#textual parallels

[skywalkr-nberrie]

The Fate of Ophelia.

“Padmé's Dream/Slipping Away” art piece for Star Wars Arts: Visions {book, 2010}, Michael Malm and Serge Michaels.

“Exhausted, Padmé falls asleep on her bed; she's dreaming of her childbirth while floating half submerged in a stillwater lake. It is the most peaceful, much-needed rest she's had in weeks, especially with the events to come." - Serge Michaels

John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851–52.

“There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come. When down her weedy trophies and herself, Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, Ande, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes.” - Queen Gertrude's monologue in Act 4, Scene 7 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

[agentrouka-blog]

loving how you ignore how aria and danny flint are family, this would concluded with daenerys and arya eventually becoming family

Jon Snow and all the Stark children are descended from Arya Flint of the Mountains, a potential distant cousin of Danny Flint. Jon is Dany's biological family, her nephew. In this way, yes, Arya is totally related to her cousin's aunt! Good observation.

Otherwise, I'm not exactly "ignoring" this piece of information so much as I don't assign it the kind of significance you seem to.

As a story, Danny Flint is extremely tragic but the element of assuming a man's role and being horrifically punished for it more closely relate to the dangerous journeys of "Arry" in the Night's Watch trek with Yoren or Brienne as a "warrior maid". There's even a touch of Quentyn Martell, who thought that acting out an adventure story would somehow protect him from the kind of grisly cruel fate that is common in their world. Not to mention Jeyne Poole, who made to disguise herself in a role that will see her brutalized as well. Wyman Manderly very cynically refers to this song during her wedding.

There's Alleras/Sarella, who uses the same ploy in the Citadel, though likely to a less horrid end.

If the name Danny Flint (a stone used in firemaking) is to be significant to Dany, it may relate to Maester Aemon's speech about the changeable sex of dragons, their misguided search for a Prince of prophecy over a Princess, and a tragic ending of a different nature.

But that's just my opinion.