didn’t seem to really care that much about any of their kids, they were at least safe (minus one eye) while he was alive. his succession and his inability to be firm about it in any way that mattered fueled this conflict and his existence is the only thing that kept that conflict he was avoiding from bubbling over. and now that protection is gone. she has to do what needs to be done to ensure that her kids remain safe. and she doesn’t have any kind of developed emotional control so that paranoia and that resentment and frustration all mingle into each other. she’s tired of being overlooked and stepped over and ignored so when it’s time to grasp onto some kind of power, why is that so wrong?
