ASOIAF: Who will Daenerys marry in Westeros?

I think it will be Victarion.

Of course there are no shortage of eligible bachelors in Westeros. But to narrow it down ,I assume that she would want to marry into a high family, one of the so-called Great Houses and not spend her days with Pate the shepherd or Wat the Candlestick-maker.

So here are the eligible bachelors with some upsides and some drawbacks:

• Willas Tyrell. He’s smart. He plays music. He is probably handsome, at least he has the genes for handsomness. Rules the Reach, at least once Mance Tyrell is dead.
  
  Drawbacks:
• crippled.
• may be homosexual (fan theory—I don’t buy it.)
• Aegon VI. Supposedly her nephew. Incest box checked. Good looking.
  
  Drawbacks.
• Will already be married to Arianne when she gets there; will have to be gotten rid of before Dany could rule.
• Jaime Lannister: Good looking. Good guy all around. Too impulsive, but no more than Dany. Otherwise smarter than she is.
  
  Drawbacks.
• killed her father.
• Has a tendency to kill rulers.
• Robert Arryn. Rules the Vale. Ostensibly.
  
  Uh. That is his only asset.
  Drawbacks:
• Got some “shaking” disease.
• drug addict.
• socially retarded. In a big way.
• brat.
• Jon Snow. (Assuming he ends up ruling the North in the books, which I think is a very safe bet.) He is a relative, check.
  
  Violent side which turns her on, check.
  
  Probable dragon rider, check.
  Same age, basically.
  
  Can relate to the disastrous ruler thing.
  
  Drawbacks:
• mopey.
• done with women after Ygritte.
• might end up doing his barely pubescent cousin rather than his aunt.
• Tyrion. Smart as all get out, can make her vision happen.
  
   Will rule Casterly Rock after he gets rid of Cersei and Jaime.
  
  Super rich.
  
  Has some empathy towards her.
  
  Drawbacks:
• too resentful.
• ugly.
• premature ejaculator supreme.

OK, those possibilities are out of the way.

Now, let’s talk about who she is going to marry.

I think it is Victarion.

That is Victarion’s plan. Of course, Victarion is an idiot, a big brutish killer who is being manipulated by his brother Euron , who wants Vic to get Dany and her dragons to Westeros so he can take one. I see two possibilities for Victarion. Either he gets inadvertantly fried by the dragons. Or his dumb plan actually works. He’s got the danger going for him that edgy brutishness that gets Dany wet.

Some people think that it won’t work, though. And that she will marry Euron.

I can see that too. In fact, he is even more her type than Victarion — because he has that mischievous side like Daario— you know that mischievous side that rapes his brother Aeron and sacrifices him alongside Euron’s unborn son and his high-born sex slave in order to summon a tsunami —mark the words — to destroy Oldtown. Hi-freaking-larious.

But it’s one of them that she will marry. Victarion or Euron.

My money is on Victarion: (meta-evidence: the quip about Daenerys marrying Yara in the show. Felt like the kind of nod Benioff and Weiss make to GRRM and the readers when they change stuff. So, in the show she will NOT marry but will forge a partnership with Yara.)

No matter who she marries, she is going to end up fighting Euron and I would not be surprised if he ends up killing her.

The dragons are just too convenient in fighting the icy Others. They’ve got to be either eliminated or at least reduced in number.

Written September 12th