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I think what's really frustrating about this is that Alicent literally spent all of the last season trying to get Lucerys killed/exiled! Like she literally tried to stab his eye out and supported a man trying to oust him as a bastard. She's the one who taught Aemond to view Luke and his brothers as subhuman!!
The idea of that woman fucking sympathizing with his death is laughable at best. She wanted him gone, she wanted Rhaenyra to suffer for having him; she got what she wanted. This is the outcome of her spending Luke's entire life badmouthing him and trying to hurt him. She should at least own up to it, but noooo, Saint Alicent is just so "sympathetic" to her enemies. Shame she couldn't have any empathy back when Luke was alive.
continuously intertwining rhaenyra with alicent was fine in season one, where they were directly at odds with one another, but trying to paint alicent as sympathetic to rhaenyra’s plight while rhaenyra is at the funeral of the son who was murdered by alicent’s is asylum worthy.
rhaenyra is grieving, jacaerys is grieving, joffrey, daemon, baela, rhaena, rhaenys, corlys are all grieving; alicent is NOT. she doesn’t care about rhaenyra, or she wouldn’t have waged war against her, raised her children to view their sister as the enemy, and usurped her throne. she especially doesn’t give a shit about luke, the kid she wanted to maim in revenge years before and the boy she viewed as both beneath her and not even as a true loss because he wasn’t human in her eyes. she thinks aemond is justified in lashing out, because he never received an ‘apology’ (i wouldn’t apologize either if i was a seven year old who thought my brother was going to have his head bashed in).
honor and decency were thrown out the window last season when alicent’s cause started murdering innocents over preconceived slights that SHE, personally, laid the groundwork for, and luke’s death is the result of that. she might be upset about her coveted ‘peace’ no longer being an option, but she doesn’t care about rhaenyra, her dead child, or the anguish that she is suffering through currently. he’s just an easy out for her to claim penance from her utterly idiotic decisions that keep killing people.