I think the Targaryen side in general rationalized Rhaegar and Lyanna through the lens of abduction tropes in chivalric romances. So either of them would have worked, Viserys repeating what he himself would have been told by older people.
Re-reading through ASOIAF I was intrigued by Dany’s thoughts on R+L like when she describes Rhaegar “dying for the woman he loved”. Dany not only thinks highly of her brother, but is also convinced that there was love between him and Lyanna. From whom do you think she heard this version of the story, which is the opposite of what everyone else in Westeros believes? From Viserys, who was only 6? Or Ser Willem Darry, who I don’t recall was involved in Lyanna’s “abduction”? It always confused me.
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