ok, dragonstone is sieged, rhaella doesn't make it off the island, viserys is captured. stannis does not kill them in the siege. anyway, robert has two targ hostages now, doesn't trust the targ-loyalist bannermen of dragonstone not to Pull some Bullshit so he sends viserys off to his stronghold - storm's end - to be a hostage under the guide of his estermont grandparents + renly. he sends daenerys off to winterfell under the care of ned stark, thinking separation is likely going to be safer.
extremely sheltered viserys who has only had his mother whispering to him in his ear is EXTREMELY distressed by this for 12 obvious reasons but renly is affable enough that vis eventually transfers his possessive affection and clings onto his 1 year younger second cousin like a limpet. becomes his attack dog. boyish hijinks ensure. viserys will never lose his superiority complex because his unearned sense of privilege and pride is all he has left but he will be DAMNED if anyone insults his pet lord paramount. (viserys views himself as a temporarily embarrassed king with renly as his would-be hand, while renly views viserys as his entertaining pet dragon, but nevertheless). all this absolutely feeds into renly's also swelling ego and sense of entitlement. the two of them spend their early adolescence developing tastes for extravagant feasts and tourneys to match their growing egos.
ENTER GREYJOY REBELLION. balon loses (lmao), theon is hostaged. the north already have daenerys (that's a whole story), so after some quick, ill-thought negotiations, theon goes to storm's end. theon is about 10, renly 13, and viserys 14. anyway, vis being the complete elitist asshole he is, takes an immediate dislike to theon, seeing him as unworthy of his attention and a threat, and the two are at each other's throats despite theon being a CHILD and viserys being a TEENAGER. hilarious age-inversion of the theon-robb-jon dynamic where renly's in the middle of a scathing targaryen and theon. though renly largely sees theon less as a friend or a little brother and more like another extravagant pet, who he and loras (who enters the picture not long after) like to dress up in extravagant stormlands' fashions and endeavour to train into a proper little knight. viserys comes around a little because he gets to watch full grown knights trample theon in the training yard.
anyway the three of them + loras develop a penchant for underage drinking and sneaking out of already blisteringly rowdy and wild feasts. renly realises he is Gay at some point and begins seeing loras. subtly, first, then blatantly. it takes accidentally walking in on some Blatant homosexual activity for theon to actually clock it, at which point he goes to viserys - who is not batting an eye at any of this, entirely nonplussed - and tries to speak to him about it, but before he can, viserys interrupts and is like. 'greyjoy. don't be this insipid, it really looks pitiful on you. of course renly sucks cock. he is renly. what do you mean, squid, you have never sucked a cock? were you born under a festering little pile of sewage deep beneath the ocean? of course you were, you're ironborn. my apologies. [sigh] since I am the eldest of us, it falls on my already burdened shoulders to inform you cretin that sucking cock is a devestatingly ordinary rite of passage. what. why do you look so perplexed. ha - have I ever sucked a cock? have I ever sucked renly's cock? HA HA, oh you'd like that - but no. don't be so base.'
it turns out though they have jerked each other off, which viserys justifies with 'well, we are cousins' (whether viserys views renly as his cousin entirely depends on what argument he's having). theon then asks viserys if he is gay and viserys indignantly screams at him for even presuming it.
anyway, theon is given several invitations to join a renly + loras threesome and turns them down, because theon believes he's DEFINITELY not gay, though he did almost once touch loras' balls during a drunken game of chicken. there is at least a 30% chance of theon having had a one night stand with either renly, loras, or viserys that he refuses to acknowledge or talk about before the war of five kings breaks out.
as for why viserys is never sent to the wall, i'm going with 'robert forgot about him'.
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