ASOIAF'S RULE OF THREE

ASOIAF'S RULE OF THREE

The two times a Stark-Targaryen marriage was alluded

This we do know: Cregan Stark and Jacaerys Velaryon reached an accord, and signed and sealed the agreement that Grand Maester Munkun calls “the Pact of Ice and Fire” in his True Telling. Like many such pacts, it was to be sealed with a marriage. Lord Cregan’s son, Rickon, was a year old. Prince Jacaerys was as yet unmarried and childless, but it was assumed that he would sire children of his own once his mother sat the Iron Throne. Under the terms of the pact, the prince’s firstborn daughter would be sent north at the age of seven, to be fostered at Winterfell until such time as she was old enough to marry Lord Cregan’s heir. [Fire and Blood]

"MY LORDS!" he shouted, his voice booming off the rafters. "Here is what I say to these two kings!" He spat. "Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong. The Others take the Lannisters too, I've had a bellyful of them." He reached back over his shoulder and drew his immense two-handed greatsword. "Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead!" He pointed at Robb with the blade. "There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords," he thundered. "The King in the North!" [Catelyn XI, AGOT]

... and the time such a marriage will come to fruition 😏

A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness. . . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . . [Daenerys IV, ACOK]

I just wanted to write down some of my Jon/Dany thoughts before I go to sleep. This isn’t in tracked tags, and I’m sorry I can’t help it about search. I don’t wanna argue with people about this, ok?

(this is about the books, this is about ships I like, (this is about tywin), this is about asoiaf themes, please do not talk to me about that show)

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the discourse for today is "dany stans" are making up that daenerys is magical

when literally

daenerys is azor ahai. ( When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone. The bleeding star has come and gone, and Dragonstone is the place of smoke and salt. ) daenerys hatches dragons for the first time in centuries & this rebirth is quickly followed shierak qiya, the red comet.

george said it himself: "The whole point of the scene in A Game of Thrones where Daenerys hatches the dragons is that she makes the magic up as she goes along; she is someone who really might do anything."

she spends the first novel having dragon dreams that result in the resurrection of dragons

the warlocks in the house of the undying want to cannibalize her & her magic to become stronger themselves

this entire passage btw:

"Half a year gone, that man could scarcely wake fire from dragonglass. He had some small skill with powders and wildfire, sufficient to entrance a crowd while his cutpurses did their work. He could walk across hot coals and make burning roses bloom in the air, but he could no more aspire to climb the fiery ladder than a common fisherman could hope to catch a kraken in his nets." Dany looked uneasily at where the ladder had stood. Even the smoke was gone now, and the crowd was breaking up, each man going about his business. In a moment more than a few would find their purses flat and empty. "And now?" "And now his powers grow, Khaleesi. And you are the cause of it." "Me?" She laughed. "How could that be?" The woman stepped closer and lay two fingers on Dany's wrist. "You are the Mother of Dragons, are you not?" (ACOK, Daenerys III)

ALSO claiming daenerys is male gaze is so whack when you know damn well she's a genre breaking character

The Parallels between Jon & Daenerys and Aemon & Naerys

The parallels of Aemon the Dragonknight and Naerys Targaryen strongly parallel that of Daenerys and Jon Snow, and may suggest what will become of their future relationship in the books. 

Daenerys and Naerys

Physical Appearance

Daenerys is often suggested to look like Queen Naerys. George RR Martin gave a series of descriptions for the previous Targaryens, found in Westeros.org.  

 “She was a wisp of a woman, smaller even than Dany (to whom she bears a certain resemblence), very slender, with big purple eyes and fine, pale, porcelain skin, near translucent.”- So Spake Martin (Naerys Targaryen)

“She’s too skinny,” Viserys said….. “And stand up straight. Let him see you have breasts. Gods know, you have little enough as it is.” - Daenerys I, AGOT

From these passages we can see that George himself likened Naerys to Dany (there is nothing in the novels that I can find where characters directly parallel the two). Both are described as slender with the typical Valyrian silver-gold hair and purple eyes. Now, obviously most of the Targaryen women share these traits, however I think it is worth noting that this specific parallel was drawn. Dany is also noted to be stronger than Naerys was. 

Family 

Aegon IV is paralleled to Viserys - both men covet their sisters and desire to marry them. Of course, only Aegon succeeded. But both of them have little regard for their sister’s happiness and wellbeing. 

Naerys: “I have done my duty by you, and given you an heir. I beg you, let us live henceforth as brother and sister.” Aegon: “That is what we are doing.” - A World of Ice and Fire

The greed of both men are incredibly similar, in both their want for their sisters, and for wealth and the crown. It can also pointed out that both are given negative nicknames, such as Aegon ‘The Unworthy’ and Viserys ‘The Beggar King’. 

There is also a physical resemblance between Aegon and Illyrio Mopatis who also had a hand in Daenerys’ marriage. 

Jon and Aemon the Dragonknight

Jon’s Connection to Aemon

Jon Snow has already met a Targaryen - Aemon, maester of the Night’s Watch, who was named for the Dragonknight. From there, the seeds of Aemon have been planted. First of all the speculation that his Targaryen name will be Aemon. Here’s a cool post that has convinced me that his name will be Aemon. But there is also more! In ASOS Jon remembers his playfights with Robb. They would call out the names of different heroes. 

Robb called himself King Daeron I - known as the Boy King, just as Robb was known as the Boy/Young Wolf. Both these men died young, on campaign. Florian the Fool was also mentioned, and while the legend isn’t as similar, Robb is also remarked as foolish for falling in love. We now can see that some similarities can be drawn from this play battle. If parallels between Robb’s (now ended) life, it can be assumed that there could be parallels for Jon as well. Jon proclaims himself Lord of Winterfell, to which Robb replies he can’t because he is a bastard. Jon is offered the chance to be Lord of Winterfell by Stannis, which he refuses. This could be the parallel however I think it may allude to a later point in the Winds of Winter. Jon also calls out he is Aemon the Dragonknight. With this other assumptions, it is clear there is probably symbolism within this scene, therefore Jon’s parallels to Aemon are strengthened. 

There is also the matter of the orders that they joined. Aemon joined the Kingsguard, a celibate order, just as Jon joined the celibate Night’s Watch. The Kingsguard were also widely respected at the time, and wear white cloaks. When Jon joined the NW, it was a place for criminals, all dressed in black. 

Family and Marriage

Aemon was reported to have loved Naerys Targaryen, and quarreled with her husband Aegon during the wedding. This can be paralleled with Jon Snow and ‘Arya’. Jon undoubtedly loves Arya the most out of his siblings, and there is undertones of romance, which many Jonrya blogs could show you. Jon also was furious when he believed ‘Arya’ was getting married to Ramsay Bolton. 

“His fingers closed around the parchment. Would that they could crush Ramsay Bolton’s throat as easily.” - Jon VI, ADWD

Jon may not have been present at the wedding, but his displeasure at the marriage is very clear. But we also have Daenerys’ parallels to Naerys and Aegon’s wedding as well in her wedding to Khal Drogo. 

This was an unwanted wedding for both women, with Naerys crying during the bedding, just as Daenerys did …When he turned to look at her, she began to cry. Khal Drogo stared at her tears, his face strangely empty of expression. “No,” he said. - Daenerys II, AGOT

But we see that actually this situation (while obviously still rape, I in no way support Dany x Drogos relationship) improves somewhat for Dany, while Naerys suffers abuse until her death. 

What It Means For The Future

We now have more interesting deviations in our hands. GRRM has noted that Dany is stronger than Naerys - she escapes her abusive brother, her marriage, and has agency. Jon as well, a bastard who is part of an order that is a glorified prison colony, compared to legitimate Aemon, of the great Kingsguard. 

These opposites most likely suggest that Jon and Daenerys will have happier lives together while Aemon and Naerys died young, without each other. Aemon and Naerys were a tragedy, and perhaps Jon and Daenerys will be a subversion of their story. 

"She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud" Jon might be not mud like Quentyn was but he ain't fire either. y'all just focused on foreshadowing that can mean a variety of things and not that they are not each other's types so they normally can't be attracted to each other unless Jon after his resurrection turns him into some daring fuckboy or some romantic prince charming which is unlikely.

Anon, are you sure you’re not the one stretching the text to make it mean what you want it to mean?  "She wants fire", Jon isn’t fire,  therefore Jon isn’t her type? Phew. 

Anyway, Jon is daring (he’s hosting a wildling giant at the Wall, for Pete’s sake!) and he is romantic (dreaming of making love with Ygritte in the Godswood, showing her winter flowers at Winterfell, woah) and he might even be a prince, for all we know so far. He’s 16, give or take? So probably horny, as most 16 years old boys are, and Shireen, Alys Karstark, Val and Ygritte all seem to find him charming enough, so I’m not sure what your point is here.

you know how to make a girl fall in love with you

you have a deep conversation about the dynamic of jon snow and daenerys and how they are twin flames connected by a red thread. their stories are interwoven. they were interwoven even before their conception. they are destined for each other.

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