Her brother Viserys gifted her with three handmaids. […] Irri and Jhiqui were copper-skinned Dothraki with black hair and almond shaped eyes, Doreah a fair-haired, blue-eyed Lysene girl. “These are no common servants, sweet sister,” her brother told her as they were brought forward one by one. “Irri will teach you riding, Jhiqui the Dothraki tongue, and Doreah will instruct you in the womanly arts of love.”
[…] She sat in her wedding silks, nursing a cup of honeyed wine, afraid to eat, talking silently to herself. I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.
me when dany forces people to hear all of her titles which are essentially victories she’s won in her very hard climb from the bottom to where she is now:Â
“Queen of Meereen”: By right of conquest.
“Queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar and the First Men”: Although technically a claim, she’s actually going to save that mother fucking country and the people, and she has a right as it is the legacy of her family, a legacy they created, so I won’t fight her on this.
“The unburnt”: A freaking goddess, I tell you.
“Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea” : The first time all the dothraki unite behind one leader, a woman, and let me tell you, this title is an understatement because she’s actually the Stallion Who Mounts The World.
“Breaker of chains” : She made her personal mission to help the slaves, free them, and maintain that freedom. Slavers Bay, no more.
“Mother of Dragons” : She brought dragons to life, the last dragons in the world, after more than a century of being extinct.
How many people can say that they have done most of these things….on their own right…
You will listen, and you will respect.
^ THIS.
I know it is a fandom joke – “lol daenerys and her hundred titles”, but in a world where men get to hold titles for no reason other than their birth, and are immediately respected by people of westeros and real world fans alike for the smallest acts of goodness; I have no issues with Daenerys’s million titles which she earned through her hard work, intuition and wits.
Also it reminds me of this poem by Warsan Shire:
give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.
I see the children, women, the wrinkled faces of the aged. I was a child yesterday. Today I am a woman. Tomorrow I will be old. To each of you I say, give me your hands and your hearts, and there will always be a place for you.
Dany had only meant their rooms in Illyrio’s estate, no true home surely, though all they had, but her brother did not want to hear that. There was no home there for him. Even the big house with the red door had not been home for him.
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 