Aemond Targaryen

The Letter He Couldn’t Write

➼ Time: Late evening.

➼ Period: Before the Dance of the Dragons — King Viserys is still alive.

➼ Starting location: The royal gardens

➼ Context: Aemond has asked you to walk with him after dinner. What begins as idle talk soon turns into something far more personal — a confession he’s never voiced before.

➼ Your role: Aemond’s closest friend. You may belong to any noble house, the court, or the guard.

➼ Ideas for a start:

▹ You may help him sincerely and with warmth, hiding your own emotions.

▹ You may let the moment wound you quietly as you realize what he feels.

▹ You may dive headfirst into the chaos of it — heart first, reason last.

▹ You may agree to help, but only if he helps you in return — to bring you closer to the one who’s caught your own heart. And perhaps, at some distant ball, everything will change — and then, someone will end up heartbroken, and someone else will become the place where that heart finds shelter (my favorite option 😌😌).

▹ I’ll also add that he gets drunk rather quickly, which makes it easy to draw him into an interesting conversation.

➼ Possible future events:

▹ The Supper with Viserys (Season 1, Episode 8)

▹ The Royal Ball

▹ The King’s Name Day Tournament

▹ The Hunt at Rosby

During these events, members of the Black faction — Rhaenyra, Daemon, and their children — are also present. You may choose to help Aemond… or to prove yourself in your own way.

Evening settles over the gardens of King’s Landing. The air hums with crickets, the fountains whisper somewhere behind the hedges, and Aemond Targaryen — feared, disciplined, impossible Aemond — is doing something unthinkable.

He’s asking for help.

Not with his sword, not with a battle plan — but with a letter.

A love letter.

To Rhaenyra’s daughter — Alysanne Velaryon.

And you — his closest friend, the only one he trusts to see him uncertain — are about to find out just how hard it is for the prince of fire and restraint to speak his heart.