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I am actually curious with what they do with him this season. The Harrenhal arc can’t be any worse than what we got with Daemon.

It’s no telling Aerys isn’t exactly parent of the year. If he had a relationship with his brother Rhaegar he would’ve at least had a positive male role model. Aerys was so paranoid he didn’t even let him attend Rhaegar and Elia’s wedding out of fear of assassination attempts. It was so bad as a baby he had food tasters drink milk from his wet nurses out of fear their nipples had poison.

Then Roberts Rebellion comes around and on top of Aerys and Rhaegar’s deaths he is forced to flea Dragonstone and watch his mother die in childbirth.

His whole life is marked by entitlement and paranoia. Aerys named him his heir over his nephew Aegon. That fed into the idea that he is a dragon it make him cruel, entitled, and weak. Viserys thought he could conquer Westeros with 10,000 Dothraki because he is a dragon and he’s indestructible. He has to live on scraps in the streets of Essos and fend for his sister with the possibility of Robert sending assassins to kill them both. It got to the point he grew to disdain her and mistreat her. From Kings Landing, Dragonstone, Myr, Tyrosh, Lys, Qohor, and Volantis he never really had a home of his own.
If anything I think he could’ve turned out much worse than he did.

Alicent is a very prayerful woman that holds views of chastity and maidenhood dearly. Rhaenyra, on the other hand, is a sexually liberated woman with little regard for Andal tradition. In this scene she dresses as a Septa not just to disguise herself but to appeal to Alicent humanity and if you’ve read this far I’m obviously trolling and this scene is just so stupid…

Emory Cohen (Place Beyond the Pines; 2012 and Marty Supreme; 2025)

David Castro (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; 2006 and Where God Left His Shoes; 2007)

Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark; 2021)**

Drew Starkey (Outer Banks; 2020-present and Hellraiser 2022)

David Imperioli (son of Michael Imperioli the original Christopher Moltisanti)

John D’Leo (The Family; 2013 and Brooklyn’s Finest 2009)

Emory Cohen (Place Beyond the Pines; 2012 and Marty Supreme; 2025)

David Castro (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; 2006 and Where God Left His Shoes; 2007)

Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark; 2021)

Drew Starkey (Outer Banks; 2020-present and Hellraiser 2022)

David Imperioli (son of Michael Imperioli the original Christopher Moltisanti)

John D’Leo (The Family; 2013 and Brooklyn’s Finest 2009)