Same, if he would have just understood her position that she couldn’t just leave with him, they could have been soulmates 🥺❤️

@@selenarodgers5667 lol no her soulmate was daemon and will always be daemon even rhaenyra herself said they were always meant to burn together lol….even the actress of young rhaenyra said the character would never pick Cole over daemon lol. She didn’t love him and only used him for sex stop it with the soulmate stuff cuz even writers said she used him for sex only cuz daemon didn’t finish 🙃

@@Caraxes_RoguePrince they always say stuff like that when she didn’t love him at all lmfao how could he be her soulmate?? Mans is a bitter ex who wasn’t even a ex lol she just took his v card and he couldn’t get over it she don’t even look at him now 🤣

@@jackmorris1173 He took her V card as well I'd remind you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@adityakadam8181 Cole? That means nothing tbh because writers said she only went to Cole because daemon left her lol so Daemon coulda took her v card if wanted and it’s what she wanted as well

I think he just hates her because she reminds him of his lost "honour", and it's a coping mechanism because he can't face the truth, that he couldn't have honour or love, he lost his honour by breaking his oath, and he through away his love by being hateful. He thought thst being her lover was below him snd dishonourable, but sir Harwin proved that someone can choose ehat honour means to thembut it's reasonable since Cristen tied his whole worth to his identity as the kings guard

@@lilypond5158 exactly

@@lilypond5158 She did play him dirty tho...

They would have resented each other for what they lost. It’s only romantic because it didn’t happened. If it did, it would have just been life.

Doesn’t explain why he turned so evil? Sure it does she ruined the one thing that he put his entire self worth into(his honor) & then spit in his face. Huge deal & makes perfect sense why he hates her.

Thank you! 😊

Maybe after all the bad he’s done, that was his redeeming moment.

yeah feel sad for the rapist

No, Viserys would've never accepted their relationship and would've probably supplanted her with Aegon as the heir.

@@happylife4471 You never know, since Viserys was already forever guilty for his wive and newborn's death, so he never wanted to lose his daughter at any cost. He even allowed all those Illicit behavior that Rhaenyra committed post her marriage (including giving birth to bastard children), so it could be normal for Viserys to accept her relationship with Criston even after forbidding at first. Coz Viserys always lost in front of his daughter's stubbornness. In reality it was Rhaenerya who was not into Criston to see him as a marriage material ever. She always looked at him as a sex toy only, so she has no regrets.

Lol this is the world of asoiaf, and Criston Cole is a member of the King's guard. What relationship? He would have been put to sword

True love doesn’t require denying responsibility

Criston would’ve been beheaded lmfao who do you take these people for?

how disgusting of you to idiolize Rhaenyra the rapist

Jace seems so like him lol

Absolutely

I’m sure that’ll be a plot twist in season 2 or 3…

Looks like she dodged a bullet, turned out that deep down he is actually a really ugly person.

He didn’t love her

He love her once but she regect that

@@AmethystEyes yes he did

@@mohammedfardeen7660 yup

She didn't toy with him, If he was too stupid to see what it was then thats not her fault.

@@moe5020 I don’t think you’re making an effort to try and understand everyone’s side/thought processes. Like it or not, SHE was the one in the position of power in their relationship. Criston even said he had nothing to his name but his cloak which SHE gave him. I’m fairly certain he voiced his thought process very clearly, yes he naively thought that they could romantically run away from Westeros and get married but I think that just reveals he had a fairytale idea about their relationship. When Rhaenyra communicates to him what their relationship actually was from her perspective(the person with the power and who initiated it), he was crushed. All Rhaenyra was interested in was having him as her side piece, her boy toy. Meanwhile, he clearly thought the only end goal for their relationship was marriage. I will say, I’m definitely not on Rhaenyra’s side in this because like it or not, she put her claim to the throne in jeopardy and chose to create the opening needed for Aegon to pose a real threat. She was young, yes, she was definitely naïve but she was also a princess who was aware of what her duty to the crown was. I certainly can’t excuse her behavior just because “she’s a main character.”

she didn't force him to take her, he could have just gotten out of bed and walked away. He slept with her willingly, she never spoke of love! He deluded himself. He wanted her to abandon everything to live off crumbs just to restore his last name. he is hypocrite !

@@bealive9431 Whether or not Rhaenyra put her claim in jeoperdy is entirely irrelevent to Criston. Criston is like 30 years old he knew exactly what this was and willingly broke his oath out of lust. He didn't actually want to marry rhaenyra his proposal to get married and run away wasn't done out of geniune love it was his misguided attempt to alleviate his own guilt, he thought if he could marry her then he could delude himself into believing he broke his oath for love and then he could live with himself. Criston wouldn't be as violent and disturbed as he is if this was merely a case of tragic love and a broken heart the reason he had a mental breakdown is because of his guilt and his own self-image it has nothing to do with rhaenyra.

@@moe5020 Maybe you read the book. I didn't think of it that way.

wow looks like saying sorry is enough punishment for rape

You do realise that he was maybe around late twenties and she was only 14 or 15? She isn't obviously going to run away leaving all behind when she had worked for her father to recognise her as capable of being a ruler. It was unfair of him to think that she would just leave that behind. He was a king's guard because of her. He could have kept it a secret and behaved like the adult he was, as she did, but he chose to betray her. Pathetic

@@lifekmjj1 being old or mature doesn't mean you can't feel for someone who's younger than you or you can't fall in love. Just because he was old his feelings are always devalued and he is seen as his pain and suffering are worthless , I mean reverse the gender roles you will get an idea of that pain he suffered all along and the change in his character justifies it

@@lifekmjj1 So was it fair to just toy with his feelings just cuz he's an adult? He loved her irrespective of the favours done by her that's why he wanted to run away with her. He was ready to desert the post she offered him as per your saying. But Rhaenyra wanted to throw it all away ,just cuz suddenly just she wanted to rule the seven kingdoms. It was Rhaenyra who didn't value his feelings thus betraying his trust. Pathetic.

@@lifekmjj1 she was 18-19 when they slept together. NOT a child

@@danieldsouza565 See that's the thing. I don't think she toyed with his feelings. She thought it was understood that it was a fling. He was in the King's Guard and she was a princess and heir to the throne. It is immature of him to think that she was going to leave everything and run away with him. She never betrayed his trust. She didn't tell anyone about them. He did. He could have easily kept her secret and hated her. He killed an innocent man out of spite, just because he wanted to expose the true nature of her fiance, perhaps hoping the marriage wouldn't happen. All he did was provide Alicent the ammunition needed for her plans to take power.

fr, Daemon murders ppl and organizes mass executions and maimings of poor ppl and he's the gorgeous dreamboy everybody loves but Criston hates the woman who wanted him to be her quiet side piece and ppl act like he's the worst character we've ever seen in Westeros lmfao

He wanted her to leave the throne She desired the throne more from the start .He holds grudges to a 14-15 yr old girl whom he took her virginity.he may be 30yrs at that time , no one is matured in that relationship .

@@rumblechad really if he really loved he never hurt her but he did by taking alicent side following her orders ,looked to hurt her all the time so he is not the man for her. Now when coming to princess she always desired daemon ,she was immature and ignorant to me better they stay together they are better match ,ignorant+ evil daemon.

@@skyoce1247 she was 18-19 when they slept together

People are seletive

No, he asked her to run away with him

@@AmethystEyes well he asked her to run away because by then Rhaenyra was already promised to get married to her cousin. Had Rhaenyra truly loved him, then she would tell her father about their relationship. In the beginning Viserys would disagree but then he would accept, given the fact that how he always gave access to her daughter in everything, even accepted her bastard children as his grandchildren pretending to know nothing. So here it was all up to Rhaenyra, but poor girl had only her eyes for Daemon. Only if Daemon was out of the Picture and did not provoke her, then probably she could see Criston from her loving eyes.

@@farahfarzana8752 she loved daemon lol with daemon being going she still wanted him and thought of him her fondling the necklace he gave her 4 years ago while looking for a husband is proof of that lol she never loved criston and she wouldn’t run away with him regardless because she is the heir. She had eyes for daemon before he “provoked” her it’s the family way lol of course she would look at him like that

@@jackmorris1173 yeah that's what I'm telling that she actually loved Daemon and that's why she treated Criston like that

@@farahfarzana8752 He was a member of the kings guard. If anyone had ever find out that he slept with her, he would have been executed for breaking his oath.

More like midnyra the r*pist is a crap woman & not good enough for him‼️