#hazzea

MIRRI MAZ DUUR

EROEH

HAZZEA

You know what? You’re completely right. Dany antis really don’t care about the context of events. To do so would be to acknowledge that their arguments have a very weak basis because the context contradicts what they say. 

The Hazzea situation you brought up is a great example of this. Antis consider it a big reason for why they believe Daenerys is evil. All context in the Hazzea situation is completely ignored, every single time. 

Daenerys forgets Hazzea’s name but is deeply saddened about it:

“Her name was … her name …" Dany could not recall the child's name. That made her so sad that she would have cried if all her tears had not been burned away. (ADWD, Daenerys X)

In story, Hazzea is a girl that Daenerys never met, never had a personal connection with, or knew anything about. Still, Daenerys feels bad about forgetting her name. But according to the antis, Dany’s forgetfulness is “evidence” for a Mad!Dany/Dark!Dany turn.

Now if we look at the situation in the context of that chapter, we can see that Daenerys undergoes a harrowing experience over the span of several days:

-she’s starving

-she’s dehydrated

-she’s suffering from heat exposure

-she has blisters which make walking painful

-she’s drank unclean water/eaten berries (likely poisonous) in order to mitigate her situation but this causes her to have stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea

-she’s experiencing a miscarriage

-she’s completely exposed to the elements and possible danger from anyone she encounters

Throughout all of this, antis hate that Dany is unable to recall the name of a stranger. They use Dany’s inability to hold on to Hazzea’s name in her memories as part of their Mad!Dany/Dark!Dany arguments.

I do find the fandom’s double standard in regards to this hilariously odd though. Dany is not the only character in the books to experience forgetfulness. There are many characters in the books who forget details about others or even entire events. The concept of unreliable narrator is something that GRRM uses throughout the books. Yet, it’s Dany’s forgetfulness while experiencing a traumatic situation that is used as proof that she’s destined to be a villain.

This is the moment that I believe was a turning point in Dany’s story.  That realisation that she was indirectly responsible for the death of a child.  Hazzea was the daughter of a shepherd, she had no social or political importance to Dany, yet in that moment to Dany, one of the most powerful women in the world, Hazzea’s life and death meant everything.  Hazzea was the reason, I strongly believe, that Dany changed her aggressive policies in Meereen and became more determined to solve the slavery issue by peaceful means, because Dany did not want any more Hazzea’s on her conscience.   Unfortunately, as has been stated time and time again in the fandom, the peace is not a just one and Dany comes to that bitter realisation in the Dothraki sea in Daenerys X.

Why would it not be real? It’s been clear basically since his hatching that Drogon was the wildest of her three dragons, aggressive and unafraid of attacking others (whether it be the Undying of Qarth or the Good Masters of Astapor). Later, in Daznak’s Pit, Drogon readily attacked grown humans. I don’t see why it’s unbelievable that Drogon, hunting around Meereen, would hesitate in burning a child.

I mean I understand you want to fuck around with the source material for absolutely no reason but at least keep the original names

The book answers this for you:

Her name had been Hazzea. She was four years old. Unless her father lied. He might have lied. No one had seen the dragon but him. His proof was burned bones, but burned bones proved nothing. He might have killed the little girl himself, and burned her afterward. He would not have been the first father to dispose of an unwanted girl child, the Shavepate claimed. The Sons of the Harpy might have done it, and made it look like dragon’s work to make the city hate me. Dany wanted to believe that… but if that was so, why had Hazzea’s father waited until the audience hall was almost empty to come forward? If his purpose had been to inflame the Meereenese against her, he would have told his tale when the hall was full of ears to hear.

Also, dragons may not frequently eat people, but they burn them, no question. Whether or not they've been blooded. (Yes, frequently when attacked, but also in battle, men who are not attacking, just running away.)

But Hazzea's father was a farmer -- perhaps the girl was playing outside with the animals, and that's what Drogon was first after until she ran, and fell and skinned her knee... Or perhaps it's just that the wild dragons didn't go for humans when they could get sheep and fish more easily.

Also, Drogon was definitely seen to eat human flesh:

The boar raised his head, snorting… and flame engulfed him, black fire shot with red. Dany felt the wash of heat thirty feet away. The beast’s dying scream sounded almost human. Drogon landed on the carcass and sank his claws into the smoking flesh. As he began to feed, he made no distinction between Barsena [the gladiator the boar had just killed] and the boar.“Oh, gods,” moaned Reznak, “he’s eating her!” The seneschal covered his mouth.