#so its gonna take a damn lot from germ for me to find it satisfying lol

[ilynpilled]

sorry, i know you said you already said why but i cannot really find it, but why do you dislike jc double death?

this is gonna be short and fast sorry and also ig why i personally think it is not all that likely

1. jc delusion narratives are being deconstructed by the books. them dying together, as much as there is functional irony considering they cause each other’s death in some way (more directly or not lol), still cements aspects of it which works less well in my eyes. not moved by “womb to tomb” personally, even if it is just a huge tragedy for jaime. it feels very telegraphed and on the nose to the point that ppl do view it as a certainty which i find interesting lol bc ig idk if gurm likes to do this like that, even if i consider it as “things the characters r certain of come to be not as they expected”

2. do not like its impact on jaime’s individuation arc. not even redemption (again. ppl’s lives have meaning not their deaths. view a character holistically) whatever who cares wise but more-so ‘jaime is his own individual with an identity that is cemented as separate from his sister obviously now that he is out of his limbo state’. what is the point of making jaime diverge and confront and take apart this delusion? like the irony doesnt serve his character like it would cers (she believes this still, she wants this still, it happening w him killing her works w her) id be more fine w it happening if jaime continued to be absurdly darkly obsessed instead of what i saw happen in the text now. again idk what his character is getting out of this irony atm tbh, other than “it doesnt matter that u confronted that she was the stranger all this time and made a key choice to diverge. it doesnt matter that as cersei wrote the letter thinking its okay if he cant really fight rn we will then simply leave the world as we came into it and we see jaime diverging here, u can still never escape it in the end” which just straight up feels kinda ass to me w jaime’s “whatever he chose” thesis

3. asos dream has cersei leave with the dead lans (tywin and joff and they go to the ancestors) with her flame before jaime who remains there w brienne w his own flaming sword. he is left in the dark with something terrifying and then gets his trauma packaged in long night imagery. jaime’s light going out sure but cersei says ‘as long as the flames burn ull live’ and brienne’s flame is giving light, and she essentially replaces the torch that cers was holding: ‘the only light in the cavern the only light in the world’. ofc all this is up to interpretation i just think there is deliberate open endedness

3. widow’s wail is in kl rn (plethora of shit there indicating that he will be the one to wield it lol. i mean who else? this is smn the show also confirms ig. he is gonna have to get that damn sword in his hand somehow) is he gonna go back and forth? how long is cers gonna live?

4. this is just a funny and silly issue bc i truly dgaf atp but like how is it gonna happen exactly? cersei stabs him at the same time? (silly to me. also not the point of valonqar imo from cersei’s angle esp) a rock falls on him after? he gets dragon fire nuked right after? he gets a heart attack at the same time? he kills himself? (alright this one is funny and kinda sexy)

5. it could cut things short and make a lot of things/interactions i wanna see happen and imo been set up to happen not possible