How do you feel about the idea that Cersei's valonqar has to be Jaime? People say it can't be any little brother, it has to be one of her brothers or else the story doesn't make sense. I mean, obviously it would be dumb if she were killed off by a rando. Personally, my ideal ending is for Lady Melara Stoneheart to come back and eat her alive.
lady melara stoneheart would be great, but in all seriousness, jaime is not valonqaring anyone least of all c. because:
he's the audience red herring same as tyrion is c's red herring, like the text being OH HE WAS ACTUALLY TWO SECONDS YOUNGER is there to make you go like OH but it's grrm trolling just the fact that he's telling you like that means it's not going to happen, he never actually does that straight when it comes to prophecies (AA anyone?)
jaime is in the riverlands, he burned her letter, he's with brienne most likely watching her kill cat bc she can't kill him and they're going on the quiet isle and getting sandor and finding sansa, and I have to presume he has time to go back to KL? yeah no
there is no jaime equivalent in the og dance of dragons but there's the c. equivalent
jaime killing c. makes no sense bc it would just give him extra trauma tied to her and the entire sl he has is that he has to get away from her and his life isn't 100% tied to hers anymore so if he goes back and kills her and like..... re-traumatizes himself it means what in the great scale of things? sorry but I don't agree
also c. thinks they're going to die together in a murder-suicide which would still mean that half of what she thinks would be true and spoilers the entire point of c's chapters is that she's wrong just about everything so that's not happening period
also I already said it in that prev. post but: the prophecy literally says that the valonqar chokes her to death which like......... jaime has one good hand and a gold one so first thing he can't choke her with just one and if he used the golden one he'd basically cut her throat or crush it under the weight which is not choking but on top of that again
choking is an extremely personal way of killing someone bc like you have to watch them die slowly and keep your hands there while they do and you have to not falter and you have to be strong enough to not let them get away, and like........... with all their history for good or bad I have to think that if jaime killed c. - if he did - he wouldn't just like stab her and give her a clean death? when he's favored giving anyone he's killed a clean death anyway? jaime choking c. makes literally no sense both physically (because he doesn't have two hands) nor psychologically for how jaime's character is structured, so like.... I feel like it would be wildly ooc if he even managed to choke her in the first place
also again, I went through the prophecy fifteen times and it says THE valonqar, not YOUR valonqar, and why wouldn't she specify that and just say the? there isn't just one little brother in all of westeros which means that it can be anyone's and being someone who has reasons to kill her but is not related to her makes absolutely story-sense because she wouldn't expect it, we wouldn't expect it and again to quote the one dude who's certainly not the valonqar bc c. thinks he is,
Prophecy is like a half-trained mule. It looks as though it might be useful, but the moment you trust in it, it kicks you in the head.
you can't trust any of that shit to not be random and again... like guys how does jon's death fulfill the AA prophecy? the salt is the tears, the smoke is because jon's wounds smoke when bowen marsh cries on them, the bleeding star is a sigil on heraldry above them when he dies like... the og is when the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers he shall be born again amidst smoke and salt, would anyone presume that any of that is related to a smoking wound and a flag? no, and it's absolutely random, but that's what's basically sealing that jon is AA, so that the valonqar might someone not related to c. and that yamb is not actually a woman imvho are absolutely plausible within the story
also 'it makes no sense if it's not a relative killing her' imvho is not an argument that holds water because c. has hurt directly or indirectly about 70% of the main chars in these books, tyrion already has one kinslaying under his belt and honestly he did good and he should have had and good riddance to tywin but he's not going to get another and again making jaime kill her means just giving him trauma when half of his sl is about how he gets over her, so...
tldr I think there's extremely little chance of j. being the valonqar and personally I exclude it 100% because it makes no sense for his arc and it makes no sense for the actual plot anyway bc he can't physically get there in time and his sl is headed somewhere else geographically, I categorically exclude it's tyrion and I think it's going to be someone's younger brother who has good reason to kill her like not A RANDO but someone who has in-text reasons to
