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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief
Sansa, Robyn Arryn, Yara, and Edmure. Jon would also be one but he seems very reluctant to do anything but defeat the White Walkers and then retire.
It makes some sort of sense. Leading means you have to condemn some to death and he knows from experience that there is no after life. There is nothing. In addition the burdens of leadership fell much more heavily on Jon than anybody else in the series. He lost his love, ordered many of his friends to their deaths, and was murdered for making a hard decision. He put a 12 year old kid to death because it had to be done. Remember before Sansa came and the pink letter he was ready to just leave the wall and retire somewhere else, not rally the North against the Boltons.
Dany has had it incredibly easy in comparison.
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At face value yes. Jon was a trained warrior, that grew up with a father that had him under his wing and taught him how to lead.
Dany was basically a child when she came into power, and has had to learn on the fly without guidance from anyone other than sellswords. She's not had an easy go of it, either. Husband dies, child dies, Burned alive (kind of), performed her own 'Trail of Tears', had her eggs stolen and had to learn how to be deceiving and creative on the fly to men who's lives were built on that. Of the two sellswords that were "family" to her she was beytrayed by one, and the other died... she's basically been all alone for most of her journey. She now has Tyrion and is embracing his intelligence with veracity in short order because she's never experienced
actual counsel in her Reign.
She's not had the pure death in scale that Jon has endured, but she has not had an easy go of it either. The both have weathered the storm.