I have a head cannon that Eddie and robin have The most unpredictable relationship. One second they act like boyfriends in law, then they act like mortal enemies, 5 seconds later they’re crying together about robins most recent sad fun fact about animals. Steve can never keep up with where they’re at but I’d glad that his favorite people are so close. (Also when people ask them how they met Eddie will go on and on about how brave Robin is and she just says “we found him in a dumpster”)
Publishing this out into the st universe for everyone to be as delighted by it as I was/am
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What I also find so compelling regarding the analysis of masculinity in the books and the inherent violence present in the construct of westerosi trad masculinity is how so many of the male characters overcompensate with violence. The sons that do not meet this fictive ideal of masculinity try so desperately to convey strength (Theon, Joff, even Tywin!!! but more bc his father does not meet that fictive ideal, and many more). In doing so, they just create more victims and perpetuate a horrid cycle. Like it is very much a deconstruction of chivalry and destructive and violent masculinity. It is really a construct that creates bombs that not only set themselves on fire, but damage everyone around them too. What I find so interesting about Jaime is that he is violent but for a very different reason. He is successfully violent, too, he does not have to overcompensate, he is powerful, brave and skilled or whatever. He actually fits the westerosi ideal of manhood in so many ways, so he has a very different issue. But to him, violence is such a psychologically complicated concept. It takes on such a dark and dissociative quality that is very interesting in the context of his ptsd:
I said this before, but he uses violence as a means of depersonalization, as by killing and destroying he transforms into some beast who operates on impulse. He loves the battle fever. Death is all around him but he can dance through it, laughing. It turns into an extension of his go away inside thing. If he is so powerful physically then he is untouchable and does not have to face the complex paradoxes and dilemmas that he cannot seem to overcome inside of his mind and heart: [ “Knots and tangles, Jaime thought, wishing he could cut through all of it with one swift stroke of his sword.” ] It is like he seeks out this destructive masculinity (violence, sex with Cers, embodying the chivalric knight) in order to achieve detachment, because the alternative, the state he is gonna be forced into after his maiming (losing the sword hand: a representation of that status, his strength, his knighthood, what makes him “whole”, his identity/persona), is the grueling and difficult navigation of the self. Once that happens, once he is literally stripped of all that, the literal and metaphorical ability to cut through problems and stay detached, he seems to progressively get further and further away from this kind of violence (link, link, and it is interesting how he also tries to recreate it, the phantom of it remains: link) Also, in many ways, there is a lot of subversive gender symbolism that starts happening. He starts playing the role of Brienne’s maiden: [“Ah, but which one is the knight and which one is the lady?” If I had my hand, (he doesnt and never will again lol) you’d learn that soon enough, Jaime thought. ] & [ Ser Galladon was a champion of such valor that the Maiden herself lost her heart to him. She gave him an enchanted sword as a token of her love. The Just Maid, it was called. ], as opposed to the Warrior to Cersei’s Maiden: [ I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid ], and he starts being connected to the moon, as opposed to the sun: link.
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