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10 years ago, hell maybe 5 years ago, the joke would have been that the Panfilo character was clearly gay and his dull witted pious wife didn’t know. His scheming would have been at her expense, he would have married her for her money and been hiding his own families financial fall. He would have been using her piousness against her to keep the marriage chaste while he went after other men. He probably would have died to save her learning the wickedness of his ways, or Ruggiero would have outed him maliciously.

But Panfilo just loves Neifile. He completely accepts her oddities, while still trying to protect her from they way they don’t totally mesh with the world around her. He pulls her out of her confession at the beginning when he sees someone sickly, but tells her she can pray for absolution the whole way. When she rejects his offer to save her from the well, he respects it, and then keeps watch over her all day, until stepping in to keep her from harming herself. He discourages her from telling the story of her salvation because he doesn’t want the other guests to make fun of her. He burns the cardinals toe with her because it’s clearly not healthy for her to have it.

His love is patient, his love is kind, it is not boastful and does not insist on its own way.

He never mocks her, he’s always happy to see her, he sneaks back into a castle full of nihilistic ruffians when he thinks she’s in danger and when he sees her having consensual, pleasant sex, he just leaves.

And then it turns out that Neifile knows his secrets and accepts him just as easily, and they have this pure, understanding love between them. A love so profound that the loss of her drives him first to madness and then to save all of his companions.

We are in 2024 and I still see (stupid) people claiming that Braime shouldn't have happened because it was "awkward" and they use as argument Jaime saying to Brienne "It's bloody hot in here" making memes of how Jaime looks like a stupid teenager at the first crush and how his flirting sucks.

But the thing is that.. his flirting IS SUPPOSED to sucks. Jaime Lannister is a 40+ years old man who has been all his life in an abusive and incestual relationship with his sister who manipulated him since they were kids and used sex to have something from him in return and because of that he never slept with another woman because he never felt attraction for another woman.. until now. Brienne is the first woman he sexually and romantically desired outside his sister so IT'S HIS FIRST TIME TRYING TO SEDUCE A WOMAN.

Just look at him. The awkward smile, the eyes constantly moving. HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING. HE IS SO NERVOUS HE CAN'T EVEN UNDRESS HIMSELF.

And Brienne is as awkward as him. She is a virgin who has been mocked because of her appearance since ever, she wasn't estethically attractive and she knew. She never knew what it meant being courted or desired because she thought this day for her wouldn't come. So after Jaime patethic way of flirting she initially doesn't understand what the fuck is going on and gets confused, until she realized what is happening and all you can see is her completely disbelief.

The scene is supposed to be awkward because Jaime and Brienne are feeling awkward. Because it's their first time. Because they are getting vulnerable to someone who they disliked at first, but that now they love. Because they are living something that they never thought it would happen to them.

Just another prove of how Nikolaj Coster Waldau and Gwendoline Christie always understood their characters. While these people never did.

BONUS Jaime's face when he realized it's finally happening MY GOD I CAN'T WITH THESE TWO-

Original:

A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

Like this guy who you never liked (the Kingslayer, the man who has twisted Knighthood and made it a joke) he saves you from being raped, loses his hand, and confesses to you the truth about why he killed the mad king.

And then he leaves.

He leaves you to go home and you’re stuck with the same horrible men who maimed this guy that has began to weasel his way into your psyche. But it’s fine because he’s gone now and you don’t have to deal with it.

And then he just freaking falls out of the sky and saves you from the bear. A knight saving the damsel. (And for once him the knight and you the damsel.) And when you ask him why he came all the way back just to save you he says, “I dreamed of you.”

loyal past the point of sense.

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