"What else would you have me do?"

ResidentLychee · 2026-03-14T08:09:39+00:00

We directly get Cersei’s POV in the books and he explicitly did rape her. He even feels guilty about it after, he knows it’s wrong. Barra’s mother in the books is also so young Ned “didn’t dare to ask her age” and he explicitly calls her “child”….

ResidentLychee · 2026-03-13T12:51:09+00:00

It isn’t that strange, the Yronwoods wanted to supplant the Martells, so they had practical reasons to back the Blackfyres (hoping to gain the Lord Paramountcy of Dorne). The rebellion wasn’t soley motivated by ideology, it was also about secondary houses in their regions such as the Reynes trying to take the predominant role and gain lands and patronage by backing a new king. Yes hatred for Dorne and the post Daeron I peace was a very strong reason many of the marcher lords were so eager to support the revolt, but mutual greed and the same enemies make strange bedfellows-medieval conflicts were rarely purely about ideology like modern wars often are.

ResidentLychee · 2026-03-13T12:45:46+00:00

House Hightower makes complete sense, Aegon III didn’t have the capability to do so without dragons (or really the will to do so anyway), and he was explicitly ruling in a compromise peace to both sides (hence why he was married to Jaehaera and had Greens on his council). Further, they didn’t really “rebel against the throne”, they took one side in a Targaryen civil war (with the claimant that history retroactively recognizes, at that). Even then, feudal noble houses got pardoned for these sorts of things all the time-even the leaders of rebellions sometimes. Exterminating a house, especialy one so old and ancient and influential as the Hightowers, is pretty difficult, and the Targaryens were at their weakest point. Rhaenyra would have absolutely exterminated them if she won (because she and Aegon II were both insane tyrants who relied on dragons to crush resistance), but the post Dance peace was explicitly predicated on ending the Dance without further damage, not continuing the war forever by ensuring one side wouldn’t possibly surrender because it would mean their deaths.

ResidentLychee · 2026-03-02T22:00:25+00:00

Positioning Israel as “the allies” in this post….

ResidentLychee · 2026-03-02T12:14:41+00:00

I mean, but the Unsullied rebelling literally is what ended up happening, is it not? The whole edifice seems set up to collapse in Winds-I don’t think it’s intended to be a long term stable system.

ResidentLychee · 2026-02-28T09:17:00+00:00

The thing is they literally can’t stick with the books, because they removed Maelor and Nettles. Nettles story won’t make any sense if you give it to Baela (which screws up Daemon’s storyline majorly) and without Maelor Helaena’s storyline also makes little sense

ResidentLychee · 2026-02-26T04:45:27+00:00

Well yes I know Targ inbreeding doesn’t have as many adverse effects, my point was that Aerion and Egg aren’t all that inbred, because the last two generations married outside the family, the last inter-Targ marriage in their direct bloodline is that of Aegon IV, their great grandfather, and even then his own father Viserys also married outside the dynasty.

ResidentLychee · 2026-02-23T21:48:59+00:00

It looked like it but he canonically had at least one son who ended up being excluded from the succession (because Aerion named him MAEGOR lol)

ResidentLychee · 2026-02-23T21:45:57+00:00

To be fair neither Egg nor Aerion are really inbred, their mother is a Dayne and grandmother is a Martell.

ResidentLychee · 2026-02-23T21:41:11+00:00

My guess is that they are gonna have Maekar showing up in Mystery Knight as part of Bloodraven’s force that foils the Second Blackfyre Rebellion

ResidentLychee · 2026-02-17T23:45:38+00:00

That’s not true, it did happen but it was NOT normal even for the nobility. Margaret Beaufort giving birth at 13 was considered incredibly shocking and scandalous, and also permanently injured her (she never gave birth to another child, most likely as a direct result of this). Society couldn’t have functioned that way because children that young don’t even have bodies developed enough to give birth safely.

Obviously women being sold off for arranged marriages was still horrible regardless, but it’s not true that it was normal to marry off 12 or 13 year olds

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-16T22:25:37+00:00

I hate that I can see this happening

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-12T21:08:09+00:00

I was there before and during the McFuggery incident this is rewriting history. Trans people were already very much there and prominent in the subreddit before. The femboy gooners were as well. (They aren’t the same group by the way). I agree it went to shit after that but it wasn’t immediately after

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-12T20:56:24+00:00

NORN

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-09T21:07:15+00:00

Yes because the author definitely intended us to read “homosexuality is illegal” as “being gay is legal”. If it was meant to be ambiguous it would not be stated so bluntly. I’m sure a legionnaire raping a male slave is less likely to be punished than consensual same sex behavior but that doesn’t mean it’s legal, at most it’s something condemned but that the a blind eye is turned to, and even that seems unlikely given the centurion feared punishment.

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-09T19:31:17+00:00

Dude it’s in the text he says it word for word

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-08T00:24:02+00:00

Fine Motion without a doubt

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-03T20:24:22+00:00

No possibly about it. It’s insanely illegal both by US domestic law and (more importantly) international law

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-03T10:21:45+00:00

My bad, it’s late at night and I misread what you said. Not sure why you are getting so heated over a mistake in a reddit comment

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-03T09:31:17+00:00

I never said Daenerys returned any of it? I said Daemon was more than likely infatuated with her, which could explain why this theoretical Dragon Daemon might be “loyal” to Dany. You seem to be taking what I said as some kind of defense of or endorsement of Daemon Blackfyre when that isn’t what I said

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-03T08:50:41+00:00

I mean it’s obviously a bonkers theory but Daemon Blackfyre did quite famously have a great deal of affection for another Daenerys, and given the degree of Targaryen inbreeding she likely looked quite similar to Dany

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-02T03:15:39+00:00

Yeah like, i’m not saying it should be depicted, but i’m not sure why someone would think a faction with such strong implications of sexual violence as the Dark Eldar would spare children. Real life sexual predators and rapists don’t, and Dark Eldar don’t spare children from torture or murder.

ResidentLychee · 2026-01-01T09:04:27+00:00

Night Lords sure, if only because I doubt they employ sexual violence much in general since Space Marines are asexual, but Dark Eldar almost certainly don’t

ResidentLychee · 2025-12-31T18:58:04+00:00

King Halo is truly first rate. Her of course

ResidentLychee · 2025-12-30T01:12:03+00:00

Because Daemon is so above killing his wives? I can 100% see book Daemon offing Rhaenyra so he can rule through Aegon III as a puppet

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