sorry im thinking abt alicent calling helaena by rhaenryas name again. viserys was more likely to forget her name thab mistake her for rhaenyra but alicent cant see her and Not see a rhaenyra she can fix/save (read: control and groom). rhaenyra spinning it as see even your own mother sees that you're more *mine* than hers, my sweet little sister, more like a daughter to me than her, her who forced you to marry a monster etc etc. im chewinf drywall

when viserys calls helaena by the wrong name its like when your parent is trying to get your attention and cycles through your siblings names and the pets names before getting to yours. but when alicent calls her by the wrong name its *always* rhaenyra. it makes helaena feel a little funny for reasons she cant exactly articulate. she tells rhaenyra about it framing it as a joke, but rhaenyra knows *exactly* what it is and sinks her teeth in. (haha did you know mother sometimes calls me by YOUR name? thats because she knows you should belong to me :) ) starts worrying away at it as just one more thing to turn helaena against alicent. and how humiliating for alicent that rhaenyra has proof of just how obsessed she is over her…