rewatching hotd clips and "aegon the realm's delight" still gets me so fucking bad because yeah it's just insane character writing. turning aegon from your standard evil arrogant misogynistic dude with little to no personal conflict into that was just. so good. speaks so loudly about his own relationship with gender and particularly his desire to be a daughter, to be his sisters, who both parents prefer over him. so easy to love, to choose, over and over again, first and foremost of all. he is constantly seeking for love and affection in the series: his hypersexuality, running to the altar of the mother when he's drunk, asking alicent if she loves him before his coronation, accepting his role as king and wanting the crown only when he hears the crowds starting to cheer for him, when he sees his mother smiling proudly. he wants to take rhaenyra's throne and epithet because he wants to be her, which is a brilliant to parallel to rhaenyra's own desire to be a manāto be aegon. not to mention alicent literally chooses helaena and jaehaera over her sons at the end of s2. chooses to let aegon die. she knows aegon cannot he saved, that he is already doomed for death because he is king, and he is king because he is a son. and in s1, though wracked by illness and deformity, even though he can barely remember where he is most of the time, viserys walks to the throne to support rhaenyra's claim. time and time again his parents' undoing is always a daughter. "aegon the realm's delight" because he, the long-awaited son his mother prayed for and his father killed for will always be eclipsed by his sisters when it comes to competing for love.



















