𝔡𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔬𝔫 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖉

As in the books, the death of her brother wasn’t near so mysterious as people would have it out to be. Dany had been eyeing the throne for far longer than anyone could have imagined, and truly it was only after she was bolstered by the knowledge that she had agency -- that she had power -- that she actually followed through with what she’d been planning all along. She didn’t really particularly like the way things had been running before, and she felt their empire could extend far beyond the pitiful reaches of the drug trade that her brother had them middling in. And thankfully, her brother was both prideful and boastful so that she (as she had learned long ago to do) had managed to collect his secrets until things were doled out in the right times to the right people and with her having an airtight alibi that when he died not a finger could point in her direction, and she so perfectly played the grieving sister, exiled and kept secret, that even those that thought to were chastised for such things.. So was the grieving sister rife with possibilities that she was able to step up to the plate and completely take on the role of Head of The Three Dragons and use her husband’s ties to extend their reach.

With her family’s notoriety, she learned early on to cultivate her own niche of personality within the family. Her brother had all the power for the longest time, and she allowed this because it let her maintain an air of soft innocence in a family that was beside itself with scandal and intrigue. She was the sad girl who grew up beneath the boot of a family that seemed far too hard and far too darkly lit for such a sweet girl. But she is, without a doubt, a Targaryen through and through. Her ambition is as big as any before her was, only she learned that fear was not the only way to gather loyalty. People’s loyalty can be bought in many ways, and she was soft and beautiful and needed protection… right up until she didn’t. The loyalty had already cost the people she’d pulled in so much that they could not see past what she had shown them to begin with, and even now as the edges crack around her facade with all that’s going on -- and her worry that Eddard trying to contact her could lead people to her doorstep -- some still stand willing to die for Dany the soft girl of the notorious Targaryen’s.

As much as most of her soft personality was put on for the benefit of others, those who have shown loyalty to her (and continue to do so) are considered amongst her family, hence the inclusion of all the people working within The Three Dragons; it isn’t that she’s so hard she doesn’t value affection and attachment, she’s just learned that (generally speaking) as a woman you have to be twice as hard and unbending as any man in a similar position. People have questioned her several times when she first took over for her brother in TTD, but she didn’t brook insolence and they were dealt with swiftly. Some saw her as insane, or a bit harsh for that, but it made sure that everyone knew that she understood that they had -- and never would have -- questioned her brother in that same way and she would accept nothing less. Bringing in her own people and expanding the business in that way were paramount to her survival in the beginning of those days.

Though the idea of running more espionage and trading in things rather than just drugs had been a group decision -- the council of her ‘family’ was taken into consideration for most of the ways they expanded -- Dany’s own hand was responsible for the inclusion of hacking and cyber crime, realizing that in the current political climate it would be ideal to have as much information (read: dirt) on the people around them, since politics (and policies) might shift and put them further in the range of danger. She is actually fairly adept at hacking herself, but has never really had much time or reason to do so before. She also generally prefers to let people with more time (Who know their lives depend on their success) handle the bulk of their work, but she has a few dossiers that she found on some of the larger players in town that she kept a secret from everyone, even her husband, and they’re locked away… she worries sometimes Eddard may have known about some of the things she found, but even she hasn’t delved too deeply into them… because sometimes knowing secrets before they’re valuable to be used can cause more distress in your own life than it would in others. She considers them a burn-after-reading and in-case-of-emergency situation. She made sure to get all the information she could but was not too careful about reading through it for the aforementioned reasons.

Though very few (if any people still living) know, Dany was in love once before with a woman named Ciel. She wasn’t planning to fall in love, and in the end that love turned sour when the woman she had fallen for traded in their life together for the money her family had paid to see her disappear, and it was for that reason that Dany was reluctant to open her heart in the first place. Khal Drogo swept her off her feet, however, and she saw it first as a business venture that would satisfy both of them, but before she knew it she was truly enamored and utterly attached to the man. Some still silently question if it’s an actual marriage of love or just a marriage of convenience and usefulness, but both Drogo and she know that it’s real. Her love (and affection in general) are hard-fought and hard-won, but once you have them the only way to lose them is betrayal, and losing your life is as likely then as is anything else. She’s guarded for a reason.

Every morning, before her husband or anyone else in her extended family wakes, Dany wakes up and goes for a run. Usually it’s still bitterly cold when she does this, preferring it in the winter time because cold is one of the only temperature extremes she seems to feel bothered by (and she likes the challenge), but either way she goes out before the sun is up and runs the expanse of where they live and sometimes through TTD itself; it’s for exercise, and the fact that Dany -- while often refusing to back down from a challenge -- likes to have all her bases covered and every exit checked out. How fast she can get to one from any position in the place and how many side streets she can access on foot without being stopped (barring complications) means that she, and those close to her physically, will always have a way out. She does this on her own because as much as she values her family, if she dies, everything they’ve built dies… but it should be noted that if she were in such a situation, and someone were to kill everyone she loved, there would be… dire consequence. Beyond that, she just loves the runner’s high that comes from it, as she refuses to do any of the drugs that she deals in and the hardest thing she puts into her body is caffeine.