#in honour of dragon age man ofc

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DanyMonth2021 - Daenerys Targaryen 30-Days October Month dedicated to Dany.

Day 2 : Fav Quote, Moments.

( I have so many and im late to this but this is one of my because they highlight her inner childlike nature curiosity, and simplistic and modest views on life and memories that is in her core she only desires a red door house and freq dreams of it and remembered it later and a lemon tree but more importantly a family and a commoner life where she again dreams in adws of comman woman and man who had been being intimate with each other. This also kinds of points to the fact that her righteously ambitious nature is not the only aspect of her and neither could she be someone who wants to only do everything alone or sacrifice or die alone points that people hurl at her. Most imp thing abt quote is her loss of and lack of privileges as compared to other children of lords and ladies who are born and adorned with love and honour but dany...never experienced the basic natural forthcoming love at her childhood and so far has literally been sold and displaced from one place or house to other. I like how she also sees a father figure in ser willem, someone id love to know more about, like she sees in no one and she remembered such beautiful and imaginative and colorful details of her house in braavos. Her not being raised and born as royalty or children of royalties in entire asoiaf shown are raised like is also biggest turmoil and quite saddening if you compare her to other children and people. She was robbed of basic things including a childhood and love and care and prestige as she says that ser willem used to call her little princess, shows how she as last targaryen exiled child of once glorious dynasty, and their last scion quite literally had never been raised whatsoever or given that status or lived like you do live when you belong from influential families. Maybe thats why i love her views and revolutionary thoughts in books because she wasn't really only raised among maesters and septas and other children of her age she might like to play with, she was only for brief moment enjoyed the time with ser willem until he died and they were again displaced, chased, mocked, ran after, and cycle repeats. This is important to note because she in beginning of her life is the most underprivileged character who had to live among people which was also conditional (ilyrio might be rich and all but he sold her along with viserys and didn't always have good thoughts about her), most of her patriarchy influence was one big torture and ball of pain until we see she is freed from them at last in the end of AGOT and brings back dragons. that marks her journey of strength and independence and living unconditionally though, not all times since ruling in mereen also came with consequences ofc. But Dany as character with bad childhood still is the least sympathized with character if we compare her to stark children and others too. She is gaining now what others had for yrs before their downfall began and the one reason majority dont find it easy tk sympathize with her is because so many skim her backstory not really delving deep that they were raised in scrapes and poverty and in sewers too apart from Ilyrio's mansions. and they had to sell their mothers crown which is very symbolic because they sold the last dear memory of them. In Asoiaf others start having downfall but Dany goes in opposite direction because before books mention or we can actually sympathize with her, the stuff happened to her in childhood is not synchronized or explained in POVs too. we get flashbacks and little bits and it should be enough to know she suffered as child a lot. Thats why i attach this quote because it is very sad and points to the true nature of her from inside. She cried for a red door and not having a house with red door. The line that "door closed for them forever" is also so sad considering they were again on run now. She isn't literally given a privilege and power, she had to bring it back through her own sheer strength unlike nobles getting it from being born in family. The post-rebellion was harshest i can only imagine on Dany.)

—————— Book Quote ——–—–——————

She remembered Ser Willem dimly, a great grey bear of a man, half-blind, roaring and bellowing orders from his sickbed. The servants had lived in terror of him, but he had always been kind to Dany. He called her "Little Princess" and sometimes "My Lady," and his hands were soft as old leather. He never left his bed, though, and the smell of sickness clung to him day and night, a hot, moist, sickly sweet odor. That was when they lived in Braavos, in the big house with the red door. Dany had her own room there, with a lemon tree outside her window. After Ser Willem had died, the servants had stolen what little money they had left, and soon after they had been put out of the big house. Dany had cried when the red door closed behind them forever.

- Daenerys, AGOT.

[aerltarg]

Maybe this is a stupid question, buuuuut:

I just can't imagine a world that Rhaegar comes back from the Trident, wins the war and becomes king. No, I'm not a anti Rhaegar, matter of fact I like him very much, I'm just can imagine how would Lya, little Jon, this whole affair, would settle in the capital. The norm that fics (at least those I read) tend to follow is to make Rhaegar:

1. A douche, paranoid and destiny-obessed king.

2. Completely incompetent, aloof monarch, that deep down has a heart of gold, but can't really be understood.

I mean, isn't he supposed to be a scholar since he was a kid? What's are your thoughts about it?

oh, yeah, i can totally understand this! it's is the whole point in canon actually, "the wrong man came back from the trident". you would expect a hero win against his antagonist and have a happy ending w his lady love but it doesn't happen. instead the subversion happens to them with rhaegar being killed by robert who becomes obviously a shitty king and lyanna dying after him. they were never supposed to have happy ending, they were created as tragic and doomed and dead from the beginning for the whole plot to start, jon to have his parentage mystery and dany to take the passed baton as the last dragon, prophesied savoir and the heir who has to carry entire house on her back now.

as for the realistic rhaegar wins aus that's the difficult question. tbh we just don't know enough abt their situation, plans and wishes. you see, e.g. in agot we can be right in ned's head and see his motivations, what he was thinking abt, what he was planning, what he was hoping to do. but if his story was told the way rhaegar's was i bet he would have his own crowd of haters and ~intellectuals~ jumping out every two seconds w their "hot takes" how actually all hints abt what rlly happened (ned being a good man w his own sense of honour, justice and experiences affecting him and the deal w cersei's children) doesn't matter and he was an ambitious prick, planned to grasp the power by being joffrey's regent and make his daughter sansa queen. (you can actually insert there any bullshit and still don't reach the level of stupidity of such "hot takes" this fandom loves so much lmao). also he would be blamed to the hell and beyond for being too stupid and not foreseeing the future and actions of other ppl bc ofc after everything happened it's so easy to say what was so obvious to notice. also they would say that the deaths of his men and horrible fates of his kids are 100% his fault and even straight up say he killed them lmao. i can rant abt it for hours so yeah. this is a situation w too many unknown variables bc it depends too much on actions of too many characters we don't know enough abt. the only thing it's possible to tell for sure is the fact that there couldn't be any perfect solutions since things got too complicated at this point.

such fics as you've mentioned tho are just a part of this dumb fanon where rhaegar is "too prophecy obsessed"/"incapable of love"/shrodinger's rhaegar both smart and stupid at the same time/whatever/all of this combined lmfao. the man was notably intelligent from the early age as you've absolutely rightly mentioned, his guesses abt himself being tptwp have nothing to do w egocentrism as some parts of the fandom would want us all to believe unless he wouldn't be so reasonable abt it and later on, after so many years, wouldn't have changed his mind and thought his son could be tptwp.

and literally fuck all antis that think you shouldn't consider prophecies that hold real power in this fantasy world lol. you know, aegon the conqueror was said to be motivated (or at least partly) to unify westeros by the prophecy and still got the treatment of perfect/maximum close to perfect figure of a leader everyone should look up to from the narrative and grrm. prophecy obsessed much, huh? i don't even talk abt all these parallels between him and rhaegar grrm put there not for bitches to ignore them completely! and i will never get tired of reminding that dismissing prophecies is UNWISE for targaryens of all people. the house whose story is built on the dream of young daenys and her father aenar that listened to her despite common sense (or what local "anti magic"/"anti prophecies" clowns consider to be common sense). targs would be as dead as the rest of dragonlords if not for daenys the dreamer. who else in the world has as many reasons to take prophecies seriously as them?

yet antis out there act as if rhaegar is one dimensional weirdo whose every character trait is abt mf ~prophecy obsession~. like how can they miss one of the main points so badly?? the game of thrones distracts ppl from the real danger beyond the wall, yk, the one rhaegar was aware of and meant to deal with. there wouldn't be such a problem if he became king and had as many years of head start before ice zombies apocalypse as ignorant bobby b did. rhaegar had to die just for westeros to sink in shit and our main heroes to save everyone to make this story more epic LMAO

so yeah, too many ppl portray rhaegar as this one dimensional robotic creature without any knowledge of what feelings are idk even for what reason. it seems these ppl can't read for real bc rhaegar was not only intelligent af as well as dutiful ("it seems i must be a warrior" but "he loved his harp more than his lance") but also. ugh emotional?? my boy had constant emo sessions w brooding at ruins of summerhall, sleeping out there beneath the stars all alone and writing songs that made all women cry. does it sound as someone who "isn't capable of love" lol? folks act as if he was completely heartless from the day he was born (bc he didnt play w other kids ig??) but in reality their emotional range is less than the one of a spoon in comparison to rhaegar's lol. i'm not even gonna address the horrible attitude of demonizing him for his implied depression, vile clowns never listen to themselves when they talk abt targaryens and their "madness".

tldr; these fics are mostly lame af and suck at characterization if they're making rhaegar like that lol. anyway his character isn't abt being a good or a bad king, it's abt being a would-be-king for characters in books and readers in reality to sigh over his tragic aura and pretty aesthetic abt how it could've been. however, grrm clearly doesn't write rhaegar as evil or incapable as some parts of the fandom would want to try to persuade others. realistically speaking in the scenario where he wins there couldn't be any perfect decisions but it's a territory of speculations on thin air and lit nothing more since canon doesn't provide us with enough information to rlly theorize anything instead of building biased headcanons some ppl call "analysis".

but remember what barristan said about rhaegar while practically watching him all his life, from a literal baby to the man grown:

“I know little of Rhaegar. Only the tales Viserys told, and he was a little boy when our brother died. What was he truly like?”

The old man considered a moment. “Able. That above all. Determined, deliberate, dutiful, single-minded.” (ASOS, Daenerys I)

“Prince Rhaegar’s prowess was unquestioned, but he seldom entered the lists. He never loved the song of swords the way that Robert did, or Jaime Lannister. It was something he had to do, a task the world had set him. He did it well, for he did everything well. That was his nature. But he took no joy in it. Men said that he loved his harp much better than his lance.” (ASOS, Daenerys IV)

[quilloftheclouds]

i have multiple, if that’s okay :D 72 for Celestine, 73 for Dione, & 83 for Cpt Xuan! for your character ask game ofc <3

[Send me a number so I can talk about my OCs!]

I ALWAYS ENJOY EXCUSES TO RANT ABOUT MY CHARACTERS SO IT IS WONDERFULLY OKAY

72. What is your oc’s ideal environment like? Urban or natural? Fancy or rustic? What’s the weather like?

This is actually touched on in the first book, although needs to be inferred from the text--when Celestine first wakes aboard the Compass, her mind is still groggy and hasn’t really placed where she is.

Old timbers creaked all around, the gentle swaying of the soft hammock that sheltered me soothing. There was a periodic, lulling rush of muffled sound with each swing of the bed: wind in the trees, perhaps, the same force causing the rickety walls to shift and groan in its breath. I imagined I was high up, in a little mountain cabin surrounded by evergreen trees, far from any lakes or streams, and forever away from my fears.

She perceives the sound of the waves instead as wind through trees, and the rocking motion from being high up! Her favourite place to be is just that: somewhere windy, dry, high up, and with no view of water anywhere. Natural is her preferred, and definitely a cozy little rustic cabin over a big fancy place!

73. If your oc were to be arrested, what would it most likely be for? Is it justified? Have they actually been arrested before? 

c: Did you intentionally choose Dione for this question? c:

Dione’s been arrested multiple times in the past, but she’s basically always escaped before her punishment could be enacted! Reasons range from harbouring and helping criminals and fugitives, stealing magical artifacts, and a variety of (mostly accidental) property destruction. In fact, she’s arrested twice in the first book alone, both by Rose! But here’s a reference to her past in the second book, mm...?

Dione’s cloak fluffed up again. She hissed.

“Excuse me!? My father was a noble, honourable, wise man! How dare you disgrace his name with such--such impudence!”

The Dragon blinked lazily.

“... Didn’t he order your execution?”

“Y-yes, well, he…” Dione bit her lip. “He may have been… justified… in that…”

83. What is your oc’s favourite trait about themselves? What about their least liked? What would others like and dislike the most about your oc?

Captain Xuân enjoys themself and their personality perhaps a little too much. At least, that’s what everyone around them would think. Their favourite is certainly their quick-thinking and adaptability! They can come up with a plan on the fly, strategy that seems like it took months to place despite the contrary being true. It means a lot of people think they have everything carefully planned out, and their improvising often goes unnoticed!

Their least liked trait is unfortunately something they’ve been working on for ages with little results... Xuân has something called retrograde amnesia, meaning they can remember things from before a certain event perfectly well, but anything afterwards is blurry and takes many tries and repetitions for a memory to form. Xuân has had this for about two decades now, so they’ve developed ways of coping, and Hana is a great help, but it still greatly affects them. They can’t remember names or dates without severe difficulty, and this can make it seem as though Xuân doesn’t pay attention to people, or dismisses their input as meaningless. They play that up, of course, because they’re worried if they don’t, people will think their intellect suffers from their memory.

Other people either see Xuân as wonderfully confident and charismatic, or terribly overconfident and pretentious--there is NO IN-BETWEEN. ^^’

Thank you for the ask, lovely!!

[sxfterhearts]

About Me!

thank you for the tag @prettywordsyouleft 💞 hope you’ll have a great week ahead chelle~ 

now for the questions!

1. It’s your birthday! What did you ask for and did you receive it?

so it was my birthday about a month ago and my friend gifted me a really pretty journal! i didn’t ask for it but it was definitely something that i wanted and i could picture myself sitting in a pretty cafe, sipping my coffee and doing some journaling in some faraway land

2. What was the last song or album you listened to?

stay gold by bts was the last song that played on my spotify!! (i have been playing it on repeat... the chorus is so satisfying) the last album is lay’s album lit (莲) :))

3. What is your go to snack when you’re hungry or bored?

whenever it’s that time of the month, chocolate (esp dark choc). i often get hungry at night so i’ll have yoghurt + granola!!

4. What is your morning routine?

these days? there is no routine LOL i’ve been on uni holidays so i just wake up.. whenever.... as in close to 12pm ahem but i’ll always brush my teeth before having breakfast (if i wake up early enough for breakfast, that is hehe)

on normal days when i have to go to uni i’ll be up around 8, wash up, pack my stuff and eat breakfast with my fam. we’ll always have the morning news on the tv as well

5. What mythical/cryptid creature would you be?

it’d be great if i could fly... so unicorn or dragon or phoenix? tbh tho i wanna be a witch if i could and do magic cos harry potter :”)

6. How do you interact with someone that you don’t like?

i’ll avoid them if it’s possible and just pretend they don’t exist.. if i really don’t have a choice, i’ll keep communications as limited as possible, perhaps just by text/online

7. How do you define a toxic person?

when the other person repeatedly fails to take into account your own feelings and wishes, always putting their own needs first. also not respecting the other person/their boundaries.

8. Have you ever been to a concert or fanmeet type of event? If not, would you want to?

i’ve been to an ed sheeran concert!! my seats were really far away tho so i couldn’t see him properly T^T

i haven’t been to any kpop concerts or fanmeets... i really wanna go to an exo concert (cos they were my youth) and ofc got7 as well (flashback to their part switches and that one fanmeet where jinyoung + yugyeom sang 1:31am omg)!! i also really really like day6′s music and i think their concert will be fantastic

9. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

yup! i find astrology posts interesting and mostly read them for fun but sometimes they can describe my personality/actions/thoughts pretty accurately (the skeptic in me tells me it’s probs bc they always write general statements that apply to everyone haha)

i would also read up my zodiac’s fortune for the year during CNY, but it’s mostly inaccurate hahah

10. If you had only one sense (hearing, touch, sight, etc.), which would you want?

sight, and if i could choose a second one definitely hearing. i really enjoy music and sounds but i think not being able to see would be... devastating for me.......

11. Who is your favorite celebrity or idol?

at the moment 100% park jinyoung. this man is so fine. (him dancing to coming home in his fanmeet??? hello???? pls give me my heart back thank you)

12. If you could talk to your favorite celebrity(s) for a limited time, what would you tell them?

for got7, i want to tell them that even though i haven’t known them for long, discovering them and being their fan has made me a happier, better and more confident person. their music, their personalities and their kind words really makes a difference in soooo many people’s lives. i’m thankful for their existence, their sacrifice and their hard work. also i want to say that i will support them no matter what they choose to do in the future, whether it be retiring, or marrying the love of their life, or having children. they deserve to find their own happiness after being ours for so long.

for exo, i think there are no words to express how much of an impact they’ve made to my life (i’ve stanned for nearly 7 years now! my entire teenage years). i’ll probably just give them a big hug if i could and tell them that i’m super proud of them and that i love them. and that it will always be an honour to be their fan.

13. I’m taking you out on a date and it’s your choice. Where are we going and what are we going to do?

FOR FOOD AND BUBBLE TEA. 

this is like the ideal date for me. we go try out a new restaurant and i intro you to my fav bbt place~

14. Do you like sweet or savory foods?

depends on my mood! usually savoury unless i’m craving chocolate specifically

15. Do you have any band merchandise or merchandise from any of your favorite artists? If so, what?

i’m not sure whether you guys know this but i’m a baby ahgase!! so sadly i don’t own any got7 merch :(( (i’m so tempted to buy some tho, especially hear here)

i have 5 exo albums (xoxo, growl, monster, lucky one and tempo), 2 posters in my bedroom, 1 in my study and a few more rolled up cos idk how to put them up properly!!! i also have an exo planet concert shirt~

16. (i added this question bc min tagged me ages ago but i couldn’t come up with decent ones) 3 random facts!!

my fav got7 title track is tied between eclipse and ycmn

i just read me before you and watched the movie (the book is 100 times better)

my fav videos to watch on youtube are cafe vlogs (specifically: pouring espresso on top of a cup of milk to make iced latte, ahhh satisfying)

Tagging: @mxillusion @beombam @jinyoungsir @tuangelic @defnabeom @listlessmaenads @ilytuan @defwons (the blogs that i really admire and frequently appear on my dash!! thank you all for posting and brightening up my day 🥺) + anyone who read this far and wants to do it too! 

[tkyuri-blog]

aLRIGHTY I’M LATE BUT HERE I AM !! nice to meet ya i’m bona your basic trash who’ll probably plot more stuff than i can actually write but yolo i guess? dshgdf anyway pls give lots of love to my children and don’t mind their super short intro, i’m so excited to be here :’) u can like this post or hit me at discord (bona#4975) so we can plot <3 anyway, ladies first !!

: *✧･ﾟ [ MYOUI MINA, FEMALE, SHE/HER ] So, YURI TAKADA, you think you have what it takes to join DRAGON EYES? At only TWENTY TWO, I hope you know what it is you’re signing up for. There’s more too it than just the reputation. Are you ready to be a MESSENGER? Being ALLURING might help you out, however let’s hope they don’t get tired of you being PESSIMISTIC. Good luck to you.

so, yuri’s mom used to be a maid for a kinda rich but not really family until she got pregnant with her boss’ older son who was already engaged (he’s trash). they fired her as soon as they found out, because not only was miss takada a maid, but she was also japanese and this combo didn’t sound very appropriate in their ears. 

aNYWAY, the point was that yuri’s mother was alone in korea, barely 24, pregnant and broke. she needed the first job she could find and ended up as a waitress at a strip bar. it was the only place that accepted her despite her visible belly and the money could do, so who cares? yuri was born and a few months later her mom met a guy at the bar. she gave it a shot and even thought that maybe it was her chance to be happy but guess what !! men are trash once again !! 

when yuri was like, a year and a half her mom married this guy. people say that you only get to know a person for real once you start living with them; that’s what happened. he was terrible in every sense of the word, treated her like a slave, trashed their home, wouldn’t let her take care of yuri to punish both of them. on the other hand, he had a better house than the small apartment she was living in, could afford proper food, had a comfortable bed to sleep in. yuri’s mom thought it was more than she could ask for, and because of that, she stayed.

yuri hated her so called family so much it physically hurt her. not only did she grow up watching her mother being treated like shit, she had to endure everything her stepfather wished to do with her too. yuri fought back a lot too, and it always made things worse. she got used to running away from home ever since she was eleven btw, learned how to steal, shoplift, have the things she was deprived of. 

when she was fourteen, her mother unfortunately got pregnant again. it’s a surprise she managed to have this baby considering all the assault she went through, but suddenly yuri had a baby brother. honestly, yuta was probably the reason why she didn’t leave for good, since she loved him so dearly and was determined to make his life as peaceful as possible. her mother stops working once her husband says she better take care of yuta, cause he’s got no patience for crying babies anymore, as if he ever had.

yuri started working at the same strip bar as her mother did at sixteen thanks to a fake id. she was so scared to be caught and it was impossible not to notice, it was when a woman came to her and asked how she was. long story short, later on the same night a guy tried to touch yuri and that woman, who stayed by the bar chatting and getting to know yuri, immobilized and threw him on the ground. yuri by then knew how to throw a punch but she was so amazed by this stranger that asked her if she could teach her what she knew.

the woman, haemi, was a member of waikikis, as yuri found out later on. she grew fond of yuri after learning about her life and actually did teach her how to fight, even how to handle a gun. yuri’s always been charming somehow, and it caught haemi’s eye. a couple of months after she started working at the bar, yuri did her job gracefully, even convincing costumers to order more and more drinks. as soon as she knew, haemi was already asking her to become, how can i say this, a sidekick? hasdfbsdhgs she saw potential in her and thought she could be part of the gang in the near future!! ofc she accepted

the thing is, near her eighteenth birthday she was invited to join dragon eyes. she felt bad at leaving haemi behind, but,,,, their members were exceptional at showing her reasons as to go their way and, well, yuri was convinced it was the right choice? i mean, pretty women, good with words, skilled? yes let yuri in pls

SO YEAH she got in and man she loves it, specially cause she got to leave her stepdad’s house. she hated being away from her brother, but she couldn’t just take him without being sure she could take care of him; when she could, though, at twenty, she just walked in her former home with a pretty gun in her hands and a stunning smile on her face?? like?? i’m taking yuta with me and if you dare come after us oh boy you’re dead?? it seemed to work just fine hfdgh

so that’s how she’s where she’s now ig?? fjdsugdf IM SORRY ABOUT THIS MESS but anyway, about yuri’s personality; she’s so sarcastic and apparently easy going?? as a teen she used to be rebellious and hotheaded and she kinda still is, but pretty much contained. she grew a lot smarter and honours her gang with her sweet talk, but yeah, honestly she still hates herself a little and she didn’t forget everything her stepdad did to her yet. terrible at any kind of relationships, yuri never had the actual time to make friends her age and she only began socializing with haemi, but will try to make herself likeable if she thinks you’re nice. JFDS THATS IT thanks if you read this crap you’re going to heaven bless u