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    “Mother, when is Father returning?”

    Aegon squirmed as his mother pulled a comb through his long unruly blonde locks with a sigh. He had refused to let her cut it in the year since one of his nursemaids had remarked offhandedly how he had become Rhaenyra’s spitting image. 
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    vignettes from a different life

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    08 Oct 2025

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    alicent finds, once again, that making friends is not as easy as the movies have made it seem.

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    01 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    Rhaenyra realized, suddenly, that Alicent’s body wasn’t a statue at all; it was a corral, just like Syrax’s, and there was an ugly, human thing trapped within. Without understanding why, Rhaenyra smiled again. She was dizzy with instantaneous joy, the kind that almost blistered.
     
    Before Rhaenyra and Alicent were enemies, they were friends. Before they were friends, they were enemies. There is no before; there will be no after.

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    25 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 62

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    In October of 2005, Rhaenyra emails back.

    Alternate (happier) ending to "Memories Feel Like Weapons"

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    08 Jul 2025

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    She can’t escape the throne. Or the girl it was meant to devour. Alicent Hightower wears the regency like a crown of thorns. Confined by duty, something’s going to cleave. Maybe the realm. Maybe her heart. Maybe the line between them.

    "One year,” Rhaenyra spits the words, “and if you linger a day beyond, Alicent, I will take the throne with fire.”

    Or;

    Viserys died earlier within the six-year time skip. Alicent successfully becomes queen regent. Rhaenyra arrives in King’s Landing. It changes everything.

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    03 May 2025

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    It was entirely unfair, Alicent thought, that on this day (a day where she was hungover, had no make-up on, was sweating to the point that she could feel it beading on her temple and upper lip, and her shirt was sticking everywhere) she would come face-to-face with the most gorgeous woman she had ever seen.

    “Hi,” the object of Alicent’s frustration said amiably, standing behind the till in the Student Union’s coffee shop. “How are you?”

    In which Alicent Hightower drinks coffee, makes small talk, and really, really fancies her favourite barista.

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    30 Apr 2025

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    Wei Ying loses a bet.

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    07 Apr 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 25

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    "Commander Targaryen," Alicent said, voice crisp over the comms, deliberately omitting the callsign everyone else used, "this is a controlled systems failure drill. You’re expected to respond accordingly."

    Rhaenyra stretched her arms behind her head. "Relax, Hightower. I’m just getting comfortable."

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    Rhaenyra Targaryen is everything Alicent Hightower hates—reckless, arrogant, and incapable of following a plan that isn’t hers. And Rhaenyra has spent years pushing every single one of Alicent’s buttons just to see what happens. A story as old as time—except for that one of them is getting launched into space. And the other is charged in keeping her alive.

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    10 Feb 2025

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    Such an unusual coupling, between two women, would be frowned upon in any other setting but Targaryens do not adhere to the laws of nature, never mind the laws of men.

    Or: Alicent and Rhaenyra marry and via Valyrian magic, are able to produce an heir. And then some.

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    30 Jan 2025

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    “You’re staring.”

    “Just thinking, my princess.”

    Rhaenyra turned sideways, moving into a position that changed her center of balance and was twice as risky. A few centimeters to the side, Alicent could all but see it - splat on the ground. “Penny for your thoughts?”

    “My thoughts are worth far more than that.”

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    10 Dec 2024

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    professional tennis player alicent hightower’s ranking has plummeted, thanks to a prolonged crisis of confidence. working with a new coach, and with the british grass season getting underway, she’s desperate to find her form again. nobody believes she can do so more than her best friend: the wimbledon favourite, rhaenyra targaryen.

    a tennis/wimbledon au

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    20 Oct 2024

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    “Fair play,” Rhaenyra replies, “But you can’t just spend all summer wasting away here, your only friend to speak of being the 30 year old lesbian who cleans your pool.”

    “That seems like something you made up just now,” Aegon responds lightly, “Rather than an actual rule.”

    or,

    After her mugshot makes it into the tabloids, Rhaenyra strikes a deal to keep her inheritance that involves a summer spent working at her cousin's landscaping company. This brings her to the house of delinquent teenager Aegon Hightower and his lonely, high-strung mother.

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    28 Sep 2024

  13. Public Bookmark 48

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    Alicent never meant to end up in entertainment journalism. She wanted to report on politics, economics, war correspondence- things that people took seriously. Yet every event seemed to bring her face to face with a silver-haired Targaryen who infuriatingly refused to take anything seriously.

    (Red Carpet AU)

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    25 Sep 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 57

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    it’s easy to forgive rhaenyra and it’s even easier to kiss her when she wants to kiss you. once her attention is on you there is hardly a simple way out.

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    alicent cannot resist rhaenyra even when the latter is unable to count the drugs she's taken on one hand.

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    23 Sep 2024

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    “I heard you was looking for help?” the woman asks, her voice a smooth velvet that drips like honey. Despite the snow, her voice feels warm as it echoes against the barren walls of the kitchen. The pot of coffee is done and for the first time in over a season, Alicent pulls two mugs down from the cupboard.

    Or, a study of the formation of a quiet affair between a wandering farmhand and a lonely widow.

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    03 Sep 2024

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    “No, I’m only joking, it would absolutely be a date, yeah. You’re just so fascinating, I want to pick your brain apart with like… an ice pick or something.”

    “A lobotomy, you are describing a lobotomy,” Alicent murmurs.

    Alicent is the Director of Communications for the Vice President. Rhaenyra serves as the White House Liaison to the President. Which means they see each other every day. Something that would not be a problem at all—if not for the fact that Alicent absolutely hates Rhaenyra's guts.

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    04 Sep 2024

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    And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.

     

    After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very).

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    03 Sep 2024

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    She traces the contours of her memories, seeking the source of this ache, but all that remains are fragmented images, blurred edges of a past that refuses to be forgotten. And at the heart of it all, a name: Alicent.

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    Alicent flees King’s Landing and lives in a cottage with her chickens. Rhaenyra goes to the ends of the earth searching for her.

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    07 Aug 2024

  19. Public Bookmark 70

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    There is a clearing with a stand of trees at its centre in the deep of the Kingswood. No roads or paths may access it; the forest surrounding too dense, tangled roots as large as dwellings. And yet, to walk three hundred paces due south one will find a lodge. It is where Rhaenyra’s heart resides. The quiet, ragged pieces that remain.

     

    (Post-Dance AU - Alicent and Rhaenyra's cottage in the woods)

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    07 Aug 2024

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    rhaenyra visits alicent in chains

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    29,905

    11 Jun 2024

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