so viserys is a neglectful father that never showed any interest in aegon, but is also simultaneously the only reason for aegon being a rapist and drunkard? not yknow…the primary parent (alicent) raising aegon, which in it of itself is false seeing as there’d be a legion of nursemaids and servants that’d tend to the royal children. queens didn’t do that kind of thing despite condal trying to portray alicent as some poor girl pulling all nighters with a job and kids.

alicent, who enabled her son and had routines her place to silence aegon’s victims instead of yknow…punishing or curbing aegon’s ways, is not held responsible?? its only viserys’ fault? not the one raising and instilling such values into aegon??

Can we talk about how while Viserys is hardly a saint some of the shit lobbied at him from TG is a bit extreme.

"He's an absent father" dude was falling apart and barely able to run the country. He's seen holding baby Aegon, he's seen watching them train, which seems like a semi regular occurrence. He's not fit to be sparring with them so he watches. He knows Aegon is the one bullying Aemond so he can't be that distant. Could he have done better? Maybe, we don't know how bad or how quickly his illness took over his life.

And they always bring up "but he was there for Rhaenyra in that time" no he wasn't he sat there slowly dying while she was forced to move to Dragonstone so her kids would stop being abused. The one time he was there for her was the Throne Room scene and that's cause he knew if he let Alicent and Otto dismiss Luce's claim its the same as calling him and his brothers bastards and calling Rhaenyra an adulterer which would likely sign their death warrants. I would drag myself out of my deathbed to save my daughter and grandkids lives too.

Viserys was stupid, Viserys was weak, Viserys should have done a lot of things differently. But he was also a man with some sort of terminal illness, who probably would have liked to have been in all his kids lives more but physically couldn't.

People should stop hating on Rhaenyra cause she got to enjoy her father when he was at his healthiest.

Viserys was the worst, but he wasn't as absent with his children with Alicent as they make him to be.

Rhaenyra is the one he neglected her whole life, forced to marry Laenor and allowed his wife to mistreat. He was way worst to her that he ever was to the green kids.