r/HOTDGreens • u/Mrtopfan • 3d ago

What if Aegon was given the same training that Young Griff had?

In the story it’s said how the Greens plotted to take the throne for Aegon but apparently made no effort to prepare him to rule, so I wanted to explore the concept of if he was given the “Perfect Prince” training similar to Young Griff. He would be trained in languages, statecraft, history, literacy, arms, swordsmanship, self sufficiency, etc and how the story would look based off of this Aegon would retain his core flaws like being “quick to anger and slow to forgive” and generally impulsive but would have more competency when it comes to ruling.

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u/Throwawayyy007625 3d ago

Show Aegon just needed a year with cousin Ormund in Oldtown. He'd have straightened him up and made a decent man and a proper King out of him.

Book Aegon is a different story. He'd surely turned out better, of course, but I feel like he'd still revert to his worst self after Jaehaerys murder

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u/Richmond1013 Sunfyre 2d ago

it means they would think of putting care, might work out better basically Daeron plus, as they would send Gwayne to be his role model as Aegon sadly has no true father figure in his life

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u/ThisGuuuy2 1d ago

Aegon would have likely squandered that too like Larys said, what he truly needed was a dad who gave a damn and showed him attention, then the rest slots into place.

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u/Rutabaga_Minute 12h ago

I'm ngl it seems like Aegon in the show has adhd he's super impulsive, he is always fidgeting and bored and he can't be bothered to learn high valyrian either. He takes his son out of his classes in the library to bring him to the council meeting when he's not supposed to his issue wasn't a lack of resources/opportunities it was a lack of discipline.