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I wonder if on some level, Rhaenyra’s resentment of Alicent is because she feels that her mother is being replaced. Not just in the sense that Alicent is marrying her father and quite literally replacing her a Queen, but also in the sense that Alicent is able to provide Viserys with heirs, something that Aemma had a notoriously difficult time trying to do. Obviously Rhaenyra is already upset when the betrothal is announced, because her best friend is marrying her father so soon after her mother’s death, but I think the fact that Alicent gives Viserys a son so soon just puts salt in the wound. From the time Rhaenyra was born up until her mother’s death, her parents attempts to have a heir, and the loss of children and pregnancies, would have been almost a constant in her life. I don’t think she really got used to the pain and grief it would have caused her mother, but I think she accepted the idea that if her parents ever did have a son, it would be the result of blood and sacrifice and years upon years of trying and failing. Then when her mother dies along with the heir her father was so set on having, it’s kind of a double blow to her, because she has not only lost her mother and newborn brother, but the one thing her mother had been trying to do for Rhaenyra’s whole life, give Viserys an heir, she hadn’t been able to do, even in death. So I think to Rhaenyra it might have seemed like her mothers sacrifice and death were all for nothing, and obviously this is going to make her pretty upset. Then Viserys married her best friend and relatively soon after (I’m not quite sure about the timings,) she gives him a son, and while I don’t want to disparage Alicent’s suffering, especially when it comes to having her children so young, I think that to Rhaenyra, the fact that her mother suffered years of miscarriages, stillbirths, and dead babies, and then died in childbirth and still couldn’t give Viserys a son, only for his new wife to give him a son pretty quickly, might seem almost like a mockery of her mother. I don’t think Rhaenyra blamed Alicent for having a son, I just think that she’s hurt that after all her mother went through, her best friend does a “better” (better in the eyes of the realm,) job of being Queen than she did. I don’t this this was at the forefront of her mind when she thought about Alicent, but it think it would have been somewhere in the back of her mind and would subtly have helped contribute to her resentment and the souring of her and Alicents relationship.

This isn’t to say that Alicent didn’t suffer at all, because obviously marriage to a man literally old enough to be her father, years of marital rape, and having children when she’s still almost a child is horrible and traumatic. This is just a look into some of the things that might have gone on in Rhaenyra’s mind at the time and how it relates to her relationship with Alicent.

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