#;; she's already showing signs of disapproval at what she's heard from him but he hasn't *TOLD* her everything because she's already dealin

[kaerinio]

i am sitting here thinking about how viserys' treatment of dany following the selling of their mother's crown was reminiscent/a direct mirror of how aerys treated rhaella : the awful name calling, the paranoia of her conspiring to betray him in some way, the manipulation, the violence. viserys loved their mother, yes, and i do not think his unreasonable anger at dany for their mother's death just sprouted out of that one moment. that's something he'd been harboring since their flight from dragonstone. but, in a similar way that aerys comforted rhaella after the first few instances of miscarriages and crib deaths before convincing himself that she was somehow plotting against him through unfaithfulness, viserys is kind and loving and sweet with dany until he's fully convinced himself that she is the reason for their current situation. in his mind, she is about as responsible for everything as the usurper and tywin lannister and all their enemies. there's even a direct shift in how he discusses revenge, reclaiming their home, and the concept of "coming into my kingdom". where he once would have included dany, his sister, the princess of dragonstone, his only ally, he began to exclude her, transforming her into a form of currency, a thing, rather than valuing her. additionally, while rhaella attempted to shield viserys from aerys as he continued to descend into paranoia and unnecessary violence, we know that he, even at a young age, began to show behavioral similarities to his father, and in his adulthood, viserys holds their father in nothing but the highest regard, his praise similar, even, to that of rhaegar.