Post by DAENERYS TARGARYEN on May 31, 2019 23:43:46 GMT
Daenerys Targaryen
GENERAL INFO
NAME: Daenerys Targaryen
OTHER ALIASES: Daenerys Stormborn, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Lady of Dragonstone, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, The Unburnt, Queen of Meereen
AGE: 23
GENDER: Female
BIRTH PLACE: Dragonstone
CURRENT LOCATION: Winterfell
OCCUPATION/TITLE: Queen of the Seven Kingdoms
ALLEGIANCE: Herself
FACE CLAIM: Emilia Clarke
THE STORY
She knew but stories of her father. Of her brother. Her mother and the family she had never laid eyes upon. Stories that a bitter brother relayed to her while plotting his own return to what he believed to be rightfully his. The Usurper, he would tell her, stole the throne from the Targaryens', the rightful rulers. Rightful, a word that Viserys liked to spit from his lips like it was a word that would grant him all his wishes if he said it enough times. All she had known was what was rightfully Viserys'. That he was the dragon that would take back the throne.
He was cruel, though she did not see it so. Opressive in the way that he spoke and treated her, demanding that she conform to what he wanted. Bitterness ruled him, perhaps for the death of their mother that was caused by her stormy and violent birth. Or perhaps his aggression for the throne was unfairly put upon the young, quieted girl. It was often that she would hear him say that she had woken the dragon, inflicting pain upon her whenever she displeased him. It caused the woman to become meek, to give into the desire to internalize so that she would not step upon her brother's toes. It left her incapable of doing anything that might benefit herself, and she found herself nothing but a pawn in the man's schemes to raise an army. It was Illyrio Mopatis that brokered the deal between a Khal and Viserys'. In exchange for Daenerys, Khal Drogo would provide forty thousand men to fight for the silver-haired man.
While Viserys had meant to use her as a prize to pay for his army, Daenerys found herself suddenly thrust into a position that she both did not want, and would inevitably change the course of her life. Drogo was rough, demanding, wanting more from her than she was willing to give. Change was slow, but it came. Slowly dawning over her like a new day, and shedding away the meek layers that had so protected her against her brother's infinite rage. Daenerys was unsure, often, of her place within the world but the more she lived with the Dothraki, the more that she found herself integrating into the society that her brother sold her to, the more she realized that she was more than a broodmare to be sold.
She was a Khaleesi.
Life was different suddenly, as if the grey had cleared and the sun shone on her face, illuminating what she was slowly beginning to realize was what burned just beneath the surface. The closer that she got to Vaes Dothrak, the more she learned about the depths of her own self. Of the determination that existed within her, about the truth of who she could truly be. Viserys was no longer someone to be cowered from. He no longer had a hold over her, and when she finally gathered the courage to threaten him, Daenerys realized that she was becoming something better. The Dothraki language was not easy to learn, but the more the woman learned it the more she seemed to connect with the man she had been forced to marry.
She was pregnant before long, carrying her sun and star's son while being presented as his Khaleesi to the Dosh Khaleen. Suddenly there was something else that Daenerys found pride in, something else that she cared more for than the war that her brother had sold her for. She was carrying Khal Drogo's son, the Stallion that would mount the world, and she was a Khaleesi. It felt like the world was right.
She didn't even blink when Viserys died.
He was no dragon, she noted easily when the golden crown Drogo gave him burned his flesh and caused his death. He lay stunted upon the ground, staring listlessly off into the distance while Dany could only think of that one fact. Dragons do not burn. And life moved on. With no promise required of Drogo, he refused to take his Khalasar across the great sea to Westeros, but things were different now. Viserys was dead, her son was going to be the last remaining Targaryen, and Daenerys believed he had a right to one day sit on the Iron Throne. He was going to mount the world, after all. Yet she could not seem to convince Drogo that he could take his Khalasar to the lands to the west, across the narrow sea. Not until the day her and Rheago's life were put at risk in an attempt on her life that was commanded by King Robert.
Then he promised his son the throne. That he would slay the men in their iron suits, and tear down the stone homes. Khal Drogo promised to gift the seven kingdoms to his son, and Daenerys found herself satisfied. Like the world was shifting into her favor after so long of being oppressed. The world was starting to become clearer to her, the path that she was destined to take. Khal Drogo would lead his army across the seven seas and take back the kingdom in her son's name. There were those, however, who balked at the idea of leaving what they knew in favor of chasing down the dynasty that she and her son so deserved. Even for the great Khal Drogo. But Daenerys had found her voice, and she was becoming more and more firm in the beliefs that she was starting to develop in herself.
Yet there was a clear and undisturbed compassion that she had when it came to those she loved, and those that were unable to protect themselves. She was fierce in her demands for justice, in her demands that no one be treated like how she had once been treated. It was her demands to claim all the women that the dothraki horde would take as slaves that set off one of the dothraki men. Mago, a man who believed that the path that they were currently going on, and the fact that the Khaleesi seemed to be commanding the Khal, that set in motion the first of many terrible heartbreaks for the young woman.
Drogo's death was her fault, and the woman knew it. Trust had been something that she had given easily, especially when she thought that she had earned it through her demands of keeping slaves from the harsh treatments of the dothraki men. Daenerys had been sure she knew what pain felt like, knew the sting of it on her flesh and could withstand whatever would come next. This pain was not one that she coped with well. She trusted the witch, Mirri Maz Duur to heal her husband and instead the old woman took revenge on the dothraki leader and his unborn son. Rheago was taken from her, just as Drogo had been, for Mirri Maz Duur's revenge.
So she tied the witch to Drogo's funeral pyre and burned her for her crimes. Then, she stepped into the fire and waited for it to consume everything, the man she loved, the eggs she had been given, and the witch who had taken everything from her. And in the ashes of those flames she rose unburnt from her spot, with three living, breathing dragons curled about her frame. She had lost so much, but that day she had gained her three children and became the mother of dragons.
Some of the Khalasar had left, leaving behind only those that were truly loyal to Daenerys and Drogo, staying as they watched their Khal burn and their Khaleesi step into the flames with him. Those that remained stood by their Khaleesi when she emerged in the morning, but it did little for them. They remained as they were, running out of water and lost in the great wild. Hope was dwindling and when the horse that her husband had gifted her died, Daenerys made the decision to send her three bloodriders in search of salvation. Then, she waited. Waited and tried to feed her sons meat that they would not eat.
Only one bloodrider returned, with a summons from the city of Qarth. With little option to do much else, Daenerys led her people to Qarth in an attempt to find solace. To recover from the loss, from the starving, and yet when they arrived it was not what the woman expected. There were demands for her to show her dragons, something she wasn't keen on doing. The last thing she wanted was anyone trying to take them from her, and with her refusal came the refusal to let her and her people in. The woman was faced with the possibility of once more being cased out into the world with no provisions, no way to truly survive. It was at the urging of one Qarth dignitary that allowed the Khaleesi and the rest of her people into the city, providing them with quarters, food, water, and a chance to survive.
Betrayal stung deeper into her than she could have suspected in Qarth. Doreah had been with Dany for so long, teaching her the ways of sex so that she may please Drogo, serving her after her brother's death, and becoming a dear friend. Until, of course, the girl betrayed Daenerys in favor for Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the man that Doreah was supposed to be spying on for the Khaleesi. It was Doreah that took her dragons and gave them to the warlock Pyat Pree while Dany was unsuccessfully vying for the Spice King's ships. She caused the slaughter of half of Daenyers' Khalasar and when Jorah told Dany to abandon the dragons in favor of escape, Daenerys balked at the very idea that she would leave her children behind. No, she went to Pyat Pree who foolishly thought that he could imprison the Mother of Dragons, and burned him alive.
Then, for Doreah's betrayal and Xaro's attempt to take over the city with Daenerys as a bargaining chip in that, the woman locked both in the vault that Xaro promised was filled. It wasn't, and Daenerys felt no remorse in sealing their fates quite literally. With that, the woman raided Xaro's home and gathered enough to buy herself a ship to sail to the city of Astapor. Her dragons were growing, fast but yet not enough for her to return to Westeros. The decision was made to garner an army, and Daenerys had heard of one for sale in the slave city of Astapor. The Unsullied would have been a solution that could solve her problems, yet it was their status as a slave-army that both unsettled and caused the woman to find caution. It would not due to invade Westeros with an army of slaves, where the practice was out-lawed, especially when she herself had no desire to enslave anyone.
The solution, it turned out, was particularly clever and the first time that Daenerys proved herself more than capable. With a promise that she would give Drogon, her biggest of her three dragons, to Kraznys mo Nakloz in exchange for every single of the unsullied along with a slave named Missandei. A slave given to her in good faith, who was slave no longer the moment she stepped into Daenerys' service. It was Kraznys, and his arrogance, that truly doomed him. Even as he held Drogon, thinking that the dragon would submit to him just because he held a chain. Daenerys told him so, after speaking to the Unsullied in her mother tongue, something not a single person there seemed to know she could do. Then she ordered the Unsullied to murder every master, every person holding a whip, but to leave every woman and child alone.
Then, she freed the Unsullied and asked them to fight for her as free men. Thus, Daenerys started her quest as Breaker of Chains. She started with Yunkai, freeing the slaves and gaining the allegiance with the second sons. Once Yunkai's slaves were freed from the chains of their masters and cried out to Dany as their Mhysa, Daenerys moved forwards, onto Meereen. A slave child met them on the road, nailed to a cross at every mile marker for the 163 miles to Meereen. Daenerys refused to let someone ride ahead and take them down. Instead she looked upon each one, letting the anger over the injustice of their deaths roil in the pit of her stomach until she reached Meereen. Daario Naharis was her champion, swiftly killing the champion that Meereen sent. Then, she sent the chains of former slaves flying through the air for the slaves of Meereen to show the slaves of her conquests in Astapor and Yunkai.
After the capture of 93 ships, Daenerys debates whether or not to sail to Westeros with the Unsullied, Second Sons, and her dragons. Yet, when reports that Astapor and Yunkai had been taken over, the woman decided that she was going to stay within Meereen so that she could learn to rule rightfully. After all, how was one supposed to rule seven kingdoms when she couldn't even keep the peace in three cities?
It wasn't easy, learning the political savvy it took to keep her rule alive. Despite the fact that she had abolished slavery, there were things that continued to assail her. Such as the old slaves, those who knew nothing other than the lives they had led. Or the fighting pits. Many wanted to fight in the pits despite the fact that Dany thought they were barbaric and unnecessary. And then, there were the problems that her dragons brought. Drogon was the main culprit, and she was swiftly realizing that as they grew older they were less and less controllable. The woman made the decision to lock away her two children, Rheagal and Viserion, in and effort to protect her people from them. It was the hardest thing she had to do, despite the fact she kept them well fed. Sometimes with those that defied her rule.
Unrest was heavy in the city, and unrest in her cabinet grew. Jorah was banished when it became clear he was a spy, and Ser Barristan died by the hands of the Son's of the Harpy. It was with great reluctance that the woman reopened the fighting pits, and during an unwanted but needed appearance at the pits Daenerys was introduced to Tyrion Lannister. It is Tyrion who talks her out of killing Jorah for returning after she had banished him the first time. It is after this council that she decides to keep him around within her cabinet.
Despite her repeated voiced opinions about the pits, the woman once again attended the fighting pits. Yet, this time was different. They were attacked by the Son's of the Harpy, with no escape and no chance of fighting their way out. Until Drogon came from the sky and carried the Dragon Queen away. Straight to the middle of no where. It was the Dothraki that 'saved' her, taking the marooned Queen back to Vaes Dothrak and stood her in front of the Dosh Khaleen, where she was supposed to stay forever. Except that wasn't a fate that the woman would take, and when she confronted the Khal's, she burned them all alive. Walked out as the only survivor and took the whole of Dothraki back to Meereen.
Daenerys returns to Meereen to find it in upheaval, the masters trying to take back the cities in her absence. Yet, back with the Dothraki and a now nearly full grown Drogon, the woman decimated the remaining masters and took the ships that had gathered in the bay. With that and an alliance with Yara Greyjoy, the Queen had enough ships to take the Dothraki and Unsullied across the sea and to Westeros. She left behind Daario to keep the cities stabilized until they selected their new leader. Then, she sailed for Dragonstone.
It didn't feel like home. She stepped onto the shores of her birthplace and slid her fingers into the cold, grainy sand. As if the very earth would beckon her forth, welcoming her home to her rightful place. Yet she couldn't feel it, not the connection that she so desperately wanted to feel to a place she couldn't remember. With a less than warm welcome to her birthplace, Daenerys turned her attention instead to the siege that she was about to start against the Lannister army. It was better to think of that, rather than the constant fact she never quite found herself at home anywhere.
Daenerys' council had grown since her first initial rise to Queen. It was important to her that each of those members were loyal to her, and questioned Varys' and his tendency to have particularly flighty allegiance. She told him that she wanted him to come to her, instead of going behind her back, when he felt that she was slipping. And that if he betrayed her, she would burn him. The woman had been betrayed too many times, and she wasn't about to follow that path again. She was here to take her place as Queen, not suffer betrayals by someone who had already proven to be particularly flighty when it came to his allegiance. It seemed that her arrival had drawn the attention of Melisandre, a red priestess that she welcomed easily into her court due to the familiarity she shared with red priestess' in Essos.
Melisandre was the first to bring Jon Snow to her attention, the King in the North who had brought together the northmen and the wildlings against a common enemy. It was this that prompted Daenerys to send a letter to Jon Snow, encouraging him to meet with her in hopes that she could recruit the man as an ally in the war against Cersei Lannister, especially given the crimes she had committed against the Stark family. While initially the man refused the letter the Queen had sent, eventually Jon Snow made his way to Dragonstone.
Daenerys' first impression of the man was confusion. He was different from those that she had previously dealt with, neither arrogant nor demanding. He refused to bend the knee to her, yet wanted her help against an enemy that she couldn't believe in. Daenerys was not concerned with whatever was coming from the North and was convinced that after she had taken the Seven Kingdom's that she could lend help to Jon and his own. But, she wanted the man to bend the knee to her. He remained incessant that he could not, that he was entrusted with the North and must do what was best for his people. Daenerys, irritated, responded that since her marriage (sold like a broodmare she commented) to Drogo, she had faith in one thing alone. Herself. It was that that had given her three dragons, that which had given her a fleet, an army, a path to the throne. Yet Jon was not swayed, not when he said that if the Night King won, she would be ruling a graveyard.
Ser Davos spoke of Jon's achievements, the passion in with which he recounted the tales of Jon's accomplishments surprising the woman. Yet what surprised her even more was his barely made comment about taking a knife to the heart for his people. Yet, despite that small note of confusion (and suspicion), Daenerys could not help but note that the man was similar to her. He had gained his crown by deeds, by being the leader that his people needed, rather than any real want or birthright. While they did not come to a conclusion, Daenerys found herself viewing the man in a less harsh way. Yet she stood firm, should he rebuke her as his Queen, she would count him as a rebel to her rule.
Before the man could retort, Daenerys found herself informed of the destruction of her fleet. A loss that she had not expected, and one that had come after Tyrion advised her to send the fleet to Dorne. The Targaryen informed Jon and Ser Davos that they were not prisoners of hers yet. While Daenerys was adamant about Jon bending the knee, she allowed him to mine dragon glass from beneath Dragonstone in an attempt to make weapons that would destroy the white walkers. She spoke of their similarities, how they both had lost so many people, yet continued on for the sake of their people. Each time she spoke with the man, she realized how vastly different he was from those she had met. Many wanted to use her, to achieve a better position, to gain wealth or power, but his wants were simple. He only wanted to protect his people against an enemy she couldn't quite believe in.
Days later Jon took her to the caves that he was mining dragon glass from. He showed her ancient drawings created by the children of the forest depicting the creation of the Nigh King. Proof was put before her, along with the honesty that Jon had displayed her, and Daenerys finally offered to send her troops North to help fight the Night King. When Jon bent the knee, of course.
Again under the advisement of her Hand, Daenerys commanded her Unsullied to take Casterly Rock instead of going straight to King's Landing. Soon after, the Unsullied found themselves trapped at Casterly Rock while Highgarden was ransacked and the last Tyrell was killed. The loss of another ally and the situation with her Unsullied found Daenerys questioning the loyalty of her Hand. Was he purposely misleading her to save his sister? Was he doing it without meaning to because of the blood relations he still shared? Daenerys couldn't have that, she had lost a fleet, lost several allies, and now her Unsullied were trapped at Casterly Rock. Annoyance was an understatement. She wanted to fly to the Red Keep, burn it to the ground, and be done with the fight.
She sought Jon's advice, her faith in Tyrion wavering. Jon informed her that should she burn the cities and castles in Westeros, she would be no better than the ones she wanted to overthrow. That she had performed the impossible and that her followers believed she could do so again. The woman was placated by his words, instead favoring to send her Dothraki to attack the Lannister army as it prepared to leave from Highgarden. She herself rode Drogon there, burning the supplies they had captured and creating a path for the Dothraki to force their way through the Lannister lines. It was decisive, though the sudden introduction of the Scorpion surprises the woman. A bolt lodges itself into Drogon's shoulder, striking panic in the woman but she swiftly has Drogon destroy the Scorpion and steps off of him to pull the bolt.
Jaimie Lannister attempts to run her down but before he can Drogon blasts the horse Jaimie was riding with fire, effectively protecting his mother. A successful raid, Daenerys offers the survivors a place with her, but the alternative would be death. Randyll and Dickon Tarly refuse, saying that they already have a Queen and that no one would follow someone not born and raised in Westeros. While Tyrion tries to convince Daenerys to put them in chains, Daenerys refuses. She won't put any man in chains, and she gave them a choice. Live under her rule, or die. They made their chose.
Drogon burned them alive, and the rest of the army bent the knee before her.
Daenerys returns to Dragonstone, satisfied that while she had lost much she had also stopped the Lannister army from receiving the supplies they took from High Garden and the additions she'd received to her army. Landing on the cliff, Dany was surprised when Drogon allowed Jon to touch him, awe filling her that Jon seemed to have an instant affinity towards her dragons. While Jon refers to them as gorgeous beasts, Dany corrects him that they are her children. They speak about the win against the Lannisters and Daenerys tries to broach the subject of Jon taking a dagger to the heart. Jon passes it off as Ser Davos becoming too heated and that it was more of an expression than anything. Before the Dragon Queen can further dissect what Jon means, Jorah arrives having been cured of his grey scale.
Relief, and joy, fill the woman as she embraces him. While he had betrayed her in the past, the man had proven time and time again that he was there to protect her. That he wanted nothing but her success. That he was a true, and loyal, friend. With that, she and her advisors convene for yet another meeting that includes Jon and Davos. They discussed the advancing Night King, and once more Daenerys asked Jon to bend the knee and she would send her troops to help. Jon couldn't, refusing as the North had named him King and he could not betray their trust as so. If Daenerys abandoned her war, Cersei would win and she could not do that without knowing that she would have the North at her back. Tyrion offered a solution, getting evidence that Cersei could not ignore. Evidence that perhaps would unite the entirety of Westeros.
Getting that evidence turned into a nightmare for Daenerys. While she came to rescue at the perfect moment, sending dragon fire raining down on the wights, a well placed spear struck Viserion and sent him to his doom. Jon told Daenerys to leave, despite the fact that he had not climbed upon Drogon and would be left with an army of wights. Reluctantly, and with much heartache, the woman left Jon behind in favor of taking the rest of the men and the wight back to Dragonstone. There, she mourned the death of her son and worried over the fate of Jon Snow, who for all they knew had given up his life in favor of saving them. Of saving Westeros.
She waits, impatiently, for something to let them know the fate of Jon Snow, and when he comes back on a horse visibly wounded she finds herself conflicted. Joyous that he has returned alive, and yet at the same time concerned over the state of him. She had told Tyrion previously that she did not want to live with heroes any longer, because they constantly met their end. Yet, Dany could not help but know that her heart was softening towards the King of the North.
While they were tending to Jon's wound, she saw the scar where he was stabbed and realized that Davos was not exaggerating. That Jon had taken a knife for his people. Had died for his people, and she realized that he was a man who was more than just his words. When he woke, they spoke of what happened, the loss of one of her children. Daenerys promised that she would help destroy the Night King, and that she needed to see it herself. That she would not let Viserion's death be in vain. Jon, perhaps given everything they had been through, told her that he would bend the knee. He assured her that the Northern lords would see what he saw, what she was, and his earnest words brought the woman near to tears.
With the wight in hand, a meeting was arranged between Cersei, Jon, and Daenerys. Unable to help arriving upon the back of Drogon, Daenerys took her place. Cersei was quick to agree that the wights were a problem, and while she initially did not want to remove her troops she promised that they would not hinder Daenerys or the North in their fight against the white walkers. Not satisfied, Daenerys demanded more, yet Cersei refused even to speak with her. Instead, she demanded Jon be the peacekeeper, to which Jon said he could not serve two queens revealing he had already sworn loyalty to Daenerys. This broke down any attempt at brokering a temporary peace and his honesty infuriated nearly all present.
Cersei leaves, intent on leaving Daenerys and the north to deal with the white walkers. Tyrion, eager to see a peace, offered to talk to Cersei. To try and change her mind. While Daenerys wasn't eager to have him walk into the lion's den, he seemed convinced he could persuade her. And it seemed like he did, when they both returned and Cersei said that she would send the Lannister army north. After the meeting, there was a discussion on whether or not Dany should fly north or travel with Jon and the Unsullied. Jorah wanted her to fly, fearing her safety in case someone thought they could be a hero, while Jon urged her to ride with him and be seen as a liberator and ally, instead of yet another conqueror. Daenerys chose to go with Jon, though she couldn't quite lie to herself and say it was only for image.
The journey across the sea was a long one, and Daenerys found herself unable to put the feelings that had developed for Jon behind her. In fact, the close quarters did nothing more than solidify that, the more she talked with Jon, the more she saw who he was, the more she found herself unable to stave them off. And one night, while the ship sailed for Winterfell, Dany and Jon gave into the feelings that had been budding between them.
Then, she rode to Winterfell beside him, having put a war aside for him. To fight with him. Above her, her dragons flew into the heart of the North.
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