Anyone done a time travelling Aemon yet?
Like the dude has his whole 'Egg!!!! I dreamed I was old!!' Thing and dies and he wakes up in Old town young af and able to fucking SEE and he has like 5 minutes of euphoria, thinking it was just some dumb dream... only for the rest of that week to go by in a deja vu haze... then he gets the letter from Egg whining about being made to squire for Daeron even though he knows Daeron's not gonna do anything at the tourney...
Aemon's like rushing to throw off his maesters robes because fuck this because fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it!!! He watched his family destroy themselves at every turn for decades while he could do NOTHING and he won't fucking do it again!! Not again. Please! He can't!!!
And this one time he told his baby brother to kill the boy and let the man be born but Aemon never did it!!! He never, ever, ever did it, because he swore his vows when he was a boy and he kept to them and they never meant anything. They never saved anyone!! No one that mattered! And if the Long Night really is coming then a stable realm is better than one on the brink of absolute destruction.
Aemon runs away from the Citadel, boards the first ship sailing for Storm's End.
As they're getting ready to fuck off from Summerhall for Ashford Maekar gets a letter that Aemon has disappeared from the Citadel! He's a fucking mess about it... and the he gets to Ashford and fucking Egg and Daeron are missing now too?!?!?! What's happening?!?!
Baelor is a lot more concerned about this than in canon, because now it doesn't just look like his nephews got waylaid, it looks like they got targeted. He has people out searchinf everywhere.
Meanwhile, Lyonel's party rocked up to Ashford with this new kid. Very quiet, very kind, but gods there is a fire in that boys purple eyes! Lyonel finds out about the missing princes and keeps sending Aemon looks like 🤔🤔🤔 then he meets Dunk and his small, purple eyed, wild child and is doubly 🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐 especilaly when Egg and Aemon are there yelling 'EGG!!!' "EMO!!!' at each other which are suspiciously close to Aegon and Aemon...
The thing with Tanselle goes down and while Egg goes running off for Dunk, Aemon goes running off for Baelor, bursting into his comandeered study like 'Uncle, if gou ever loved me come with me right now!!!!!' And Baelor has so many fucking questions!!!! But he goes, anyway cos it seems important... but by the time they arrive Aemon finds Egg was faster and Dunk has already punched and kicked Aerion. Aemon is like 😓
Things go a little better, in that Daeron accuses Dunk of kidnapping Egg and Aemon demands to know what they're going to do about Lord Lyonel, then, because if it is a crime to take in a boy pretending at being an orphan than Lord Baratheon is guilty, too!!! Lyonel is summoned, gets told what's happening and immediately demands a trial by combat with his accuser... Daeron goes all wide eyed, looking at Lyonel and Dunk and withdraws his accusation that Dunk kidnapped Egg, thus the implied accusation against Lyonel is withdrawn... Aerion still gets his trial of the Seven though. Aemon is furious. Yells that his father is a coward who never could do what was right for all of them rather than just right for Aerion and that if anyone in their family deserved to be exiled for good it was Aerion!!!
Then he runs off... to Steeley Pate to have a new armour made for Baelor... Egg's busy gathering the gang... Maekar and Baelor are so fucking confused!
Early the next morning, Aemon goes rushing into Baelor's room with a bag of armour and interupts Baelor trying to squeeze himself into Valarr's armour (visioning it like where you're trying to squeeze into last year's jeans) and Baelor is like 'ah... I can explain' and Aemon's like 'no time. Don't care. Put this shit on! Don't die! Love you, uncle, bye!!' Baelor is just ???? But happily puts on the bigger set of armour...
And survives the Trial. Dunk swears to him. There's a big fight over Aerion's exhile to Lys. Aemon writes out the Night's Watch vows, then he shoves the parchment into Baelor's chest then goes to go chill with Egg and Dunk (and Lyonel) at the Elm...
Aerion goes to the Wall and Aemon has to figure out how to get his whole family to spontaneously decide they need to visit Dorne for a year or two to avoid a plague they don't know is coming...