You Are In Love - Requested By Anonymous

You Are In Love - requested by anonymous

I keep seeing posts saying Dany's entire claim to the throne is Aerys. You know, the mad evil tyrant who killed 2 Starks.

So many discredit Dany as a Princess, as a Targaryen, as a contender for the Throne, as a Valyrian, and as a Westerosi because of him. Who is she but tainted and fraudulent because of her ties to him?

And that is offensive.

I have my biological father's last name and his eyes. I've only met him twice. He was a drug addict and spent years in prison. I'm still mixed with black and a descendant of that last name. It doesn't matter whether I acknowledge him or not. Bloodlines aren't just your parents. I have ancestors from more than one bloodline who were living in the US for centuries, long before the current POTUS's grandfather ever arrived here.

I found out as an adult that I have brothers and sisters from my father's side.

Daenerys is directly descended from every King & Queen who ruled Westeros for 3 centuries. Her bloodline can be traced back 400 years in Westeros. She is a Targaryen through both her parents. She is related to over a dozen Kings and has a claim to the throne regardless of Aerys. Her mom Rhaella was the daughter of a King & Queen and the grandaughter of a King & Queen and the great grandaughter of a King & Queen and so forth and so forth.

Daenerys inspirada en los libros

House Targaryen’s best core trait is willing to think outside the box. 

The reason House Targaryen survives the Doom of Valyria is because Daenys has a prophetic dream and her father Aenar listens to her and uproots his entire family, despite being mocked by the other Valyrian dragonlords. Despite what we think of conquest and considering all the Westerosi houses exist because of conquest, Aegon had a vision of a unified Westeros instead of the squabbling regions he saw. He saw something none of the other kings of Westeros saw and he made it happen even while respecting each regions’ cultures and traditions. Daeron the Good united all the 7 kingdoms peacefully when he brought Dorne into the fold by marriage rather than the sword. Alysanne ended the tradition of First Night, where lords could sleep with a bride on her wedding night.  Aegon the Unlikely sought to reduce the powers of the high lords and pass reforms favorable to smallfolk. This continues on with Rhaegar, Dany, and Jon, for good or ill. 

Targaryens’ core identity seems to be looking at existing social structures and saying “nah.” Maybe it’s because like the quote says “Like their dragons, Targaryens answered to neither god nor man” and obviously this trait has gone very wrong in some people’s hands. But at its best? it’s a soaring epic trait. 

HOUSE TARGARYEN of Dragonstone is a noble family of Valyrian descent who once ruled the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. The Targaryen sigil is a three-headed dragon breathing flames, red on black. The house words are “Fire and Blood”.

Dragons going extinct because of misogyny is actually crazy when you think about it and then hundreds of years later a little girl being the one to bring it back is so poetic like Dany really is the one.