Milly Alcock returns tonight as young Rhaenyra, highlighting how Daemon idealized her. Now, unable to control or manipulate her, he is lost. The series makes it clear that he is a pedophile and people's still in denial
Thread 🧵of Alicent's complex relationship with her three children. (I'm sorry Daeron, but you're non-existent right now xoxo) and don't annoy my ass talking about book Alicent, this is a show Alicent thread
Daemon left her half naked in a brothel, groomed her, choked her, killed his first wife, ignored Rhaenyra while she was having a miscarriage, but yeah it’s seems so out of character, lets blame Alicent folks!!
I watched hotd with my dad and he pointed out a few things:
- He hates Daemon
- He loves Alicent and he was actually surprised because he expected the worst of her when he saw the internet’s reaction
- He looks so dirty all the time (Aegon)
- Rhaenyra should have killed Otto
I don’t see any Matt smith/ daemon fans hating on Olivia? If anything it’s HER fan who were complaining that alicent is depressed all the time and was comparing her acting to kit’s just from shots in a trailer💀
i love how francesca it’s all shy and shit and michaela it’s so relaxed only for a later seasons to realize she was having a gay meltdown in her mind
#bridgertons3
#BRIDGERTON
She’s so pretty and miserable and she’s a grandma at her age who is in conflict with her failed situationship and her sons are emos and psychos and yet yall wonder why she wants to off h*rself
hotd it’s the only show where male characters like aegon and daemon can be r*pists and p*dos and it’s ok because they’re complex but characters like alicent and rhaenyra are suddenly stupid because one is a bad mother and the other one is too soft
We may have lost young Sheldon but we are left with the new mastermind who will bring great technological and sustainable advances to Westeros in order to seek the good of citizens because that is what her brother would have wanted
She knows Helaena will never be the same. She was a child raising a child, just like Alicent was. But Helaena won’t grow up with them. The time has stopped for her.
1. Aegon, Alicent's first son, marks her destiny from the start. She becomes paranoid that by being the king's first son, he jeopardizes Rhaenyra's place as heir and her son would eventually have to die so that Rhae will be queen without the kingdom opposing to it;
4. Aegon represents the end of her friendship with Rhaenyra (her only friend in the show) and the end of her girlhood, because her life now focuses on serving her children and the king.
5. In "Adolescent Mothers in Later Life" (2003), Nancy E. Dowd discusses how prior traumas, including physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, can hinder teenage mothers from forming positive relationships with their children.
2. Thanks to this thought, Alicent becomes stricter about Aegon, and her son's carefree behavior frustrates her for two reasons: because he doesn’t realize the danger of the situation and because she has dedicated her entire life to duty, something Aegon evidently hasn’t done.
So you're telling me that Aemond possibly being bi is a clue to Lucemond, but rhenicent actors constantly giving romantic subtexts to the relationship doesn't mean anything? I can't take you all seriously
• Finally, Alicent's relationship with her children is highlighted during the coronation. She entrusts Criston with protecting Helaena due to her fragility, views Aemond as independent, and prioritizes safeguarding Aegon, as her life revolves around him.
10. Despite this, Alicent loves Aegon and does horrible things for him. She doesn't punish him properly when he r*pes a girl, betrays her former best friend, commits usurpation, and desperately wants to believe Viserys's word that Aegon should be king. Olivia talks about it:
7. Aemond, seeing his father's lack of support for him and his mother's desperation, assumes the role of the "adult", despite having been a child who recently lost his eye.
6. If we focus on the above, Alicent resents Aegon because in addition to being a product of “duty”, he is a product of Viserys' marital r*pe. He is also an horrible person, a r*pist and Alicent dislikes his personality.
8. How is it shown that Aemond takes the role of the adult in this scene? when he says that the loss of his eye was a “fair exchange,” even though he evidently doesn't believe it. Aemond eventually becomes Alicent's support in the absence of a father figure.
6. Alicent in this situation is the only one who stands up for Aemond. Viserys shows obvious favoritism towards Rhaenyra and this solidifies Alicent's paranoia that her children can be easily hurt.
The way they keep mentioning Daeron as if he were some kind of god, i just know that when he shows up there will be some kind of Disney Channel applause 😭
7. This lack of affection and resentment of Alicent towards Aegon is demonstrated throughout the show: when his brother is hurt, Alicent automatically blames Aegon for his lack of duty in protecting him and hits him.
10. Olivia in an interview says that her character is aware that her two sons are not good people: she admits that Alicent hates loving Aegon, and Aemond is a better suit for the throne
3. Helaena, Alicent only daughter, is the saddest case, because despite being the best person of Alicent’s three children, she suffers the same fate as her mother: being a childbride.
This destiny is later marked by tragedy.
The absence of affection towards Aegon evidently has an impact on him, who longs for his mother's love and feels that he doesn’t have it: he asks his mother if she loves him, and cries because he did "everything she asked of him." (He didn’t 😜)
9. Aemond, Aegon's younger brother and Alicent's favorite, is key here. Bank and Kahn's (1997) study, "The Sibling Bond," suggests that older siblings might resent favored younger siblings, leading to bullying behavior, as seen in Aegon's bullying his brother:
9. This has a name in psychology: parentified child. The roles are reversed and the child assumes the role of the father in order to protect the mother. What Viserys should do, Aemond does: comfort his mother and stands up for his siblings
3. Alicent's strict attitude is also related to the distance towards her son and her lack of affection expressed through words. This distancing and lack of affection may be due to the emotional maturity that Alicent had at the time of giving birth to Aegon. (A child)
4. Another example of Aemond's obedience to his mother is praying and going to look for Aegon because his mother ORDERS IT, although he evidently doesn’t want this.
I don’t care about Luke. I care about Rhaenyra and Jace and how Luke’s death changes both of them as they seek for revenge and sink in grief but Luke as a character was boring af
2. Aemond, for me, is Alicent's favorite for several reasons. The two share a special relationship and he is the one who most resembles her in terms of ideology and thoughts.
3. Alicent is guided by duty, just like Aemond; This is demonstrated when Aemond says that he would marry his sister if that’s what the duty entails. Just like her mother marrying Viserys out of duty. The word “if mother..” implies that he would do what his mother tells him.
hotd and it’s the only fandom where pedophilia is allowed and the fans say that everything is fictional but when the other people make headcanons of two lesbians they begin to demonize everything
Y’all don't grasp Emma D'Arcy's masterful performance in this scene. As an acting student, I find their body language—shock, near vomiting, trembling—and facial expressions of anger, sadness, and grief, impressive.
Here's a thread of D'Arcy's masterclass acting scenes:
5. An important point of favoritism and the relationship between Aemond and Alicent is based on the night Aemond loses his eye. (Very important because it marks a before and after in Aemond)
4. On several occasions we see how Alicent wants to protect Helaena because she is the most vulnerable of her children: she automatically protects Helaena when Daemon cuts off Vaemond's head and sends Criston to protect her instead of Aemond.
6. Alicent's choice to marry her with her brother instead of a good man like Jace may be influenced by her bitterness towards Rhae (big mistake) and the societal stigma surrounding Jace as a bastard in the kingdom. In Alicent's mind she is protecting her.
She was 16 when she got married, so says Hess.
17 when Aegon was born.
20 when Aemond was born.
These are all average and above average ages to have your first child in Westeros
You can't use the child bride excuse for all her decisions she made as a 20+ year old woman.
Imagine being an Alicent stan in this app it’s like when Jesus arrived on earth and had to convince everyone that he was the son of God level of difficulty
7. The tendency of some mothers to repeat harmful patterns of behavior towards their daughters can be attributed to various psychological and social factors.
spreading the agenda of why Harry Gilby should be Daeron:
already played an homofaggot just like his mom
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big eyes
would continue the tradition of The Last Kingdom actors on hotd
5. Unfortunately this has the opposite effect, thanks to the fact that in order to try to protect her and refuse Rhaenyra's proposal with Jace, she marries her with the worst of the children at a young age. (I WILL CONTINUE THIS POINT SO DONT CRUCIFY ME)
Furthermore, sociologist Nancy Chodorow, in her work "The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender," argues that mothers can reproduce parenting models similar to those they experienced, since these models are rooted in social structures and cultural.
the way nobody say anything about Margaery being descendant of Alicent but instead they were claiming that they were both Hightower and yet you’re barking here, it must be so hard to lose your mind over Alicent
Insane that people think Margery is a direct descendant of Alicunt. When her entire bloodline was wiped out through her father’s death and her children’s along with her children’s children. Margery’s Mother might be a Hightower but not one from Alicent’s direct line.
This is why inter-council romance is discouraged by HR.
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9. Based on the above, Alicent believes that her children must comply with the same thing that was imposed on her. In the case of Helaena, being the only woman of her children, Alicent believes she must bear children to a husband, like Alicent did.
i don’t even dislike Matt Smith but everytime i see one of his fangirls mocking Olivia for ugly or bad acting they set him up that i feel so bad for him