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alethiaii · 3 years ago

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I blame the absence of functioning brains on Varys and Tyrion after season 4 for not educating Daenerys at all about Westerosi culture, customs and politics. Because to this day I find it hilarious that when Jon came down on Dragonstone (an imbecilic decision by itself plus not consulting with his regent about anything at any time), she legit just expected bygones be bygones and just pick up the contract where it was broken and continue.

Swearing something in perpetuity is all well and good but it is done in good faith and trust that gross insult and tragedy like the 'trial' will not happen and laws would be observed. They were not, therefore no more contract.

Now you negotiate a new contract, starting from alliance to maybe later subjection to one throne. Everything would have gone much better if anyone in Daenerys's retinue would have just used some braincells and accepted the proposal of alliance. Either conquer the entire continent with what you have and put your absolute terms forward or make alliances with concessions. Do not expect to be handed something because you think it's your right when your parent lost that right for you.

#nina is on her asoiaf/got bullshit #it is in the end shit writing but this is what we got in in GoT and ayyyyy #those were the best centuries the seven kingdoms have ever known #thinks about 20ish wars and conflicts that happened in condensed time of less than 300 years versus the less number of wars that happened #over centuries #i'm not gonna pretend that weren't any wars in westeros before aegon decided to make it his own but they were on ridiculously smaller scale #and the loss of life was not as gross #@ Tyrion and Varys: why did you not educate her on this shit ffs?#they also were not allies tbh except in dance of dragons...after that business as usual...targaryens as lords and starks as subjects #house stark was subjected to the iron throne and generally no one in the south gave a fuck about the north unless they could get their #soldiers...which is why jacerys targaryen flew north to obtain alliance for his mother and the famed pact of ice and fire was foreged...#and was left unfulfilled for obvious reasons until we can say rhaegar and lyanna...which in turn is literally known to no one #to be fair...it's not like northerners probably cried about missing out on frequent bloodshed with their already small population #they generally give off vibes of not giving a fuck in return #until aerys went totally nuts

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