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Why did Daenerys' indestructible crocodile bird burn the throne instead of Jon? Was it literally just tired of the "Game of Thrones" and did not want anyone else to sit on it?
There are so many posts out there about the characters of GoT, but not enough about the strongest character in this show – our boy Drogon. This beast survived
Even though this is a theory I can make an argument for, I just don't think it's the best one. Drogon and Daenerys have a mother-son relationship, and the Targaryens have had a history of taming their dragons. Seeing dragons as indentured servants wouldn't make sense in this story of Westeros.
As intelligent of creatures as dragons seem to be, Drogon chose not to avenge its mother i.e. by burning her killer.
Drogon was the first person to see Jon after Dany's death and despite having trusted Jon and knowing that the couple loved each other, the beast probably deduced who killed its mother.
The burning of the throne could have just been grief as told by its screams upon finding Dany motionless at its touch. A strong sense of grief may have overcome Drogon's desire for revenge as animals have the ability to mourn just like humans. The creature must have instantly understood that its life has now changed forever, and as we saw, it quickly took off alone with Dany's corpse. Maybe it didn't see a purpose in killing Jon.
There's also this theory that Drogon understood Dany had gone mad, but then we're assuming that dragons have moral compasses. It didn't seem phased at all when it burned all of King's Landing, executed numerous soldiers, and torched cities and ships to the ground. Also, recall when Drogon gave a passionate war cry during Dany's speech that she would essentially take over the world.
I like the idea of part-grief and part battle-weary, but the real reason behind Drogon's burning of the throne should be purely thematic and metaphorical.
The melting of the iron throne is meant to show that the new ruler of the seven (or six) kingdoms will be different, and there will be a new era in which Westeros will start fresh.
The "Game of Thrones" began after the execution of Ned Stark and ended with the Mad Queen's mass flaming genocide. Death and fire is the means to which this Game was played, and it should only end poetically with death and fire.
"It's not easy to see something that's never been...We break the wheel, together". Some of Dany's last words to Jon.
The end of birthright kings and the fall of tyrants traditionally sitting on the Iron Throne were very important events in the final episode. Winterfell became independent, and by Tyrion's brilliant progressive idea, kings will now be selected rather than birthed.
The takeaway here is that Drogon is a complicated creature, and unless Dany comes back to life and translates dragon-ese for us, we'll never know for sure. We can try attaching emotional labels onto a dragon but that steps into some skeptical theories. We do know that Drogon was struck with grief after Dany's death by its reaction, and we know it chose not to kill Jon. Given these facts, there's not enough to put a rational reason behind it.
The ground-breaking political events that unfolded after Jon's assassination should ultimately connect back to Drogon's symbolic incineration of the throne. Put simply, this interpretation of Drogon's actions is a poetic political disruption of all of Westeros and its traditions.
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There are so many posts out there about the characters of GoT, but not enough about the strongest character in this show – our boy Drogon. This beast survived
- The Battle of Meereen (Ships launching fireballs)
- The Uprising at Daznak's Pit (Spears)
- The Battle Beyond the Wall (The Night King's Ice Javelin)
- The Loot Train Attack (Dragon Crossbow aka Scorpion that Bronn used to injure Drogon)
- The Battle of Winterfell (Ice Dragon and hundreds of White Walkers repeatedly stabbing it)
- The Battle of King's Landing (More Scorpions), and probably a few more battles that I'm too lazy to look up now.
Even though this is a theory I can make an argument for, I just don't think it's the best one. Drogon and Daenerys have a mother-son relationship, and the Targaryens have had a history of taming their dragons. Seeing dragons as indentured servants wouldn't make sense in this story of Westeros.
As intelligent of creatures as dragons seem to be, Drogon chose not to avenge its mother i.e. by burning her killer.
Drogon was the first person to see Jon after Dany's death and despite having trusted Jon and knowing that the couple loved each other, the beast probably deduced who killed its mother.
The burning of the throne could have just been grief as told by its screams upon finding Dany motionless at its touch. A strong sense of grief may have overcome Drogon's desire for revenge as animals have the ability to mourn just like humans. The creature must have instantly understood that its life has now changed forever, and as we saw, it quickly took off alone with Dany's corpse. Maybe it didn't see a purpose in killing Jon.
There's also this theory that Drogon understood Dany had gone mad, but then we're assuming that dragons have moral compasses. It didn't seem phased at all when it burned all of King's Landing, executed numerous soldiers, and torched cities and ships to the ground. Also, recall when Drogon gave a passionate war cry during Dany's speech that she would essentially take over the world.
I like the idea of part-grief and part battle-weary, but the real reason behind Drogon's burning of the throne should be purely thematic and metaphorical.
The melting of the iron throne is meant to show that the new ruler of the seven (or six) kingdoms will be different, and there will be a new era in which Westeros will start fresh.
The "Game of Thrones" began after the execution of Ned Stark and ended with the Mad Queen's mass flaming genocide. Death and fire is the means to which this Game was played, and it should only end poetically with death and fire.
"It's not easy to see something that's never been...We break the wheel, together". Some of Dany's last words to Jon.
The end of birthright kings and the fall of tyrants traditionally sitting on the Iron Throne were very important events in the final episode. Winterfell became independent, and by Tyrion's brilliant progressive idea, kings will now be selected rather than birthed.
The ground-breaking political events that unfolded after Jon's assassination should ultimately connect back to Drogon's symbolic incineration of the throne. Put simply, this interpretation of Drogon's actions is a poetic political disruption of all of Westeros and its traditions.
