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What would you have me do, Mother?
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2.04 “The Red Dragon and the Gold” // Maia Baia, Mother
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
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: 2.02 (Rhaenyra the Cruel)
Alicent 1x01 || Aegon 2x01
another theme that i found fascinating this ep was the greens' inability to connect with the other. otto cannot comfort alicent who cannot comfort neither of her children, each having to look for another. they are breaking apart but neither can do anything about it and it's so poignant to see otto not knowing how to comfort alicent, while she can't touch helaena unless she gets uncomfortable. and the son who might welcome her embrace, aegon, she is unable to offer him anything! she's only touched him with violence. she's helpless! and this is also shown when helaena and aegon meet on the stairs. she tries to maybe say something and he even stops to listen! but there's no protocol for this. neither of them have ever comforted the other. no one taught them how to connect. even aemond who is not as affected by the toddler murder has replaced alicent or some parental figure with the brothel madam. it's crazy
like, that first scene with otto and alicent is crazy. she's so visibly distressed and he stops behind her to maybe comfort her but he can't! that's not something they've done often. and when he gets the courage, she turns away!!!!!! and in case you didn't notice the theme, alicent gets another scene just like the other except it's her who can't comfort her child. and she turns away too!!!! parents are not for comfort.
Sadness is a condition of motherhood. There's naught to be gained from it.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.04 | The Red Dragon and the Gold
The Greens
HOTD 1X08//Electra a Sophocles Play//Succession 4X10//HOTD 1X06// Quote by honeytuesday//HOTD 2X01//Quote from HOTD 1X09//HOTD 1X09// 'Cain and Abel' by Orazio Riminaldi// The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker//HOTD 2X10//Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral//Unknown//HOTD 01X03// HOTD 01X06//Quote by Lyra//HOTD 01X02//Quote from HOTD 1X06//HOTD 1X09//Quote by Richard Siken//HOTD 1X07// Quote from HOTD 2X01//The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice//HOTD 1X09//‘Ivan the Terrible and Son’ by Richard Siken//the guessing game: a mothers love by Silas Denver Melvin
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
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.06 || 1.07 || 2.02
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.05 "Regent"
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 1.09 "The Green Council" | 2.05 "Regent"
the side of aegon’s face getting all jacked up like viserys’s is some psychological torture saw trap level shit to put alicent through. your firstborn son by the man who married you when you were fifteen and put his rot inside of you and made you give birth to it is beginning to decay. he looks just like his father.