Lili Zanotto deserves so much more credit for being the perfect angry weird little girl character her beating the shit out of gristol was hysterical. She is 100% fine with violence & chooses violence over other options. She spends most of her time at camp talking to plants. She sets things on fire. One of her first (if not the first) interactions with norma is calling her a snitch. I am 100% sure she has inflicted severe psychic damage on several motherlobe employees who tried to talk to Truman about it only to get the “haha that’s just like her :) I’m so proud of my daughter” response.
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^^ screenshot. blends in on mobile/dark mode ^^
that wasn't why she was mad though, well it was and wasn't. it wasn't that she had sex necessarily, but more the weight and nuance of it all, of Rhaenyra being the princess, who Alicent had been trying her best to serve the best interest of and protect in terms of betrothals and Viserys, having sex in a very public place. she was clearly upset and holding back tears when she confronts Rhaenyra that first time, but she isn't especially angry. she's angry when Rhaenyra lied to her face on her dead mother's name, going so far as to act upset and offended Alicent could ever insinuate anything about her, played the victim, had sex with two separate people in one night and said she was still a maiden (from Alicent's perspective she couldn't have known Rhaenyra only tried to have sex with Daemon and was unsuccessful, she could only believe that she had sex with both Daemon and Criston), and then used her power to have her father (the only person Alicent had) banished from kings landing, all the while she had put her ass on the line for her in front of Viserys, who never believed Rhaenyra to begin with. it wasn't simply the fact that Rhaenyra had sex, she's mad because Rhaenyra used her, hurt her, did harm to her name and the work both she and Viserys had put towards giving her a choice no royal girl, especially a princess, could ever imagine, and she spit in their faces.
there's also the fact that Cole admitted IMMEDIATELY what had transpired, asked not for forgiveness but for death, and admitted that it was dubcon. it's a very different situation. she also sympathized with the fact he felt great remorse for both the act of sleeping with the princess but also his breakdown that lead to the murder of Joffery. all we see is her stopping him and then a near decade has passed and they are close friends, we know nothing of how this friendship evolved, when she fully forgave him for his acts, what it took for him to earn her trust and forgiveness.
not saying either of them are saintly and perfectly correct in that situation, but you boil it down to the point that the situation is unrecognizable. you ignored all of the nuance on both sides. Alicent was never mad about the sex, upset yes, mad no, she was mad at how Rhaenyra could hurt her so horribly (amongst many other things. I don't think she, someone who shared her grief with Rhaenyra over their dead mother's, could ever get over how Rhaenyra lied on her name. me personally? I'd be sick to my stomach every time I looked at her for the rest of my days). Cole was coerced into sex, which he was honest and seeked death for repentance, had a breakdown and murdered someone (I won't defend this, you can't, he did murder an innocent person, that is a fact) but felt so guilty he tried to kill himself and seemingly spent the last 10ish years making up for it (where as I can name multiple people Rhaenyra outright in level head and mind maimed/murdered/otherwise allowed or dismissed the deaths/injury of, for her own goals and didn't give a second thought to so.... girly walks atop barely cooled corpse's time and time again).
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the reveal that kipperlilly is jealous of riz's dad being dead ''because her own parents are boring and she's boring and she wants your sob story'' really just immediately felt to me like 'mentally ill kid knows something is wrong with them but can't understand what it is or why they feel the way they do and wishes there was some external thing they could blame for it'
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Can we just appreciate the Gargantuan Guts™ of this girl?
That's Nicholas the Punisher. The Undertaker.
She knows it, she knows that very well.
Yet, she's just throwing herself in front of him to get answers. We can argue that this is her naive showing, but after all this, after Roberto's death...is not realistic. Not anymore.
And I think that here Nick is not smacking her into tomorrow not only because he grew awfully fond of her (talking shtick to Vash about getting attached and there you go, you snarky hypocrite), but also because she might be reminding him of Vash, launching herself straight into danger, determination incarnated.
And he's not reciprocating that goddamned shin kick because he knows he deserves it. Very much. And he's accepting that, wishing for some kind of atonement.
In his own, grumpy moth way.
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i acknowledge no one in the show fandom will care about clarisse until her heel-face turn but that's fine because i love her anyway
but also. how much do you think she fucking hates frank zhang.
roman, which is bad enough
but SPECIFICALLY the mars/ares dichotomy with rome respecting mars and greece shitting on ares as a matter of course
so CHB doesn't take ares kids seriously but CJ loves its mars kids
gets a field promotion from CJ's Golden Boy to the highest position in the camp after like ONE big fight
meanwhile CHB rolls their eyes at ares' kids and specifically clarisse even after they/she clean UP in the battle with the titans
is a boy, which means not only do the EXTRA misogynist roman versions of the gods and especially their dad like and respect him more
but it probably means ARES prefers him too, given he canonically favors his sons enough to insult clarisse over it
[also not to say one form of abuse is worse than another, but mars might've ignored frank but it's pretty heavily implied he hits clarisse sooo]
and BOTH versions of their father give him battle strats from inside his head
when we've never even seen clarisse get ares' blessing in battle despite, again, saving CHB's bacon more than once
can fucking turn into animals
in conclusion: frank probably rolls up to CHB kinda lukewarmly like "new siblings? neat" but for clarisse it's ON FUCKING SIGHT
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