ok so sorry but this has been haunting me ever since i finished the tutorial. mild side order spoilers under the cut!
and i have to talk about it. Marina's wallpaper. This one
look at the outfit. we've never seen this outfit for pearl before. at first glance the colors look like the final fest outfit, which matches up with the first dev log being about the final fest, but nothing else matches.
pearl's tank top is baggy, she has a chain, she doesn't have makeup or gloves, and the crown is COMPLETELY different.
so my next thought, of course, was "maybe this is an OLD picture of Pearl, Marina seems like the type to keep an old photo as her wallpaper" so i went back to the art of #$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin,
which is a lot closer! no gloves, a chain, and a black tank top. But, this pearl also has piercings and also, again. the crown is different.
Every other pearl costume matches even less. She's usually in white.
so, i decided to look closer at the actual image. see what i could deduce.
interestingly. she's wearing rings.
one on her right hand ring finger. however, its her right hand and there's another ring on her pinky. but still interesting to note. especially as its not symmetrical (we can see her pinky on the other hand) and not something pearl typically wears, even in her youth. (the other young pearl render shows the chain in more detail, but also has her wearing gloves)
which. speaking of that chain. lets take another gander at it, why don't we?
oh, interesting! it has two pendants. but. oh! huh! wow. the one on top. we've seen that before, haven't we?
one silver pendant/zipper with an 8 shape and one gold pendant/zipper with a star.
... Fascinating!
so pearl is: wearing a fancier crown than we've ever seen, rings, and a necklace bearing both her and marina's iconography. isn't that just interesting.
EDIT: thank you to @catcake24 for bringing it to my attention that there was concept art i was unaware of.
so. alas. that explains most things. but they did change the necklace. most notably adding Marina's zipper <3
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I’m actually curious to see if, and honestly hope, in s2 (whenever that may come out. Studios pay your writers and actors) we get some sort of callback or allusion to the rumor that Jacaerys tried to convert Cregan from the old gods to the faith of the seven.
Not because I care about the gods, outside the religious symbolism they bring. I only want to see people’s reactions. Namely the ones who act as if Alicent is the first woman to ever openly practice the faith. Because I have a feeling those same people will paint Jace possibly doing that as endearing versus Alicent who gets painted as a monster for her connection to the faith. The most we see Alicent doing a redecorating her home. Mind you, not even every room because you can clearly see the tacky tapestries in Viserys’ room in ep 8. Plus we see her praying and wearing religious iconography. Things that are not out of the ordinary… at all. She’s honestly your textbook highborn noble woman during that time. She was born and raised in Oldtown ffs. What is she supposed to follow if not the faith💀
She gets seen as this horrible zealot out to destroy the Targaryens through the faith, and to me that is just indicative on how badly people misinterpret Alicent’s feelings/motivations.
People can have their problems with the writing in hotd. I know there are certain things I have problems with myself. But when can we start being honest about how a lot of the conversations that are regurgitated and argued about day after day have less to do with the writing, and more to do with bad faith viewing. People are watching to see what they want to see, not what is actually in front of them.
Anyone with an objective view of Alicent would be able to tell how much she clings to the faith for salvation and hope. She does it to feel close to her mother, and very kindly/cautiously tries to help Rhaenyra with that too. She then reaffirms her faith after 1. She (imo justifiably) loses her shit at Driftmark and feels guilty about it, and 2. Has to marry her children to each other. Something she expresses thinking is immoral in the past. We even see her cut her hair, more than likely as a means of punishment and repentance. She’s miserable and has very few lifelines to hold onto.
How that gets twisted into her being a bigot because she doesn’t want to see dragons having orgies on her walls is beyond me.
Also the idea she is trying to bring down House Targaryen is nuts, but also laughable. Because between her and her actual Targaryen husband, Alicent is the one affirming her childrens’ Targaryen heritage. She makes sure Aemond knows he will get a dragon one day. She makes sure Aegon gets Blackfyre and his namesake’s crown. It seems like Aemond, and more than likely her other kids, know Valyrian. Ironically, the most anti targ (and frankly valid) sentiments we get are from Viserys. He speaks on the doom, fears what is to come, and how they never should have messed with dragons.
Alicent ‘let the people remember the ancient strength of House Targaryen’ Hightower is not the Baelor y’all want her to be. And if she was, it would’ve worked in her favor more. People tend to leave out the part where the most beloved Targaryens (by their people) were partly that because of their connection to the faith. Ya know the thing Targaryens also practice.
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