AnnaFeodorovna
If Rhaenyra cries, suffers, grieves or shows any emotion she's called too weak and unfit to rule. If Rhaenyra snaps at people or closes off due to losing her children she's called too hysterical or too emotional. If Rhaenyra tries to show no emotion and starts becoming more cold and detached she's called a mad bitch or a monster.
She can NEVER win as a woman ruler. No matter what she does or how she acts she gets insulted and degraded left and right. No matter how "cruel" or "insane" they'll make her in the show or how much the writers will butcher her to push the "mad Targaryen queen" agenda, it's never gonna work on me. She can blow up King's Landing at this point and I'll still support her. I don't care.
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@SebasChanUwU Complet de acord! Viserys did call Rhaenyra "his life's great joy" and she was known as "Viserys' little girl", so she was 100% his favourite but he ALSO loved his other children and Alicent (who was not a child-bride victim like the show made her). Viserys was awful to Rhaenyra too - forcing her to marry Laenor when Rhaenyra wanted to marry Daemon and Daemon asked Viserys for a divorce from Rhea to marry Rhaenyra in a proper way, but Viserys fucked them over. M-am îndrăgostit de Rhaenyra de când aveam 12-13 ani și am citit nuvela "The Princess and The Queen", mai târziu încorporată în F&B. A girl who carries the weight of being the heir, burdened with politics and sexual rumours since she was 7, who lost almost all of her children, was shamed and attacked, and despite all she was still proud, stubborn, refused to bow and died with a bang. But the way Rhaenyra has been treated by the fandom for the past 13 years makes my skin crawl. Greens fans calling her a whore or saying "she should have kept her legs closed", incels cheering at her death, Mysaria/Laena/Nettles stans saying "Daemon's one true love was not Rhaenyra, that was actually *add their self-insert fav*, he actually never loved that fat, ugly, mad Rhaenyra"; you know the woman he actually courted, was the first woman he ever asked to marry, murdered to marry her, disobeyed his brother, insulted Laena's memory and the Velaryons to marry, crowned with his own hands, commited Blood and Cheese for, fought for her throne and died for her... like I'M TIRED. I think the showrunners never expected for Rhaenyra to be THAT adored by the general audience. They kept trying with the whole "you'll switch teams, you'll turn against Rhaenyra" during s1 and s2, which never happened despite how much they sanitized the Greens, so now they'll probably try to paint Rhaenyra as bad as possible, even with things that were the fault of her councilors, Mysaria or completely out of her control in the book.
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SebasChanUwU
@ AnnaFeodorovna I hate alicent glaze so much. Și mai urăsc și cum au tot încercat să o facă victima perfectă. Vorbim de aceeași femeie care credea că fiica ei vitregă seduce un bărbățoi de 30+ ani când era clar că acesta îi făcea avansuri. Și mai urăsc cum l-au făcut pe Viserys un tată absent pentru copiii lui Alicent când în cărți se vedea clar că îi iubește pe toți în mod egal, iar Rhaenyra era favorita declarativ vorbind. Aș putea da rant toată ziua cum majoritatea surselor din F&B comentează despre o fetiță orfană de 8 ani cât de atractivă este sau cum Alicent reușește să fie și mamă, să arate și slim și etc după atâtea nasteri, nu vrea putere doar susține bărbații de pe lângă ea... Efectiv visul umed al patriarhatului (my opinnion)
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@SebasChanUwU EXACT! "Dacă Rhaenyra era bărbat nimic din toate astea nu s-ar fi întâmplat" is exactly the point. Someone pointed out that the word "whore" is used 7 times to describe Rhaenyra, the most compared to any other female character in the book. Aemond can't stop talking about her "cunny" and her "woman's parts". Her value and the support she gained are measured by chronicles in how many men would still find her desirable since "she was a married woman, her body aged and thickened by six childbirths" (she was only 32). Alfred Broome literally cuts her BREAST to "rouse" Sunfyre to eat her. Her death is a literal femicide and it's so disgusting and disturbing how some people - luckily a minority - support it or cheer for it. She's an incredibly sympathetic character and by far the most tragic in F&B, despite any flaws she might have had. Viserys was completely blind, ignorant and stupid. He adored Rhaenyra but was too complacent and idiotic and never knew to put his loser ass sons in their places. I won't even get into the Rhaena change but it's insane how they'll probably want to place Rhaenyra in the "evil stepmother" role, when that was always Alicent.
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