Dany's Arc

[chrisdaw]

This is Dany's arc to come.

When Dany chose to jump into the pits to save Drogon she chose an arc of fire and blood. Dany will lead and be lead by her wills and wants. She will don no floppy ears no more, for no-one, including Westeros.

Dany will consolidate the Dothraki and rip west over Essos. What she isn't there for personally will be taken in her name by others. Victarion will be her commander at sea. Barry will live and be her man. Jorah will be forgiven and accepted back into her graces. By the time they hit the west coast Tyrion will ride Viserion and seem to be her man. Much of Volantis will fall in behind her, including Benerro and his Fiery Hand.

But by the time she gets to the coast, most likely Pentos, Aegon will either rule Westeros with the backing of the Faith, or be their man but yet to be crowned. Aegon's existence is primarily to be a foil for Dany and her madness arc.

At some point Dany will come to believe Aegon is false, most likely through the Tattered Prince story thread leading into Pentos history and Illyrio's history. Maybe after she arrives in Westeros, perhaps Aegon and her are at first strained friends and forces and individuals push them to war. But the how doesn't particularly matter. Dany will believe Aegon is false and that will be enough for her to make war with him, and so will begin the second dance of dragons.

Aegon will come to ride Rhaegal. How he will do so I am not sure, perhaps she will give the dragon to him before she comes to believe he is false, perhaps through some form of treachery Illyrio or another sympathetic party will get the dragon to Aegon. A dance with dragons needs dragons on both sides, and the first was between the greens and blacks.

Dany's war on Aegon will plunge the realm into chaos. Aegon will be well loved and well backed, particularly by the faith, but he will be married to Arianne and so have Dorne and will also gain the Reach. Dany will come to be hated by most the realm. Among other reasons she will be hated because she will have brought a force of savage dothraki (though not the prophesised united Khalasar) and worshippers of the Red God and many other gods. Because she will lead and rule savagely, merciless and with fire and blood. And because she will ally with the Ironborn and shack up with Euron. From Dany's perspective Euron will be another Daario, just better and with much more to offer.

Tyrion, significant because he will ride Viserion and so seemingly be able to tip the balance of power, will largely sit out the war, as did Tywin in Robert's Rebellion Tyrion will wait until it is clear which side will win.

Dany will win, she'll kill Aegon and most likely Rhaegal will die too, if not it will be injured. By the time she has won most the realm will hate Dany, especially the Faith. She will take control of KL.

Dany will miscarry Euron's child. Unable to get the child he wants from Dany, Euron will betray her and turn to the widowed Arianne, the next best Targaryen blooded womb in the kingdom. Arianne will likely be a hostage in KL at the time, she will have gresyscale and so too will Euron after bedding her. Euron's turn from Dany to Arianne will be the treason for blood. Euron will successfully beget a child on Arianne, and he will sacrifice it and himself by way of his horn and successfully second life Drogon. The result will be Drogon begins to gradually turn to stone, the fire he breathes becomes greyscale, and his form becomes a monstrous kraken/dragon hybrid. Eventually it will no longer allow Dany to be its master.

Dany will come to understand what happened to Drogon and believe she will be able to fix him with a sacrifice of her own child, but that the sacrifice must have good pure dragon blood and so she will require a worthy father. So she will get pregnant by Aurane Waters for his old Valyrian blood, but will miscarry his child too. She will then get pregnant by Tyrion, as he will be riding a dragon he will be presumed a Targaryen bastard. Dany will miscarry his child too.

In KL the High Septon will refuse to crown her. The High Septon will die, and even if it isn't by Dany's hand she will get the blame for having murdered him. Dany will gain Jaime as a prisoner, perhaps by Tyrion handing him to her to buy his way into her good graces. For the crime of murdering her father Dany will sentence Jaime to death in the dragon pit, but during his trial he will explain why he did the deed. 

Many will lose faith in Dany and abandon her. The realm will say she's mad, truly her father's daughter, that she brought them the terrors of war and dragons, that she's godless or follows demon gods, that she's a whore who takes lovers and tries to steal their souls. But mostly they will say she is ruled by a thirst for power, a tyrant who killed her brother Aegon for his throne. The people of KL will revolt against her, and storm the dragon pit. Armed only in his faith Lancel will successfully save Jaime. The people of KL will force Dany to flee the city.

With what little forces remain to her and dragonless, Dany will head to the north driven by prophecy. There she will find Jon and come to believe he is the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna and the rightful Targaryen heir to the throne. This will cause her an internal dilemma. She will have justified her war against Aegon both publicly and internally on the basis that Aegon is a fake. Thus she must submit to a very real Jon or prove everyone who says she is a mad queen who simply lusted for power correct.

She'll submit to Jon, letting go of her desire to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and by doing so prove herself not to be a mad Targaryen like her father.

Putting the throne behind her will leave Dany with need of a new mission. While in the north she's going to learn about the Others, and this is going to have a massive impact upon her. She will have destroyed Rhaegal in the dance. And she will have known Euron was not trustworthy, and a cunt, but will have taken him into her confidence and bedded him anyway, leading to the loss of Drogon. Two weapons that could have been used to fight the Others and save the realm, lost, because of her. The last dragon will be Tyrion's and not within her power, and Tyrion won't be coming to help.

Having found the true purpose of the dragons, the need for Dany to fix Drogon will now be even greater, and in Jon she will have found the answer to her problem. The son of her brother, strong Targaryen blood, dragon blood. And so like she did with Aurane and Tyrion before she will seek to get pregnant by Jon. There will however be a problem, Jon will not like Dany much. Jon will have been up on the wall or in the north crying to the south for help. For their dragons. He may have even managed a pact with Aegon, that Aegon would fly and come help when the Others come. Instead Dany eventually came, fleeing, with fuck all forces left and no dragons. She lost them in selfish endeavours. Jon will refuse to bed Dany.

But Dany is no quitter, especially with the whole world to save. She is at heart a saviour, the interventionalist, she can't sit on her hands while people die and suffer. Blood lines, prophesies and sacrifices will not be convincing to Jon, but there will be someone in the north to whom it will all make sense, Melisandre. Mel will understand what Dany means and Mel knows Jon's heart. Mel will glamour Dany to look like Ygritte, and in disguise Dany will make like a wildling and steal Jon, pluck the blue rose of Winterfell.

Tyrion will sit the Iron Throne in the south and will refuse Jon's pleas for help in the north. Tyrion will view KITN Jon as a traitor, a rebel who has divided his realm. He will think the Others are fantasy, a ruse to lure Tyrion north. And Tyrion will have a load of his own problems in the south.

As a consequence of the refusal of the south to help, Jon will be preparing to march south. He will intend to treat with Tyrion face to face, to earn the help of his dragon and the united realm, or if he must, defeat Tyrion and unite the realm himself. A newly pregnant Dany will follow with Jon.

Having become pregnant Dany will need to find Drogon, or what he has now become. Drogon will have become more sea creature and stone and ended up at the bottom of the ocean near Dragonstone. Under the ocean the stone of Drogon will have formed a maze and at the centre will be a black oily stone, at which a humanoid Euron will sit a throne, attended by all those who breathed the greyscale of the Stone Beast. By sacrificing his follower's un/newlyborn children to the stone Euron will produce beasts, sphinxes under his control. There he will be creating an enslaved stone army with the intention of rising from the ocean and conquering Westeros.

Jon will win his way south, unfortunately his forces will kill Viserion along the way as Tyrion will refuse any useful compromise. Now pregnant Dany knows she is the only hope for a dragon. Somehow, probably more prophecy than anything else, she will learn the whereabouts of Drogon/black oily stone/Euron. Dragonstone will go boom, a second Doom like that of Valyrian, if not an unintended consequence of Bran's magic then perhaps Euron's. The mountains will explode and fall like leaves and the narrow sea will empty.

Elsewhere the Others will have entered the south, moving beneath the wings of an ice dragon, and the people of KL will have fled into the dried out seabed, there they will be preparing a last stand.

A now heavily pregnant Dany accompanied by only a few loyalists will head to Dragonstone, and then to the stone maze in the dried out sea. The maze will resemble those of the Patternmaker's Maze and Asshai, and will have beasts they need avoid or fight. They will not make it to the centre of the maze before Dany begins to give birth, under the smoke of an erupting dragonstone and in the salt of the dried out seabed. When she does Jon will arrive, also with a handful of loyalists.

Knowing what Dany intended to do with his unborn bastard child, Jon will have decided to leave the war for the dawn to stop her. Jon's men will defeat Dany's, and Dany will give birth to a baby girl. Jon will take his daughter and give it to one of the surviving combatants, and execute Dany for her intention to kill the child. When he does his sword will take flame.

Dany will have been wrong. She will have believed she needed to sacrifice her child to wake the dragon from stone. She will have been wrong not because a sacrifice is not required, but because the role of the sacrifice will have already been fulfilled by Rhaego. She will not need to do it again as Rhaego's soul will exist already within the black oily stone.

Dany's soul will leave her body, fly over the maze to its centre, and down into the black oily stone. Her soul will transform the stone in her image. As bright as the Khal burned in life, so too shall they burn in the afterlife. The black oily stone will take fire and the stone of the maze will melt and take the form of a black dragon, reflecting Dany's life and so the power of her soul, the dragon will be the size of Balerion with its fire as hot. Within the dragon Dany will expel Euron's, Arianne's and their child's souls by fire, and reunite with Drogo and Rhaego. She will release the souls of all those Euron controls and allow those souls she would to enter the dragon with her, granting an afterlife to all those who have died in her name.

Jon will mount the dragon that is Dany, and she will allow him. In her final moments she will have come to understand Jon was right to execute her for trying to sacrifice the child, as that's what kings are for, to do justice and protect those who can not protect themselves. They will fly into combat with the ice dragon, Dany's fire burning a path to its blue crystal eye where Jon will stick his flaming sword. The ice dragon will perish, melt away, its wings no longer sheltering the Others below from the dawn, causing them all to melt away too. With Euron and the Others melted, the black dragon will simply fly away, riderless and never to be seen again.

[redriver]

I'm glad you've cleared that up for us.

[snow is the man]

She won't end up with euron. Victorian is going to get her for himself not euron or at least he thinks that he can get her. And dario was brutal but he was also charming and attracive where as euron is mad. I don't see him talking dany into bed. And I think dany has had enough marrying for other people. She will take a king but it will be one she wants and likely someone weak willed so they won't try to rule and take away her power.

 

 

[chrisdaw]

1 hour ago, snow is the man said:

She won't end up with euron. Victorian is going to get her for himself not euron or at least he thinks that he can get her. And dario was brutal but he was also charming and attracive where as euron is mad. I don't see him talking dany into bed. And I think dany has had enough marrying for other people. She will take a king but it will be one she wants and likely someone weak willed so they won't try to rule and take away her power.

You're not seeing what Euron is, or rather what he shows to the world. The smiling eye GRRM calls it in universe. Daario is Euron-lite. Euron is the Marc Antony of Westeros, he is the most charming and most attractive. He had his brother killed and sails in the next day. This would be ridiculous for anyone else to even try, but he's Euron, he's that bold, and not only do they not kill him, but he wins them over. He is the fire set against the mud that Barristan talks of.

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Like all good queens she put her people first—else she would never have wed Hizdahr zo Loraq—but the girl in her still yearned for poetry, passion, and laughter. She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.

You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

Behind the prince, Ser Gerris Drinkwater was whispering something to Yronwood. Ser Gerris was all his prince was not: tall and lean and comely, with a swordsman's grace and a courtier's wit. Selmy did not doubt that many a Dornish maiden had run her fingers through that sun-streaked hair and kissed that teasing smile off his lips. If this one had been the prince, things might have gone elsewise,

Euron is why this passage exists.

Dany's whole ADWD arc, the competition in her mind of the floppy ears against her instincts of fire and blood is set up for Euron. Her turn to Fire and Blood at the end of ADWD signals the turn towards Euron. And of course Euron is this,

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Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness. . . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . .

Grouped with Drogo and Jon. Bride of fire. The implication is plain, to deny it is to deny what the text is giving you for projections of your own.