The Real Season 8:
- Jon is the king of The Seven Kingdoms and Jaime is his Hand:
- Dany fucked off to Essos with Drogon and the remaining army cause she realized Westeros will never be hers and she will never belong there. After she accidentally set off the wildfire her father had planted all over KL and blew half of the city up:
- Cersei sent Bronn to kill Sansa and Brienne, because Cersei may be a lot of different things, but she’s not stupid and she finally recognizes Sansa as the actual biggest threat, not Dany, and she knows he won’t outward kill Jaime and Tyrion. Sandor dies defending Sansa (because his life is no longer based on revenge), him and Bronn killing eachother. Sandor’s character coming full circle, Bronn is not useless and his arc as a sellsword not diminished. Before The Hound dies, Sansa tells him he’s the closest to a real knight she has ever known in her life. (giving book fans at least a little bit of pleasure and SanSan at least a little bit of honor they deserve).
- Arya promises Sandor she’ll take The Mountain off her list for him before he dies.
- Brienne feels guilty for not defending Sansa when she needed her, so to make her feel better Sansa sends her after Arya, to help her, cause she knows Arya fucked off to do something suicidal.
- Arya sets off to kill both The Mountain and Cersei. She gets into the Red Keep, wounds Cersei before The Mountain stops her and they get into a fight.
- Jaime doesn’t just fuck off from Winterfell in the middle of the night listing bad things he’s done to Brienne, the things she already knows about. Sansa is the one who sets him off and triggers his actions by telling him Cersei sent Bronn to kill her and that she wasn’t his only target, that his sister sure knows how to act petty, and tells him about Brienne, knowing that would for sure trigger him. Which actually shows Sansa being a smart person and playing the game, instead of us just being told she is smart. This reminds us that back in season 7, Sansa sent Brienne to the Dragonpit meeting on purpose, so that she can make Jaime see reason. And it was a success. Leaving Cersei without the last person she can really trust. Showing us Sansa really is the best player now.
- Before Dany, Jon and the rest of the army leave Winterfell, Jaime tries to warn Dany about the wildfire that still lingers beneath the city, but of course, she doesn’t listen to him because he’s the Kingslayer. Jon is at this point a little lost because of his identity, so he just follows Dany.
- Before they leave, Jaime begs Tyrion to try and reason with Dany and convince her to take the city peacefully.
- Jaime is restless in Winterfell because of this and that is the first reason that makes him leave, followed by being finally completely triggered by Sansa telling him Cersei put a target on Brienne’s back.
- Brienne doesn’t try to stop him because she knows she can’t, and she knows, better than anyone, about Aerys and wildfire and she knows Jaime’s heart and honor will never allow him to stay while millions of people are about to burn alive.
- Cersei has her own wildfire but she is clueless about the one left since Aerys.
- Jaime is still captured, but only after he tries to get to Jon, to make him stop the attack, relying on his Stark morals and honor. He tells Jon about wildfire, both Aerys’ and the one Cersei used to blow up the Sept. He tries to convince Jon to let him into the Red Keep to try to reason with Cersei as well as use his authority on the Lannister army, cause he’s still their commander. Jon hesitates at first, but finally lets Jaime go.
- Jaime gets into the Keep, Arya is already there, fighting The Mountain, after wounding Cersei, who now tries to get to Qyburn and order him to blow the city up in flames cause she finally knows she’s going down.
- Arya is struggling with The Mountain somewhere in the Keep, but Brienne comes to her aid and helps her finish him by cutting his head off.
- Dany can’t wait any longer and she goes for the attack riding Drogon at the same time ordering Jon and Grey Worm to get into the city with the Unsullied and the Northmen. Jon hesitates, trying to reason with her, but she won’t listen.
- Before getting into the Keep, Jaime uses his badass infamous Kingslayer mod and threatens the Lannister soldiers, reminding them they answer to House Lannister before they answer to the Throne, therefore, they answer to him. He makes them stand down. Still, the Golden Company is a threat.
- Jaime gets to Cersei at the exact moment she is trying to get Qyburn to set the wildfire off. He sees the aftermath of her confrontation with Arya and realizes there is no baby, cause she lost it back in season 7 finale. He realizes it’s the Mad King all over again, tries to reason with her, but she knows she’s finally lost and if she’s going down, so is everyone else. Tells him they will die together, just how they are meant to go. She tells Qyburn to “burn them all”. Jaime gets to Cersei, puts his hands at her throat, realizing she’s already dying, stops her and mercy chokes her to death at the same time. she realizes he’s actually the valonqar before she dies.
- Jaime goes after Qyburn to stop him from igniting the wildfire and on his way to give his soldiers a signal to ring the bells as a sign of the Queen’s death. Kills Qyburn by throwing a dagger at his back, but just as that happens, he sees green flames blow up into the air in the distance and Dany flying above them on Drogon. He sees it’s all been for nothing and his worst fear came true while he again tried to stop it and save the city.
- Dany realizes what she has done, igniting the wildfire she was warned about, even though dealing with the Golden Company, the wildfire burned almost half the city, killing thousands of civilians, parts of her own army, including Grey Worm, as well as parts of the Lannister soldiers who surrendered on Jaime’s orders.
- The bells ring, the sign of the Queen’s death.
- Jaime goes back to the great hall, where he killed Cersei, sits down on the steps next to her body, completely lost. In that moment Jon enters the hall, Jaime looks up and bitterly laughs at the irony of it all. Only this time, Jon does not judge him nor accuse him of anything.
- Yara joins the forces ambushing the remainings of Euron’s fleet after Dany burns it. She faces Euron who tries to escape and kills him.
- On Dany’s orders, Jaime is taken prisoner.
- Jon is pissed off at Dany, she accuses him of treason for letting Jaime go, she tries to defend herself, but she realizes she has no excuse. She knows what she’s done. The Northmen rebel, the rest of KL left alive rise against her, as well as the Lannister soldiers, demanding justice for their commander and lord. Tyrion resigns as Hand, throws the pin away and demands to be put in chains together with his brother rather than continue serving her.
- Varys, communicating with Sansa after Tyrion’s imprisonment, gives her the news about the destruction of the city. Sansa then gathers the remaining Northern houses and Stark allies as well as the remains of the rest of the great houses of Westeros by informing them the truth about Jon.
- Gendry, as a legitimized Baratheon swears allegiance to Jon and claims Storm’s End.
- Sansa already having power over Vale, joins their forces with the North.
- Edmure Tully, rid of the Freys, joins Sansa.
- Dorne, betrayed by The Sand Snakes, who were Dany’s allies, rise against her, while Highgarden is still held by the Lannister army.
- Dany finally realizes she’s alone. All of her friends are gone, Jon’s had enough, Sansa had gathered the entire North against her. Suspicious that Varys betrayed her by conspiring with Sansa and sharing the news about Jon, she executes him and that way draws the last straw of patience from Jon who is now afraid for his family and thinks Arya died in wildfire.
- Dany finally knows she’s fucked, takes Drogon, fucks off to Essos with her remaining army, which is at this point quite small.
- Jon realizes the weight of everything that’s happened, and that now everyone knows the truth about him. He’s pissed off at Sansa but knows that what she did actually stopped further destruction. Finds out Arya is a bit shaken but alive and what she did.
- Sansa comes south to KL with lords of the great houses at her back. Having the bigger part of Westeros at his side, Jon is demanded of to take his rightful position on the throne. He knows he can’t fight it, and knows that if he refuses, there will be further war and conflict and a lot more people will die. That if he doesn’t bend he will break. A little talk with Tyrion and Sansa and he finally bends. He is declared the king of the Seven Kingdoms, but he refuses to be called Aegon and demands to still be Jon Snow.
- The Ironborn led by Yara rebel against this, loyal to Dany, but soon enough bend because they realize they’re alone.
- Jaime, even though no longer a prisoner, doesn’t want anything to do with the outside world and looks finally completely broken. Jon and Tyrion talk to him but he is back in his Kingslayer mod, savage and sarcastic because ‘’he went away inside’’. He doesn’t want to see nor hear from anyone, he just wants to die. But, Brienne will have none of his shit and comes to talk to him. He tries to push her away, like he always does, tries to provoke her to anger, tells her again about the horrible things he’s done, how he should’ve died with his sister, how she should hate him cause he left her. She of course doesn’t let him, and instead tells him she knows why he did what he did, that she would never blame him for leaving her if it meant saving millions of people, because that’s why she loves him for, how he once again saved the city from complete destruction and that he’s a good man. That’s where he finally breaks down and cries in her arms.
- Jon summons Jaime to talk and tells him some of the great houses demand his punishment. Jaime is ready to die but death is not what he gets. Jon tells him that from now on he names him his Hand. Jaime laughs and calls Jon out for being bad at jokes, but Jon shakes him up and tells him he’s not joking. When Jaime tells him he’s talking to the wrong Lannister and that his brother is the politician, Jon tells him he doesn’t want a politician, that Westeros has had enough of bad politicians. He wants a man who will be ready to kill him if he ever decided to burn someone alive. A man who did that not once, but twice, and put the people first, a man who honored his oath to the Mother and defended the innocent even on the cost of losing everything. This takes Jaime by surprise and he knows there is no way out. Jon declares that neither of them want this, and that that will be punishment for both of them for making love the death of duty. Jon then tells Jaime his thoughts when he first saw him riding through the gates of Winterfell and how he thought “that’s what a king should look like”. Jaime jokes with ‘’I can imagine your disappointment when you actually saw the king”. and then resigned says “The Bastard King and A Hand Without a Hand. How many songs you think they’ll write about us?” Jon smiles and replies with “Not many, I hope”.
- Sansa remains The Lady of Winterfell but sticks for a while to help Jon.
- Jon tells Jaime Casterly Rock will be returned to him, Jaime thinks Tyrion should have it, but Jon informs him Tyrion doesn’t want it and doesn’t think he deserves it after willingly helping Dany take it, and that Jaime should take his rightful position as the Lord of the Rock. This will give Jon loyalty of the Westerlands as long as Jaime lives. Jon tells him he is free to marry and continue his family line, which makes Jaime remember he doesn’t feel worthy of the only woman he would actually want to marry.
- Tyrion is finally defeated and wishes to no more be a part of the game, because he feels responsible for what Dany did. He will remain in KL for some time, to help them rebuilt it, then probably travel somewhere. He only asks Jaime to give him a place in the Rock when he finally retires.
- Jaime, finally following his heart, goes to Sansa and asks her to release Brienne from her vows. Sansa lets him know she will only do it if Brienne asks that of her. Jaime then asks Brienne to marry him, but not before telling her that Jon plans on asking her to be the commander of his King’s guard, because he thinks she has a right to know before he asks anything of her. She tells him she wasn’t going to accept the offer anyway, cause she’s learned enough that that position is not what it seems, and that she had her dream come true with becoming a knight. Also, she’s still her father’s heir and that’s a duty she ignored for too long. He goes with his very own doofus way, cause he can’t be serious for a second, with something like “I’m afraid without you my line is ended.” But after she rolls her eyes at him he goes serious with all his bragging about him not being worthy of her, but that she’s the only one he would give himself to, and how he knows his lifetime will not be enough to come to deserve her but that he would do his best to at least try. She tells him she will accept it with one condition, which is for him to see himself the way she sees him, to stop saying he doesn’t deserve her, stop feeling sorry for himself and to keep being a good man he always was but never saw it. He promises that he will try. With that, another alliance of West and East is established.
- Sansa and Tyrion consider reviving their marriage, but decide that that wouldn’t be a wise idea in the end. They remain friends who respect one another.
- Sansa goes back to Winterfell and does her duty as Lady of Winterfell. Let’s go with headcanon that Quentyn and Arianne Martell exist in the show. So, Arienne claims Dorne as its heir and Sansa marries Quentyn, joining North and South and allowing house Stark to live on.
- Arya realizes she can’t go back home, cause she’s no longer what she used to be and being a faceless (wo)man took its toll on her. She takes a boat to an unknown direction, possibly back to Braavos.
- Gendry marries a woman form the Westerlands, making allies, who becomes his Lady Baratheon, even though she wasn’t who he wanted. He swears his lifelong loyalty to Jon and the throne and swears an oath of never using his Baratheon right to usurp it.
- Davos is willing to remain by Jon’s side, but Jon releases him from his duty and lets him go his own way, to return to his family.
- Jon and Jaime struggle in finding their small counsel, not knowing many people who will be loyal. Jon asks Edmure to be his Master of Coin, he accepts. Jaime suggests his only and loyal friend Addam Marbrand as Master of War. Jon asks Sam, after taking his position as Lord of Hornhill, to be his Master of Whisperers. He seeks one of his brothers of the Night’s Watch and makes them Lord Commander of the King’s Guard. As a sign of good faith and friendship with Dorne through Sansa, he names a Dornishman Master of Ships.
- Podrick is knighted by Brienne and goes to take her position as Sansa’s sworn sword.
- Bran demands to go beyond the Wall. Sansa is against it, but finally she accepts it.
- Jon is advised to marry Arianne Martell, but he doesn’t make a decision and stays alone.
- Jon asks Jaime what would he think if in the future he decided to name one of his and Brienne’s children his heir. Jaime tells him to piss off and that he would never allow it, as longs as he lives, that he’s had enough of his children dying because of that damn chair. Jon understands.
- Jaime tells him he doesn’t have to marry, that now when he’s king he can legitimize any bastard he fathers. But Jon doesn’t want to consider bastards.
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