#strong Belwas

[greywoe]

"Magnificence, the people of Meereen have come to celebrate our union. You heard them cheering you. Do not cast away their love." "It was my floppy ears they cheered, not me. Take me from this abbatoir, husband." She could hear the boar snorting, the shouts of the spearmen, the crack of the pitmaster's whip. "Sweet lady, no. Stay only a while longer. For the folly, and one last match. Close your eyes, no one will see. They will be watching Belaquo and Ghogor. This is no time for--" A shadow rippled across his face.

#danyweek2023 day 3 prompt: badass moments - dany taking off her veil and tokar, ready to leave the fighting pits just as drogon finally returns (featuring irri and jhiqui discussing the matches, and belwas being queasy from the locusts). shadow-free version:

#still struggling with pro create lol #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #daenerys targaryen #danyweek2023 #hizdahr zo loraq #irri #jhiqui #barristan selmy #strong belwas #my drawings #saw this event just as i wanted to redraw an old drawing of this scene so the timing was good #it's one of my favourite moments of hers #adwd

[thewatcher0nthewall]

Whitebeard and the Warrior Eunuch

#strong belwas #belwas #arstan whitebeard #barristan selmy #qarth #daenerys targaryen #fanart #drawing #illustration #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #the winds of winter #game of thrones #asoiaf fanart #valyrian scrolls #art

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

How does it feel to be in Daenerys' council room

And then some fans say that all Dany's secondary characters are boring.

#asoiaf meme #valyrianscrolls #daenerys targaryen #jorah mormont #barristan selmy #daario naharis #greyworm #strong Belwas

[acewithapencil]

Some requests from twitter

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #fan art #my art #SixFanarts #daenerys targaryen #viserion #shiera seastar #margaery tyrell #boots #lady whiskers #ser pounce #quaithe #strong belwas #Daenerys (daughter of Aegon iv)

[polysucks]

Will never understand why Strong Belwas was replaced with Daario at the siege of Mereen in the show. Strong Belwas the Fat Eunuch was eating lunch, heard he had to fight Oznak in an open space, gulped down his sausage, wiped his greasy hands on his pants and said “ya omw.” He didn’t stop to put a shirt on. No mail. No prep. Just vibes. He fuckin danced around Oznak and his dumb ass 14ft lance—I mean, Oznak deadass brought a knife to a gun fight who brings a lance and a horse to a hand-to-hand combat challenge??? A piss baby, that’s who. Oznak’s head was gracefully liberated from his neck by the most looney toons ass character in Daenerys’ world. He literally shat on Oznak’s lifeless, beheaded body and used his frilly pink outfit to wipe his ass. Never 5get Weiss and Benioff took that away from us. We should riot.

#asoiaf #personal #strong Belwas #daenerys targaryen #a storm of swords #asos #agot #hbo game of thrones #game of thrones #grrm #house targaryen #mereen #sounds like an excuse to not put culturally diverse characters in a predominantly white show #but I digress #house of the dragon #hotd

[wpmorse]

Strong Belwas was puffing from the climb when he marched them through the doors, one meaty hand wrapped tight around each man's arm. Ser Barristan walked with his head held high, but Ser Jorah stared at the marble floor as he approached. The one is proud, the other guilty. The old man had shaved off his white beard. He looked ten years younger without it. But her balding bear looked older than he had. They halted before the bench. Strong Belwas stepped back and stood with his arms crossed across his scarred chest. Ser Jorah cleared his throat. "Khaleesi . . ." Daenerys Page 985

Belwas brings Jorah and Belwas in to face Daenerys’s Judgement. This was one of those scenes where I had selected the paragraph and I completely missed the context in my initial read-through. I had an image of Belwas rushing up the stairs during the final siege of the palace. This is why I always read these scenes twice. Once I finally knew what was happening in the scene. My next image was choosing whether to have Dany and perhaps some of the others in the foreground. I finally decided that it would be too cluttered and decided to focus merely on Belwas and his prisoners. You can’t have too much of Strong Belwas.

#asoiaf #a storm of swords #pen and ink #illustration #strong belwas #jorah mormont #barristan selmy

[rainhadaenerys]

Daenerys' storyline by Onirio - Part 2:

1) The wonder that has been born again into the world (Daenerys X AGOT);

2) In the garden of bones (Daenerys I ACOK);

3) The greatest city that ever was or ever will be (Daenerys II ACOK);

4) Another encounter, another prophecy (Daenerys III ACOK);

5) The heart of the Undying (Daenerys IV ACOK);

6) Two new companions and a ride back to the west (Daenerys V ACOK).

#daenerys targaryen #daenerys targaryen art #drogon #rhaegal #viserion #quaithe #barristan selmy #jorah mormont #strong belwas

[cheffe-cool]

Google asking the real questions

#asoiaf #strong belwas #deanerys targaryen #deanerys crew #meereen #the people need to know

[nogoodsheepstealing-greatgrandma]

#asoiaf art #valyrianscrolls art #art reblog #themico #not mine #queensguard #barristan selmy #daario naharis #brown ben plumm #jorah mormont #grey worm #strong belwas #tyrosh #second sons #mormont #unsullied #meereen

[asoiaf-artbrdr]

Strong Belwas

The formidable Belwas, folks! This one was pretty fun to make. I used a wrestler as my reference for the character, back when I was paying for the service and could upload images... as I recall, I spent a bit of time trying to make him appropriately shiny and hairless! Anyway, for Belwas the key descriptor is girth. With the eunuchs in the series, I think we do see a trend towards soft and fleshy as they age, with perpetually soft cheeks. I've tried looking up how accurate that is to real life - it sounds correct to me, but I haven't hit on the right search terms yet, I guess.

I hope you guys like my take on the former slave turned queensguard councilor!

#strong belwas #queensguard #asoiaf fanart #artbreeder #valyrianscrolls #megamikenzie #queue better believe it

[francy-sketches]

Excuse you, Jaime inherited all the ass in the Lannister family, it's also the reason why he likes manass so much. For the record Strong Belwas has the fattest ass out there

'Jaime inherited all the ass in the Lannister family' 0x100 is still 0.

#asks #every lannister has no ass. sorry #except cersei i think she deserves it #true about strong belwas tho. i bet he does squats everyday

[daenystheedreamer]

spent ten minutes thinking about a daensa modern au where dany is essentially The Wiggles

#my mind palace is dark and twisted #dany would be an AMAZING children's entertainer #missandei teaches reading writing languages #grey worm does like Baby's First Judo and insects #oooo strong belwas can be like a funny strongman :) #yinnie

[jedimaesteryoda]

One trend I've noticed a lot lately in the speculation of Tyrion meeting Daenerys is how he'll influence her. The argument often is that Tyrion will encourage her more "fire and blood" destructive tendencies when they get to Westeros. However, this view is often one-sided as it's always about how Tyrion will influence Daenerys but never about how Daenerys will influence Tyrion.

"Daenerys, I am thrice your age," Ser Jorah said. "I have seen how false men are. Very few are worthy of trust, and Daario Naharis is not one of them. Even his beard wears false colors." That angered her. "Whilst you have an honest beard, is that what you are telling me? You are the only man I should ever trust?" He stiffened. "I did not say that." "You say it every day. Pyat Pree's a liar, Xaro's a schemer, Belwas a braggart, Arstan an assassin . . . do you think I'm still some virgin girl, that I cannot hear the words behind the words?" "Your Grace—" She bulled over him. "You have been a better friend to me than any I have known, a better brother than Viserys ever was. You are the first of my Queensguard, the commander of my army, my most valued counselor, my good right hand. I honor and respect and cherish you—but I do not desire you, Jorah Mormont, and I am weary of your trying to push every other man in the world away from me, so I must needs rely on you and you alone. It will not serve, and it will not make me love you any better." -ASOS, Daenerys IV

Daenerys is not the sheltered child Aegon was who Tyrion could easily manipulate as shown when she called out Jorah for trying to isolate her from other men. Even Tyrion admitted to Aegon, having never met Daenerys that "she is strong" and "fierce." Daenerys was more worldly at 14 than Aegon is at 16. Even as a small, frightened girl at age 13 in the beginning of the series, she had more street smarts than her adult brother Viserys and has shown to be a prodigy in the series. Tyrion would not be able to manipulate her easily, especially since would initially be wary of him for being a Lannister.

Tyrion at the end of the day would be serving as her subordinate, him being largely dependent on her. Tyrion largely is the way he is because of the toxic family he grew up in. The Lannister vision has no idea of a Good Society, it's just pure self-aggrandizement by any means necessary. As the adage goes, rot always starts at the head. The monarchs Tyrion served as Hand, Joffrey and Cersei, were both cruel, incompetent tyrants with senses of entitlement that outweighed their actual abilities. They also had no concept of the duties of a monarch to their subjects, and instead just abused their power over others, including sexually. The one who actually ran the show for the Lannister regime, Tywin, was a cold, abusive Machiavellian who brutalized the smallfolk and his children, seeing them as pawns in his schemes. Tyrion could be cunning and brutal, because it was both encouraged and necessary for the winner-take-all, dog-eat-dog world of the Lannister court. It was an environment designed to bring out the darker side of his nature.

However, since the beginning we saw hints of the lighter side of his nature such as when he gave emotional support to Jon and designed a special saddle for Bran. He even helped Catelyn when they were attacked by the mountain clans even though she kidnapped him. In A Clash of Kings, we see hints of Tyrion wanting to be something other than the cold Machiavellian like his father when he stands up for Sansa when Joffrey beats her, and he has Morec killed and Slynt sent to the Wall for killing Barra, wanting to "do justice." In A Dance with Dragons, he risks his life to protect Aegon and even in his lowest he looks out for Penny even though she is a complete stranger to him.

Daenerys is a foil to Cersei, whose ruling philosophy is expressed in the statement "Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?" Daenerys tries to live up to the image of an ideal monarch who protects the weak. She liberates the oppressed from slavery and tries to protect them, even performing acts like tending to those afflicted with the bloody flux herself, marrying someone she doesn't want and putting her plan of going to Westeros on hold to achieve peace. Working as Hand to Queen Daenerys, Tyrion may find himself in a change of pace in a different environment where for once his more positive tendencies are encouraged with his fondness for "cripples, bastards and broken things."

In short, in cutting himself off from his toxic family, Tyrion may actually find a new beginning in service to Daenerys. He's the Machiavellian polymath and court politician she needs, and she's the competent, idealistic monarch he needs.

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #queen daenerys #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #tyrion lannister #house lannister #house targaryen #meereen #queen cersei #cersei

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Why does GRRM seemingly deny that Strong Belwas was clearly heavily influenced by Abdullah the Butcher?

Maybe he's not a big fan of wrestling? I don't know. Personally, I'm not so I had to google the wrestler you are referring to.

I do know that Martin is a history nerd, though. So maybe, he based Strong Belwas on Roman gladiators. Strong Belwas was a slave who was fighting his whole life in the fighting pits of Meeren. Most gladiators were slaves as well, forced to fight. In terms of appearance, there are theories that gladiators had a similar physique to Strong Belwas.

#asoiaf ask #strong belwas #valyrianscrolls #a post of ice and fire

[fireismine]

DAENERYS TARGARYEN APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

Day 4: Character Parallels → Rhaena the Black Bride and Daenerys Stormborn

The Queen in the West:

In the Red Keep of King’s Landing sat the Queen Regent Alyssa, widow of the late King Aenys, mother to his son Jaehaerys, and wife to the King’s Hand, Rogar Baratheon. Just across Blackwater Bay on Dragonstone, a younger queen had arisen when Alyssa’s daughter Alysanne, a maid of thirteen years, had pledged her troth to her brother King Jaehaerys, against the wishes of her mother and her mother’s lord husband. And far to the west on Fair Isle, with the whole width of Westeros separating her from both mother and sister, was Alyssa’s eldest daughter, the dragonrider Rhaena Targaryen, widow of Prince Aegon the Uncrowned. In the westerlands, riverlands, and parts of the Reach, men were already calling her the Queen in the West. - A Surfeit of Rulers, Fire and Blood

~

Dany knew she would take more than a hundred, if she took any at all. "Remind your Good Master of who I am. Remind him that I am Daenerys Stormborn, Mother of Dragons, the Unburnt, trueborn queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. My blood is the blood of Aegon the Conqueror, and of old Valyria before him." - Daenerys II, A Storm of Swords

Three Husbands:

Rhaena was married to Aegon the Uncrowned, Maegor the Cruel and Androw Farman.

~

Her silver was trotting through the grass, to a darkling stream beneath a sea of stars. A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness. . . . mother of dragons, bride of fire . . . – Daenerys IV, A Clash of Kings

The Queen in the East:

“Done,��� the king said…mayhaps too hastily, for it must be remembered that Aerea Targaryen, a girl of eight, was his own acknowledged successor, heir apparent to the Iron Throne. The consequences of this decision would not be known for years to come, however. For the nonce it was done, and the Queen in the West at a stroke became the Queen in the East. - A Time of Testing: The Realm Remade, Fire and Blood

~

"The best calumnies are spiced with truth," suggested Qavo, "but the girl's true sin cannot be denied. This arrogant child has taken it upon herself to smash the slave trade, but that traffic was never confined to Slaver's Bay. It was part of the sea of trade that spanned the world, and the dragon queen has clouded the water. Behind the Black Wall, lords of ancient blood sleep poorly, listening as their kitchen slaves sharpen their long knives. Slaves grow our food, clean our streets, teach our young. They guard our walls, row our galleys, fight our battles. And now when they look east, they see this young queen shining from afar, this breaker of chains. The Old Blood cannot suffer that. Poor men hate her too. Even the vilest beggar stands higher than a slave. This dragon queen would rob him of that consolation." - Tyrion VI, A Dance with Dragons

Refusing to Cry

When word of the battle reached the west and Princess Rhaena learned that both her husband and her friend Lady Melony had fallen, it is said she heard the news in a stony silence. “Will you not weep?” she was asked, to which she replied, “I do not have the time for tears.” - The Sons of the Dragon, Fire and Blood

~

His business done, the captain of the Indigo Star bowed and took his leave. Dany shifted uncomfortably on the ebony bench. She dreaded what must come next, yet she knew she had put it off too long already. Yunkai and Astapor, threats of war, marriage proposals, the march west looming over all . . . I need my knights. I need their swords, and I need their counsel. Yet the thought of seeing Jorah Mormont again made her feel as if she'd swallowed a spoonful of flies; angry, agitated, sick. She could almost feel them buzzing round her belly. I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears. "Tell Belwas to bring my knights," Dany commanded, before she could change her mind. "My good knights." - Daenerys VI, A Storm of Swords

Gains Confidence After Bonding with a Dragon:

At the age of nine, however, Rhaena was presented with a hatchling from the pits of Dragonstone, and she and the young dragon she named Dreamfyre bonded instantly. With her dragon beside her, the princess slowly began to grow out of her shyness; at the age of twelve she took to the skies for the first time, and thereafter, though she remained a quiet girl, no one dared to call her timid. - The Sons of the Dragon, Fire and Blood

~

Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night … Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma, and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite so much. It was as if the gods had heard her and taken pity. Even her handmaids noticed the change. "Khaleesi," Jhiqui said, "what is wrong? Are you sick?" "I was," she answered, standing over the dragon's eggs that Illyrio had given her when she wed. She touched one, the largest of the three, running her hand lightly over the shell. Black-and-scarlet, she thought, like the dragon in my dream. The stone felt strangely warm beneath her fingers … or was she still dreaming? She pulled her hand back nervously. - Daenerys III, A Game of Thrones

#danyweek2023 #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #canondany

[mikastormborn]

Barristan 🤝 the slaves 🤝 Daenerys breaking the slavers' peace

"Your gods are far away, Ser Grandfather," said the Widower. "I do not think they hear your prayers. And when the Yunkai'i send back the old woman to spit in your eye, what then?"

"Fire and blood," said Barristan Selmy, softly, softly.

For a long moment no one spoke. Then Strong Belwas slapped his belly and said, "Better than liver and onions," and Skahaz Shavepate stared through the eyes of his wolf's head mask and said, "You would break King Hizdahr's peace, old man?"

"I would shatter it." (ADWD, The Queen's Hand)

~

Daenerys Targaryen was wed, the guards on the pens had told them, laughing. She had taken a Meereenese slaver as her king, as wealthy as he was noble, and when the peace was signed and sealed the fighting pits of Meereen would open once again. Other slaves insisted that the guards were lying, that Daenerys Targaryen would never make peace with slavers. Mhysa, they called her. Someone told him that meant Mother. Soon the silver queen would come forth from her city, smash the Yunkai'i, and break their chains, they whispered to one another. (ADWD, Tyrion X)

~

"It is such a long way," she complained. "I was tired, Jorah. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow. I am only a young girl."

No. You are the blood of the dragon. The whispering was growing fainter, as if Ser Jorah were falling farther behind. Dragons plant no trees. Remember that. Remember who you are, what you were made to be. Remember your words.

"Fire and Blood," Daenerys told the swaying grass. (ADWD, Daenerys X)

#daenerys targaryen #barristan selmy