The Red Door Theory - ASOIAF Theories 

Hiding the Targaryen heirs on Dragonstone is like a pirate hiding treasure on Buried Treasure Island.

i FELT that silence of awe from the song quote because it gave me the CHILLS. bravo Zack (Zach?) bravo

Fuck yeah, the red door is one of my favourite ASOIAF mysteries mainly because I also moved around a lot as a child and really struggle with my childhood memories and figuring out what was real and what was just a dream/misremembering so this feels really close to home, the fact that this one concept can completely throw Dany’s identity and her entire timeline into question is dope

Tom out here in The Free City of Greyhawk, saving the *goddamn day* for young lovers. Bless you, man.

I think the idea of Dany's red door being painted black could parallel really well to all those POV character experiences of the Battle of the Blackwater, which had such notable features as smoke on the water and fire in the sky. Special mention must be made for Tyrion, as despite being from a very wealthy family, he ain't no fortunate son. It all will really pay off when he joins Jaime, zombie Jon and Maester Sam to discuss what to do about Dany, as he can explain just how bad things could get once the boys are back in town.

Man, I can't believe that Zach and Tom, unlike lemons, are from Braavos.

"Death comes out of the dragons mouth, but death does not go in that way" In this passage, Tyrion is describing the strategy to attack a dragon with scrorpion or crossbow.. The eyes and the brain are the most vulnerable. The belly is not soft as the old tales would tell you, and "not down the gullet, either. That was madness."

Tom, you're a hero.

Hey, guys, Peter Griffin here, AND WE ARE HERE TO MELT YOUR FACES!!! EYEAAAGHHH!

I can't believe Zach and Tom are from Whiterun, I wonder if they get to the cloud district very often

Interesting. I never put much thought into the "Red Door means Dany isn't a real Targ" business...but it being a set up to allow gaslighting, disinformation, and doubt about her claim is a really interesting, wild, and plausible reading of that. Doesn't Dany have a repeating mantra to the effect of "If I doubt myself I am lost" or something? If she doubts herself and then loses it...we're in for a wild turn of events.

COOLEST story ever! Distracting cops to protect some young lovers (or just young fuckers) is an admirable deed. ACAB, always look out for people

Before this theory, I was looking into my own theory about Dany being a Blackfire, mostly based off the R+L=fA theory and the fact that black metal dragon sign came back rusted red. Now none of us will truly know the truth, as we will have to consider all evidence towards Dany being or not being a Targaryen as parts of elaborate information/misinformation campaigns.

Tom, you are a saint

I can’t belive Zach’s Forgotten Realms and Tom’s from Gallifrey.

Not done hearing the theory yet, so I'll edit if this is answered, but my immediate question/skepticism to Varys being successful in trying to gaslight Dany was "But she has REAL DRAGONS??" So like...obviously she's not a fake. Unless he has a way to take all of them, but that seems to be what Euron and Victarion's storyline is about. Like honestly, who would listen to Varys when she controls the only 3 living dragons in the world? And no hate to you guys, I am so happy I found your channel this weekend. Just me being a skeptic. Varys having her mom's crown is really fascinating and I never even considered he might do something like that (which IS a very Varys thing to do) So not answered, BUT that song tie in was really fucking cool. I wonder if Varys might just enact his plan before Dany comes to Westeros, so no one there would know the dragons are real. And that might just mess with her head hearing about it and not having a way to defend herself. And I can't believe Zach and Tom are from Gotham City. Blew my fucking mind.

I went and watched paint it black after this and man i am so convinced. I also find story and in particular character inspiration in particular songs. And i see this EXACTLY in paint it black for dany. Pretty much every major character beat is touched on it that song. She could not forsee this thing happening to you about the unintended consequences of her actions such as with drogo. The girls walking by in summer clothes and that emphasis on summer is striking. If i look hard enough into the setting sun. What is in the direction of the setting sun? The west, westeros. Similar the mentions of my green sea could refer to the dothraki sea and not turning blue meanibg drogo not crossing the sea for her. People quickly looking away both being her and viserys when they were young, her touring the cities in the early books and when she returns to westerous as spectulated here. The mentioning of the newborn baby, mentioning of flowers and my love being jon, no colours anymore being a rejection of the houses system similar to the rejection of slavery. My love will laugh with me before the morning comes, in particular that her love will do something before morning. That dany wont see the morning, the end of the long night. The way the song builds up to painting everything black when we have a black dragon in the story where a point has been made of dragons having different coloured flames generally matching their scales and that aegon the conquerers dragon who drogon parallels had black flames. She will literally paint westerous black with drogos fire in the crescendo after the rising tension like in the song. Similarly, blotted out from the sky and blotting out the sun in particular could be ending the martels in parrallel to aegon and his sisters not doing so. Quentyn has already "died" to her dragons. But also drogon literally blotting out the sun and is described black as night at one point right? I genuinely cant not believe this now. Dany is literally the song paint it black!!!

50:18 So I'm actually rereading the books rn, and Varys' "I hate magic" speech is there! Some Tyrion chapter in ACOK; my digital copy of the book has it on pages 897-899/1390.

Holy shit I'm so happy to hear that you guys come up with stories by listening to songs to death sometimes. I don't talk about it much, but all my friends are surprised by that when I tell them that's what I've done since I got my first walkman. They just think of parallels to their life. I figured other people have to come up with stories this way, but never heard anyone talking about it.

1:14:55 that stunned silence is so good. This is such a tight theory, from the information war to the Vietnam parallels.

Him talking about writing personal fiction and listening to a song to death to imagine scenes and key moments... oh man, I feel you so much. (I mostly write for myself- little bit published, nothing earth-shaking- and music is absolutely the key for me, as I think it is for GRRM and many more. Language of the soul 100%.) Excellent freaking job with the theory! EDIT TO ADD: And to think it came from two guys in Clock Town, Termina.

Was not expecting to tune into ASOIAF theories and hear Buffalo references. Go Bills!

Upstate gang! Not the greatest gang sadly but it’s our gang and we gotta make do

Tom's thoughts when he looked into that car. 'Fucking, confirmed'

HEARD IT FROM A FRIEND WHOOoo

I can’t believe Zac and Tom are from Arkham Massachusetts.

This might be the greatest Asoiaf theory I've ever heard

Wow I can't believe someone from Pelican Town in the Ferngill Republic cracked this wide open

It was pretty obvious he lives in Buffalo just by observing his behavior

R’lyeh is supposed to have a very great view of the stars, I envy you a bit for being able to experience that daily/nightly

This is brilliant. I can't believe you guys are from the Undying Lands

25:42, I came for the theories, but God these tangents are awesome. We need a video that is just tangents. ♡ you guys

I can’t believe Zach and Tom are from Bajore

I can't believe Zack and Tom are all the way from Minas Tirith!

I know I’m way too late pointing this out but when ilyrio is called a bravo, it refers to the historical job, rather than the place. The bravi were especially common in Italy (hence the Italian name) and they have a reputation as rogueish sellswords

Those lines are definitely squiggly

wow I can't believe y'all are from Leng Ma!

This is my favorite of your theories so far, despite the low blow with the Green Day comment :)

Where do Thors go? To the Ho-door! I Loki was gonna say it with the original question Tyrion kept asking until i heard you say Thor. Thanks for keeping my comment from being deleted due to YT censorship.

The writing being inspired by music thing? Yeah, I do that too. Like. A lot.

can’t believe zach and tom are from homeworld 😳

50:50 OH MY GOD I GOT IT! VARYS CAN SEE THE THIRD WALL! IT ALL MAKES SENSE! THAT'S WHY WE NEVER SEE HIS CHAPTERS! HE IS DELIBERATELY HIDING FROM *US*!!!!!

Wow, i can't believe Zack and Tom are from Dawnstar!

I can't believe Zac and Tom are from Whoville.

That Kingdom Hearts section had me dying lol

Some heroes don't wear capes

Gosh 40 minutes in and still waiting for the theory

35:00 Oh Tom. *Him and these* great squiggly lines. Did I do it right?

Oh wow this is crazy

Daenerys = Dayne+ Aerys. or Ashara Dayne + Aerys Targaryen.

That was good.

I thought the obvious song you were going for was Ride of the Valkyries which works thematically but confused me as to how it would add information to what you had already discussed.

Sorry but … paint it black was used for the show China Beach and that’s why it’s associated with that war.

24:53 New here! 👋 At this point I am legit curious if I am unknowingly high! 😹

It's called "waylay", not "heist".

holy fuuuuuck

Why did this take 11 minutes to start?

No Among Us?????????? Downvote

Go Bills

Daenerys I think

Yeah you spelled Daenerys wrong

The only problem with this theory is that I don’t like Paint it Black. Second worst Stones song

this is a sad fucking theory its 4 am and im crying u guys are so good at this

Okay after all that, lots of fun thanks for the theory. I came here from a @michaeltalksaboutstuff4664 video and hadn’t seen your channel before. very happy, y’all are great! subbed