I see so many people commenting on Aegon III and Viserys II’s decision not to officially declare their mother the Queen after the war.
For some strange reason, it’s regarded as sons spurning their mother, and not a true sacrifice of their beliefs in order to ensure peace and prosperity in the Realm after a terrible war.
Rhaenyra’s boys were all loyal to her and they loved her until the end. Not one of them declared her a pretender. In their hearts, they knew she had been the rightful Queen, but they agreed to a great injustice, they agreed to make peace with their enemies, just so the people wouldn’t suffer anymore.
Now, my question is this: if the roles were reversed, and the Greens had been the ones who won the war, would they have agreed to keep Rhaenyra’s title as “Queen” in histories for the sake of peace?
Not on your life.
And that is what makes the Blacks better than the Greens.
Aegon IVs top 10 most iconic moments:
10. Naming those hills “Barba’s Teets” and then renaming them “Missy’s Teets” when Barba insults Missy’s breast size.
9. Trying to invade Dorne only to not even make it to shore because his whole fleet was wrecked by a storm.
8. Burning down 1/4 of the Kingswood and killing hundreds of people while trying to build wooden dragons for his Dornish invasion. Then immediately giving up on invading Dorne and pretending like nothing happened.
7. Showing up at Whitewalls, impregnating Lord Butterwell’s 3 daughters, and giving him a dragons egg as a reward.
6. Gifting Blackfyre to his bastard son Daemon.
5. Killing his father, Viserys II, thereby robbing the realm of potentially the best king it may have ever seen.
4. Creating Bloodraven.
3. Helping Daena escape the Maidens’ Vault and impregnating her, thereby both creating Daemon Blackfyre and also indirectly causing Baelor the Blessed to kill himself.
2. Spreading rumors that Daeron is his brother’s bastard just to undermine his own heir purely out of spite.
1. Legitimizing all his bastards on his death bed so he can keep being everyone’s problem for another 80 years.
Instead of talking shit about the actors, you should complain about the real culprits for their crappy acting in the series. If the people behind hotd didn't keep insisting on this shitty fanfic that women are all victims of manipulative and evil men, and had invested in the real story of the characters, I have no doubt that all the actors would have been excellent.
Me when people say that Aemond is a better fighter than Daemon and is going to kill him
"Rhaenyra always dressed richly, favoring purple and maroon velvets and golden Myrish lace in intricate patterns. Her bodice often glittered with pearls and diamonds, and there were always rings on her fingers"
(young rhaenyra, one of my first f&b artworks 👑)
Ik this isn’t Norton related but it’s been on my mind so ….
Hot take . I don’t think Hotd should be having a season 3. After the abomination that was season 2 I don’t think it should’ve been renewed. I also feel that they have gone so off the point of the book ( yes I know it’s an adaptation and things can get changed but not at the detriment of the story ) also making it woke . Seriously like wtf why …. It wasn’t needed . Hot hot take they should’ve gotten D & D to write it . At least it would’ve been engaging and entertaining. None of this miscommunication or accident bs . The characters would be multifaceted . But no we got two incompetents who are writing their own bs lesbian fanfic 🤦🏻♀️now they gonna have daeron for what purpose honestly ? You ignored him season one ,was mentioned in season 2 , I mean one of his arcs can’t even be used because no third child and honestly why bother their only gonna ruin as they have all the others . It’s a waste …
Rant over
alicent poisoned her children and fed them lies so they could hate rhaenyra and her children. alicent abused rhaenyra so badly she had to go away to dragonstone. alicent's own hatred is what caused her son to lose his eye. alicent helped her father and her son usurp the rightful heir to the throne. alicent's hatred is what caused aemond to go after luke and killing him. alicent is the root for all of rhaenyra's suffering and problems but she's still nice and pleasant enough with that woman? she should want her head on a spike but sure, 20 years ago they were friends and that explains why she would put her own life at risk to meet with that woman and somehow make peace terms with the party that ALREADY sent shitty peace terms wtf girl bye
Rhaenyra after Aegon is crowned: “As for my brothers and my sweet sister Helaena, they have been led astray by the council of evil men. Let them come to Dragonstone and bend the knee, and I will gladly welcome them back into my heart, for they are my blood and no man is as accursed as the kinslayer.”
Aegon after Rhaenyra is crowned: “I want her arrested, I want her attainted, and I want her dead.”
Where my anti-rhanicent girlies at cause I’m sick of seeing this shit on my feed 🥱
Aegon II defenders be like “oh my god you rape ONE person and all of a sudden you are the bad guy🙄😒”