was it their mother? | ALICENT HIGHTOWER [+2x06]

[@blacksmithands]

if you look closely you can see me crying in the background of every single scene. this is heartbreakingly beautiful, mari 😭

[@amaliadibari6869]

this is captivating, i was holding my breath for 2 minutes straight. all the dialogues you chose are so perfectly put. this season indeed exploded her motherhood the way i personally wanted. “sadness is a condition of motherhood” is so revealing to her character; when she said that, my heart broke, because it shouldn’t be that way, your children should make you joyful and full of love. and yet, the fact she doesn’t have access to them the way she wants makes her miserable. thank you for this ❤

[@anayadegani626]

Alicent was doing her best to be a good mother to her children. People forget she was a child bride, a rape victim and a litreal teenager trying to raise children while Viserys did nothing

[@falcon-moon]

Bull- excuses over and over again by Alicent apologists. Aemma was a child bride as well, Rhaella as well. Almost all noble ladies are teenagers when they get married and become mothers in Westerosi culture, yet they do love their children. Alicent wasn’t doing her best, all the Otto and sHe wAs yOuNg are bull/ excuses. She could learn from Otto’s mistakes, break the pattern and do better with her children. She wasn’t doing her best to be a good mother. She literally destroyed Helaena’s life and married her to her r(word) brother. She doesn’t even understand her daughter and takes her words as gibberish, no wonder Helaena doesn’t like Alicent. She favored Aemond over and Aegon and all she did with Aegon is be abusive, gas’s his head and push him towards a throne he had no interest in. As she let Aemond get away from the responsibility of his actions she blamed it on Aegon and slapped him for Aemond’s actions while coddling the pr-k Aemond. She literally agreed to her son’s execution and to abandon her other two sons…what kind of a mother is that?

[@VisenyaBlackfyre]

​@marycorbett3109 No one is talking about raising perfect children, but at least try, she may not have had emotional support, but she was queen and had more support than other women in Westeros, even the noble ones. Viserys was bad with all his children, even Rhaenyra, and even though she was a "brat", she raised her children better than many mothers in the franchise. Aegon's behavior may not be widely supported, but it is hidden (apart from helping him gain more power over people later) and she knows, just as all mothers deep down know who their children are, just as she also knew about Aemond and yet focused her energies on judging anyone, but paid no attention to her own children or her own life and handed her daughter over to a bad son for legitimacy; because their marriage was clearly for that reason, since Targaryen women with dragons can marry outside the family, but as an alliance with their House, which is why Rhaenyra could choose a husband, just as Rhaena in the past married a non-knight. She's not affectionate towards any of them, unless she needs one of them, apart from the fact that she helped throw her son into the war for the throne and then sold her head for freedom... And about Jace, I really doubt that assumption, because as he was good politically and would have had a very good marriage had he survived, plus a bigger dragon and alliances forged for his future children, he got most of the alliances for his mother, him staying on the throne wouldn't exactly be difficult

[@Loki-g3k]

​@falcon-moon Aemma's marriage wasn't perfect either. Viserys neglected her only daughter for 15 years because he wanted a son and after his wife's death, realized what he has done.

[@MD-ui8dc]

This is heart wrenching I love it

[@Ironheartss]

"i am sorry" "i forgive you"

[@MacduffProd]

hahaha...haha..ha... -sobs- this was heartbreaking. wonderful. but heartbreaking. i've been loving alicent's arc this season so this just really drove in the knife. bravo!

[@Wintersmith.]

This is a breathtaking video.

[@alittlestitious339]

Stunning, emotional, amazing as always.

[@me-fm8nl]

your edit made me cry.

[@chinosarah]

I love this edit so much it's so tragic and beautiful.

[@mellowenglishgal]

“I want my mother” “You’re no son of mine” Cold edit - loved it! The video really shows that Alicent only has time for Helaena.

[@evasivedre370]

Alicent only has time for helaena???? Man here yall go with these false narratives. Alicent literally tried her best to raise those boys. In this video I see a mother that loves her children and tries to hug them every chance she gets. Aegon and aemond just can’t be controlled. And did foul things to people. And disowned them for it.

[@Banimondala]

Oh my, what a beautiful video 😍🥰🥺 and I wasn't spoilered much yey🥺☺️

[@Loki-g3k]

This is perfect 😢😢

[@VisenyaBlackfyre]

I don't know if I liked her arc this season, but Olivia is simply incredible, just like this video... She's not a good mother, even if it's unintentional, and that's had unfortunate consequences

[@evasivedre370]

This video clearly shows she’s a good mother. Her children are just of fire and blood. She tried her best

[@VisenyaBlackfyre]

@@evasivedre370 This video shows what a terrible mother she is, almost every Targaryen is Fire and Blood and she probably didn't know how to deal with it because she never had anyone to teach her besides being focused on her stepdaughter's children. She's missed out on a lot of her younger son's time, the connection with her daughter isn't as strong as it could be, and the two older sons have been complicated personalities since childhood and have no emotional support from either her or Viserys. Again, I don't know if I liked her arc, but Olivia did a great job

[@evasivedre370]

@@VisenyaBlackfyre elaborate please.. what makes her a bad mother? What did she do or didn’t do? I need to hear this

[@VisenyaBlackfyre]

@@evasivedre370 You claim she's a good mother so you should already know the elaboration especially when I listed the basics of her lack of deep emotional connection with her kids, what more do you need to hear? There's a whole paragraph about her four children, even the one the scriptwriters only remembered in season 2. If you want to disagree, disagree, but don't think I'm going to act like Google just to hear a fan's "oh, she did her best" speech

[@evasivedre370]

@@VisenyaBlackfyre um sir/ma’am she’s literally in the video showing emotions and comforting all her children. You just talking lol

[@TheSambbba]

Perfect!!

[@TchudakPOV]

i love it

[@aishahamma334]

It wasn't the mother. It was the father

[@xPooogle515]

I mean Alicent is also guilty of neglecting them

[@aishahamma334]

@@xPooogle515 True but she was also a child. Taking care of a grown man and 2 young boys. Boys are very hard to raise

[@aishahamma334]

@@xPooogle515 And now they destroyed her character. Now she whit a broken heart agrees to let rhaenyra kill ageon. It had better a trick

[@xPooogle515]

@@aishahamma334 attitudes like yours are exactly how neglect happens. No excuses. She wasn’t a child for a majority of their lives. She didn’t just make small mistakes, she failed to parent her children in any way shape or form and has to own that herself as their mother.

[@ElviraDeMarchi]

​@@xPooogle515you only see her from the perspective of black team and she was and is child how was she supposed to parent them?? tell me just because she grew up doesn't mean she has healed from all trauma she tries her best to be a mother for them but somehow in the eyes of others she is always doing it wrong. she didn't have a mother and emotionally unavailable father and husband. all her husband does is to call her to his chamber nothing more 😞😞😞 even when her son Aemond's eye was brutally taken he didn't seem to care just brushed the matter aside and i think he wouldn't blink an eye if his children was murdered other than Nyra because she is the only one he loves Alicient's children were option for him in case her only something happens his only heir i think it is not fair for Alicient (a child bride and mother).she grew with her children and at the same time raised them. try to put yourself in her shoes

[@anamariecameron7874]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@alexass8987]

I am so sorry that my favorite character from the first season was so ineptly destroyed by the writers of House of the Dragon. Alicent loved her children, albeit in a "complicated love", but in the end she came to Rhaenyra and literally agreed to kill them. Bravo! Condall and Hess read too many inclusive fanfics and ruined the series adaptation.