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"Yet sometimes Dany would picture the way it had been, so often had her brother told her the stories. The midnight flight to Dragonstone, moonlight shimmering on the ship's black sails. Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved. The sack of King's Landing by the ones Viserys called the Usurper's dogs, the lords Lannister and Stark. Princess Elia of Dorne pleading for mercy as Rhaegar's heir was ripped from her breast and murdered before her eyes. The polished skulls of the last dragons staring down sightlessly from the walls of the throne room while the Kingslayer opened Father's throat with a golden sword.
She had been born on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. They said that storm was terrible. The Targaryen fleet was smashed while it lay at anchor, and huge stone blocks were ripped from the parapets and sent hurtling into the wild waters of the narrow sea. Her mother had died birthing her, and for that her brother Viserys had never forgiven her."
A song of Ice and Fire by George R.R.Martin
I know Viserys became a monster, but theres a very key difference between himself and Dany that I feel a great deal of people forget because it makes it easier for them to paint him as a villain(and, again, I don't deny he was a bad person way before time of his passing in AGOT).
Viserys, unlike Dany, knew home. He grew up in the Red Keep, surrounded by servants and was tended to. He was the secondborn son, doted on by his father and especially carefully watched(as said in AWOIAF). Rhaella hid the worst of Aerys's atrocities from him. So to be torn from that, to be sent away into exile with his beloved mother dead, again being robbed and thrown from their home when Darry dies, spending most of the rest of his life looking after the sister who(though it wasn't really her fault)in his mind killed his mother. Despite all this, he raised her as a brother and finally lost all joy when he had to sell their mothers crown, the last keepsake of her just to keep himself and Dany alive. He raised her expecting the two would marry and eventually sells her to Drogo, though attempts to go back on it to claim her virginity first. He loves Dany and resents her all at once. I think the feeling was very mutual between them at the end when Dany finally saw him for what he was after she realized he would never be able to take her home.
Unfortunately, I feel Viserys was part of the reason Dany became so set on conquest. She was perfectly happy with Illyrio's manse or the House with the red door until Viserys forced her on the path that lead to blood and loss.