Reminder For Antis Dany & Cersei Are Foils Ntm Grrm Explicitly Put Emphasis On This In His Commentary & Interviews - Tumblr Posts

Remembering this post got me thinking about a perspective in which it would make Daenerys clearly The Younger Queen.

Cersei once drew herself as flying behind Rhaegar on a dragon, but Daenerys took Rhaegar's place and the dragon is hers to ride by herself.

Cersei always wanted to have the power of the man/the King, but she can barely even conceptualise it as such. Daenerys is growing into anything she could barely imagine a continent away, and by the time she shows up she would have already "taken" all (she's THE dragon, THE dragon rider, THE Queen, all actualised in the prime of her life while she's even also still THE beauty, while Cersei wasted even that in long years of chasing scraps and despicable men giving her little in that exchange). And Cersei hardly had any of that in a dream.