#yall ever think about how alyssa wanted to claim balerion and then viserys does claim him

[kingcunny]

Hear me out. The root of Viserys' problems is that Alyssa was a Boy Mom of the highest order but only for Daemon. He was her golden child, and she paid Viserys dust.

He overcomepensates by clinging to the powerful men around him and breaking his own spirit to appease them. He has no solid sense of self beyond bending to the will of who he perceives to be the most powerful man in the room.

Then he goes and fathers a mini Alyssa, and Daemon is also her favorite.

The man must be furious. A raging case of Mommy Issues and no woman in his life has ever chosen him of her own free will.

--EIHF Anon

oh i HEAR you anon

something ive thought for awhile is that alyssa wouldnt have liked or at the VERY least, have been disappointed with viserys. i mean how did the two biggest jocks of the targaryen family end up making such a weak nerdy kid? viserys wouldve been more of a daughter than a son to her, and alyssa wanted boys. while daemon was alyssas little mini me. all of her love and attention went to him.

so he tries to instead get that affection from the other powerful men in his family, being the good son for baelon, the perfect heir to jaehaerys. setting aside his own desires for what he thinks they want from him. when theyre both gone he clings to otto instead. part of why he keeps otto on as his hand (and then later takes him back). otto was jaehaerys hand in the final years of his life, viserys probably spent more time with him than jaehaerys after being named heir. viserys views otto as sort of the.. continuation of jaehaerys? cause he knows he isnt what jaehaerys wanted, hes not like aemon OR baelon. but maybe if he can get ottos approval it will be like getting his grandfathers.

maybe for awhile he got that motherly affection from alysanne, but i think his marriage to aemma wouldve ended that. alysanne wouldve started to subconsciously resent him, a sort of ‘youre gonna to do to aemma what rodrik arryn did to daella and im going to lose ANOTHER daughter’ (which… he did…) and EVEN his marriage to aemma, even if they were happy, was a political match. viserys knows aemma would not have picked him. maybe also where his cheating comes from, endlessly looking for the affection his mother never gave him.

then his first daughter, only living child from his first marriage, is another alyssa. his daughter is more like his mother than she is like aemma or him. so of course rhaenyra gets along better with daemon than himself.

viserys just wants someone to pick him. to choose him and love him best. and hell twist himself into whatever shape he thinks will get him that. when that fails (and/or doesnt resolve his mommy issues) he instead twists the few family members he does have under his control to ensure they HAVE to love him most. and hell do whatever he thinks he has to to keep that love