"In A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Episode 3, Aerion freaks out when he watches Tanzelle in a puppet show playing a knight slaying a dragon. He believes this is treason and breaks her fingers, saying, "The dragon ought never lose." It's a stretch, but one can see how a Targaryen could take this silly show as an insult to the reigning house. However, Aerion's complaints go even further than that."
"As told in the book The Hedge Knight, Aerion doesn't just consider himself a member of the dragon house: he believes he literally is a dragon. This is even reflected in his armor: in the books, his helm and horse are adorned to look like flame, but in the series, they're decorated to look like dragons. So this puppet show wasn't just metaphorically offensive; it was, to Aerion, a literal effigy of him and his kind."
Most Targaryens in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms appear relaxed, with Baelor supporting Ser Duncan and Maekar distracted by missing sons. Aerion Targaryen stands out as violently extreme. He attacks puppeteer Tanzelle after a puppet-show scene of a knight killing a dragon, breaks her fingers, and declares "The dragon ought never lose," calling the show treason. Aerion believes he is literally a dragon rather than merely a member of the house. His armor and trappings are fashioned with dragon imagery that make such portrayals feel like literal effigies to him. He later spends much of his life in Lys and the Free Cities.
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