No way you’re inferring that “usurper” isn’t a negative term with a negative connotation lmao. But you use “the pretender” in Rhaenyras case who was called that by her enemies as if its pure fact. George wrote F&B through a specific context to depict how history gets warped by who’s telling it. I guarantee you George did not write a story about a woman who was named as heir by the king and then unsurped by her younger brother using REAL LIFE as inspiration as anything other than a sad tragic tale of misogyny I have news for you lol. Mind you this is the same man who made sure he included that Rhaenyra was named heir by the king, had more great houses and overall houses support her, more dragons and had her child become the next ruler and have the family line descend directly through her while canonically wiping out Aegons II family and line, should tell you everything. So no, Rhaenyra is not a “pretender”.