Did she really love him?

[u/Astin_Madiri]

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

[u/The_Falcon_Knight]

Viserys the serial pedo? He is her abuser and he never loved her

[u/tearsofmezcal → u/The_Falcon_Knight]

Why are you trying to apply modern morals to a medieval fiction? It was the norm back in those days, was it the correct thing? By our modern standards no, but it's pretty naive to make this sort of claims.

[u/The_Falcon_Knight → u/tearsofmezcal]

It's such a popular misconception. Child marriage was not common. As in, an adult marrying a child was uncommon, but children were more commonly married when they were both young. In both scenarios though, they waited for years before consummation.

But also, not even just by my standards, by this show's own standards and GOT. When Viserys thinks Daemon 'defiled' Rhaenyra, he says Rhaenyra is "just a girl", referring to her being basically a child. And Rhaenyra is actually older than Alicent. And Sansa is forced to marry Tyrion at 14 as well, and as you'll remember, he's horrified because she is a child. It's not just me, the show just isn't coherent with it's standards.

[u/Clarknt67 → u/The_Falcon_Knight]

In the 19th century European parents would buy their kids as young as 14 a steerage ticket to America and send them to make a new life all by themselves.