Anti Aegon Stans - Tumblr Posts

this person who always appears in any post about Aegon, defending him is very strange... this person has a post saying that doesn't know how Baela resisted him at dinner scene? because she wouldn't resist, like... WTF is your problem? that was harassment? baela was being harassed

Yeahhhh I looked at their account a bit before I replied to them (this post btw), and they're a perfect example of how everyone who spouts off the whole "everyone's equally bad" rhetoric is actually TG. They talk constantly about how everyone should just "pick their fav and move on". They compare Aegon's raping of servant girls with Daemon's frequenting of brothels.

Aegon stans are honestly as delusional if not more than Alicent stans. They'll go on and on about how "Aegon's not a rapist in the books" or blatantly ignoring just how awful he is. Aegon was recorded by even Septon Eustace (the man who crowned him) to sexually assault servant girls.

[Aegon] possessed of more than healthy appetites...pinching and fondling any serving girl who strayed within his reach. (Fire and Blood: Heirs of the Dragon- a Question of Succession)

Aegon stans who don't deny his actions will go on about how much they'd love to be in the situations of those girls or, like this specific poster said, in Baela's place. It's one thing to have kinks and fantasies, it's a completely different thing to excuse a rapist just because you're into that. I feel like that's something normal people understand.

I'm not condemning reading or writing fics about certain kinks/fantasies, even ones about characters like Aegon. What I'm saying is fucked up is going after people for pointing out what horrible people characters like Aegon are.

It's even more ridiculous when they complain about how people point out most stans of Aegon and others like him mostly like them because of attractiveness. That person's blog is mostly them thirsting over Tom Glynn-Carney, yet they complained about me and the anon talking about how his appearance caused most of his stans. Hypocrisy is something I should be used to from TG stans, yet it still surprises me.

Why do you think women like Aegon? I mean, they want a r*pist and and it's just weird.

I honestly have no idea how he has stans lmao. I understand liking a character who's a rapist, I like Ramsay Bolton and Euron Greyjoy as characters; I think they're interesting antagonists. But it's one thing to enjoy a character as a villain and a completely other thing to support, make excuses for, and deny the actions of a character.

Aegon is sympathetic to an extent; he had a fairly difficult childhood, with a father who was distant at best and a mother who physically abused him. However, he has an established pattern of dealing with his issues in destructive ways: bullying Aemond as a child and assaulting women and dealing in child trafficking as an adult. He's very much a textbook tragic backstory villain.

The issue with his portrayal on HOTD is that they went to far in trying to make him sympathetic. Hess even tried to excuse his raping of women. There's a deeper issue in HOTD's writing, just like there's a deeper issue with Aegon's fan base.

There are people with rape kinks, so I could see the attraction there for people who are into that. However, Aegon's stans aren't just indulging a kink, they're actively defending a rapist, so I don't believe that's the reason.

I'm not a psychologist, but I do know that often attraction to rapists/criminals in general is a symptom of some mental health things. I'm not saying that everyone who stans Aegon has a mental illness, but it is a thing in real life. I don't know if there is a connection there and I don't really want to speculate so I'll just leave that there lol.

Anyway anon, I wish I could answer your question in a real way, but the truth is I don't know. There's a lot of layers to the human mind, and however Aegon stans rationalize loving him so much isn't something I understand. I know Tom Glynn-Carney's looks probably factored into it, so maybe it's just an extension of the whole babygirl trend in fandoms.

People asking incredulously why Aegon II has fans are forgetting something: his actor’s good looking. Fans are ready to forgive anything (and I do mean anything) for a hot guy.

People who like Aegon II would’ve been all over Joffrey if he was more book accurate and William Mosley was cast instead.

Oh definitely, certain people will excuse anything as long as the person is pretty enough.

However, I do also think that the internet brainrot probably has something to do with it. I mean the prevalence of the whole stalker/rape fantasy on the internet (specifically booktok) seems to be a lot more severe than it was when GOT premiered. Obviously people with kinks that are darker have always been around, but this isn't just indulging a kink. More than ever, there are people obsessed with romanticizing and excusing absolutely monstrous behavior because the guy is hot.

So yeah, Aegon definitely has pretty privilege, but I also think there's more issues than just that here.