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dreamedfyre-a · 4 months ago

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perhaps controversial take? but parading meleys' head isn't in itself an absurd or clearly stupid idea imo. it is disrespectful af, it's gross, but it's meant to be a display of strength — the thing is, because of the context and situation as a whole, it misses the inspiring awe and showing strength goal they were aiming for and leaves the smallfolk terrified and desperate instead. the idea a dead dragon's head takes away from the magic and mystique surrounding the royal family seems a little silly to me. everyone knows dragons can die. meraxes was literally killed by people! with weapons! normal humans! ( shoutout to dorne for being the best, anyways) people know dragons can be killed. and in this specific scenario, it can't even be taken as showing people they might kill a dragon, because meleys was killed by another dragon (i think in the show they advertise it as being sunfyre? not sure), not something easily done. might be what the show ends up going for, but i just can't see it as encouragement for people to look at dragons differently

#* out of character: { dreamfyre stan }#the idea people killing one of the conqueror's dragons wouldn't be proof enough dragons can be killed just seems. hm #idk i think it's a little silly #and quicksilver was killed by another dragon #and balerion died of old age #and sure maybe they never saw a dead dragon but i don't think that's enough to make them feel they can /kill/ a dragon #and that the point should be they're afraid of getting caught in the crossfire bc dragons are killing each other #so who can guarantee the blacks won't send their dragons there to avenge meleys?#plus i saw many people (on twitter) talk about it being the cause for the storming of the dragonpit #and that isn't about people feeling they can kill dragons #it's about people being so fed up with everything #esp the targs and their family dispute and how they're the ones paying for it #that it ends in rebellion and in people intent on killing any dragons they can find #the winged ones as symbols and part of the strength of the house #the human ones who black or green have been making them suffer #i'm rambling but!#if they never paraded meleys' head the storming would happen exactly as it does imo

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