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Alicent's safe place being Aegon's hiding place
But he cannot escape his mother's blood. He'll scream and try to wash it off of his fingers. But he'll never escape what he's made up of.
❝(do you love me?) you imbecile.❞
There is something special for me about the reactions of parents to the death of their firstborn. the way they get mad and thirsty for blood.
After Aegon was poisoned, Alicent lost touch with reality and tried to persuade her little granddaughter to kill the new king.
Aegon, after Jaehaerys was brutally murdered, becomes a furious mess, trying to numb the pain with the wine and blood of all the mousers of the town.
Alicent attempted to kill the new king with her own hands, snatching daggers from the guards. Aegon stood at the head of the army and, despite severe injuries, personally destroyed the main culprit of all the troubles.
like mother like son.
ever thought about how aegon was alicent‘s first and her last left? your house is burning and your children are gone. except him. except him. he came back to her, unrecognizable, burnt and twisted, but he came back to her. she has him still.
i have done everything you’ve asked me to. i try so hard but it will never be enough for you. and it wasn‘t. she asked him to save their family, save the realm, save her. he didn‘t, he couldn‘t. he did come back to her. he had cursed her on the day he was born.
do you love me? you imbecile. i love those bones of you. i love you so much i have sacrificed everything to see you on the throne. i have sacrificed my youth. sacrificed my decency. sacrificed my oldest. i have sacrificed you. i love you. my oldest, my firstborn, my sacrifice.
and as he walks towards his mother like an animal to his butcher she plants a kiss on his forehead. her little sacrificial lamb, he came back. came back to her. did i do well mother? did i do enough? no. i love you. you came back.
i wonder who he thought about when the poison touched his lips.
𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐍
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We know from the book that before Aegon died, he asked to be taken to the sept and I just NEED a scene where he leaves the servants at the entrance and hobbles to the altar alone, just like Viserys went to the throne in the first season, because in the end Aegon doesn't need the throne, he has practically nothing left, he's a living dead man and he's walking to this altar where his mother spent so much time, where he can still feel united with her and think about the past, before this whole nightmare alienated them from each other and destroyed their family. I need a scene where he's kneeling at the altar, remembering everyone he's lost and praying. Can you imagine how poetic it could be?
Aegon II Targaryen through the years
Hail, hail Aegon, the Conqueror-Babe, Second of His Name!
i think alicents reaction to rhaenys disrupting the coronation is soooooo indicative of her relationships with each of her kids bc like. she tells criston to defend helaena, who she thinks of as the most fragile and in need of protection (ahem she sees her younger self in helaena ahem), but doesn’t do it herself, bc i think there is a fundamental distance between them, since alicent loves her daughter but doesn’t understand her. aemond doesn’t get a mention, because he has always been the child she sees the most as an adult, her equal she believes on some level can take care of himself. and aegon. she stands in front of aegon. which is suchhhhh a significant thing because. it will not do anything. alicents body won’t protect aegon if meleys decides to burn them, it will just kill them both. alicents life is aegons life, she was married to viserys for him, she became queen for him, everything she did from when she was a teenager was for him. and how beautiful and tragic and horrible that she just decides in this moment that if aegon dies she will die too.
𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 — favorite family dynamic. ❝ do you love me? ❞ | aegon ii targaryen & alicent hightower.
Alicent and Aegon ii
Alicent and Aegon ii
inspo: “I love the bones of you” by chinosarah (ao3)
ᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵒⁿˡʸ ⁿᵉᵉᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˡⁱᵍʰᵗ ʷʰᵉⁿ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ᵇᵘʳⁿⁱⁿᵍ ˡᵒʷ.
ᴼⁿˡʸ ᵐⁱˢˢ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵘⁿ ʷʰᵉⁿ ⁱᵗ ˢᵗᵃʳᵗˢ ᵗᵒ ˢⁿᵒʷ.
ᴼⁿˡʸ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʰⁱᵐ ʷʰᵉⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵉᵗ ʰⁱᵐ ᵍᵒ.
ᴬⁿᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ˡᵉᵗ ʰⁱᵐ ᵍᵒ.
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“you look so much like your mother in certain lights”
