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fearmakess · 3 months

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francy-sketches · 5 months

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trying to get better at capturing likenesses so heres a quick(ish) alicent portrait study :3

#hotd #alicent hightower #my art #i think I did pretty ok I like it ^_^#now the issue is stylizing/translating into my style tho. esp without rendering. need 2 figure out how to do that #also its so much more fun to do portrait studies when its a blorbo from your show instead of some pinterest rando. who wouldve thought #quick=a couple hours lol. look its quick TO ME #i feel like I made her look sadder compared to the ref oops

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nirrvana · 1 month

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somehow none of it matters 🐍🪞

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thatscruelsummer · 17 days

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Targaryen family portrait.

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your-gracelyn · 5 months

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It’s kinda heartbreaking how most of the animosity between Rhaenyra and Alicent is just misunderstanding.

Not just Alicent misunderstanding Viserys dying words but Rhaenyra and Alicent misunderstanding each other and the patriarchal system they both suffer under.

Rhaenyra and Alicent have polar opposite responses/coping mechanisms to the (unwanted) expectations placed on them. Alicent is very “duty is the death of love” and thinks doing as she is told, exactly as she is told, will save her. Rhaenyra is the opposite, she’s “love is the death of duty” and makes her discomfort known and actively tries to go against what she’s told she has to do.

They’re both suffering under the same circumstances but can’t recognise it in the other, perhaps due to perfectly placed differences. Like Alicent not being able to forgive Rhaenyra for having bastards because she was forced into having children with a man she didn’t love when she wasn’t ready. Or Rhaenyra not being able to forgive Alicent for marrying Viserys because she feels she’s replaced her mother and provides the son she couldn’t be. (I acknowledge they’re also missing some info here too, ei them having no choice in either of these matters.)

It all builds up and explodes in the dagger scene. Rhaenyra believes Alicent to be living under a cloak of righteousness and Alicent believes Rhaenyra is flaunting all to do as she pleases.

“We have more in common than we sometimes allow.” Alicent, girl, you have no idea how right you were.

Not sure what point I’m trying to make, I just love both these little disasters. #TeamTheGirliesDeservedBetter.

#rhaneyra targaryen #alicent hightower #house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenicent #character study #i guess?#Team The Girlies Deserved Better

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atomitodays · 2 months

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hotd dump :3

Criston and Aegon,,

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buben-ustal · 5 months

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My productive year can be tracked by my art of Aegon 🤣. In general, the year is simply wonderful from the point of view of creativity. I haven't painted so much in a long time. I am glad that my work brings joy to someone❤️

#art vs artist #artvstheartist #art #artwork #house targaryen #house of the dragon #fanart #hotd #illustration #aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #art study #artist on tumblr #alicent hightower #avatar way of water #neytiri #mk1

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laughing-luma · 9 months

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There’s this really interesting cycle that centers around Rhaenyra and Alicent in the show. After Alicent marries Viserys, we see the two girls separated from each other, with Alicent trying to repair her relationship with Rhaenyra and Rhaenyra trying to avoid her due to feeling betrayed. It’s reasonable for both of them to feel that way, and you can tell that’s it’s taking a toll on both of them. In episode 4, Alicent tells Rhaenyra how she has no friends and that she misses her, with Rhaenyra admitting she missed her too. Both are now seemingly on track to repairing their friendship, tired of being alone. Because that’s what they were, alone, without each other, the constant friendship that they had.

When Rhaenyra refuses to disclose the full truth to Alicent and she finds out, it sends a spark of bitterness through her. After she tried making amends with Rhaenyra, Rhaenyra goes and lies to her face about something so dire. It’s her version of feeling betrayed. She’s upset, so she wears the green dress to Rhaenyra’s wedding. For Rhaenyra, she has no idea as to why Alicent is reacting this way because she doesn’t know Criston admitted the truth, so to her it’s total whiplash. This coldness being reflected on her, however, is a mirror of how Rhaenyra was treating Alicent for the past few years, and now Rhaenyra is seeing it first hand. They essentially flipped roles. Alicent became the bitter, betrayed one, while Rhaenyra turned into the one who was alone.

Of course, this ends up changing after the time skip. We see Alicent continuing to be bitter, but Rhaenyra is no longer alone. She has a father willing to defend her, people that love her, and children that respect her. Rhaenyra has adjusted to motherhood seemingly perfectly as well, despite her fears for it. Alicent, on the other hand, doesn’t have that. Her father isn’t with her, and when he was only put her into a dangerous position, she doesn’t have people who love and support her, her children don’t respect her, and she had a hard time adjusting to motherhood. All the things Rhaenyra has, Alicent doesn’t have. Alicent throwing Rhaenyra’s own treatment at her did not keep Rhaenyra in misery like it did with Alicent. In fact, it only made Alicent feel more alone. More isolated. While Rhaenyra had worked to adapt and overcome her misery, Alicent only fell further into it. It all comes full circle when the two eventually come back together in episode 8, coming together for the second time, only to be torn apart shortly after. It’s so interesting and really shows how the two mirror each other.

#house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targeryan #alicent hightower #rhaenicent #rhaenyra x alicent #character study

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visenyaism · 1 year

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Ever since I watched HOT D I have felt conflicted about Alicent's character because I can't figure out her motivation. At the beginning it's clear she's only doing what Otto wants but later on... What is the reason she wants her son to be on the throne so bad ? ( When it doesn't seem to me like she cares about having power )

The only thing that I see is that she is extremely bitter and angry that she had to be this perfect woman when she was still a child and marry and have children with and old man. Meanwhile her friend is just fucking around not respecting any of the value she has to uphold.

But idk is it really only anger at Rhaenyra that makes her want this ?

one of the reasons I like alicent as a character so much is the 8 layers of cognitive dissonance she processes everything through at all times. She’s constantly trying to convince herself everything will be fine and also not allowing herself to really want anything for herself. She’s not a rational actor because she was robbed of the ability to emotionally mature past the age of 15 in a lot of respects, but it makes her a compelling (and confusing!) character.

I think it’s safe to say that on a fundamental level she at least wants a) to be close to Rhaenyra b) for her family to be safe and for her father to be proud of her and c) for someone to acknowledge her suffering (she cannot conceptualize a world where what she went through didn’t have to happen, she just wants anyone to recognize it as painful.)

She thought that Rhaenyra was also going to be suffering in a loveless marriage alongside her, and they’d have that in common. To see her “breaking the rules” that have made Alicent’s entire life completely miserable is just too much. She got her life destroyed by this system and by Viserys wanting sons, and he doesn’t even care about them OR about her, he only loves his eldest daughter even though SHE “breaks” all of these “rules.” That’s super emotionally devastating, and Alicent decides to pin that on Rhaenyra instead of her father or Viserys because if she did that, she would actually have to deal with the years of emotional trauma and violence that she’s been repressing. She can’t see a way out, so she just projects the rage she cannot internalize onto Rhaenyra.

Her father spent decades trying to convince her that Rhaenyra was going to be a threat to her family in the event of a succession, an idea he stood to gain a lot from, but it also isn’t totally crazy. Aegon Aemond and Daeron WERE threats to Rhaenyra’s claim. Putting Aegon on the throne was the only pathway that Alicent had been drilled to envision for decades, and the only one she thought would keep her kids safe. Also- if one in her life is going to acknowledge what happened to her was horrible and wrong, then at least everything she’s went through has to be worth something. Aegon’s coronation was also the culmination of that idea for her.

She doesn’t want power because she cannot even conceptualize having power as an option for herself- she’s never pictured herself on the throne, and she’s only trying to make a window in the wall of her prison. I don’t think she ever envisioned what her life would be like after she got Aegon on the throne, so I’m real excited to see what she’s going to be doing in season 2. TLDR it’s not about getting specifically Aegon on the throne that’s important, but more about following the rules she’s been taught will make her happy and safe and successful, even though on some level she knows that all it’s ever done is hurt her. Free alicent from the narrative she knows what story she’s in and she knows there’s no way out💚💔

#hotd #asoiaf #this got long. sorry for being an alicent defender 4 lyfe she is so interesting to me #we just watched ep 9 where she’s running around like crown aegon but save rhaenyra but listen to my father but avoid war but but but. girl #alicent hightower #she has so many layers of that sweet sweet cognitive dissonance. yum psychological problems. want to study her under a microscope #she doesn’t go to church because of hightower instinct she is COPING

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bloodymyhands · 4 months

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not now mom im busy collecting sad lesbian characters like they're pokemon

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fearmakess · 4 months

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🥀🩸🐉

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rosalinesurvived · 1 year

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Alright let me sort things out. Do you ever realise that Aegon is sexually active or at the very least aware at ten? Ever realise that he was actively taking Aemond to brothels at 14? Ever think of Aemond saying how Aegon thought it was his duty to do so?

Do you ever wonder how much of that stems from him witnessing his Father calling his teenage mother to his bed?

#no because i was literally just reading an article/case study on how abused children who witness/are aware of sex at a young age #are more likely to start younger #and like #god #the green children all knowing instinctivly that there is something wrong with their father #who looks old enough to be their grandfather and their 15/16 year old mother #if aegon wasnt a rapist id like him but their family is just sooo #the only way aegon shows physical affection to aemond is to grasp his face #just like his mother did to aegon AFTER HE MASTURBATED #just the idea of violence and sex and affection being so fucked up and interminged ughhh #the greens #hotd #team green #alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #halaena targaryen #helaena the dreamer #helaena targaryen #viserys i targaryen #house of the dragon #because viserys and alicent dont sleep in the same bed #im assuming aegon slept in alicents room as a baby #he mustve seem her unhappiness

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thatscruelsummer · 22 days

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AU: Jaehaera Targaryen survives and becomes Queen Jaehaera, the first of her name, wearing her father's crown and her grandmother's seven-pointed star necklace.

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blankfairy · 12 days

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this is how a girl becomes holy

Summary: She’s five-and-ten when Viserys Targaryen takes her to wife and declares her Queen of the Seven Kingdoms; not yet a year past the death of his first. She’s six-and-ten when she becomes a mother. Somehow the latter feels more daunting.

Characters: Young Alicent Hightower, baby Aegon II Targaryen, Viserys I Targaryen, Otto Hightower.

Warnings: Implied/Referenced death in childbirth, implied marital rape, childbirth, underage pregnancy. All canon-typical, unfortunately.

inspired by this post and this post !! title/quote from prelude by brynne rebele-henry. read on ao3!

She’s five-and-ten when Viserys Targaryen takes her to wife and declares her Queen of the Seven Kingdoms; not yet a year past the death of his first. She’s six-and-ten when she becomes a mother. Somehow the latter feels more daunting.

Alicent is lying in the same bed Aemma Arryn perished in when she bears her first, and all she can think about is the scent of her blood, still clinging to the sheets, and the sad mewling of Baelon Targaryen, heir to the Iron Throne, as he died in his crib. Her handmaidens and nurses surround her, flitting around the bedside like pigeons, fixing pillows and wiping sweat from her brow and neck. They try to hide it, but Alicent sees their nervous glances, hears the soft quiver in their voices as they urge her along, and feels the shake of their hands as they clutch her own. She thinks she catches the glint of silver protruding from the Grand Maester’s pocket as he stands between her legs.

Stillborn. Deformed. Dead in the cradle. Which of these fates will her babe share with their half-siblings? Or will Alicent finally be the one to bear the burden of a son? The pregnancy hasn’t been easy, it wouldn’t be, for a girl her age, but no harder than poor Aemma’s; perhaps she’s only some part in the gods’ cruel plan to punish Viserys, and she’ll die the same way as the woman she stole her crown and husband from.

When the pain becomes its worst, and she fears she’ll be split in two, she prays to the Stranger it isn’t so. She prays to the Mother for mercy, and wishes her own was there to comfort her; she prays to the Father for strength, while her own stands outside the chamber doors with the king, awaiting the birth of the grandson he hopes to put on the throne.

Would he do the same to me as Viserys did to Aemma? The thought shoots through Alicent’s mind as the muscles in her belly pulse and shriek. Ser Otto Hightower, servant of the Realm first, father second. Guilt mingles with pain and the question is gone, replaced by a quick prayer for forgiveness. Of course he would. It is his duty.

It would be her duty. Alicent, too, is a servant to the Realm. Her body is no longer her own, her wants and wishes must now be for the good of the kingdom, and her joy belongs to her son — the one pulled from her womb after hours of fear and suffering. He takes his first breath, and his screams overtake her own. The maester proclaims him male, and before Alicent can even lay her eyes upon her child, Viserys is in the room, flanked by her father.

The Grand Maester wraps him in cloth and passes the bundle to Viserys, congratulating him, murmuring that he’s hale and healthy and that the Seven Kingdoms have a new prince. Alicent smiles, because that’s what she’s supposed to do; no one spares her a glance. Some part of her is thankful they won’t see that it doesn’t reach her eyes.

Aegon, her husband, the king, declares his firstborn son. He looks to Alicent for approval, and she gives a nod; her son’s name has never been hers to decide. Viserys looks back down at Aegon, and his smile falters. The object of his desire after fifteen years of yearning; the prize of his patience and consolation for the murder of his first wife.

He places his son back in the arms of the maester, and leaves. Alicent’s father squeezes her shoulder. Well done. A shaky anger rises in her throat, but she doesn’t know who or what she’s angry at: her husband, her father, or her son?

Thank you, she murmurs back, in the voice of the queen, not of Lady Alicent.

They wash Aegon of every trace of her own flesh before giving him to her to hold for the first time. By then, the room has cleared, save for the lingering nurses who fuss over the queen and her prince, fetching fresh linens and milk of the poppy.

Wide, violet eyes stare up at Alicent’s brown ones; tufts of silver-blond hair peek out from beneath his shroud. A stranger’s babe with a conqueror's name. Her son does not belong to her, either.

#house of the dragon #alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #viserys targaryen #otto hightower #character study #james writes

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chronicallyfabulous22 · 1 month

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“You built this whole world so you could have SOMETHING and it didn’t work…”//“You seek not to free yourself but to create a window into the wall of your prison”

I made an edit because one day I’ll probably write a PhD thesis length analysis of the parallels between Serena Joy and Alicent and how Alicent could’ve been both an iconic sympathetic villain and a blueprint for female antagonist to rival even Serena if the show wasn’t so obsessed with justifying her

#house of the dragon #hotd #the handmaid's tale #anti house of the dragon #anti hotd #alicent hightower #serena joy #tht #edit #hotd edit #tht edit #DNI unless you’re interested in talking about Alicent as a sympathetic villain #Cannot stress this enough if you see this and get up in arms just walk away #That being said I am legitimately obsessed with their parallels #And love Alicent so much as an antagonist #I love this character not in a she’s never done anything wrong way but in a her psychology is so goddamn weird and complex way #In a I need to study her in a test tube way

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catherine-sketches · 2 years

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Another thing that crossed my mind

Aegon ii is all grandiose with his sword and crown in the end, even when he said he didn’t want it and looked like he had lemons in his mouth during the whole coronation, because of the cheer of the crowd.

Do you love me, mother?

Well *turns to the crowd cheering for him* they do

No matter how shallow that crowd love is

#house of the dragon #hotd spoilers #aegon ii targaryen #alicent hightower #mommy issues #this boy is rancid but Oh so fascinating #I want to put him in a jar and shake him #maybe dissect him like a frog even #put him under a magnifying glass and study him… maybe even burn him with the sun

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