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Dany looked at the horizon with despair. They had lost a third of their number, and still the waste stretched before them, bleak and red and endless. Have I crossed half the world and seen the birth of dragons only to die with them in this hard hot desert? She would not believe it.
You have your armies, you have your ships, you have your dragons. Everything you’ve ever wanted, since you were old enough to want anything, it’s all yours for the taking. You’re in the great game now, and the great game is terrifying.
Are you afraid? Good.
Daenerys Targaryen Appreciation 2018: Queen
Like all good queens she put her people first—else she would never have wed Hizdahr zo Loraq.
I fight like a girl. I fight like a girl who refuses to be a victim. I fight like a girl who’s tired of being ignored, humored, beaten or raped. I fight like a girl who’s sick of not being taken seriously. I fight like a girl who’s been pushed too far. I fight like a girl who offers and demands respect. I fight like a girl who has a lifetime of anger, strength, and pride pent up in her girly body. I fight like a girl who fights back. (insp.)
Daenerys Appreciation Month: [Prompt: Queen]
Ser Jorah Mormont drew her aside as the sun was creeping toward its
zenith. “Princess …” he began.“Why do you call me
that?” Dany challenged him. “My brother Viserys was your king, was he not?”“He was, my lady.”
“Viserys is dead. I am his heir, the last blood of House
Targaryen. Whatever was his is mine now.”“My… queen,” Ser Jorah said, going to one knee. “My
sword that was his is yours, Daenerys. And
my heart as well, that never belonged to your brother. I am only a knight,
and I have nothing to offer you but exile, but I beg you, hear me. Let Khal
Drogo go. You shall not be alone. I promise you, no man shall take you to Vaes
Dothrak unless you wish to go. You need not join the dosh khaleen. Come east with me. Yi Ti, Qarth, the Jade
Sea, Asshai by the Shadow. We will see all the wonders yet unseen, and drink
what wines the gods see fit to serve us. Please, Khaleesi. I know what you
intend. Do not. Do not.”This is the very first time Dany is referred to as a queen,
and it is interesting for two reasons. ÂFirstly, it shines light on the relationship between Dany
and Ser Jorah. Despite her wishes, Ser Jorah’s love for Dany is not a courtly
love, but rather a troubling romantic one.
Ser Jorah who is three times as old as Dany, is not only pursuing a
romantic relationship with her, but is also someone who called her “my
princess” freely but had to be coaxed
into calling her queen. Even after Viserys’s death, Ser Jorah didn’t
consider Dany to be his queen, until she challenged and demanded it of him. And
perhaps, not even afterwards:He wants me, she realized.
He loves me as he loved her, not as a
knight loves his queen but as a man loves a
woman.ÂÂ Secondly, it shows how Dany was never considered a viable
candidate for being a ruler, not even by her first knight. The title of a queen
was not something that fell into her lap; rather it was something she demanded. Despite her own notions that it was
Drogo who made a queen out of her, the
truth is Dany made a queen out of herself – even when no one else believed
it, nor gave the title to her freely. Even her first knight did not give her
her due. Dany had to demand to be called queen. It was an identity that she
crafted with her confidence, her intuition, and her resolve. Yet, her idea of
being a queen is not of ownership or grown out of pettiness.
However, Dany does not consider that anyone who has the
power to be a ruler deserves to rule. In her mind, the concept of being a ruler
is intricately tied to both protection and justice.“[…] Why do the gods make kings
and queens, if not to protect the ones who can’t protect themselves?“”Some kings make themselves. Robert did.“
“He was no true king,” Dany said scornfully. “He did no
justice. Justice … that’s what kings are for.”While Dany does scorn at Robert being king, it is not because she subscribes to Viserys’s
idea of kings – of bloodlines and superiority of the blood of the dragon.
Rather Dany believes that an integral part of being a king (or queen) lies in
upholding their end of the social contract – namely protection for their people
and swift justice. She considers being a monarch as a duty that she needs to fulfill for her people.She would rather have
drifted in the fragrant pool all day, eating iced fruit off silver trays and
dreaming of a house with a red door, but
a queen belongs to her people, not to herself.It is also interesting that as a queen, she does not think
that her people belong to her (to do with as she pleases), but rather that she
belongs to her people. In some sense, she is viewing her position as a queen as a
service or a calling that she needs to realize.
And yet people think she is an entitled brat. I mean c’mon. Danereys is such an amazing woman.
Daenerys Targaryen Appreciation Month: Free Choice – Prophecy
“Her coming is the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. From smoke and salt was she born to make the world anew. She is Azor Ahai returned…and her triumph over darkness will bring a summer that will never end…death itself will bend its knee, and all those who die fighting in her cause shall be reborn…”
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 