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Khal Drogo
I know I went on earlier about a Marvel/Game of Thrones crossover fic, but I just had this weird image of Aquaman and Wonder Woman commiserating about falling for hot Targaryen girls. Someone please write the fic and link me :)
sansa antis are so funny to me because like. we have a book full of character that straight up commited war crimes. we have a guy who tried to murder a 7 y.o. twice. we have a rich guy who kills a sex worker for testifying against him. we have a girl who tries to kill her brother for being disabled. we have a guy who straight up kills and tortures people as a form of entertainment. we have a guy who strikes his wife. we have tywin fucking lannister. we have a guy who repeatedly rapes his childbride. we have a guy who sold people to slavery. we have a guy who kills his own brother and also burns people alive. we have a guy who likes murdering people. the list is endless. but noooo, the character you hate the most is this 11 y.o. girl, who is mean to her sister and isn't just smart enough to understand political schemes and manipulation tactics. a terrible, vile creature.
Then you shall return to me, my sun and stars.
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On the consummation of their marriage: I do still believe that was rape; by saying he was gentle I only meant that he did not physically harm her and seemed upset by her tears, in contrast to subsequent couplings where she was in pain and he didn’t care when she cried.
I really wish Irri or Jhiqui had been a perspective character. I’d really like to know what other Dothraki thought of Drogo and his relationship to Dany. Or even Doreah, although she’s not Dothraki, she is a grown adult unlike Dany, Jhiqui, and Irri, and would have more wisdom.
Her marriage to Drogo is so sad. I really think her love for him is a coping mechanism. Many victims come to love their abusers and will excuse their actions endlessly, which is a really difficult mindset to escape. It was also likely a product of the way Viserys abused her. Viserys was overtly violent and threatened her routinely, and she loved him anyway. Drogo, who offered her protection, must have seemed much better. When someone has been abused by someone so close to them for so many years, they may fail to recognize what it really means to be treated with love.
What do you think of Khal Drogo? As someone who relates to and projects onto Daenerys more than any other fictional character, I have really complex feelings about him. I relate to Dany so much that I feel what she feels as I read. I felt her fear of him at first, then her love, and her grief. But as a 24 year old woman now, I cannot help but feel revulsion in my gut about a man older than I am bedding a girl of her age. I know that we can assume taking wives that young was acceptable for the Dothraki but it still twists my gut that he felt attracted to her. I also question the nature of their love. She certainly loved him, but was it a love born out of Stockholm syndrome? Of survival? Did she come to love him because if she didn’t, she would’ve gone mad? And did he truly love her? He was gentle when they consummated their marriage but then continued to bed her even when she cried. Did he simply love her as the mother of his unborn child? Would he have loved her had she not conceived? There’s also the matter that he declared that he wanted to rape the wives of Westerosi knights and enslave their children, which are things that are obviously condemnable, things that Dany herself is not okay with. What do you think?
Hi nonnie! I totally understand relating to Dany, so first of all there's nothing wrong with feeling her love and grief for Drogo. It just means Dany's chapters are very well-written, and Dany is herself a very-well written character. You can feel what she's feeling when you're reading and still know that Drogo raped her. If some people come at you for this, ignore them.
He did rape her even the first time. Some will argue that she said yes in the end, but she said no before. She was sold to him, she spent the whole chapter fearing what would happen, and she didn't have a choice. What would have happened if she hadn't finally said yes, one time? He would have let it go? Of course not. I also have to talk about the reactions someone’s body can have, as it’s used to say Drogo didn’t rape Dany as much as her finally saying “yes”. It happens more often than people think it does. A man can be raped by a woman, for example, and his body will react to make it possible. I’m trying to not be too graphic here, but it’s important. Well, a woman’s body can also have a reaction that people will consider as consent, when it’s not. This belongs in the list of the very long reasons why a victim of rape or sexual assault will not consider themselves as a victim, or will not dare to go to the police nowadays.
Another thing: when I say Dany was sold to Drogo, I'm not just talking about an arranged marriage which benefits both parties, like it happens in Westeros. First, the Dothraki culture is very different (for example, Drogo could have shared her), and Illyrio made profit of this wedding, which means she was traded. She was a slave, not just a woman in an arranged marriage. She knows what it's like, and that's why she's fighting slavery afterwards.
Basically, Dany didn't have a choice during her marriage to Drogo. Never. Yes, she cried. Yes, she was afraid. Yes, he raped her more than once, because she didn't consent. And saying yes once (although I’ve talked about how this “yes” doesn’t mean it wasn’t rape) doesn’t mean you consent for the next times. While the concept of marital rape didn't exist in those times, we know what it was:
“Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the dark, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion. He always took her from behind, Dothraki fashion, for which Dany was grateful; that way her lord husband could not see the tears that wet her face, and she could use her pillow to muffle her cries of pain.”
Daenerys III, A Game of Thrones
She thinks about suicide as the only way out:
“Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night.”
Daenerys III, A Game of Thrones
She made the best of her situation though, to survive. What's interesting in Dany's chapters is that she blames her brother Viserys. I'm not saying she's wrong, but she's not blaming Drogo. Why? Because after adapting to the Dothraki culture, Dany felt safe with Drogo, loved even. It's called being an unreliable narrator, and as we read Dany's chapters in the first book, we can start thinking she's with a man she loves and who loves her. It's not the case: she's his slave. It’s only when Dany stops showing weakness that he seems to care about her. But Drogo also had a powerful impact on her. Dany starts to make decisions and come into power after her marriage to Drogo. She starts to stand up to her abusive brother after her marriage to Drogo. So her own feelings towards Drogo are still very confused:
“Do you know what it is like to be sold, squire? I do. My brother sold me to Khal Drogo for the promise of a golden crown. Well, Drogo crowned him in gold, though not as he had wished, and I... my sun-and-stars made a queen of me, but if he had been a different man, it might have been much otherwise. Do you think I have forgotten how it felt to be afraid?”
Daenerys II, A Storm of Swords
This is just one example, but while Dany is against slavery and does realize she was Drogo’s possession, in her mind Drogo was good to her.
No, I don't believe Drogo ever loved Dany. The nicest things he says about her is when she's carrying his son. But it's very hard to guess what Drogo is thinking, as we don't have his POV. In fact, a huge issue with GRRM is that he doesn’t give any backstory to Drogo or any Dothraki. We do have a backstory or a POV for characters who are abusers and/or rapists, but they’re white. Without knowing anything about Drogo besides Dany’s thoughts, it’s easy to either romantize him or villainize him more than the others.
In the Dothraki culture, for Drogo, there’s literally nothing wrong with what he said he would do to get the throne for his son (again, it’s not for Dany). She’s not okay with it, because as much as she adapted to the Dothraki culture to survive, she’s against rape and slavery. She put a stop to the rape and enslaving of the Lhazareen women because she believes it to be wrong, despite having come to value aspects of the Dothraki culture.
“Princess”, he said, “you have a gentle heart, but you do not understand. This is how it has always been. Those men have shed blood for the khal. Now they claim their reward.”
Daenerys VII, A Game of Thrones
When Jorah tells her this, he’s stating a fact. Is there even a word for rape in Dothraki? They don’t understand why Dany says she wants no rape, she’s even being told that those riders do honor to those women. Why am I going there, after explaining that Drogo didn’t love Dany, that she was raped many times, that she was a slave? Because you asked me what I thought of Drogo, not just his relationship with Daenerys. And the answer is: I don’t know, because I don’t know him, only what he did to Daenerys.
It is Drogo I want, my sun-and-stars, Dany reminded herself. Not Irri, and not Ser Jorah, only Drogo.
—Daenerys II, A Storm of Swords
This part is so interesting to analyze. She reminded herself. I think it’s definitely true that she doesn’t actually desire Irri and certainly not Jorah, but why does it have to be Drogo? Why mustn’t she desire anyone else? She forced herself to remain fixed on what is out of reach. He’s dead.
This could be a few things, in my mind. Or a combination of them. The first is that it’s just a result of the psychological damage that was unquestionably done to her by her relationship with Drogo. I definitely believe Dany has Stockholm syndrome. She had to love Drogo, or else she would’ve gone mad. Her fixation on him and need to maintain her desire for him could be the lingering effects of this. It’s a bit ironic that one of her mantras is “If I look back I am lost,” because she doesn’t truly abide by it in all cases. In many things, she keeps her focus forward, on the future. But when it comes to romance, she can only look back. She is refusing to look forward. She can only long for what she has lost. This may be projection based on my own experiences, but I’d imagine part of it is a psychological need to maintain a positive view of her relationship with Drogo. She needs to hang onto it as something nostalgic. She has some cognitive dissonance about it here. In the very same chapter, she says this:
“Do you know what it is like to be sold, squire? I do. My brother sold me to Khal Drogo for the promise of a golden crown.”
She is able to recognize that being sold was horrible, and that selling her was a terrible thing to do. But she does not take this a step further and acknowledge that someone BOUGHT her. There’s another side to the exchange. To be sold, she also had to be bought. But should she acknowledge that Drogo bought her, it would cast him in a negative light, and she cannot allow that to tarnish the memory of the love she felt for him. Likewise, she’s also considering buying soldiers at this point, and probably doesn’t want to acknowledge that. I know from having watched the show that she buys them and gives them freedom, but at this point, she’s still figuring it out. She must continue to desire Drogo, to view him in a positive light, or else the nostalgic memory of her idealized romance with him will fall apart. To her, looking forward to new romance, desiring someone new, may very well represent the first crack in this flawless memory of love lost.
This could additionally be a result of how she’s been treated by other men. Viserys was an abusive monster for most of their time together. He and Ilyrio conspired to sell her. Most of the men in her Khal abandoned her. The men of Quarth sought to manipulate and take advantage of her. Jorah is loyal, but does not respect her boundaries and clearly has made her uncomfortable. Drogo bought her and raped her but she’s mentally set aside these things because he also gave her power for the first time in her life. She does not know what it is truly like to be treated with love and gentleness by a man. When Drogo is, in her eyes, the man who has treated her the best, some part of her is afraid that no man will ever treat her as “well” or better. She must cling to his memory and fear new romance because on some level she sees Drogo as an exception, the one man who could love her.
Finally, this could be a preemptive coping mechanism for rejection. At this point in the story, she’s been rejected many times. The realm rejected her lineage when they accepted Robert as king. In selling her to Drogo, her brother rejected her as a wife even though it’s customary for Targaryens to wed brother to sister. Most of her Khal rejected her when Drogo died, even those she had saved. She was rejected numerous times in Quarth by the various groups she tried to appeal to. She expresses feelings of apprehension about returning to Westeros for fear they will reject her again. A dead man who (in her eyes) loved her cannot reject her. To cast out her own desire for other lovers is to save herself from the threat of rejection.
I look forward to seeing her grow from this and see herself as someone truly lovable and recognize what it means to truly BE loved.
With so many different theories predicting Dany’s downfall and death, it can be easy to forget that, by successfully waking dragons out of stone, Dany was established as Azor Ahai Reborn/Prince that Was Promised, Drogo as her Nissa Nissa and the dragons as her Lightbringer. Also, as a result, the Fridged Woman trope was gender flipped; while the male protagonist’s female love interest is most often killed off for the sake of his development (the trope is even played straight with AA/NN to be contrasted with Dany/Drogo), in Dany’s story her husband is sacrificed to further her development and to allow her to save the world.
So, to bring attention to how GRRM played with the trope, I commissioned a fanart from @kill-a13 depicting Daenerys Targaryen literally driving a flaming sword through her husband. Some notes that I gave to the artist:
I asked them to show Lightbringer glowing with red and black flame (the color of the dragon that Dany ultimately rides) while Drogo is stabbed to represent the fact that the dragons (which are heavily implied to be Lightbringer; like the Red Sword of Heroes, they are drawn from the fire and described as “hot to the touch” and “a flaming sword above the world”) were born partly thanks to his sacrifice. Pretend that the flames are there.
I asked them to draw Dany wearing armor, just like in her dragon dream from AGOT Daenerys IX. In that scene, we’re primed to expect Rhaegar to be “the last dragon” wearing armor, but then Dany lifts the visor and sees herself instead. That moment breaks our expectations and is representative of Dany succeeding her brother and becoming a leader and a hero in her own right. So I thought it’d be fitting to have her wearing armor because both her dragon dream and this piece highlight her tendency to surpass her male relatives in everything.
I asked them to include the red comet (also unsubtly called the dragon’s tail) because it appears for the first time right before Dany lights the pyre and hatches her dragon eggs (making it extremely likely that it specifically heralds her rebirth amidst salt and smoke to wake dragons out of stone).
I asked them to draw dragon wings coming out of Dany’s back to symbolize her rebirth as the Mother of Dragons (“I know that somewhere out upon the grass her dragons hatched, and so did she”). I told them to paint them red because she’s “a true Targaryen”.
I asked them to show Dany looking unhappy because her husband entered a vegetative state for reasons outside of her control. Her decision to put him out of his misery was nowhere near as morally questionable as Azor Ahai sacrificing Nissa Nissa (in fact, even if 14-year-old Dany had planned to kill him, she would have been justified because she was his sex slave). Neither were the sacrifices of Rhaego and MMD; the former was murdered by MMD and the latter was executed like any noble would have done to punish their child’s murderer.
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"she has grieved for a brother and a husband and a son..."
It's a redraw of this old Daenerys art (one of my very first 😊)
Daenerys Targaryen Appreciation Week
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Dany hungered and thirsted with the rest of them. The milk in her breasts dried up, her nipples cracked and bled, and the flesh fell away from her day by day until she was lean and hard as a stick, yet it was her dragons she feared for. Her father had been slain before she was born, and her splendid brother Rhaegar as well. Her mother had died bringing her into the world while the storm screamed outside. Gentle Ser Willem Darry, who must have loved her after a fashion, had been taken by a wasting sickness when she was very young. Her brother Viserys, Khal Drogo who was her sun-and-stars, even her unborn son, the gods had claimed them all. They will not have my dragons, Dany vowed. They will not.
They will not have my dragons, Dany vowed. They will not. — ACOK, Daenerys I
Freya Allan as book!Daenerys Targaryen, Heath Ledger as book!Rhaegar Targaryen, Alexandra Moen as book!Rhaella Targaryen, André Dussollier as book!Willem Darry & Jamie Campbell Bower as book!Viserys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen Appreciation Week
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Dany hungered and thirsted with the rest of them. The milk in her breasts dried up, her nipples cracked and bled, and the flesh fell away from her day by day until she was lean and hard as a stick, yet it was her dragons she feared for. Her father had been slain before she was born, and her splendid brother Rhaegar as well. Her mother had died bringing her into the world while the storm screamed outside. Gentle Ser Willem Darry, who must have loved her after a fashion, had been taken by a wasting sickness when she was very young. Her brother Viserys, Khal Drogo who was her sun-and-stars, even her unborn son, the gods had claimed them all. They will not have my dragons, Dany vowed. They will not.
The Gods are cruel. Sometimes they make you live.
(insp)
the fact that so many people unironically ship dany with drogo as like, a ROMANTIC pairing is so baffling to me. like. how. how to you justify this.