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Lol yeah I said I'd work on it after whumptober but I ended up working on it in between my work. I only had a little left to do and I actually managed to finish it a few days ago! Granted the last few chapters need reviewing and editing but I got time for that before they need to be posted.

I knew you'd be excited!!!! ❤❤ You're unwavering enthusiasm and patience is huge part of keeping me going!! I appreciate you so much! I really hope you'll enjoy it and I'll definitely tag you in it!

YES I’M SO HAPPY TO GET THIS IN MY INBOX

“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. No common sword could check her, nor any shield withstand her kiss. Ser Galladon bore the Just Maid proudly, but only thrice did he unsheathe her. He would not use the Maid against a mortal man, for she was so potent as to make any fight unfair.”

NOW there is a very clear Jaime and Brienne parallel to this tale with Oathkeeper being the “enchanted sword” that the Maiden (Jaime) gives to Ser Galladon (Brienne) after she lost his heart to him. Just like Brienne and Jaime are beauty and the beast with the roles and genders reversed, their genders and roles can be seen as reversed for this tale as well. (Although, it can even be argued that Jaime is somewhat of a symbolic maid, considering the only person he has ever been sexual with is his twin, and since there’s that delusion of being the same person then…) Oh and this story? IS TOLD BY BRIENNE. It’s introduced IN HER POV like………….

Anyway

“No common sword could check her, nor any shield withstand her kiss. “

Oathkeeper? Yessum. Valyrian steel is forged from magic and is known for being incredibly sharp and superior to ordinary swords.

And then Crabb responds to the story like

Crabb thought that was hilarious. “The Perfect Knight? The Perfect Fool, he sounds like. What’s the point o’ having some magic sword if you don’t bloody well use it?”

“Honor,” she said. “The point is honor.”

That only made him laugh the louder. “Ser Clarence Crabb would have wiped his hairy arse with your Perfect Knight, m’lady. If they’d ever have met, there’d be one more bloody head sitting on the shelf at the Whispers, you ask me. ‘I should have used the magic sword,’ it’d be saying to all the other heads. ‘I should have used the bloody sword.’ ”

And then later Brienne is all

“I should have used the magic sword.” 

“Podrick,” said Brienne. “There’s a sword and scabbard wrapped up in my bedroll. Bring them here to me.”

And

It wasn’t fair. She could not fight without her magic sword. Ser Jaime had given it to her. The thought of failing him as she had failed Lord Renly made her want to weep.

SHE (-cough-GRRM-cough-) EVEN FUCKING DIRECTLY RELATES OATHKEEPER TO THE JUST MAID -AKA THE SWORD THE MAIDEN GAVE GALLADON- I JUST………..!!!!!!

HOW. MUCH. CLEARER. DOES. HE. HAVE. TO BE??

Also

“Ser Galladon bore the Just Maid proudly, but only thrice did he unsheathe her. He would not use the Maid against a mortal man, for she was so potent as to make any fight unfair.”

Unlike the show, Brienne keeps Oathkeeper hidden most of the time, and only uses it against men in two separate occasions to defend herself.

As for what this little tale could maybeeee mean for her character (besides the obvious of Jaime and Brienne being a romance)? Let’s look at Brienne drooling over it.

When she slid Oathkeeper from the ornate scabbard, Brienne’s breath caught in her throat. Black and red the ripples ran, deep within the steel. Valyrian steel, spell-forged. It was a sword fit for a hero. When she was small, her nurse had filled her ears with tales of valor, regaling her with the noble exploits of Ser Galladon of Morne, Florian the Fool, Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, and other champions. Each man bore a famous sword, and surely Oathkeeper belonged in their company, even if she herself did not.

So here GRRM is setting her up to be like one of those heroes, and she even brings up Ser Galladon. SO it’s possible she’s going to parallel Ser Galladon WHICH MEANS there’s one theory that is all like-

“but Ser Galladon was no fool. Against a foe eight feet tall mounted on an aurochs, he might well have unsheathed the Just Maid. He used her once to slay a dragon, they say.”

I don’t understand why either, and it’s the question that’s haunting me because the answer I always arrive at is that he wanted us to remind us that he could make us suffer. That’s the only answer that makes sense. This in no way helps Veronica develop her character further. We already knew she could pick herself up and continue living with the ghosts of tragedies past. We knew it, she knew it. She didn’t need to learn it again in the worst possible way. Who cares about Veronica out of Neptune solving cases around the country? I know I don’t! Veronica without Neptune, without Logan, without Keith, Wallace, Weevil… is not Veronica. That’s not the character we’ve loved for 15 YEARS. That’s the FBI season 4 pitch nobody liked and we were all so glad never got made, even when we desperately craved for closure. 

And Then There Were None (2016) is very good, but yeah, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall if you want some romance XD

orithil answered your question “What else should I watch with Toby Stephens or Luke Arnold?”

Jane Eyre

Flint’s name before he went on a murdervengeancequest was McGraw. Blackbeard’s name before he became notorious was Edward Teach. Long John Silver’s name was just John Silver. Billy Bones used to be William Manderley. We have had multiple characters change their names either to hide their identity or to play a role. I don’t see why Berringer would be any different.

I JUST SAW!! I JUST SAW!!! OMFG!! I AM VERY EXCITED!!!