“I must have fire in my eyes, not tears”

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

What's interesting about Dany is that she is overtly good and heroic. The inner conflict she goes through is not due to gray morality on her part, but due to the fact that the world doesn't allow for easy choices that are overtly good and heroic. She initially tries to solve the problem of slavery in Slaver's Bay by killing the slave owners (which is inherently right) and establishing a government made up of the former slaves. Only that government is overturned because too many people are selfish and greedy. She also tries helping slaves to leave their oppressive situations with payment from their former owners, but then those slavers just continue being slavers since they were left alive. Then she tries to stay in the most recently liberated city, putting aside her own goals in the process, to reestablish a government that works for everyone, but selfish people continue to be selfish and try to reestablish the oppressive status quo in various ways.