#aegon blackfyre
JonCon and Aegon both carry their death flags with them so i don’t DARE to theorise a happy ending for them but it doesn’t stop me from imagining differen’t scenarios in which they live.
How good it could be if, at the end of his journey, after all the sacrifices he made, all the blood that has been shed for
his SONAegon, he had to confront the fact that Aegon is a Blackfyre, and not Rhaegar and Elia’s son. Like… I know GRRM won’t ever write it this way but imaginehow good it could be if JonCon’s arc ends with him choosing Aegon (the future) over Rhaegar’s memory (the past).Imagine JonCon having to deal with the fact that, No, he can’t change the past, he CAN’T save his silver prince but he can influence the future, he can protect the son he raised. That he was more of a father to Aegon than Rhaegar or Illyrio EVER was.
Imagine JonCon seeing him clearly without the shackles of the past, but this time he’s nor projecting Rhaegar’s memory onto him and he still supports his son.
no man could have asked for a worthier son
Give this ending to me please !!!
And why not? IF Aegon and Jon both don’t know he is not Rhaegar‘s son; if they find out and end the strive to put Aegon on the throne; if whoever will rule understands that they are not trying to be a threat - then why not?
Let them live please, dear George!
I don’t get.
The Golden Company went to meet Viserys once to at least hear his offer, then they waited for him because of the plans of Illyrio Mopatis. Later they waited for Daenerys to fight for her, as well. Both Viserys and Daenerys are pure-line Targaryens, not Blackfyres, and the Golden Company at least considered fighting for the first and waited to fight for the latter nonetheless.
And still the fact that the Golden Company is fighting for Aegon now is used to “proof” he must be a Blackfyre.
So how would they fight for two Targaryens, but Aegon MUST be a Blackfyre for them to fight for him? How does the fact that the Golden Company decides to fight for Aegon proof him to be a Blackfyre and not a Targaryen if they had no issue fighting for other Targaryens before him?
It absolutely makes no sense at all.
To phrase it harshly with a quote from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”:
This theory is based on three things: ignorance, stupidity, and nothing else. ☜(˚▽˚)☞
(Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying he is DEFINITELY not a Blackfyre. He might be one - I hope he is not. But the idea that the GC fighting for him proofs him to be a Blackfyre is a mere fallacy.)
So, after reading a bit into comments and theories about Young Griff/Aegon - which I certainly should not have done because many of those are really appalling – it seems that basically Dany is a total Queen for the same things for which Aegon gets mocked and abused. LOL!
And that’s when comparing them is completely nonsensical anyway.
It’s measuring up »Character A«, that we saw very little of and have no insight (POV) into, to »Character B«, that we have hundreds of pages on (both 3rd Person and POV) – and then judge »Character A« on the grounds of »Character B«.
From the tiny bits we saw of Aegon, it’s not even possible to create a reliable characterization – not if you’re not just trying to shove bias into the gaps as it suits you and execute some wishful condemnation.
For example, one of the accusations towards Aegon that I read quite commonly is that he is arrogant. Not that I would even see that between the lines – but that’s where I am as positively biased towards him as others are negatively biased towards him. Yet apart from that, Dany has a whole lot of scenes – every time she acts as a Khaleesi or Queen in particular – where she is arrogant or at least tries to be. Furthermore, she constantly goes on about all her titles, about being the blood of the dragon, and demands her people to cross the world with her to get her the throne she believes to be hers. That she is fearing and doubting and insecure, we only know from her POV – and the only reason why we do not know about Aegon’s inner monologue is that we did not see any yet. That, however, does not mean that he is a plain, empty caricature who is all that little bit of Tyrion- and JonCon-POV and nothing more. GRRM does not create plain caricature characters – so it’s very unlikely that there is not very much more to his character than the little we saw.
Another accusation often read is that he is naive and inexperienced – and for this, he is compared to Dany, Jon or Robb. But they WERE exactly that: Naive and inexperienced. They grew from it, but they have been with us for a very long time. We saw them grow from being little more than a child to the characters they are today, or to their demise. But Aegon has been sheltered away until basically today. He studied the world, but he has no experience with people. He, just like the others, will either grow or find his demise. Robb was hugely naive throughout his whole campaign, he was just lucky for a while. He headed out to safe, then avenge his father, and it got turned into a wanna-be-king-megalomania. Dany was a scared, little mouse until she found the strength to grow. Jon was as entitled as a bastard could be and pretty arrogant at that until Donal Noye and the rest of the Night’s Watch set his head right. Or take Renly who proved to be stubborn and naive beyond anything when his entire justification for wanting to supplant his older brother was: “people like me more than Stannis“.
Aegon has no tale like that YET. He has been on a boat, hidden away, sheltered. He is just starting out into the world. So comparing him to where Jon and Dany are today, or where Renly and Robb were before they ended, is really absurd. No matter how far the rest of the story is advanced, he is still at the beginning.
Now, please don’t get me wrong: Dany is a wholesome, fascinating character. She has her flaws and strengths because she is not just a caricature. But exactly that is what makes the way Aegon is treated so unfair.
And regardless if he is Aegon or only Young Griff, he is a boy of ~16 who has not seen much of the world. Yes, Daenerys is younger, but she has also been through a lot of shit already – which is not Aegon’s fault, nor is it his fault, that he is inexperienced.
Yes, he assumes that Daenerys will marry him – but so does Daenerys! When she thinks about the son of her older brother at one time, she believes that, had the boy lived, she would have married him because it would have been natural. Targaryens did that sort of thing. Daenerys grew up with that knowledge, just as Aegon did. The idea, that Dany might have a different idea on the matter, makes Aegon react angrily, though it’s not clear whether he is angry that he has been treated like he is a stupid child by Tyrion, whether he feels offended by the idea that Dany might not accept his hand in marriage – or whether he is completely shocked by the idea that all the stuff he has been fed his whole life might not work out as smoothly. It is so easy to read »spoiled brat« into that, but this is only Tyrion’s POV – and Tyrion was in a very bleak mood at that time. We see Aegon being friendly and gentle, laughing and joking, smart and a good student, helping and even saving Tyrion – yet it is that one moment at the Cyvasse Board that people use to judge his character – though that moment was so much more soul wrenching to him that just him losing the game.
All in all, judging Aegon on the same grounds as judging Daenerys makes absolutely no sense. Nothing of this is his doing, either. He is a young boy who is still trying to find his bearings in a world that probably consists only of lies. He might be just a pawn in a play, or he might be the last dragon, and then he is the rightful heir – no matter if Daenerys likes that or not.
Holy shit. Reading into theories and the ASOIAF fandom makes me want to steer far from it.
Where does all this racism and fan&character-shaming come from?
Can I please just like Young Griff/Aegon and believe he is exactly what he claims to be, because I love authors bringing in a main player late? Can I enjoy him because him appearing now fucks up all the planning just for the lulz?
May I just hope for Daenerys trying to fry him and realise that he doesn’t burn, to which he retorts with: „Ok auntie. Now that we settled that, could we please just start burning down Westeros?“
Another „A Song of Ice and Fire“ readthrough.
Another increase to my believe that the „Blackfyre“-theory is dumb.
(a commission to @post-ironicweaboo)
shireen and his (distant) edgy cousin, aegon. or young griff.
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Knighting of the Black Dragon
Lord Blackfyre & Queen of Westeros
(…for two days, so if you want to commission me, be quick before i lose my laptop again *sobbing*)
Ok so this was supposed to b a reimagining of The Accolade by Edmund Leighton (with Arya, Missandei, Sansa, Jon on the background) but my god i am not finishing this unless someone pays me lmao so here’s the wip of Dany with Aegon.
Au where, after the War for The Dawn, House Blackfyre is re-established back in Westeros with Aegon reclaiming his identity. In this timeline House Velaryon, Blackfyre and Targaryen will make a triple alliance. Since it’s MY au i’m gifting Aegon a dragon egg bc 1) dragons are cool and there should be more of them and 2) Bran is there to stop a possible dragon-dragon civil war with his warg powers
lmao i’m RAMBLING but i have many thots about them
