The Dragons - Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion

Ugh, I totally know that I have been a slacker with blog writings lately. There are lots of reasons behind this, mainly just plain being busy. Between my yoga/spinning classes and my birthday, I just haven't found time to blog. And..I am in the process of writing a book! I am so excited. Who knows if it'll be any good, but I am hoping for a hit! But there really is no excuse for my lack of blogging. And I got VERY inspired tonight because Saucer sent me the coolest gift ever. It is a crocheted Daenerys doll and her three baby dragons!! I would put a picture of them on here, but my camera is broken! I will post at a later time. So anyways, since I have already done a post on the Mother of Dragons, I have decided to dedicate a post to her beautiful babies.

I think this is way cool artwork

Okay, so in ASOIAF dragons are the coolest. I'm sorry, but House Targaryen has the coolest mascot. I mean, direwolves and lions are pretty awesome but they can't top freaking dragons!! In the land of Westeros, dragons have been extinct for hundreds of years. And even then they were pretty rare. They belonged to House Targaryen who used them to conquer the Seven Kingdoms. They ruled Westeros for as long as anyone could remember. Even after real dragons became obsolete, the Targaryen's sat the Iron Throne until Robert Baratheon "stole" it. The only remains of dragons left were skulls and skeletons which were kind of like dinosaur bones. Oh, and there were also some dragon's eggs that were petrified into stones. Dany received three petrified dragon's eggs as a gift for her wedding to Khal Drogo.

Okay I am going to cut this short. Those dragon eggs don't stay eggs for long! I think Daenerys always knew they would hatch. Spoiler Alert: Our Khaleesi manages to hatch the eggs by putting that bitch Mirri Maz Duur on (sniff) Khal Drogo's funeral pyre after Mirri completely screws her over. Both her unborn child and Drogo are gone and Dany has nothing to lose. She sets the whole thing on fire (with Mirri Maz Duur alive) and steps into the flames herself. Because she exchanged life for life, the dragons were born! This scene is one the best in the whole series (my opinion).

Reasons to love Dragons: These little baby dragons are adorable. We have the following:

Drogon: The black one who is the largest and named after Dany's beloved Khal Drogo. Of course, he is also the most aggressive.

Rhaegal: The green one who is named after her brother Rhaegar Targaryen (who also was gone too soon).

Viserion: The cream colored one who is named after her other brother Viserys Targaryen. Even though Viserys sucked, Dany felt that he still deserved to have a dragon named after him.

As babies, all of the dragons are pretty easy to take care of and Daenerys can travel around with them without them being too dragon-like. Even though the dragons represent the Targaryens' and Dany's rise back to power, she still has a lot to do before heading back to Westeros. The dragons faithfully travel with their mother past the Red Waste, to Qarth and to Slaver's Bay. With the help of her dragons (especially Drogon) she manages to free a bunch of slaves and they think she is just great. Many of them decide to stay with her and be part of her army. Daenerys and her dragons are now in the city of Meereen where she is practicing being a Queen for her inevitable return to get her throne back. The dragons are an integral part of this. Without them, she would probably have a much more difficult time getting people to follow her.

Traveling through the Red Waste with dragons

Reasons to hate Dragons: As much as she needs the dragons, they also cause a lot of grief because people want to steal them all the time. Or they want to marry Dany because they want access to dragons and power through her. Because a girl can't rule alone! The dragons are also kind of hard to handle as they get older and larger. I am not too far into A Dance with Dragons but there is a rumor going around that Drogon ate a small child. I personally don't believe it, but I guess it could be true. They are dragons after all! So Dany has to chain up the other two while Drogon flies off in a teenage hissy fit. That's about all I know at this point (I am trying really hard not to spoil myself but oh well). I hope everything turns out okay with these guys because I just love dragons!

Dragon Prophecy: So there is a prophecy that states that the dragon has three heads and this will conquer Westeros. One head is obviously Dany, but who are the other two who will help her? And will they ride the dragons into Westeros to take the Iron Throne? This is very fun to ponder and I am hoping the other two are Jon Snow (who may have Targaryen blood?) and Tyrion! That's my theory and I am sticking to it.

High School and Sticks: I am totally going to skip the high school section tonight. These guys are dragons and there really are no counterparts to them. They are mythical deadly creatures and I don't think they would go to school anyway. I guess they could be weird Beavis and Butthead pyromaniacs who light things on fire in the Chemistry Lab. But other than that, no Dragon High (unless they were mascots).

Which brings me to Sticks! Like I said in a previous post, I think the Detroit Red Wings would be the closest thing to a dragon mascot. Drogon even has red spinal plates!

~Beddee

Viserys Targaryen - The Blood of the Dragon

Oh Viserys. His time in the ASOIAF universe is short lived, but memorable. He is the brother of Dany and looks a bit like a nerdy Legolas. This is the first character with an actual death scene for the Swords page! Yay?

So like his sister, Viserys also has a long "official" name (well, more like what he thinks he should be called). Viserys Targaryen, the Third of His Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm. Actually most people in the realm just call him "The Beggar King" because he has to sell a lot of his prized possessions to make ends meet for himself and his little sister. Actually, I don't think Viserys starts out that bad and you have to feel sorry for him. His family ruled Westeros for a hell of a long time and he should have been living a life similar to Prince Harry (naked pictures and cocaine, anyone)? Instead, everyone in his family was killed except for him and Dany. They have to live in exile while some other dude is king. Viserys feels pretty cheated and you can't really blame him for that. He wants the crown back and feels it is rightfully is. And he may have been right, but he was so impatient about it and that was his downfall.

Reasons to hate Viserys: I am going to do something a little differently and do my hate section first. Mainly because there really is more to hate than to love about this guy. Let's start out with how he sells his baby sister (who is like 15 years old) to a vicious barbarian Dothraki warlord in exchange for an army to get his crown back. Yes, Dany grows to love Drogo, but it's still an asshole move. Although this isn't covered on the show, he totally wants to take her virginity for himself before her actual wedding. Luckily, this did not happen (ugh just what we need, more incest in this story)! And then, when Dany actually ends up relatively happy with her Dothraki life, he gets all jealous and yells at her all the time. He always is saying "you don't want to wake the dragon" and scaring the girl until she gains her own confidence.

What a creepoid! He also tries to sell Dany's dragon eggs and keeps annoying the Dothraki. He acts as though he has some sort of power over them and they just think he is a big loser. They love Dany, their Khaleesi, though and this just pisses him off to no end. The final straw comes when he gets wasted and threatens Dany, Drogo and their unborn baby. He demands that Drogo "pay" for his sister and give him his golden crown. This is the response he gets from Drogo (warning, this is NOT for the faint of heart)!

Ahhhh, now Dany is the only heir to the Targaryen dynasty, thank you Viserys! I hope that crown feels good on your melted head.

Reasons to love Viserys: Well, Viserys is kind of fun to hate because he is so ridiculous. The way he acts is hilarious sometimes. He is like an uncool, delicate wisp of a guy in the midst of all those hardcore Dothraki. And he actually tries to boss them around! And like I said before, I think he starts out as an all right guy and just wants back what should be his (in his opinion). He was nice to Dany in their younger years before he grew resentful and mean. Plus, he could have gained the crazy genes from his old dad Aerys (aka the Mad King). Even after his death, Dany decides to remember the good things about him and feels like he was a good person underneath his cruelty. She honors him by naming one of her baby dragons Viserion in his memory. Check out the cutie on the right, the cream colored one! R.I.P. Viserys, may his dragon do what he could not!

High School: For some reason I imagine Viserys as a band geek and I cant really explain why that is. I bet he would play a (golden) saxophone and would think he was better at it than he was. He would be an entitled rich kid with lots of allergies. He would totally show up uninvited to parties of the popular kids and make a drunken fool out of himself. Viserys would feel that he was popular enough to run for class president and campaign hard for it. Kind of like Reese Witherspoon in that one "Election" movie. Imagine his horror on election day when his adorable little sister wins with a bunch of write-in votes!

Let's Mix In Some Sticks: So there is no way Viserys could even pretend he was a hockey player. He is way to much of a wuss. He would definitely be involved in the Detroit Red Wings due to their dragon-esqe name. Actually, he would totally be the son of the owner of the team and would give out unsolicited advice. Those Red Wings better not wake the dragon (Oh whatever, Viserys)!

  

The Targaryen Red Wings

~Beddee

Daenerys Targaryen, the First of Her Name

I want to first say that my character profiles are going to remain mostly spoiler free. I know a lot of people might be clicking on this from the "Sticks" section and I am hoping to inspire them to watch the show and/or read the books (this includes Saucer). The last thing I want to do is blab everything that happens! There are so many great surprises. I may create another page where people can talk freely about everything. Oh, and I haven't even finished "A Dance With Dragons" yet anyway.


So, I chose Ms. Targaryen as my first blog entry. I will start by addressing her by her full title:

Daenerys Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, called Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons.

In addition to this, she has many other nicknames, but to make things easier I will just call her Dany! Such a simple all-American name. I like Dany and I like Emilia Clarke who plays her in the show.

Just look how purdy she is! I think the series did a wonderful job with casting her and the actress is super cool in interviews and truly seems to embrace her character and you can tell she is a fan of the books.

Reasons to love Dany: She is kind, brave, fair, beautiful, has a million names....and DRAGONS! Basically, she is perfect.

Watch her eat the hell out of that horse heart here:

I mean, that's pretty awesome (and she didn't throw up once).

Reasons to hate Dany: I don't know, why don't you go ask poor Viserys!

Besides that, Dany's chapters can be a bit tiresome and I want to see her DO SOMETHING already besides hang out in all these lands beyond the Narrow Sea. I want her to interact with some of my other favorites. To be fair, I am not that far into the 5th book and she may have done this. I will update once I finish the book.

Drogo: Okay, maybe one of the main reasons I love Dany is her relationship with the mighty Khal Drogo. They are so romantic! She is totally that mythical girl who can change a bad boy. Well, sort of. He is nice to her anyways. I mean "Moon of My Life" "Sun and Stars"..it's like dialogue from the cheesiest romance novel ever! But they pull it off. Maybe because it's mostly said in Dothraki, the made up language of love. Plus Drogo is H.O.T.! Jason Momoa is a stallion (quite literally in this show).

Awww they are seriously the cutest couple of the Dothraki Sea! And probably Westeros too. Which brings me to the final section of my character profile. I thought it would be fun (and probably extremely dorky) to put our favorite ASOIAF characters in a high school setting. What would they be like in a modern day high school. And when I say "modern day" I am going by when I personally went to high school (which is probably more like the dark ages). So here it goes!

High School: Dany would totally be the incoming freshman who was absolutely stunning and all the older girls were jealous of her. She wouldn't even realize that all the guys wanted to date her and all the girls wanted to be her. And some of more jealous girls would want to destroy her. But most people wouldn't think that. Even if they were super jealous, it would be hard not to like Dany. Plus, she would be dating the meanest (but hottest) drug dealer in the school district. So you wouldn't want to mess with her anyway. Oh, she would also be in the 4H club raising baby animals and also be the class president. Well, she WILL be class president after she makes sure the current one is thrown out of office!

So those are my ramblings on Daenerys Targaryen. I hope you enjoyed it! I am starting with the major characters, but I will do the minor ones too. My goal is to give everyone their own post!

~Beddee