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heavyhanded) wrote2012-11-24 02:31 am
heavyhanded) wrote2012-11-24 02:31 am
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Player NAME: Liz
Current AGE: 23
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Current CHARACTERS: Ashraf, Eshkol, Vanadi, Carrie, Khisanth
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Character NAME: Jaime Lannister
Canon & MEDIUM: Book series: A Song of Ice and Fire
Canon PULL-POINT: The end of his last chapter in A Feast for Crows.
Character AGE: 34
Character ABILITIES: In canon he's a masterful and renowned swordfighter… with his right hand. With just his left hand, he's not much of anything, though he's at least proven to be quite good at strategy and leading men.
Character HISTORY:
There are no men like Jaime Lannister; there's only him. Ask anyone. All through Westeros, lords, ladies, and commoners can all tell you about the Kingslayer. They'll tell you that he swore an oath to the Mad King, only to strike him down with his own hand, even as they'll tell you that he's the golden son of Lannister, tall, proud, undefeated, and easy to look upon. Oh, that Jaime Lannister! He's a dangerous and honorless man, to be sure, but what he lacks in honor, he's more than made up for in everything else. He's almost never lost a tourney, he's unmatched with a sword, he's favored by the gods themselves!
People will believe anything, won't they?
Jaime himself believed it, for a while. But the world has a way of making its true nature clear to you sooner or later. True, Jaime was the youngest man ever chosen to be in the Kingsguard, only a boy of 15 when the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, chose him. But he soon realized he hadn't been chosen for honor; he'd been placed in the ranks of the Kingsguard as a slight against his father, Tywin Lannister. Those in the Kingsguard can take no lands and father no children, and so in one clean blow Aerys has deprived Tywin of his heir. And as the winds of rebellion began to blow in response to Aerys's increasing cruelty, Aerys made certain to keep Jaime very close to him, as insurance and a possible hostage against Jaime's father. Keep the son close, and the father dare not strike any sort of treasonous blow. Jaime has always found it a funny sort of irony that in the end, it was the son the King would have done better to watch.
But no one could not say Jaime was not a man of duty, up until that treasonous day. True, he'd originally joined the Kingsguard to be closer to his sister, promised to marry the Prince Rhaegar, but even after the betrothal was broken and Cersei Lannister was moved back to her home in Castlery Rock, Jaime didn't shirk his duty. He stayed the King's loyal guardian, even as the Mad King grew madder. He stood obediently stalwart as King Aerys burned men alive, roasted them in their armor. It was his duty, and not all so bad, if he took his mind to another place. So he tried to tell himself. He told himself that again, when he stood with Ser Jon Darry outside the door of the royal bedchamber and listened to the king savage the queen, and was told that while it was their duty to guard the queen, it was not their duty to guard the queen from the king.
Jaime's close placement to the king allowed him to overhear all sorts of plans to which normal men aren't privy. For example, he learned of Aerys's plans to burn down the entire city, should it look like King's Landing was in danger of falling to the would-be King Robert. When Aerys's son was slain in battle with the rebels, and the success of the rebellion looking more and more likely, Jaime slew the pyromancer in charge of carrying out the order, and then slew the king to stop him from setting any others to the task. But when Tywin's men burst into the throne room to find Jaime casually seated in the Iron Throne with the dead king at his feet, he spoke no word of the plan he'd thwarted. Let men think he'd slain the king only to remove him from the throne, what did it matter to Jaime? And that was precisely what they thought of him. Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer. Robert was, in time, crowned King, and gave Jaime his official pardon, even keeping him on as Kingsguard. Just don't make king slaying a habit! he told Jaime, the brother of his beautiful new wife, Cersei.
Jaime and Cersei, those beautiful golden twins, wasted no time in resuming the incestuous affair they'd begun some years ago, although this time they had to sneak about King Robert to do it. It was no difficult task, as it turned out. Robert was a drunk, and his interest in Cersei waned after the first year of their marriage. He begot a hundred bastards on other women (well, alright, actually only sixteen bastards), while Jaime begot three royal bastards on Cersei. Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen were taken for and raised as the King's own children, while secretly being the children of Jaime and Cersei.
This all goes pretty well for the two of them, until King Robert and a good portion of his royal court make the journey north to Winterfell, to ask Ned Stark to be the King's Hand. Jaime, Tyrion, and Cersei accompany him, and Jaime and Cersei are caught at their affair by Bran Stark, who happened to be climbing the tower outside the window. Jaime promptly shoves him out the window to kill him, hoping the secret would die with him—but Bran only fell into a coma.
Despite the tragedy of his son, Ned Stark accepts the position, and travels south with Robert to take the place beside him as King's Hand. As soon as Ned arrives, he begins looking into the mysterious death of the last King's Hand, Jon Arryn, and discovers the secret he'd died for: Cersei's children were products of incest with Jaime, and not Robert's children at all. Ned threatens Cersei with telling Robert of her secret, and gives her time to consider. She uses the time to orchestrate Robert's death. Meanwhile, Ned's wife Catelyn has both thwarted an assassination attempt on the sleeping Bran, and come to suspect Jaime and Cersei's brother Tyrion arranged the murder. She captures him, intending to bring him to trial at her sister's castle, and in response to this, Jaime leads an attack with his Lannister men on Ned Stark and his Northmen in the streets of King's Landing. Ned is wounded and takes to bed, while Jaime flees the city to join the attack threatening Catelyn's home in Riverrun. It's then that Ned Stark is beheaded for the treason of plotting to steal the throne from Cersei's son Joffrey to give to Robert's older brother, Stannis, instead.
This is the act that plunges the realm from the danger of war, into outright war itself. Jaime is given control of half of his father Tywin's host as they battle against the North and its allies, led by Ned's son, Robb. He finds himself surprised and captured by Robb, while his men are routed and defeated. While he's held captive, his sister dismisses the Captain of the Kingsguard and names Jaime in his place, back in King's Landing, and Tyrion becomes the King's Hand in the absence of their warring father, who had replaced Ned Stark.
He's kept in the dungeon of Riverrun for many months as the war between the kings Joffrey, Stannis, Renly, and Robb rages, despite Tyrion's attempt to get him out again by trickery. What finally frees him is Catelyn's grief, when she hears reports that her sons Bran and Rickon have both been slain in the North. Down two children, and desperate to get back the daughters being held in King's Landing, she strikes a secret deal with Jaime. He would be escorted back to King's Landing, in the company of her sworn sword, the warrior maid Brienne, and in return, Brienne would be allowed to escort her daughters, Arya and Sansa, back to Catelyn. Jaime agrees, and he and Brienne, with Jaime's cousin Cleos, begin the long trek back to King's Landing. Catelyn's act had been without permission, and the party has to dodge search parties sent out from Riverrun to regain their hostage of Jaime. They're successful, until they're ambushed by a band of outlaws. Cleos is killed, and the outlaws capture Jaime and Brienne while the two of them are dueling. Both had managed to impress each other with their fighting skills, and so when the two of them are taken captive together, they form a sort of uneasy alliance. Jaime saves Brienne from rape by lying to the outlaws, and telling them that she's worth her weight in sapphires, if ransomed to her family — although he can't be sure why he'd bothered to help her.
The group that'd captured them turns out to be the Brave Companions — men previously in service to Jaime's father, who had betrayed him to serve Lord Bolton instead, who fought for the North. Jaime has his right hand cut off by them, which sends him into a shocked depression. As a man whose entire value had been determined by his skill with a sword, to suddenly lose it was nearly more than he could bear. It's Brienne that convinces him to keep living, reminding him that he has his family and revenge to live for. Their uneasy alliance becomes closer, if not any easier, and in a fever, Jaime tells her the true story of his murder of the Mad King, down to the parts about the wildfire, poised to destroy the city. Jaime is then made ready to be returned to King's Landing, if he'll agree to tell them that Bolton had had no hand in maiming him, but Brienne is to remain with the outlaws for their amusement.
Jaime doesn't get far before he dreams of fighting side by side with Brienne, wakes, and rushes back. He rescues her from the bear pit, and changes the terms of the agreement to include her safe passage, as well. By the time he finally returns to King's Landing, it's to find that his bastard son, King Joffrey, has been slain at his own wedding feast, and their brother Tyrion has been charged with the murder. Jaime and Brienne run into another member of the Kingsguard, Ser Loras, who was previously King Renly's lover — his Kingsguard, more publicly. Loras furiously accuses Brienne of having murdered Renly, but Jaime had gotten the story from her, a strange one involving sorcery and shadows, and manages to have Loras agree to her arrest, rather than her immediate execution. And finally, the reunion he'd most been looking forward to: Jaime finds Cersei in the sept with Joffrey's corpse, and the two have a physically passionate reunion, if somewhat an emotionally cold one. Cersei has changed, Jaime can see immediately, although he doesn't realize his own experiences have changed him in turn. He tries to put it from his mind.
He quarrels with and is disowned by his father, who gives him a mocking gift of a fine sword, forged from Ned Stark's own greatsword. Jaime names the sword Oathkeeper and passes it on to Brienne, who has spoken to Loras and convinced him of her innocence, and sends her to search for the missing Sansa Stark, who is presumed to be the king's murderer in league with Tyrion. Not believing that Tyrion is responsible for Joffrey's death, Jaime arranges to have him freed and secreted out of the city. Before he goes, he confesses to Tyrion. He tells him that the woman Tyrion had fallen in love with and married, reported afterward to be a whore, and given by their father to his entire garrison to rape, was in fact exactly who she claimed to be, and the truth of her being a whore was instead a lie. Enraged, Tyrion falsely claims the murder of Joffrey, and flings in Jaime's face that Cersei has been sleeping with all manner of people, naming three of them. They part ways, and on his way out of the city, Tyrion kills their father.
Knowing he's responsible for Tywin's death, and unable to confess the sin of it to anyone, Jaime stands vigil at Tywin's funeral for the full seven days and nights. His relationship with Cersei becomes more and more strained, quickly devolving to outright fights. He sees her as paranoid and hostile, and she's convinced he's turned against her and become yet another of her many enemies. Jaime leaves the city to join the siege of Riverrun, and along the way begins to train himself to fight with his useless left hand, with the mute headsman Ilyn Payne. He arrives at Riverrun and promptly takes control of the siege tactics being employed, forcing the sad and disorderly state of the camp into something formidable and effective. Within just a few days he's delivered appropriate threats to their hostage, released him back into the castle, and had the castle handed over to him. The only mishap was that its master, the Blackfish, had made his escape in the night just before the castle had surrendered.
Back in King's Landing, one of Cersei's schemes, about to come to its head and bear fruit, is suddenly turned on her. She's locked away in one of the dungeons and told she'll be put on trial for all of her crimes, which are slowly coming to light. Her only hope is to ask Jaime to be her champion in a trial by battle, and she sends a desperate letter to him at Riverrun. Jaime reads the letter, her plea, and her declaration of love, and orders the letter burned.
Character PERSONALITY:
For all of his skill with a blade, for all of his Lannister fine looks, Jaime isn't a man very men can be easy with. His entire existence is framed by an evil deed, after all, and every time someone calls him the Kingslayer, it's a reminder of the oath he'd broken to earn it. The Kingslayer's honor is worth no more than a bloodied sword in an echoing throne room, and only a fool would put any stock in an any of his oaths. He's a man to be feared, both for his own prowess and for his fearsomely rich family, and to be admired, especially for his looks -- but respected? No. For all that she has loved him, even his own twin, Cersei, isn't impervious to it. When King Robert jests that Cersei would probably rather see her brother made Hand than his choice of Ned Stark, she denies it, claiming that "he's not serious enough". And Jaime would be happy to agree.
Jaime has simple wants in this life. He wants his sister, for one. He often says that the two of them should denounce or kill Robert and take the throne for themselves, ruling in marriage as brother and sister as the Targaryen kings and queens did. He loves Cersei, even for all the times she tells him no, their relations must remain a secret, and near his entire life has been shaped for her. He joined the Kingsguard to be closer to Cersei. He pushed an 8 year old boy from a window and to his death (or at least his expected death), to please Cersei. And when he's captured by Robb Stark's men, it's only Cersei he thinks of returning to in King's Landing. Give him a sword, the chance to use it on a battlefield or in a tourney, and the company of the woman he loves, and Jaime will be happy with his lot. He has no use for power, manipulations, or secrets, as half of the kingdom seems to. Nor does he crave glory or riches, as the other half yearns for. Jaime doesn't even need honor, which so fuels men like Ned Stark. Because, really, if anything is a lost cause in the Kingslayer, it would be honor.
...Or at least, that's the attitude that has carried him through the last 33 years of his life.
The truth of the matter is that Jaime isn't quite the lost cause that everyone takes him for. His father is cold and ruthless, as sparing with his warmth as he is with his praise. His brothers in the Kingsguard were honorable enough men, if all one needed for honor was to stand perfectly still and stoic as the Mad King burned and murdered around you. The one time he stood up and did what needed doing, he earned himself a lifelong slur of a name. Even his own sister, with whom he's so enamoured, is a petty and suspicious woman driven solely by greed. In short, the man hasn't had great influences.
But that was before Jaime Lannister met Brienne of Tarth. Brienne the Beauty, who was anything but. Huge, strong, good with a sword, and ugly as sin, Brienne was not exactly the sort of woman Jaime would ever be caught associating with. And she was a king slayer as well, to hear the rumors about her and King Renly's demise. Jaime was forced to travel in her company, when Catelyn Stark sent the two of them to King's Landing, to trade Jaime for her daughters. And slowly, through forced company, he went from regarding her with nothing but cruel scorn and mockery, to something a little more like respect. Brienne had honor, that was plain enough. She'd vowed to escort him from Riverrun to King's Landing for her Lady Catelyn, with nothing to gain and for no more cause than her own given word. And it was a vow Brienne was determined to keep, that was plain. When their small party took to a boat to flee pursuit, and Brienne went so far as to jump out of the boat, swim to shore, push rocks down upon their pursuit, and then fling herself off of a cliff to swim back to their own boat, Jaime could have struck her over the head with an oar and been free to make his escape from Riverrun under his own terms. Instead, he helped her back into the boat.
Jaime's respect for Brienne was only a bemusing twinge by then, however. After fighting her through a dark woods, her knowing she couldn't kill him without breaking her vow, and him shackled and unable to fight to his full extent, it had blossomed into something stronger. When they were captured together by outlaws, Jaime found himself lying to save her from being raped by the group of them. Brienne was just as bewildered by his behavior by as he was, and all the more so when he confessed to her, in a fever haze, the true and full story of slaying the Mad King. It was shortly before then that Jaime lost his sword hand to those same outlaws, and with it, his entire sense of self-worth. He suddenly considered himself a shadow of his former glory, hardly even a full man, and without his skill with a sword, he very literally had nothing left. It was Brienne that convinced him otherwise, telling him to live for his family and for his honor.
And so he did. His strange chain of good deeds was finalized when he, on his way peaceably back to King's Landing, reversed his decision and rode back to save Brienne as well, and bring her along with him. It would seem that her honor had rubbed off on him, and when finally he met with Cersei again, he was changed. Both of them recognized it, and it wasn't a change Cersei liked. But with this change, Jaime finally began to see Cersei as the cruel, power hungry force that she was. After Sansa Stark escaped King's Landing, whose safe return had been the condition of Jaime's release from Riverrun, he sent Brienne out to find her -- for both of them. After arming her with a sword that Jaime, crippled by his missing hand, considered too good for himself, and providing her with provisions and a fine horse, Jaime sent her out as his last hope of redemption.
Proof of this change, and of Jaime's desire to be a better man, was shown on the battlefield of the siege of Riverrun. He'd sworn a vow to Catelyn Stark never again to take up arms against a Stark or a Tully, and he managed to end the siege while keeping true to that vow. And when the siege had finally broken, and he received a letter from Cersei, pleading with him to come to King's Landing and save her from a fate of her own making, Jaime refused, and burned the letter.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Jaime's weapon will be his own right hand. He'll choose it sarcastically and with a derisive laugh, but OH SHIT SON HERE'S WHERE IT GETS USEFUL. First, he'll find mobility in it. Just a little at first, and it will be difficult to control, let alone to fight with it as he used to. But eventually that will come, and he'll rise to his former skill. Then he'll rise past it. He'll find his right hand moving faster than it used to, with more strength than it used to have. And even further down the road, he might find that he can will more of his arm to be golden and thus protected from blows, and eventually this might even spread, at will, to the rest of his body.
That's really super eventual, though.
Character INVENTORY: A FABULOUS SET OF WHITE ARMOR and a white cloak and all those pretty Kingsguard things. A sword, a shield, a golden hand… and possibly a horse named Honor. Or Glory, depending on which one makes it through with him.
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Previous GAME SETTING(s): WELCOME TO THE CITY, HERO. Characters are yanked into the City by a sentient computer program, given super powers, and told to be a hero. It's a modern day setting, and the City is the in-game version of New York City. The only other changes from present day Earth are a few additional countries that only the imPorts remember as being new, different politicians, and the disappearance of each canon as one of its featured characters arrives in the City.
Previous GAME CR: He wasn't around for long enough to get too much meaningful CR, but here's everything that was important enough to be remembered and/or applies to characters we currently have in game!
Tali'zorah vas Normandy — The masked alien lady that sometimes is an… unmasked human? Jaime was interested in her despite himself, and enjoyed the way she took verbal abuse and yet still made herself useful to him. He was even coming to be fond of her, and had come to regard her as something of a useful subordinate. He was more than willing to pay her for services rendered, anyway. (And I don't mean that in a sexy way.) Also, amusing when drunk.
Martin Septim — An occasionally melodramatic man, but Jaime tolerated him well enough. He made for a good sparring partner to get his left hand into fighting shape, because men like him, for whatever reason, don't go about bragging that they beat the Kingslayer in combat without much effort. He was good for teasing, and also amusing when drunk.
Sherlock Holmes — Ugh, fuck this guy. This was the guy that, for whatever reason, Arya Stark ended up liking enough to stay with. Whatever, who needs him. Jaime detested his smarminess, intelligence, and all around assholery, and he was only all the more annoying because Arya so obviously liked him.
Arya Stark — He doesn't like kids. Never liked kids. And this was a Stark kid, that's the worst of the worst. But back home, Jaime had given his word that he would find Catelyn's children and return them safely to her, and he's trying to get the hang of this "honor" thing. So while there wasn't a Catelyn around to return children to, he could at least keep ahold of Arya Stark to keep her safe. Or that was the plan, anyway. Too bad she was a slippery little thing that escaped basically whenever she wanted to.
Tony Stark — He didn't talk to Tony much, but enough to see that he was way more tolerable than the Starks he's known. Why, this guy even seemed a little bit like a Lannister. He was a-ok in Jaime's book.
Your character's DEVELOPMENT: There was actually not that much development in C&C to make Jaime much different from his canon counterpoint! There's the obvious, such as the fact that he has a better understanding of technology than he would straight from canon. Then there's the odd, such as the Midas Touch that he'll still have going on. (He'll try not to throw off Exsilium's economy, honest.) But as far as character development, he remains almost unchanged.
His strongest relationships were with Martin and Tali, but aside from the fact that Tali was a woman (not something he usually gets close to — aside from Cersei and Brienne, of course), they weren't breaking very much new ground in terms of what Jaime is used to. Martin was like a Septon with a sense of humor (the names are even similar), Tali was like one of the men of his army that Jaime would have actually appreciated the wit of and relied on. He didn't come to fully trust either of them or take either into his confidences, and kept both of them at a comfortable distance in terms of his armor of sarcasm and dry wit, but they both had the potential to play a similar role that Brienne did in canon, and get Jaime to open up to them. So close, man. So close.
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Player NAME: Liz
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Current CHARACTERS: Ashraf, Eshkol, Vanadi, Carrie, Khisanth
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Jaime Lannister
Canon & MEDIUM: Book series: A Song of Ice and Fire
Canon PULL-POINT: The end of his last chapter in A Feast for Crows.
Character AGE: 34
Character ABILITIES: In canon he's a masterful and renowned swordfighter… with his right hand. With just his left hand, he's not much of anything, though he's at least proven to be quite good at strategy and leading men.
Character HISTORY:
There are no men like Jaime Lannister; there's only him. Ask anyone. All through Westeros, lords, ladies, and commoners can all tell you about the Kingslayer. They'll tell you that he swore an oath to the Mad King, only to strike him down with his own hand, even as they'll tell you that he's the golden son of Lannister, tall, proud, undefeated, and easy to look upon. Oh, that Jaime Lannister! He's a dangerous and honorless man, to be sure, but what he lacks in honor, he's more than made up for in everything else. He's almost never lost a tourney, he's unmatched with a sword, he's favored by the gods themselves!
People will believe anything, won't they?
Jaime himself believed it, for a while. But the world has a way of making its true nature clear to you sooner or later. True, Jaime was the youngest man ever chosen to be in the Kingsguard, only a boy of 15 when the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, chose him. But he soon realized he hadn't been chosen for honor; he'd been placed in the ranks of the Kingsguard as a slight against his father, Tywin Lannister. Those in the Kingsguard can take no lands and father no children, and so in one clean blow Aerys has deprived Tywin of his heir. And as the winds of rebellion began to blow in response to Aerys's increasing cruelty, Aerys made certain to keep Jaime very close to him, as insurance and a possible hostage against Jaime's father. Keep the son close, and the father dare not strike any sort of treasonous blow. Jaime has always found it a funny sort of irony that in the end, it was the son the King would have done better to watch.
But no one could not say Jaime was not a man of duty, up until that treasonous day. True, he'd originally joined the Kingsguard to be closer to his sister, promised to marry the Prince Rhaegar, but even after the betrothal was broken and Cersei Lannister was moved back to her home in Castlery Rock, Jaime didn't shirk his duty. He stayed the King's loyal guardian, even as the Mad King grew madder. He stood obediently stalwart as King Aerys burned men alive, roasted them in their armor. It was his duty, and not all so bad, if he took his mind to another place. So he tried to tell himself. He told himself that again, when he stood with Ser Jon Darry outside the door of the royal bedchamber and listened to the king savage the queen, and was told that while it was their duty to guard the queen, it was not their duty to guard the queen from the king.
Jaime's close placement to the king allowed him to overhear all sorts of plans to which normal men aren't privy. For example, he learned of Aerys's plans to burn down the entire city, should it look like King's Landing was in danger of falling to the would-be King Robert. When Aerys's son was slain in battle with the rebels, and the success of the rebellion looking more and more likely, Jaime slew the pyromancer in charge of carrying out the order, and then slew the king to stop him from setting any others to the task. But when Tywin's men burst into the throne room to find Jaime casually seated in the Iron Throne with the dead king at his feet, he spoke no word of the plan he'd thwarted. Let men think he'd slain the king only to remove him from the throne, what did it matter to Jaime? And that was precisely what they thought of him. Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer. Robert was, in time, crowned King, and gave Jaime his official pardon, even keeping him on as Kingsguard. Just don't make king slaying a habit! he told Jaime, the brother of his beautiful new wife, Cersei.
Jaime and Cersei, those beautiful golden twins, wasted no time in resuming the incestuous affair they'd begun some years ago, although this time they had to sneak about King Robert to do it. It was no difficult task, as it turned out. Robert was a drunk, and his interest in Cersei waned after the first year of their marriage. He begot a hundred bastards on other women (well, alright, actually only sixteen bastards), while Jaime begot three royal bastards on Cersei. Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen were taken for and raised as the King's own children, while secretly being the children of Jaime and Cersei.
This all goes pretty well for the two of them, until King Robert and a good portion of his royal court make the journey north to Winterfell, to ask Ned Stark to be the King's Hand. Jaime, Tyrion, and Cersei accompany him, and Jaime and Cersei are caught at their affair by Bran Stark, who happened to be climbing the tower outside the window. Jaime promptly shoves him out the window to kill him, hoping the secret would die with him—but Bran only fell into a coma.
Despite the tragedy of his son, Ned Stark accepts the position, and travels south with Robert to take the place beside him as King's Hand. As soon as Ned arrives, he begins looking into the mysterious death of the last King's Hand, Jon Arryn, and discovers the secret he'd died for: Cersei's children were products of incest with Jaime, and not Robert's children at all. Ned threatens Cersei with telling Robert of her secret, and gives her time to consider. She uses the time to orchestrate Robert's death. Meanwhile, Ned's wife Catelyn has both thwarted an assassination attempt on the sleeping Bran, and come to suspect Jaime and Cersei's brother Tyrion arranged the murder. She captures him, intending to bring him to trial at her sister's castle, and in response to this, Jaime leads an attack with his Lannister men on Ned Stark and his Northmen in the streets of King's Landing. Ned is wounded and takes to bed, while Jaime flees the city to join the attack threatening Catelyn's home in Riverrun. It's then that Ned Stark is beheaded for the treason of plotting to steal the throne from Cersei's son Joffrey to give to Robert's older brother, Stannis, instead.
This is the act that plunges the realm from the danger of war, into outright war itself. Jaime is given control of half of his father Tywin's host as they battle against the North and its allies, led by Ned's son, Robb. He finds himself surprised and captured by Robb, while his men are routed and defeated. While he's held captive, his sister dismisses the Captain of the Kingsguard and names Jaime in his place, back in King's Landing, and Tyrion becomes the King's Hand in the absence of their warring father, who had replaced Ned Stark.
He's kept in the dungeon of Riverrun for many months as the war between the kings Joffrey, Stannis, Renly, and Robb rages, despite Tyrion's attempt to get him out again by trickery. What finally frees him is Catelyn's grief, when she hears reports that her sons Bran and Rickon have both been slain in the North. Down two children, and desperate to get back the daughters being held in King's Landing, she strikes a secret deal with Jaime. He would be escorted back to King's Landing, in the company of her sworn sword, the warrior maid Brienne, and in return, Brienne would be allowed to escort her daughters, Arya and Sansa, back to Catelyn. Jaime agrees, and he and Brienne, with Jaime's cousin Cleos, begin the long trek back to King's Landing. Catelyn's act had been without permission, and the party has to dodge search parties sent out from Riverrun to regain their hostage of Jaime. They're successful, until they're ambushed by a band of outlaws. Cleos is killed, and the outlaws capture Jaime and Brienne while the two of them are dueling. Both had managed to impress each other with their fighting skills, and so when the two of them are taken captive together, they form a sort of uneasy alliance. Jaime saves Brienne from rape by lying to the outlaws, and telling them that she's worth her weight in sapphires, if ransomed to her family — although he can't be sure why he'd bothered to help her.
The group that'd captured them turns out to be the Brave Companions — men previously in service to Jaime's father, who had betrayed him to serve Lord Bolton instead, who fought for the North. Jaime has his right hand cut off by them, which sends him into a shocked depression. As a man whose entire value had been determined by his skill with a sword, to suddenly lose it was nearly more than he could bear. It's Brienne that convinces him to keep living, reminding him that he has his family and revenge to live for. Their uneasy alliance becomes closer, if not any easier, and in a fever, Jaime tells her the true story of his murder of the Mad King, down to the parts about the wildfire, poised to destroy the city. Jaime is then made ready to be returned to King's Landing, if he'll agree to tell them that Bolton had had no hand in maiming him, but Brienne is to remain with the outlaws for their amusement.
Jaime doesn't get far before he dreams of fighting side by side with Brienne, wakes, and rushes back. He rescues her from the bear pit, and changes the terms of the agreement to include her safe passage, as well. By the time he finally returns to King's Landing, it's to find that his bastard son, King Joffrey, has been slain at his own wedding feast, and their brother Tyrion has been charged with the murder. Jaime and Brienne run into another member of the Kingsguard, Ser Loras, who was previously King Renly's lover — his Kingsguard, more publicly. Loras furiously accuses Brienne of having murdered Renly, but Jaime had gotten the story from her, a strange one involving sorcery and shadows, and manages to have Loras agree to her arrest, rather than her immediate execution. And finally, the reunion he'd most been looking forward to: Jaime finds Cersei in the sept with Joffrey's corpse, and the two have a physically passionate reunion, if somewhat an emotionally cold one. Cersei has changed, Jaime can see immediately, although he doesn't realize his own experiences have changed him in turn. He tries to put it from his mind.
He quarrels with and is disowned by his father, who gives him a mocking gift of a fine sword, forged from Ned Stark's own greatsword. Jaime names the sword Oathkeeper and passes it on to Brienne, who has spoken to Loras and convinced him of her innocence, and sends her to search for the missing Sansa Stark, who is presumed to be the king's murderer in league with Tyrion. Not believing that Tyrion is responsible for Joffrey's death, Jaime arranges to have him freed and secreted out of the city. Before he goes, he confesses to Tyrion. He tells him that the woman Tyrion had fallen in love with and married, reported afterward to be a whore, and given by their father to his entire garrison to rape, was in fact exactly who she claimed to be, and the truth of her being a whore was instead a lie. Enraged, Tyrion falsely claims the murder of Joffrey, and flings in Jaime's face that Cersei has been sleeping with all manner of people, naming three of them. They part ways, and on his way out of the city, Tyrion kills their father.
Knowing he's responsible for Tywin's death, and unable to confess the sin of it to anyone, Jaime stands vigil at Tywin's funeral for the full seven days and nights. His relationship with Cersei becomes more and more strained, quickly devolving to outright fights. He sees her as paranoid and hostile, and she's convinced he's turned against her and become yet another of her many enemies. Jaime leaves the city to join the siege of Riverrun, and along the way begins to train himself to fight with his useless left hand, with the mute headsman Ilyn Payne. He arrives at Riverrun and promptly takes control of the siege tactics being employed, forcing the sad and disorderly state of the camp into something formidable and effective. Within just a few days he's delivered appropriate threats to their hostage, released him back into the castle, and had the castle handed over to him. The only mishap was that its master, the Blackfish, had made his escape in the night just before the castle had surrendered.
Back in King's Landing, one of Cersei's schemes, about to come to its head and bear fruit, is suddenly turned on her. She's locked away in one of the dungeons and told she'll be put on trial for all of her crimes, which are slowly coming to light. Her only hope is to ask Jaime to be her champion in a trial by battle, and she sends a desperate letter to him at Riverrun. Jaime reads the letter, her plea, and her declaration of love, and orders the letter burned.
Character PERSONALITY:
For all of his skill with a blade, for all of his Lannister fine looks, Jaime isn't a man very men can be easy with. His entire existence is framed by an evil deed, after all, and every time someone calls him the Kingslayer, it's a reminder of the oath he'd broken to earn it. The Kingslayer's honor is worth no more than a bloodied sword in an echoing throne room, and only a fool would put any stock in an any of his oaths. He's a man to be feared, both for his own prowess and for his fearsomely rich family, and to be admired, especially for his looks -- but respected? No. For all that she has loved him, even his own twin, Cersei, isn't impervious to it. When King Robert jests that Cersei would probably rather see her brother made Hand than his choice of Ned Stark, she denies it, claiming that "he's not serious enough". And Jaime would be happy to agree.
Jaime has simple wants in this life. He wants his sister, for one. He often says that the two of them should denounce or kill Robert and take the throne for themselves, ruling in marriage as brother and sister as the Targaryen kings and queens did. He loves Cersei, even for all the times she tells him no, their relations must remain a secret, and near his entire life has been shaped for her. He joined the Kingsguard to be closer to Cersei. He pushed an 8 year old boy from a window and to his death (or at least his expected death), to please Cersei. And when he's captured by Robb Stark's men, it's only Cersei he thinks of returning to in King's Landing. Give him a sword, the chance to use it on a battlefield or in a tourney, and the company of the woman he loves, and Jaime will be happy with his lot. He has no use for power, manipulations, or secrets, as half of the kingdom seems to. Nor does he crave glory or riches, as the other half yearns for. Jaime doesn't even need honor, which so fuels men like Ned Stark. Because, really, if anything is a lost cause in the Kingslayer, it would be honor.
...Or at least, that's the attitude that has carried him through the last 33 years of his life.
The truth of the matter is that Jaime isn't quite the lost cause that everyone takes him for. His father is cold and ruthless, as sparing with his warmth as he is with his praise. His brothers in the Kingsguard were honorable enough men, if all one needed for honor was to stand perfectly still and stoic as the Mad King burned and murdered around you. The one time he stood up and did what needed doing, he earned himself a lifelong slur of a name. Even his own sister, with whom he's so enamoured, is a petty and suspicious woman driven solely by greed. In short, the man hasn't had great influences.
But that was before Jaime Lannister met Brienne of Tarth. Brienne the Beauty, who was anything but. Huge, strong, good with a sword, and ugly as sin, Brienne was not exactly the sort of woman Jaime would ever be caught associating with. And she was a king slayer as well, to hear the rumors about her and King Renly's demise. Jaime was forced to travel in her company, when Catelyn Stark sent the two of them to King's Landing, to trade Jaime for her daughters. And slowly, through forced company, he went from regarding her with nothing but cruel scorn and mockery, to something a little more like respect. Brienne had honor, that was plain enough. She'd vowed to escort him from Riverrun to King's Landing for her Lady Catelyn, with nothing to gain and for no more cause than her own given word. And it was a vow Brienne was determined to keep, that was plain. When their small party took to a boat to flee pursuit, and Brienne went so far as to jump out of the boat, swim to shore, push rocks down upon their pursuit, and then fling herself off of a cliff to swim back to their own boat, Jaime could have struck her over the head with an oar and been free to make his escape from Riverrun under his own terms. Instead, he helped her back into the boat.
Jaime's respect for Brienne was only a bemusing twinge by then, however. After fighting her through a dark woods, her knowing she couldn't kill him without breaking her vow, and him shackled and unable to fight to his full extent, it had blossomed into something stronger. When they were captured together by outlaws, Jaime found himself lying to save her from being raped by the group of them. Brienne was just as bewildered by his behavior by as he was, and all the more so when he confessed to her, in a fever haze, the true and full story of slaying the Mad King. It was shortly before then that Jaime lost his sword hand to those same outlaws, and with it, his entire sense of self-worth. He suddenly considered himself a shadow of his former glory, hardly even a full man, and without his skill with a sword, he very literally had nothing left. It was Brienne that convinced him otherwise, telling him to live for his family and for his honor.
And so he did. His strange chain of good deeds was finalized when he, on his way peaceably back to King's Landing, reversed his decision and rode back to save Brienne as well, and bring her along with him. It would seem that her honor had rubbed off on him, and when finally he met with Cersei again, he was changed. Both of them recognized it, and it wasn't a change Cersei liked. But with this change, Jaime finally began to see Cersei as the cruel, power hungry force that she was. After Sansa Stark escaped King's Landing, whose safe return had been the condition of Jaime's release from Riverrun, he sent Brienne out to find her -- for both of them. After arming her with a sword that Jaime, crippled by his missing hand, considered too good for himself, and providing her with provisions and a fine horse, Jaime sent her out as his last hope of redemption.
Proof of this change, and of Jaime's desire to be a better man, was shown on the battlefield of the siege of Riverrun. He'd sworn a vow to Catelyn Stark never again to take up arms against a Stark or a Tully, and he managed to end the siege while keeping true to that vow. And when the siege had finally broken, and he received a letter from Cersei, pleading with him to come to King's Landing and save her from a fate of her own making, Jaime refused, and burned the letter.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Jaime's weapon will be his own right hand. He'll choose it sarcastically and with a derisive laugh, but OH SHIT SON HERE'S WHERE IT GETS USEFUL. First, he'll find mobility in it. Just a little at first, and it will be difficult to control, let alone to fight with it as he used to. But eventually that will come, and he'll rise to his former skill. Then he'll rise past it. He'll find his right hand moving faster than it used to, with more strength than it used to have. And even further down the road, he might find that he can will more of his arm to be golden and thus protected from blows, and eventually this might even spread, at will, to the rest of his body.
That's really super eventual, though.
Character INVENTORY: A FABULOUS SET OF WHITE ARMOR and a white cloak and all those pretty Kingsguard things. A sword, a shield, a golden hand… and possibly a horse named Honor. Or Glory, depending on which one makes it through with him.
» PREVIOUS GAME INFORMATION ( IF APPLICABLE )
Previous GAME(s):
capeandcowlPrevious GAME SETTING(s): WELCOME TO THE CITY, HERO. Characters are yanked into the City by a sentient computer program, given super powers, and told to be a hero. It's a modern day setting, and the City is the in-game version of New York City. The only other changes from present day Earth are a few additional countries that only the imPorts remember as being new, different politicians, and the disappearance of each canon as one of its featured characters arrives in the City.
Previous GAME CR: He wasn't around for long enough to get too much meaningful CR, but here's everything that was important enough to be remembered and/or applies to characters we currently have in game!
Tali'zorah vas Normandy — The masked alien lady that sometimes is an… unmasked human? Jaime was interested in her despite himself, and enjoyed the way she took verbal abuse and yet still made herself useful to him. He was even coming to be fond of her, and had come to regard her as something of a useful subordinate. He was more than willing to pay her for services rendered, anyway. (And I don't mean that in a sexy way.) Also, amusing when drunk.
Martin Septim — An occasionally melodramatic man, but Jaime tolerated him well enough. He made for a good sparring partner to get his left hand into fighting shape, because men like him, for whatever reason, don't go about bragging that they beat the Kingslayer in combat without much effort. He was good for teasing, and also amusing when drunk.
Sherlock Holmes — Ugh, fuck this guy. This was the guy that, for whatever reason, Arya Stark ended up liking enough to stay with. Whatever, who needs him. Jaime detested his smarminess, intelligence, and all around assholery, and he was only all the more annoying because Arya so obviously liked him.
Arya Stark — He doesn't like kids. Never liked kids. And this was a Stark kid, that's the worst of the worst. But back home, Jaime had given his word that he would find Catelyn's children and return them safely to her, and he's trying to get the hang of this "honor" thing. So while there wasn't a Catelyn around to return children to, he could at least keep ahold of Arya Stark to keep her safe. Or that was the plan, anyway. Too bad she was a slippery little thing that escaped basically whenever she wanted to.
Tony Stark — He didn't talk to Tony much, but enough to see that he was way more tolerable than the Starks he's known. Why, this guy even seemed a little bit like a Lannister. He was a-ok in Jaime's book.
Your character's DEVELOPMENT: There was actually not that much development in C&C to make Jaime much different from his canon counterpoint! There's the obvious, such as the fact that he has a better understanding of technology than he would straight from canon. Then there's the odd, such as the Midas Touch that he'll still have going on. (He'll try not to throw off Exsilium's economy, honest.) But as far as character development, he remains almost unchanged.
His strongest relationships were with Martin and Tali, but aside from the fact that Tali was a woman (not something he usually gets close to — aside from Cersei and Brienne, of course), they weren't breaking very much new ground in terms of what Jaime is used to. Martin was like a Septon with a sense of humor (the names are even similar), Tali was like one of the men of his army that Jaime would have actually appreciated the wit of and relied on. He didn't come to fully trust either of them or take either into his confidences, and kept both of them at a comfortable distance in terms of his armor of sarcasm and dry wit, but they both had the potential to play a similar role that Brienne did in canon, and get Jaime to open up to them. So close, man. So close.
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