Fabien Frankel confirms Criston Cole and Alicent hook up in House of the Dragon Season 2

In the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, relationships are a flaming disaster. As these suppressed emotions finally start to surface, the Targaryen dynasty plunged into civil war. However, some interactions slipped right under our noses, one of which was between dowager Queen Alicent and her protector Criston Cole, which might surprise a lot.

Criston Cole and Alicent Hightower have s*x during the Blood and Cheese scene

As the House of the Dragon Season 2 release date slowly rolls closer, more tidbits are being revealed at promotional tours. The most recent one comes from an interview with BGN, where Fabien Frankel revealed Criston Cole had s*x with Alicent. He said:

“[Criston Cole] is in there with Alicent when that’s happened. I mean, he should have been there standing sentry. Yeah. And he wasn’t.

I mean, it’s like one of the first lines that Aegon has to Cole like “and where were you”, you know, “supposed to be protecting my family”. And little does he know, obviously that Cole is, well..”

A year ago, Emily Carry, who portrayed younger version of Alicent, commented that Alicent loved Criston Cole. How the tables have turned!

Fans react to Fabien Frankel’s shocking revelation

Though there were rumors since Season 1 about an alleged relationship between Alicent and Cole, they were never confirmed. Season 2 takes a grotesque form, and adds to Alicent’s guilt, as she might’ve helped Helaena in some way during the Blood and Cheese incident if she wasn’t “busy”.

Some of the fans on X reacted:

aemond going to check what’s happening after hearing helaena screaming and finding cole coming out of alicent’s chamber like this pic.twitter.com/QL6nitlXmQ

— thai. (@nyracult) June 6, 2024

me with whoever had this fucking idea of alicent and cole having sex during 🩸🧀pic.twitter.com/HxCUt9VPJk

— nellie ⚢ 🍉 (@alcinaswoman) June 6, 2024

me trying to explain that the only reason alicent has sex with criston is to feel closer to rhaenyra as rhaenyra lost her virginity to cole and he’s the catalyst for their friendship breaking if you trace it all the way back- *explosion* pic.twitter.com/fcKtRR0HWs

— aki (@alphalicent) June 4, 2024

“I’m gonna unstan alicent if alicent x cole happens” bye we needed the strongest soldiers only for season 2 anyway… where are my REAL alicels at?? pic.twitter.com/BLbRJcna3X

— neptune !! (@bluixi) June 5, 2024

Fabien:“He’s in there with Alicent when that’s happening one of the first line Aegon has to say to Cole is “And where were you?You supposed to protect my family” and little does he know that Cole is well..😏🤭”

so Alicole really f🫦cking and sucking during B&C omg time and place pic.twitter.com/BAflioqJ6x

— dragon queen (@targrealness) June 6, 2024

🚨🚨🚨🚨
Alicent & Criston RUMOURS are TRUE !!!!!
Confirmed by Fabien
🤭🤭🤭🤭#HouseOfTheDragon pic.twitter.com/MEwekeDu8X

— Priyanshu Singh (@RealPriyanshu9) June 6, 2024

It sounds like it will be like a one night stand sorta thing not a full blown relationship but I could be wrong

— Team Black Forever!!!🖤🖤 (@ethan_loon48016) June 6, 2024

I am happy becoz I ship them
In the books, I still think they were in relationship just not confirmed by Historians
🤭🤭🤭🤭

— Priyanshu Singh (@RealPriyanshu9) June 6, 2024

I feel like this scene will make people hate Alicent and Cole even more haha

— Targaryen Loyalist 🇿🇼🇹🇷 (@chareka_divine) June 6, 2024

they don't have any other guards in that castle or what

— adri‹𝟹 (@sapphireseastar) June 6, 2024

I love it. I always thought Criston and alicent were perfect for each other in the canon source. But Ryan made them an actual pair. Is normal they were doing it when Criston should have been guarding Helaena and the kids. Like he fail Aemond in episode 7.

— paula barra (@barrap40) June 6, 2024

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