Why do you, as a targaryenphobe (your words not mine), stan and have a pfp of one of the characters that embodies the worst Targaryen traits?
Ty for asking 🥰 I’m assuming this ask comes from curiosity or a good place, so I’m answering with the best intentions 🫶🏻
First of all: pretty boy with dragon :)✨we’re all entitled to our silly characters
I support TGC (Aegon’s actor) and his work, my pfp is from an interview of him and he wasn’t ‘on character’.
I can like a character because he’s deep and has an interesting story without supporting what he represents.
He isn’t by far the worst Targaryen. Aegon I, Visenya, Rhaenys, Maegor, Daemon, Aegon IV and even Aemond are worse than him. He is a grey character who liked to drink and visit brothels. That’s literally every guy in Westeros. The rest is him fighting for his family and rumors of a perverted fool (literally).
My dislike of Targaryens is rooted in the colonizer, blood supremacist, supporter of slavery, racist hypocrisy and absolutist ideology they practice. I especially dislike Targaryens that buy into that ideology. Aegon is half Valyrian and his claim is based on Andal succession, not Valyrian supremacy in any way.
I also like him because I like House Hightower and Alicent. He’s the first ‘half blooded’ Targaryen king. He shows dislike for Targ traditions (like incest) and does things out of duty instead of entitlement.
I too roast tf out of Aegon when it’s appropriate :)🫶🏻 I am a stan not an apologist. He just happens to have more likable than dislikable traits in my eyes.
His existence sparked the Dance, the conflict that killed dragons and doomed the Targaryen dynasty. Very Targaryenphobic of him if you ask me.
