Daenerys … no family, no last name.
At least at the beginning of her tale.
The half Orion, half Romulan orphan was born in the darkness of slave pits owned by an Orion Syndicate warlord.
Her mother died in childbirth. Her father most likely someone who took advantage of her.
Ask Daenerys the name of either, and she will say simply she never knew them … only that her name was shared from that of her mother, also Daenerys.
She did often dream of her mother, wondering if any of the features of her own reflection might be a shadowy reflection of her.
But there were none in the slave pits where she was born and raised who could tell her anything beyond her mother’s name.
Also she knew is that they as she was growing up, everyone referred to her as “little Daenerys” … aka. short for the fact she was the young daughter of a Romulan slave with that name … Daenerys.
There are rumors she may have half-sisters out in the universe somewhere, but so far … no clues.
Genetic testing is an option that might help, but Daenerys has refused such for fear it might lead her to her birth father … who she would rather believe dead and unknown.
If her mother was Romulan, that would mean he Orion … and likely not a slave but one who took advantage of her mother at some point.
Just as others took advantage of her before her liberation by Starfleet — Capt. Agnarr Krog and the crew of the U.S.S. Valkyrie to be exact.
She still remembers quite clearly the moment freedom came to her.
It was marked at first by sounds of phaser and disruptor fire followed by bright flashes of grenades.
Tasked with finding and “dismantling” the arm of the Orion Syndicate operating within that sector, the Valkyrie had tracked the Syndicate to a network of asteroid bases operating within the Kaldrii system and set to the task of neutralizing said network and brining the ringleaders to Federation justice.
Delarys can quite clearly still see the hand of Capt. Krog reaching down to help her to her feet.
That simple act … climbing to her feet … in that moment represented climbing out of that hellhole and onto a much better life track,
It took time for Daenerys to recover from the trauma of her past life, but she did it.
And after a time, she not only recovered but found she wanted to relish in her freedom by exploring the stars and herself become a Starfleet officer.
Capt. Krog sponsored her application to Starfleet Academy, and on when registering … Delarys gave a lot of thought about how she wanted her name to be listed.
She chose to add to her name the last name of Valkyrie … in honor of those who saved her.
As for the rest of her story, it remains a work in progress.
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Author Note — Daenerys actually is actually a rebranding of a character I’ve had in game for a while now. It was a character I realized I never played and whom just didn’t speak to me any longer. So I decided to update the character’s appearance from human to Orion/Romulan with a completely different backstory.