Post by JAIME LANNISTER on May 26, 2019 20:57:33 GMT
JAIME LANNISTER
GENERAL INFO
NAME: Jaime Lannister
OTHER ALIASES: The Kingslayer
AGE: 43
GENDER: Male
BIRTH PLACE: Casterly Rock
CURRENT LOCATION: Winterfell
OCCUPATION/TITLE: Knight
ALLEGIANCE: The living
FACE CLAIM: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
THE STORY
"Jaime and I are more than brother and sister. We are one person in two bodies. We shared a womb together. He came into this world holding my foot, our old maester said. When he is in me, I feel... whole."
Jaime Lannister was born to Tywin and Joanna on a warm summer day in 262 AC. Casterly Rock's old maester told the tale that he had been born holding Cersei's foot. While the twins, of course, have no memory of that, Jaime tends to believe it must be true. The two of them have been almost inseparable since birth so why wouldn't they have come into this world together with one holding onto the other?
As children, Jaime and Cersei were quite a handful. They would do things like play in the bowels of Casterly Rock where their late grandfather's lions were caged and dare each other to climb in with one of them. Jaime would like to say that he behaved courageously each and every time that the two of them did something that their father would kill them over if he ever found out, but that wouldn't be quite true; Cersei always tended to be the braver of the two. They would also often trade places during their daily lessons as the servants at the Rock couldn't always tell the two of them apart when they were children.
But ultimately it was Jaime who donned the armor and Cersei the gown. Tywin spent his time meticulously grooming his son to be his heir. The lessons by the Rock's master-at-arms were easy for Jaime to grasp. It was clear that wielding a sword came naturally to him. But reading...reading was another matter. The letters would become all jumbled together in Jaime's head. For four hours, every day, Tywin would sit his son down and have him practice reading, until Jaime could do so flawlessly. Ever since then, Jaime prefers to stay as far away from books as possible.
In their youth, Jaime and Cersei shared a bed together. That was their mother's doing. She saw how much they enjoyed each other's company during the day and saw no harm in letting them spend the night together too. It wasn't long before Jaime and Cersei began to...experiment with each other. When a servant caught them doing so, she told Joanna. Joanna moved Jaime to a bedchamber across the castle and placed a guard on Cersei's door. Joanna never talked to them about it, making Jaime wonder why his mother had done what she did. But the twins couldn't be watched every second of the day so their activities weren't curtailed completely.
Their brother Tyrion was born four years after them. Their mother died giving birth to him. While Tywin and Cersei both loathed him, Jaime treated him with kindness and respect. Jaime missed his mother but he could hardly blame Tyrion for what happened to her. It wasn't like Tyrion had deliberately chosen to kill her. Even back then, Jaime wished his father and sister could see that and, these days, he wishes even more that that had been so.
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"His brother never untied a knot when he could slash it in two with his sword."
When he was eleven, Jaime was sent to Crakehall to squire for Lord Sumner. He occasionally visited home and was more than unhappy when he arrived one day only to find out that Cersei had been sent to King's Landing. He won his first tourney melee when he was thirteen and still a squire. Two years later, he participated in the campaign against the Kingswood Brotherhood. It was then that Jaime killed his first man. After the brotherhood had been defeated, Jaime was knighted on the battlefield by Ser Arthur Dayne.
On his way back to Casterly Rock, he stopped by King's Landing to visit his sister. Cersei informed him that their father planned to betroth him to Lysa Tully. She suggested he become a member of the Kingsguard. He would have to give up his position as heir to Casterly Rock but he could be close to her. Jaime didn't need to think about that decision for very long. Power never interested him. Being with Cersei and fighting were the two things that mattered the most to him.
A month later, back at the Rock, Jaime received the news that he was to present himself to the king at the tourney at Harrenhal where he would say his vows and become the newest member of the Kingsguard. Tywin, needless to say, was furious with the twins' plan. He resigned his position as Hand of the King and took Cersei back with him to Casterly Rock, separating brother and sister once more.
Ser Gerold Hightower, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, performed the ceremony that made Jaime the youngest knight to be raised to that order. His mood was soured, though, when King Aerys sent him back to the capital to guard Queen Rhaella and Prince Viserys, denying Jaime the chance to participate in the tourney. It was only then that Jaime realized he had been named to the Kingsguard to slight his father, robbing the Lord of Casterly Rock of his heir.
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"The Kingslayer ... The false knight who profaned his blade with the blood of the king he had sworn to defend."
Jaime was a firsthand witness to the growing madness of King Aerys. Robert Baratheon and his allies rose in rebellion against the king. When Prince Rhaegar left to fight on the Trident, Jaime asked to accompany him but wasn't allowed to. The king wanted to keep him close--as a hostage, seeing as Tywin had yet to choose a side in the fray.
When Tywin and his army arrived at the gates of King's Landing, King Aerys let him in, thinking he came as a friend. Quite the opposite happened. The only member of the Kingsguard in the capital at the time, the Mad King told Jaime to bring him his father's head as proof of his loyalty. Instead, Jaime killed the Mad King and took a seat on the Iron Throne, waiting to see who would come claim it. It was Lord Eddard Stark who arrived first, and he claimed the throne for Robert.
Jaime was pardoned by the new King Robert and remained a member of the Kingsguard. He was a part of the guard that brought Cersei to King's Landing to marry Robert. Jaime won the tourney that was held to celebrate the marriage. He and Cersei continued their illicit relationship with each other, which led to the births of three children: Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen. Robert believed them all to be his own.
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"The things I do for love."
The Hand of the King, Jon Arryn, began asking too many questions. When he died, Cersei feared Jon had told Robert the truth about her and Jaime. Jaime wasn't worried because they would have known it right away if Robert had been told. He accompanied King Robert to Winterfell. The purpose of the long journey north was because Robert planned to ask Eddard to be his new Hand.
While most of the castle was out on a hunting trip, Jaime and Cersei spent time enjoying each other's company in a derelict tower. Eddard's second youngest son, Bran, quite the climber that he was, saw the two of them together. Jaime pushed him out the window. Bran survived the fall and eventually woke up, leading Cersei to worry that what he saw would come back to him but Jaime never held the same concern.
Back in King's Landing, the wolf and the lion were soon at each other's throats, thanks to Joffrey having hired a catspaw to kill Bran and Petyr Baelish claiming the dagger used belonged to Tyrion. Catelyn, Eddard's wife, took it upon herself to capture Tyrion. When Jaime learned of his brother's imprisonment, he attacked Eddard and his men in the streets of the capital. He would have killed the Hand if one of his men hadn't interfered by stabbing Eddard in the leg.
Jaime headed west and joined his father's army. Tywin gave him 30,000 men and told him to lay siege to Riverrun. Jaime won some victories but was ultimately captured by Robb Stark, Eddard's heir, during the Battle of the Whispering Wood. Jaime knew that he wouldn't be killed by the Starks, despite Eddard's eventual execution, because Sansa and Arya, were hostages in King's Landing.
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"Jaime had decided that he would return Sansa, and the younger girl as well if she could be found. It was not like to win him back his honor, but the notion of keeping faith when they all expected betrayal amused him more than he could say."
But Robb wasn't interested in trading his sisters for the Kingslayer. Catelyn, however, had other ideas. She released him, tasking Brienne of Tarth to take him to the capital to exchange him for her daughters. The two of them were captured by riders belonging to House Bolton. Jaime tried to talk his way out of the situation, letting Locke, their leader, know how rich his father would make him if he let them go. Growing tired of his arrogance, Locke cut off Jaime's right hand.
They arrived at Harrenhal. Roose agreed to let Jaime return to King's Landing on the condition that the knight tell his father he had nothing to do with his maiming. But Brienne would not accompany him. Jaime said his farewells to her, proclaiming that he owed her a debt and would return Sansa and Arya to their mother.
On his way back to the capital, Qyburn, a former maester, informed Jaime of Locke's unpleasant plans for Brienne--a result of a lie Jaime had told the man to help keep Brienne safe from being raped. Jaime insisted they return to Harrenhal, where he saved Brienne from the bear she had been forced to fight.
Without further incident, they arrived to King's Landing. The people may not have recognized the dirty, scraggly Jaime, but Cersei did.
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"I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister has won this war."
Tywin planned to have Jaime removed from the Kingsguard so he could go back to the Rock and be the heir that Tywin still wanted him to be. Jaime refused, much to his father's disappointment. Cersei had a golden hand crafted for Jaime. But, when he tried to renew their flame, she refused him, blaming him for his fight with Eddard, getting captured, and taking too long in his return to her. He shared his concerns with Tyrion about his inability to fight since he had lost his sword hand. Tyrion offered him Bronn to practice with. It appeared that his younger brother was his only family member who still liked him.
He watched helplessly as his firstborn son died during his wedding feast. Cersei had Tyrion arrested. Cersei asked Jaime to kill him, which he refused to do. Jaime visited his brother and realized he was innocent. But that didn't matter, as he knew the trial would be rigged against him. He went to Tywin with a deal: if Tyrion's life was spared, he would leave the Kingsguard and go back to the Rock and be his father's heir. Tywin readily agreed to the proposal.
But Tyrion had his own plans. He demanded a trial by combat, and Oberyn Martell stood up to be his champion. He lost. Not wanting to his brother executed for a crime he didn't commit, he helped Tyrion escape. He wouldn't have done so if he had known that, before leaving the city, Tyrion was going to kill their father.
Oberyn's death caused much tension between the Lannisters and Dorne. Cersei sent Jaime (who brought Bronn with him) to Dorne to rescue Myrcella, who had been betrothed to Trystane Martell. Oberyn's lover, Ellaria, and his bastard daughters wanted war. Prince Doran didn't. He allowed Jaime to take Myrcella back to King's Landing, along with Trystane as the betrothal needed to stay in place.
Aboard the ship, Jaime decided to tell Myrcella that he was her father. She let him know that a part of her had always known that and was glad it was true. But that joyous moment was cut short when Myrcella died in his arms, having been poisoned by Ellaria before they left the shores of Dorne.
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" We're the only ones who matter, and everything they've taken from us, we're going to take back and more."
King Tommen removed Jaime from the Kingsguard, after his "uncle's" failed attempt to release Queen Margaery from the clutches of the High Sparrow. Tommen commanded him to take an army to Riverrun and help the Freys retake the castle from the Tully army. A few days into the siege, he was reunited with Brienne, who had been sent to Riverrun by Sansa to seek an alliance with House Tully in their fight against the Boltons. Jaime agreed to allow the Tully army to safely travel north if Brynden surrendered the castle. The Blackfish refused to do so and the Lannisters took it with the help of Edmure Tully.
Upon arriving back to King's Landing, the first sight to great his eyes was a smoldering Sept of Baelor. He witnessed Cersei's coronation and learned of Tommen's death. Jaime was both disappointed and displeased with Cersei's actions but his love for her kept him by her side.
With enemies all over the realm and the new threat of Daenerys Targaryen arriving at Dragonstone, theirs was not an enviable position to be in. Cersei allowed Casterly Rock to be captured by Dany, as Jaime led the vast majority of the Lannister army to capture Highgarden. Jaime gave Olenna the poison that would end House Tyrell. After drinking it, Olenna told him the truth of Joffrey's death--that she was the one who had killed him.
On their way back to King's Landing, they were attacked by Dany's army and Dany riding Drogon. When he saw Dany on the ground, removing bolts from Drogon, he decided to try and end the war in one stroke. Riding towards Dany, Drogon let out a gush of flame. Bronn saved him by tackling him, and they both fell into the river. He made it back to King's Landing and informed Cersei that they wouldn't be able to win the war against Dany.
Not too long after the defeat, Bronn brought Jaime to the catacombs of the Red Keep on the pretext of having a training session with him. Instead, Jaime found Tyrion, Dany's Hand of the Queen, there. Tyrion let him know that Dany was seeking an armistice to defeat the White Walkers. Jaime told Cersei, who seemingly agreed to the ceasefire and let him know she was pregnant with their child.
Jaime accompanied Cersei to the parley at the Dragonpit. Cersei "agreed" to help in the fight against the army of the dead. Jaime began to make plans to assemble the Lannister forces for the march north. Cersei interrupted the meeting and told him the truth. She had been lying about helping, that Euron Greyjoy was on his way to bring the Golden Company to Westeros. Jaime was furious that Cersei and Euron had plotted this behind his back and even more furious when Cersei accused him of plotting with Tyrion to advance the cause of their enemies.
Cersei wouldn't listen to him. Jaime declared that he at least would travel north to honor his pledge. He abandoned his Lannister armor for simpler garb and left King's Landing, as the first snowfall of winter reached the Crownlands.
Jaime has only just arrived in Winterfell. There are many reunions awaiting him--most of them unpleasant--and there are those he has yet to meet for the first time.
THE WRITER
NAME: Lindsay
TIME ZONE: EST
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