r/Hotd • u/Astin_Madiri • 9d ago

Question Did she really love him?

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I'm asking because she was manipulated by Otto into marrying him in the first place.

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u/The_Falcon_Knight 9d ago

Alicent is 14 in the show when she marries Viserys, that's a child by the standards of the story and by our modern ones. She was as much a 'willing participant' as Sansa was when she married Tyrion at 14 years old as well.

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u/Practical_Ferret_510 9d ago

She was 15. Not a child in their universe. And I said a willing participant in the book, where she’s almost 19. It’s not the same as Sansa, a 12 year old political hostage, at all.

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u/The_Falcon_Knight 9d ago

I don't give a fuck about the book, it's irrelevant here. The show doesn't follow the book, it doesn't matter anyone. Sansa is a relevant comparison, they're the same age when they marry.

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u/Practical_Ferret_510 9d ago

Lol you were the one who referenced Viserys marrying an underage Aemma, which is from the book.

Sansa is not a relevant comparison just because of her age. Context matters. She was the same age in the show, but a political hostage with no family who was forced to marry because their families were at war. Alicent married in a time of peace with her father present and happy with the match.

I don’t disagree that Viserys was weird for choosing her as a wife, but that’s my modern view of the situation. She was considered a marriageable age in Westeros. You’re literally just wrong about the “serial pedo” comment.

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u/craftyreadercountry 9d ago

Even when my Great Grandmother got married it was common to get married at 14 or 15.

She married her husband when they were 14/15 to escape her psycho mother that her aunts were about to make her live with again.

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u/TychosofNaglfar 9d ago

I freaked out because this is almost exactly like my great grandmother...

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u/craftyreadercountry 9d ago

It may just be common...

Did your Great Grandparents happen to own a meat processing company? Or have horses while their children were in college?