“She liked to hold them. They were so beautiful, and sometimes just being close to them made her feel stronger, braver, as if somehow she were drawing strength from the stone dragons locked inside.” AGOT, Daenerys IV
beautiful art by: @mincy_art & @debustee
@virginrosess GRRM literally had to emphasize rhaegar’s fraudulence with dragon dreams where dany is the actual last dragon and succeeds at ‘crossing the trident’
targs choosing individual love over collective duty framed as “thousands died for it” “the seven kingdoms bled” “sorcery, fire, and grief” // dany choosing collective love & duty over individual love & duty as “the girl who drowned the slaver cities in blood”