LMAO i mention him once and you crash in with the pitchforks. criston infuriates me as a person and i pray for his downfall every day, but i think it's really funny how ever since rheanyra rejected him he's been just. standing there. seething. hating. experienced an absolutely godawful not-exactly-consensual-and-somewhat-coerced-on-his-end situationship with the heir to the throne, broke his most important vow to the realm because of her, got discarded once she got bored, watched her get everything she wants (his pov, not mine), became an open misogynyst and has since then made it his mission to be rheanyra's number one obstacle and hater every step of her way for the rest of his mangled life. he's even fucking rheanyra's other ex in mutual hateful trauma bonding now, he's truly hitting that sigma haterism grindset. i sense him as a walking consequence to rheanyra's thoughtless actions and privileged entitlement that is meant to bite her in the ass later, but yeah beyond that he's just. There. recycling his trauma with alicent. creating problems on purpose. decaying, bothered, unmoisturized. rancid little cryptid man with one function only.