#idk I think this take maybe stems from how the show frames Jaime’s bath confession

[melrosing]

wild to me when ppl claim that Jaime killed Aerys for the sake of TYWIN like. he does not care about that man. when Genna was like ‘sorry for ur loss’ he thought she meant his hand. if Aerys had threatened Tywin alone, instead of a whole city…. i’m gonna be real i don’t know if it would’ve been enough to drive Jaime over that edge. he could well have let it happen. so whilst I think the ‘he did it for Tywin’ take already demonstrates a general bad faith approach to the Kingslaying thing, it’s also just…. idk such a fundamental misunderstanding of the whole Jaime/Tywin relationship, and Jaime’s broader relationship w his house. bc Jaime is so extremely emotionally divorced from his father, in a way Cersei and Tyrion never have been. they are obsessed with his approval, with his world view, with his legacy, and Jaime cannot make himself care. i think the interesting thing is that w the Lann siblings, you’ve got Cersei destroying their house from the inside, Tyrion coming back to destroy it from the outside, but Jaime literally just abandons the whole business. and this has always been Jaime’s story. he is much more interested in the world beyond House Lannister, whilst his siblings are paralysed by their obsession w it.