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my doomed targaryen dark haired princes. they both deserved to be kings and would’ve easily made the best kings their house had ever produced. GRRM when i catch you!!!!

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halcyon days

#rhaenicent #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #house of the dragon #happy pride 🌈#milly alcock #emily carey #the blacks #the greens #tg #tb #my art

Everyone in this fandom has seeming forgotten that Andromeda was Sirius before Sirius was Sirius. She was the first to rebel, and everything that shaped Sirius’s character as the rebellious anti-blood purist came from his dear cousin. Sirius looked up at her the same way Regulus looked up at him, she was his role model and the original. I am soooo tired of seeing people erase female characters.

#Andromeda Black #she ran so he could walk #She went up against everyone and everything with a pack of hand rolled cigarettes and her highschool sweetheart #the marauders #dead gay wizards #the blacks #the black sisters #the black brothers #andy black

The !book version of the Blacks and the Greens (closest family)💙

In the greater scheme of things, this episode did well in highlighting the polarity that still exists between the two factions (as it should), despite any attempts by Rhaenyra and Alicent to find a common ground, bridge the gap, and understand each other again. Broken after the death of her son, Rhaenyra relies on Daemon during her grief and anguish and does something she immediately regrets. I would argue it's at that moment when she comes closest to understanding Alicent, because she finds herself compromising her own principles, surrendering to a force stronger than her own resolve, just as she has watched Alicent do before, when she found herself in a position where she had to betray her own ideals and succumb to a will stronger than hers.

Alicent, on her part, spends the entire episode issuing commands under borrowed authority: Helaena's, and whatever influence she can still claim as Dowager Queen. In doing so, she is forced to confront the fragility of power when it's not truly your own. I would argue that it's here when she comes closest to understanding Rhaenyra and the impossible burden of legitimizing her rule as a woman, and the necessity of gathering every ally, every ounce of support, simply to remain standing.

In that sense, Rhaenyra becomes Alicent's foil, and Alicent becomes Rhaenyra's. More than either of them would care to admit, they have gradually become reflections of one another, each finding herself in the very position she once condemned the other for occupying. Their circumstances have eroded the certainty with which they once judged one another. And perhaps that realization, the recognition that they have become the very thing they once despised, is the deepest loss of all.