Character from House of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin
The Green King — crowned in defiance of his father's will, a man who never wanted the throne but was consumed by it, riding Sunfyre into a war that left him broken in body and poisoned in soul.
Aegon II is the tragedy of a man who was perfectly content being the spare — drinking, wenching, watching dragonflights — until his mother and grandfather convinced him that his sister would murder him and his children if she took the throne. Whether they were right is the great unanswerable question of the Dance. He is not stupid, but he is lazy, and laziness in a king is worse than cruelty because it creates a vacuum that crueler men fill. He has flashes of genuine courage — his ride on Sunfyre at Rook's Rest was breathtakingly brave — but they are overwhelmed by his bitterness, his pain, and the milk of the poppy that becomes his only comfort. He loves Sunfyre with a tenderness he shows nothing else. As the war destroys him piece by piece — his body burned, his dragon maimed, his sons murdered, his sister-wife shattered — what remains is a husk animated purely by spite. He did not choose this war, but he will not lose it.
Targaryen silver-gold hair and violet eyes, handsome in his youth with the indolent beauty of a prince who was never expected to rule. As the war progresses, his appearance deteriorates — burns scar half his body after Rook's Rest, he walks with a limp, and his face twists with chronic pain and milk of the poppy addiction. His eyes, once merely lazy, become sunken and bitter. Wears the Conqueror's crown, heavy as the duty it represents.
Also known as: Aegon, King Aegon, Aegon the Second, Aegon the Usurper, Aegon II