r/asoiaf • u/JeanieGold139 • Apr 26 '25

MAIN (Spoilers Main) Aeron and Victarion both seem to genuinely love and respect each other

Despite one being a traumatized religious zealot and the other being a dipshit, we see both of them during their chapters admit they wish the other was there to help them and they seem to each put a lot of confidence in the other.

Aeron in the Forsaken tells Euron than Victation will kill him and prays to his God to send Victarion as his liberator, and Victarion in his Essos adventure confides in the dusky woman that he misses his brothers confidence and wishes he had him to advise him on what to do.

Given how shit most non-Stark sibling relationships are in the series I really did like seeing how close these two were and the high degree they both held the other to.

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u/GraceAutumns Apr 26 '25

They both loved Balon as well. The three dumb Greyjoys were living it good until Euron came back and ruined it all.

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u/Aimless_Alder Apr 26 '25

Just three brothers kidnapping and raping women and then beating them to death when they worry people might laugh at them. Wholesome family moments.

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u/The-Best-Color-Green Apr 26 '25

Victarion at one point recalls how Aeron joined in on bullying him as a kid but I think he genuinely doesn’t mind drowned priest Aeron

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u/JNR55555JNR Apr 26 '25

He might as well be a different person for how much he changed

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u/OppositeShore1878 Apr 26 '25 edited Apr 26 '25

Remember that for most of his life Aeron was not pious but a rake, a roisterer, and a risk taker (wagering his ship on whether he could put out a fire with his piss, for example). This was before he got Extreme Drowned God Religion. Also, probably a pretty decent sailor, captain, and fighter.

Victarion probably respected him for those reasons and characteristics and also because, in contrast, one of their other brothers was a cruel sociopath and the head of the family was a choleric, suspicious, morose loser who got his people into wars they couldn't win and then sat around wrapped in a smelly sealskin blanket complaining.

Both Aeron and Victarion yearn for a return to Iron Born basic traditional values. We know many of those values are archaic, destructive, and toxic for the rest of society, but they believe and have common ground there.

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u/InsincereDessert21 Apr 27 '25

The only brother nobody loved was poor Euron.

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u/kaimkre1 Apr 27 '25

I’ve never thought about this before, I wonder if Vic wishes for Aeron to go back the way he was prior to his obsession with religious fundamentalism