"Made to be kissed, often and well"

POV characters: aSoS

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[AGoT]

Interviewer: You seem to find one thing that a character loves or holds dear and then rip it away from them in the most brutal way. Like Catelyn systematically gets her family torn away from her or Jaime with his sword hand… Is that something you try to do? To destroy your characters’ lives in an exceptionally specific way based on what they hold dear?

George: You have to take your characters and you have to put them through crisis, that is what fiction and drama is all about. Things have to happen to cause the characters to question who they are and what their place in the world is and what the meaning of it all is… To go through the dark nights of the soul in times of fear and terror… I've always taken as my mantra William Faulkner's words in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech where he said the human heart in conflict with itself is the only thing worth writing about. If you have real characters grappling with real problems, then you have power… Jaime losing a hand, the very thing that he defined himself on, is crucial to where I want go with the character. He questions: "What do you make of yourself once you lost that?". And now I have Tyrion going through similar things. He’s always focused on the things he did not have, like his father's respect or admiration or perhaps women didn't look on him the way he would like for them to look on him. But in the aftermath of the events of the recent books, he is realizing the things that he did have that he has now lost, like the Lannister name and a vast fortune in gold. He's been reduced to the most primal difficult situation where he has nothing but the clothes on his back (and even those don't belong to him) and his wits/his tongue. I love exploring that stuff!

don’t mind me just thinkin of them again

(feel free to include TWOIAF as well!)

Favorite Great House

A minor (or extinct) house you need more lore on

Favorite sigil/house words

Favorite Valyrian sword

A dead female character you need to save

Which book or character did you not like at first but eventually grew on you?

Which Free City are you retiring to?

Build your own Kingsguard with any characters alive or dead

Build your small council with any characters dead or alive

A quote so good it makes you crazy

Favorite bastard

Who are you traveling the ravaged Riverlands with?

A death that still hurts to think about

Who are you bringing back from the dead with the power of R’hllor?

Favorite parent

Favorite sibling dynamic

Favorite theme

A mystery you need solved NOW

A theory you’ve adopted as canon

A theory you pray never comes true

A moment that made you cry

A character so queer-coded you’d argue it to GRRM’s face

Two characters you need to interact

A ship that gives you the absolute ick

A crackship?

Favorite “problematic” ship

Favorite canon ship

If you write fic, is there a ship or au you would like to write for, but haven’t yet?

If you read fic, what’s a trope or interpretation of your fave that you absolutely can’t stand? Which AU/trope will you read every time?

A POV character you wish wasn’t

Who would you elevate to a POV character?

A fancast you absolutely can’t stand

A fancast that just IS a character

What’s something people get wrong about your favorite character?

A character you just don’t get the hype of

What’s something you wish GRRM handled better? (a character/theme/world building etc)

An event/era in TWOIAF that you would love to see a film/tv adaptation of

Is there a house would you fit in with based off your own looks? A house you would fit in with based off your personality/ideals/vibes etc?

Your Drunk History topic (a character/theory/event/etc)

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