brienne did in fact fall in love with jaime when he was bald, malnourished, shitting himself, on the verge of sepsis so she does in fact like him for his personality i am afraid to say
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Enjoying your Game of Thrones explanations! Can you spill any tea for us about the Lannisters and What Even Is Their Deal?
What even IS their deal? Millions across Westeros want to know!
(Books spoilers, and content warning for sibling incest and discussion of violence)
[General Setting Post] [House Stark Post]
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH HOUSE LANNISTER, Part 1: (General info, Tywin, Cersei, Jaime's backstory)
HOUSE LANNISTER, Lords Paramount of the Westerlands! A true soap opera of a family! Drama queens and kings all!
The Westerlands just happen to be where all the gold mines in Westeros are, making the Lannisters fabulously, proverbially, wealthy.
House Sigil: A Golden Lion
House Colors: Red and Gold
House Words: Hear Me Roar.
House Seat: Casterly Rock
Just as House Stark is set up at the beginning of the story as the protagonists, House Lannister is very much set up as the antagonists. Our honorable Ned Stark distrusts them, they've seized a worrying amount of power at court, and there's only one Lannister PoV to the six (SIX!!) Stark PoVs in book 1. And said Lannister is the black sheep of the family at that.
1. Lord Tywin
The current Lord Lannister, as of Book 1, is Tywin Lannister. Tywin Lannister is many things: a harsh pragmatist, a brutal foe, a man obsessed with legacy. But perhaps most importantly for us, he’s a terrrrrrrrrrible dad. It turns out that when you raise your children to believe that family legacy is all that matters and everyone outside your family is a tool or an enemy…they don’t turn out great :/
Tywin’s big thing is that he wants capital-R Respect for House Lannister, which he believes comes from fear and an iron grip. His father Tytos “the Laughing Lion” Lannister was seen (at least by Tywin) as a weak lord who could be taken advantage of by the lesser houses. Tywin does not like laughing. Tywin REALLY does not like being laughed at. It’s kinda his whole thing.
One time House Reyne of Castermere made some trouble, so Tywin chased the entire family into a mine. Then he redirectd a river. To slowly drown them. Over hours. They wrote a song about it and everything. That’s Papa Tywin. Great start to the family!
1b. The Golden Twins
Two of the most famous – and infamous – figures in modern Westeros are Tywin’s Golden Twins, Cersei and Jaime. (Yes, people really call them that in universe.)
Cersei and Jaime are rich. They’re blond-haired and green eyed. They’re almost identical and used to swap clothes and children. They’re gorgeous – people routinely refer to them as the most beautiful man and woman in Westeros. They look like anime villains. They’re powerful. They’re bitchy. They’re sneering at you right now. They think they’re better than you. They’re utterly miserable. They’ve got a certain Team Rocket meets Flowers in the Attic je ne sais quoi that can’t be beat.
TRULY characters of all time.
2. Cersei Lannister
(Art by Amok)
Cersei Lannister is queen of Westeros, married to King Robert Baratheon. Said marriage is a disaster. For one thing, Robert’s still obsessed with Ned Stark’s dead sister, Lyanna. For another, he makes no secret of his sleeping around and he’s got (we assume) 16 bastard children. He's at least occasionally physically violent with her and the children. Genuinely a terrible husband!
Cersei, for her part, is carrying on an incestuous affair with her twin brother Jaime, and all three of her children are (unsurprisingly) perfect blond-haired, green-eyed Lannister xeroxes of the twins.
(In retrospect, this miiiiiiight not have been a smart political move.)
The crown is heavily in debt to the Lannister family, which gives them – and by extension, Cersei – an outsized amount of power in court. Still doesn’t make Cersei happy though.
By the time we meet Cersei, she’s had years to stew in resentments and paranoia. (This is especially true by the time she becomes a PoV character in Book 4.) She – completely understandably! – resents the social role she’s been forced into a woman, and envies the relative freedoms she attributes to Jaime and his life. She’s her father’s eldest child, having been born a few minutes before Jaime, but she cannot inherit his Lordship. Her father treats her marriage as a bargaining tool to be used without her consent, even when she’s a widow in her mid-thirties. And Tywin has always treated Jaime as his favorite child, despite him lacking Tywin’s own ambition and political savvy. Traits Cersei feels she has in abundance!
So Cersei becomes obsessed with the idea of herself as the heir to Tywin’s legacy; a great queen who will be remembered in history books to come.
Also, to be fair to her paranoia, people really are out to get her. Just…often not the people she thinks or in the way she thinks.
3a. Jaime Lannister
(Art by Amok)
Oh boy. Jaime. Jaime Jaime. Where do I even start on this guy. Like his siblings, he's a huge mess. Disaster of a man.
Ok. So.
Jaime Lannister is best known in Westeros by his epithet: THE KINGSLAYER. So to talk about Jaime, we have to talk about The Kingsguard. If you don’t want some lore, skip to the tl’dr at the end.
The Kingsguard is a group of seven elite knights – the best (at least in theory) the kingdoms have to offer. They swear a holy vow to serve and guard the king. For life. Like the men of the Night’s Watch, they may hold no lands or titles, father no children, take no wife. Service to the king (and royal family) is meant to be their entire raison-d’etre. No family for you! Your brothers of the Kingsguard are your only family now! Appointment to the Kingsguard is an incredible honor, one that all-but guarantees that your name lives on in history.
(It’s such a big deal that when Quentyn “Fireball” Ball was promised a future spot in the Kingsguard, he promptly forced his wife into a religious order so he could become eligible for the placement. Then when the king died before a spot opened and the next king was, uh, horrified by the wife thing and didn’t want to work with him, Ser Quentyn got so mad he joined a rebellion. But that’s an old story. Fuck Fireball, is all I’m saying.)
Anyway! When Jaime Lannister was 15, he was a sword-fighting savant. A clear generational talent. And he became the youngest knight ever to serve in the Kingsguard, in service to King Aerys Targaryen. You know. The one who there was that big rebellion against (see the world-building post).
(And here’s the thing about joining the Kingsguard. Huge honor! Honor to you! Honor to your family! Honor to your house!!! But it does make you ineligible for land or title. So. You know. Kind of an unspoken rule you maybe don’t pick eldest sons of major houses unless there’s another potential heir in the wings ready for the mantle. So Aerys picking Jaime was also a fuck you to Tywin, because he knows Tywin hates his second son. More on that in a minute.)
Robert’s Rebellion happens, and Aerys’ old buddy cum nemesis Tywin seems to be hanging back, not supporting either side, until Robert wins a decisive victory at the Trident, killing crown prince Rhaegar. Lord Tywin shows up with an army at King’s Landing and someone on the inside (maaaaybe his Kingsguard?) convinces King Aerys that this army is totally here to help! Let’s open the gates for them and let them in!!
Tywin’s army was not there to help. They sack the city on behalf of the rebellion. And when Ned Stark joins and fights his way to the Red Keep…he finds Aerys dead on the throne room floor, and his sworn Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister, sitting on the Iron Throne with the sword he used to stab his king in the back. Clearing the way for his father’s victory in the city.
(You can see why Ned maybe didn't trust this guy. Art by Michael Komarck.)
So. Yeah. Kingslayer. Not just a king, not just the king, but HIS king. The king he was sworn above all others to protect. And the fine folk of Westeros take that idea very seriously. He’s not just a murder or a traitor. He’s an oath-breaker, a man whose word means nothing, an affront against the gods themselves.
But here’s the thing: Kingsguard serve for life. And when a king dies, he inherits the Kingsguard. So Jaime Lannister’s still a sworn brother of the Kingsguard! Awesome! Everyone loves this and no one is angry about it. Obviously.
Tl;dr: Jaime swore an oath to serve and protect the king as one of his elite, trusted guard. He stood by while the king did horrible things, but then literally stabbed him in the back at a moment advantageous to his family. So now everyone calls him “Kingslayer” and cracks jokes every time he tries to make a promise.
(This got real long because lore, so next post I'll say a few words about current-day Jaime, and then the youngest Lannister sibling, Tyrion.)
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She remembered a summer's snow in Winterfell when Arya and Bran had ambushed her as she emerged from the keep one morning. They'd each had a dozen snowballs to hand, and she'd had none. Bran had been perched on the roof of the covered bridge, out of reach, but Sansa had chased Arya through the stables and around the kitchen until both of them were breathless. She might even have caught her, but she'd slipped on some ice. Her sister came back to see if she was hurt. When she said she wasn't, Arya hit her in the face with another snowball, but Sansa grabbed her leg and pulled her down and was rubbing snow in her hair when Jory came along and pulled them apart, laughing.
[My Asks box is open for Questions and Art Requests! Please go fill it up, I’ve just finished Uni so need some ideas for doodles. Anon is on too, if you’re shy!]
A breakdown on designs!:
Every character has a primary and secondary colour out of a list of 10 (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Navy, Pink, White, Black, Brown) [no purple, since purple was a very exclusive pigment in this era]. Each Primary colour represents a character strength (based on the positive connotation of the colour), and the secondary represents a potential weakness (based on negative connotations).
Enjolras is inspired, as per, by greek marble statues, especially statues of Apollo. Primary colour Black, secondary colour Red.
Combeferre I wanted to appear neat and smart, kind of sharp, but still approachable. Primary colour Navy, secondary colour Orange.
Courfeyrac was funny bc I referenced George Blagden’s hair in 2012 Les Mis despite him being Grantaire in that lol. I gave him more soft/unruly curls than Enjolras to give him a more human vibe while Enj is more unnaturally perfect. Primary colour Yellow, secondary colour Pink
Bahorel I based on fire. A lot. He’s bold and he’s passionate so I wanted him to look really striking. He has a lazy eye as well! I hc him to have met Grantaire through boxing, he has permanent injury from this that caused this lazy eye. Its not as obvious in this drawing bc of the angle, but it’s there. Primary colour Red, secondary colour Navy.
Feuilly I wanted to appear friendly and approachable but still independent and not AS cheerful as Courf for example. I gave him a sash in red and white which represents poland and matches his blue colour scheme well enough to also represent France! Primary colour Blue, secondary colour White.
Grantaire I’ve already had nailed down for a while in my head. He’s rough around the edges, visibly ragged to contrast with Enjolras’ smooth perfection while next to eachother. He has messed up teeth and a few scars from boxing. I personally hc Grantaire as half-Romani. Primary colour Brown, secondary colour Green
Jehan I wanted to branch out of the very common lighter hair designs I see, not bc I dislike them just bc I wanted to see if I could achieve the soft and kind look without resorting to a light hair colour. I hc them as genderqueer personally, so I refer to them with They/He, more commonly They, and I imagine my Amis would do the same and wouldn’t think twice about it (since I hc them as such a queer friendgroup. Primary colour Green, secondary colour Blue
Joly and Bossuet were designed in tandem to match. I wanted them to have contrasting shape language and they’ll also contrast in body build, with Bahorel more round and Joly more sharp. They have flowers in eachother’s primary colours. Joly’s Primary colour Orange, secondary colour Yellow. Bossuet’s Primary colour Pink, secondary colour Brown.
Marius ISN’T technically an Ami, I know, but I wanted to include him all the same since he is with them a lot. Soft hair, heart motifs. I wanted him to have a very young and kind of ditsy vibe. Primary colour White, secondary colour Black (the Amis and Cosette bring colour into his life)
Thats all for now! I said above but please fire me drawing requests in the ask box, especially for the Amis, but I’ll take for anything and anyone!! I just wanna draw for this rn and I have no ideas lol.
Usual disclaimer: THESE DESIGNS WILL CHANGE!! I’ve got some things I already wanna tweak, I just wanted to have something so I could start to draw the Amis
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me1och Replied to your post “*looking at the Enjolras/Grantaire stuff in my fic...”
R'd be SO jealous on account of Jaime having killed a king and survived a revolution
Grantaire: Good for you, buddy. Bet you got lots of praise and acclaim. *looks unhappily at Enjolras*
Jaime: I. Did. Not.
Yeeeaaaah there'd be some long term serious value clashes between Jaime and Les Amis, but short term he could do numbers in the Cafe Musain. If he can just play nice (which he is capable of!!!) and not pull his whole you-can't-hate-me-if-I-MAKE-you-hate-me-first drill.
It'd be nice for him to get heaps of king slaying praise for once. If he could manage not to get weird about it. Positive reinforcement could fix him! That's what I got from his ASOS arc! (roughly season 3 of the show).
“Don’t fret so, my dear fellow, it was only a little deception to throw the hounds off our trail,” said Courfeyrac, as Marius looked around their shared hotel room – then back at the glistening ring on his left hand – then back at Courfeyrac with the shocked expression of one who had had too much to drink and much too much – apparently – to remember. “The pastor-cum-Elvis-impersonator was our own Bossuet, the rings came from a vending machine, the paperwork was not notarized; it will not hold legal water and, I assure you, your virtue is unmarred.”
“Oh,” said Marius, trying not to look as horribly disappointed by that last bit as he felt.
ExR, "people lie all the time." OR Theodule/Montparnasse, "quit it or I'll bite."
“I will say this much,” says Grantaire, as the would-be-revolutionary they’ve all been listening to fades away into the audience. “That man deserves a place in the theater. He can play at tears better even that the mademoiselle we saw play Eurydice last night. He might do better with someone else’s script; the one he delivered for us today was a tedious affair. Perhaps his tears were born of boredom at hearing his own dull screed.”
“Peace, friend.” says Lesgle. “The one we’re here to see speaks next.”
“Having heard the weeping philosopher, is the laughing one to follow?” asks Grantaire. “That fat man over there would make a credible Epicurus.”
Legle shoves an elbow into his side. It isn’t enough to really hurt, which is how Grantaire knows the man is fond of him.
Lesgle points at a pale wisp of a man making his way to the center of the room. No, man is likely giving his years too much credit.
“A pretty child,” he tells Lesgle, “and like all pretty children he should be at home with his mother and his dolls.”
“He speaks more like a man than a child,” says Lesgle, with unusual seriousness, “and more like an angel than a man. He may convince even you.”
Grantaire snorts. “I don’t think we’ve heard one man yet who has managed to even convince himself. The lot of them are cheats and liars, and not even as good at it as the fellows I play cards with.”
“Enjolras is honest,” says Lesgle. “Not everyone is as cynical as you. He believes, and he speaks his truth.”
“Truth.” Grantaire laughs at that, loud and coarse enough that a few heads turn to glare at him with disapproval. “The word has no meaning. Bossuet, my eagle of Meaux, people lie all the time.”
“Not this one,” says Lesgle. “Listen.”
And Grantaire does.
The angel-child’s voice is as pretty as his face. Grantaire has decided to despise him. But when he’s done speaking Grantaire must admit two things: he isn’t bored, and there may be such a thing as an honest man.
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@me1och Replied to your post “I recently found your R blog and I'm still going...”
upd: i'm officially caught up now and am now in deep mourning. your grantaire is delightful
I am glad you enjoyed the Grantaire-ening!
It's not quite the same vibe, but I have a few little Grantaire-centric fic pieces you could check out? My fanfic tag on tumblr is "aporetic fiction". I'm going through and doing house-cleaning this week (trying to fix all the old broken posts), so I'll probably reblog a bunch of it anyway for my own amusement.
(Some people have enjoyed my Fakest Fake Dating AU, in which canon-era Grantaire and Bahorel pretend to date Marius in order to scandalize his grandfather. More Marius-centric than anything, but Grantaire is there!)
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