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tegami-kagami · 7 days
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imagine during the third book where percy gets his final recommendation letter. he is approached by a god or goddess who asks him to reconcile past relationships. because to move forward, you can't let the things of the past hold you back. so percy gets closure with the side characters from the pjo og series. clarisse, nico, thalia, and rachel. and it just gets progressively more intimate until he has to confront one final person: the ghost of luke castellan.
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tegami-kagami · 28 days
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tegami-kagami · 29 days
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All the years of of the ATLA fandom favoring Zuko & Iroh over the GAang trio has payed off cause after watching NATLA season one, I've concluded the show writers definitely fleshed them out so much the dynamics of the Fire Nation Royal Family more than the original did in its s1.
And OZAI?!
OH MY GHAD, OZAI!!
Bloody Worst Parent of the Century OZAI from ATLA actually became more than the one dimensional faceless Big boss Aang needed to defeat by the end of the show. (Idk how to feel about that btw. Very conflicted on this)
And the conquering of Omashu by AZULA...
Power move girl.. Just please dont be too harsh on dear ol Bumi.
So really, my only complaint is that its only 8 episodes long when season 1 of ATLA was 20 episodes but I get it. Gotta do what works
And Boy, did they work. Everyone that work on this show, I mean.
Final words, my opinion of the show sums up to
"Love the additions, peeve about the changes, wish it was more than 8 episodes"
PS: Please more of Katara, Sokka and Aang. I need the kids cast for the main trio to shine more.
I love Zuko to death but those three are the core of Atla. You did great netflix but you can still do better. Renew for S2!! Thank you for reading me rant!
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tegami-kagami · 2 months
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POETIC!
Just the way I like it
A snake damned humanity.
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And a snake gave humanity it’s best shot at redemption.
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tegami-kagami · 2 months
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luke and percy parallels >>>
The only reason percy wasn’t like luke was because luke existed.
percy saw what luke did to everyone around him and immediately knew that it was wrong. he agreed with him, but not with the way he was doing it. that’s the whole point. then, after luke had betrayed his friends, percy was done with him, because loyalty, right? it’s his thing. but was he? i reread the last olympian recently and every interaction with “luke” consisted of percy feeling conflicted about fighting his friend.
it only made sense for a character like luke to be in this story. what would percy be without him?
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tegami-kagami · 2 months
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Its what every Luke Apologist have been chanting since 2005. 🤣
just realized that Percy pulled a " stooop this isn't you!!! 🥺" on Luke lmao
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tegami-kagami · 2 months
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"You'll fail to save what matters most in the end," cue little 9-year-old me who always thought this line was about Luke.
And now all I can think about is little Percy thinking the same and blaming himself. Like maybe, if he'd been able to save Luke- from Kronos, from the gods, from himself- then none of this would have happened.
"Maybe if I'd gotten back sooner, if I'd said something different, if I'd said the right thing, then maybe-"
And the answer is always going to be no, it wouldn't have changed anything. The person Luke needed wasn't Percy, it wasn't Annabeth, it wasn't even his mom who could no longer take care of him. And honestly? It may not even have been Hermes.
But it doesn't matter.
Because Luke made his decisions. He dug his own grave and had to lie in it. He was angry and upset and he knew what he wanted to do would hurt people, and he did it anyway. His actions had disastrous repercussions. And no one knows that better than Luke, himself.
But it still doesn't change that they all feel like they failed him- Hermes, May, Chiron, the trio, Thalia, the Hermes cabin, everyone. Everyone and anyone who loved Luke, who'd spent time with him, who had bled with him, who'd laughed with him- they'd all lay awake and night and wonder if maybe, the thing that mattered most in the end, was Luke.
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tegami-kagami · 2 months
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“why don’t they ever suspect Luke why don’t they realize it’s Luke why are they so quick to suspect Clarisse and not a Hermes kid”
guys, Luke is the perfect child. Thats the whole point! He gave his offerings he said his prayers he went on his quest he proved his loyalty to Chiron, to the gods, to his dad. And he did it all with a smile. They have no reason to suspect luke! Luke is the best of them!
Ares could’ve come to that meeting waving a big sign that said “LUKES THE LIGHTNING THIEF” and they still wouldn’t have believed him.
Because they also don’t want it to be Luke.
They love Luke. Luke takes care of them Luke protects them Luke is everything they want in an older brother. It doesn’t matter how blaringly obvious the writers get about who the real thief is. They will ignore every sign, every red flag, every warning, until Percy is dying of poison deep in the forest and Luke is gone.
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tegami-kagami · 2 months
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Everyone’s talking about the extra Pearl disproving the ‘you shall fail to save what matters most in the end’ part of the prophecy but I never thought that it was about Sally. In the end she was saved (just not by Percy), so even though we think it’s about her at one part in the story, it’s not actually referring to her. It’s referring to Luke. He’s what matters most in the end, he officially joins Kronos around this time, and he wasn’t saved- not by Percy or anyone else
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tegami-kagami · 3 months
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i've been here since I was a kid I did everything they ever asked, yeah, I did and for what?
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tegami-kagami · 3 months
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Do you wanna hear what I think is my most unpopular PJO opinion? (don't get me wrong, I have some that would get me on lists, but this one is likely the one that would get the least traction):
Generally, demigods like quests.
(Insert booing noises here.)
Let me make my arguments:
We've all taken Annabeth's statement that campers train for the opportunity to fight monsters like the Minotaur to be a sign of how naive and headstrong she is. And... it is, but where did we get the impression that she was also the only one who thought like that?
Luke
Ironically enough, Luke's the biggest proof there is for my theory. Let's see how Luke talks about his quest.
Let’s just say I messed things up for everybody else. The last two years, ever since my trip to the Garden of the Hesperides went sour, Chiron hasn’t allowed any more quests.
Two things jump out here. While it's possible that "Chiron hasn't allowed any more quests" refers to putting his foot down and not allowing the gods to demand any, given Annabeth's attitude (and the likelihood of that holding much water with the gods), it's even more likely that it's the campers who aren't allowed to go. Luke certainly believes that he ruined things for the others by causing the ban.
Then, at the forest with Percy:
I trained, and trained, and trained. I never got to be a normal teenager, out there in the real world. Then they threw me one quest, and when I came back, it was like, ‘Okay, ride’s over. Have a nice life.’ “The heck with laurel wreaths,” Luke said. “I’m not going to end up like those dusty trophies in the Big House attic.”
Let me remind you that Luke is 19 here. There's no way Chiron and Mr. D could be holding him against his will at Camp the way they were, for example, with Annabeth and Percy at the beginning of the book. Annabeth also says that other counselors were in college, lending credence to the fact that, especially when they were older, they were free to come and go.
This is not Luke saying that he doesn't want to be stuck at camp. He's saying he doesn't want to end up on the shelf.
“You’re wrong. [Kronos] showed me that my talents are being wasted. You know what my quest was two years ago, Percy? My father, Hermes, wanted me to steal a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides and return it to Olympus. After all the training I’d done, that was the best he could think up.”
“Where’s the glory in repeating what others have done? All the gods know how to do is replay their past. My heart wasn’t in it. The dragon in the garden gave me this”—he pointed angrily at his scar—“and when I came back, all I got was pity.
His complaint with the quest? It was not "my dad used me as a tool" or "he put me in danger" — it was "the one he chose showed that I'm an afterthought to him". It was "he gave me no glory or recognition".
Also, "After all the training I’d done, that was the best he could think up"? Sounds a lot like quests weren't so much errand runs as rewards or shows of recognition by the gods.
But that's not the only interesting thing to happen in that conversation!
Percy
After a while Luke said, “You miss being on a quest?” “With monsters attacking me every three feet? Are you kidding?” Luke raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, I miss it,” I admitted. “You?”
Mister "I never wanted to be a half-blood" himself! (Almost as if characters are meant to change throughout a story... huh.) And let's remember this is Luke he's talking to — the only person he revealed his prophecy to. He has a history of trusting him over anyone else. There's nothing in this scene that points to him being anything but honest.
Putting aside Percy's hero complex that will have him harassing the Oracle so it will give him a quest because he's unable to stand by the sideline as his friends are in danger, how other people have pointed out that Percy was the one to propose and sometimes even force himself into most of his quests — I never saw anyone mention his admission that he liked them, at least the first one. Now, of course, it's undeniable that he does eventually get tired of it, but... to what extent, really? In TLO, he says he's ready to kick back and enjoy himself, but that's in reference to the Great Prophecy. It doesn't have both capitalization and the word great in it for nothing.
Then in Staff of Hermes:
If he was delivering a message in person from the gods, it was bad news. If he wanted something from me, it was also bad news. But seeing as he’d just saved me from explaining myself to Annabeth, I was too relieved to care.
Sure, he doesn't want a quest, but it's still preferable to a difficult conversation with his girlfriend. It's only when they really start to pile up and interfere seriously with his normal life (by, say, making him miss most of a year) that he puts his foot down.
But his is ultimately an unusual case, because others aren't as affected by their own quests.
"Except for how they're risking their lives!" you say, but...
How dangerous are normal quests?
Because all signs point to Percy's being an outlier. For starters, as a powerful child of the Big Three, he attracts more monsters than your regular demigod, and that's without taking into account the gods who hate him for it.
Then there's the fact that Kronos's rise has stirred up monster activity
“I saw a lot out there in the world, Percy,” Luke said. “Didn’t you feel it — the darkness gathering, the monsters growing stronger? Didn’t you realize how useless it all is?"
As well as brought older, stronger monsters out of the woodwork.
"The stirring of monsters." Dr. Thorn smiled evilly. "The worst of them, the most powerful, are now waking. Monsters that have not been seen in thousands of years..."
Not to mention that most of Percy's quests that we've seen involved jumping straight into a scheme by an ancient, powerful titan by the moniker "the Crooked One".
Compare them to The Stolen Chariot. That was... fun, all in all. An afternoon visit to the zoo. Got him out of class early. What if that's the standard for a quest?
However, the biggest argument for quests being usually pretty simple is, once again, Luke. Let's go back to that first quote.
Let’s just say I messed things up for everybody else. The last two years, ever since my trip to the Garden of the Hesperides went sour, Chiron hasn’t allowed any more quests.
So, quests were more or less normal two years before TLT, before they were forbidden, like the chariot races, because it was judged unacceptably dangerous. So, it could be that Luke's was the last in a recent string of injuries (possible — he said himself that already the world was becoming "darker" by the time of his quest) and/or it was considered to be bad enough in itself to justify ending quests entirely. Whatever the explanation, for all the "yeah, we make a shroud whenever someone goes on a quest" rituals, Luke's injury had to have been grisly by their standards.
Like. Not to diminish it, but. It's a scar across the face. It doesn't even seem to have affected his eyesight.
Everything points to...
That your average camper, before Kronos, would have either volunteered or been selected by the gods (probably their parent) to go on quests as recognition of their skills and a chance to earn glory. OH, and don't forget a chance to be a hero. That's important. After all, you don't wanna end up in the Fields of Asphodel because your life was too boring, do you?
TL; DR: The attitude towards quests and even probably the experience surrounding them are much different than we treat them in fandom.
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tegami-kagami · 3 months
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Preety much my biggest issue so far. Like. Where are the beds on the ground, i kept yelling while watching ep 2.
Why was Percy the only one sleeping on the floor of the Hermes Cabin in the show?
Not sure if this is just me, and admittedly it is still early days, but one thing the show seems to be missing that the book did so well is "all the Gods are terrible parents", and nowhere is this more noticeable than when comparing the Hermes cabin in book to show. Percy comes in to the Hermes cabin and got a sleeping bag on the floor. In the book, it was a struggle to fit him in because of the number of kids already sleeping on the floor. It was a big thing that so many kids were stuck there because their parents wouldn't claim them. In the show, he appears to be the only one on the ground (which is a little ridiculous and honestly just looks particularly cruel to Percy - ah yes, you specifically are on the ground).
From the very start the Hermes cabin is presented as over-full in the books. It's the place where kids go when their godly parent just doesn't bother claiming them, or is a minor god so they don't have a cabin of their own. It is an enormous plot point of the series, being what turns Luke, Chris, Ethan and so many others who spent enough time there against the gods. It is the physical symptom and proof of their lack of care, and one of the biggest reasons Percy sympathises with the half-bloods who turned to Kronos to a certain extent.
The TV show doesn't show that. Percy being the only one on the floor seems to imply the impermanence of his situation; it suggests a fast turnover of people getting claimed and moving on that more people haven't piled up in the cabin. And despite his worry and everyone's warnings he might not get claimed, he does so in a single week, and we never see anything to the contrary to suggest that isn't the usual experience. There is no evidence of overcrowding that should have been so easy to add to the show with a few extra sleeping bags on the floor and someone (perhaps Chris who I believe was unclaimed until he returned to camp in BotL) mentioning how long they've been unclaimed in the Hermes cabin.
This was a bit of a rant about a show I've been otherwise really enjoying, but I don't understand how something that seems so obvious didn't happen. And it's not like the producers or set designers just didn't think about it; after all Percy didn't have a bed. Or that they're not pushing the fact everyone had godly-parent issues; a lot of episode 3 was about how Annabeth never sees Athena, and they talked about how there was a chance Percy would never be claimed as though it was common. And if they're trying to make Percy seem more isolated and desperate to find out who his father is, wouldn't seeing loads of kids stuck on the floor have more impact than 'just you will be there for a short while until a bed come free'?
The over-crowded Hermes cabin was such a massive feature of the book series, to the extent that Percy's eventual demand of the gods (claiming their kids and minor gods cabins) entirely encapsulated all the problems with Cabin 11 that ignoringing it in a show that is otherwise presenting the essence of the story so well... just seems bizarre.
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tegami-kagami · 3 months
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Luke Castellan is NOT the Voldemort of the series KRONOS is. You are supposed to sympathize with him and his childhood and the way people treated him. You are supposed to think about what he says. You are supposed to be conflicted about weather or not you agree with his choices. Because he is RIGHT. He’s not the end all be all villain like the Joker or Voldemort he’s borderline sympathetic and overtly correct in his beliefs
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tegami-kagami · 3 months
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THIS!.
THIS is me 😭.
Like I have a Luke redemption fic 8 years in the making just to cope with this.
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tegami-kagami · 7 months
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anyway, let me just post this before I forget that this photo exists yet again and go down a rabbit hole of shitty Google-fu
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tegami-kagami · 8 months
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KUROBA KAITO HC #22:
I know its a general belief that being KID might be erasing who Kuroba Kaito is but it seems like I'm the weird one out because I feel like by being KID, it allows Kaito to truly be himself
I've got this HC where Kaito puts on an act ever since his dad died. Cheerful, prankster, perverted
Always a smile on his face
I feel like kaito was never really allowed to express himself after touichi died. Partly because of poker face but mostly because of the people around him. The pity, the constant urging to 'smile! it suits you better' or 'you're not acting like yourself, kaito' or 'you're scaring me, kaito' until he just got tired of it and took up on the role that's expected of him
Then KID happens and suddenly, what's supposed to be another mask became an outlet for him to be his true self. He can channel his anger and grief, be dark and far more than the class clown
He's a genius with the highest IQ possible, calculative and manipulative. He can go all out with his magic without being compared to his dead father. Sure, his dad may have created KID but unlike either of his parents, being a thief is no longer a means to an end anymore and he's free to be himself under the moonlight
I dunno, i just thought of that official art(?) where kaito wore a black suit as his civilian self but with his monocle on and it made me think that perhaps KID is who Kuroba Kaito really is and not just a mask he has to wear
At least, those are my thoughts 😅
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Idk about the books but this is definitely true for the Show!Dance of Dragons.
what would you think would happen if the greens just let rhaenyra sit on the throne
at a minimum, alicent's boys would have all been killed.
okay now that i've grabbed your attention, let me explain, and i promise i'll be able to make this entire argument without ever claiming rhaenyra is a bad person who wants to kill her family! the fact is that rhaenyra's rule was always going to face dangerous levels of backlash, because it threatened the lords of westeros's own claims to power in two major ways. as a reminder, westeros is closer to an empire consisting of autonomous kingdoms than a dictatorship, and the lords of westeros retain much more power than most fans seem to understand. alicent's sons would have ended up the pawns and figureheads for unhappy lords seeking to retain their power in the wake of unrest caused by rhaenyra's ascension. i'll explain all of this further below, using a historical example that i think is helpful.
first, we need to understand that rhaenyra's rule would have still been made very unstable because of two factors: her gender, and her very obvious bastard children. (as a side note, i've talked before about how it is literally genetically impossible for the strong boys to be laenor's sons and why we see people treating it like a fact). why are these two things so impactful? because they threaten the claims of many of the lords and heirs in westeros's current system.
westeros has previously relied on gender-based primogeniture. if a lord has an eldest daughter, and younger sons, his title and lands pass to the eldest son, skipping the daughter. i'm not saying this is morally right, but i am saying that there are probably lords out there with older sisters who got passed over, who don't want their sisters to unseat them. and there are lords who don't want their eldest daughters to usurp their sons' claims. this is just a political reality: the people with political power have a selfish, vested interest in keeping themselves in power. rhaenyra sets a precedent that threatens their ability to do this, making them less likely to support her.
westeros also relies on trueborn children inheriting from their parents. if a lord has two sons, one elder and one younger, but the elder one was born out of wedlock, he legally can't inherit. a bastard can only inherit if they are the only son, and if they are recognized and legitimized by the king as a bastard. again, i don't stand by this custom morally, but it's the reality of how things currently work in westeros. just like with the sex-based inheritance, changing this precedent would put many lords' claims in jeopardy who have their own bastard children they don't want to inherit, or who have older bastard siblings who could try to steal their current title.
it would additionally threaten diplomatic ties between houses, because marriage pacts were political agreements made between families that were cemented around the understanding that the bloodlines would be joined in inheritance. if a lord marries his daughter to another lord, he expects that his grandchildren will inherit the lord's titles, and if a bastard were to inherit he would feel slighted and tricked. so if any upheavals in inheritance happened because of rhaenyra's bastards, it would have pretty major ripple effects for house relations, not just internal house affairs of succession.
so rhaenyra coming into power, however peacefully, would set a legal precedent for women inheriting that many lords in westeros would be unhappy about. rhaenyra would still deny that her kids were bastards, so putting jace on the iron throne wouldn't set a legal precedent, but it would set a cultural one. bastards all across westeros (perhaps rightfully so) would see jace and say: if he can rule the seven kingdoms, why can't i rule my father's castle? think of the blackfyre rebellion but on a smaller scale, taking place throughout various levels of various houses throughout westeros. so we have instability threatening the stations and in some cases probably the lives of all of the most powerful men in westeros. they're not gonna be happy about this.
think about the dance: it's actually ridiculous that the greens had as much support as they did. otto isn't that good of a manipulator; he didn't get all of these houses, some of them incredibly powerful and ancient, on his side just because. it speaks to just how threatened the lords of westeros felt, because there's no question that viserys named rhaenyra his heir and they still turned against her. i genuinely feel like rhaenyra might have had a shot if her reign had been either about gender or bastards, but not both. as much as i love the strong boys, their existence was the final straw that weakened her claim enough to cause all this.
so now that rhaenyra is on the throne, and jace is set to inherit, and lords throughout westeros are dealing with challenges to their power and turning against her, where will they turn to? the lords who are threatened by women will want to turn to a man; the lords who are threatened by bastards will want to turn to someone who is unquestionably a trueborn targaryen.
and here we get to alicent's children. for a lord who doesn't want to acknowledge jace, aegon is unquestionably viserys's son. for a lord who doesn't want to acknowledge rhaenyra, aegon is male. it does not matter if aegon and the greens do not mobilize against rhaenyra. it does not matter if they refuse to speak against her. it simply matters that enough houses will turn against her to use them as figureheads, even against their will.
a few hotd fans have brought up the very apt comparison to the lady jane grey from the 1500s. long story short, jane was positioned by other nobles to usurp queen mary's throne at the ripe old age of sixteen, even though jane's claim to the throne was weak and always had been. later, she completely rescinded her claim and swore support for mary. but armies continued to march in her name; lords continued to fight against mary in her name. because it had never been about the legitimacy of jane's claim. because it had never been about jane's own beliefs. mary did not bear any ill will towards jane, and still political pressure forced mary into having her executed, while she was still basically a child.
i'm not saying that rhaenyra would ever want to kill her siblings in this scenario. to say she would is simply ignoring her entire character. but think of this: if it came down to protecting her children or sacrificing aegon, which would she choose? we've already seen her willingness to sacrifice others, including the greens, to protect her kids: giving daemon the okay nod to kill vaemond, asking viserys to torture aemond, and telling viserys thank you after he threatened to cut out his own wife and children's tongues. if war loomed close enough for her to feel her children's lives were in danger, she would give the order. not happily, but she'd give it.
she'd probably kill just aegon, at first. try to spare the younger brothers, and the women of course. but i really do think the lords would just switch to rallying around viserys's surviving eldest son, aemond. and her hand would end up forced in the same way, and as such she'd go down the line of her brothers until they were all gone. again, not happily, and not without a great deal of hesitance, but she'd do it to protect her kids. she'd do anything to protect her kids.
and, for those of you who firmly believe rhaenyra would never, even to save her children's lives: might i remind you that daemon targaryen exists. daemon, who bludgeoned his first wife to death because he saw her as an obstacle to being with rhaenyra. daemon, who beheaded vaemond in rhaenyra's honor. daemon, who we know from the books has no qualms about killing children for crimes they did not commit. even if rhaenyra refused to give the order, daemon would carry it out.
this is why i have sympathy for the greens, even though they obviously don't have a claim to the throne the way rhaenyra does. i don't see alicent crowning aegon as a blow directed towards rhaenyra in particular. i don't even see it as alicent lacking faith in rhaenyra to spare her children. i see it as alicent understanding the ways in which the men around her will try to cling to power-- because while rhaenyra has been enjoying the privileges of her position, alicent is a relatively unpowerful noblewoman and has always been beholden to the whims of the men around her such as viserys-- and understanding that rhaenyra is surrounded by people who would happily kill all of alicent's children to stabilize her claim.
otto was paranoid, and he was a manipulative fuck who had his own selfish ambitions at heart, but the best manipulators know to base their lies on foundations of truth. his demonization of rhaenyra was an embellishment, but his warning about rhaenyra's rule spelling death for alicent's children was not. and that's why he was able to turn alicent so effectively: for all that alicent wanted to love and trust rhaenyra, it was never about love, and it was never about trust. it was never even really about rhaenyra. it was about the politics of westeros, and the external pressures and hands that would have caused the ruin of alicent's entire family. even if rhaenyra didn't want to kill them, and even if she refused to give the order to kill them.
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