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anna taylor joy as daenys the dreamer
Co-signed on that one, thank you anon
Dove Cameron could’ve been a great Viserra or Dany and Anya Taylor-Joy could’ve been a great Daenys or Saera but they’ve both had work done that makes them no longer belong in this setting to me
Actresses who should play Targaryens:
LADY GAGA and I am so serious about her as Shiera
TILDA SWINTON: Elaena, anyone? Or actually even Visenya. I know everyone loves making gifs with that one woman from Vikings but Visenya is said to be austere. Elaena is a great choice too because I think Tilda really could embody “more beautiful at 70 than at 17”
Mia Goth: she’s got that otherworldly look. Could be Daella or Deana the Defiant
Hunter Schaefer: she has a very striking facial structure and with her smile that’s a bit angled up to one side, I think she’d be a great Alyssa
Gemma Ward: EXTREMELY ethereal. I’d pick her for Daenys, Rhaenys the conquerer, Naerys, or even Dany
Julia Garner: perhaps Rhaena the black bride or Deena the defiant?
Abbey Lee Kershaw: perhaps Saera as an adult? She has such striking features and a real intensity to her
Bella Heathcote: Rhaena daughter of Aegon III, perhaps? Could also do Naerys or Dany
preasoiaf appreciation week: day one • historical period
The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted.
“As its apex Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Within its shining walls, twoscore rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle, oft savage struggle for dominance. The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the dragonlords, and their rivals saw their flight to Dragonstone as an act of surrender, as cowardice. But Lord Aenar’s maiden daughter Daenys, known forever afterward as Daenys the Dreamer, had foreseen the destruction of Valyria by fire. And when the Doom came twelve years later, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive.”
“Crying like Cassandra… I used to tell the future, but they cut out my tongue, and left me doing laundry to think in what I’ve done.”
House Targaryen From Daenys to Daenerys and Young Griff
or
The Dreamer, The Mother, and The Mummer
purchase as a print here
Daenys and her baby Balerion
You can't convince me he wasn't spoiled.
♦ DAENYS "THE DREAMER" TARGARYEN: The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the dragonlords, and their rivals saw their flight to Dragonstone as an act of surrender, as cowardice. But Lord Aenar’s maiden daughter Daenys, known forever afterward as Daenys the Dreamer, had foreseen the destruction of Valyria by fire. And when the Doom came twelve years later, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive.
Daenys the Dreamer
I was supposedly giving her a couch but I got overstimulated from drawing nonstop last August 😭 hope y'all like her 💗
but also... COMMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN 💌💌💌
I'm sure this has probably already been pointed out, but it's interesting to think about the historically significant Targaryens who had the same name or a similar name to Daenerys.
Daenys the Dreamer - Saved all of House Targaryen from the Doom with her prophetic vision. A woman whose dreams came true. Could be argued is the very foundation of House Targaryen even more so than Aegon I because Aegon could have never conquered the Seven Kingdom if his ancestors were wiped out by the Doom.
Princess Daenerys Targaryen I - Firstborn daughter of Queen Alysanne and King Jaehaerys. Early walker, talker, and reader. A lively, laughing child, often mud-spattered and grass-stained. She died young, but Alysanne fought for her to become Jaehaerys' heir over her younger brother Aemon and to rule as Queen in her own right.
Princess Daenerys Targaryen II - Daughter of King Aegon the Unworthy and Queen Naerys. The Daenerys that our Dany is named after. Born 19 years after her older brother. Mother was trapped in an abusive, unloving marriage. Said to have loved Daemon Blackfyre but set aside her personal desires for duty to marry Maron Martell to further solidify peace with Dorne. Began the tradition of opening the Water Gardens to the common children of the palace. And was remembered mainly for her compassion.
You can say that this naming convention is just a little easter egg that was included by George simply to create literary parallels to our Dany and that's probably true. But it feels like George is subtly hinting that Dany has been this figure whose birth has been heralded for centuries.
You can see little echos of her story in other Danys throughout history. And now, in THIS incarnation as Daenerys Stormborn, she is all those Danys and more. She is the wide-eyed, clever, grass-stained young girl learning to become a Queen in the Dorthraki Sea. She is the Dany who was born from an abusive loveless marriage but still became a compassionate leader even though it meant making personal sacrifices (including entering a politically advantage marriage) of her own. A woman whose dreams come true and who rules in her own right. Daenys the Dreamer and Aegon I.
Daenys the Dreamer
Honestly enamoured by divine, slightly uncanny targaryen women. I love them.
Daenys the Dreamer
I was supposedly giving her a couch but I got overstimulated from drawing nonstop last August 😭 hope y'all like her 💗
but also... COMMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN 💌💌💌
Daenys the Dreamer
“Crying like Cassandra… I used to tell the future, but they cut out my tongue, and left me doing laundry to think in what I’ve done.”
House Targaryen From Daenys to Daenerys and Young Griff
or
The Dreamer, The Mother, and The Mummer
purchase as a print here
the dreamer and the dream.
Ummm do you guys think Daenys the Dreamer most likely went mad with the revelation. Like she went to sleep one night and woke up the next day knowing in her bones that her entire culture would soon be decimated in an apocalyptic event so horrific that five hundred years later the ruins would still be smoking. Everything she knew would be gone and the only ones she could convince of the truth were her family. A small enclave of people out of an entire, ancient civilization. The rest doomed to die. She probably spent the rest of her days catatonic with the sheer terror of it all. So yeah anyways