please read the books for my boy jaime lannister who speedran his character arc when he realized that 99 percent of his problems can be cured with buff girl tiddy
sorry but Jaime Lannister’s characterisation is so funny to me. yes I tried to kill your eight year old but I draw the line at paying people to do my killing for me. you better believe if I want a third grader dead I will do the child murder myself. preferably with a sword so I can look him in the eye while he dies by my blade
The thing about Jaime and Brienne’s relationship is that no one has ever really stood up for either of them before. They’re both the defenders, both the protectors–they’re the ones who love other people enough to sacrifice everything.
So then, you take them, and you smoosh them together, and suddenly–for the first time ever–they both have a protector? They both have someone who will save them? They start trying to outdo each other with how far they’ll go to save one another. It is ridiculous! It is wild! She scales a cliff and drops boulders on people to save him, he has to use his actual brain (which he hates to do) to save her, they both take beatings because they have to emotionally save each other. He jumps between her and a literal bear.
They even protect each other’s honor. She hates the way people talk about him. He hates the way people talk about her. They hate the terrible things people have done to the other. He’s maneuvering to save her from murder charges and she’s chopping hands off people who tormented him. He smacks the shit out of a guy who humiliated her. She’s willing to die rather than harm a hair on his head.
And if that’s not over-the-top enough, dear god, they actually believe in each other. He not only thinks she’s legit as a knight and fighter, he thinks she’s this superhero who’s going to obviously find Sansa–it’s not *if* she’ll find Sansa to him, it’s *when.* And she believes in his honor, this thing no one else in Westeros thinks exists–and she actually trusts him, which no one does.
Neither of them stops being who they were, they’re still these self-sacrificing dummies, they’re just sacrificing for each other now–protecting each other–and it is the most terribly beautiful thing I have ever read.
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