zero regard

to me, aegon iii and vis ii are very much baelor and maekar if they really, really suffered, and the only thing missing atp is one of them accidentally killing the other. my very first favourite targaryen was aegon iii (depression buddies yay) but the more i focused on viserys, he made me equally sad. this is definitely a man who commits to holding things together so as not to fall apart himself. as someone who does the opposite and falls apart, i'm drawn to this quality in others and it really pulls at my heartstrings. it sort of reminds me of the art piece can't help myself by sun yuan and peng yu, this constantly working machine that can't - or won't - stop cleaning up messes. which of course leads to the presumption that a character like this will fall apart spectacularly when he's pushed to his limit. usurpation would mean creating more of a mess which viserys cannot even comprehend at that point. at the same time, he is wholly aware of his son causing messes left and right, but a poignant part of him is envious of aegon, and wantsto live vicariously through him. aegon moves through the world like it's water rolling off his back. he's lived a childhood without the threat of war and unrest, and he does as he wishes, when he wishes, which is a luxury viserys never had.

and then you have naerys, who looks like larra and acts like aegon iii, the two most important people in viserys's life. she's not as depressed as her uncle was before her marriage, because she has aemon and she lives in her own little bubble. viserys wants to preserve this quiet contentment and thinks it would be best done where she's surrounded and enabled by family to remain as she is and not isolated in some castle. hence, aegon is the easy option. but as the consequences of the decision sinks in, viserys withdraws even more into his work, fixating on it to avoid what might just be the biggest mistake he's ever made. in that sense, i really love the idea of naerys going to him, just like you said. she usually goes to aemon, and they comfort and protect each other as best they can from aegon's wrath. but this one time, she goes to viserys instead, as if she's going to the altar of the father above after all the other gods have failed her.

in terms of the sex, i don't think she'd be able to go the whole way with him (or him with her) for a while as naerys at least is moving towards increased piety, plus the trauma of being raped by aegon doesn't leave her very open to being touched by another man. so i kind of envision that viserys holds her in his lap and lets her cry whenever she visits, maybe helps her bathe and there is nothing sexual about it (she doesn't want the servants to see her bruises). and then it graduates to kisses all over his face and hers, which becomes kisses on the mouth. she obviously hesitates at the wrongness of that, stresses about potentially confessing to a septa, and he doesn't try to convince her, just waits until she decides what she wants to do (kiss him more ofc).

i'm very devoted to the idea of daeron being viserys's, only because i don't think aemon would have had a sexual affair with his sister (as with all ships, a case can be made - however, he is the one who strikes me as more devout to religious oaths than her).

i also hc that baelor was pressured by viserys to send aegon to essos, being that it's his son and viserys was obviously doing all the ruling anyway. i really don't think baelor would have done that of his own volition.

because they're both so tragic, i like to place them in this sort of snow globe in my mind where time stands still so i don't have to push them along to the other traumatic events in their lives (for her it's only just beginning since he dies first). i have certain aesthetics i associate with all my ships, for instance with saehaerys it's the gothic atmosphere conjured up by tanith lee, but also labyrinth; for baekar it's excalibur 1981 and for visnaerys, it's the love witch (not the plot itself, just the fuzzy aesthetics).

in my mind palace, they are fucking regularly (yay!). and in aegon's absence - because he is kind of possessive over daddy's attention - naerys gets to peel open viserys and learn more about him, and maybe glimpse pieces of that charming young man he used to be before larra left. he gets to see her laugh and display a surprisingly funny wit that reminds him of larra and is of course both painful and euphoric for him to experience.