Anon · 3mo
Alysanne chided Jaehaerys for Daella’s marriage, and basically blamed him for her death (valid as fuck.) And then a few years later, Alyssane herself, out of her own free will, decides to betroth Viserra at an age a year younger than Daella was when she was married? That doesn’t make any sense. I actually don’t understand it all, and then deciding on a man nearing his sixties for her fifteen years old daughter? What? So, she could become his fourth wife. Not his first, not his second…Not even his third, but his FOURTH wife? Huh? Keep in mind, his heir, as far I as I remember, was unwed and closer to Viserra in age! My goat was highkey a weirdo, and definitely a hypocrite. 💔
Yeah Alysanne definitely was odd about Viserra. I honestly do imagine that she saw herself in her daughter and so made assumptions about her based on that. Especially saying that she aimed to be queen by marrying Baelon when the heir, Aemon, was very much still alive. It just felt like she was projecting onto Viserra and so because she cannot accept that, she just wants Viserra away and without any way to really leave any remembrance of herself. Because realistically how many swimmers would the man have? There's a part of me that thinks that Alysanne did not want her daughters to become anything greater than herself. She doted on the ones who needed her to their own detriment, and she scorned the ones who were very independent. The way that she had once been. But Alysanne was never truly independent, she and Jaehaerys were codependent and she never made the changes she really wanted to. She did good and there is no denying that but Alysanne probably wished to do more and was never able to. I do think that it might be a classic case of mother being jealous of daughter in some way. I hope I explained that well.
