I find it ironic how Aegon III, a quiet, sombre man, not interested in fighting or hunting or any fun was born to daemyra. I bet Daemon often looked at him in his childhood and wondered if he was from his blood.
...anon, Aegon III was not just "quiet and sombre" because that was his personality.
As you just said, Aegon was in his “childhood” -- he wasn't a man when his parents were alive and raising him. Both his parents died before he turns 11. He never develops the desire to fight and hunt or really is passionate for anything because of trauma.
Yet you imply that he becomes a certain type of man despite his parents efforts?
A)
Aegon III never grew up into an adult fully raised by Rhaenyra and Daemon. He was a severely Depressed and traumatized man in despair who scorned socialization and human connection because he was put into constant danger since he was 10 and lost everything except his brother, whom he still thought lost for 5 years and thought it was all his own fault.
He was 10 when he witnessed Rhaenyra, his mother, get eaten alive by his uncle's dragon Sunfyre and for months afterwards he was held hostage by the same murderous uncle (Aegon II) who would have begun mutilating him to protect himself from Rhaenyra’s supporters.
I’m taking a wild, wild guess here and saying that you never read my post HERE. I also suggest looking through its reblogs -- others have bring in more evidence of Aegon’s despair.
Although some joy returned to Aegon following the return of his brother Viserys, he would always remain a melancholy man who found pleasure in almost nothing, who disliked being touched, and who would retreat to his chambers for days on end, brooding alone.
B)
We don’t know what sort of personality he had before he lost his family in so gruesome ways but even if he was more reserved, why would you assume that Daemon would be frustrated with, disapprove, or believe Aegon the Younger to not be his son or be inferior because he doesn’t act “manly”? Are you trying to diminish the pride Daemon would have had for him and his brother?
Then I think you don’t really know Daemon. Daemon, who supported his brother Viserys even though he felt that Viserys was way too people pleasing. You must really think of Daemon and people in general in absolutes.
Trauma doesn’t equal personality.
EDIT:
C) This edit comes in light of @ladylarisa ‘s reblog of this post.
Despite his trauma, Aegon III seems to have had his father tell him and train him to have a particular inner strength and pride that enables him to face foes set to control him and his brother. His reserved-ness did not equal weakness.
They say:
"Though only nine at the time, Aegon came from a long line of warriors and heroes and had been raised on stories of their bold deeds and daring exploits"
(Who else would have raised him with these stories, if not his mother and father, Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen?)
“Lord Manderly,” King Aegon said, in the sudden stillness, “pray tell me how old I am, if you would be so good.”
“You are ten-and-six today, Your Grace,” Lord Manderly replied.
“A man grown. It is time for you to take the governance of the Seven Kingdoms into your own hands.”
“I shall,” King Aegon said. “You are sitting in my chair.” The coldness in his tone took every man in the room aback.
And let's not forget:
The king’s face grew hard. “Ser Marston,” he said, “this man is my Hand and innocent of treason. The traitors here are those who tortured him to bring forth this false confession. Seize the Lord Confessor, if you love your king…else I will know that you are as false as he is.”
His words rang across the inner ward, and in that moment, the broken boy Aegon III seemed every inch a king.
Aegon III was Daemyra to the core. That's literally his mother and father's personalities combined. That's Rhaenyra and Daemon's son.
A quote ladylarisa refers to is HERE. In it, one Kingsguard named Marston Waters, who was illicitly named Aegon’s new Hand (without his leave) and tried to arrest Lady Larra Rogare (Viserys’ wife) after her family and its short-lived bank in Westeros fell.
She was to be arrested and possibly killed for her brothers’ “treachery”, but Viserys II confronted the arresters and warned against them entering Maegor’s Holdfast, after which Sandoq the Shadow (Larra’s follower) killed Ser Amaury Peake (QUOTE of aftermath).
THIS is further description of Sandoq the Shadow.
This is the QUOTE of how Aegon III gained back power after he turned 16.
And THIS is the quote about Aegon having been nine and having learned of his lines warriors and “their bold deeds and daring exploits”.