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itβs so funny how blatantly he has a favorite grandchild
βA son for a sonβ is the cruelest and deadbeat thing they couldβve had Rhaenyra demand from Alicent after the beaheading of Jaehaerys. Like her shock and horror at daemon earlier doesnβt even exist anymore. It was just lip service to make Rhaenyra look good at the time, but in the moment it counts to say something, all she wants is to make alicent suffer. And for what? Is Luke not avenged properly? All the dead smallfolk they have Rhaenyra pine over, and she canβt even muster a shred of sympathy for a murdered baby and then makes his grandmother choose between the fate of the rest of her family for the beheading of her wounded son. Like. What the fuck. What the fuck? Who are these characters because I canβt even make sense of them anymore. What the hell even was the point of blood and cheese now??
itβs kind of funny how the same people who never shut up about Criston having a madonna-whore complex unironically subscribe to the same belief when it comes to Alicent vs Rhaenyra
Alicent having sex with one person as a widow has people blasting her as a whore, both in the story and in fanon people treat her having sex like itβs a character flaw and sheβs portrayed as responsible for blood and cheese because she dared to have a romantic relationship.
on the flip side Rhaenyra having an affair with Harwin is treated as something noble and respectable, her having sex with Daemon the night of his wifeβs funeral is seen as loving and no one puts the blame on her shoulders for the eye incident because she dared to have sex.
everything Rhaenyra does is treated as inherently virtuous whereas Alicent was getting called a whore when her only crime was being forced to marry Viserys and now that she has a relationship with Criston the misogynistic comments are only worse.