Did Dany Love Drogo?

Yes. She started pretty meek at first, unhappy, and weepy, basically a thirteen year old sex slave with saddle sores. Who wouldn’t be a little weepy?

But she took charge of things and in doing so she, to put it delicately, fucked Drogo into respecting her enough that she basically co-ruled the khalasar. Now, I know that her rule depended very much on the goodwill of Drogo but he had it: enough that he forbade the rape/murder of any maiden she liked.

Wow. That must have taken a lot of love on Drogo’s part. Raping and murdering —that is the Dothraki’s birthright. That’s what they do! The fact that he banned rape is so sappily romantic it makes tears comes to my eyes. It’s like the end of Love Actually when Jojen Reed goes running through the airport and doesn’t get shot for a terrorist. Love really does conquer all.

And Dany understands that. She knows that Drogo is something more than your average Dothraki barbarian warlord.

So she loves him too. She loves him, she understands him enough to know he’d rather be suffocated than remain a vegetable: that was no mercy killing. That was an act of pure, sorrowful love.

And She WANTS the sex with him. She loves seeing him kill people, she likes the cute little bells in his hair. She loves how he protects her and her unborn child. She wants him and her son, the unpractically named Stallion Who Mounts the World, to mount the world together, just as she mounts Drogo.

After his death she thinks back on him constantly. She fantasizes about the way he smells(which, frankly, is almost certainly not good.) She remembers fondly the way his seed tastes and you can almost feel her mouth watering. If that is not love what is?