#alicent & her children

[aemondstark]

insp

#baby :( #i will never be able to comprehend how some people think alicent doesnt love her children #aemond targaryen #alicent hightower #hotd #house of the dragon #hotdedit #gameofthronesdaily #welighttheway #alicenthightowerdaily #targaryensource #aemondtargaryensource #myedit #aliciagifs

[lovl3igh]

i don't even like aegon but the way alicent treated him in that scene makes my blood boil

hitting 13 yo and blaming him for what happened because he didn't act like a babysitter "and where were you?!" i'm sorry ma'am where were YOU? the queen and the mother. giving nasty side eyes and finding new ways to torture rhaenyra and her sons surely

#alicent was shtty mother #and yes she was being rped #and didn't wanted those children #and i'm 100% on her side with that matter #she should not have to suffer that #but don't say she was a good mother #cause she was not #her children are either afraid of her #don't like her #or have strong mommy issues #anti alicent hightower #anti alicent stans #aegon targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon #her hair looks GREAT here though may I add

[fearthhereaper]

Alicent's vs Daemon's treatment by the audience

#house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #anti daemon targaryen #she's a good person #that has to make shitty choices to survive #she was kind when she didn't have to be #and her “stealing” the throne #that's just her trying to save her children

[sansaery-theonsa]

The age she became a mother.

VS

the age it should've happened.

#Look at her faces i know she loved her children but she was a child herself and definitely wasn't supposed to become a mother. #alicent my traumatized beloved #alicent hightower #young alicent #emily carey #olivia cooke #fuck otto hightower #alicent defence squad

[b-rainlet]

The Green family dynamics are so interesting because like, Viserys is the father but due to his decay he seems more like the grandfather, whereas Otto is the Grandsire but seems to fill out the role of a father more, not only to his daughter but also her children, so he and his daughter are a mother/father unit but in some situations Alicent is treated like a sibling to her children (by Otto) and then you have the obvious Helaena/Aegon happening (siblings who are also husband/wife and mother/father to their children), but at the same time it seems like Aemond is the one trying to be the family's protector and attempting to step up as patriarch, with some of the scenes between him and Alicent giving off the vibes of equals rather than Mother and Son (like when they discuss Aemond finding Aegon) and his relationship with Aegon seeming like he's the big brother and not the other way around, in this essay I will-

#ALSO the way Aemond tries so hard to be the perfect son #In part to make up for Aegon obviously slacking #And also because he feels like he should've been the firstborn son #But do you ever think that maybe he's also jealous of Aegon because Aegon is allowed to fuck up #Again and again #And Alicent still loves him? #Like she obviously is affectionate toward all her children #But imagine trying to be everything your mother wants your older brother to be #And watching your older brother do everything he's not supposed to be #And somehow your mother still supports him and loves him and would quite literally die for him #And like logically you know she would do the same for you #But deep down you're also scared of ever fucking up #Because what if you're not perfect and you fuck up like your brother #And she stops loving you?? #What if you're not the golden son she never needs to worry about #And she just isn't willing to tolerate your bs the way she tolerates your brother's #What a punch in the face that would be #Anyway don't mind me I am just clawing my eyes out #hotd #aemond targaryen #aegon ii targaryen

[shortnotsweet]

[ “GOSSIP” ] :

Sip the gossip, drink ‘til you choke

Sip the gossip, burn down your throat.

You’re not iconic, you are just like them all

Don’t act like you don’t know.

— Maneskin ft. Tom Morello, “GOSSIP” from RUSH!

#rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra x alicent #house of the dragon #hotd #my art #so basically gossip has followed Alicent + Rhaenyra all their lives for different reasons #and it was gossip that deteriorated the lives of their children and built up to the Dance #even after Alicent is on house arrest #the whispers of the court and the image of Rhaenyra never leave her #etc. etc.

[soyboywenzie]

i think we as a fandom need to talk about the fact that the targtower children’s resentment and disdain for rhaenyra is not just the work of viserys lack of parenting but due to everyone else too.

it’s from otto doing everything in his power to stop rhaenyra from getting the throne so his blood can get it, not because he thinks aegon is or would be a good king, not because he thinks his grandson deserves it, but because his blood would take the throne, not rhaenyra’s, not daemon’s. HIS.

it’s from alicent’s every conversation on screen with aegon revolving around rhaenyra. how, in ep.6, his mother stops his session to tell him he needs to be better to his brother in public so we can be a united family against her, how if rhaenyra takes the throne, she’ll have no choice but to kill them to keep her throne, how in ep.8, alicent is mad at his continuous behaviors but only this mad because rhaenyra is about to be in town.

the talk before his coronation is explicitly about how much his father wanted rhaenyra on the throne, how he had twenty years to change it and never did. it’s about alicent telling him not to not be swayed by judgements to kill rhaenyra, how above all the terrible she’s done, she still his sister. yet no one has ever acted like she is.

it’s from aemond’s eye being taken out and it ending with his mother yelling at rhaenyra about duty and sacrifices, how she can do all and never get in trouble, how she does as she pleases and is happy, yet she, the queen, is dutiful and isn’t. aemond’s eye is used to get back at rhaenyra, his mother is mad that his eye is gone but it’s more because RHAENYRA’S sons took it then it being taken at all. how he has to soothe his mother even if he’s the one bleeding.

it’s from criston cole bullying and tormenting rhaenyra’s sons because they are rhaenyra’s sons. It’s about them being lesser because they came from her indecency, them being worse because they came from her. her sons being lower than them because of them being a direct connection to rhaenyra and him feeling mad about not being the one she choose.

the targtower children entire world revolved around rhaenyra. it wasn’t just viserys who preferred her, everyone did! rhaenyra’s stepmother would rather fight her than love them! their mother’s sworn sword would rather mess with her children as an act of vengeance than genuinely be interested in them, their grandfather’s every political move was to stop her husband from being near power. love or hate, those children never had a chance to see rhaenyra on their own before or after Driftmark.

their father, her father, loved her more. their mother, her stepmother, hated her more than she cared for them. their grandfather, who has no connection to her, would rather deal with politics through them against her than for them. their mother’s sworn sword, who was rhaenyra’s sworn sword first, hates her more than he likes them.

these kids, again, never stood a damn chance!!

#house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #my original work #alicent hightower #otto hightower #criston cole #viserys i targaryen #this family did more damage to rhaenyra’s name more than she did! #‘her bastard…’ that no one cared about but them #‘her husband…’ that they hated more than anyone else in the realm #team black #asoiaf #it started with viserys but it didn’t end with him #they hate her because everyone around them is obsessed with her #with her children. with her husband. with her honor #with her vagina. with her associates. with her maidenhood. #everyone is obsessed with her yet can’t even bat an eye for them #the dance isn’t just viserys fucking up #it’s everyone being fuckin obsessed with her that those obsession negatively impacted the next generation #anti team green #anti alicent hightower #anti otto hightower #anti criston cole

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Just a daily reminder that Queen Aemma Arryn had only one living child.

Alicent Hightower had four.

And yet the surviving bloodline which created a new Targaryen dynasty that lasted for many years after and produced several incredible Kings, beautiful Princesses, skilled warriors and a Queen came from the one living child of Queen Aemma.

This is what I call poetic justice.

#Alicent Hightower got what was coming to her in the end. She could have produced 10 children and all of them would have died for her sins. #team black #pro team black #aemma arryn #queen aemma #anti alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #anti team green #canon asoiaf #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #queen rhaenyra #anti greens #hotd #house of the dragon #fire and blood #a song of ice and fire

[alicentes]

Alicents a better person than me because if I was forced into marrying an old man at 15, regularly SA’d and forced to have children so he could have “heirs” just for me and my children to be cast aside with no future or protection in place for the children HE wanted, I would set fire to his empire and watch it burn to the ground.

#I wish the show had let anger after years of abuse be her motivator even if viewers hated her even more (team black would hate her anyways) #alicent hightower #hotd #house of the dragon #anti targaryen #the second aemond got that dragon and viserys showed he didnt value our childrens lives i wouldve gone full mad queen

[ladyofthebears]

I am going insane- i want to rip my hair out

Alicent WAS the VICTIM in the show. She was made to marry a much older man whom she did not love who martially raped her and gave her children at age 15-16.

But what EVERYONE seems to be fucking ignore is that fact that Aemma was a victim too. Aemma only had a SUCCESSFUL pregnancy at 15. She was married at fucking 11 and had miscarriages before finally having Rhaenyra four years later. Everyone is always infantilising Alicent and making it seem as though her abusive actions are justified because of her victimhood BUT AEMMA WAS A VICTIM TOO. One could even argue Aemma had it worse then Alicent in many ways though i will not be because both of their pain is unimaginable and fucking valid.

Overall, the parallels between them just further my devastation of Alicents continuing the cycle of abuse. Aemma lost a multitude of children, she was married at age 11, her mother died giving birth to her, she nearly died giving birth to Rhaenyra, yet not once did she ever behave the way Alicent did. Alicent lost her mother, was at her powerful fathers command, and felt so fucking alone and WAS THE VICTIM. Yet, she became the victimiser the day she sharpened her pain to use as a knife against others, ESPECIALLY her children.

In the show, Alicent makes it obvious that she will have the final say on her children’s marriage which MAKES IS SO MUCH MORE INFURIATING to remember she marries her 13 year old daughter and 15 year old son. Makes it so maddening after her “queer customs line”, makes it SO disheartening after her own victimhood just to make her daughter a even MORE severely and painfully wronged victim (again pain should never be compared, i only mention this because objectively Helaena was married younger and gave birth younger. Despite Viserys and his fucking pedo rapist actions, he was never violent w Alicent in the way Aegon is with everyone. And MAY I REMIND YOU, Aegon had not one BUT TWO Bastards born on the silk streets in the same moon as his twins birth?)

Why THE FUCK is Alicent always the victim and justified in her actions and Aemma is just given “oh thats so sad”. Why does it seem like no one else notices the wretched mirrors of each other they are yet, the fandom doesn’t seem to give a flying fuck about Aemma besides to throw her death onto the pile of shitty things Viserys did?

Aemma Arryn deserves so SO much more then what we are giving her.

Aemma Arryn was a queen, and a victim, and through it all a loving mother despite never having one of her own.

Aemma Arryn does not deserve to be forgotten so easily.

#house of the dragon #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #rhaenyra targaryen #dance of the dragons #helaena targaryen #alicent hightower #anti viserys i targaryen #this is not meant to be anti alicent #it is meant to be anti hypocrisy #it is meant to be anti abuser #it is meant to point out how we literally saw the same shit happen and the other cause did not start a war or abuse their children over it #i love alicent #but i cant love her actions #i cant love her abuse #and i cant love her treason #aemma arryn

[harlivies]

 “You aren’t worried about your position?” “I like this position. It’s quite comfortable.”

#rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #hotdgif #hotdedit #hotd #house of the dragon #brb gonna go eat some concrete to feel better #and what if i say that part of the reason why alicent ended up marrying viserys #and birthing his children #was to try and lighten the load on rhaenyra's shoulders #then what #of course her father forced her into that position #but alicent often rationalizes these things to give them meaning #ahem duty sacrifice #and rhaenyra often made it seem like she didn't really want to rule #but rather fight and explore what have you #so what if she really thought she was helping #by giving viserys a different option #my 13th reason #anyway back to the normal tags ig #mine: new #2023 #mine: gif #mine: gifs #mine: hotd #hotd: the heirs of the dragon #mine: rhaenicent #mine: rhaenyra targaryen #mine: alicent hightower

[bietrofastimoff23]

"alicent holds love for our enemy. that makes her a fool." — aemond, being completely right.

i came across a post with outrage that men, including her sons, continue to exploit alicent and leave her behind. half of the time it's true, but the other half... sorry not sorry, this woman doesn't know what she wants.

she talks about peace, but she wears green all her life.

her son is offered to be tortured after he was deprived of his eye because of the truth, and a few years later she looks at the initiator with tender longing and offers to stay.

she scares her eldest son to the point of trembling in his body that if he does not ascend to the throne, rhaenyra will kill him because his mere existence is a threat to her claims, and then at a family dinner, alicent calls her a good queen. and it sounds too sincere to be considered cunning. she also appealed to him for mercy to his sister, who, in his place, as alicent herself said, would have killed him immediately.

and now that her grandson has been horribly murdered and a war has broken out, she continues to talk about fair play and mercy.

so I can't blame aegon and aemond if they turn their backs on her in the end. all these years, she has been preparing her sons for this moment, and now she reproaches them for knowing nothing else but the desire to destroy the threat. what is this but a betrayal of one's own blood?

i understand that she has a sad fate, but it is quite difficult to support a person who contradicts their own words and actions.

they rlly destroyed my book green queen for queerbate.

#[and why the hell does she feel more tenderness and acceptance for the enemy than for her own children?? #I've always tried to convince myself that she loves her children more #but the show ruins all my attempts ] #aegon ii targaryen #aemond targaryen #alicent hightower #anti rhaenicent #team green #hotd #house of the dragon #my post

[girl-intrigued]

Just thinking about how Alicent is only 35 and already a grandmother and Aegon is 20 (Heleana is 18)and a father of 2(3 if maelor is already born). They are so painfully young to have children at their ages!! Talk about parallels between Alicent and her children - getting married too young and having to produce heirs for the good of the realm ...

#heleana too #alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #house of the dragon #hotd #team green #grrm #the greens #welighttheway #alicent and her children #jaehaerys ii targaryen #jaehaera targaryen #maelor targaryen #book Alicent is only 38 too!!

[seamayweed]

I find this is a way to be with my mother. // I want my mother. (in/sp.)

[ID in ALT]

#house of the dragon #houseofthedragonedit #hotd #hotdedit #gameofthronesdaily #welighttheway #alicenthightowerdaily #alicenthightoweredit #usergif #alicent hightower #aegon ii targaryen #alicent and aegon #alicent and her children #seamayweed gifs #seamayweed stuff #flashing tw #is this too late for mother's day? #the way she emptied and mythologized herself and then turns around and does the same to aegon....................... #these two make me so feral and insane

[dearlyfetching]

gotta say...it'd be a lot more satisfying if the writers would let olivia cooke bring the same energy to alicent that rebecca ferguson brought to jessica in dune: part 2.

#house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #team green #pro team green #as much as i enjoy the idea of rhaenicent and girlhood gone wrong #i cannot understand the impulse to hamstring a character's natural development #from longing for the nostalgia of an adolescent relationship with a close friend #to righteous indignation and justified mistrust after years of intentional or unintentional indignity #especially after the mutilation and disabling of her own child by that of her former friend's child #and the ultimate rejection of her concerns as well as the safety of her children by the person who forcefully bred her in the first place #how is she meant to remain idle and complacent in the face of a potential future where the lives of her children are at risk #all because an inept king and his reckless heir wouldn't properly codify the line of succession to prevent the situation they're all facing #neither alicent nor rhaenyra should hold the other in such staggeringly close regard after harm is perpetuated onto their families #lady jessica would not give a solid fuck about rhaenyra's feelings if paul was endangered by her carelessness

[criston-cole]

As to your match, make it yourself. Find one that pleases you, as I did.

#hotdedit #house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #rhaenicent #rhaenyratargaryenedit #alicenthightoweredit #myedit #going from accepting that her father had to marry and have more children to 3 years of anger and icing everyone out #why so mad baby girl #is it bc dad stole your girl