“Spread the word to the people of King’s Landing, crying “King Viserys is dead, long live King Aegon.” Munkun writes, some wept whilst others cheered.”
“Queen Helaena, a sweet and gentle soul, is much beloved by the smallfolk of King’s Landing.”
——“Aegon the elder took offense when Jacaerys asked his wife, Helaena, for a dance. Angry words were exchanged, and the two princes might have come to blows if not for the intervention of the kingsguard.”
——“I feel like they’re both living parallel lives, but in separate universes. They can’t access each other in the way that they— each one needs.”
— Tom Glynn-Carney on Aegon and Helaena
———“what are children, but a weakness. A folly? A futility? Through them, you imagine you cheat the great darkness of it’s victory.”
—— larys strong in season 1, episode 6.
“Though Blood and Cheese had spared her life, Queen Helaena cannot be said to have survived that fateful dusk. Afterward she would not eat, nor bathe, nor leave her chambers...”
——“Aegon is a very sensitive individual. He wants his mom’s love and validation. He wants her to believe in him. And it’s the first time we see alicent point-blank tell him everything he can’t hear. Especially the way, how fragile he is at that time too.”