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What if the Targtowers were raised in another way?

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What if the Targtowers were raised in another way?

The Queen Alicent Hightower was Rhaenyra Targaryen step-mother and at first they had a "peaceful" relationship, one time when Rhaenyra served her a cup of wine, Alicent kissed her and called her "daughter". Their relationship started to worsen when Aegon was born, the king's first born son. As we all know, Viserys I Targaryen named his first born daughter, Rhaenyra, as his heir before he even married Alicent, but after Aegon's birth and the following ones of his brothers (Aemond and Daeron) he never changed his mind and kept her as his heir which was a scandalous thing since a woman never ruled the seven kindoms.

Alicent was a selfish woman who wanted her own blood on the throne and ignored the king's wishes of having his daughter as heir instead of his son, Aegon. She raised her children with the belief that Rhaenyra, their older half-sister, had stolen their "rightful" throne, to the lengths that Aegon and Rhaenyra met only once [SPOILERS] when Aegon had his dragon, Sunfyre eat her alive; she never had a documented interaction with Helaena nor Aemond and she never met Daeron.

When King Viserys I died, Alicent kept his death a secret and left his body to rot in his chambers to make her son, Aegon, usurp the throne. Aegon himself believed that Rhaenyra was the rightful heir: "My sister is the heir, what sort of brother steals his sister's birthright?" but his mother made him believe that if he didn't take the throne, she would've killed his whole family, so he felt like he had no other choice. (he never interacted with Rhaenyra before and the only things he knew about her where from Alicent, so obviously he decided to trust his mother instead of his sister which was like a stranger to him).

But what if Alicent and Viserys made them interact with each other during their childhood?, i don't think that a marriage between Aegon and Rhaenyra would've prevented the war (like Alicent proposed) because they would have argued about which one was the rightful heir and which one was the consort; but if they had interacted from the start, without Alicent getting in their way, i think they would've developed a great siblings relationship. If Aegon recognized his sister as the rightful heir when they never interacted before, imagine what kind of relationship they could've had if he growed with Rhaenyra around, same thing with Aemond and Daeron (even though Daeron was raised in Old Town). Rhaenyra always wanted a younger sister and i know that she would've loved Helaena wholeheartedly if she had the chance.

Basically the whole war could've been prevented if only the targtowers were able to have a "relationship" with their half-sister, nonetheless of their big age gaps.