[ SECRET POST #4496 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4496 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't she young when she marries him? I've never seen the books or show so I'm coming at this blind but I thought one of the issues with her marriage with Drogo is because she was young and that she couldn't technically consent to the sex?

[chamonix]

She is 13 in the book; older in the show, though not by much - 15 or 16 maybe? I mean our definition of ability to consent means nothing in Westeros; by their standards Drogo did at least make some effort towards not completely alienating her on her wedding night. But nothing excuses what happened afterwards. He absolutely raped her, repeatedly and unrepentantly. His eventual respect for her is based completely on their sexual relationship. Even then, their relationship is built on implicit boundaries. She must be careful never to cross those, or she will lose his extremely conditional indulgence. Honestly Dany has little to no agency in their relationship. Even if Drogo had survived, their relationship never would have. People romanticise it because it died before that ugly truth became impossible to ignore.

[(Anonymous)]

I get that our society is different than Westeros, but the books aren't written in a vacuum. It's always made me uneasy how people clamor to believe that, even in fiction, children can somehow consent to sex.