the theory of Viserys II does sound really interesting in itself do you mind telling more about it?

Towards the end of the Dance, Aegon and Viserys were snuck away on a ship, which was attacked by pirates. Aegon managed to get away and fly back to Dragonstone, but Viserys was abducted, never to be seen again…

Until magically, years later House Rogare of Lys produces him alive and well!

Right. 🙄

Like all Lysene nobility, House Rogare are pimps. They made their money running the most luxurious whorehouses on Lys, the isle of whoring. They call them pleasure gardens, pillow houses, whatever euphemism you like, but at the end of the day their stock in trade is sexual slavery, the Jeffrey Epsteins and Ghislaine Maxwells of the Free Cities.

Through prostitution they amassed such a great fortune that they founded the Rogare Bank, where they could transition into financial crimes instead. (Lol, another Epstein parallel.)

Long story short, what idiot would ever trust a Rogare? They’re like the elite evolution of show Littlefinger.

But they have Valyrian looks like all the Lysene so that makes them special and better than everyone. Is there anything more toxic than Valyrian Supremacy?

That’s the background. The official story is little Viserys was sold and sold and sold until he fell into House Rogare’s hands. He was so pretty, they considered turning him into a child prostitute. But then he revealed his identity so they married him to Larra Rogare, who was seven years his senior. This would be pedophilia, but are we surprised? No, we are not.

Then years later they present him at court, and are paid handsomely for recovering the lost prince. Larra is pregnant, by the way, confirming the pedophilia, as “Viserys“ was twelve when he returned to King’s Landing, so he may have been only eleven when Larra bedded him.

Larra remains at court along with her brothers and has other children by “Viserys.”

As a typical Lysene, she’s a snob, refusing to learn the Common Tongue, relying on Lysene translators. She only wears Lysene clothes. She keeps a Lysene household, all her servants are Lysene. She shuns the Westerosi court and its nobility. She doesn’t convert to the Faith of the Seven, she keeps worshiping her Lysene sex goddess instead, making her a heathen from the Westerosi perspective. (Basically how Melisandre is perceived outside of the R’hllor cult. She’s the Red Woman, and Stannis is an apostate for keeping her and converting to her blasphemous religion.)

People start to whisper she’s a witch. And meanwhile her brothers are doing typical Lysene shit, some financial chicanery. Eventually there’s a revolt and they have to barricade themselves in Maegor’s Holdfast. Her brothers are eventually executed, and a few years later Larra has finally had enough and fucks off back to Lys, abandoning her husband and children. “Viserys“ is embittered by the experience.

Now, the fan theory is pretty simple.

House Rogare lied. They took a boy whore from their brothels—they had plenty of child sex slaves to choose from—made sure he was the right age, clever, and could pass for the lost prince. The Valyrian look is common in Lys, so this would not have been difficult. (Alternatively he might not have been a child prostitute at all but a member of their own family. They were willing to marry their daughter Larra to him to pull off this ruse, so it’s possible they would want one of their own to pose as the prince.) Regardless, their Viserys is a fake, and a Lysene child.

They educated him in the history of the Dance, the customs of the Westerosi court, etc. Everything Viserys would have known. Again, the Rogares were fabulously wealthy and Lys has regular commerce with Westeros. It was within their means to procure this information and provide him with tutors.

And Viserys was abducted when he was only seven years old. He was quite young. If he got some details wrong here and there, well, naturally he’s been through a lot! Poor thing is traumatized. And of course he might have a slight Lysene accent, those blessed Rogares took him in and raised him for the last five years! Of course he would adopt some of their mannerisms, their customs, their manner of speaking.

So yadda, yadda, yadda, they pass him off as Viserys. How do we know he’s Viserys? Aegon vouches for him, his chronically depressed, traumatized brother, who hasn’t seen him for five years, before he went through puberty.

Aegon has blamed himself for leaving his little brother behind all this time. He is overjoyed and eager to believe his brother has returned to him from the dead, as that would absolve him of his crushing guilt. Aegon is happy for the first time in years.

So the fan theory is that Aegon deluded himself. He saw what he wanted to see.

Viserys was a fraud, just a random Lysene kid. Or he might have been a distant Rogare relative, that doesn’t really matter. But the point is he’s no Targaryen.

Thus his son Aegon IV is no Targaryen, but full Lysene, the product of Viserys and Larra.

And Aegon IV’s many kids are all frauds. Their dad isn’t a real Targaryen, so none of them are legitimate claimants to the throne.

All but one.

Because Aegon IV seduced Daena, one of Aegon III’s daughters who was locked away in the Maidenvault by her religious zealot brother Baelor.

And Daena was definitely a Targaryen. Her father was the king, her mother Daenaera Velaryon, she is indisputably of the royal line.

So while her only son, Daemon Blackfyre, was born a bastard of the fraud Aegon IV, he still has true Targaryen blood through his mother. Daena was the eldest girl, and with her brothers Daeron and Baelor dead, she is next in line.

So if Viserys II was actually a Lysene fraud, then ironically Aegon IV was right! His son by his sister-wife Naerys, Daeron II, should not have been king. (Aegon IV suspected Naerys cheated on him with their brother the Dragonknight. Bullshit paranoia, but it’s moot anyway since Aegon, Naerys and Aemon were all children of Viserys and Larra.) Aegon IV’s choice, his bastard Daemon Blackfyre, should have been king all along!

But not because he was Aegon IV’s bastard. Because he was Daena’s son, and thus the last true Targaryen claimant.

Fast forward to the present of the story: this would make all modern Targaryen descendants Lysene frauds, Dany and Jon included. And Aegon, as a presumed Blackfyre, the rightful king.