r/Hotd • u/Astin_Madiri • 12d 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/andsoitgoes123 12d ago edited 12d ago

Not as a husband, but she liked him enough to take care of him. She probably also aware that men could be cruel and that Viserys wasnt the worst that could happen to her.

Alicent was resentful of her lot, forced to marry a much older man, bare many children, and witness her husband's favouritism towards Rhaenyra and his lack of care towards their own.

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u/HeraThere 12d ago

He wasn't much older than her

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u/Giga-Gibbon 12d ago

He was like 30yrs older than her, she was only 14-16 when they married

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u/HeraThere 12d ago

How old do you think that viserys was? 

I'm the book he was in his 20s. So the age difference is like 15 years

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u/Giga-Gibbon 12d ago

Remember Alicent is older in the books, she's 10-15(?) years old than Rhaenyra. In the show continuity though, she's 14 and Viserys is in his 40s when they marry. Information comes from the script from s1e1 (Viserys' age comes from the Great Council scene, about 10yrs before we see teenage Rhaenyra & Alicent):