One Thing I Enjoy In This Whole Story Is How Otto And Alicent Hightower Have Somehow Convinced Themselves

One thing I enjoy in this whole story is how Otto and Alicent Hightower have somehow convinced themselves that they speak for the entire Realm.

They don’t call a Great Council after King Viserys dies to settle the succession, they don’t let people choose between Rhaenyra and Aegon, they keep King Viserys’ death a secret and plot with the Council behind closed doors.

And then they claim to speak for the Realm when they say things like: “The Realm will not accept her [Rhaenyra]”.

Is that right? And how could your conniving, backstabbing ass know that, Ser Otto? Did you run a survey during the years you were Hand? Did you create polls? Anything like that?

[Don’t even get me started on Alicent. In real life, a woman like her (upstart, conniving, jealous and cruel bitch who steals her stepdaughter’s inheritance immediately after her father’s death), would never receive any kind of support from anyone].

All I can remember is Aegon being crowned by his mommy, granddaddy and his mommy’s lap dog/wannabe lover in the Dragonpit, with hundreds of smallfolk who were forced to attend this farce of a coronation and swear obeisance to a false king under penalty of death (the death of Lord Lyman Beesbury was proof enough that the Greens were going to execute anyone who did not comply with their treasonous actions).

And despite everything, Rhaenyra ends up having the majority Houses on her side (53) and she controls the largest territories of the Realm (the North, the Vale and the Riverlands).

As a whole, Rhaenyra has: the North, the Vale, the Riverlands, the Iron Islands, the Crownlands, and half the Reach.

Meanwhile, Aegon only has the Stormlands, the Westerlands and half the Reach.

Otto and Alicent are either living in absolute denial and prefer to lie to themselves and others or they are truly out of their minds.

Understand this: 3/4 of Westeros preferred to go to war for a woman, rather than accept the man already sitting the throne.

Now, tell me again, what were you saying about the Realm?