#jaime x brienne

[motorway-south]

any braime endgame theory where they end up married as lord and lady of tarth/casterly rock kindddaaaa misses the mark for me like i get it its very nice but i think part of whats fun about them is how they play with and constantly switch traditional societal roles. he's a man, she's a man, she's a maiden, he's a maiden, she's beauty and he's beast or she's beast and he's beauty. she brings him back to kings landing, and she brings him to stoneheart. he saves her from the bloody mummers but has her arrested in the red keep. and this kaleidoscope of perspectives allows each of them to see each other more holistically as people than as a specific role (which is why using each others first names rather than titles is significant) but for them to become lord and lady, husband and wife, diminishes the power of not only their genderfuckyness but also what made their relationship such a standout part of the books

[ilynpilled]

[chickren]

Which in-universe character do you think have an idea about Jaime’s feelings towards Brienne? It’s a bit interesting that this hasn’t come up yet in the books, given how quickly the threesome rumor and Jaime Catelyn and Brienne is circulating in-universe haha. I think Qyburn definitely suspects since he referred to Brienne as “your Maid of Tarth” to Jaime. Red Ronnet probably suspects something after the punch. I sort of wondered if Loras had any suspicion given how much Jaime spoke in defense of Brienne. Anyone else you could think of, and do you think this rumor would show up in the books?

We don’t talk a lot about how far spread Brienne and Jaime’s story is in-universe, but we should, so I’m gonna hijack this ask for a sec and do that.

These dummies are already legendary before we get to the good stuff. Obviously, kingslayer Jaime is (in)famous already—not going to go into the depth and breadth of his fame. But Renly(king)slayer Brienne is pretty infamous herself by Storm. The Renly story is apparently one of the first things Cleos tells Jaime about her. Then Loras very publicly confronts Brienne in King’s Landing about Renly’s death, so Jaime has her arrested (ostensibly on a murder charge.) This is before we get to Feast and find out even hedge knights have heard of Brienne’s supposed Renlyslaying.

More interesting than their individual infamy, however, is Jaime and Brienne’s new joint lore. Roose implies Brienne is even more infamous as a traitor to a second king for being part of the plot to free Jaime. We also get wind in Storm that the threesome rumors have spread far and wide in the Riverlands. But it is not until we get to Feast that we realize that the Bear Pit™ incident has also gone viral. Red Ronnet knows about the bear pit, and while at Harrenhal goes to see the pit itself specifically because of what he’s heard about the story. Then, of course, there is the fact that Jaime is believed to have simply run off somewhere with Brienne—which is an absolutely salacious final detail.

Considering the quasi-medieval world of ASoIaF and the amount of pretty important earth-shattering news about Westeros falling apart around their ears, it’s sort of hilarious that people find time to gossip enough about Jaime and Brienne’s story that word of it has traveled so far so fast.

But back to your question, as I feel you imply, it wouldn’t be difficult for people to believe Brienne fell in love with Jaime, but who might be in a position to suspect Jaime’s feelings for her?

It’s clear that the bear pit story is not enough to make people think Jaime has feelings for Brienne. Otherwise, Ronnet wouldn’t have been dumb enough to run his mouth in front of Jaime. However, one must wonder if people generally have started to suspect he has feelings after he leaves Pennytree with her in Dance. He saves her, then runs off with her? Sounds romantic.

Qyburn, as you mentioned, has spent time around the two of them. It’s possible he picked up a vibe. Beyond that, he’s witness to Jaime’s mini-freakout after he finds out what Vargo intends to do with Brienne, then he’s witness to his massive freakout after the weirwoood dream. However, Qyburn also spent the whole journey from Harrenhal to King’s Landing with them, and to hear Jaime tell it, he and Brienne were not at the top of their relationship game during this portion of their trip. So that might cool any suspicions Qyburn has about them. The only thing that could strongly counteract that is the fact that Qyburn knows Cersei sent the old “I love you” x3 letter to Jaime, which Jaime then ignored in favor of running off with Brienne.

Ronnet? I mean. If someone else had seen all that, they’d understand Jaime has serious feelings for her. But Ronnet’s emotional intelligence seems low. Obviously, he knows Jaime feels some sort of attachment to Brienne. I would question if he understands it’s romantic.

Loras is a self-centered heartbroken teenage superstar who is either embroiled in some elaborate conspiracy pretending to be injured at Dragonstone, or was actually gravely injured at Dragonstone, and his beloved sister has just been arrested for a capital offense. Even if he marginally had a whiff of suspicion about Jaime and Brienne, he’s not making room in his mind to contemplate anyone else’s love life. So no, I don’t think Loras knows.

If there’s a wildcard person who could possibly be in a position to have heard something incriminating from Jaime himself, I’d say it would be Ilyn Payne. Chatterbox Jaime’s been using the guy like a confessional box, so it’s within the realm of feasibility that George could create a scene in Winds where Ilyn Payne raises his eyebrows at the mention of Brienne in a way that would indicate to readers that he knows something. I think it’s unlikely, but it is floating in the ether of technical possibility. (Or lol, it might get a mention in the event of an Ilyn prologue pov.)

So, to answer your question, from the precise moment where we leave them in Dance, I don’t think there is a single person who could definitively raise their hand and go, “Oh, btw? Jaime’s in love with that lady.” This is likely to change fast in Winds, especially if someone like Hyle is witness to their interactions.

The circumstantial evidence for their relationship by the end of Dance, though? lmao. Damning. The blind items? Flying. The top comment: he’s hitting that.

tl;dr - Between the rampant threesome rumors, the viral bear pit story, and the tale of Jaime running off with Brienne, the general public is probably more suspicious of Jaime’s feelings for Brienne than the man himself.

[vitaminkenjoyer]

jaime's descriptions of brienne throughout asos

[almostaknight]

jaime really made tommen sign brienne‘s get-out-of-jail-free card

[inejstanaccount]

Do you ever think about how people judged and were cruel to Brienne her whole life and the most the people most important to Brienne (Renly, Catelyn, etc) did for her was let her pledge her service to them. And then Jaime comes along and looses a hand while trying to protect her and then jumps in a bear pit for her and then gives her a gift so priceless that the richest house in the country could not afford one, so priceless that I cannot even think of a modern comparison.

[irlplasticlamb]

loyal past the point of sense.

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[tenthmuseondine]

“Give me the sword, Kingslayer.”

“Oh, I will.”

[theaisyapping]

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[bidonicart]

what if we make our matching magic swords kiss this Valentine's Day

(insp)

[captainelliecomb]

#listen. LISTEN. red rohanne would write the trashiest raunchiest bodice rippers

would bodice ripper author jaime lannister write she sighed boobily

[everythingsdestiel]

Thinking about the bear pit from Brienne’s POV and going a little crazy.

Like this guy who you never liked (the Kingslayer, the man who has twisted Knighthood and made it a joke) he saves you from being raped, loses his hand, and confesses to you the truth about why he killed the mad king.

And then he leaves.

He leaves you to go home and you’re stuck with the same horrible men who maimed this guy that has began to weasel his way into your psyche. But it’s fine because he’s gone now and you don’t have to deal with it.

And then he just freaking falls out of the sky and saves you from the bear. A knight saving the damsel. (And for once him the knight and you the damsel.) And when you ask him why he came all the way back just to save you he says, “I dreamed of you.”

Insane.

[melrosing]

Brienne spending most of asos w Jaime sobbing on the back of the horse shaved bald and covered in shit and next book she’s imagining their wedding. ppl like ‘she could do better’ she doesn’t want better she wants That

[vitaminkenjoyer]

the frequency of jaime referring to brienne as wench (and other names) from from their first meeting to the bear pit rescue

[almostaknight]

jaime: here’s a horse for you as homely as you are

the horse:

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