#even tho I think it would have been more interesting to make his extra marrital affairs all consensual

[princess-from-another-galaxy]

Awhile ago I made a post talking about how Aegon only views Helaena as his sister and not wife, and I think this really reinforces it!

We know that Aegon mostly ignores Helaena except when he's drunk (as Helaena says), and it's implied that the two of them already have their children (at the very least the twins).

A normal person being forced to sleep with their sibling would definitely need to be partly wasted to be able to go through with it.

The fact that Aegon not only gave her a present, but also made sure that it was something that she would genuinely like (as seen by the fact that she spends a lot of the dinner playing with it and even shows it off to Otto), kinda of shows that he does care about her, he just seems to be incapable of loving his sister the way a husband should.

(this isn't meant to excuse the shitty things Aegon has done, just an analysis I thought of)

#hotd #house of the dragon #aegon Targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #helaena targaryen #husband and wive #im not excusing what happened with dyana #even tho I think it would have been more interesting to make his extra marrital affairs all consensual #but I digress #aegon sees helaena as his sister #as she sees him as her brother #and yet they're forced to be husband and wive #and it's so tragic #cause they do love each other in a way but still resent each other a little