Vaelor Targaryen

Prince Vaelor Targaryen, son of Baelon and Alyssa, is the younger brother of King Viserys I and Daemon Targaryen.
==Biography==
===Background===
Vaelor was born to Baelon and Alyssa Targaryen, their youngest child born just before Alyssa passed away. He was an intelligent child, with respect for others and a maturity beyond his years. The same could not be said for his older brother Daemon, which caused them to develop a great dislike one another despite Vaelor being fifteen years Daemon's junior.
===House of the Dragon: Season 1===
In 113 AC, Vaelor is seventeen years old age, and his betrothal to Lord Redwyne's daughter, Alerie, is already underway. At first, he expresses no interest in marriage, but it was arranged for political reasons by his eldest brother, King Viserys, as House Redwyne is a rich house, having the largest fleet in all of Westeros.
Though unenthusiastic, Vaelor vows to do his duty and marry the Redwyne girl. The pair meet briefly only a day before their wedding ceremony, and Vaelor is pleasantly surprised by Alerie. He finds her to be intriguing for both her beauty and personality. She is kindhearted and hopeful, both being traits that the Prince needs more of in his life. They are wed the next day in a royal ceremony for the kingdom to see. Daemon is notably not in attendance, something unsurprising to Vaelor, though he prefers it that way.
Many years later, Vaelor and Alerie, along with their teenage children Aerion and Aenyra, return from a visit to Alerie's home of the Arbour in order to attend his brothers funeral, as well as the coronation of Aegon II as King of The Seven Kingdoms. Before the ceremony, Vaelor meets with Alicent, whom he had known briefly when they were both teenagers, and vows that pledge his sword to her son Aegon should it be needed, due to the growing tensions between his nephew and niece, Rhaenyra's, sides of the family.
==Physical Description==
Vaelor has typical Valryian features, as many Targaryens do. He has silver hair with hints of golden streaks as it was his mother Alyssa's hair colour, as well as violet eyes. As a teenager, he had short silver hair, often wearing fabrics in his house colours of red and black. Once married to Alerie, they adopt the other persons house colours in their fashion, with Vaelor wearing jewelry of a deep wine colour like the House Redwyne sigil.
As an adult, Vaelor is tall and strong, no longer as lanky as he once was as a teenager. His silver-gold hair has grown out to his shoulders, with a long scar from just above the right corner of his mouth down to his jaw, caused by his participation in a tourney as a young man in which is opponent wrongly hit him right on the bottom of his face, his helmet managing to mostly protect him with the exception of the wound sustained.
==Personality and traits==
Vaelor is a serious and intelligent man, having been that way since he was an adolescent. 
==Relationships==
===Family===
====Alerie Redwyne====
Alerie is Vaelor's wife and the mother of his children Aerion and Aenyra. Their relationship quickly blossomed once married, despite Vaelor's aversion to being wed at first. The pair are a good couple, only growing more fond of each other as time goes on, a rare instance of an arranged political marriage ending in love. Alerie is one of the few people who get to see the soft side of him, and she always knows over to comfort him or make him smile when he most needs it.
====Aerion Targaryen====
Aerion is Vaelor's son and eldest child. Aerion is much like how Vaelor was when he was young, a quiet child that grows into a mature, and still quiet, young man. Vaelor is willing to engage in his sons interests, with Aerion being more the type to enjoy his studies rather than training in the courtyard with the other young princes and lords, which does come as a surprise to Vaelor, but he is supportive all the same.
====Aenyra Targaryen====
Aenyra is Vaelor's daughter and youngest child. Him and Aenyra have a close relationship, even closer than the realtionship between him and Aerion. He often shares his wisdom and advice with Aenyra, because at times it is quite needed. He is not overly strict with his daughter, as her self-assured, confident, and even thrill-seeking nature remind him greatly of stories of how his mother Alyssa once was. 
====Baelon Targaryen====
Baelon was Vaelor's father.
====Alyssa Targaryen====
Alyssa was Vaelor's mother. Vaelor did not know his mother at all, due to her death coming very quickly after he was born.
====Viserys I Targaryen====
Viserys was Vaelor's older brother. The two were not very close, with Viserys being so much older than Vaelor, but they had a good relationship unlike Vaelor and their other brother.
====Daemon Targaryen====
Daemon is Vaelor's older brother. The two did not get along whatsoever, something that confused and saddened Vaelor as a young child, wondering why his brother, who is older than him by fifteen years, disliked him so much. He never truly found the reason why, but as he got older he realized that he was far from the only person Daemon was cold towards. Vaelor is happy when Daemon is exiled, and in turn, is frustrated once he returns home.
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