Let’s dreamcast A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

Evan Peters as Aerion Targaryen

There may be no character more hateful in all the Dunk and Egg tales than Aerion Targaryen, aka Aerion Brightflame…or Aerion the Monstrous, depending on who you ask. You remember the old saying from Game of Thrones, that whenever a Targaryen is born the gods flip a coin? For Aerion, it landed on the wrong side.

Over the course of his first few appearances in The Hedge Knight, Aerion confuses Dunk with a stableboy, purposely murders an opponent’s horse during a joust, destroys Tanselle’s puppet show and nearly breaks all her fingers, and has Dunk arrested for coming to her aid. And that’s only in the first half of the story. He’s about as loathsome a Targaryen as they come, made all the worse by the glee he sometimes takes in his sadistic actions. Oh, and he’s also one of Egg’s older brothers.

Evan Peters, best known as Quicksilver in Fox’s X-Men movies, usually stars in roles with a more comedic bent to them, but I think that could actually work out in his favor as Aerion. Aerion is a conniving sort of petty evil character very much in the vein of spoiled royals like Viserys Targaryen and King Joffrey from Game of Thrones. Imagine if Peters could twist his sense of humor just enough that it becomes uncomfortable. We also know he can handle a darker sort of character as well, thanks to his Golden Globe-winning performance as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer on Netflix’s Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

Plus, he definitely has a face that look at home in a Targaryen family portrait, and we already know he can rock the silver hair.