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2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

he is such a LOVERBOY i love how beautiful and romantic his inner narration is. in his very first chapter where he says the wind was as gentle and fragrant as cersei's fingers!! when he says that he will claim joffrey as his own son and heir and marry cersei in the sept of baelor!! his dream about brienne!! in this light she could almost be a beauty in this light she could almost be a night!! WHY would the stars want to look down at one such as me?! jaime thinks of himself as such a nihilist who is capable of anything. especially after losing his hand he feels himself totally untethered. he starts evaluating what he has permitted himself to do and how he has justified it and concludes (uncharitably imo) that he was truly capable of anything and had no value besides his physical prowess and capability. but imo that's just so demonstratively untrue!!! he is so passionate and romantic, and he feels things so deeply despite trying to make everything into a joke (likely thing for a theon fan to SAY) i LOVE. HIM. his coming of age arc at 35 oh MANY such cases. but none like him. there truly are no men like him.

he's also funny and charming i know the mcu quip is a tried and true sonoa staple but i think he's FUNNY wow i sound like someone trying as hard as possible not to admit that their crush is attractive and this blinds them to their obvious faults. don't you worry i love his obvious faults. my second favorite thing about him is how deeply he does not gaf about those stupid fucking kids.

my third favorite thing about him is the theme of having everything you are. everything about how you understand yourself. everything that gives your own life meaning, purpose, and direction. violently ripped away from you in an irreversible twist of stupid godless cold unfeeling fate. (likely thing. for a theon fan. to say.)

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

in asoiaf, nothing lol. maybe it's the series' reputation or I've just been a fan long enough but I feel like everyone knows what grrm's deal is. squidward "we serve freaks here, sir", etc etc.

outside of asoiaf. Well.

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to

DECEIVER BY DAX RIGGS !!!!!!! 💀🎶

ppl being more interested in Fandom than the actual source text is so real like they do have their own nonexistent text thats just a recycled concoction of the same bland fandom incorrect quotes tropes over and over again which deviates so much from the canon and they prefer to the actual thing lol

my favorite example of sourcecreep is the fact that if you go on reddit, pinterest, or facebook, or google image search 7 years ago, or flickr and photobucket if you're properly fandom old, you will find image edits of disney's jack sparrow with the quote overlay "the problem is not the problem. the problem is your attitude about the problem."

if you've seen enough of these edits (there are many thousands of them), you might even read those two sentences in his trademark cadence.

the problem here, though, is not anyone's attitude about the problem. it's that this quote has never appeared in any of the five films in which jack sparrow appears. nor in any of the video games he stars or guest-stars on. nor in any of the tie-in young jack sparrow novels or the film novelizations. it is not from a deleted scene or an early draft of any script. it's not from any of the disney park parades or firework shows in which jack is included as a face character with recorded speaking lines. it's not from the original ride or the re-dress of the ride post-dead man's chest.

this is a quote from the YA series the sisterhood of the traveling pants. one of the characters' coaches says it to them in one of the books because they are children in high school. there is no reason for it to be attributed to this character or this franchise besides one patient zero at some point or another 20 years ago making an image with a text overlay on picnik photo editor and uploading it to their livejournal or whatever.