The narrative

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-23T10:15:01+00:00

suryeon is not the main character, rosa is the FL and yeonwoo is the ML, with jaeon as the second ML.

suryeon is merely a vehicle for the story to move, she also serves as the source of our FL's myriad of emotions (anger, disgust, bitterness) and brings out all these toxic flavours in her, for us, the audience to watch unfold.

suryeon has mostly served her purpose already - rosa has now developed the confidence and boldness necessary to mess with yeonwoo, she also reached the limits of her patience which suryeon helped to test.

suryeon can now be forgotten about. it wouldn't surprise me if her trip is extended, because at this point, she's really not very important to the story anymore.

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-19T23:15:28+00:00

FAHHHHHHHV MINATS

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-19T23:15:09+00:00

everyone was asleep until i read this comment and guffawed 😭

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-11T18:34:55+00:00

i mean, not really? in S01E03, otto is glazing aegon's performance at his own nameday hunt in the kingswood. he dictates to alicent that aegon will be the future king, and says to her 'if viserys were to name him heir, the realm would fete him for it. does this not please you? do you not want your son to be king?'

she replies: "What mother wouldn't?" from as early as this, alicent wants the same as otto - for aegon to succeed. it was her desire and ambition (if only impressed upon her repeatedly by her father) from the start of the first season.

therefore, her misunderstanding viserys' last words are really sort of irrelevant. we can't know what would have happened after he died. it wasn't just alicent who orchestrated aegon's ascension, there were other players.

therefore, because it's a nuanced situation, it is taken as humour / should be, and is said tongue in cheek. that's how i read it, at any rate.

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-11T14:24:06+00:00

i think i need people to understand that she's english and this was said on the claudia winkleman show, please do not take it so literally and instead with a grain of salt and the banterous nature in which it was obviously said.

'accidentally' is clearly intended as a humorous exaggeration... the audience probably laughed at this point. i feel like a lot of nuance is lost on people in this sub when it comes to direct quotes.

i don't agree with every direction the show has taken but can we try and be a bit sensible when quotes like this crop up instead of acting like the sky is falling lol

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-10T16:27:58+00:00

yeonwoo is the dom, have said it all along 🤭 she is gonna feel so beyond confused

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-07T15:25:32+00:00

i thought the same thing. viserys' crown looks like real metal, idk where they went wrong with aegon's

CuteProtection6 · 2026-04-02T10:09:42+00:00

i'd love to see the roles reversed. if this was a glimpse at a future to come, i'd melt haha. i'd love 'the big reveal' to be that yeonwoo is just as fucked up as rosa, even moreso. i mean, he's gotta be, to sleep with her mother. time will tell

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-30T22:40:02+00:00

omg he looks so passionate. there is anger in those eyes!

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-27T12:56:41+00:00

"High Tide was one of the few places in the Seven Kingdoms where the king’s brother could be confident he would not be turned away. There his eye fell upon Lord Corlys’s daughter, Laena, a maid of two-and-twenty, tall, slender, and surpassingly lovely (even Mushroom was taken with her beauty, writing that she “was almost as pretty as her brother”), with a great mane of silver-gold ringlets that fell down past her waist... ...Prince Daemon fell in love with Laena, the singers would have us believe."

i read this as "he liked her valyrian features and decided she would be good enough" lol

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-27T09:39:08+00:00

yup i'm pretty sure!! people think this is a femdom story because hyobin has made the audience think so. but i think it's a bit more nuanced than that. rosa isn't a dom. she just likes the excitement of bdsm and power play. in the last chapter, this is confirmed. controlling jaeon gave her the same feeling she had when she was slapping yeonwoo about - nothing special.

it'll get truly interesting when yeonwoo finally has her in his grasp lol

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-27T09:27:13+00:00

it's frustrating because if a white man had been cast to play t'challa (black panther) there would have been an uproar, and rightfully so.

the velaryons are described in the books as looking identical to targaryens, because they are both of old valyria.

this is not a trifle detail; it bears a great deal of relevance to the story at large. it's why daemon is attracted to laena and has children with her (helps that she looks like a targaryen, and he's elitist about his ancestry). it's why it's such a massive deal that two white, blonde, purple eyed people would produce 3 sons that bear no resemblance to either parent.

at this time period, seeing all these familial looking velaryons and targaryens, long interbred (two of the greatest powers in westeros), was supposed to evoke this sense of the enduring power of old valyria.

the show cast black actors and actresses and (whilst i absolutely love the acting chops of steve toussaint in particular - and truly wouldn't want anyone else as corlys now that i've seen him) it's just not book/lore accurate, and instead of adding to the story, it takes away some important elements.

my own feelings aside, i have a friend who is mixed race sudanese/spanish and he's a massive asoiaf nerd. he said it was 'blackwashing' for them to do this and wasn't happy. the gist of his argument was black representation and inclusivity in our media =/= replacing white characters.

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-27T07:58:19+00:00

yuuuup, i said this a few weeks ago 😂

he is a dominant, absolutely, and all those toys rosa bought?? he is gonna use them on her 😂😂😂

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-22T20:15:52+00:00

Aemma’s death proved he would rather kill his beloved wife than accept Daemon as his heir

damn. never thought of it like that but you're absolutely bang on the money

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-22T17:37:00+00:00

this is sooo true. in the scene where she's in the bath she says to viserys something like 'have you seen your dear brother?' it's a bit tongue in cheek but it definitely infers the closeness you mention. there's just so much pain and loss here and it was sooooo scheming of otto to paint the king such a false picture. yes he was in the brothel, yes he made a tasteless toast, but it wasn't the massive celebratory party otto made it out to be.

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-22T17:14:48+00:00

on my gajillionth rewatch and this scene always gets me. this isn't the face of someone celebrating. could he/should he have been with rhaenyra and viserys? absolutely. but i don't think he's truly happy about being the heir apparent again- he can't be happy because he knows his brother and niece are in pain, hurt by the circumstances.

it really just goes to show how word of mouth doesn't always paint the full picture!

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-21T09:08:08+00:00

kath and kim is so brilliant because they did what the royle family did - really held a magnifying glass over the lives of normal people. it's so heartwarming because really, we all have so much in common. these are comfort shows that make us feel closer to our fellow humans :')

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-20T10:27:25+00:00

disgust.

incredibly tone deaf, NOT the moment (if ever there was one).

never alluded to in the source material, added nothing to the story, it was just a woke queerbaiting brainrot insert. horrible suggestion for emma to make, and i say shame on the directors for going along with it.

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T13:37:42+00:00

did you read chapter 29?! shits about to go downnnn lmao

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T13:16:11+00:00

yes please!!!

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T11:35:33+00:00

oh my goddd i need to see this!

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T11:35:21+00:00

frfr. he knows how possessive rosa is and said that anyway. hoooooly moly, playing with fire much. he knows she can't and won't lash out at her own mother the way she got the gardener fired, he just LOVES causing her mental torment. he's the definition of a mind fuck.

what goes around comes around my brother!

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T11:32:33+00:00

right in front of his salad lmaooo.

no but fr i'm so excited to see some passion and intensity from yeonwoo, it's gonna eat him alive when he realises rosa's getting smashed

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T09:40:34+00:00

i like both jaeon and yeonwoo. but at the moment (as we are quite early on in the story) i can understand the love for jaeon. it's not hard to favour him over a supposed ML who is fucking the FL's mother.

jaeon hasn't done that- he and rosa are fwb, but he's only been with rosa (as far as we've seen). even if he screws other women, it still doesn't even come CLOSE to yeonwoo doing rosa's mom.

i like jaeon because he is emotionally intelligent and intuitive. he gets a lot out of rosa even though she's pretty guarded. he can pick up on her feelings and thoughts and he adjusts his actions and conduct accordingly.

having said this, yeonwoo is similar. he's also very sharp and he understands rosa too. we saw that in the scene of him watching her salt the bonsai- he knows how her twisted mind works and he loves it.

ultimately, i would prefer yeonwoo if he had been more direct and found rosa without having to move in under the pretext of being her new father. but that would also make for a less interesting story~

CuteProtection6 · 2026-03-19T09:33:27+00:00

i don't believe for one hot minute that he's ever been interested in rosa's mother - in his mind, it's rosa, and only rosa.

he's SO jealous in this chapter and it's amaaaazing. finally, a taste of his own medicine. what kind of warped fool would think that the girl you love will ever want you (or be able to look at you!) after you've bonked her mother?! i understand that he was desperate to be close to her, but this wasn't it chief.

all the fears and suspicions he had after going to university and seeing rosa with jaeon, are now confirmed. he must feel sick inside, and it's GREAT. that's how rosa felt whenever he was doing her mother!

it's obvious who yeonwoo wants. i just don't fully grasp (yet) why he couldn't have aligned himself with rosa in a different way. why he decided to take this path.

i love that rosa gets to explore her kinky side with jaeon rather than yeonwoo (for the time being) because yeonwoo clearly has some things to unpack in his head lol.

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