âWhen the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.â
â Mirri Maz Duur, A Song of Ice and Fire
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I see the faces of slaves. I free you. Take off your collars. Go if you wish, no one shall harm you. If you stay, it will be as brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.
âOver there, sweet princess,â he whispered, âthere is the khal himself.â Dany wanted to run and hide, but her brother was looking at her, and if she displeased him she knew she would wake the dragon. Anxiously, she turned and looked at the man Viserys hoped would ask to wed her before the night was done. (A Game of Thrones – Daenerys I)
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A princess, Dany thought. She had forgotten what that was like. Perhaps she had never really known. âWhy does he give us so much?â she asked. âWhat does he want from us?â For nigh on half a year, they had lived in the magisterâs house, eating his food, pampered by his servants. Dany was thirteen, old enough to know that such gifts seldom come without their price, here in the free city of Pentos.Â
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âł đ„đ„đ„ Daenerys Stormborn of House TargaryenâKhaleesi, â the handmaid Irri explained, as if to a child, âJhaqo is a khal now, with twenty thousand riders at his back.â
She lifted her head. âAnd I am Daenerys Stormhorn, Daenerys of House Targaryen, of the blood of Aegon the Conqueror and Maegor the Cruel and old Valyria before them. I am the dragonâs daughter, and I swear to you, these men will die screaming.â
They are not strong, she told herself, so I must be their strength. I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt. However frightened my heart, when they look upon my face they must see only Drogoâs queen. She felt older than her fourteen years. If ever she had truly been a girl, that time was done.
I feel like once dany has the seven kingdoms under her belt, she might grow bored after a while. After all, she is the best conquer alive at the moment, I feel like she might want to conquer something else. Then again, it is described as her wanting to settle. what do you think Amy?
i donât think her driving motivation is conquering. i think her primary motivation(s) are helping and protecting people; reclaiming her familyâs seat; finding or making a home for herself.
to be honest, iâm kinda staring at this ask a little perplexed. are you a fan of Danyâs? because thinking sheâd grow âboredâ by ruling because she has a thirst for conquering is kind of strange, to me. thatâs just not how i interpret her character at all. she even says in the books: âI was tired, Jorah. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow.â
i also find it weird when people say Dany doesnât enjoy ruling and wouldnât enjoy being queen. iâm not sure if itâs ultimately something that will bring her joy, no. and should it? no, not if sheâs a person who cares deeply about people and their suffering. i imagine a good, sympathetic leader is often weighted down by their decisions and the challenges their people face. because if you have empathy, which she does, then youâll always be struggling to make things better for others. but regardless, how i interpret her arc in Meereen, her growing unhappiness, isnât because ruling is boring to her, itâs because she feels too much, and sheâs being broken down and forced to compromise by people who ultimately betray her because she so desperately wants peace for her people. the unhappiness is because she knows itâs not working. compromising with slavers is not working.
she might not be happy ruling the seven kingdoms, but it wonât be because sheâs bored. itâll be because she will have to rule over a continent ravaged by war. thatâs going to be a miserable time, bringing her people back from that. but if she has a home and a family, things that could truly bring her happiness, while she tries to restore her kingdom, then i think she would be fine staying where she is.
#ruling isnât easy #itâs not a game #there are consequences for every action #i think thatâs part of grrmâs message #and how itâs not as simple as âand he ruled wiselyâ in the end
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âTake his horse,â Dany commanded Ser Jorah. Viserys gaped at her. He could not believe what he was hearing; nor could Dany quite believe what she was saying. Yet the words came. âLet my brother walk behind us back to the khalasar.â Among the Dothraki, the man who does not ride was no man at all, the lowest of the low, without honor or pride. âLet everyone see him as he is.â
âNo!â Viserys screamed. He turned to Ser Jorah, pleading in the Common Tongue with words the horsemen would not understand. âHit her, Mormont. Hurt her. Your king commands it. Kill these Dothraki dogs and teach her.â
The exile knight looked from Dany to her brother; she barefoot, with dirt between her toes and oil in her hair, he with his silks and steel. Dany could see the decision on his face. âHe shall walk, Khaleesi,â he said. He took her brotherâs horse in hand while Dany remounted her silver.
   âA Game of Thrones
black-telephone-is-off-the-hook:
I wanted to list more reasons as to why I love Daenerys Targaryen:
1.     Â
She has to tolerate people butchering her name. (If we follow the showâs pronounciation, everyone is butchering her name!)âIs
good name, Dan Ares wife,
moon of my life,â he said.2.     Â
She has the coolest comfort blanket ever, the hrakkar. She literally snuggles into a
huge white lion pelt.When the
old man came, she was curled up inside her hrakkar pelt, whose musty smell still reminded her of
Drogo. It was too
big for her and had a musty smell, but it made her feel as if her sun-and-stars
was still near her3.     Â
She puts men in their place when they start
bragging about their ding-dong:The big man laughed. âLittle girl, another woman once tried to geld me
with her teeth. She has no teeth now, but my sword is as long and thick as
ever. Shall I take it out and show you?ââNo need. After my eunuchs cut it off, I can examine
it at my leisure.â Dany took a sip of wine.ÂâThis old Plumm was a lord, though, must have been a famous fellow in
his day, the talk of all the land. The thing was, begging your royal pardon, he
had himself a cock six foot long.âThe three bells in Danyâs braid tinkled when she laughed. âYou
mean inches, I think.â4.     Â
She canât walk in high heelsHer slippers
were silver as well, with heels so high that she was always half afraid she was about
to topple over.5.     Â
Her tushie aches from all the sitting on the
marble throne.The crown
had given her a headache, and her buttocks had gone to sleep. "Ser Barristan,â she called, âI know what quality a king
needs most.ââCourage, Your Grace?â
âCheeks like iron,â she
teased. âAll I do is sit.â6.     Â
She has a thing for Bad Boys. The
thought was exciting and disturbing, both at once. It is too great a risk. The
Tyroshi sellsword was not a good man, no one needed to tell her that.
Under the smiles and the jests he was dangerous, even cruel [âŠ] Khal Drogo could be cruel as well, and there was never a man more dangerous. She had come to
love him all the same. Could I love Daario?7.     Â
She fusses over her people and soldiers.But Dany had lost Khal Drogo to a similar wound,
and she was not willing to let it go untreated. [..]. Belwas howled and
complained, but Dany scolded him and called him a big bald baby until he let the
healer stanch the wound with vinegar, sew it shut, and bind his chest with
strips of linen soaked in fire wine.Â
8.     Â
likes hot spicy foodâOh,
look,â she exclaimed to Doreah, âthose are the kind of sausages I
meant. They make them with lots of garlic and hot peppers.â
Delighted with her discovery, Dany insisted the others join her for a sausage.9.     Â
kisses and kisses galore: cheek kisses, hand
kisses, eyelid kisses (ïŸâăźâ)ïŸ*:ïŸâ§
Dany kissed him [Ser Jorah] lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile.
Dany kissed him [Ser Barristan] on the cheek and sent him on his way.
âI am
only a foolish young girl.â Dany rose on her toes and kissed his [Xaroâs] cheek. âBut not so foolish as to tell you that.âDany stood
on her toes and kissed him [Quentyn] lightly, once on each cheek.ÂShe kissed Irri’s hand where Drogon had bitten it.
When she
did, Dany kissed her [Missandeiâs] eyelids and made her giggle.10. Â
her clapbacks are amazingâWoman?â
She chuckled. âIs that meant to insult me? I would return
the slap, if I took you for a man.ââWhat
say you take those clothes off and come sit on my lap? If you please me, I
might bring the Second Sons over to your side.ââIf
you bring the Second Sons over to my side, I might not have you gelded.ââThose who survive we shall
enslave again, and use to retake Astapor from the rabble. We can make a
slave of you as well, do not doubt it.
There are pleasure houses in Lys and
Tyrosh where men would pay handsomely to bed the last Targaryen.ââIt is good to see you know who I am,â said Dany.
11. Â
food fights with friends:Dany knew
him too well to be moved. Qartheen men could weep at will. âOh, stop
that.â She took a cherry from the bowl on the table and threw it at his nose. [âŠ]
His jeweled nose made a tempting target. This time Dany threw an apricot at him.12. Â
is not regal at allâWe were, Your Grace,â old Whitebeard replied. â[âŠ] I
regret if we caused you alarm. If truth be told, we were not certain, we
expected someone more ⊠more âŠââRegal?â
Dany laughed. She had no dragon with her, and her raiment was hardly queenly.Dany kicked
them off and sat with one foot tucked beneath her and the other swinging back
and forth. It was not a very regal pose, but she was tired of being regal.13. Â
She foregoes punishment for someone who spat on
her face in front of her courtGhael leapt to his feet and spat
into her face.Strong Belwas seized him by the shoulder and slammed him down onto the
marble so hard that Dany heard Ghaelâs teeth crack. The Shavepate would have
done worse, but she stopped him. âEnough,â
she said, dabbing at her cheek with the end of her tokar. âNo
one has ever died from spittle. Take him away.â14. Â
She literally forgives someone who tried to impulsively
attack her in her courtWhen she
told him, the boy rushed at her, but his feet tangled in his tokar and he went sprawling headlong on the purple marble.
Strong Belwas was on him at once. The huge brown eunuch yanked him up
one-handed and shook him like a mastiff with a rat. âEnough, Belwas,â
Dany called. âRelease him.â To the boy she said, âTreasure that tokar, for it saved your life. You are only a
boy, so we will forget what happened here. You should do the same.“Â15. Â
hug attacks from the mother of dragons:Dany was so pleased to see his leathery
brown face that she hugged him. His eyes crinkled in amusement. "I
heard talk Your Grace was going to take a husband,â he said, âbut no
one told me it was me.â They laughed together.
Her brother Viserys gifted her with three handmaids. [âŠ] Irri and Jhiqui were copper-skinned Dothraki with black hair and almond shaped eyes, Doreah a fair-haired, blue-eyed Lysene girl. âThese are no common servants, sweet sister,â her brother told her as they were brought forward one by one. âIrri will teach you riding, Jhiqui the Dothraki tongue, and Doreah will instruct you in the womanly arts of love.â