#because feeeeels

Just imagine, he would have been brought up by Jon Connington, who had just left the Golden Company (this was when Aegon was about 5 or 6 I think?) and he would have just been handed this little kid (I guess by Illyrio Mopatis?) at some point after that. It might have been when he was a bit older, OR Aegon might still have been quite a small child at the time? And Jon didn't have any siblings, so I can't imagine he had much experience of childcare, and also he's been fighting in the Golden Company for the last five years. So I'm picturing him with this six-year-old, like "well hello small child person, what am I supposed to do with you... OH NO HE'S CRYING IS HE OKAY (THIS IS RHAEGAR'S KID GOTTA MAKE SURE HE'S OKAY) what do I even do in this situation..." *stares around* "NO SMALL CHILD, PUT THAT DOWN, SWORDS ARE NOT FOR PLAYING WITH..."

(And I bet teeny!Aegon spills the blue hairdye on their stuff more than once too, and smears it on his face or something, and just gives JonCon this really smug grin, but he can't find it in his heart to be angry at the kid)

I mean, I know the story is tragic and everything but I just find this image really amusing