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Ok, folks, Daenerys didn't get her name as an "apology" to Dorne (as well as Viserys getting engaged to Arianne). She doesn't "owe" them nor is she seen as someone who owes them, but as family - sealed as such by tragedy even as they have no recent blood relatives to share.
Rather, by the time Dany is born, Targaryens and Martells (having been allies before, with Aerys as a sore spot and all) they are united further in the greatest grief (the killing of shared related little children) done onto them by a third party (Lannisters/Rebels). This one act that wouldn't be justified in any situation or world and will never not be condemned by the narrative sets them aside from the others and together, sharing an understanding of a tragedy that is theirs to bear in between them alone.
Fandom keeps trying to set them apart from the other, make up antagonism that is supposedly already there or that needs nothing much to be there in the future; they try to associate Martells with the Rebels and against Targaryens as victims of some centralised guilt in spite of it literally being the other way around.
Those children were killed, and it doesn't matter who did it and who is secretly sorry or not. It matters that the Rebels shook Tywin's hand and thanked him, and whatever Targaryen guilt is there in the entire affair, in this they are victims as much as Dorne, the Rebels alienating themselves from them as an united front in the one situation in which they are the unquestionable villains to both.
Your daily reminder that Dorne and Targaryens are not opposing factions, that their relationship is defined by their first union onwards, not by their very old initial antagonism back in the days of old hundreds of years before, that Rhaenys and Aegon were also Targaryens, and that both Houses were victims of the Rebels & co in the murders of Elia and the kids.
They were family. They've been family for a long time. Arianne calls them family in present time. Doran does not believe in a pipe dream fake!Aegon being sold to him by interesting parties trying to take advantage of his grief, but he believes in Daenerys.
House Martell/Dorne are not your convenient anti-Targaryen mouthpieces.
Nervously Dany gathered the reins in her hands and slid her feet into the short stirrups. She was only a fair rider; she had spent far more time traveling by ship and wagon and palanquin than by horseback. Praying that she would not fall off and disgrace herself, she gave the filly the lightest and most timid touch with her knees.
And for the first time in hours, she forgot to be afraid. Or perhaps it was for the first time ever.
Daenerys Targaryen & her Silver, commissioned from vintrage (tumblr)
Idk about yall but when dany said "a dragon is not a slave" i felt my soul being freed from the shackles humanity has put on itself and then i wrote 293746 essays about it.
Idk how many times ive already explained how targaryens caused the death of dragons by being selfish and using them like slaves. And then, even after generations, when other targaryens tried to awaken dragons, they were doing it for selfish reasons and because they wanted the house targaryen to be powerful as it once was again.
And then dany came, and she didnt treat dragons like slaves. She didnt try to awake them for her own gain but because she was constantly getting dreams about drogon. The dragons awoke because she was HER, bro. She was dany at that moment of her life.
Stepping into the fire, she genuinely thought that that would be the last moments of her life, yet she still did that.
The kindest soul in the world yall.
And only then she locked viserion and rhaegal in the pyramid (or smth), was when they were being threats to human lives.
This is one of those Dany posts who think they are doing something good by distancing her from her entire family and posing her as the only good person in a mass of insane and evil people. Which isn't true. (Dany does comprise THE BEST of House Targaryen, but that's why because there was always scattered good as was bad, as is perfectly normal in any group of people/families, btw). Nor is the generalisation about Targaryen RE: dragons true.
Were there Targaryen who saw dragons as mere means to an end/living weapons to use? Yes. But they ARE typically depicted as THE bad sort. Maegor who waited to claim only the biggest and most imposing dragon because he saw it as a distinction. The Greens (and here I am talking Aemond who did the same with Vaghar and the non-Targaryen Greens who did not even get it TM or cared; even Aegon II and Haelena seemed to have had a bond with theirs). Even Aegon son of Aenys (son of Aegon I). Like, yes, he was an unpracticed rider going against a bigger, stronger one, but he also basically picked one up randomly as an utility without any actual regard.
(I wouldn't even regard the one attempt to bring dragons - Aegon V - as selfish? Really now? Aegon V is the least selfish kind of King and he was very much doing it for well meaning reasons?? He didn't GET it, and was naive rather about a lot of things, but that's another conversation. I would even rather argue that at this point they've been so many generations detached from living dragons that "not getting it" is actually in a sad way denoting that loss of a very important part of them).
But typically that was NOT how Targaryens (who do it right) see dragons. They bond for life. They care. They hurt and grieve for the dragons and dragons hurt and grieve for them. They see the dragons as equals if not higher beings. They call THEMSELVES "dragons" and "of dragon blood" because why else if not seeing it as a distinction to be so?
So, as with anything else, it's not that Dany does something that her too entirely evil and ugly shit family couldn't. It's in fact one of those "good/well done" stuff from her family that Dany does the right way.
the interpretation where the relationship between rhaegar and lyanna was a pure business transaction and she was dismayed to realise he didn't care about her whatsoever has one major flaw in that during the rebellion, lyanna was potentially the most valuable political hostage considering the leaders of the rebellion were her brother and betrothed and yet she was never used like one. and that's probably not due to aerys not thinking about it, considering he even made elia into a political hostage, so he probably just didn't have the option to pull the same shit with lyanna. i find the most likely explanation that rhaegar left all three of the kingsguard at the toj because if the king asked any of them, they'd have to reveal the location and honestly you don't take your guard-sworn-to-only-tell-truth friends with you if you're intending to lie, divert and withold information which is presumably what he was doing considering nobody seems to have bothered lyanna until after the war ended. very notably though, rhaegar did not use her as a hostage either and i see no reason why he wouldn't have, if he was a stone cold bitch who saw her only as an incubator. over and over in this fandom i have the urge to point out that it shouldn't be a radical take to say feelings were involved and that it actually takes more convoluted mental gymnastics to explain how someone is a total sociopath who made every mistake on purpose than to just accept that sometimes people do poorly thought out things out of emotion and sometimes they backfire on them since they don't have future sight and can't predict the way dominos will fall
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lady Jocelyn baratheon daughter of lord rogar baratheon and queen alyssa velaryon, wife of prince aemon targaryen (the pale prince) mother of rhaenys targaryen (the queen who never was),.. at sixteen years old she was one of great beauties of the realm, she had thick, straight, and incredibly long hair, dark as a raven's wing, that cascaded down to her waist., standing just an inch short of 6 feet tall by age 16, Jocelyn possessed an imposing, long-legged, and full-breasted figure that would have towered over most Westerosi lords
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Not long after Addam of Hull had proved himself by flying Seasmoke, Lord Corlys went so far as to petition Queen Rhaenyra to remove the taint of bastardy from him and his brother. When Prince Jacaerys added his voice to the request, the queen complied. Addam of Hull, dragonseed and bastard, became Addam Velaryon, heir to Driftmark.
ok it is honestly kind of mind-boggling how a lot of fandomites react to tragedies and cautionary tales. idk how this shuts so many ppl down nowadays lol
none of these outcries are coherent critiques about the execution of something or the handling of something specific, it is straight up an issue with the very concept of these stories
Lyanna died to make the cruel carnage unrewarded. Elia and the kids died to prove Rebels were capable of as much monstrosity as Aerys/the enemy they told themselves (and everyone else) they were ideologically opposing.
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how would you describe the dynamic between aerys and rhaegar?? no matter what rhaegar was aerys's first and only child for a long time, and tbh i kinda love to delude myself thinking aerys loved him almost as much as he hated? him.....
Wrote about this before, but of course I can't find it, but since it's rarely given enough complexity anyways, might as well do it again.
This is the endless problem of not allowing Targaryens the right to be more than one dimensional and have complicated human feelings and Aerys is probably the sorest spot for it. A lot of people are finally backing down on the weird dehumanisation of Rhaegar, thankfully, but Aerys less so, as he is a big problem even for "Targaryen fans" - he is the sole Targaryen called fully "mad" - that can be acknowledged as that absolute sort of mentally unstable, and in a violent way that can be fully antagonistic, too - bringing that whole can of worms used against a whole 300 years worth of generations of a family, so everyone stays away.
Here comes the tired disclaimer that of course I've got to put out over and over before writing of Aerys as a mere person instead of a fairytale boogieman: he wasn't a good guy with particular virtues; he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed; he wasn't a proactive, great King, and although he spoke of great plans that sounded sound didn't put in the effort to accomplish anything; he wasn't a good father and least of all husband for most of his life, even in his better days with less excuses (well, explanation) to it. Etc etc
But he had the complexity of feelings and behaviour of a whole person! I've said it before but Aerys is one of these background characters dead before the story starts that gets TONS of interiority that adds so much nuance to this otherwise muddled portion of history, but he's not a "nice dead victim" and hence gets little attention while less "lesser" background characters get essays of made up fanon.
Aerys' desire for both successful lineage and grandeur for his House clashing with his deep personal insecurities is more of a downward spiral than his actual mental illness. (Again, something I touched on in a different post that Tumblr won't let me find) Aerys wants and fails to be anything grand, and Rhaegar being seen as great while being nothing like him is a sour spot, because if greatness is his opposition what does that mean? Of course he latches onto Viserys when it's clear he's got his character.
But what about Rhaegar? Did Aerys love him? Did Rhaegar love his father once? He was his prized heir in a positive sense for the longest of their relationship. He kept him close in detriment of his mother's claim on him (took him to Casterly Rock for a year when Joanna died). But does that necessarily say anything about love?
This is the man who would end up hurting his sister, who would be open about the intention to wish bad things upon his child, but he's also grieved these children with his sister once, he's turned to the gods humbled despite his self righteous arrogance, asking if it's him, if he can do anything to make it better.
And, in his madness, Aerys kills Brandon and Rickard for "threatening Rhaegar". Which is fascinating. I've been trying to think of whether he is trying to put Rhaegar in a worse position by it, but it doesn't work. If it were the case, he'd be glad to latch onto the accusations and make the best of it, instead of becoming the bad guy further by "protecting Rhaegar". If he weren't able to think that straight, at least his advisors would (he's got plenty of "whisperers" in his ears, we are told, and they are against Rhaegar's faction). But if they tried, but if they tried it's clear the "he threatened Rhaegar" convoluted thought won.
And I joke about the Rhaenys moment supposedly being the breaking point in Aerys and Rhaegar's relationship from his point of view (of all things) but... With these powerful families, the personal and political are in a constant clash. Yet it is quite something that political tensions are all high ("like before the Dance"), Aerys' undermining and threatening Rhaegar's position is open knowledge, and yet, what gets to Rhaegar finally is his father rejects his child - rejects family.
Was there only honour and "doing things right" in lieu of kinslaying? Was there a reason why it was hard to give up on his father and admit to himself he wasn't salvageable in any lesser ways until it's too late?
And oh, he was ever so aggravated by Rhaegar being so good at things and admired for it, but when he dies in battle... There surely must be some conspiracy, some betrayal for his shining son to be gone. Rhaegar himself wouldn't just be bested without a better explanation! Someone ought to answer for it, damnit!
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