#their insane codependent awful catholic guilt…

[visenyaism]

Let's discuss Aegon being the Jailer but Aemon being The Jail for Naerys please please can we Discuss

i have!!!!! it’s huge!!!!! but yeah as an extension of institutional monarchical power the kingsguard have always functioned as both a violent arm of the king’s wrath and a cage for the people obligated to the king in whatever way. to join the kingsguard is to lose your identity in order to enmesh yourself completely with feudal power. And Aemon is absolutely an example of that where he had the physical power to intervene or even just get his sister out of that situation and instead he kept her there until it killed her.

The reason Aegon was able to hurt his sister for so long is because he got off was on making Aemon watch because he KNEW Aemon wouldn’t do anything because his Kingsguard vows were more important. I feel like it’s really pointed that she was extremely religious as like her only means of finding solace that she had in her entire terrible life and then Aemon is described as the Warrior incarnate. and she spent her whole life praying and neither of them saved her. 

in my mind aemon got off on being the perfect knight and the ontologically good brother, and if he ever let Naerys out of her cage, she might become a human person and fall from grace from being a perpetual victim who always turned to him and only him for comfort. and that was worse than losing her to him. the only way out was a lifetime of self-martyrdom and he decided she would have to be a martyr with him because the alternative was. well we call it a madonna-whore complex for a reason