Last week’s Game of Thrones episode gave us a whole new level of Jon and Daenerys shipping. Yes, she’s his aunt, and yes, they’re super hella related, but this post is an incest-friendly zone in regards to Targaryens and Lannisters specifically. Get on board or GTFO.
Not only did Jon swallow his pride and bend the knee, but he and Dany gazed longingly into one another’s eyes. They held hands! Tears were shed! Then Dany stepped back from the closeness of the situation and told Jon to get some sleep, causing him to make his best ‘pretend I’m snoozing and didn’t just get shut down’ face.
As we pointed out in our ‘things you missed‘ wrap of ‘Beyond the Wall‘, the show seemed weirdly obsessed with Dany’s infertility. It was brought up no less than three times this episode: once by Tyrion, once by Dany herself, and once (less explicitly) by Jorah to Jon, when he refuses the offer of Longclaw back and tells Jon that he hopes it serves “you and your children well”.
Dany herself has been convinced that she can no longer have children since Season 1, and her chat with Jon at the end of last episode seemed to be her way of warning him. “The dragons are my children. They’re the only children I’ll ever have. Do you understand?”
Yet Game of Thrones fans are pretty convinced that Dany’s infertility isn’t all that permanent.
As we pointed out last week, it all stems from the words of the healer Mirri Maz Duur in Season 1. After Khal Drogo became deathly ill, Dany demanded Mirri Maz Duur use blood magic to heal him. Dany sacrificed her horse for the healing (“only death pays for life”), but unknowingly sacrificed her unborn child, Rhaego. And it was all for nothing: Khal Drogo was left in a vegetative state.
Dany asked Mirri Maz Duur when Khal Drogo would be as he once was. She replied:
“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.”
This causes Dany to believe she will never have another child, and when she wakes the dragons from the stone eggs, she believes those are the only children she’ll ever have – and not least because in ‘A Dance with Dragons‘, she appears to have a miscarriage.
But as we’ve seen with interpretations of the prophecy around Azor Ahai, a.k.a. the prince that was promised, prophecies are open to interpretation.
Dany believes this prophecy sets the conditions for Khal Drogo returning to her, but it could also refer to Dany finding love again.
As a Redditor points out (and shout-out to BuzzFeed for drawing our attention to this post), Dany’s visions in the House of the Undying are being realised this season.
[EVERYTHING] New interpretation of Daenerys’ vision in The House of the Undying
by u/Siriusanakin in gameofthrones
There’s also a few moments last episode that point to a possibly pregnancy on the horizon. Obviously, the most tragic thing to happen was the death of Viserion. But if one of Dany’s children is dead, and “only death pays for life”, does this mean that Dany will possibly have another?
Then you’ve got Jon himself, who might well be the prince that was promised. If he put a baby inside Dany’s barren womb, then he would be fulfilling the “waking dragons from stone” bit of the prophecy.
And finally, you have the whole ‘ice and fire’ thing that’s defined this entire series. Dany is fire, Jon is ice. It would make poetic sense for ‘the song of ice and fire’ to ultimately be their baby, ruling Westeros.
Fans are pretty convinced / really, really hoping it’s true.
Jon’s gonna get Dany pregnant. Too many references to her not having children and Jorah telling Jon to pass the sword to his kids.
— DamnitAdrian (@DamnitAdrian) August 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/MsMartieBabyy/status/899484441898237953
Hey, y’all! We got proof! Dany is pregnant! Jon is thrilled, as we can see in the picture! 😂😂😂#Jonerys #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/CyGRWbM18p
— Edu (@BR_Edu_BR) August 27, 2017
Guess we’ll find out TODAY. Probably. Or next season. I suppose Jon and Dany need to bone beforehand.
