I promise y'all this would be freaking hot aemond dragon Prince and sansa the Queen of the North I just love those two together I hope y'all enjoy my art 🫣🥵💚💙💚💙
What is so incredible about “princess in the tower” ASOIAF characters like Sansa Stark, Jeyne Poole, and Gilly is that they inspire hope and heroism and courage and chivalry in the most unexpected people. Gilly inspires the fearful Sam to finally be the hero instead of Jon always being the hero, Sansa inspires the cruel and jaded Hound to gentle for a moment and it saves her life, Jeyne inspires Theon who has endured unfathomable torture that has broken his mind to overcome his terror and brainwashing enough to free them both from living Hell. It’s easy to dismiss them but if they didn’t exist, the world of ASOIAF would be far bleaker than it already is.
So I'm re-reading the series, trying to look at characters and plots in different ways and look for symbolism. I am doubtful of Dany, not full anti rn but wary. Do you think she could do good? Or is she doomed, always planned to be a dark/villain that used to be a naive child?
Dany was always meant to be a villain in the end.
This is in no way diminished by the fact that she started out as a helpless victim in a horrific situation. These circumstances inform her arc, they are part of what sets her on this path. But being a victim is not a qualification for goodness, it does not make people stronger or better. Suffering makes us weaker and worse. It is kindness and compassion that make us strong and that help us grow and heal.
Dany barely got any of that in her life. The things she does directly relate to that, to the poisonous way she was raised. She is a tragedy.
We are not meant to hate her. (I strongly dislike her, but that's my personal taste.) She is a figure to be pitied, even as we slowly discover her to be a monster shedding its veneer.
She wants to be happy, she wants to be a force of good. But she has no real concept of what that actually is because she was raised to view herself as inherently separate from other human beings, as a superior Targaryen catergory of her own, and being raised on the run with only Viserys her brother-king, she never had a chance to understand what connection and community actually are. But we need these things to properly function, they are the basis of survival, peace and justice.
Dany could hear the singing of the red priests as they lit their night fires and the shouts of ragged children playing games beyond the walls of the estate. For a moment she wished she could be out there with them, barefoot and breathless and dressed in tatters, with no past and no future and no feast to attend at Khal Drogo's manse. (AGOT, Daenerys I)
It is tragic when she believes her actions to be good and helpful, when they are often at least partly horrific, and she cannot see past her intentions and her own point of view. She is blind to her own hypocrisy. And it keeps getting worse instead of better because her inevitable failures meet "if I look back I am lost". Once she starts to truly question herself, she slips into an existential crisis that she quickly shuts down. The blood of the dragon does not weep. Her self-worth is too tied up in her dragon identity and the goal of reconquest - inevitable war, inevitable destruction, inevitable recreations of her past failures. She cannot let go of that goal, so she can never be free, and she can never be good.
Just swooning over the Jonsa vibes of Sansa dreaming of a hero to strike off Janos Slynt’s head to avenge her father and then Jon beheading him for his father 🥰
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