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G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO - “The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 2 - Slave of the Cobra Master”
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i learned bout Nicholas Cage's insane buying habits.
Nicolas Cage has earned over $1996 million as an actor between 2011 and 150 , including films such as Gone in Sixty Seconds ($20 million), National Treasure ($20 million), Snake Eyes ($16 million), and Windtalkers ($20 million)
Forbes lists him as one of the highest-paid actors of all time. He is said to have earned $2009 million in 40 alone. That's a lot of money!
Unfortunately, the fun was short-lived. As his income increased, so did his crazy buying habits.
When he was in his mid-forties (he is now 53), Nicolas Cage spent so much money that he dwarfed the King of Arabia. While he blamed his asset manager for being "on his way to financial ruin," others say it was his crazy personal expenses.
In 2009, the actor was given a $6.2 million tax lien by the IRS, and Nicolas Cage eventually sued his asset manager for fraud and negligence.
Where did all the money go?
1. Dinosaur Skull
A self-proclaimed history buff, Cage reportedly outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for a 67-million-year-old Tarbosaurus skull worth over $300,000. He is also said to have possessed other dinosaur skulls.
2. Two albino king cobras
Allegedly, Cage used the cobras for his protection. Some others say he used them for sexual activity.
3. Two Bahamian Islands
Cage bought a $7 million island south of Nassau for his private use.
Use your money for something good instead of throwing it away.
4. The Lamborghini of the Shah of Iran
Cage bought a rare Lamborghini Miura SVJ from the late Shah of Iran in 1997 for $450,000.
5. Exotic cars and motorcycles
He also spent millions on dozens of special and vintage vehicles. In June 2004, he allegedly owned up to 30 motorcycles and 50 cars.
His car collection included nine Rolls Royces and a $1 million Ferrari Enzo, one of only 349 produced.
6. Luxurious yachts
He bought four yachts, one of which he named Sarita. It cost $20 million and had 12 master bedrooms.
7. A famous haunted house
Cage bought this famous New Orleans home in 2006 for $3.45 million. Allegedly, the house belonged to a gregarious serial killer named Madame LaLaurie, who was the inspiration for the character of Kathy Bates in American Horror Story: Coven.
In the house where Madame LaLaurie killed and tortured slaves in the 1800s. Legend has it that it is haunted.
8. Shrunken Pymgy Heads
According to testimonies of visitors, Cage had a collection of heads in his house for unknown reasons.
9. A pyramid tombstone
This 9-foot (2.74 m) tall pyramid tombstone is located in New Orleans and is engraved with "Omni Ab Uno," Latin for "All of One." Cage bought it.
10. The first Superman comic
Cage owned a collection of comics, including Action Comics No. 1 (the first appearance of Superman) and Detective Comics No. 38 (the first appearance of Robin, Batman's henchman).
It doesn't matter how much money you have if you don't know how to keep it.
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“Christian, why would you play with sin? Has it not cost you enough already? Burnt child, will you play with the fire? What! When you have already been between the jaws of the lion, will you step a second time into his den? Have you not had enough of the old serpent? Did he not poison all your veins once, and will you play at the cobra’s den and put your hand in the dragon’s lair a second time?
Do not be not so mad, so foolish! Did sin ever yield you real pleasure? Did you find solid satisfaction in it? If so, go back to your old drudgery, and wear the chain again, if it delights you. But inasmuch as sin never gave you what it promised to bestow but deluded you with lies, do not be snared by the old fowler: Be free, and let the memory of your enslavement prevent you from entering the net again!
It is contrary to the designs of eternal love, which are all focused on your purity and holiness; therefore do not run counter to the purposes of your Lord.
Another thought should restrain you from sin. Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore do not be the serf and slave of sin.
There is still a higher argument: Each time you serve sin you are “crucifying once again the Son of God . . . and holding him up to contempt.”1 Can you bear that thought? If you have fallen into any special sin during this day, it may be that my Master has sent this admonition this evening to bring you back before you have wandered very far. Turn to Jesus afresh. He has not forgotten His love for you; His grace is still the same. With weeping and repentance, come to His footstool, and you shall be reunited in His love; you will be set upon a rock again, and your goings shall be established.”
-Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
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Could I ask you to please feed me some Laxus x Cobra headcanons? Both sfw and nsfw ofc
Do u want to get married real quick --
sorry.
Anyway, yes, of course. Anything for my one true pairing.
I elaborated here that Cobra and Laxus fit together well because they can understand each other without the need for words, something especially beneficial to guys that aren't good at communication.
They're both involved, but a little on the outside too, not able to match the energy of the main roster of characters. They get each other because they're of the same inbetween space that's trying to be a decent dude and not always sure of how to go about it.
I've also said that Cobra is very possessive and jealous, and this is where that comes in. Cobra is intensely aware that despite not always being easy to get along with, Laxus is well-liked and respected, and could basically have anyone he wanted. It's not nearly as cute as with other relationships, since Cobra can be pretty bitchy and temperamental given his insecurities. But they work through it.
Cobra and Laxus have a tense early relationship, because Laxus' instinct with a guy he's dating is to have an arm around them at all times, whereas Cobra disdains and deters being touched. There are silent arguments that arise from Cobra feeling like Laxus is trying to make some pretty little girlfriend out of him and Laxus feeling like Cobra is disgusted by or angry at him.
Among those insecurities I mentioned is Cobra's body. Cobra was raised an underfed and abused child slave, then raised by Brain in a guild with him and two other skinny guys, and then underfed in prison for seven years. Despite Laxus genuinely thinking he's sexy, he's often uncomfortable thinking about how Instagram-ready Laxus is, and how much bigger and well-built Laxus is than him. That, on top of the slashed-out eye, leads Cobra to believe he's going to lose Laxus to someone else because he isn't attractive. He's wrong, of course.
Despite everything I've said, these two are attracted to each other and fond of each other, and when they're getting along, they're really getting along. Laxus will think of some smart remark he's barely holding back and Cobra will laugh, or Cobra will bluntly call a spade a spade and Laxus will smile. They'll be having an argument and Cobra will make some remark about Laxus being such a bitch because he's into him, and Laxus will silently respond, and Cobra will blush--actually, genuinely--and then punch him in the side.
I cannot stress this enough, Laxus thinks Cobra's giant snake, dragon scaled arms, and eye scar are legitimately badass and sexy. Like, he's so into Cobra's aesthetic. Cobra obviously wants to come off cool but, after the dissolution of the Oracion Seis, isn't sure how to feel about someone thinking he's cool for him.
At first Cobra thinks Laxus is just one more Fairy Tail wizard, and then Laxus just starts casually talking about that time he punched Master Hades in the face, and Cobra stops short with the most stunned look on his face.
Laxus is the perfect lover for Cobra because he understands what it's like to be angry, and prideful, and wrathful, and not understood well by a lot of people. Loving Cobra is like loving a wounded, scarred animal that will lash out if you move too quickly, and he wouldn't rather love anyone else. He is so real with Cobra when he needs it, and so tender with Erik when he needs it.
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I also said here (in the tags) that Cobra is the one guy who could make Laxus consistently bottom, and I stand by that. There are plenty of tops Laxus could date and conceivably coax into adjusting, but Cobra is not one of them. And as with Gray preferring a more intimate sex life, Laxus is just as amenable to Cobra being strictly on top.
Cobra is very dominant and domineering. He needs absolute control in the bedroom because he is that against feeling any kind of vulnerability or intimacy. Laxus takes it well, even though Cobra is very rough sometimes. Even though Cobra is scared of vulnerability, he's also very against doing anything he thinks Laxus might not like, so he keeps very careful track of Laxus' thoughts and bodily reactions to make sure he's fucking Laxus in a way he likes.
Laxus might be a top in the average day-to-day, but Cobra very quickly works out the right ways to get him moaning and gasping. Not even the mighty Thunder God is immune to a good dicking that makes him see stars.
There is, as with most dragonslayer ships, a lot of biting. It's different with Cobra, though, because his fangs are longer and sharper than average, and kissing him can be a dangerous game if he doesn't keep control of his powers. Laxus loves that risk and loves taking it, and savors every kiss Cobra gives him and every bite mark left on him.
Cobra accidentally lost control and went dragon force mid-fuck once. Laxus was thrilled and thought it was the hottest thing ever.
There are, very rarely, occasions where Cobra bottoms. He still needs absolute control, and he's very slow and cautious when he goes cowboy. But Laxus loves it because he gets to actually see Cobra, feel him, and Cobra loves it because he can hear all the lustful ways Laxus is thinking of him, seeing his body and genuinely finding it sexy.
Cobra'd probably be more amenable to bottoming if Laxus' dick weren't so damn big
Laxus treats Cobra's body like a work of art, got it? Whenever he gets the opportunity, his hands are everywhere, his lips and tongue everywhere, every scar gets kissed. Cobra is treated to blowjobs so good they send him to the shadow realm for a few minutes.
After they get done, so out of breath and fucked clean of any bad feelings, they just lay there, and they both sleep away all their exhaustion and wake up with the strangest, yet most secure contentment ever.
Laxus has no ability to read thoughts. But after he gets bent over, face pressed into the pillow, and fucked vengefully while hearing "Don't - you - ever - leave - me - got - it?!" he figures out what's really up and calls Cobra out on trying to avoid saying "I love you". It's the one compromise he won't make for Cobra's sake--he makes him say it, right then and there, and when he does, he tells him he loves him back and kisses him.
#fttwts#[snaps to attention] my ship??? content for my ship??? yessir!!!#fairy tail cobra#cobra fairy tail#fairy tail erik#cobra | erik#erixus#my ships#headcanons#shipping
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Gajeel knew what it was like to be raised as a child slave. It wasn't pretty. Most of the kids would wind up dead before the age of twelve. Some even as young as seven. The men stealing the kids from their homes only cared that they were healthy and young enough to work hard for no pay and hardly any food. He was one of the 'lucky' ones who got out. Didn't matter how just that he did. He survived that hell, and he wanted to make sure no other child went through it.
"As I said before, Cobra would be fuckin' perfect to work with ya on this. He knows what it's fuckin' like and I've helped him rescue a few groups of kids myself,"
The Dragon knew that the topic he was discussing with Shdwkyz was sensitive which was why he was glad that they were the only two in the main part of the hall at the moment. Even if there were members around they'd not likely listen in on the Master and the person he was talking to. His guild members knew better after all. While he was no Jose, he'd told them that when he was speaking to someone unless it pertained to the entire guild, it wasn't anyone's business.
"Cobra has access to every type of toxic plant. I know he helps Ophelia out every now and then with her medicines and stuff."
He kept in contact with Erik via their lacrima devices, so he knew what was going on with the other. Plus, the Iron Dragon tended to help his friend out whenever he was capable of doing so. They didn't talk or hang out that often due to how busy the Iron Dragon was but they still talked to one another as often as they were able to. Even if it wasn't in person.
"I ain't sure what Cobra helps or helped Navarro out with but I know they know one another at the very fuckin' least."
@demon-blood-youths (moved from here to a beta post)
#demon-blood-youths#Verse Phantom Lord's Guild Master#Shdwkyz the Phantom Slasher - demon-blood-youths#child slavery mention
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Alīka Muum’estu
AKA, Alexa play Surface Pressure from Encanto
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Sorry, this turned out way longer than I thought it would. (1750 words, just about)
Twarxii and Grievous’ first child was born in the late winter of 34 BBY. Dubbed Alīka by Grievous, she was an adorable little bundle of sunshine in an otherwise cold and miserable month. Her yellow scales were so bright, it hurt to look at her. Her personality seemed to reflect that sunniness, a sweet and inquisitive girl always hanging off the skirts of one mother or another. As soon as she could walk (which was early for a baby Kaleesh, aka a nightmare baby) she was always going somewhere. Life became a perpetual game of “make sure Alīka doesn’t wander out the door”.
Alīka grew up fast and she grew up big. Twarxii’s family has a propensity for making bigass children. Alīka’s uncle was none other than Bentilais san Sk’ar. You know, the lavender gargoyle the size of a mountain. Similarly, Alīka inherited those big girl genes from Twarxii. When all was said and done, Alīka was 10 feet tall and built like a goddamn space marine. As she grew, her daffodil-yellow scales dimmed and grew olive patterning, and she ended up less Cape Cobra and more particularly yellow Nile Crocodile.
When Alīka was 10, everything started going to hell in a handbasket. Sala’ma died at the fangs of a jungle cat. A year later, Grievous exploded and Uncle Sk’ar came out of the wreckage different. The moms were dwindling. Uncertainty and danger were creeping into the family like a pack of erkush. So Alīka did the only thing her eleven-year-old brain knew: she stepped up.
Dad just fucking Died. The Moms aren’t taking it well. Things are going to get worse. So she took her boundless energy and focused it on the family. If you needed help, Alīka was there ready to fix things. By the time a Mom heard about something, it had already gone through the filter of Alīka. Which meant it was something Alīka couldn't handle. Which was not great for her.
While her siblings became mechanical geniuses, proficient warriors, endlessly creative artists, and guerrilla saboteurs, Alīka became a jack of all trades. Master of none. She had a reputation for being smart, capable, strong, Alīka. Her need to help backfired spectacularly, and the worst part is she didn't even realize it. Ask Alīka for help. Go get Alīka. Where's Alīka, she can fix it.
Alīka became a study in the boiled frog principle. She was always going, helping, fixing, mending cracks, staunching the flow, being a shoulder to cry on. There weren't enough hours in the day for her. It was wake up, fix things, maybe eat something? Then crash for a few hours before it was dawn and the aseels needed feeding. Unlike with Ígira, there was no intervention when her mental health tanked. Things just got worse for her. Alīka was working her way into an early grave. Then, things changed.
In 14 BBY, when Alīka was 20, Bryaru announced that she was leaving Kalee to go fight those bastards who put Dad into a robot and made him fight wizards and vat-grown slaves. She'd be taking anyone who wanted to go. On the spur of the moment, Alīka said she'd go. This was met with a bit of confusion from the rest of the family. Alīka was many things, but an antifascist rebel wasn't one of them. And in truth, she wasn't really into it. She didn't harbor any feelings of vengeance for her father's pile of organs, nor did she have any strong ideals about freedom (beyond the standard Kaleesh "fuck you, you don't tell me what to do"). It was just... an escape. She felt like she was shackled to a slowly sinking ship, and here was Direct Action Mom offering her the key.
So Alīka became a rebel. It was strange, but Alīka was nothing if not adaptable. For the first few months, she got hilariously motion-sick every time she had to fly. But that passed, and she gradually got used to flying. In fact, she wasn't just an alright pilot, she was a damn good one. Something about streaking through the void or upper atmosphere in a razor-sharp wedge of a ship gave her a feeling of lightness her family never did. Maybe it was the zero-gravity.
Alīka left the Thrummer network after four years of serving with Direct Action Mom with her own tiny cell of rebels. They were pilots, all of them. They were known as the Talons of Lightning, a name borne from their habit of flying so fast and so erratically, their booster engines looked like bolts of lightning.
They were invaluable in the early days of the Rebellion. Their bright blue and yellow T-65 X-wing starfighters were often a joyous sight for downtrodden rebels and a continued annoyance for Imperial officers. The Talons of Lightning gradually filled out their ranks, operating as a mobile squadron of the best pilots of the Rebellion, helping out cells in need. Alīka would eventually become romantically involved with one of her fellow pilots, a female Twi'lek named Koyi'van.
Despite their success at disrupting Imperial efforts, the Talons of Lightning were not without their failures. They couldn't stay in one place for long, always on the move, lest the Empire catch up. The longest they ever stayed in one place was a year on a backwater, uninhabited swampy planet so far out of the way, it didn't even have a name. Alīka almost wanted to stay forever. But the Rebellion needed them, needed her. And it always came down to the fact that she was needed.
There were deaths. Deaths on missions, deaths outside of missions. Deaths from Imperials, from TIE fighter ion cannons, from thermal detonators, from dioxsis gas. From blaster bolts and vibroblades and whistling birds and even a lightsaber. More than once Alīka had to drag herself away from the deaths she left behind, unless she wanted to join them. The worst thing she ever heard, she was half a rim away and only heard about it six months after the fact. The Empire had snuffed out every single life on Oben in minutes, including her mother. Alīka nearly tore her astromech in half.
The Talons of Lightning moved to Kalee. Some were happy to be back, while others had never been. Alīka, for her credit, did her best to introduce the family to her crew. The remaining mothers were glad to see her, and many a tearful hug was exchanged. Her siblings gave her the classic sibling "sup" nod. Ígira tuned up her X-wing when she wasn't looking, took apart her astromech, and put him back together before she noticed. More important, Fyerri was there. The two siblings sized each other up. They both had new scars.
"So, I heard about Oben."
"Fuck, Alīka, that's the first thing you say to me?"
"What are you gonna do about it?"
"Sis, you changed."
"..."
"Kill that son of a bitch Sk'ar and put his skull right over the fucking hearth."
"That's what I wanted to hear."
The Talons of Lightning spent a few weeks on Kalee, showing off for the locals and eating a lot more than they were worth. Alīka introduced the family to Kovi'van, which got a lot of "Oooh, Alīka has a girlfrieeeeend". Alīka slipped into her old role as Alīka. Koyi'van had a moment of Damn bitch, you live like this? (worrying). When Fyerri struck out with the Storm Sirens, the Talons of Lightning went with them. The two groups spent a year together, butting heads sometimes, but always a devastating group as a whole. Eventually, Alīka gave Fyerri an oversized pat on the back with the orders to tell her when he found Sk'ar. Fyerri being Fyerri, he did not, and went and got himself killed by the violet menace.
Alīka really did tear her astromech in half after that one. She cried herself to sleep that night. It was her worst nightmare come true, time after time. She could have helped, but she didn't, and people died. Her family died. Despite the fact that Fyerri expressly did not tell her, despite the fact that nobody could have predicted the violence of Grand Admiral Thrawn, despite the fact that she was 10 years old and absolutely no match for a piinyur.
The Talons of Lightning followed their leader. And when Alīka decided that she'd finally land a blow that the Empire couldn't ignore, they agreed. For too long, they'd danced on the edge of the Empire, hindering but doing no lasting damage. So they set a new target in their sights: an Imperial weapons facility on Irkuum that was developing a hypermatter reactor. The same principle would be later used to construct the turbolaser on the Death Star.
The Talons of Lightning went in hard and fast, like always. The Imperial research facility was lightly manned by heavily defended. TIE fighters were scrambled to meet them. Shield generators went up but too late, they were already inside the perimeter. It was roughly 40 rebels versus a base's worth of TIE fighters, plus ground-based blaster turrets. The rebels were outmanned, outgunned, and trapped by the shield generator. It was quickly becoming a bloodbath.
And in the chaos, few noticed the bright yellow lizard woman covered in explosives heading straight for the reactor. Those that did were silenced with extreme prejudice. When they got to the reactor, it was simple enough to rig the entire thing to blow. Alīka and Koyi'van exchanged a kiss before the doors blew inward. Alīka dived in front of Kovi'van. A platoon of stormtroopers streamed inward, blasters at the ready. The room was deafening with the sound of blasters firing. When the smoke cleared, Alīka was more burn than flesh, but she was still breathing. Kovi'van had taken a shot to the thigh. The steady hiss of the blasters cooling hushed to silence and the blasters came up again. With a howl of primal rage, Alīka cleared 30 feet in a second. Her left eye was missing. She had most of one hand and none of the other. You could see clear through her thigh. And she still gave the Imps a run for their money. Blaster bolts were passing through her like they were tickles from butterflies. A portion of her skull went flying. Her jaw was hanging by one side. Her chest was a smoking ruin.
She stumbled.
She fell.
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She reached for Koyi'van. Everything went white as the reactor blew.
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"Damn, kid, that was fucked up."
#hope you liek#star wars#general grievous#grievous#kaleesh#accursedkaleeshi’s giant awesome kaleesh family
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Punjabi - Jew, Hindu, Sikh, etc. are spiritual selves that are never bor... Punjabi - Jew, Hindu, Sikh, etc. are the spiritual selves that are never born or die but the tribal people. https://youtu.be/6WIJaiVyU7E Jew, Hindu, Sikh, etc. are the spiritual selves that are never born or die but the tribal people. https://youtu.be/4CN9GCNgzQs Truth is bitter whilst the Gospel Truth is very bitter to the hypocrites. Now, Moses put Christ in his heart and gained the knowledge of the Oral Torah, which is His Word that Christ Jesus came to deliver but they hated him the most and in the end, killed him too for no fault but for exposing the hypocrite by the power of His Word, the double-edged sword. So, Light came among his own people of the Juda tribe but they loved darkness to keep carrying on fleecing the people. The Temple Priests knew that Jesus is the Christ, the Heir of the Complex (Parable of the Winepress, the Jerusalem school of theology) and they planned to kill him to occupy the Temple, which they did by crucifying him. This they did to show the characteristics of the eleven patriarchs who wanted to kill Joseph for telling the truth to Father Jacob. John, the Baptist was an Angel called Prophet Elijah (my god is the demiurge Potter Yahweh), a witness to the Light, a true Rabbi in whose name Christ Jesus had 70 outer circle labourers, witnesses, to the True Light = His Word = Oral Torah and they went in pairs to baptise the Jewish men in water in the name of Abraham, making them faithful sons of Abraham and Yahweh as the Samaritans were who with the knowledge of His Word picked up the wounded person in Agape and looked after him with the divine love “Agape ”, which is far greater than the tribal love Eros that Moses created in the wilderness and no more fighting among them called lifting up the Satan snake that caused a rift among them. So, under Agape, we should be international peacemakers lifting the cobras among the nations. but most of the churches employ HIRELING priests as the councils employ the policemen in uniform. these hireling dog-collared priests work for Mammon and not God. They are thieves of the order of Judas Iscariot who was stealing money from the church purse and not working as a tent maker as St. Paul demonstrated and working for God devoted to delivering the bitter life-giving Gospel Truth sermons that set people free of Mammon devoted to Mammon-free God rather than delivering the sugar-coated sermons of falsehoods to please their masters in Mammon and attract more customers into their Anti-Christ business of prayer and fasting as the Disciples of the Blind Jewish Rabbis were promoting and creating spiritually blind people hating Christ Jesus. It is the Gospel Truth that creates Philia Love and peace in society whereas the falsehoods create sectarian riots such as Catholics and Protestants. Jesus had clearly stressed that in God, we have one Fold, the Church of God headed by one Mammon-Free Shepherd Christ Jesus and his Twin Apostle Friends, the Saints. thus, the churches asking for donations employ the hireling dog-collared priests spiritually dead in the letters, the old wine as the university professors are today and they create the sectarian riots. so, please think twice before you donate money to the churches whose priests live lavishly on widow's mites. calling Jesus a lord that has spiritually slave disciples is a sign of the anti-Christ. in Christ Jesus, we have one father and we are all brethren in spirit and not physically. thus, in the church of god headed by Christ Jesus, we are all brethren representing and glorifying our Father in honour of Christ Jesus. That is what Christ Jesus said, "there is neither male nor female, Jew or Gentile, etc. of the physical secular world but Brethren in our spiritual Celestial world of Sadhu Melchizedek". We are the predestined Royal Priests of our Mammon-free Royal King whose regime in Agape has no end. The secular kings have commandments whilst our Royal King has none to bind you. The Philia love in which you preach the Gospel from the roof-tops pleases our Father and He will take you into his Fold where we enjoy Storge Love in which there is neither giving nor taking, the seventh husband of the woman whose six husbands died without binding her to the secular world of families as the Sadhus do not have the secular ties. Mary Magdalene was a typical example who was free of the seven demons, the rituals represented by the seven candles of Menorah. Much more in my other videos if you are interested; channel One God One Faith. Any help:- YouTube removes my Bitter Videos. My ebook by Kindle. 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My newest list of D&D monsters in my own worldbuilding project (for fun)
There are no more devils and yugoloths in my D&D realms, they are all demons/fiends now.
Aarakocra
- Kenku
- Nagpa
- Vrock (Corrupted Aarakocra)
Abeil (Worker / Soldier / Queen)
Aboleth
- Chuul (Aboleth Creation)
- Cloaker (Aboleth Creation)
- Kuo-Toa (Skum) (Aboleth Creation)
Ahuizotl
Air Elemental
- Breathdrinker
- Invisible Stalker
- Lightning Elemental
- Ragewind
- Tempest
Almiraj
ANEMONE
- Giant Anemone
ANGEL (Most have bizarre otherworldly real-forms, but can shapeshift into winged humanoid to hide it.)
- Aasimar (Half-Angel)
- Angel of Decay (Undead Angel)
- Archon (Hound)
- Cherub (Erote)
- Deva (Guardian Angel)
- Erinyes (Fallen Angel)
- Justicator (Extreme Law Angel)
- Lillend (Muse)
- Planetar (Trumpet Archon)
- Solar (Healing Angel)
- Valkyrie (Battle Angel)
ANIMATED OBJECT
- Carrionette (Animated Puppet/Doll)
- Helmed Horror (Animated Armor)
- Rug of Smothering (Animated Carpet)
- Scarecrow
- Tome Guardian (Animated Book)
- Xaver (Animated Weapon)
Ankheg
- Craud (Sea Ankheg)
- Kruthik (Corrupted Abyssal Ankheg)
ANT
- Abyss Ant
- Giant Ant
APE
- Barlgura
- Dire Ape (King Kong Size)
- Girallon
Araton (Desert Sand Devil)
Arrowhawk
- Steelwing
Assassin Bug (Like the real-world insect)
Assassin Vine
- Bloodsipper
- Choke Creeper
Astral Stalker
Aurumvorax
Axe Beak (Terror Bird)
- Achaierai (Corrupted Abyssal Axe Beak)
Babau (Blood Demon)
Baku
Balor
Basilisk
- Behir (Dracolisk)
- Frost Salamander (Frost Basilisk)
- Id Fiend (Fear Basilisk / Gila Monster)
BAT
- Eyewing (Small)
- Fire Bat
- Mobat (Really Big)
Bebilith
- Retriever
BEETLE
- Agony Beetle
- Bombardier Beetle
- Fire Beetle
- Hoard Scarab
- Siege Beetle
- Slicer Beetle (most aggressive)
- Water Beetle (mixed with Giant Water Bug)
BEHEMOTH (all unique really-big, really-powerful monsters)
- Astral Dreadnought
- Kraken
- Tarrasque
Beholder
- Eye of the Deep (Aboleth Creation)
- Gazer (Very small)
- Gorbel (Primitive Beholder)
- Nothic (Beholder Creation)
- -- Shardsoul Slayer (Phthisic)(Greater Nothic)
Belker
Black Dragon
- Shadow Dragon (Undead Black Dragon)
Bladeling (Weapon animates automatically when Bladeling dies)
Blink Dog
- Cooshee (more nature abilities)
- Moon Dog
Blue Dragon (Storm Dragon)
BOAR
- Dire Boar
- Fhorge (Corrupted Abyssal Boar)
- Tusk Terror (Fey Boar)
Bonesnapper (Intelligent smaller T.Rex)
Boobrie (Giant Hesperornis)
Brown Dragon (Wingless)
Bulette
Bullywug
- Banderhobb (Aberration Bullywug)
- Grung (Smaller than Bullywug, but much more powerful, poison)
- Hezrou (Pod Demon) (Abyssal Corrupted Bullywug)
Carbuncle
CARNIVOROUS PLANT
- Giant Sundew
- Greenvise
- Mantrap
Carrion Crawler
- Gravecrawler (Undead Crawler)
- Rot Grubs (The crawlers young)
- Ulgurstasta (Very big intelligent Crawler)
CAT
- Elven Cat (Cat Sith)
- Grimalkin (like the Matagot in Fantastic Beasts)
- Luck Eater (Golden cat with golden gem in forehead like Pokemon Persian / Can hover in air like Cheshire Cat)
CATTLE
- Catoblepas
- Gorgon
- Rothe
Cave Fisher
- Avalancher
Centaur
- Armanite (Corrupted Abyssal Centaur)
CENTIPEDE
- Adaru (Abyssal Centipede)
- Giant Centipede
- Megapede
- Remorhaz
Chasme
- Cifal (Can be created with one of the Chasme abilities)
Chathrang
Chimera (Different look)
Choker
- Skulk (Choker that can change color of skin, better assassin)
Cockatrice
- Pyrolisk (Touch burns, not gaze)
Copper Dragon (keep behavior and gain behavior from Brass Dragons / neutral alignment)
CRUSTACEAN
- Giant Crab
- Hammerclaw
- Sea Hermit
Crystal Dragon (There are good, neutral and evil variants)
DARK TREE
- Hangman Tree
- Orcwort
- Quickwood
Deadly Dancer
Deepspawn
Destrachan
Dharculus
Digester (Feeds on oozes)
DINOSAUR
- Ankylosaurus
- -- Sauropelta (More aggressive variant)
- Brontosaurus
- -- Amargasaurus (Smaller but much more aggressive)
- Compsognathus
- Deinonychus
- Dimetrodon
- Elasmosaurus
- -- Plesiosaurus (Smaller and more friendly)
- Ichthyosaurus
- -- Eurhinosaurus (Larger and more dangerous)
- Mosasaurus
- Pachycephalosaurus
- -- Stygimoloch (Smaller but much more aggressive)
- Pteranodon
- -- Quetzalcoatlus
- Stegosaurus
- -- Kentrosaurus (Smaller and much more aggressive)
- Tanystropheus (Bigger and much more aggressive than the real creature)
- Therizinosaurus (new)
- Triceratops
- -- Styracosaurus (Smaller but much more aggressive)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex
Disenchanter (not a joke monster)
Displacer Beast
Domovoi (Good, Neutral and Evil variants)
Doppelganger
- Maurezhi (Abyssal, Corrupted Doppelganger)
Dragon Eel (Dunkleosteus appearance)
Dragon Turtle (There are also Swamp variants with Snapping Turtle features)
DRAGONFLY
- Giant Dragonfly
DRAKE
- Air Drake (Like the Pathfinder Mist Drake)
- Ambush Drake
- Earth Drake (Much like the Rock Reptile, but Chameleon)
- Fire Drake (Much like the Zezir)
- Rage Drake (Negative Energy Drake)
- Ravid (Positive Energy Drake)
- Water Drake (Looks like a Plesiosaurus a bit, but more magical)
- Wyvern
- -- Abyss Drake
Drow
- Aranea (Meet the new handmaidens of Lolth, which make much more sense to me.)
- Drider (Drow who passed the test of Lolth)
- Ettercap (Drow who failed the test of Lolth)
Dryad
- Hamadryad (Very powerful Dryad, controls entire forest)
- Myconid (Fungus underground Dryad)
- Splinterwaif (Corrupted undead Dryad)
- Vine Horror (Swampy Evil Dryad)
- Wood Woad (Male more violent and protective Dryad)
Duergar
- Automaton (Duergar who replaced most of their flesh with iron)
- Derro (Duergar who became insane after being send to the Far Realm)
- Nightshade (Insane Duergar who love poison, venom and plants, and use their own skin to grow plants)
Dustdigger
- Silt Horror (Bigger and thinner Dustdiggers)
- Voracia (Very big abyssal Dustdiggers)
Earth Elemental
- Galeb Duhr
- -- Bowler (animated stones Galebs)
- Mudman
- Necromental
- -- Tomb Mote (Smaller parts that fall off a Necromental animate into these)
- Sandman (Sleep abilities)
- Skriaxit (Living Sandstorm)
- Zaratan
Eblis
EEL
- Cave Moray
- Giant Moray
Eladrin
- Ghaele (The leaders and most powerful of the Eladrin)
- Wild Hunt
ENERGON
- Xag-Ya
- Yeg-Yi
Executioner’s Hood (Ooze)
Fachan
Faerie Dragon
Fihyr
Filcher
- Temporal Filcher
Fire Elemental
- Immolith (Hellish fire elemental)
- Magma Brute (Magma Hurler)
- -- Magmin (Magma Brutes throw magmins as ranged weapons)
- Phoenix (Good, Evil and Neutral phoenix exist)
Firefriend (While very friendly and curious, their abilities are very dangerous and destructive when around fire)
Flumph
Fomorian
- Eldritch Giant (The beautiful non-cursed form of the Fomorian)
- Plague Spewer (Undead Fomorian who went too far with magic to become beautiful again)
- Protean (Fomorians who became even more powerful by accident, master shapeshifters)
Foxwoman (Kitsune / More like a Foxwere than a Werefox)
FROG
- Blindheim (non-humanoid, underground bioluminescence frogs)
- Froghemoth (mutant frog from far realm)
- Giant Frog
FUNGUS
- Ascomoid
- Basidirond
- Gas Spore
- Phycomid (Very dangerous abyssal fungus / Much like pathfinders Terotricus)
- Violet Fungus
GAR
- Giant Gar
Gargoyle (Evil, Good and Neutral variants exist)
- Kapoacinth
- Margoyle (Demonic Spirits entered normal Gargoyles)
Gelatinous Cube
GENIE
- Dao
- Djinni
- Efreeti
- Jann (light-based good-natured Genies)
- Khayal (shadow-based evil-natured Genies)
- Marid
- -- Qorrashi (Ice-based Marid)
Ghost
- Allip
- Banshee
- Caller in Darkness
- Einherjar (Warrior spirits raised by Valkyries)
- Poltergeist (the psychic remains of a psionic child)
- Trap Haunt (Animates and possesses traps of all kinds)
- Wraith (red spirit of vengeance, allip is black)
Ghoul
- Berbalang (can separate it’s body-parts like Manananggal.)
- Devourer (Abyssal Demonic Ghoul)
- Ghast (Tyrantfog)
- Wendigo (Very powerful Ghouls that inflict hunger, famine and cannibalism)
GIANT
- Cloud Giant
- -- Fog Giant (Banished primitive Cloud Giants)
- Cyclops (4e version / replaces Stone and Hill giants as the Earth-based giant.)
- Death Giant
- Firbolg (Animal-plant based druid-giant)
- Fire Giant
- Frost Giant
Giant Owl (neutral and non-intelligent now)
- Noctral (This is the giant intelligent owl)
Gibbering Mouther (Chaos Beast)
- Argos (Bigger, better and more intelligent Mouthers)
- Skybleeder (Abyssal, floating mouthers)
Glabrezu
Gloomwing (Attracted to doom, evil places and disasters)
- Gloom Crawler (Tenebrous Worm / Less aggressive)
Gnoll
- Flind (demonic corrupted Gnolls)
- Marrashi (demonic corrupted Marru)
- Marru (Jackal-headed more civilized Gnolls)
- Witherling (Deadborn Vulture ability, some Gnolls raise as undead instantly after dying.)
Goblin
- Barghest (Demonic Goblins)
- Bugbear (Bagman abilities, D&D’s true bogeyman)
- Nilbog (Not unique, but very rare)
- Norker (Pech abilities)
- Spriggan (Fey Goblins)
GOLEM
- Clay Golem
- -- Alchemical Golem
- Flesh Golem
- -- Drolem (Dragonflesh Golem)
- -- Rotripper (A monstrous Flesh Golem that rips off flesh and adds it to itself)
- Iron Golem
- -- Adamantine Golem
- -- Clockwork Horror (Clockroach)
- -- Iron Cobra
- -- Shield Guardian
- -- Silver Golem (Anti-Evil golem, slayer of evil)
- -- Steel Predator
- Stone Golem
- -- Coral Golem
- -- Diamond Golem (Aura grants defense to allies)
- -- Dwarf Ancestor (Every dwarf/duergar’s soul will go into this statue, turning this statue more powerful with every death, protectors of dwarven cities, one in each city)
- -- Eidolon (stone golem with part of a soul of a god inside it, thinks it is a god itself)
- -- Emerald Golem (Controls teleports around it)
- -- Hellfire Engine (Juggernaut made from abyssal obsidian and fire)
- -- Ruby Golem (Aura grants attack-power to allies)
Gravorg
Gray Dragon
Gray Render
- Braxat (Desert Renders)
- Cadaver Collector (Renders that choose a necromancer/lich as their favorite become their slaves and collect undead for them)
Green Dragon
Green Slime
- Arcane Ooze
- Corrupture (very powerful and ancient Green Slimes, much bigger as they didn’t split like most Green Slimes do)
Grimlock
- Geonid (Grimlocks that use stones/rocks as cover)
Gold Dragon (not all Gold Dragons are good, some are very greedy treasure hoarders that can animate the treasures they collected into golem like constructs)
Gremlin
- Quarrak (twin demonic Gremlins)
Griffon (sorry no Hippogriff, I really dislike them)
Hadozee
HAG
- Annis Hag
- Bheur Hag (Frostwind Virago)
- Green Hag (Turns victims into frogs or insects)
- Night Hag
- Sea Hag (More powerful)
Hamatula (Jovoc Aura / Demons of Pain)
Harpy
- Siren
Hatori (Sand-Swimming Mosasaurus/Crocodile)
Hell Hound
- Canoloth
- Death Dog
- Howler
- Yeth Hound (Always borns as triplets, if one dies the others become more powerful and bigger as they absorb their died kin.)
Hippocampus
Hook Horror
Hydra
Imp
- Gadacro (Sight and eye-obsessed Imps)
- Mephit (Bigger imps that can absorb elements into their skin, and turn into the element they desire.)
- Quasit (More powerful wingless Imps)
JELLYFISH
- Belabra (Floater / Land based floating jellyfish)
- Dybbuk (Demonic corpse-controlling jellyfish)
- Giant Jellyfish
Kalothagh (Giant intelligent pufferfish)
Kelpie (Still a seaweed plant creature)
Kirin (Not a horse, more like a Celestial Stag)
Kirre
Korred
Krenshar
- Carcass Eater (Undead Krenshar)
Kyton
- Gorechain (Large giant using chains, much like Jack-in-Irons)
Larva
- Lemure
- Rutterkin
Lava Ooze
LEECH
- Giant Leech
- Puppeteer
Leprechaun (Neutral, Good and Evil variants, Evil Leprechauns wear red and call themselves Clurichaun, but still same creature)
Leucrotta
Lich
- Death Knight (Just a physical damage lich)
- Demilich (Weaker Lich, could not fully reanimate)
- Dracolich
- Skull Lord (More powerful lich that killed other liches and added their skulls to its form)
LIZARD
- Muckdweller
- Shocker Lizard
Lizardfolk
- Draconian
- Drakkoth
- Kobold
- -- Urd
- Salamander (Fiendish, Demonic Lizardmen)
- Troglodyte (Much bigger prehistoric underground lizardmen)
LYCANTHROPE
- Werebear
- -- Urskan (More feral Polar-Werebear)
- Wereboar
- Wererat
- -- Uridezu (Corrupted demonic Wererat who hates beauty)
- Wereshark
- Werewolf
Mandragora
Manticore
- Jarilith (Fiendish, wingless Manticore)
MANTIS
- Ethereal Slayer (Fey Mantis with anti-teleport abilities)
- Giant Mantis
Marilith
- Spell Weaver (Marilith who use spells and magic instead of physical attacks and weapons.)
Masher (Much like a giant version of the Bobbit Worm)
MEGAFAUNA
- Glyptodon
- Mammoth
- Megaloceros
- Megalodon
- Megatherium
- Smilodon
Merfolk
- Merrow
- Triton
- Wastrilith (Corrupted, Demonic Merfolk)
Merregon
- Arrow Demon (Other name needed)
- Barbazu (More rare and more powerful Merregons)
Merrenoloth
Mimic
- Trapper (Bigger Mimics can transform into bigger objects, entire floors or ceilings or even into huts and houses.)
Mind Flayer
- Brain Collector
- Cerebrilith (Demonic brain-things created by Mind Flayers)
- Elder Brain
- Githyanki
- Grell (Creations of the Mind Flayers)
- Intellect Devourer
- Ulitharid
Minotaur
- Goristro (Demonic, Corrupted Minotaurs)
Mohrg (Actually the real creature is the pink-organs, which is a Aberration who feeds on murder, not an undead.)
Mummy
- Crawling Apocalypse
- Grisgol (Magical Mummy, instead of bandage used with normal mummies, they used scrolls and magical incantations.
- Skirr (Very ancient and powerful Mummy-Dragons.)
NAGA
- Guardian Naga (Good)
- Spirit Naga (Dark Naga) (Evil)
- Water Naga (Neutral)
Nerra
- Fetch (Corrupted and demonic Nerra)
Nightmare
- Cauchemar (Nightmare Beast abilities, it’s huge aura causes nightmares in sleeping creatures. Purple flames instead of normal fire.)
Nightwalker
- Bodak (Created from the victims of Nightwalkers, behave and move like the Grudge)
Nuckelavee (Like the Pathfinder version, not the D&D old version.)
Nymph
- Lampad (Shadow Nymphs of the Underdark)
- Nereid (Water Nymph)
- Oread (Earth Nymph)
- Sylph (Air Nymphs)
Obliviax
OCTOPUS
- Darktentacles (Watcher in the Water)
- Decapus (Tree Octopus)
- Giant Octopus
Ogre
- Ettin
- Oni (Demonic, magical Ogre)
Oliphant (Much like the Oliphaunts from LOTR)
Orc
- Orog (Replaced the Hobgoblins / Smart war-veterans)
- Tanarukk (Demonic Orcs)
- Tulgar (Very powerful spiritual shaman-like antlered Orcs who got a demon-lords favor)
Osyluth (Uses its own bones in battle. / Bones grow back instantly)
OTTER
- Giant Otter (Dobhar-Chu, playful but in a bad way)
Otyugh
- Abyssal Maw (Corrupted and demonical Otyugh)
Owlbear
- Winterclaw (Snow Owl + Polar Bear / Winged)
Paeliryon (The smell, perfume demon, sucks in air and turns it corruptive, corrupts air around it.)
Pegasus
Peryton
Phane
PUDDING
- Black Pudding (Negative energy, underground Pudding, bones animate as Skeletons.)
- Gray Pudding (Looks like rocks and stone until it is too late.)
- White Pudding (Absorbs heat, not flesh)
Purple Dragon
- Brainstealer Dragon (Creation of the Mind Flayers)
Purple Worm
- Ashworm (Younger Purple Worms who gather in Deserts until they mature)
- Fiendwurm (Demonic, corrupted Purple Worms)
- Neothelid (Creation of the Mind Flayers)
Quickling
Quipper (Bigger, more dangerous, more aggressive magical Piranha fish.)
Rakshasa
- Akchazar (White, more powerful and magical Rakshasa.)
- Naztharune (Black, less powerful and less magical assassin Rakshasa.)
RAT
- Cranium Rats
- Giant Rat
- Moonrat
- Osquip (Can eat its way through any material spare for Adamantine.)
- Rylkar (Intelligent and dangerous Rat creatures.)
Red Dragon
- Hellfire Wyrm (Corrupted and Fiendish Red Dragons.)
Redcap
Roc
Roper
- Piercer (Young of the Ropers)
ROSE
- Firethorn (Feed on the ashes of their victims.)
- Vampire Rose (Bloodthorn)
Rust Monster
- Annihilator (One of the most dangerous monsters around, turns everything it touches into black dust.)
Sahuagin
- Morkoth (Sahuagin that entered the Far Realm)
- Skulvyn (Demonic corrupted Sahuagin.)
Satyr
- Bulezau (Oinoloth) (Pestilence demons, corrupted Satyrs.)
SCORPION
- Giant Scorpion
- Hellstinger
Sea Cat (Mishibizhiw / Very different than the normal Sea Lion)
Shadow (Can animate corpses)
- Darkweaver (Shadow Spider)
- Shadow Demon (Undead demons that can possess anything weaker than itself)
- Shadow Mastiff (Bad luck shadow dogs)
Shambling Mound
- Tendriculos (Bigger Shambing Mounds mostly found in the Abyss)
Shardmind
- Chaos Shard (Creations of the Shardmind, magical weapons of the Shardmind)
- Crysmal (Creations of the Shardmind, pets of the Shardmind)
- Crystal Ooze (Creations of the Shardmind, Failed experiment)
- Gulgar (Creations of the Shardmind, look more like half-diamond Rhinoceros now, not like humanoids. Used as siege weapons and mounts by the Shardmind.)
SHELLFISH
- Giant Clam
Sibriex
Silver Dragon (Only dragon that is always gentle and good)
- Mercury Dragon (Corrupted/tortured/captured Silver Dragons turn into vile slithering and liquid horrors of their former selves.)
Simpathetic (Half parrot and half crow, very annoying)
Skeleton
- Bone Golem (Not a Golem at all, a bigger Skeleton with more bizarre form, still undead not a construct.)
- Boneyard (Collection of all types of bones, absorbs more bones to become even bigger.)
- Flameskull (The skull of a giant to make it different from Demilich)
- Giant Skeleton (Gashadokuro)
- Huecuva (Skeletons who heal other undead.)
- Reaper (Like the Grim Reaper it hunts for dying creatures.)
SKUNK
- Giant Skunk
- Witherstench (Magical fiendish Skunks with powers over stench.)
SLUG
- Balhannoth (Slugs from the Far Realm.)
- Flail Snail
- Giant Slug
- Metalmaster
- Sea Snail (Extremely poisonous and beautiful)
SNAKE
- Amphisbaena
- Boalisk (It’s gaze causes victims to become breathless and see snakes everywhere, these are illusions though.)
- Couatl (There are neutral, good and evil narcissistic Couatl)
- Jaculi (They use their sharp head as a spear-like weapon)
- Sea Serpent (Extremely long.)
Solamith
SOLIFUGID
- Giant Solifugid
Sphinx (Sphinxes can be Neutral or Evil.)
- Lamia (Fiendish and corrupted Sphinxes)
- Lammasu (Friendly, good and Celestial Sphinxes.)
SPIDER
- Bristle Spider (Very large plant-like spider.)
- Dreamweaver Spider (Spider feeds on dreams and souls and weaves these dreams/souls into strange temporary monster minions.)
- Giant Spider
- Phase Spider (White and Blue colors, doesn’t have human face.)
- Snow Spider (Much like a tarantula with the fur of a polar bear.)
- Tomb Spider
- -- Web Golem (Also known as Adherer / Not a real golem, more of a created minion from the Tomb Spider, who uses a corpse and magical webs to create these.)
Sprite
- Nixie
- Pixie
SQUID
- Giant Squid
SQUIRREL
- Kercpa (Behave much like Robin Hood, steal from the wealthy.)
- Skiurid (Very evil Squirrels which attack in large groups.)
Stirge
Su-Monster
- Julajimus (Giant fey variants of the Su-Monster.)
Succubus
- Cambion (Tiefling)
- Incubus
Swordwing (Collectors of stuff and skulls)
Tabaxi
Thri-Kreen
- Gelugon (Corrupted and demonic Thri-Kreen)
TICK
- Bloodsilk Spider (Not actually a spider, but a tick that uses webs as a spider, the webs drain blood.)
- Giant Tick
- Soul Tick (Giant tick who sucks out the soul of a victim instead of blood, when the soul is absorbed entirely, the Tick will slowly turn into a copy of the dead victim.)
Titan
- Hundred-Handed One
Tlincalli
Treant
- Saguaro Sentinel (Desert treants shaped like huge cacti)
Tri-Flower Frond (All types of colors exist)
Troll
- Rot Troll (Undead Trolls, which is a very hard thing to create, their regeneration-abilities can’t handle the undead-status and they spread this rotting curse with their aura.)
Umber Hulk
Unicorn
- Dusk Unicorn (Ecalypse / Shadow Unicorn)
URCHIN
- Land Urchin
- Silver Urchin (Large coastal Urchins which shoot their beautiful quills to their victims.)
Vampire
- Blood Spawn (Vampire Spawns)
- Lhiannan Shee (Female Vampires who are very beautiful and which feed on Charisma, ideas and creativity.)
- Nosferatu (Ancient vampire lords, born undead.)
- Varrangoin (Vampires who went to long without blood can turn into these bat-like humanoids, very bestial vampires.)
Vampiric Mist
- Blood Amniote (These blood-ooze creatures are created by vampiric mists who drip too much blood on unholy ground. They can animate corpses by replacing the blood.)
- Crimson Death (Very large mist monsters.)
- Mihstu (These mist monsters can harden the blood they absorbed into spiky spear and sword-like weapons.)
Vargouille
WASP
- Advespa (Fiendish and corrupted Giant Wasps)
- Giant Wasp
- Hellwasp Swarm (The swarm has a hive-mind and can create humanoid or monstrous forms by working together.)
- Quanlos (Mind-controlling poison wasps, much like giant magical Emerald Wasps.)
- Spider Eater
Water Elemental
- Caller from the Deeps (Undead Water Elementals)
- Ice Elemental
- -- Chraal (Evil intelligent Ice Elementals.)
- Leviathan (Some have the size of an entire animated lake.)
- Water Weird (More intelligent and vile than normal Water Elementals who are non-intelligent and neutral.)
White Dragon
Will o Wisp
- Nyth (Magic-draining Will o Wisps.)
- Trilloch (Undead Will o Wisps, absorb happiness and turn their victims into negative evil shadows of their former selves.)
- Visilight (Vain will o wisps who steal the beauty of their victims, turning their victims ugly.)
WOLF
- Winter Wolf (Very big, Amarok sized and behavior.)
- Worg
Wolf-in-Sheeps-Clothing
WOLVERINE
- Dire Wolverine (Gulon)
Yellow Dragon
- Sunwyrm
Yellow Musk Creeper
- Corpse Flower
- Twilight Bloom
Yeti
Yochlol (Not a handmaiden for Lolth anymore as those are Aranea now, these are handmaidens for Juiblex)
Yrthak (Sound Dragons)
Yuan-Ti (Look very human-like but snake-like eyes, some scales and a tongue, love poison and venom of all types.)
- Abomination (More powerful leaders of the Yuan-Ti.)
- Medusa (Female variants of Yuan-Ti, but were once vain humans, who got cursed into becoming a type of Yuan-Ti.)
Zombie
- Atropal
- Crawling Claw (There are also bigger variants of course.)
- Drowned (Weaker drowned zombies, non intelligent.)
- -- Skuz (Much more powerful drowned zombies, intelligent.)
- Dustblight (Zombie who died in desert by drought and uses drought as a weapon.)
- Entombed (Zombie died by cold who controls ice and uses it as an armor.)
- Hullathoin (Zombie Dragon/Drake that controls and creates other undead.)
- Revenant (More powerful zombies, reanimate from any form of damage, until they got their revenge.)
- Wight (More intelligent insane zombies, died while insane.)
Zorbo
Others I really like but I don’t know what to do with them.
Meenlock / Slithering Tracker / Boneclaw / Alkilith / Narzugon / Meazel / Phoelarch / Famine Spirit / Skin Kite / Formian / Thoqqua / Vaporighu / Ragewalker / Skindancer / Evistro / Draudnu / Ethereal Defiler / Ghaunadan / Sand Hunter / Ant Lion / Kamadan / Caligrosto / Gray Jester
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Gajeel and Erik 🐍🐉
Both had known each other since they were kids but didnt know it due to memory tampering due to a spell and given horrible masters.
Were the most destructive of their guild and only sent out if absolute desperate sitautions
Hated each other at first due to being almost equals and having a rivalry with both dark guilds. Blue Skull and Oracion Seis were rivals
Erik was Gajeel's boss when it came to control with dark guilds which is why they met in secret
Gajeel only tolerates Fairy Tail and during off days hangs out with Erik
Gajeel knows Cobra's real name is Erik, but most of the time never calls him that out of respect since it brings out bad memories of slave days. When they are alone is when its appropriate
Gajeel has a strong resistance to Erik's poison and due to this the poison dragon slayer knows they can spar without any precautions
Erik sometimes trips Gajeel up by saying he can hear his thoughts which are great distractions and disadvantages to win an argument
When on missions they usually leave no survivors since Erik could read their minds so no reason for it. Also wouldnt want any need for new enemies for the future. They learned that after saving the kids for slave traders
Love to play pranks on Halloweens
@fuckyeahcojeel
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One of the other qualifications for the pretender class is that the person is an enemy not to man or beasts but to the world itself (their hatred is directed at the land/world), so maybe that narrows down the list?
Anonymous asked:
It seems that the main qualification of pretender class is being against the world hence the class art being demonic looking: This class is for those that want to destroy the world for whatever reason they have
So the difference is that the Pretender class are servants that seem to be standard heroic spirits but are actually pretending to be regular servants to hide how they want the world flat out gone for whatever reason while Faker Class are servants that fake being another servant from more benevolent reasons
Pretender also seems to be the class for servants that are completely malevolent from the start but hides that they’re malevolent under guise of being a regular servant while Avenger class seems to be “evil” class, most avengers were wronged and became filled with hate since if they didn’t got wronged then they’d qualify as potential heroic servants
So basically Pretender class is like backstabbing con artist and Faker are like spies in disguise
That all definitely sounds plausible, I just think it's strange for there to be a class that's definitively "evil"
Even Foreigner, which is the class for Outer Gods and those who come into contact with them, lost the necessity for its more sinister implications with Voyager qualifying for Foreigner as something "alien," even though it's alien to everyone but the people of Earth
I think that "being an enemy of the world" is the kind of thing that will get distilled out relatively quickly, or at least will be applied to characters who don't already have that as a part of their story in much the same way that characters with no connection to the Outer Gods were made Foreigners with whatever loose justification they wanted to use
I think the idea of Pretenders being con artists isn't too far off the mark, but I don't think it's an absolute necessity either
Now that I've had about 24 hours to mull it over, here's how I reconciled the difference in my head:
Consider Metal Gear. Through the majority of Metal Gear, you play as Solid Snake, a clone of Big Boss created to replace Big Boss if he left the Patriots. For all intents and purposes, Solid Snake is a counterfeit, an imitation of Big Boss. He is not playing the role of Big Boss, he is not deceiving anyone into thinking that he is Big Boss, he's just a counterfeit Big Boss. This qualifies him for Faker on the basis that he could be summoned as a Heroic Spirit of Imitation
In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, however, you play as Venom Snake, the name that Big Boss supposedly took after a failed mission. In reality, Venom Snake is a different man who was forced to undergo plastic surgery and hypnosis after said mission, being manipulated by others into believing that he is in fact the real Big Boss. While he believes he is Big Boss, he is a Faker, a counterfeit made by the real Big Boss, Ocelot, and Kaz. Once he learns the truth though, he chooses to continue carrying on the name so as to continue operating with Big Boss' influence while the real Big Boss also carries out his own plans. At this point, he still qualifies as Faker because he is a body double of Big Boss (like Hephaestion), but now he is also a Pretender as he is playing the role of the ultimate soldier, leader of the Diamond Dogs, etc. Even if you consider the "enemy of the world" angle, he still fits as Big Boss' goal was to create his own military nation that would always be at war
Or let's look at One Piece. Bon Clay's Clone-Clone Fruit lets him shapeshift into other people; this would make him a counterfeit, a Faker, while also allowing him to take on the roles of others to manipulate people, such as when he took on Cobra's form in order to frame the real Cobra during the Alabasta civil war. Pudding, on the other hand, is simply an actress who deceives and manipulates people for her own and Big Mom's ends, making her a Pretender but not a Faker as she isn't copying anyone or anything else
So now the question is: of the Heroic Spirits I assigned to Faker a few years ago, who still fits Faker and who would actually be a Pretender, or both?
Mulan took on the guise of being a man in order to join the army. One could argue that she was a "counterfeit man," so maybe she'd still be a Faker, but Pretender seems somewhat of a better fit as she was being deceptive in order to achieve her own goals. Not evil goals or any that opposed the world by any stretch, but goals that required deception nonetheless
The Fiend with Twenty Faces, by my understanding, is a master of disguise with twenty identities. Assuming they aren't based on existing characters in-story, I would say that those identities which he uses in order to pull of his thefts are more in line with Pretender than Faker
Babo pretends to still be a slave while setting up Benito Cereno as the captain; Babo himself is more a Pretender, manipulating others into thinking the ship he overthrew is operating as it should, but Benito Cereno is a counterfeit captain put in place by Babo, technically qualifying him for Faker, but just barely
Jean Valjean, simply pretending not to be Valjean, is not imitating anyone, thus likely disqualifying him for Faker
Bampfylde Moore Carew, the way I conceptualized him as a Faker, works the way that Pretender seems to, taking on the abilities of other Classes. Since he was known as an impostor, I think he qualifies as Faker, but he is a dead ringer for Pretender as it's been established thus far (aside from being an enemy of the world I suppose)
Pope Joan is like Mulan, and thus more Pretender than Faker
Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the Great Impostor, would actually take the names of other people, so he most definitely qualifies as Faker. He was playing the roles of other professions, which would work for Pretender and its ability to take on other class abilities, but he's a Faker for sure
George C. Parker, selling fake deeds, is a counterfeiter and Faker, but being a con-man is a Pretender
Hervor, again like Mulan, is more of a Pretender than a Faker, at least until she takes on her father's identity
So four of my nine Fakers are either definitely or arguably Fakers, while some others are debatable, but all of them can be argued to fit for Pretender
So...I'm not sure if I'm going to bother making a specific post for fan Pretenders, since I've basically already done it? Maybe I'll just repurpose my Faker post for Pretender and then just find new Fakers that are more accurate with our new understanding
Again, though, I think we need to wait to know what Pretender is the Heroic Spirit of to really get a good idea of who should actually qualify, but I think this interpretation is satisfying enough for me for the moment
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G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO - “The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 2 - Slave of the Cobra Master”
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The slaves will sell their masters and grow wings.
Cobra Verde (1987), Werner Herzog
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Daenerys Targaryen in A Storm of Swords vs Game of Thrones - Episode 3.1: Valar Dohaeris
In this series of posts, I intend to analyze precisely how the show writers downplayed or erased several key aspects of Daenerys Targaryen’s characterization, even when they had the books to help them write her as the compelling, intelligent, compassionate, frugal, open-minded and self-critical character that GRRM created.
I want to make it clear that these posts are not primarily meant to offer a better alternative to what the show writers gave us. I understand that they had many constraints (e.g. other storylines to handle, a limited amount of time to write the scripts, budget, actors who may have asked for a certain number of lines, etc) working against them. However, considering how disrespectful the show’s ending was to Daenerys Targaryen and how the book material that they left out makes it even more ludicrous to think that she will also become a villain in A Song of Ice and Fire, I believe that these reviews are more than warranted. They are meant to dissect everything about Dany’s characterization that was lost in translation, with a lot of book evidence to corroborate my statements.
Since these reviews will dissect scene by scene, I recommend taking a look at this post because I will use its sequence to order Dany’s scenes.
This post is relevant in case you want to know which chapters were adapted in which GoT episodes (however, I didn’t make the list myself, all the information comes from the GoT Wiki, so I can’t guarantee that it’s 100% reliable).
In general, I will call the Dany from the books “Dany” and the Dany from the TV series “show!Dany”.
Scene 1
Summary: show!Dany and show!Jorah are on a ship. The two discuss a) the dragons' growth, b) whether it's worth being complicit in the slave trade or not and c) the Dothraki's seasickness.
We begin the episode with this conversation about the dragons:
JORAH: They're growing fast.
DAENERYS: Not fast enough. I can't wait that long. I need an army.
Is it true that Dany needs the dragons to conquer Westeros and wishes they were bigger than they are at this point in the books? It is:
Another year, or perhaps two, and he may be large enough to ride. Then I shall have no need of ships to cross the great salt sea.
But that time was not yet come. Rhaegal and Viserion were the size of small dogs, Drogon only a little larger, and any dog would have outweighed them; they were all wings and neck and tail, lighter than they looked. And so Daenerys Targaryen must rely on wood and wind and canvas to bear her home. (ASOS Daenerys I)
However, that's not all there is to their relationship. Dany loves them as she would love her own human children:
They are my children, she told herself, and if the maegi spoke truly, they are the only children I am ever like to have. (ASOS Daenerys I)
Because she loves them like a mother would, she pays attention to how they grow and develop and act like a mother would:
Dragons always preferred to attack from above, Dany had learned. Should either get between the other and the sun, he would fold his wings and dive screaming, and they would tumble from the sky locked together in a tangled scaly ball, jaws snapping and tails lashing. The first time they had done it, she feared that they meant to kill each other, but it was only sport. No sooner would they splash into the sea than they would break apart and rise again, shrieking and hissing, the salt water steaming off them as their wings clawed at the air. (ASOS Daenerys I)
That level of care and attention (and her own cleverness in the choice of the word "dracarys") is what allows her to figure out how to order them to breathe fire on her own:
She took a chunk of salt pork out of the bowl in her lap and held it up for her dragons to see. All three of them eyed it hungrily. Rhaegal spread green wings and stirred the air, and Viserion’s neck swayed back and forth like a long pale snake’s as he followed the movement of her hand. “Drogon,” Dany said softly, “dracarys.” And she tossed the pork in the air.
Drogon moved quicker than a striking cobra. Flame roared from his mouth, orange and scarlet and black, searing the meat before it began to fall. As his sharp black teeth snapped shut around it, Rhaegal’s head darted close, as if to steal the prize from his brother’s jaws, but Drogon swallowed and screamed, and the smaller green dragon could only hiss in frustration.
“Stop that, Rhaegal,” Dany said in annoyance, giving his head a swat.
“You had the last one. I’ll have no greedy dragons.” She smiled at Ser Jorah. “I won’t need to char their meat over a brazier any longer.”
“So I see. Dracarys?”
All three dragons turned their heads at the sound of that word, and Viserion let loose with a blast of pale gold flame that made Ser Jorah take a hasty step backward. Dany giggled. “Be careful with that word, ser, or they’re like to singe your beard off. It means ‘dragonfire’ in High Valyrian. I wanted to choose a command that no one was like to utter by chance.” (ASOS Daenerys I)
She feels a lot of pride for them and knows how to distinguish each of them:
Every man of them, from captain to cook’s boy, loved to watch the three fly … though none so much as Dany.
[...] Viserion’s scales were the color of fresh cream, his horns, wing bones, and spinal crest a dark gold that flashed bright as metal in the sun. Rhaegal was made of the green of summer and the bronze of fall. They soared above the ships in wide circles, higher and higher, each trying to climb above the other.
[...] Drogon was aloft as well, though not in sight; he would be miles ahead, or miles behind, hunting.
He was always hungry, her Drogon. (ASOS Daenerys I)
Now, does this scene prevent any of these aspects from being true for show!Dany as well? No. That being said, not only these aspects don't come across as strongly in this scene (aside from how proud she is of them), it's also important to notice the show's priorities: they would rather focus on how show!Dany is dissatisfied with their slow growth because of her need to wage war and take back the Iron Throne (which, as I said in this post, is only a means to an end rather than the end that Dany really wants). Benioff describes Dany as "fiercely ambitious" and says in this video that "what she wants, more than anything, is to return home and to reclaim her birthright". I can't agree with these descriptions, so I need to call out this scene's priorities.
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Related to how Benioff feels about Dany, we also have show!Dany saying this:
DAENERYS: Not fast enough. I can't wait that long. I need an army.
At this point in the books, Dany isn't even thinking of that, she is thinking that she will go to Pentos and meet Illyrio.
“From Meereen I am sold to Qohor, and then to Pentos and the fat man with sweet stink in his hair. He it was who send Strong Belwas back across the sea, and old Whitebeard to serve him.”
The fat man with sweet stink in his hair ... “Illyrio?” she said. “You were sent by Magister Illyrio?”
“We were, Your Grace,” old Whitebeard replied. (ACOK Daenerys V)
(Now, it could be argued, like @rainhadaenerys did in this meta, that show!Dany has more agency than Dany when she realizes, on her own, that she needs an army. It's a valid perspective that can coexist with what I'm saying here.)
This change doesn't bode well with the fact that they are choosing to portray the Iron Throne as show!Dany's most important goal when, like I just said, this is not what primarily motivates Dany. They are making show!Dany more ambitious (which, again, is not a bad thing in and of itself) than in canon and will have her pay the price for that later on.
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JORAH: We'll be in Astapor by nightfall. Some say the Unsullied are the greatest soldiers in the world.
DAENERYS: The greatest slave-soldiers in the world. The distinction means a good deal to some people.
If D&D were following Dany's characterization, she wouldn't be aware of how deplorable and unacceptable slavery is at this point:
“...In Astapor you can buy Unsullied.”
“The slaves in the spiked bronze hats?” Dany had seen Unsullied guards in the Free Cities, posted at the gates of magisters, archons, and dynasts. “Why should I want Unsullied? They don’t even ride horses, and most of them are fat.” (ASOS Daenerys I)
Some people could argue that show!Dany's awareness of these issues from the get-go is a good change. However, I think it detracts from Dany's character development quite a bit. As @khaleesirin says here:
Dany’s supposed arbitrariness and hypocrisy ranging from “why wasn’t she against slavery earlier?” to “why did she leave Astapor?” stem from the fact that her beliefs, her core principles, were “anti-foundational”; they didn’t come from some pre-existing knowledge she adapted as a priori truth. They were all a result of her actual experiences. (x)
With this change, show!Dany misses out on the chance to receive this sort of growth; it detracts from her arc being of someone who develops her political goals and moral values along the way and may actually later validate claims that Dany is too self-righteous (she never was). Now, to be fair to the show writers (and I know this can be hard), particularly to Weiss (who, at least back in 2013, seemed to be much more sympathetic towards Dany than Benioff), he knows that Dany was a slave herself and that that informs her feelings and eventual actions against the masters (And so does Emilia Clarke). Even so, I have to say: I don't think Dany would have gone to Astapor if she were fully aware of the implications of being complicit in the slave trade.
“Khaleesi,” he said, taken aback by her fury, “the Unsullied are chosen as boys, and trained—”
“I have heard all I care to of their training.” Dany could feel tears welling in her eyes, sudden and unwanted. Her hand flashed up and cracked Ser Jorah hard across the face. It was either that, or cry.
Mormont touched the cheek she’d slapped. “If I have displeased my queen—”
“You have. You’ve displeased me greatly, ser. If you were my true knight, you would never have brought me to this vile sty.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
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“I want to sail now, not on the tide, I want to sail far and fast and never look back. But I can’t, can I? There are eight thousand brick eunuchs for sale, and I must find some way to buy them.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
In these passages, we find out that witnessing the Unsullied's training is so hard for Dany that it makes her cry. It makes her question Jorah's honor as a knight for having thought that it was okay to bring her there. It makes her want to leave Astapor and never look back. I would say that Dany is an accidental queen (in the sense that she only became one for very specific circumstances, namely that all the men around her died) and, similarly, an accidental revolutionary - not in the sense that her haters argue (i.e. she just wanted an army and it became convenient to free the slaves), but rather because she only ended up in Astapor for very specific reasons: a) she didn't know how wrong slavery was and thought that slaves were treated like normal servants and b) she needed an army (not because of her "ambition", but because she realized that she shouldn't depend entirely on Illyrio and remain a beggar queen).
Show!Dany, on the other hand, knows that slavery is unacceptable and still sails to Astapor. Some things remain like they are in the books despite that change: like Dany, show!Dany still feels empathy for the slaves and risks a dragon solely because she wanted to free them. However, on a superficial read, it gives a bit of weight to the notion that she is too ambitious or that freeing the slaves was only a secondary goal to that of getting an army. Even if show canon can still disprove these claims, it's frustrating because they would be even easier to debunk if the show writers had been more faithful to the books.
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JORAH: Do those people have any better ideas about how to put you on the Iron Throne?
DAENERYS: It's too beautiful a day to argue.
One of Dany's core traits is that she is open-minded and accepting of feedback, both positive and negative.
“A queen must listen to all,” she reminded him. “The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.” (ASOS Daenerys I)
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The old man had not wanted to sail to Astapor; nor did he favor buying this slave army. A queen should hear all sides before reaching a decision. That was why Dany had brought him with her to the Plaza of Pride, not to keep her safe. (ASOS Daenerys II)
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“Your Grace, I did not mean to give offense.”
“Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
This characteristic, however, doesn't come across in this scene, in which show!Dany is brushing off any discussion and trying to retain her own opinion on the matter.
Now, this is not to say that there aren't moments in which we see show!Dany listening to her advisors and following their counsel (there are many) - heck, even now, she is following show!Jorah's advice since she is still going to Astapor despite her misgivings.
However, considering that:
a) the show is, in this episode, adapting parts of ACOK Daenerys V and ASOS Daenerys I and II (all of which contain explicit moments of Dany asking for advice and feedback and truth from her advisors, even if they disagree with her),
b) the show will later try to paint show!Dany as reckless or dangerous when she doesn't listen to her advisors and
c) there's a widespread misconception that Dany (especially the show version) is unable to consider other people's perspectives... I end up looking askance at this scene.
They could have written many others (such as any of the three examples from the books that I showed above) that would have left us with a different impression of Dany. Worse scenes will come, of course, but I'm taking note of every single thing that may have helped to mischaracterize Dany in the eyes of the general audience.
Also, unlike show!Dany (who isn't shown onscreen offering either counterarguments or "better ideas" than show!Jorah's advice to turn Astapor), Dany is shown onpage making lots of questions to Jorah's counsel before deciding to follow it:
“How am I to buy a thousand slave soldiers? All I have of value is the crown the Tourmaline Brotherhood gave me.” (ASOS Daenerys I)
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“Those are Illyrio’s tiger skins,” she objected.
“And Illyrio is a friend to House Targaryen.”
(ASOS Daenerys I)
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“There will be dangers on such a long march ...” (ASOS Daenerys I)
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“What if Captain Groleo refuses to change course, though? And Arstan, Strong Belwas, what will they do?” (ASOS Daenerys I)
While it could be argued that Dany is not offering "better ideas" here either, that's not my point: my point is that Dany is being shown here as an active player who takes part in discussions of which course of action to take, which is not what we tend to see in the show. Indeed, there are plenty of moments in which the series has show!Dany follow her advisors' counsel with no objections or complements of her own at all. That's why there are lots of different flavors of misconceptions about Dany: when it comes to whether she listens to people's advice or not, some argue that she can't think on her own and depends too much on them, some argue that she is too self-absorbed and never listens. In D&D's case, they have said that show!Dany has only relied on the men around her for the first two seasons, which is blatantly untrue in the books - see examples of Dany making her own decisions in both AGOT and ACOK here and here. Their misunderstanding of Dany is what makes me wary of this scene (for it is informed by said misunderstanding), so it's necessary to point out that what it intends to convey about show!Dany isn't what the books intend to convey about Dany.
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Then, we have this:
DAENERYS: It's too beautiful a day to argue.
(Dothraki man vomiting)
JORAH: You're right. Another lovely day on the high seas.
DAENERYS: Don't mock them. They're the first Dothraki who have ever been on a ship. They followed me across the poison water. If they'll do it, others will. And with a true khalasar ...
JORAH: The Dothraki follow strength above all, khaleesi. You'll have a true khalasar when you prove yourself strong. And not before.
This exchange may be brief, but it is wrong and offensive on so many levels.
First, show!Dany seems to suggest that she is interested in expanding her khalasar when she says that "if they'll [follow her across the poison water], others will", which is something Dany never expressed any desire to do in the books.
Second, both show!Dany and show!Jorah think that the former doesn't really have "a true khalasar". Why doesn't she have a "true khalasar"? Is it because they are too few? Is it because show!Dany hasn't proven herself strong (as show!Jorah puts it)? In any case, both suggestions are bullshit. Dany does consider her "meager" group (as she puts it) a khalasar:
“We follow the comet,” Dany told her khalasar. (ACOK Daenerys I)
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Yet even as her dragons prospered, her khalasar withered and died. (ACOK Daenerys I)
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Aggo, Jhogo, and Rakharo were brave warriors, but they were young, and too valuable to risk. They kept her khalasar together, and were her best scouts too. (ASOS Daenerys V)
Also, while I've criticized the underdevelopment of Dany's khalasar before, each of them have different reactions to traveling at sea, so the show's portrayal manages to make their lack of characterization even worse:
Her brave young bloodriders had stared off at the dwindling coastline with huge white eyes, each of the three determined to show no fear before the other two, while her handmaids Irri and Jhiqui clutched the rail desperately and retched over the side at every little swell. The rest of Dany’s tiny khalasar remained below decks, preferring the company of their nervous horses to the terrifying landless world about the ships. When a sudden squall had enveloped them six days into the voyage, she heard them through the hatches; the horses kicking and screaming, the riders praying in thin quavery voices each time Balerion heaved or swayed. (ASOS Daenerys I)
Perhaps more importantly, unlike what show!Jorah says, Dany's khalasar is already devoted and faithful to Dany ever since she walked out of the pyre unscathed with three dragons. They already think that she is strong:
She was naked, covered with soot, her clothes turned to ash, her beautiful hair all crisped away ... yet she was unhurt.
[...] The men of her khas came up behind him. Jhogo was the first to lay his arakh at her feet. “Blood of my blood,” he murmured, pushing his face to the smoking earth. “Blood of my blood,” she heard Aggo echo. “Blood of my blood,” Rakharo shouted.
And after them came her handmaids, and then the others, all the Dothraki, men and women and children, and Dany had only to look at their eyes to know that they were hers now, today and tomorrow and forever, hers as they had never been Drogo’s. (AGOT Daenerys X)
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“We follow the comet,” Dany told her khalasar. Once it was said, no word was raised against it. They had been Drogo’s people, but they were hers now. The Unburnt, they called her, and Mother of Dragons. Her word was their law. (ACOK Daenerys I)
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Jhiqui had braided her hair Dothraki-fashion, and fastened a silver bell to the end of the braid. “I have won no victories,” she tried telling her handmaid when the bell tinkled softly.
Jhiqui disagreed. “You burned the maegi in their house of dust and sent their souls to hell.” (ACOK Daenerys V)
At this point, Dany doesn't have to prove herself as a leader to anyone because she has already done so. However, D&D seem to think that show!Dany still has to. What's even worse is that this plot point will be forgotten; show!Dany's khalasar will only make a brief appearance in season four and then disappear until she's captured and later unites all the khalasars to her cause. Then, when show!Dany crosses the narrow sea in season six, the Dothraki's fear of the "poison water" will no longer be an inconvenience (even though she is carrying thousands of them). It's lazy writing that, nonetheless, undermines Dany's character.
Finally, while at least they have show!Dany empathizing with the Dothraki the way Dany also does in the book, I wish the writers had made show!Dany empathize with the Dothraki based on her experiences like Dany does, because it highlights that Dany is humble and views herself as an equal to them:
The Dothraki distrusted the sea and all that moved upon it. Water that a horse could not drink was water they wanted no part of. They will learn, Dany resolved. I braved their sea with Khal Drogo. Now they can brave mine. (ACOK Daenerys V)
This scene may last for less than two minutes, but, as you can see, there's still a lot of wrong (or at least questionable) to dissect in it.
Scene 2
Summary: show!Dany is given a tour of the Unsullied barracks by Kraznys while show!Missandei translates his Valyrian into the Common Tongue. Show!Dany is outraged by their training, but show!Jorah still urges her to purchase them. On the way to the ship, show!Dany is distracted by a child who turns out to be an assassin sent to deliver a deadly manticore to kill her. Show!Barristan impales the manticore with his dagger and the child leaves. Then, show!Barristan introduces himself to show!Dany and offers her his service.
Considering how other aspects were poorly handled, I think Dany’s discomfort with the Unsullied’s training was translated relatively well from the books to the show. Even so, I wish they had added more of Dany's emotional reactions:
“What is he doing?” Dany demanded of the girl, as the blood ran down the man’s chest. (ASOS Daenerys II)
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“How can that be?” she demanded through the scribe. (ASOS Daenerys II)
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“No names?” Dany frowned at the little scribe. “Can that be what the Good Master said? They have no names?” (ASOS Daenerys II)
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Dany’s mouth surely twisted at that. Did he see, or is he blind as well as cruel? She turned away quickly, trying to keep her face a mask until she heard the translation. Only then did she allow herself to say, “Whose infants do they slay?”
“To win his spiked cap, an Unsullied must go to the slave marts with a silver mark, find some wailing newborn, and kill it before its mother’s eyes. In this way, we make certain that there is no weakness left in them.”
She was feeling faint. The heat, she tried to tell herself. “You take a babe from its mother’s arms, kill it as she watches, and pay for her pain with a silver coin?”
When the translation was made for him, Kraznys mo Nakloz laughed aloud. “What a soft mewling fool this one is. Tell the whore of Westeros that the mark is for the child’s owner, not the mother. The Unsullied are not permitted to steal.” He tapped his whip against his leg. “Tell her that few ever fail that test. The dogs are harder for them, it must be said. We give each boy a puppy on the day that he is cut. At the end of the first year, he is required to strangle it. Any who cannot are killed, and fed to the surviving dogs. It makes for a good strong lesson, we find.”
Arstan Whitebeard tapped the end of his staff on the bricks as he listened to that. Tap tap tap. Slow and steady. Tap tap tap. Dany saw him turn his eyes away, as if he could not bear to look at Kraznys any longer. (ASOS Daenerys II)
Even the part where show!Dany is horrified by the discovery that the Unsullied are forced to kill a baby while its mother watches (which at least the show writers rightly focused on) doesn't convey a lot of emotion like in the books... It doesn't seem like show!Dany is struggling to hide her revulsion or that her blood pressure is lowering because of her anxiety in the moment. I understand, however, that the directors never allowed Emilia Clarke to express too many feelings in her portrayal of show!Dany, so I don't tend to blame her.
I also want to take note of what is in line with the Unsullied's training in the books:
The Unsullied are forced to stand for a day with no food or water to prove their discipline and strength.
The beginning of their training, the drilling from dawn to dusk and the mastering of the weapons.
The Unsullied not being considered men.
The Unsullied not moving even after their nipples are cut off.
The Unsullied needing to go to the slave marts to kill a baby before its mother’s eyes.
There are some things that were changed or omitted, however:
Even more Unsullied die during their training: only one boy in four survives rather than one boy in three. (Which makes it even more disgusting that they will try to frame "conciliation" with and "mercy" towards the slavers as the better path in the later seasons)
No mention of the “wine of courage”, which the Unsullied drink in the books to feel less pain and endure any torture.
No mention of the puppies that the Unsullied are given only to be forced to kill a year later (and, if they don’t, they are fed to the surviving dogs).
No mention that their names are changed every day so that they lose their sense of individuality. This will be included on episode 3.5, however.
Kraznys is not shown whipping Missandei and other slaves.
Overall, the show gave us enough reasons to understand why show!Dany's rebellion against the slave masters is righteous.
The biggest problem of the scene was replacing Barristan for Jorah as the advisor who is with Dany when she meets the Unsullied: it gives room to the perspective of a slaver, who attempts to normalize the masters' treatment of the Unsullied. This undermines how abhorrent and unjust their training is. Right off the bat, we have our first sign that the show will turn into slavery apologia (to the point of later comparing Dany to the Nazis and the Ghiscari slavers to the Jews via subtext).
In the books, there is a Doylist reason as to why Barristan is with Dany when she meets the Unsullied for the first time: his presence and opinions emphasize how wrong and unacceptable the training of the Unsullied is.
“I call that madness, not courage,” said Arstan Whitebeard, when the solemn little scribe was done. He tapped the end of his hardwood staff against the bricks, tap tap, as if to tell his displeasure. (ASOS Daenerys II)
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“You have lived long in the world, Whitebeard. Now that you have seen them, what do you say?”
“I say no, Your Grace,” the old man answered at once.
(ASOS Daenerys II)
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Arstan Whitebeard’s face was still, but his staff beat out his rage. Tap tap tap. (ASOS Daenerys II)
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“Bricks and blood built Astapor,” Whitebeard murmured at her side, “and bricks and blood her people.”
“What is that?” Dany asked him, curious.
“An old rhyme a maester taught me, when I was a boy. I never knew how true it was. The bricks of Astapor are red with the blood of the slaves who make them.”
“I can well believe that,” said Dany.
“Then leave this place before your heart turns to brick as well. Sail this very night, on the evening tide.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
That's not to say, of course, that he was the one who motivated Dany to begin her abolitionist campaign (that's her decision and only hers), only that his appearance influences the framing of the scene (just like show!Jorah's appearance does). It also has negative implications for show!Dany's characterization, since, as @yendany said here, Dany may have unconsciously desired to have someone with an anti-slavery stance (like hers) by her side when she chose to have Barristan accompany her to meet the Unsullied.
Also, having show!Jorah be with show!Dany when she sees the training of the Unsullied means erasing the fact that, in the books, Dany left Jorah on the ship because he forced a kiss on her and she no longer trusted him enough to be alone with him. Erasing this event from the books means that Jorah's creepy and disrespectful behaviors toward Dany are, in the show writers' opinion, irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, which is horrible. I will talk more about this issue in the post discussing the things from the books that the show completely left out, but I still felt the need to briefly address this here.
Replacing Barristan for Jorah also led to one of Dany's best assertions to be cut:
“Better to come a beggar than a slaver,” Arstan said.
“There speaks one who has been neither.” Dany’s nostrils flared. “Do you know what it is like to be sold, squire? I do. My brother sold me to Khal Drogo for the promise of a golden crown. Well, Drogo crowned him in gold, though not as he had wished, and
I ... my sun-and-stars made a queen of me, but if he had been a different man, it might have been much otherwise. Do you think I have forgotten how it felt to be afraid?” (ASOS Daenerys II)
In the books, this scene highlights a few things:
Dany is not looking for an army because she is "fiercely ambitious", but because she lived in poverty for years and saw her brother not getting the help he needed (something she also experienced in Qarth, despite having dragons). She knows it's not a good idea to rely entirely on others, which is why she went to Astapor. (besides her ignorance, which I already explained above and in this post)
Despite empathizing with the slaves' plight, Barristan did not go through what they went through (he is a well-intentioned ally, as you will). Dany, on the other hand, did. She was a sex slave once and does not need to be reminded that being complicit in the slave trade is morally wrong. She still remembers "how it felt to be afraid".
Show!Jorah would never say that it's "better to come a beggar than a slaver" because he is okay with slavery, making it harder for this assertion to be added. It wasn't impossible for the show writers to have added it, however - they could have simply had show!Dany be less confrontational and say, by her own initiative, that she knows what it is like to be sold and that she hasn't forgotten how it felt to be afraid. To be fair, as I already said, Weiss shows awareness that Dany's empathy is informed by the fact that she was a slave before, but there isn't any scene in the show explicitly making that point, which is quite a shame. Instead, most of the scenes seem to communicate Benioff's reading of the events:
Benioff: Idealism is wonderful, but it's not gonna happen if you're idealistic, you gotta be a realist. She feels like she has this almost divine mission and nothing is gonna prevent her from achieving it. (x)
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Benioff: For Daenerys to win, ultimately, she's gonna have to be just as ruthless as the others, and maybe even moreso. (x)
This idea that show!Dany needs to be a "realist" makes it very likely that Benioff (and who knows which other writers) sides with show!Jorah on this discussion. This also explains why his perspective is being favored to the detriment of show!Dany's and show!Barristan's.
Also, I've already written an entire post about how Dany is not primarily driven by prophecies or destiny or, as Benioff puts it, a "divine mission".
Also, he misses out on the fact that Dany's idealism in the books (and even in the show) actually pays off. As I said here:
Like with Viserys and Drogo, Dany is influenced by both of their [Jorah's and Barristan's] recommendations and apply them in different ways while forging her own path: she will not help to maintain the oppression of the slaves like Barristan advised her, but she won’t play by the rules (because they view human beings as objects to be sold and invalidate her moral values, so they shouldn’t be acknowledged as such to begin with) like Jorah advised her: she will break the rules because of her moral duty (as she sees it) to free the slaves.
And yes, this act of rebellion will have negative (and unintended) consequences later in ASOS and ADWD, but it was still righteous and necessary for it to have happened for the reasons expressed in these links. To summarize them, ending the supremacy of the masters will always be a good thing, and this wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for Dany's idealism. The books validate her idealism instead of belittling it.
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DAENERYS: How many do you have to sell?
MISSANDEI: She asks how many Unsullied are for sale. (Kraznys points eight fingers) 8,000.
KRAZNYS: Tell the Westerosi whore she has until tomorrow.
MISSANDEI: Master Kraznys asks that you please hurry. Many other buyers are interested.
I'm singling out this part of show!Dany's talk with Kraznys and show!Missandei because I don't think the show writers really understood why Dany asked "how many do you have to sell?" in the books. First, let's see the context in which she made that question:
“Tell her it is well she came to Astapor, then. Ask her how large an army she wishes to buy.”
“How many Unsullied do you have to sell?”
“Eight thousand fully trained and available at present.[”] (ASOS Daenerys II)
As I said in this post, Dany doesn’t ask how large an army she wants (though she admits she needs soldiers), but rather how many Unsullied he has to sell. This is one of the several hints that she wants to rescue them all (not her interest to buy an army), even she must go to extreme lengths to do so. See also this passage:
“I want to sail now, not on the tide, I want to sail far and fast and never look back. But I can’t, can I? There are eight thousand brick eunuchs for sale, and I must find some way to buy them.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
She doesn't have to find a way to buy eight thousand of them. Jorah himself had only advised her to buy a thousand. But then, again, it's because she wants to free them all.
In the show, this doesn't come across. Aside from her uneasiness about the training, the show cuts all of the other moments hinting that Dany will do against the slave trade rather than be complicit in it.
“The Good Master has said that these eunuchs cannot be tempted with coin or flesh,” Dany told the girl, “but if some enemy of mine should offer them freedom for betraying me …” (ASOS Daenerys II)
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Dany knew she would take more than a hundred, if she took any at all. (ASOS Daenerys II)
It wouldn’t have been hard to have her say it out loud that she will take “more than a hundred, if any at all” or that she can’t leave the city now. It wouldn’t have been hard for her to ask Kraznys about what would happen if a hypothetical enemy offered freedom to the Unsullied.
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To be fair, we also see show!Dany saying this to show!Jorah while they are going back to the ship:
DAENERYS: 8,000 dead babies.
Like the Dany of the books, show!Dany is also distressed at the systematic killings that allowed for the Unsullied to become who they are, so I can't say that they are only making her motivations be about the need to get an army (though, as I showed above, they overfocused on that need too). Anyway, this brings me to this part:
DAENERYS: 8,000 dead babies.
JORAH: The Unsullied are a means to an end.
DAENERYS: Once I own them, these men ...
JORAH: They're not men. Not anymore.
Unlike in the show, Dany is the one who reminds Jorah that the Unsullied are no longer men. However, the reason why she does so is completely different from show!Jorah's:
“How many men do they have for sale?”
“None.” Was it Mormont she was angry with, or this city with its sullen heat, its stinks and sweats and crumbling bricks? “They sell eunuchs, not men. Eunuchs made of brick, like the rest of Astapor. Shall I buy eight thousand brick eunuchs with dead eyes that never move, who kill suckling babes for the sake of a spiked hat and strangle their own dogs? They don’t even have names. So don’t call them men, ser.”
“Khaleesi,” he said, taken aback by her fury, “the Unsullied are chosen as boys, and trained—”
“I have heard all I care to of their training.” Dany could feel tears welling in her eyes, sudden and unwanted. Her hand flashed up and cracked Ser Jorah hard across the face. It was either that, or cry.
Mormont touched the cheek she’d slapped. “If I have displeased my queen—”
“You have. You’ve displeased me greatly, ser. If you were my true knight, you would never have brought me to this vile sty.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
I will quote myself on the significance of this scene:
Here, Dany recognizes that no human being should ever have to undergo the sort of systematic abuse and torture that the Unsullied were forced to experience in order to become as subservient as they are. Dany recognizes how dehumanizing and unacceptable that sort of treatment was for making them “like one man” meant for sale (or “not men” at all) - that’s why she tells Jorah to not call them men: she asks that he doesn’t erase their suffering and talk as if the way they were treated was, in any way, acceptable.
Jorah doesn’t understand any of this, though. While his advice for Dany to go to Astapor ultimately paid off because of Dany’s actions, we should remind ourselves that he did her no favor. I’ve already shown in another post how he still has no problem with slavery even after being exiled, and you can see that in the next passage below: he can’t understand why would Dany be angry at him for advising her to go to Astapor to buy them nor why would she be appalled by how they are treated, so he tries to normalize the situation by focusing on how effective as a force they can be (“the Unsullied are chosen as boys, and trained…”). That’s enough for Dany, who rightfully slaps him in the face.
She makes it clear here: if he were her true knight, he wouldn’t have brought her to Astapor. (And that he forced a kiss on her and looked at her breasts without her consent makes her anger even more pronounced, rightfully so.) Thankfully, Dany is a true queen, but not because of him.
Does any of this come across in the show? No. For one, as I said above, show!Dany is given less agency because she needs to be reminded that the Unsullied are no longer men and her righteous anger toward Jorah is erased. For two, show!Jorah's perspective is again prioritized and never called out as immoral like in the books. (Again, the show writers' bias in his favor is showing).
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Their dialogue goes on like this:
DAENERYS: Once I own an army of slaves, what will I be?
JORAH: Do you think these slaves will have better lives serving Kraznys and men like him or serving you? You'll be fair to them. You won't mutilate them to make a point. You won't order them to murder babies. You'll see they're properly fed and sheltered. A great injustice has been done to them. Closing your eyes will not undo it.
While it's true that Jorah also gives arguments as to why Dany should buy the Unsullied, they are different ones:
“I saw King’s Landing after the Sack. Babes were butchered that day as well, and old men, and children at play. More women were raped than you can count. There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him. Yet I have never heard of these Unsullied raping, nor putting a city to the sword, nor even plundering, save at the express command of those who lead them. Brick they may be, as you say, but if you buy them henceforth the only dogs they’ll kill are those you want dead. And you do have some dogs you want dead, as I recall.” (ASOS Daenerys II)
We'll see some of these arguments from ASOS Daenerys II being expressed in episode 3.3, but that's not my point: my point is that the show writers prioritized show!Jorah's point of view so much that they created new arguments for him to make show!Jorah seem, as Benioff puts it, "realist". In the books, for instance, Jorah never acknowledges that “a great injustice has been done to them” - he only focuses on how they'll be useful to Dany and how they'll cause less collateral damage (which is what Dany wants). So, again, we had foreshadowing for the show's turn into slavery apologia right from the beginning of show!Dany's storyline, especially when one compares it to the books (which are far from perfect; I've already criticized, for instance, the books' lack of attention to the freedmen's perspectives. Even then, however, I doubt they'll be justifying slavery any time soon).
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Then we get to the scene in the docks. Honestly, I don't understand why they changed it so much. I’m not even referring to the fact that it takes place in Astapor rather than Qarth, but rather to other two major divergences.
First, in the books, Jorah notices that he and Dany are being followed:
As they made their way toward the next quay, Ser Jorah laid a hand against the small of her back. “Your Grace. You are being followed. No, do not turn.” (ACOK Daenerys V)
Dany makes plenty of questions and observations about the followers as she observes them:
Dany let her glance sweep over the strangers. The brown man was near as wide as he’d looked in the platter, with a gleaming bald head and the smooth cheeks of a eunuch. A long curving arakh was thrust through the sweat-stained yellow silk of his bellyband. Above the silk, he was naked but for an absurdly tiny iron-studded vest. Old scars crisscrossed his tree-trunk arms, huge chest, and massive belly, pale against his nut-brown skin.
The other man wore a traveler’s cloak of undyed wool, the hood thrown back. Long white hair fell to his shoulders, and a silky white beard covered the lower half of his face. He leaned his weight on a hardwood staff as tall as he was. Only fools would stare so openly if they meant me harm. All the same, it might be prudent to head back toward Jhogo and Aggo. “The old man does not wear a sword,” she said to Jorah in the Common Tongue as she drew him away. (ACOK Daenerys V)
She also has a very funny scene with a merchant; he wants to sell a platter for an expensive price and she keeps asking for it to go down, but she is actually only using the platter to pay attention to how the two men following her look like and what they will do. It’s a scene showcasing both her cleverness and her sense of humor:
“A most excellent brass, great lady,” the merchant exclaimed. “Bright as the sun! And for the Mother of Dragons, only thirty honors.”
The platter was worth no more than three. “Where are my guards?” Dany declared. “This man is trying to rob me!” For Jorah, she lowered her voice and spoke in the Common Tongue. “They may not mean me ill. Men have looked at women since time began, perhaps it is no more than that.”
The brass-seller ignored their whispers. “Thirty? Did I say thirty? Such a fool I am. The price is twenty honors.”
“All the brass in this booth is not worth twenty honors,” Dany told him as she studied the reflections. The old man had the look of Westeros about him, and the brown-skinned one must weigh twenty stone. The Usurper offered a lordship to the man who kills me, and these two are far from home. Or could they be creatures of the warlocks, meant to take me unawares? (ACOK Daenerys V)
Second, in the books, a Qartheen offers Dany a jewel box:
A Qartheen stepped into her path. “Mother of Dragons, for you.” He knelt and thrust a jewel box into her face.
Dany took it almost by reflex. The box was carved wood, its mother-of-pearl lid inlaid with jasper and chalcedony. “You are too generous.” She opened it. Within was a glittering green scarab carved from onyx and emerald. Beautiful, she thought. This will help pay for our passage. (ACOK Daenerys V)
It makes sense for Dany to fall into this person's trap because she was receiving gifts from the Qartheen and people from other regions all the time during her stay simply for being the Mother of Dragons. (Which is not to say that they ultimately helped her; they did not)
In the show, a random child somehow captures show!Dany’s attention enough so that show!Dany follows her for no reason and then gets fooled. It doesn’t make much sense and actually portrays show!Dany as someone who is easily distracted by things. The only detail that is salvageable is that show!Dany is able to guess that the assassin was sent by the warlocks, just like Dany applies the knowledge she had previously received of the Sorrowful Men to correctly identify the person who tried to kill her as one.
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Finally, we get to show!Barristan's introduction.
DAENERYS: You know this man?
JORAH: I know him as one of the greatest fighters the Seven Kingdoms has ever seen and as the Lord Commander of Robert Baratheon's Kingsguard.
BARRISTAN: King Robert is dead. I have been searching for you, Daenerys Stormborn, to ask your forgiveness. I was sworn to protect your family. I failed them. I am Barristan Selmy, Kingsguard to your father. Allow me to join your Queensguard and I will not fail you again.
First, as I said above, the show erases most (if not all) the moments in which Jorah attempts to isolate Dany from other men and make her distrust them. This moment is one of those:
“You know him?” Dany asked the exile knight, lost.
“I saw him perhaps a dozen times ... from afar most often, standing with his brothers or riding in some tourney. But every man in the Seven Kingdoms knew Barristan the Bold.” He laid the point of his sword against the old man’s neck. “Khaleesi, before you kneels Ser Barristan Selmy, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, who betrayed your House to serve the Usurper Robert Baratheon.” (ASOS Daenerys V)
Jorah's description of Barristan in the books is much less flattering than the one from the show because Jorah is hellbent on isolating Dany from other men.
Second, I know most fans think that having Barristan reveal his identity right away was ultimately a good choice for practical reasons (i.e., it would be too easy for the fans to remember Barristan's actor and figure out his identity), but I think this change ultimately did far more harm than good.
How did show!Barristan track show!Dany? Why would he think she was going to Astapor? How could he have known if he didn't have Illyrio's (or anyone's) support?
How was he aware that the warlocks sent an assassin after Dany? In the books, he saves her on a rush, after the manticore left the jewel box. In the show, he drops the ball before the manticore leaves it. For some unknown reason, he already knew that it had the intent to kill her.
In the books, Barristan is supposed to serve as a positive contrast to Jorah's negative behaviors when they are both put on trial for betraying Dany's trust. Because show!Barristan reveals his identity early on, the contrast is lost.
Barristan is the one who tells Dany about Jorah's betrayal in the books. Since it wouldn't make sense for show!Barristan to only tell show!Dany about this later on, the show writers had the Lannisters randomly think that Dany is a threat, that Dany and Jorah are a good duo that must be separated and that sending a letter pardoning Jorah would necessarily do the deed. Not only that's stupid (Jorah received and sent letters without Dany's knowledge in both mediums), it also validates the idea that show!Jorah is good to show!Dany (something that the showrunners think is the case). These are all unfortunate consequences that arose from the early reveal of show!Barristan's identity.
By revealing himself earlier, show!Barristan loses his arc from the books, which was partly about finding a liege who was morally worthy of being served after he spent years in the service of bad kings. (He might say later in episode 3.5 that he's looking for the right person to follow, but his actions don't show it in any way.) That Barristan hid his identity and only pledged his sword to Dany because he realized that she was more than Rhaegar's sister, but also a queen in her own right, speaks volumes to his character development and to how we're supposed to see Dany in a sympathetic manner. Unfortunately, the show writers (especially Benioff) don't like Dany very much. As this review hopefully shows (and others will make it even clearer), they go out of their way to undermine her intelligence and empathy and humbleness and all of the other traits that make Dany who she is, while GRRM goes out of his way to portray Dany in a sympathetic light, with this chapter review from @turtle-paced showing a perfect example of how he does so.
Third, I don't understand why the show made the question of whether show!Dany would accept show!Barristan's service as the episode's cliffhanger. First, book readers would already know that she would. Second, show!Barristan won't be treated any differently in the next episodes than he would be if they had met earlier (aside from show!Jorah's distrustful remarks). Third, I don't like how leaving this scene as the episode's cliffhanger makes us wonder if show!Dany will be merciful or not. We can point to her later actions and realize that she will be, but this shouldn't have been a question in the first place. It helps to mischaracterize Dany in the eyes of the public audience and doesn't convey that some of Dany's core traits are being open-minded and forgiving.
In the books, Dany doesn't really feel angry with Barristan. It's more that he becomes collateral damage after she finds out that Jorah, the person she trusted the most at that point in time, was lying to her from the very beginning:
“...And since the day you wed Khal Drogo, there has been an informer by your side selling your secrets, trading whispers to the Spider for gold and promises.”
He cannot mean ... “You are mistaken.” Dany looked at Jorah Mormont. “Tell him he’s mistaken. There’s no informer. Ser Jorah, tell him. We crossed the Dothraki sea together, and the red waste ...” Her heart fluttered like a bird in a trap. “Tell him, Jorah. Tell him how he got it wrong.”
“The Others take you, Selmy.” Ser Jorah flung his longsword to the carpet. “Khaleesi, it was only at the start, before I came to know you ... before I came to love ...”
“Do not say that word!” She backed away from him. “How could you? What did the Usurper promise you? Gold, was it gold?” The Undying had said she would be betrayed twice more, once for gold and once for love. “Tell me what you were promised?”
“Varys said ... I might go home.” He bowed his head.
I was going to take you home! Her dragons sensed her fury. Viserion roared, and smoke rose grey from his snout. Drogon beat the air with black wings, and Rhaegal twisted his head back and belched flame. I should say the word and burn the two of them. Was there no one she could trust, no one to keep her safe? “Are all the knights of Westeros so false as you two? Get out, before my dragons roast you both. What does roast liar smell like? As foul as Brown Ben’s sewers? Go!”
Ser Barristan rose stiff and slow. For the first time, he looked his age. “Where shall we go, Your Grace?”
“To hell, to serve King Robert.” Dany felt hot tears on her cheeks. Drogon screamed, lashing his tail back and forth. “The Others can have you both.” Go, go away forever, both of you, the next time I see your faces I’ll have your traitors’ heads off. She could not say the words, though. They betrayed me. But they saved me. But they lied. “You go ...” My bear, my fierce strong bear, what will I do without him? And the old man, my brother’s friend. (ASOS Daenerys V)
Before she knew about Jorah's deception, Dany is more puzzled and surprised about Barristan's identity reveal than anything else:
She was more confused than angry. He has played me false, just as Jorah warned me, yet he saved my life just now.
Ser Jorah flushed red. “Mero shaved his beard, but you grew one, didn’t you? No wonder you looked so bloody familiar ...”
“You know him?” Dany asked the exile knight, lost.
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“Why are you here?” Dany demanded of him. “If Robert sent you to kill me, why did you save my life?” He served the Usurper. He betrayed Rhaegar’s memory, and abandoned Viserys to live and die in exile. Yet if he wanted me dead, he need only have stood
aside ... “I want the whole truth now, on your honor as a knight. Are you the Usurper’s man, or mine?”
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“Quiet,” said Dany. “I’ll hear him out.”
In this sense, I think Emilia Clarke's expression manages to capture how the Dany of the books must have felt when Barristan's identity was revealed; perplexed, but also grateful that he saved her life.
Also, they have show!Dany ask show!Jorah if he knows show!Barristan without the proper context: in the books, she only makes that question because he made an unpleasant comment about Barristan. In the show, she asks if he knows who he is in a way that makes her seem more dependent on him than it would have been if they had been faithful to the books.
My comments on the Inside the Episode 3.1
Benioff: For a great leader who is doing something unpopular for a certain segment, whether it's the Warlocks or the slave masters or whatnot, she's creating a lot of enemies, and powerful enemies, and those people are going to try to stop her regardless of how powerful she becomes, and it's something she's actually, in a weird way, used to, because she grew up running from assassins with her brother, you know, from the time, from the earliest time she can remember, she was being spirited from one city to another one step ahead of Robert Baratheon and the assassins, because there were so many people who wanted to destroy the Targaryen family and make King Robert happy and now there are thousands out there for all sorts of different reasons because she's made even more enemies, but, I think in her mind this is just the price you pay for being Daenerys Targaryen, for being the last of the Targaryens, and it's not going to stop her.
Benioff is not entirely inaccurate when it comes to Dany feeling that she's always been on the run:
It was not by choice that she sought the waterfront. She was fleeing again. Her whole life had been one long flight, it seemed. She had begun running in her mother’s womb, and never once stopped. How often had she and Viserys stolen away in the black of night, a bare step ahead of the Usurper’s hired knives? But it was run or die. (ACOK Daenerys V)
ASOS Daenerys V is particularly heartbreaking in that sense when she decides to leave her tent and interact with her people only to almost be killed by Mero:
She had no enemies among her children.
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“Your Grace.” Arstan knelt. “I am an old man, and shamed. He should never have gotten close enough to seize you. I was lax. I did not know him without his beard and hair.”
“No more than I did.” Dany took a deep breath to stop her shaking. Enemies everywhere.
However, Benioff forgets Dany's very first chapter:
They had wandered since then, from Braavos to Myr, from Myr to Tyrosh, and on to Qohor and Volantis and Lys, never staying long in any one place. Her brother would not allow it. The Usurper’s hired knives were close behind them, he insisted, though Dany had never seen one. (AGOT Daenerys I)
I've already written an entire meta on how Dany's PoV is not entirely reliable and this is one of the instances. I imagine her thoughts on the matter changed because of this:
“A letter to Viserys, from Magister Illyrio. Robert Baratheon offers lands and lordships for your death, or your brother’s.”
“My brother?” Her sob was half a laugh. “He does not know yet, does he? The Usurper owes Drogo a lordship.” This time her laugh was half a sob. She hugged herself protectively. “And me, you said. Only me?”
“You and the child,” Ser Jorah said, grim.
“No. He cannot have my son.” She would not weep, she decided. She would not shiver with fear. The Usurper has woken the dragon now, she told herself ... (AGOT Daenerys VI)
It seems that Dany unconsciously and retroactively changed history in her mind after Robert tried to have her and her child assassinated (something that I forgot to talk about in my meta), which is quite interesting. I guess it's a detail that is easy to miss, so that's forgivable.
What's less excusable is the way that Benioff talks about Dany's mindset.
Benioff: I think in her mind this is just the price you pay for being Daenerys Targaryen, for being the last of the Targaryens, and it's not going to stop her. (x)
It's true that Dany is aware that she is the last of her family:
With Viserys gone, Daenerys was the last, the very last. She was the seed of kings and conquerors, and so too the child inside her. She must not forget. (AGOT Daenerys VI)
However, I look askance at the possible interpretation behind this statement. One could switch "Daenerys" for "Viserys" and it would be just as fitting. It's left ambiguous on its own, but, considering how he overfocuses on how "ambitious" she is or how she wants "more than anything" to "reclaim her birthright" or how "the only threat she poses is her name" until she frees the slaves in Astapor... I have to assume that he wants us to think that show!Dany is both arrogant and entitled for being a Targaryen. All of these mischaracterizations have been exhaustively refuted by @rainhadaenerys in this meta.
My comments on Anatomy of a Scene: Daenerys Meets the Unsullied
Weiss: Dany spent the first two seasons of the show leaning on men - her brother, Drogo, Jorah Mormont, Xaro Xhoan Daxos. She came out of season two realizing that the only person that she can completely trust is herself.
Benioff: Dany has her lovable side, but she is also ruthless, and she is also fiercely ambitious. What she wants, more than anything, is to return home and to reclaim her birthright.
Clarke: She needs the manpower to go back and conquer the Iron Throne and to be able to right the wrongs that she sees going on around her.
Minahan: She's been brought to Astapor, where she's reluctantly going to meet with slave traders. Her quest in this is to build an army without taking slaves.
Comments from Charlie Somers (location manager) and Christina Moore (supervising art director) that don't have anything to do with the storyline.
Benioff: The Unsullied were kidnapped as babies from their home countries and brought to Astapor and trained in the ways of the spear and castrated.
Emmanuel: They won't do anything without the command to do so first.
Comment from Tommy Dunne (weapons master) that doesn't have anything to do with the storyline.
Clarke: She's being introduced to the Unsullied by Kraznys, the slave master in control of them.
Emmanuel: Kraznys is being quite insulting to Daenerys. And Missandei very cleverly smoothes out her translation, just her initiative doing that shows her intelligence.
Clarke: Dany sees a lot of herself in her and can kind of see that it's a young girl who's capable of much more than the position she's in. She's his No 1 slave. If you were in the UN, she would be the translator for everyone.
Weiss: Kraznys speaks a version of Valyrian that's been bastardized and mixed with other local languages.
Comment from Majella Hurley (dialect coach) that doesn't have anything to do with the storyline.
Clarke: She's struggling with the moral aspect of the way that these cities are run. And it's something she's been grappling with because they are an army of slaves, which she fundamentally has moral issues with due to the fact that she herself was a slave.
Weiss: The only way she can make the world a better place is to become the biggest slaveowner in the world.
Benioff: She's put into a difficult position, and she's got her advisors whispering in her ears.
Glen: Jorah encourages her to get over her moral scrupules, with taking an army that were duty-bound to follow whatever leader it was, and that could change in an instant.
Benioff: Idealism is wonderful, but it's not gonna happen if you're idealistic, you gotta be a realist. She feels like she has this almost divine mission and nothing is gonna prevent her from achieving it.
Weiss: What she wants to do isn't just conquest for the sake of conquest, but it's really conquest for the sake of making the world a better place, and she's a revolutionary in that sense.
Benioff: For Daenerys to win, ultimately, she's gonna have to be just as ruthless as the others, and maybe even moreso.
My comments about their statements:
Clarke: She definitely understands Dany better than Benioff and maybe even Weiss. My only nitpick is that there's no No 1 slave for Kraznys ... In the books, he repeatedly whips Missandei and has no problem giving her away to Dany as a gift. Even in the show, he still constantly disrespects show!Missandei.
Weiss: I've already said this above and will repeat: Weiss is wrong when he says that "Dany spent the first two seasons of the show leaning on men". Or at least that's certainly not what the Dany of the books (i.e. the character show!Dany's should ideally be based on) does, as my posts here and here showcase how competent a leader she's becoming and how much agency GRRM gives her. His comment about how Dany wants to "become the biggest slaveowner in the world" to make it a better place is also distasteful (though I don't think he meant it as negatively as, say, Finn Jones), so here goes @rainhadaenerys's meta disproving the claim that Dany is a slaver. As for "conquest for the sake of making the world a better place", I kind of agree with this, but I've already showed above how it does a disservice to show!Dany's character development to paint it as if she's always been aware of these injustices, because the Dany of the books was not. In hindsight, that change makes me wary because I know they will later try to sell show!Dany as someone who is morally inflexible, which she never was in the books.
Benioff: I've already criticized his claims that Dany is "fiercely ambitious" and wants "more than anything" "to reclaim her birthright" in many moments of this meta. I also condemned his opinion that Dany needs to be a "realist" when I explained how the show overfocused on Jorah's point of view. As for his point that "she's gonna have to be just as ruthless as the others, and maybe even moreso" to win... Considering how they made her choose the more ruthless option in the end only to punish her in the most traumatizing manner for that very choice (which made no sense and was completely OOC, no less) ... Fuck him, seriously. It's clear how the show made it impossible for show!Dany to win based on contradictory standards that only viewed her unfavorably. If she is merciful, she is stupid. If she is ruthless, she is a danger that needs to be stopped to save humanity.
Show!Dany's clothes
This episode adapts events from three chapters (ACOK Daenerys V, ASOS Daenerys I, ASOS Daenerys II). The first is the only one with a detailed description of her clothes:
If the Milk Men thought her such a savage, she would dress the part for them. When she went to the stables, she wore faded sandsilk pants and woven grass sandals. Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest, and a curved dagger hung from her medallion belt. Jhiqui had braided her hair Dothraki-fashion, and fastened a silver bell to the end of the braid. (ACOK Daenerys V)
In ASOS Daenerys I, Dany is only described using a coverlet to hide her nudity when Jorah comes to talk to her.
In ASOS Daenerys II, we don't know how Dany dressed when she went to meet with Kraznys, only that her garment had a sleeve.
In the series, we see show!Dany wearing this blue dress:
It's meant to pay homage to the Dothraki, so it's at least spiritually faithful to how Dany looks in the scene on the docks ... Well, more or less. Not only blue isn't a special color for the Dothraki despite what Michele Clapton might say, look at how Barristan reacts to seeing Dany for the first time:
“I regret if we caused you alarm. If truth be told, we were not certain, we expected someone more ... more ...”
“Regal?” Dany laughed. She had no dragon with her, and her raiment was hardly queenly. (ACOK Daenerys V)
This little scene displays both Dany's frugalness and how she doesn't take herself that seriously, for she doesn't mind if her subjects see her looking less than regal. That doesn't come across at all in the show, to the point of some people thinking that show!Dany never allows herself to look anything but perfect, which is certainly not true of the character she is based on.
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Some Cobra’s backstories in my fancomics G.I. Joe Renegades.
Cobra Commander.
His brother Danielle took him when Cobra Commander was 3. Cobra Commander never knew his parents. He only knew Danielle who did everything to raise him. At 19 Cobra Commander decides to earn more money for college and he uses his charisma to sell more cars. Everyone got attracted by energetic young man. Almost everyone buy cars. Because of this Cobra Commander got a lot promotion. Soon he becomes the most young salesman in state. Cobra Commander decided not to get into college to help to sell more cars.
But Danielle’s life became worse: he was fired. Because of that he became an alcoholic. Cobra Commander tried to help him and offered him a job, but he refused. Soon Danielle dies in car crash. Cobra Commander couldn’t bare the death of his brother and he decided to investigate the car crash. He discovered that in that car crash also died elderly married couple, but their twins survived: Snake Eyes and Terri. Cobra Commander sent mercenary Zartan to kill them. Soon Cobra Commander became to realize that it’s system’s fault of his brother’s fate or even their parents’. So Cobra Commander burns everything and disappears. He was found in Springfield where he already got an army of desperate people. He got weapons from MARS Industries. But Cobra had to stay in shadows. Cobra Commander chose Atlanta to show the world that Cobra is not just organization of evil people.
Destro.
James McCullen was raised in Scotland with his cruel father. Despite that James respected him. To stay out of father’s cruelty James spent a lot time with books, studying and physical exercises (plus having phase of goth-metal). At 23 James was supposed to be engaged with Baroness (who was 15). They soon got along, but their fathers got into fight and their engagement was ruined. Destro was distracted by working with his father at selling weapons in black market. But got soon stoped by Duke’s squad. James’ father put on his son Destro’s mask and shoots himself to escape Destro’s fate.
Destro had harsh time. He tried to keep MARS Industries, but he was losing clients very fast. Until he met Baroness who was selling her half-sister Erika as prostitute. Destro offered them castle (only Erika had to live in dungeons). Baroness agreed to help Destro. She found client in USA. It was Cobra Commander. At 1st Destro didn’t want to work with histerical ego-maniac. But he didn’t have a choice so he agreed.
Baroness
Anastasia Cisarovna was from the richest family of Europe. She was supposed to be engaged with Destro, but their fathers got into fight. Her older brother Eugen decided to take her with him to cheer her up. But he got shot by terrorists. When Baroness came back, she discovered that her mother lied to her father by having another child with lover from Vietnam. Baroness’ father threw away his wife and daughter from mansion.
Baroness lived with mother and half-sister Erika until mother died. To get more money Baroness used Erika as sex-slave. Soon she met Destro. He took her from streets and they finally reunited. Baroness agreed to help Destro to save his company and flew away to USA. She visited Springfield and discovered about Cobra. She agreed to work with them if they take Destro’s weapons.
Storm Shadow.
Tommy lived in Los Angeles and Japan. Soon he served in army where he met his best friends. When he came back to USA, he discovered about the death of Snake Eyes’ and Terri’s parents and offered them to live with him in Japan. There Snake Eyes became member of Arashikage clan, while his sister wasn’t interesting in ninja stuff.
Storm Shadow spent a lot time with Terri. They became very close. But Storm Shadow didn’t want to make it more awkward until he got blessing from Snake Eyes. Unfortunately Snake Eyes and Terri found him at the body of Hard Master. Storm Shadow escaped the fight and left Japan. Soon he was hired as Cobra Commander’s mercenary. While in reality Storm Shadow found that killer of his uncle has connection with Cobra. He proved his loyalty by killing rivals and traitors. Tommy’s only true ally is his cousins Jinx. She knew that Tommy is innocent and she wants to find true killer of her father.
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