#there’s something very anime about jaime slipping into the wise (debatable) mentor role which appeals to me

[bidonica]

💖 for any asoiaf pair??

I was rotating ships in my head but you know what let's talk about JB. This is a headcanon that has been brewing for a long time at the back of my mind but only recently consolidated in a clear mental image like... you know how my ideal happy ending for JB is that they ride into the sunset to be traveling knights together, righting wrongs and enjoying freedom, BUT even in this rose tinted scenario I can't bring myself to believe Jaime will ever recover his fighting ability with his non dominant hand. He can probably get to "competent" or even "good", but I have trouble imagining him just transferring a lifetime of training and muscle memory from one side of the body to the other 1:1. So what he actually does is he becomes Brienne's coach (her master at arms if we want to use an in-world term and tbh I can see this happen to an extent even within the book's timeline) and he THRIVES. Even picks up Pod for his class he finds so much purpose in this shit. Meanwhile Brienne ups her already considerable game to unprecedented levels of knightly prowess because think of how good she was even with just Ser Goodwin's guidance and like... mad respect to Goodwin because he was obviously a very good teacher who was able to adapt his insights to Brienne's unique situation rather than expecting her to fit into some prepackaged notion of knightly training, but imagine Jaime who knows Brienne very well as a fighter *and* as a person PLUS he has objectively some of the best expertise in the realm. I don't know this is my happy fanon place now don't wake me up.

Bonus Larycent headcanon (actually pretty popular among the intellectual sickos who ship it but maybe not with the general populace) is that eventually Larys will sacrifice himself for Alicent's sake, taking the fall for Aegon's poisoning which she actually came up with as a sort of mercy killing and a way to end the war. Because in his twisted, nuclear waste levels of toxic way... he loved her.