Alicent Hightower is genuinely confused at the concept of anybody wanting to be a mother, and it absolutely unnerves audiences. Motherhood is often portrayed as humanizing or redeeming, but Alicent is a worse mother than she is a person, and it’s quietly revolutionary.
criston wants alicent to love him aemond wants alicent to love him aegon wants alicent to love him rhaenyra wants alicent to love her. When you play the game of Alicent you win or you die