tbh i’ve gotten to the point where if i see a meta that earnestly insists that daenerys “enjoys” violence or burning people, i’m just….not wasting brain cells engaging with it. i refuse. there are better anti metas to take down.
i cannot think of a single scene in the whole series where dany enjoys violence. there are scenes like the hatching of the dragons, the sack of astapor, or daznak’s pit where she isn’t…..actively horrified by death and violence around her–but that’s usually because she’s distracted by something else (the extremely rare and magical ritual of HATCHING DRAGON EGGS, the euphoria of freeing the unsullied, getting to drogon etc). most scenes where violence occurs in front of her she tries to stop it (viserys’ “crowning”, drogo sacking villages) and the one where she causes the violence herself–the crucifixion of the 163 masters–it’s an explicit point that she’s disgusted by it, but she does it anyways because she feels like it’s the right thing. (and she’s right lol fuck them) this assumption that she enjoys violence/burning people comes entirely from the tv show where d&d directed emilia to look horny during the scene where drogo talks about taking the 7kingdoms. haaaaaaaaaate.
#y’all: dany enjoys burning people!! she loves violence!!! #asoiaf dany: feels guilty about crucifying the masters and says ‘i did it for the children’ #asoiaf dany: takes quentyn’s hand when he jumps back afraid of the dragons and says she’s scared of them sometimes too #asoiaf dany: mourns and cries over the little girl drogon burned #me: are we reading the same book here or (via @daenerys-targaryen-moved)
