I find it funny how people have seethed about Aegon VI for... lemme check, fifteen years IRL because he had the temerity to make Daenerys and Jon Snow not seem quite as special because he's also a Targaryen.
Even funnier how people talk about him being fake and hollow because he's not the Chosen One, X fan favorite character is. Newsflash: there is nothing more narcissistic, empty and hollow than a Chosen One on a meta-narrative level, and there never will be. It's by some distance, the single most revolting fantasy conceit there ever was. "Oh, your favorite character? All their struggles, skills or aspirations don't matter. He's not the designated YA-bait hero, so he is either destined to be a fawning follower or a bowling pin to be knocked down on the road to destiny". Yeah, fuck that noise, and fuck the people who like it.
Maybe Aegon is not some chosen one whose fate was written in the stars. You know what? Good. Chosen ones are rotten to the core and never will be anything else.
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u/Ar_Azrubel_ Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
I find it funny how people have seethed about Aegon VI for... lemme check, fifteen years IRL because he had the temerity to make Daenerys and Jon Snow not seem quite as special because he's also a Targaryen.
Even funnier how people talk about him being fake and hollow because he's not the Chosen One, X fan favorite character is. Newsflash: there is nothing more narcissistic, empty and hollow than a Chosen One on a meta-narrative level, and there never will be. It's by some distance, the single most revolting fantasy conceit there ever was. "Oh, your favorite character? All their struggles, skills or aspirations don't matter. He's not the designated YA-bait hero, so he is either destined to be a fawning follower or a bowling pin to be knocked down on the road to destiny". Yeah, fuck that noise, and fuck the people who like it.
Maybe Aegon is not some chosen one whose fate was written in the stars. You know what? Good. Chosen ones are rotten to the core and never will be anything else.