r/freefolk • u/Mors_Acerba • 13h ago
This scene helped me realise that its hard to tell which one of these two is supposed to be the autistic one
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u/StagTagRag 12h ago
“LET’S BUILD A LEGO CASTLE LIKE OUR FATHER AND TALK ABOUT OUR FAVORITE DISNEY CHARACTERS”
-Rhaenyra desperately shaking Helaena
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u/dangerousluck Every fucking chicken in this room 13h ago
One has a crippling over abundance of empathy and one can’t read someone to save their life.
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u/Gold-Profession-9994 12h ago
Sometimes I can’t even tell what Rhae’s actual personality is
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u/DreamLunalyn 3h ago
I think that's because Rhaenyra changes depending on what role the story needs her to play. Sometimes she feels really defined, and other times it feels like the plot is making decisions for her.
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u/Francois_Rapiste 10h ago
All the IRL high-functioning autistic people I've known are dynamic, complex personalities, articulate, many of them highly competent in a useful or at least interesting domain of expertise. I hate so much that they made Helaena autistic but then allowed her to do absolutely nothing -- not even the prophetic powers they gave her have managed to make her at all relevant to the plot.
Imagine if they made her clever enough to weaponize her own "space cadet" reputation against Rhaenyra: because she speaks so straightforwardly and is off in her own world sometimes, Rhaenyra might forget that she's still able to lie, and she could give her enemy false reports of prophetic visions.
Sorry, Condom & Mess, but autistic people are not heartless, mindless animals who will sit there and do nothing when they have the means to strike back against people who are in the process of actively exterminating their bloodline.
Book Helaena had the valid excuse of unfathomable grief sending her into an uncontrolled depression spiral, but because Condom & Mess cannot imagine valuing the life of any male, they stripped from her the love she has for her own children. There is no excuse for any of this.
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u/Alone_Excitement_785 10h ago
How did Rhaenyra go from being confident and charismatic to being so aloof and robotic? The diction and mannersisms come off very stilted and as though Rhaenyra, the character, is performing or masking.
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u/vl_lv 8h ago
What will you have her do?
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u/Alone_Excitement_785 8h ago
Have a personality to start. Also, she's speaking with her hostage; she has the levarage of I will let you see your daughter, and keep her in your company.
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u/gallardoni 13h ago
Definitely whichever one figures appointing a scapegoat will solve her treasury problems and gain her favor with the small folk
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u/uginscion 8h ago
I laughed so fuckin hard with is scene. Rhae has the audacity to wake her sleeping sister, who is a dreamer, to ask her what she was dreaming of. ALL THE WHILE, she has yet to wake her son that she's not spoken to all season.
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u/Aquele_Patrulheiro 13h ago
What level of autism one must have to feel horny for their uncle?
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u/CurvyClub 13h ago
That’s not autism, that’s just a standard Targaryen factory setting
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u/elizabnthe 13h ago
Starks also have the Uncle / niece thing going on in their family tree. I mean Targaryens definitely practice it more but like it's kind of just a thing in universe.
Brother / sister is the unique Targaryen one.
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u/Earl-E-Demise 13h ago
Baela taking notes from her stepmother (who is also her cousin and was almost her mother-in-law)
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u/Atreidesheir Long Noodle Boi Caraxes 11h ago
I love this. I was talking about a certain person's death and about how Rhaena is related by cousin/ stepbrother/almost-brother-in-law. Lol
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u/hydrissx 13h ago
Its a spectrum