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Published: 2016-07-03 00:31:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 3019; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 0
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After painting my Daenerys fanart the other day, I was talking with a friend about how the whitest-white character is always being glorified at the expense of poc characters. Additionally, I think it would make more sense that the Valyrian-blooded characters in GoT/ASOIAF were darker skinned, since everyone else we've seen from that continent has been of much darker skin. As much as I love Emilia Clarke's job of playing Dany, I would have loved to see Dany as a POC character.
So, here's my vision of an alternate Daenerys
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This is absolutely stunning - I would have loved it if the Valyrians looked like this! In fact, George RR Martin considered it recently, but two decades too late! The quote:
"Speaking of Valyria... right from the start I wanted the Targaryens, and by extension the Valryians from whom they were descended, to be a race apart, with distinctive features that set them apart from the rest of Westeros, and helped explain their obsession with the purity of their blood. To do this, I made a conventional 'high fantasy' choice, and gave them silver-gold hair, purple and violet eyes, fine chiseled aristocratic features. That worked well enough, at least in the books (on the show, less so).
But in recent years, it has occured to me from time to time that it might have made for an interesting twist if instead I had made the dragonlords of Valyria... and therefore the Targaryens... black. Maybe I could have kept the silver hair too, though... no, that comes too close to 'dark elf' territory, but still... if I'd had dark-skinned dragonlords invade and conquer and dominate a largely white Westeros... though that choice would have brought its own perils. The Targaryens have not all been heroic, after all... some of them have been monsters, madmen, so...
Well, it's all moot. The idea came to me about twenty years too late."
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Thanks! It's a shame this didn't come up before the show began production, at least in his mind, because having this twist would have been fantastic in the tv series.
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