What is your response to the idea that "Jaime in A Feast For Crows is deflecting all responsibility by blaming his failings on Cersei"?
that ppl should read the books bc then they will see that he is not doing that :) like jaime trying to hold his own trial by regularly having Ilyn Payne beating him w a sword is not about Jaime blaming Cersei lol. Jaime saying that he almost did the worst thing he ever might have done (maim or kill Arya) just because Cersei told him to in the throes of passion is not Jaime blaming Cersei. it’s ’the things I do for love’ not ‘the things you make me do for your love’
I do find it generally ridiculous that so many ppl’s takeaway from Jaime’s chapters is that he’s a man avoiding accountability when imo it’s clear that he almost craves it lmao. that’s why he denies literally nothing when Cat demands the truth of what he did to Bran, and that’s why he confesses absolutely everything to Ilyn Payne besides. he is always sat there looking at his best deeds in one hand and his worst in the other and wondering if it’s even possible they could be balanced and coming up w nothing and almost demanding ppl like Ilyn Payne and the blackfish just put him out of his fucking misery lol. when he wonders how he became the smiling knight, it is because he knows he is responsible for the man he became. there’s no helping the fact that some ppl will blame Cersei, but the point is that Jaime does not
