What If Youre Alicent Hightower And You Gave Birth To All Your Grief And Your Pain And Your Broken Dreams

what if you‘re alicent hightower and you gave birth to all your grief and your pain and your broken dreams and he wears your face

Criston is literally so funny. “[Alicent] has a gentle heart, and Rhaenyra is a cunning spider who drew her into her web long ago, it is not your mother’s fault” he’s clearly talking about himself. Rabid dog and enforcer of the patriarchy and he secretly thinks of himself as a soiled maiden and projects it onto Alicent

I also really enjoy what they’ve done with Alicent’s children and their relationship to physical touch.

Aegon is almost always approached violently, except a handful of times where Alicent is gentle with him but only in extreme circumstance, like kissing his forehead while making him king or clutching his arm while shielding him from death with her own body. It’s emotionally confusing for them both and leaves Aegon desperately seeking approval.

Helaena dislikes being touched and Alicent knows that but Helaena is constantly having to knock her hands away because she’s Alicent’s only girl and Alicent needs to touch her to protect her but it only ever makes them both more anxious

Lastly Aemond, who seems to be used to such an over-saturation of affection from Alicent that if she’s upset with him and withdraws it for even a moment he spirals so badly he literally has to pay someone that looks like his mother to hold him instead

Alicent 1x01 || Aegon 2x01

Sadness is a condition of motherhood. There's naught to be gained from it.

hotd season 3 aemond voice cole i am in love …. with a peasant woman, a bastard …… more powerful than any lord . mhm . she sees forward and back. my war is over. i will become …. a poet . criston not listening to him at all fresh off a harrenhal vision of gwayne sucking him off wearing alicent’s face as a skin mask voice i don’t think i’m well my prince