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Okay so I am finally fully reading Dany’s chapters for the first time (The other times were only half and snippets) and during Visery’s death scene, this section stuck out to me and I haven’t seen anyone talking about it.
“Distantly, as from far away, Dany heard her handmaid Jhiqui sobbing in fear, pleading that she dared not translate, that the khal would bind her and drag her behind his horse all the way up the Mother of Mountains. She put her arm around the girl. “Don’t be afraid,” she said. “I shall tell him.”
Can we talk about this for a sec?
This is a 13/14 year old pregnant girl, who is being held at swordpoint by her abusive drunk brother, who had just been threatened of being taken back and having her unborn child cut out of her by said brother.
and yet, the minute she heard Jhiqui crying and being afraid of what would happen to her if she translated that to Khal Drogo, and the first thing she does is comfort and reassure her, that she would translate Visery’s words herself.
Can you believe that?! That a young girl is being threatened with basically death and yet still finds it within her to worry about someone else’s suffering?!
And some of y’all idiots on here still say that she is destined to go crazy and that she has “always been powerhungry and cruel”???!?!?!!
None of y’all talk to me until a semblance of a brain cell comes crawling back into that empty head of yours.
Holy fuck, I knew the show whitewashed Jorah but I didn’t realize just how MUCH! He did not learn ANYTHING from his exile/punishment! He still tries to justify slavery and then tries to make Dany give up her morals and stance on slavery!
And they way he keeps trying to touch her when she has shown multiple times throughout her chapters that she was uncomfortable with him touching her or staring at her breasts! When he kisses her, she pushes him away and tells him he shouldn’t have done that. When he gives his shit explanation, he AIN’T EVEN LOOKING HER IN THE EYE! HE’S STARING AT HER CHEST AGAIN!
He severely crossed a line for her and scared her, to the point where she always has her handmaids or her bloodriders around her in case he tries again and actively avoids him. Smells like red flags to me.
He’s a jackass through and through. How in the fucking hell did Dumbass and Dick take all that predatory behavior away and made him this sympathetic good character in the show?! RIDDLE ME THAT! They made Dany go “mAd” but made Jorah this good guy white knight? HELL FUCKING NO! I’ve been mad side eyeing those two for a while now but now alarms are ringing in my head.
Fuck that and for the 500th time, FUCK THE SHOW!
Anyways, we’re getting my favorite part. Where Dany finally does what she should’ve done from the get go and deal with those asshole, arrogant slavers.
“ “Who is Gilly?”
“The wet nurse,” said Lady Melisandre.
“Your Grace gave her freedom of the castle.”
“Not for running tales. She’s wanted for her teats, not for her tongue. I’ll have more milk from her, and fewer messages. ” “Castle Black needs no useless mouths,” Jon agreed. “I am sending Gilly south on the next ship out of Eastwatch.” Melisandre touched the ruby at her neck. “Gilly is giving suck to Dalla’s son as well as her own. It seems cruel of you to part our little prince from his milk brother, my lord.” Careful now, careful. “Mother’s milk is all they share. Gilly’s son is larger and more robust. He kicks the prince and pinches him, and shoves him from the breast. Craster was his father, a cruel man and greedy, and blood tells.” The king was confused. “I thought the wet nurse was this man Craster’s daughter?” “Wife and daughter both, Your Grace. Craster married all his daughters. Gilly’s boy was the fruit of their union.” “Her own father got this child on her?” Stannis sounded shocked. “We are well rid of her, then. I will not suffer such abominations here. This is not King’s Landing.” “I can find another wet nurse. If there’s none amongst the wildlings, I will send to the mountain clans. Until such time, goat’s milk should suffice for the boy, if it please Your Grace.” “Poor fare for a prince … but better than whore’s milk, aye.”
Why did so many boys like Stannis again, exactly? With the way Tumblr talked about him, I expected better.
God fucking help me, I’m in Jon Connington’s chapter now.
“ “The plan was to reveal Prince Aegon only when we reached Queen Daenerys,” Lemore was saying.” Good that you called her by her proper title.
“That was when we believed the girl was coming west. Our dragon queen has burned that plan to ash, and thanks to that fat fool in Pentos, we have grasped the she-dragon by the tail and burned our fingers to the bone.” As she should. Grasp anywhere else that belongs to the she-dragon and she’ll burn the rest of you, Griff.
“Illyrio could not have been expected to know that the girl would choose to remain at Slaver’s Bay.” Dany burning Illyrio’s plans is what we like to see in this house.
Okay for now on, I’m gonna keep my comments on this book on this thread
“Then put your hopes on me,” he said. “Daenerys is Prince Rhaegar’s sister, but I am Rhaegar’s son. I am the only dragon that you need.”
fAegon, those words are gonna come back and bite you with needle like teeth.
“Spoken boldly,” he said, “but think what you are saying.”
“I have,” the lad insisted. “Why should I go running to my aunt as if I were a beggar? My claim is better than her own. Let her come to me … in Westeros.” Continue to believe that, Pommie. Don’t expect your aunt to come running to you either.
“ “The plan was to reveal Prince Aegon only when we reached Queen Daenerys,” Lemore was saying.” Good that you called her by her proper title.
“That was when we believed the girl was coming west. Our dragon queen has burned that plan to ash, and thanks to that fat fool in Pentos, we have grasped the she-dragon by the tail and burned our fingers to the bone.” As she should. Grasp anywhere else that belongs to the she-dragon and she’ll burn the rest of you, Griff.
“Illyrio could not have been expected to know that the girl would choose to remain at Slaver’s Bay.” Dany burning Illyrio’s plans is what we like to see in this house.
“The first Aegon took Westeros without eunuchs,” said Lysono Maar. “Why shouldn’t the sixth Aegon do the same?” BECAUSE HE HAD DRAGONS, SMARTY PANTS. THAT THING THAT Y’ALL ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WAITING ON DANY FOR! FAEGON DOESN’T HAVE ANY OF THAT.
Why is Harry the only smart one here?
“ Griff had heard enough of the captain-general’s cowardice. “We will not be alone. Dorne will join us, must join us. Prince Aegon is Elia’s son as well as Rhaegar’s.” What do y’all think will happen when its found out that Faegon is fake? The Dornish will be BEYOND PISSED. This is gonna be good.
“That’s so,” the boy said, “and who is there left in Westeros to oppose us? A woman.” *Sighs* Faegon is not winning me over in ANY capacity.
“ “The plan was to reveal Prince Aegon only when we reached Queen Daenerys,” Lemore was saying.” Good that you called her by her proper title.
“That was when we believed the girl was coming west. Our dragon queen has burned that plan to ash, and thanks to that fat fool in Pentos, we have grasped the she-dragon by the tail and burned our fingers to the bone.” As she should. Grasp anywhere else that belongs to the she-dragon and she’ll burn the rest of you, Griff.
“Illyrio could not have been expected to know that the girl would choose to remain at Slaver’s Bay.” Dany burning Illyrio’s plans is what we like to see in this house.
“but only you can hope to wed the dragon queen.”
Wed her or fight her; either way, I will face her soon. The more Quentyn heard of Daenerys Targaryen, the more he feared that meeting.
The Yunkai’i claimed that she fed her dragons on human flesh and bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her skin smooth and supple.
Beans laughed at that but relished the tales of the silver queen’s promiscuity. “One of her captains comes of a line where the men have foot-long members,” he told them, “but even he’s not big enough for her. She rode with the Dothraki and grew accustomed to being fucked by stallions, so now no man can fill her.”
Can men stop talking about Dany? Just a suggestion.
“ “The plan was to reveal Prince Aegon only when we reached Queen Daenerys,” Lemore was saying.” Good that you called her by her proper title.
“That was when we believed the girl was coming west. Our dragon queen has burned that plan to ash, and thanks to that fat fool in Pentos, we have grasped the she-dragon by the tail and burned our fingers to the bone.” As she should. Grasp anywhere else that belongs to the she-dragon and she’ll burn the rest of you, Griff.
“Illyrio could not have been expected to know that the girl would choose to remain at Slaver’s Bay.” Dany burning Illyrio’s plans is what we like to see in this house.
“They are … they are fearsome creatures.”
“They are dragons, Quentyn.” Dany stood on her toes and kissed him lightly, once on each cheek. “And so am I.”
The young prince swallowed. “I … I have the blood of the dragon in me as well, Your Grace. I can trace my lineage back to the first Daenerys, the Targaryen princess who was sister to King Daeron the Good and wife to the Prince of Dorne. He built the Water Gardens for her.”
Sigh
Poor Quentyn. He’s trying his best but is really out of his league and out of his depth.
“ “The plan was to reveal Prince Aegon only when we reached Queen Daenerys,” Lemore was saying.” Good that you called her by her proper title.
“That was when we believed the girl was coming west. Our dragon queen has burned that plan to ash, and thanks to that fat fool in Pentos, we have grasped the she-dragon by the tail and burned our fingers to the bone.” As she should. Grasp anywhere else that belongs to the she-dragon and she’ll burn the rest of you, Griff.
“Illyrio could not have been expected to know that the girl would choose to remain at Slaver’s Bay.” Dany burning Illyrio’s plans is what we like to see in this house.
Killing a Dragon
“ If anyone had thought to ask him, Tyrion could have told them not to bother.
Unless one of those long iron scorpion bolts chanced to find an eye, the queen’s pet monster was not like to be brought down by such toys. Dragons are not so easy to kill as that. Tickle him with these and you’ll only make him angry.
The eyes were where a dragon was most vulnerable. The eyes, and the brain behind them. Not the underbelly, as certain old tales would have it. The scales there were just as tough as those along a dragon’s back and flanks. And not down the gullet either.
That was madness.
These would-be dragonslayers might as well try to quench a fire with a spear thrust. “Death comes out of the dragon’s mouth,” Septon Barth had written in his Unnatural History, “but death does not go in that way.”
DID YOU HEAR THAT, D&D? ONLY WAY TO KILL A DRAGON WITH A SCORPION IS A REALLY LUCKY SHOT THROUGH THE EYE. SOMETHING NEITHER THE NIGHT KING NOR EURON DID IN THE SHOW. ANYWHERE WITH SCALES WON’T WORK.
End of ASOIAF
“He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. Tommen has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows that kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them.” “He KnOwS WhAt iT iS LiKe To bE HuNtEd” MY ASS. Everyone thought(knows) that he’s dead so they never bothered him like they(y’all) bothered and hunted down Dany and Viserys! You all are slimy bastards! Fuck off and fuck outta here.
And With that, I have finished A Dance with Dragons and thus, ASOIAF series
Until GRRM gets his ass in gear.