Writing / roleplay prompts collected from the POV chapters of Daenerys Targaryen in A Dance with Dragons , the fifth book of the ASOIAF saga. Feel free to adjust pronouns / etc. as needed.
tw: dark & mature themes, death, violence, suggestive / sexual content
❝ There is no need for you to see this. ❞
❝ It is bad luck to touch the dead. ❞
❝ The blood of the dragon does not weep. ❞
❝ I am still at war, only now I am fighting shadows. ❞
❝ They are soldiers, not warriors. ❞
❝ Their training teaches them to obey, fearlessly, perfectly, without thought or hesitation … not to unravel secrets or ask questions. ❞
❝ I’ll see them when I’m dressed. ❞
❝ A crown should not sit easy on the head. ❞
❝ You are so radiant today I fear to look on you. ❞
❝ Women do not forget. Women do not forgive. ❞
❝ Does he believe a pair of pretty slippers will win my hand? ❞
❝ If he proposes that I wed this man again, I’ll throw a slipper at his head. ❞
❝ I am only a young girl and know little of the ways of war. ❞
❝ Why, it must be because you have no other purpose but to plague me. How many times have I refused you? ❞
❝ I see that you are eloquent as well as beautiful. I am quite persuaded. ❞
❝ You take too much on yourself. ❞
❝ Help me dress. I’ll have a cup of wine as well, to clear my head. ❞
❝ Come sleep with me. Dawn will not come for hours yet. ❞
❝ He was a good brother. ❞
❝ Say the word, my sweet, and I will send you from this awful place. ❞
❝ I would sooner stay with you. I feel safe when I’m with you. ❞
❝ I want to keep you safe. ❞
❝ No one ever kept me safe when I was little. ❞
❝ I want to protect you, but . . . it is so hard, to be strong. ❞
❝ I don’t always know what I should do. I must know, though, I am all they have. ❞
❝ We’ll both sleep, and dream of sweeter days. ❞
❝ Who would ever dare to love a dragon? ❞
❝ There is no woman more lovely than you. Only a blind man could believe otherwise. ❞
❝ A bath will help soothe me. ❞
❝ How did you get past my guards? ❞
❝ Your guards never saw me. ❞
❝ Why should I fear him? ❞
❝ If you have some warning for me, speak plainly. ❞
❝ Remember who you are. ❞
❝ Prophecies are treacherous. ❞
❝ If this is truly what my people wish, do I have the right to deny it to them? ❞
❝ Truth was never welcome at that court. ❞
❝ He was a traitor who met a traitor’s end. ❞
❝ He played a part in your father’s fall, but he bore you no ill will. ❞
❝ The king wanted you killed, but he spoke against it. ❞
❝ You think they would harm me? ❞
❝ I should have seen it coming. Was I so blind, or did I close my eyes willfully, so I would not have to see the price of power? ❞
❝ I would give them back to you if I could, but some things are beyond the power of even a queen. ❞
❝ What have I unleashed upon the world? ❞
❝ If they are monsters, so am I. ❞
❝ Are they meant to inflame me? ❞
❝ Would my lord prefer something sweeter? ❞
❝ I will not trust you, but I need you. ❞
❝ A craven’s knife can slay a queen as easily as a hero’s. ❞
❝ He is playing games with me. But I can play as well. ❞
❝ I do not wish to speak of him. ❞
❝ Let us speak instead of love, of dreams and desire. ❞
❝ I am drunk with the sight of you. ❞
❝ Why did you abandon me? ❞
❝ I am almost certain that I asked you for your hand. Begged you, even. ❞
❝ You gave up too easily. ❞
❝ I must marry, all agree. ❞
❝ I am not so foolish as to wed a man who finds a fruit platter more enticing than my breast. ❞
❝ If you will not take me for your husband, I am content to be your slave. ❞
❝ I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No one wants to be owned. ❞
❝ Is that meant to frighten me? I lived in fear for years. I woke afraid each morning and went to sleep afraid each night. ❞
❝ Let me stay and help persuade you. ❞
❝ You look . . . weary. Are you sleeping? ❞
❝ You know how much I value your wisdom. ❞
❝ You need a king beside you to help you bear these burdens. ❞
❝ Have you no smile for me? Am I as fearful as all that? ❞
❝ I always grow solemn in the presence of such beauty. ❞
❝ I have never wanted war. ❞
❝ You have not said you love me. ❞
❝ That is not the answer of a man in love. ❞
❝ What is love? Desire? No man could ever look on you and not desire you. ❞
❝ A new time has come, and new things are possible. Marry me. ❞
❝ Kiss me as if I were your wife. ❞
❝ No. I do not love you. ❞
❝ It’s him I want, not you. ❞
❝ One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it comes. ❞
❝ Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds. ❞
❝ So it seems that I may wed again. Are you happy for me? ❞
❝ A queen belongs not to herself, but to the realm. ❞
❝ Marriage or carnage, those are my choices. ❞
❝ Did he wed for love or duty? ❞
❝ I know he was very fond of her. ❞
❝ I could become fond of him, in time. ❞
❝ I need to change, to make myself beautiful. ❞
❝ You have grown more beautiful in my absence. How is that possible? ❞
❝ I have missed you so much. ❞
❝ They never told me you were here, or I might have played the fool and sent for you at once. ❞
❝ I have only one urgent need. You. ❞
❝ A man surrounded by foes cannot defend himself. No, when faced with many enemies, choose the weakest, kill him, ride over him and escape. ❞
❝ He is as bold as he is bloody. ❞
❝ He is a monster. A gallant monster, but a monster still. ❞
❝ Do you take me for the Butcher King? ❞
❝ Better the butcher than the meat. ❞
❝ All kings are butchers. Are queens so different? ❞
❝ Most queens have no purpose but to warm some king’s bed and pop out sons for him. ❞
❝ Have you forgotten who I am? ❞
❝ He would make a monster of me. A butcher queen. ❞
❝ There is blood on my hands, too, and on my heart. ❞
❝ I am tired of hearing what you will not do. ❞
❝ Will they joust for me? I should like that. ❞
❝ He plays you for a fool. Do you want a serpent in your bed? ❞
❝ You could not have saved them. ❞
❝ Oh, gods, what have I done? Have I sent him to his death? ❞
❝ I have no more help to give. ❞
❝ I will not turn away from them. A queen must know the sufferings of her people. ❞
❝ I cannot heal them, but I can show them that I care. ❞
❝ Shall I wash your hair? ❞
❝ All those pearls will make me rattle when I walk. ❞
❝ The pearls symbolize fertility. The more a woman wears, the more healthy children she will bear. ❞
❝ Your clothes are stained with blood. Take them off. ❞
❝ Only if you do the same. ❞
❝ I thought you would be the one to betray me. I thought . . . ❞
❝ Promise me that you will never turn against me. I could not bear that. Promise me. ❞
❝ I wanted you from the first time I saw you. ❞
❝ You boasted that you’d had a hundred women. ❞
❝ He has a sellsword’s conscience. That is to say, none at all. ❞
❝ I would give up my crown if he asked it of me. ❞
❝ If I gave up my crown, he would not want me. ❞
❝ I do not want this night to end. ❞
❝ You know I cannot do that. ❞
❝ You are a queen. You can do what you like. ❞
❝ Marry me, and we can have all the nights forever. ❞
❝ We cannot wed, my love. You know why. ❞
❝ Once I am wed it will be high treason to desire me. ❞
❝ It has been too long since I’ve killed a man. Might be I should seek out your betrothed. ❞
❝ Are you unwell? In the black of night I heard you scream. ❞
❝ It was the wind that you heard screaming. ❞
❝ It was just a dream. Go back to sleep. ❞
❝ She dares say that in open court? ❞
❝ That smile has won many a maiden’s heart, I’ll wager. ❞
❝ Please, you must not tease me. ❞
❝ Come back to bed and kiss me. ❞
❝ The queen your mother was always mindful of her duty. ❞
❝ A knight is no fit consort for a princess of royal blood. ❞
❝ I never knew my father. I want to know everything about him. The good and . . . the rest. ❞
❝ If he loved you, he would come and carry you off. ❞
❝ How did this happen, that I am drinking and smiling with men I’d sooner flay? ❞
❝ This is peace, so why does it taste so much like defeat? ❞
❝ I want no gifts from you. ❞
❝ There is no honor in him, only hunger . . . for gold, for glory, for blood. ❞
❝ Every child knows its mother. ❞
❝ They are dragons, and so am I. ❞
❝ You have more enemies than you know. ❞
❝ Gods grant that we have made a son tonight. ❞
❝ Crying? I was not crying. Why would I cry? ❞
❝ Stay. I do not wish to be alone. ❞
❝ Remind me that there is still good in the world. ❞
❝ I will have you beside me, what other protection do I need? ❞
❝ How much of this do you believe? ❞
❝ I am looking into hell, but I dare not look away. ❞
❝ He takes great pride in his . . . his swordsmanship. ❞
❝ He boasts of bedding me, you mean. ❞
❝ Once I dreamed of flying. ❞
❝ Men are mad and gods are madder. ❞
❝ You never mourned me. It is hard to die unmourned. ❞
❝ I waited long enough. I waited my whole life. ❞
❝ You lingered in a place that you were never meant to be. ❞
❝ Home was all I ever wanted. ❞
❝ I was tired. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow. ❞
❝ Remember who you are, what you were made to be. ❞