#especially in rhaegar's case because when the opportunity came to remedy the fallout he caused with his father's own actions compounding it

[lostchildofthenewworld]

I think with Rhaegar, whatever he ascertained to his purpose, he would desire it. To me, he was an insatiable man of appetite for self interest, in the worst way.

My favorite Rhaegar (oxymoron right there) fic is by liesmyth. It’s called the piper at the gates of dawn and it’s one of those you live again and again groundhogs day fics. You’ve probably read it but if not, I would recommend. I enjoyed seeing him fail.

R wakes up after dying on the trident and is completely unrepentant for the pain he caused people. He runs off with L again and fails and dies. Eventually he gets tired of that version and just takes off w/o saying anything and does whatever he wants. Knowing that his kids and Elia are in danger but he doesn’t really care. The author describes a bunch of different lives but at the end it seems like R gets everything he wants but he’s still unhappy. Because it’s not exactly how he wanted it. Anyway it ends with him dying. Even after doing everything exactly how he wanted he still dies. It’s reads as a sort of character study of Rhaegar.

I think I've read this before. I've mentioned before that I believe Rhombus gained his sense of self/self-importance from his grandparents. So long as he believes in his own delusions, he'll always be the most dangerous thing to his family and himself. I mean look at Aerys and how dangerous he was because of what he believed to be his truth.

That's the danger of people who have an inflated sense of ego and importance. They believe that their delusion, that their reality, is the same for everyone else, because they can't see beyond themselves. It would only need to take a moment of self reflection and self-actualization for pale-face prince to realize the dangerous slope he was on. Even when he left KL and was speaking to Jaime, he did not even factor in that maybe he would not return, so sure he was in his victory and infallibility.

I think that's why the death of Rhaella and Elia and her children are so depressing. Both wives are victim's of their husband's egos, with others (their enemies), (in Elia's case) taking advantage of their short-sightedness. But it often seems that the women of asoiaf suffer for the male ego.

#anon ask #rhaegar crtical #you gotta be so deluded and into yourself if you believe that there would be no - zero - consequences to your actions #especially in rhaegar's case because when the opportunity came to remedy the fallout he caused with his father's own actions compounding it #rhaegar still picked option B which further the conflict and thus making the people under his care having to pay for the debt and credit #that rhaegar and aerys had incurred with the realm #boooooo!!! this guy(s) stinks!