🧙 Larys and Alicent's foot scene is much worse than you think | House of the Dragon

Soooo....Larys Strong has a secret love of feet. Alicent Hightower's feet in particular. However, I think many are missing the true horror of this scene just to say LOL feet. And how Larys' obsession is in line with his other favorite hobbies that use power and humiliations on his victims for his own pleasure.
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[@AhMotherland]

Nailed it. Poor guy hates himself, to his very sole. We live in the digit-al age, so we can’t really walk a mile in his shoes to understand. Limp excuse, I know, but I’m glad Joe strides to understand the character. I just wonder if she’ll give him the boot at the end.

[@thatsmsrivers]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Well done.

[@twiss9341]

Haha

[@fuzi5303]

You’re an awful person and it’s solely for that reason I’ve come to like you

[@chrisloyal9796]

👍👍

[@SheldonT.]

Alicent thinks he's a bit of a heel, but if Larys toes the line, he's a shoe-in as the Arch-villian.

[@Kayley199514]

I love the parallels between her disgust with Viserys and with Larys with the line "the hour is quite late". She uses it the first time in the episode where Raenyra is losing her virginity, as Viserys summons her to his chambers. She uses it again when she enters the room and sees Larys standing there.

[@SongbirdAlom]

holy shit, great observation!

[@made-line7627]

Yeah I enjoyed that they did that again

[@abbyniloingsigh7188]

She actually said it first in the very first episode when she is leaving the godswood with Rhaenyra.

[@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289]

That's true, and I have to believe that Alicent laid like a corpse underneath Viserys every time they had sex. Granted, the guy was much older than her, and he was diseased, but no guy enjoys a woman who is not engaged during that level of intimacy. She acted like Viserys was raping her, so how can she outright lie and claim that she "loved," the King when she tries to coerce Rhaenys to the green faction's cause?

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

i actually hated that but it is evidence she knows obviously

[@apocalypse_frau]

“That is an expression of the domination he craves, not the *sole* purpose…” I see what you did there. 🦶

[@deniseg812]

Yea, cause I feet are awful and he is a huge sleeze.

[@THAB3AST]

"I understood that reference"

[@Manjunath0311]

@@THAB3AST I didn't understand. What is it?

[@reneenayfabnaynay5679]

@@Manjunath0311 the sole of your feet.

[@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289]

I actually get that the foot fetish stems from his physical disability, but he is obsessed with her. He gets off on dominating Alicent, and what makes him psychotic is that he does this with her grudging consent. In a regular BDSM arrangement, a dom engages intimately with his/her submissive(s) with their full consent, and both parties find a thrill in their arrangement.

[@EricAkawie]

I feel sorry for Mushroom that he never learned of this arrangement. He would have written an entire volume about this.

[@nont18411]

Mushroom will rub his mushroom the same way as Larys

[@samwallaceart288]

There would've been a lymeric, a volume, a play, and several songs, the whole shebang.

[@hatless_spider]

"He's the lord of Harrenhal and can already see all the feet he wants" Now imagine if he truly is a greenseer and can see all the feet pics he wants from the whole history of Westeros

[@JoeMagician]

Now you're cooking with gas

[@CrusadiaIX]

The true motivations of the Clubfoot’s Sorcerous training

[@justin219]

off topic but is that profile pic what I think it is? the house that deserve a mention.

[@hatless_spider]

@@justin219 yes, I hope they get some limelight someday!

[@foodfornot]

He has his own foot wiki... he *is* his own foot wiki

[@tomv7017]

"everything in the world is about sex except sex. sex is about power" - oscar wilde

[@eliza6971]

Honestly, I think it was kinda brilliant. Alicent hates that Rhaenyra hooks up with whoever she wants, but Larys can make Alicent feel like a common camp follower even when she's wearing all her clothes. All he has to do to flex his power is let her see him glance at her shoes and most people would never pick up on it.

[@STargaryan]

It literally took 2 times for me to go back and see the bit to understand what exactly happened there in the episode..

[@richmackin]

The interesting thing about the foot fetish-degradation is that it's both gross and creepy and makes her feel horrible- and yet is physically harmless, has no evidence, doesn't risk impregnating her, etc.

[@Cortesevasive]

she seduces him , thats not degrading thats sexy

[@suadpattonbey7239]

Exactly, I’m sure he’s also taking caution not to repeat what Harwin did with rhaynera. It would be weird for alicent to give birth to brown haired children with possibly clubbed feet.

[@ProfRavenSteel]

@@suadpattonbey7239 it's not necessary that his children will also have clubfoot. It's not a genetic disease but a physical anomaly.

[@suadpattonbey7239]

@@ProfRavenSteel thank you for clarifying that. I honestly wasn't sure whether it was or not. either way a widow and her spending time with him would implicate him enough that it would be a problem

[@kayb6803]

@@suadpattonbey7239 I actually think it will get to that point that it is a full or very close to sexual intercourse. I think he is stress testing Alicent to see just how far she is willing to let him go. I knew it was going to get sexual the moment he told he did to his father and brother. After he said that they share a secret now, he followed up with something like “I know you’ll find a way to make it up to me.” I said right then this is going to get UGLY for Alicent! He was leering at her in such a gross sexual way right then!

[@hatless_spider]

If he is only motivated by feet pics, then that diminishes him as a character. If he is doing it to specifically make Alicent believe that his desires are base and carnal so that she thinks she has him as a pawn, then it may be masterful storytelling. We will have to see what they do with it.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

I don't think alicent sees his desires "just" being sexual as a positive, she is very uncomfortable with it. my guess is that the writers are setting this up somewhat goofy to ignorant viewers to eventually freak them out with the arrangement escalating into larys raping alicent (or somebody else).

[@hatless_spider]

@@Ass_of_Amalek the feelings don't have to be mutually exclusive. She can be disgusted by the act while also being pleased that she feels in control over him for a price, however foul that price may be.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

@@hatless_spider I don't think she feels in control, her not feeling in control is the whole point.

[@hatless_spider]

@@Ass_of_Amalek could be, could be. Either way it is conjecture and we won't know until we see what the showrunners do with this. So far they have shown that they are smarter than to reduce Larys to a sexual deviant only though

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

@@hatless_spider nah, all of ASOIAF is about sexual deviancy. it's like a universe created in the mind of freud.

[@jacobhubner5057]

I like how this scene clearly shows how Larys is not on team Green. I worried earlier episodes were giving this impression through his interactions with Aleicent. But as this scene and video wonderfully show, Larys is only on team Larys.

[@cabbagenut]

Yeah the humiliation factor was the first thing I noticed. It was super slimy, a display of long-term abuse and manipulation. The fact that it is feet has more to do with Alicent I think - and how far she could be pushed. She values duty and modesty and feminine virtue. She knows what he's doing, but without touch it seems like a better price to pay than marriage with full contact to a diseased dying man.

[@everestrada9141]

Yeah, I was gonna say the payout seems more worthwhile as a long as the simple “threat” that at least he hasn’t physically touched her yet but could always ask for more holds her back for now A much different story if he asked for sex right off the back but for now the danger of “more” is very much keeping her in line as far as he’s concerned

[@batgurrl]

Thanks for your in-depth analysis. Yes, it’s not about the feet, it’s about control. Larys definitely gives me the creeps

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

the series hasn't even shown his proper bad side yet, which is his torturing. this guy is basically ramsay bolton and littlefinger combined.

[@informedRev13]

Completely!

[@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty]

It's pretty realistic for a sexual predator tbh.

[@Baphomane]

The really creepy thing is that psychopaths like these are among us. More then you imagine

[@zanechi]

Another scene to show that Alicent is nothing more than a toy for the men around her. Like Princess Rhaenys said.

[@ruvend2581]

There are some great catches in that video that I haven’t seen before, for example Alicent taking her shoes off in an earlier dinner and Larys not speaking until Talya left the room

[@singularm5923]

When I saw her taking her shoes off the first time I thought "Oh, she feels so comfortable around him, they must've become buddies over the years". Never have I been proven more wrong before.

[@mowglees1880]

i'm sure someone else has made this point as well but if we're sticking with the three eyed rat theory for larys, we see a rat look directly down at a clearly distraught alicent after her sex scene with viserys in i believe episode 4. if we apply psychic ratman larys to that scene it's possible larys has been preying on her discomfort for years prior to extorting her for foot shows. i think that if you look at the two scenes together it shows a consistent, sinister desire for domination in larys, particularly over alicent who as you said is politically the most powerful woman in westeros.

[@kevvintage7654]

Yes she does look quite resigned to his demand for "payment".

[@gracehaven5459]

Oh that's a good point!

[@magsstewart5488]

This scene has convinced me Larys is the Beast. She’s trying to warn her mother. That’s why she trapped a spider, and is embroidering one.

[@richardwhitehead40]

Hasn't Helaena brought up the Beast beneath the boards more than once? If so, I don't remember her repeating any other prophecy. Maybe the reason she repeated it is there's more than one instance she's referring to?

[@magsstewart5488]

@@richardwhitehead40 She has. We’ll have to see if she repeats it again.

[@pastelpurpledeathbed]

Blood and Cheese. Lmao.

[@ProfRavenSteel]

@@richardwhitehead40 yeah two instances actually. 1. Balrog beneath the khazadun 2. Maybe a dragon beneath the winterfell castle.

[@milumav]

Interesting...especially the spider connection. 🤔

[@ChristopherMarshburn]

Rhaenys’ conversation with Alicent prior to this lays the groundwork. Another example of how she’s trapped in service to men in her life to get what she wants.

[@jasonb7546]

This started before he had his father and brother killed. When Alicent enters the room where Larys is eating she immediate removed her shoes.

[@jasonb7546]

I commented before you said it in the video Joe. Nailed it, love your content.

[@simmsquee]

Larys is a brilliant character, if they're following the character in the books. He's a psychopath and his thoughts and motivations are unknowable. His pleasure comes from watching others and reading their emotions. His apparent foot fetish is all about how it makes Alicent feel, not him. He's in performance mode when he's supposedly pleasuring himself to her feet, when really it's about the control. I'm sure he likes his club foot as much as he hates it, as it has allowed him to be an observer who is more or less invisible to everyone. If he is a greenseer, I bet he watched his family die through the rats in Harrenhall.

[@J_mel_]

Wow so he isn't on her side as much as I thought I guess?

[@thefinal9923]

@@J_mel_ Not as much that he isn't on her side as it is that he is only on his own side.

[@carastone3473]

@@J_mel_ he’s all about HIMSELF

[@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty]

This is actually pretty realistic sexual harassment/abuse.

[@kjohnson8901]

First you get the Power! Then you get the Castle! Then you get the Feet!

[@figjam9530]

say hello to my little piggies!

[@AlottaBoulchit]

Oh the scene where Alicent took off her shoes before dinner was NOT lost on me. I noticed it right away and found it suspicious. I wasn't expecting a foot fetish moment but that was an oddly specific action at an unusual moment. For me though I had initially thought it prooved she was on an intimate comfort level with Larys like the two had been knocking boots. I definately didn't think the foot thing was just "lol foot boi!" and was more about him asserting dominance on The Queen and proof to show the levels Alicent was willing to go to get all the advantages she could for her children. I also personally thought it was satisfying that for all her high horse sneering at Rhaenyra for being a "Whore" and having bastards... Alicent was clearly no better allowing herself to be Larys' whore and plaything. At least Rhaenyra got joy from her experiences. For as smart as she was as a girl Alicent sure grew up to be an idiot as a woman. Jealousy does numbers on people I guess! I am LOVING Larys's character. He was so sussy from the beginning and I have loved every moment watching his character's nature slowly opening up for the world to see. He's fascinating! I love how you presented him here in this video! I think you did the character justice!!

[@arianewinter4266]

To be fair, to me Alicents resentment for rhynera there makes perfect sense. Rhynera had the chance to chose a husband, something Allicent had not. She had a Was allowed to grow old enough to know what she wanted, while Allicent was already sold to her old father she feared somewhat and treated her like a piece of meat. Rhyneras fist time was all to her choosing, cause she wanted and not even with her husband, while Alicents was probably traumatic and unpleasant. Then rhynera sleeps jet again with someone else but her husband birthing bastards in a compleat subversion of all the duties that hold Allicent prisoner. And then rhynera gets to marry a man she desires and be happy and positively sexual activ jet again while Allicent gets violated by jet another men she can not afford to offend. No wonder she is bitter. To her sex is something disgusting, something that drives home just how powerless she is and somehow somehow for rhynera it is the opposite. Allicent was a good girl and got punished for it, while rhynera gör rewarded för transgressions..... It is an absolutly shitty situation for her. Calling Allicent a hypocrite by calling her getting sexualy abused and rhynera enjoying herself the same really is not fair

[@AlottaBoulchit]

@@arianewinter4266 Alicent didn't have to emotionally seduce Viserys but her father made her do it. She could have said no she could have protested she was too young and he was too old. You act as if Viserys was abusive and cruel to her. He only chose her because she had been putting herself on him emotionally and building a connection bond (he thought) and he chose her over a literal child because at least Alicent was "decently of age" compared to Laena. I never once saw Alicent _fearful_ of Viserys or treated like a "Piece of Meat." She performed her wife and queenly duties when he called for sure but by _that_ point she had already been married to him and had agreed to that arrangement. Viserys treated Alicent very well. The fact he didn't have her killed for threatening the future Queen and a Prince of the realm with a deadly weapon not even addressing how many times she slighted Rhaenyra's childrens's parentage shows how well he treated her. Alicent was bitter of Rhaenyra for getting to enjoy herself but you know what? Rhaenyra was the heir to the throne and so she's going to have a freer spirit. Had Rhaenyra been a man she would have been doing all kinds of things and no one would be batting an eye at her. Look at how Alicent's own rotten child acted regularly and she turned a blind eye to all that he was doing. Alicent is a hypocrite. She has drank her own koolaid and believes she is holier and purer than she truly is. She's a religious zealot and a throne stealer. She had chances to break free from the control of the men around her but she never even tried. She was a dutiful, good wife and mother but she allowed her bitterness to bring her to filthy depths. I absolutely love her character. We wouldn't have a story without her!

[@M80hendo]

When she take her shoes off before dinner? I need to watch that scene

[@Carol120454]

Larys is a weird guy who figured he was doing Allicent a big favor by killing the Strongs . In his mind, it was a trifecta of win, win, win. Revenge on Rhaenera by getting rid of her lover, Alicent's father would get to come back and be the Hans, and he, Larys, gets to be lord of Harrenhal. Alicent was upset at first, but then realizes she can manipulate him with his fetish and his attraction to her. She is not being abused, she is getting what she wants, a spy master who will do whatever she wants, even kill for her. All she has to do is show her feet. On her part, it's not even sex. I've heard that back in the days when women wore long dresses, it was more shocking to see their feet than even their breasts. Not really that odd then, that he'd react that way.

[@jigen1504]

You’re spot on about the power dynamic. It’s his way of humbling alice. She’s so Pious and yet even she will degrade herself and her morals for an advantage/ ambition

[@magsstewart5488]

I completely disagree that it makes Larys seem less scary. That scene was the most disturbing, for me, in all of the 7 seasons of GoT and so far in HoT D.

[@JoeMagician]

I totally agree, it's a terrifying scene

[@RB-bm7cl]

No, most disturbing till now in HOTD but not certainly most disturbing when you include GOT.

[@magsstewart5488]

@@RB-bm7cl Nothing in GoT made me turn my head away. Not Reek, not Jofferys evil deeds, nothing. I’m prepared for violence in these shows. I don’t know why this bothered me so much more.

[@arianewinter4266]

5he scene is disturbing as fuck especially for he does not need to "do anything to her" to violate her that deeply. People who laugh at that, not able to read the room at all disturb me!!! How can one laugh at a scene of voilance when everything in her expression, voice body language screams just how unsattled, disgusted and afraid she is of him?!

[@arianewinter4266]

@@magsstewart5488 subtility often goes a long way and fare longer then pure shock value. This scene got us not to watch voilance, but how she feels with what he does to her i steady that is way more intimate and unsettling

[@paytondelaney8316]

Alicent: you killed your own family just to see my feet? Larys: my reasons are beyond your understanding.

[@Matt-xc6sp]

He shares those feet pics with his greenseeer buddies Bran and Bloodraven on the ole wierwood net

[@helenledwith7016]

This is another instance where the time jumps hurt the story. How long has this been going on? It has been 6 years since he killed his family and 16 years since first spoke to Alicent in the garden. She was definitely taking her shoes off for him 6 years ago before he killed his family. In all that time, Larys just built up to this. It is degrading and humiliating but I feel it should be further along. I noticed that a couple of times in this episode Cristian was enraged at someone sullying the Queen's good name. What happens when he finds out what Larys has been doing?

[@panajotov]

I cannot wait to see his face when he realizes his Queen has been playing footsies with another man.

[@thisguy8106]

@@panajotov amen.

[@Guy-qt5mt]

He gets mad jealous then burns in a fire

[@luciamota1249]

I don't think she was getting his shoes off prior to the killing of the Strongs. I think that's how he started blackmailing her to do it, they both share the secret and that's why she's accepting to do it. She was deffinitely doing it when Laena's funeral, in the immediate episode after the fire in HH, but not prior to that.

[@J_mel_]

@@panajotov please explain without to many spoilers? Who is the other guy?

[@ruvend2581]

Already saw your answer on reddit how this is about power, I‘m glad you expand on that in a full video

[@richmackin]

"Under the HEEL of her husband or father" I see what you did there as well.

[@wizarddragon]

I actually respect the writers doing the scene. It was completely different from what I'm used to. The only regret I have about it is that I wasn't a fly on the writing room wall when they discussed it. lol

[@drachna]

A fly on the wall, or a rat on the mantelpiece.

[@dominiquebertrand6786]

In European society of the past, the ankle was an erotic object. The woman who openly showed her ankle was being seductive. So it is not only an fetish object here but also an historical erotic object.

[@billthebard805]

He also talks to Otto about how those meetings could benefit Otto too. So his intentions could be far further than just feet.

[@BrokenXgirl12]

yes! you said everything I was thinking during that scene! my boyfriend couldn't stop laughing but I was terrified. I've been in a similar position and it's horrible and I will say, they made Alicent way more sympathetic than she is in the book! which I think was a wise choice on their part. so far I love what they have done! anyone complaining is probably missing the point entirely.

[@arianewinter4266]

I found nothing funny about it either, it is just messed up. I am also quite unsettled that people equate Allicent getting abused like that with rhyneras joyfully sleeping around calling Allicent a hypocrite for critisicing rhynera for it.... They really are not the same thing, not even a little bit

[@reneenayfabnaynay5679]

@@arianewinter4266 I think Alicent is a hypocrite! Letting a guy j@ck off to your feet isn't any nicer or better than sleeping with someone.

[@shaosleep7915]

@@arianewinter4266 yeah i think the contrast of their relationship to sex is interesting. rhaenyra gets to enjoy sex for what it is, while alicent just kinda copes with mens' sexuality for unsexy purposes like conceiving heirs with viserys for duty, silencing aegon's victims for his reputation, and paying larys to continue being her ally

[@M80hendo]

Not only were her feet nice the way she took her shoes off then stockings without a word being said was so damn🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@BrokenXgirl12]

@@arianewinter4266 it's crazy that people would even compare the two in that way! Obviously they're sexuality is meant to be contrasted against each other. Alicent hates sex but uses it to do what she must or to gain something. She doesn't enjoy it at all.

[@SongbirdAlom]

thank you for this. It's about power and humiliation as much as it is the feet themselves.

[@redjirachi1]

Fans seeing Rhaenyra and Daemon: Sweet home Alabama I love Wincest! Fans seeing this scene: WTF did I watch?

[@haleygrace9912]

Reminds me of the real life Kaiser Wilhelm. Like the World War One leader of Germany. He had trouble at birth which left one of his hands deformed. He was shamed for it and called weak his whole life and there are letters he sent his mother fantasizing about her hands. He described how he wanted her to use her hands to touch him and that he missed her hands more than her. Yikes

[@arianewinter4266]

Iiiks, would not put it past grrm to know that

[@madyjules06]

thanks Haley, for schooling me… I had no idea that the Kaiser had a hand deformity. wonder how much that factored into the tremendous brutality of WW I

[@neuralmute]

Interestingly enough, Josef Stalin had a rather small and deformed left hand as well, caused by a childhood illness. (Polio, maybe?) Knowing how people with disabilities were treated at the turn of the 20th c, he was no doubt subject to much cruelty over his hand. It just shows how children abused for their differences can grow up to take out their past abuse on, in Stalin's case, entire countries.

[@PatriotResearchGal]

Actually, the fact that people are stuck on marginalizing the fetish sets up the audience to be shocked by his deeds to come. If you paid attention, it won’t shock you at all. Larys is freakin scary evil. It’ll be interesting to see how he will be checked in the game. Alicent might be the key to it, much like Sansa.

[@amysliger1279]

I had no idea what was happening at first. I thought it weird that the Queen would remove her shoes so casually, but as she said, it was late and she was tired/frustrated, so wasn't too weird. Until it was. And I realized what was happening. I think that was the first time in a few episodes that I felt sympathy for Alicent. Olivia Cooke is a MASTER of expression. She needn't say a word to act the hell out of a scene. Her face at the end... Ugh.

[@Carol120454]

She finds it disgusting, but realizes she can use it to manipulate Larys to do whatever she wants.

[@dastellarnapster1652]

​@@Carol120454facts, classic opportunity from depravity

[@spinakker14]

4:49 the boiling frog is true for Alicent, but Larys what Larys is using is a classic marketing technique called "foot in the door". Which is a very apt name in this case But I didn't miss all your other foot references ;)

[@jsan3743]

You make the best vids!! I’m so happy I discovered your channel!!

[@HiHello-dn7fj]

As someone with a club foot I think it’s very accurate! My club foot is “corrected” but will never be normal and is a source of chronic pain and limitation. In my lower moments of accepting this fact of my life (or not wanting to accept it), I have definitely viewed it as a burden and fantasized about being rid of the whole foot.

[@lobomedina6312]

Excellent analysis. Yep the Three Eyed Rat's main play has been to get Alycent under his control. At this point the frog hasn't even reached her boiling point, so she'd be wise to find a way to eliminate the rat that's turning up the stove. She could borrow the catspaw from Aegon, say he assaulted her and she was just protecting herself. The showrunners kinda forgot that footsies is a comedic trope hence the scene has become a meme. They should've chosen something more sinister for the humiliation ritual.

[@cheyennespiritcreationz8506]

So much I didn't catch on to. I appreciate all your videos and detailed explanations.

[@JoeMagician]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aceofhearts573]

"I will only be paid in feet" -Larrys Strong

[@Poloassassin828]

By god! Your videos are so insightful, great job!

[@DwRockett]

Fantastic video, and really illustrates how much more evil the already evil scene seemed to be

[@merchantIV]

I think the whole thing becomes even creepier when you factor in the difference between Larys's demeanor in episode 7 and in 9. In Driftmark, he looks smitten when Alicent calls him a friend, even gives a little contented sigh before proceeding to grin like an idiot while staring at the water. I don't think that was him playacting or anything. I think at his core he's a socially awkward weirdo who has no idea how to make friends in addition to being a psychopath. In Green Council, there's an iciness to his interaction with Alicent we haven't seen before. He takes pleasure in dominating and humiliating her, and while I think that's always been his way of achieving satisfaction it contrasts so sharply with the last time we saw them together. There's almost anger and bitterness there. I don't know what she did to disappoint him in the six year time gap, but I think something clearly happened. If she somehow pissed him off or humiliated him in that time jump and he's exacting continuous revenge, season 2 could be very ugly.

[@laurendearnley9595]

Might just have been an escalation. In episode 7 he was just pleased to have someone show him some kindness and respect. By season 9 things have gone further and further until she's doing what he wants, unprompted. They've done this before, she hates every second of it, but she needs to do it to survive and save her children

[@MichelMawon4982]

Very well done. I saw your poll about people staying until the end. I want to help, but I have the opposite issue of wanting to listen again to soak up all the great work you've done and learn. If I speculate, the viewership is probably made up of a lot more casual fans who may think they want more, but then are quickly overwhelmed with the amount detail and complexity there is. Basically, I don't think it's anything you did or didn't do and I know that's not as helpful to you.

[@Drew_Thompson]

You actually get it too, it was about the power not the feet. Larys is more Tyrion than littlefinger

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

littlefinger is motivated in part by sexual domination too, the guy is a pimp. but yes, larys resembles what I've heard of book tyrion quite closely.

[@jerrancebowman965]

@@Ass_of_Amalek wrong he was a simp for Sansa Stark because he couldn't have the mother Catelyn so he went for her daughter

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

@@jerrancebowman965 littlefinger's lust for sansa can't have been THAT strong after all, since he gave her to ramsay bolton (well in the show he did, idk what happens to sansa in the books. I think there, ramsay instead gets a fake arya).

[@Tevi_L7151]

@@Ass_of_Amalek in the books he still makes Sansa as his bastard Aleyna, and gave her task of seducing Harold Harding who is the heir of Robert Arryn

[@HariKrishnan-kx1is]

Oh lord why is this the best thumbnail you've ever made 😂😂😂

[@JoeMagician]

A question for the ages

[@thunderclap7154]

A foot fetish isn’t anything new to book readers. Not half as sweet as Rosey. Pate loved her hazel eyes and budding breasts, and the way she smiled every time she saw him. He loved the dimples in her cheeks. Sometimes she went barefoot as she served, to feel the grass beneath her feet. He loved that too. He loved the clean fresh smell of her, the way her hair curled behind her ears. He even loved her toes. One night she'd let him rub her feet and play with them, and he'd made up a funny tale for every toe to keep her giggling.

[@JoeMagician]

A Pate reference! This is a rare morning

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

I'm calling the WBI! edit: uhm I mean I'm sending a raven

[@zombiekungfumaster]

@@JoeMagician How interesting that someone posted this Pate quote. It's critical to a theory I have come up with. I wonder how many people have figured out that Pate is under the effects of a love potion?

[@neuralmute]

@@zombiekungfumaster I like this theory, very interesting!

[@heyitsrae5407]

“If you missed it, and based on social media I feel like that’s impossible” and somehow I did. I rewatched house of dragon 2x and missed it both times. I heard the words “foot fetish in hotd” 10 minutes ago and got so fucking confused. Now I know, thank you.

[@DewitticusBrett]

"Make the weirwood eyes bleed" 😆😆😆 that was good dude.

[@mmmahh9056]

Can't believe that Discord mods even exist in medieval times

[@Frothmeister]

Finally some high quality content

[@thenickfoxx]

3:48 Weren't all the servants and maids locked up for a short time just to ensure the word of Viserys' death wasn't spread before Aegon was crowned?

[@caronstout354]

Yes...before the the nobles and commoners were herded to the Dragonkeep to witness the coronation.

[@klauskrampus4344]

You made Larys interesting for me again. Thank you.

[@peppermint1349]

We should ofc remember that back in the day ladys ankles were also considered sexy... it's literally all over history like how if lady shows ankle it's hot so I doubt it is ONLY foot fetish (I know it's part of it but not the only reason)

[@fleetingselfconfidence612]

Alicent: you killed your brother and father??? i want you to stay 1,000,000 feet away from me! Larys: 1,000,000 feet 🤤

[@samwallaceart288]

I totally missed the importance of Larys and the White Worm lady's indirect war in that penultimate episode.

[@EmonyLP]

Excellent analysis, I 100% agree. A deeply uncomfortable scene and a terrifying character.

[@teo2805]

I think she was thinking of Rhaenys in that scene, and her words about how Allicent has been always been in the shadow of men.

[@kayb6803]

Awesome breakdown! I feel like you hit the nail on the head!

[@teo2805]

Next time George RR Martin says his characters are neither black or white, I'll show him this footage

[@thecockerel86]

I will amass as much power as is possible without having to sit on the Iron Throne. I will bend the realm, and all in it, to my will without the aid of dragons, silver hair and purple eyes, and that accursed iron chair! - Lord Larys 'Littlefoot' Strong

[@c-130turbo3]

oh Alicent as fallen so far from episode one, and i do think it is also a fake out, as Larys walks around the red keep like he own the place. yeah we have season to think about this guy great content as always👍

[@Boomstick.]

Should’ve had Dan Schnieder play Larys lmao

[@JoeMagician]

Now that's a rare foot fetish reference

[@curtiswfranks]

This is an extremely good video. Nice job!

[@curtiswfranks]

You know that I love your theorycrafting and high fantasy/horror videos, but this simple character analysis is very insightful. More of these!

[@joshbarrera8554]

That Thumbnail 😂😂😂

[@nicxl3035]

I think it fits. He has a club foot. He’s obsessed with the most perfect of feeet

[@watcherofthewest8597]

Bleeding the ole weirwood...good one Joe!

[@toneriggz]

I’m not mad at Larys. Get your feet pics, king.

[@itsmainelyyou5541]

Perfect encapsulation of the dynamics, still skeeved out by it and wasn't expecting how visceral a my reaction would be. The kilter of it was precisely what was so unnerving.

[@NeoLudditevisons]

I think this choice for the foot fetish is deliciously ironic and darkly humorous. However, for me it totally adds to this sinister character.

[@krim7]

Make the Wyrwood Eyes Bleed. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 So descriptive yet so horrifying!

[@caroldavis5877]

In the scene where Larys is looking at Allicents feet, you also see sores on her legs. Has she caught the Kings disease? Is she showing signs of leprosy?

[@EloImFizzy]

Larys was actually present at the green council. He was just under the table having his face used as a footstool by Alicent.

[@M80hendo]

I would let her use me for that

[@Ncbgfvn18778]

The background music 😂

[@jackjohnston2221]

Wierdly enough I was thinking about this in the pool earlier today. Couldn't quite put my finger on why I found it so creepy but that's exactly it. It's not the foot thing or the fact that it's so un PC for this to be in the show it's the way larys is dominating this woman like a fly in a spiders web. Larys is the original spider, the black widow and makes varys look more of a money spider or false widow.

[@SiimKoger]

"If late at night you can't get sleep, take a look at those royal gouda feet." - Maester Oogway

[@BoredInMyBackyard]

That thumbnail 💀

[@exoticbutters2781]

Larys "Happy Feet" Strong 🦶🦶

[@sammys3269]

Yanking your carrot to some unpedicured feet is CRAZY... 🦶🥕

[@conniesuper9892]

Bravo👏👏!!!Loved this!!Now Otto won't have to get "Aegon" to stop the child fighting pits because Mysaria is put out of business. Larys kind of did Otto a solid...unless she wasn't home at the time,but you'd think Larys' thugs would've made SURE, unless they mistook another woman who WAS there. Great video

[@chancefurlong372]

100k+ views? That's twice as much as you get in your most nuanced ASOIAF theories. Damn lotta ppl clicked because of LOL FEET (like you predicted in the description) and the thumbnail. But ironically they're hit with a very nuanced take on the true horrors of the feet scene. A deep dive into the psychology and power dynamics conveyed in that scene. If they stick around and listen to the whole video that is, some probably left when they realized it's not just memes. Great breakdown of an equally intriguing scene.

[@JoeMagician]

I'm as surprised as anyone

[@Randall_Kildare]

From what we've seen of the excellent meta-film making, I do get the feeling that the "oh, whoa... uhm, what is going on here... eeash.." shock value of the scene was a total *red-herring.* It also begs the question: Will we see escalation of his perversions, forcing Alliscent deeper & deeper into his machinations; all to his delight alone? Your break-down & analysis rings true again, Joe.

[@KitOfTheWeirdWoods]

"makes the Weirwood eyes bleed", eugh, somehow I think that euphemism grossed me out more than anything Larys has done!

[@JoeMagician]

The things I do for monetization

[@atach881]

OMG THANK YOU!! I knew it wasn't just foot fetish. It was also something else, I love all the details you put in!

[@Tone202]

I like him because he makes the show even better.

[@mjolninja9358]

Larys be praying for defeat….

[@ChristopherMarshburn]

This may be in the realm of crackpot theories but based on the way the showrunners are tweaking the canon I think it’s very possible that Blood and Cheese originates with Larys. That’s why the rats we’ve seen before. That’s why the Mysaria twist. (guessing she’s in a black cell currently). Maybe Alicent will want to be even more conciliatory after she learns Luke died at the hands of Aemon. Making it look like Daemon targeted Helaena’s children would definitely fix that. Maybe Alicent decides for some reasons she wants to stop her “sessions” with Larys. Because of the unreliable narrators as sources for the history maybe Daemon never actually sent that “child for a child” message. I don’t know, the whole Blood and Cheese event just seems much more Larys than Daemon. And chaos is definitely a ladder Larys has been climbing.

[@lisaowen6103]

Sole focus ? Trick or treat... Smell my feet....

[@kakuzuohno5688]

ah damn there is a 14 minute video to this uncomfortable scene? Okay... here we go.

[@revas5945]

good stuff, glad to see a deeper analysis on this beyond just "lmao foot fetish!!!" I'm also really curious what will happen in the future. It seems like Otto is onto Larys being too close to Alicent, confronting him about it this episode as well. Maybe Alicent will confide in Otto at some point.

[@thecandlemaker1329]

The only reason she teamed up with Larys is to counteract Otto, why on earth would she do that.

[@revas5945]

@@thecandlemaker1329 lesser of two evils? i didn't say it would happen guaranteed, i'm just wondering out loud

[@alvisecattaruzzo9863]

Not gonna lie, I was a "Lol feet" guy but I was hoping on a video that would opened my eyes from you and yup... Here I am. Keep up the good work Joe!

[@vjtheowl6091]

If Alicent was a bit more clever, she'd make a deal with Mysaria and let Larys have an 'accident' for what he's been doing to her.

[@theflashgordon193]

She doesn't know mysaria. she reveal herself only to otto

[@vjtheowl6091]

@@theflashgordon193 Larys just told her handmaid is a spy. She could have just told him to wait and talk to Talya to get in contact with Mysaria.

[@CapnK023]

Im glad someone made an explanation video for this 🤣

[@rycolligan]

"He's Lord of Harrenhal and can see all the feet he wants..." I didn't realize Vargo Hoat was just upholding tradition...

[@kytkah]

"How many many feet do we meet?" Dr. Suess

[@StanHowse]

Lol @ That ankle tattoo 😂😂