Dragons Die. She Stood On Her Toes To Kiss Him Lightly On An Unshaven Cheek. But So Do Dragonslayers.

“Dragons die.” She stood on her toes to kiss him lightly on an unshaven cheek. “But so do dragonslayers.”

— Daenerys II, ACOK

The hero leaned into his spear, using his weight to twist the point in deeper. Drogon arched upward with a hiss of pain. His tail lashed sideways. She watched his head crane around at the end of that long serpentine neck, saw his black wings unfold. The dragonslayer lost his footing and went tumbling to the sand. He was trying to struggle back to his feet when the dragon’s teeth closed hard around his forearm. “No” was all the man had time to shout. Drogon wrenched his arm from his shoulder and tossed it aside as a dog might toss a rodent in a rat pit.

— Daenerys IX, ADWD

Just here thinking about how no-one, and I mean literally no-one, gives a fuck about who fathered Lady Mormont's daughters in ASOIAF, how they are the heirs to Bear Island no questions asked, even though Lady Mormont never married and claims her daughters were fathered by a bear.

They are the heirs because their claim to Bear Island comes from their mother, who their father may be has no relevance.

Yes, Bear Island is a tiny place in the North, but still, it's interesting that we have suck a case in canon.

When it comes to the Iron Throne, who fathered Rhaenyra's children doesn't matter either because their claim is through their mother. Driftmark is a different issue but if both Corlys and Laenor accepted Rhaenyra's kids and heirs, that should be it IMO.

No I won't take any questions.

asoiaf & got characters // pt. XXX - Arianne Martell

“Her hair was a mane of jet-black ringlets that fell to the small of her back, and around her brow was a band of copper suns. Beneath her jeweled girdle and loose layers of flowing purple silk and yellow samite she had a woman’s body, lush and roundly curved. […] Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt. Someone told, someone she had trusted. Arys Oakheart had died because of that, slain by the traitor’s whisper as much as by the captain’s axe.[…] I was a foolish willful girl, playing at the game of thrones like a drunkard rolling dice.”

Game of Thrones / ASOIAF * character appreciation: Daenerys Targaryen

“Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Arya being the Queen who people go to war for

“I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned’s little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks.”

Daenerys being the Queen who goes to war for her people

“Let them come. In me they shall find a sterner foe than Cleon. I would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage.”

I'm so tired of anti targaryens using the "they are obsessed with their blood and think they're better than everyone else" as a reason to hate them as if that wasn't the way every important house in Westeros thinks like. They're all like that! Targaryens are just right tho 💅🏽

They use the "Targaryens are blood purists" argument in one breadth and then in the next breadth argue that Rhaego Targaryen deserved to die because of his parentage and heritage and that Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey are bastards who should be disinherited from their Targaryen claim. It's literally insane.