#the sharpness of dawn causing jaime to bleed while him being knighted is such an iconic scene imo

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"All knights must bleed, Jaime."

All knights must bleed, Jaime," Ser Arthur Dayne had said, when he saw. "Blood is the seal of our devotion." With dawn he tapped him on the shoulder; the pale blade was so sharp that even that light touch cut through Jaime's tunic, so he bled anew. He never felt it. A boy knelt; a knight rose. The Young Lion, not the Kingslayer.

But that was long ago, and the boy was dead.

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.