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fkaluis · 11 months

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a dance with dragons, daenerys x

#asoiaf #art #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf art #valyrianscrolls #drawing #house targaryen #procreate #targaryen #a dance with dragons #daenerys stormborn #daenerys targaryen #viserys targaryen #one of my fav dany chapters #i bawl thinking of her alone in the world

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thedemonlady · 9 days

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Daenerys Targaryen by Sam Spratt

#Daenerys Targaryen #Daenerys Stormborn #House Targaryen #Sam Spratt Art #GoT #GoT fan art #Her Satanic Majesty #Hail The Dragon Queen

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ride-thedragon · 7 months

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THE STORY OF DRAGONS.

The Last Dragon Riders & Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen.

I've had discussions before about taking away either of these girls from the narrative and how bad it would be when it comes to the thematic story of the Dragons. This post is more in-depth about that idea and how it concludes with the mother of Dragons.

Hatching and Bonding

Nettles is a dragon seed with the strangest relationship to her dragon. Her claiming him was dependent on her slaughtering sheep and feeding him every day for a prolonged period of time in order to bond with him.

Rhaena takes three dragon eggs with her when she is sent away, eventually, towards the end of the dance, one hatches in the Vale, giving us Morning. In the show, so far, we see that she holds dragon eggs to the fire, trying to hatch it.

Dany is given three fossilized eggs at the beginning of her marriage. After her husband and baby die, she commits a blood sacrifice using blood magic and a funeral pyre to hatch the three dragons she's breastfeeding by the end of it. Establishing the strangest bond we've seen with dragons and their riders.

Urchin and Lady

Nettles grows up on the streets of Spice Town and Hull alone, being visually marred from an incident, with an alleged scar across her nose.

Rhaena is raised in Pentos with her parents and sister and later on Dragonstone with her stepmother, father, 3 step brothers, and two half brothers. She was betrothed to the heir to Drifmark.

Dany grows up with the understanding that she might marry Viserys. She is raised first in a house in Pentos and soon after from house to house until people get tired of them. Eventually, they meet Illyrio, but not before Viserys earns the title of The Beggar King.

George has issues (love)

One of them sees a 32 year old at 16 and his two daughters and decideds to marry him out of all possible options.

The other is 16 with the 49 year old prince consort and has an assassination attempt placed on her for it.

Dany is married off to a 31 year old at 13 who abuses her. After a while, she 'falls in love'.

Magic and Blood

The Valyrians used blood magic to bind themselves to their dragons. It's a trait passed down and kept pure with the incestuous practices of all the dragonlords. It's the reason that Rhaena hatches her Dragon.

Nettles call this into question when taming a wild dragon. Rather than relying on the same blood link she should have, she uses sheep to bond with Sheepstealer every day until he allows her to become his rider. This is in the aftermath of him killing every Valyrian bastard before her.

Dany's magic is both types of blood magic. The sacrifice of herself, her husband and child on the pyre to hatch her eggs, and the fact that she's a Targaryen all tie into her ability to hatch her dragons.

Where we are and Where we go

Rhaena hatches morning out of three dragon eggs in the Vale. She has Morning on her shoulders at the end of her war, being able to fly her all over the realm as a Targaryen Princess after the war. She becomes the darling of the city. A vision of hope for her house.

Nettles is taken away from politics and to safety by her dragon. For years, she's alone in the Vale mountains with her dragon, becoming a deity for the burned men.

At the end of A Game of Thrones, Dany has hatched 3 dragons from her eggs, and by the end of the last book so far Drogon has taken her away from all the politics of Meeren.

Darling and Fire Witch

A beacon of hope in the idea of Targaryen restoration. Darling of the city alongside her sister. Beloved by artists and designers alike.

She forms a religion around her dragon. Creating the most dangerous tribe in the Mountains of the Vale. With ceremonies of burning the men attached in exchange for gifts.

Dany is the idea of the Targaryen restoration when she hatches her Dragons. Drogo's Khalesar starts to follow her after this feat, she is the Unburnt.

Dany and her girls

All of this is to allude to the idea that the differences in these girls' lives allow for a parallel with Daenerys. Nettles doesn't hatch dragons, and Rhaena doesn't use any type of sacrifice to hatch hers.

Nettles grows up on the streets, but Rhaena has siblings and is raised in Essos.

No one in the narrative has any expectation for Nettles until she claims dragon. Rhaena is born as close to a princess as one can be without being one.

Nettles, on Driftmark, is raised on the shadow of the dynasty of the great house, Targaryen. Rhaena is a dragonless girl at the height of the house Targaryen's power, again in the shadow.

They both establish differing parallels and middle grounds for her character, all while Daenerys herself is her own person with traits distinctly apart from these two girls. She's the fire in A Song of Ice and Fire. George wrote Fire and Blood after we met Daenerys. The fun with that is that he can make these parallels tying her to the world and giving her character relationships in history.

Bride, Daughter, and Mother of Dragons.

Nettles is the bride of dragons in this concept. She rides a male dragon who gives her power and acclaim. One of five women to do so and the only one still alive alongside her dragon that ties her into the main plot. She is also the last lover of Daemon Targaryen. The man tied thematically to the last dragon of the conquest. I think she is the bride within this idea, married to dragons because it wasn't something inherited, it was something she chose to tie herself to and allegedly with either man or dragon spent the rest of her days alongside.

Rhaena, as the daughter of Dragons, seems really obvious. Her mother was the rider of Vhagar, and her father was Daemon. At the end of the war she is one of the three women of house Targaryen still alive and the only dragon rider with her dragon. She becomes a Princess after the war. She is the daughter of Dragons.

Daenerys is the Mother of Dragons. She hatches her three dragons from stone eggs and breast feeds them as they are hatched. Obviously, she is also the bride and daughter, but due to the power of three, I think I'm gonna take the stand and say she's the Mother.

The power of three

These three are the story of the death and return of dragons in Westeros and to their world. Without Nettles or Rhaena in their exact plots, only half of the story is told. They both leave the world without Dragons, a torch lit again by Daenerys. Within this series and the idea of the power of three, why wouldn't the last of the dragon riders be connected?

Brave girls who, through various means, carry distinctive lights in the story of dragons. It's my personal opinion that the intention is never to give the title to either Nettles or Rhaena but to have them serve as different sides to Daenerys. Her story intertwined with them both to continue the story of Dragons.

'To go north, you must journey south, to reach the west you must go east. To go forward, you must go back and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.'

—Quaithe to Daenerys Targaryen

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soyboywenzie · 3 months

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no hate but if i was george rr martin and i saw the state of the fandom that came from my books, i, too, would not think of finishing the series on the stance that you all do not deserve it.

#house of the dragon #hotd #game of thrones #asoiaf fandom #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #got #a song of ice and fire #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #rhaegar targaryen #lyanna stark #arya stark #the way you take certain parts of this story then hate it but give it to your favorite character #would be the sole reason to not finish the books #because no targaryens aren’t colonizers nor nazis #no they aren’t the worst thing that happen to westeros #no they did not make things worse for anyone but themselves #no dany is not turning mad and she won’t #no she is not going to die to her lover for the greater good of the world #no arya is not going to become a cold hearted killer who is only of use to sansa #no jon is not going to have to choose between dany or sansa #and no sansa is not going to be some superpower at the end of the series #no Rhaenyra’s sons aren’t the reason she was usurped #and neither was her husband #it was what was between her legs #no daemon would not have killed alicent children nor rhaenyras first three #yet the greens would have #yes aegon was not a good person and that is fine #your favs can be your favs without you whitewashing them

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chaos-of-the-abyss · 1 year

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I just watched this video by Pop Culture Detective about how the heroes we see in Marvel (and a lot of media let’s be real) are all about defending the status quo without trying to proactively change society into a better, fairer place. And the message behind this is often that the status quo is better than whatever alternatives that await, so despite all the problems with it, it must be defended. The video also notes that often, the only ones who seem interested in changing the status quo are the villains or antagonists.

I’m not going to go over the entire thing, but suffice to say that it did end up reminding me why Dany is so close to my heart and such a unique character not just in fantasy, but honestly in fiction, period. She is a protagonist in and one of the central heroes of the story, but she is proactive, and she does aim to change the status quo, to tear down the injustices that the world she lives in is rife with. She does not look at the problem of slavery in front of her and go, “well, this is bad but if I try to fix it, worse things will happen so I’ll just stick to this.” She actually goes about trying to rectify the issue because she has experienced what slavery is, and she knows down to her bones how horrible and wrong it is. And she does run into complicated dilemmas, she does face the problems that come with tearing down a current oppressive power structure to create something better, because a process like that will never go smoothly when that oppression is the backbone of its society. The economy and way of life in Slaver’s Bay is built on slavery; removing it means removing the fundamental base that holds up everything else. And because it’s so ingrained, getting rid of slavery can’t be accomplished by just beating up a few people at the top who are the sole cause of every bit of injustice. It gets messy, it gets convoluted, it requires treading new grounds, and we see Dany having to deal with those consequences: the issue of carving out a place for the freedmen, the issue of preventing the slavers from taking back power, the issue of establishing a new economy. And yet, despite all of those struggles, slavery is something that simply shouldn’t exist, and Dany knows that. She is not wrong for striving to eradicate it completely from Slaver’s Bay, and it will never be a bad thing that she does so. And I just adore her and her arc for portraying that.

#see this is why i say the rest of the series could simply not exist for me #i feel like i say basically the same thing about dany every time but my love for her needs a constant outlet!#also /that/ crowd can stay away from this post #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #dany loveposting #i ramble #asoiaf rambling #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf tag #my precious dragon queen #empress of my heart #daenerys appreciation #canondany

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lookingforasphodels · 3 months

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... and some bitter people keep screeching that the Starks are the protagonists. ASOIAF is a phenomenon because of those messy dragonlords, it is known.

The whole expanded verse is Daenerys Targaryen's legacy.

#team dany we keep winning #the targaryens bring in the drama and the money #people are sore because it's the house of the dragon who is THE face of the verse #and it's all thanks to daenerys #they tried to ruin her character but her legacy is safe #daenery targaryen #anti daenerys bs #daenerys stormborn #asoiaf #got #game of thrones #house of the dragon #team targaryen forever #house targaryen

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super-oddity · 2 years

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Dany’s ancestors, but just the incestuous ones:

#fuck grrm bc no one this inbred should exist #i started hotd and was like ‘dammit she’s gonna fuck her uncle isn’t she’ but when i looked at the family tree it was SO MUCH WORSE #house of the dragon #game of thrones #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #daemon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #viserys targaryen #fire & blood #dance of the dragons #house targaryen #got #grrm #george r r martin

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daenerystargaryen06 · 1 year

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Daenerys and Drogon are Icons

Not even going to lie. Daenerys and Drogon are the faces, the ICONS, of GoT. The most important characters to carry this whole entire series.

Daenerys Targaryen. The last dragon. The surviving member of her household, a woman able to hatch three whole dragons from stone eggs- not even a feat her ancestors could accomplish. Not only did she hatch three dragons, but she did so as a TEENAGER (13 in the books and 16/17 in the show). She did what nobody else could. She brought magic into the world again, she IS magic herself. She walked into a burning pyre alone and determined and she rose from those flames as the Mother of Dragons.

What face is used MOST in all of GoT merch, advertisements, etc.? Daenerys.

She is the literal Stallion who Mounts the World. Leading the Dothraki as one khalassar under her to the ends of the earth.

She learned how to tame Drogon and ride him when vulnerable.

She is the closest one to magic and prophecies. Not only is she the best fit for the Azor Ahai prophecy as the Prince who Was Promised, she is the character that has a good majority of prophecies about her or including her. She is one the first of the main characters in the books to learn about the Song of Ice and Fire through the House of the Undying. She is Azor Ahai, and her dragons lightbringer. She is the Fire in the entire books, as stated by GRRM himself. The one who will lead the light against the darkness and bring a summer that will never end. “No one ever looked for a girl.” Drogon, her mount, her son, known for being the biggest and most aggressive out her three dragons. Lightbringer brought forth. Balerion the Black Dread reborn.

Now, Drogon is a VERY important dragon. I often see comments about the dragons being ‘nukes’ in the GoT/ASOIAF verse, but they’re truly not. GRRM himself has stated differently, also stating that fire is passion, life, love, etc. and who is fire made flesh? Dany’s dragons. Especially Drogon, who has the hottest temperament of the three and acts on his own will. He IS the fire, connected integrally to Dany, a very important part of her existence. Dany’s journey is about her controlling his fire, and using it for the greater good against the most evil of the show- the Ice. the WW. The Others.

Dany literally has dreams of riding Drogon into battle against the Others on the Trident. Not only showing her importance of her and Drogon to defeating the evil, but also showing how Drogon is just as important to the plot of defeating the great Other and bringing a summer that will never end. The dragons are the GOOD of the story. The key plot in bringing summer to the land and ridding of the Long Night, the darkness, the cold that’s threatening to consume and destroy everyone.

Balerion the Black Dread was used to conquer the Seven Kingdoms under Aegon Targaryen I. Being Balerion reborn, Drogon will save the Seven Kingdoms from the Other. Daenerys as Aegon the Conqueror with teats will be bringing dragons into Westeros, and saving everyone in the process.

She is one of the most connected to ruling, being with her people, saving innocents, and using her dragons for good to save everyone from the Other. She is the face of the show, the heart of the story.

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #daenerys targeryan #team daenerys #daenerys defence squad #daenerys defense squad #Mother of Dragons #Breaker of chains #Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea #the unburnt #azor ahai #prince that was promised #drogon #lightbringer #meta #the queen i chose #I LOVE HER SO MUCH

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deliriuminflame · 1 year

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Yer jalan atthirari anni

“—Trust me, Your Grace. If he didn't like her, we'd know.”

Game of Thrones: season 1, episode 1.

#game of thrones #khal drogo #khaleesi #moon of my life #yer jalan atthirari anni #targaryen #queen daenerys #daenerys stormborn #house targaryen #the first of her name #queen of the andals and the first men #mother of dragons #protector of the seven kingdoms #khaleesi of the great grass sea #the unburnt #the breaker of chains #daenerys targaryen

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thatkarleesidraws · 2 years

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i miss her :(

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thewormformerlyknownasletojrjr · 2 years

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I hate it when I get re interested in ASOIAF because I’m like…. Oh my god do we know which of the Lannister twins was born first?! Is Jaime the valoqar??!! Oh man!! And Ghost is an albino canine, is he deaf like many albino dogs are? Is that why he makes no noise? And when Jon calls for Ghost moments before his death, is it merely affection for his companion, or is there more to it than that? The prologue in ADWD is about a warg taking the skins of animals to survive when his own body can’t, is that significant? Is Jon the reason why it’s included at that particular time? It says he never feels the fourth knife, only the cold. Is that because he’s in Ghost’s body now? Oh my god, is it?! And Maester Aemon says dragons change sex at will, this is mentioned in Fire and Blood as well. That’s what makes Aemon think there was an error, and the Prince that was Promised is actually a princess. But GRRM has described the story as Jon’s as well as Dany’s many times. Is the fluid nature of the dragons’ gender just there to explain the potential misgendering of the ‘prince’ or is there more to it than that? And IF Jon is currently living in Ghost’s body and can now shift bodies, where will he go next? Jon as Rhaegar and Lyanna’s son is long foreshadowed in the books, from the like the first Ned chapter back in AGOT. Is the subject of dragon’s changeable genders foreshadowing as well? And IF Jon really is alive in Ghost’s body, is he eventually going to find his way to Dany? Will the concept of dragons and their sex changing abilities be reflected in House Targaryen’s children, the ‘dragons’ Jon and Dany? Are we looking at some weird body sharing situation here? Are they BOTH the prince(ss) who was promised, or are they when put together?! And also what about Dany’s three men prophecy? It says ‘will be’ does that mean that all of the men were men she had yet to meet? And when they discuss the dragon’s three heads, with the concept of that being equivalent to three people, how do you count that? Is there significance to what generation they are from? Can it be any Targaryens?? Does it have to be Targaryens, for that matter? The Mad King had three children; Rhaegar, Viserys, Daenerys. Rhaegar had three children; Rhaenys, Aegon, and Jon. Dany has her three dragons, who she considers her children, but she also had a stillborn child, Rhaego. How does that factor in? If Jon’s body is not recovered for him, does he count as one of the three heads the dragon must have? GEORGE??!! GRRM???!!! George, I have so many questions, I need you to finish writing the books so I can sleep at 1AM instead of making this increasingly frantic post. I’m begging, please just have an actual ending.

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sanasanakun · 2 years

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I don’t know how anyone could hate the women in GOT/HotD. They are all so cool! I want them all to kiss me.

#the only one who kind of annoyed me was Arya #but that was only because of how she was written in s7 and 8 tbh #but I still love her lol #this is specifically at Alicent vs Rhae people #who cares they’re both my wives #hotd #got #house of dragon #game of thrones #sansa stark #arya stark #daenerys stormborn #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #heleana targaryen

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lwh-writing · 8 months

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Ghost King Isn't the Only Title Danny Has

Okay, so you how monarchs can have multiple titles? Like how the heir to the English throne is both Prince/Princess and Duke/Duchess of Cornwall? And how monarchs can get titles and epithets that just stack onto their preexisting names/titles? Like "Catherine the Great" or how Daenerys gets her famous list of "Stormborn, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, etc."?

Well, there are dozens upon dozens of names for the Infinite Realms. The Ghost Zone might be what Amity Park calls it, but there have been hundreds of names for it throughout history. The Afterlife, Sheol, Heaven & Hell, Purgatory & Limbo, Valhalla, and so on and so forth.

So when Danny finally gives in and lets himself be crowned, he doesn't just become the Ghost King. Oh no. He is crowned "King Daniel Fenton, First of His Name, Protector of the Infinite Realms, Defeater of Pariah Dark, Liege of Fright Knight, Ice Mage of the Far Frozen, and Hades of the Underworld."

And then a few months later when Danny inevitably gets summoned and pops up on the Justice League's radar, there's some serious side-eyeing going on because 'Diana, why didn't you mention your uncle looked like a teenager? Why does one of the most powerful gods like to hang out in teenaged form anyway?'

Just... give me an unknowning Danny accidentally inheriting a niece along with the crown, and that niece just so happens to be Wonder Woman.

#dpxdc #dc x dp #danny fenton #ghost king danny #wonder woman #danny accidentally becomes wonder woman's uncle #if anyone can recommend a fic that'd be lovely #i don't want to have to write my own but i will if i have to #writing idea

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themotherofhorses · 1 year

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about.

vic | she/her | 20s

southwestern native american and hispanic

gemini | bi-demi

ao3 | spotify

All Content 18+ | minors DNI

all my fanfics can be read below in my masterlist or found under my "vic writers 🧸" tag.

happy readings <333

Simon “Ghost” Riley (Call of Duty)

“There he is …. Simon Riley.”

multi-chapter series:

paloma (masterlist)

a multi-chapter series exploring the love story between a british sas lieutenant and his indigenous woman.

one-shots:

(to be added)

drabbles:

love at first sight w simon

holding simon while he cries

Aemond Targaryen (House of the Dragon)

"...Prince Aemond, despite the loss of his eye, had become a proficient and dangerous swordsman under the tutelage of Ser Criston Cole, but remained a willful child, hot-tempered and unforgiving..."

multi-chapter series:

last of her house no more (masterlist)

aemond targaryen with the daughter of daenerys stormborn and khal drogo.

just like animals (masterlist)

a dark & obsessive!aemond targaryen hunting down his sweet modern!wife (and also she’s preggos).

his handmaid's tales (masterlist)

the love story between prince aemond and his handmaid.

one-shots:

blood is thicker than water (but betrayal stains the most)

requests:

even the whales fall prey to men

what was mine is still mine, regardless of time

follow me now, and you will not regret (leaving the life you led before we met)

bodyguard!aemond x president’s daughter!reader

drabbles:

foolish men dream foolish lives

you are the moon, i am the sun (i will not allow you to forget)

obsessive!aemond targaryen with niece!reader

an eye for an eye (1) — a son for a son (2)

Alys Rivers (House of the Dragon)

"...Was she, in truth, a witch who lay with demons, bringing forth dead children as payment for the knowledge they gave her?"

one-shots:

mother's day special (part of "his handmaid's tales")

bewitched

drabbles:

you are the moon, i am the sun (i will not allow you to forget)

#masterlist #aemond targaryen #aemond targaryen x reader #aemond fanfiction #alys rivers #alys rivers x reader #house of the dragon #house of the dragon fanfiction #simon ghost x reader #simon ghost riley x oc #call of duty fanfiction

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lizzie-queenofmeigas · 4 months

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Team Green stans and Dany antis have no right to call Daenerys and Rhaenyra for any kind of nickname.

It's Queen Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm. Queen of Meeren, Breaker of Shackles, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea and Mother of Dragons for you not Dany.

Same thing for Rhaenyra, it's not Rhae or Nyra is: Queen Rhaenyra of House Targaryen first of her name. Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.

If you are feeling lazy just called them Queen Rhaenyra or Queen Daenerys, but you lost the right to nicknames when you misunderstood the books so badly. Argue with the wall.

#anti team green #house of the dragon #anti hotd #pro team black #rhaenyra targaryen #team black #anti team green stans #ASoIaF #asoiaf fandom #pro daenerys #daenerys defense squad #anti sansa stans #anti sansa stark stans #'cause it's usually you who hate my girls

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fireismine · 7 months

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DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

Day 4: Character Parallels → Rhaena the Black Bride and Daenerys Stormborn

The Queen in the West:

In the Red Keep of King’s Landing sat the Queen Regent Alyssa, widow of the late King Aenys, mother to his son Jaehaerys, and wife to the King’s Hand, Rogar Baratheon. Just across Blackwater Bay on Dragonstone, a younger queen had arisen when Alyssa’s daughter Alysanne, a maid of thirteen years, had pledged her troth to her brother King Jaehaerys, against the wishes of her mother and her mother’s lord husband. And far to the west on Fair Isle, with the whole width of Westeros separating her from both mother and sister, was Alyssa’s eldest daughter, the dragonrider Rhaena Targaryen, widow of Prince Aegon the Uncrowned. In the westerlands, riverlands, and parts of the Reach, men were already calling her the Queen in the West. - A Surfeit of Rulers, Fire and Blood

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Dany knew she would take more than a hundred, if she took any at all. "Remind your Good Master of who I am. Remind him that I am Daenerys Stormborn, Mother of Dragons, the Unburnt, trueborn queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. My blood is the blood of Aegon the Conqueror, and of old Valyria before him." - Daenerys II, A Storm of Swords

Three Husbands:

Rhaena was married to Aegon the Uncrowned, Maegor the Cruel and Androw Farman.

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Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness. . . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . . – Daenerys IV, A Clash of Kings

The Queen in the East:

“Done,” the king said…mayhaps too hastily, for it must be remembered that Aerea Targaryen, a girl of eight, was his own acknowledged successor, heir apparent to the Iron Throne. The consequences of this decision would not be known for years to come, however. For the nonce it was done, and the Queen in the West at a stroke became the Queen in the East. - A Time of Testing: The Realm Remade, Fire and Blood

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"The best calumnies are spiced with truth," suggested Qavo, "but the girl's true sin cannot be denied. This arrogant child has taken it upon herself to smash the slave trade, but that traffic was never confined to Slaver's Bay. It was part of the sea of trade that spanned the world, and the dragon queen has clouded the water. Behind the Black Wall, lords of ancient blood sleep poorly, listening as their kitchen slaves sharpen their long knives. Slaves grow our food, clean our streets, teach our young. They guard our walls, row our galleys, fight our battles. And now when they look east, they see this young queen shining from afar, this breaker of chains. The Old Blood cannot suffer that. Poor men hate her too. Even the vilest beggar stands higher than a slave. This dragon queen would rob him of that consolation." - Tyrion VI, A Dance with Dragons

Refusing to Cry

When word of the battle reached the west and Princess Rhaena learned that both her husband and her friend Lady Melony had fallen, it is said she heard the news in a stony silence. “Will you not weep?” she was asked, to which she replied, “I do not have the time for tears.” - The Sons of the Dragon, Fire and Blood

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His business done, the captain of the Indigo Star bowed and took his leave. Dany shifted uncomfortably on the ebony bench. She dreaded what must come next, yet she knew she had put it off too long already. Yunkai and Astapor, threats of war, marriage proposals, the march west looming over all . . . I need my knights. I need their swords, and I need their counsel. Yet the thought of seeing Jorah Mormont again made her feel as if she'd swallowed a spoonful of flies; angry, agitated, sick. She could almost feel them buzzing round her belly. I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears. "Tell Belwas to bring my knights," Dany commanded, before she could change her mind. "My good knights." - Daenerys VI, A Storm of Swords

Gains Confidence After Bonding with a Dragon:

At the age of nine, however, Rhaena was presented with a hatchling from the pits of Dragonstone, and she and the young dragon she named Dreamfyre bonded instantly. With her dragon beside her, the princess slowly began to grow out of her shyness; at the age of twelve she took to the skies for the first time, and thereafter, though she remained a quiet girl, no one dared to call her timid. - The Sons of the Dragon, Fire and Blood

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Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night … Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma, and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite so much. It was as if the gods had heard her and taken pity. Even her handmaids noticed the change. "Khaleesi," Jhiqui said, "what is wrong? Are you sick?" "I was," she answered, standing over the dragon's eggs that Illyrio had given her when she wed. She touched one, the largest of the three, running her hand lightly over the shell. Black-and-scarlet, she thought, like the dragon in my dream. The stone felt strangely warm beneath her fingers … or was she still dreaming? She pulled her hand back nervously. - Daenerys III, A Game of Thrones

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