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tyrion doodle

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rereading Tyrion’s sample twow chapter and back at it again with my Tyrion Will Ride Viserion trutherism

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people do not understand when i tell them that sometimes, asoiaf is a comedy

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One trend I've noticed a lot lately in the speculation of Tyrion meeting Daenerys is how he'll influence her. The argument often is that Tyrion will encourage her more "fire and blood" destructive tendencies when they get to Westeros. However, this view is often one-sided as it's always about how Tyrion will influence Daenerys but never about how Daenerys will influence Tyrion.

"Daenerys, I am thrice your age," Ser Jorah said. "I have seen how false men are. Very few are worthy of trust, and Daario Naharis is not one of them. Even his beard wears false colors." That angered her. "Whilst you have an honest beard, is that what you are telling me? You are the only man I should ever trust?" He stiffened. "I did not say that." "You say it every day. Pyat Pree's a liar, Xaro's a schemer, Belwas a braggart, Arstan an assassin . . . do you think I'm still some virgin girl, that I cannot hear the words behind the words?" "Your Grace—" She bulled over him. "You have been a better friend to me than any I have known, a better brother than Viserys ever was. You are the first of my Queensguard, the commander of my army, my most valued counselor, my good right hand. I honor and respect and cherish you—but I do not desire you, Jorah Mormont, and I am weary of your trying to push every other man in the world away from me, so I must needs rely on you and you alone. It will not serve, and it will not make me love you any better." -ASOS, Daenerys IV

Daenerys is not the sheltered child Aegon was who Tyrion could easily manipulate as shown when she called out Jorah for trying to isolate her from other men. Even Tyrion admitted to Aegon, having never met Daenerys that "she is strong" and "fierce." Daenerys was more worldly at 14 than Aegon is at 16. Even as a small, frightened girl at age 13 in the beginning of the series, she had more street smarts than her adult brother Viserys and has shown to be a prodigy in the series. Tyrion would not be able to manipulate her easily, especially since would initially be wary of him for being a Lannister.

Tyrion at the end of the day would be serving as her subordinate, him being largely dependent on her. Tyrion largely is the way he is because of the toxic family he grew up in. The Lannister vision has no idea of a Good Society, it's just pure self-aggrandizement by any means necessary. As the adage goes, rot always starts at the head. The monarchs Tyrion served as Hand, Joffrey and Cersei, were both cruel, incompetent tyrants with sense of entitlement that outweighed their actual abilities. They also had no concept of the duties of a monarch to their subjects, and instead just abused their power over others, including sexually. The one who actually ran the show for the Lannister regime, Tywin, was a cold, abusive Machiavellian who brutalized the smallfolk and his children, seeing them as pawns in his schemes. Tyrion could be cunning and brutal, because it was both encouraged and necessary for the winner-take-all, dog-eat-dog world of the Lannister court. It was an environment designed to bring out the darker side of his nature.

However, since the beginning we saw hints of the lighter side of his nature as he gave emotional support to Jon and designed a special saddle for Bran. He even helped Catelyn when they were attacked by the mountain clans even though she kidnapped him. In A Clash of Kings, we see hints of Tyrion wanting to be something other than the cold Machiavellian like his father when he stands up for Sansa when Joffrey beats her, and he has Morec killed and Slynt sent to the Wall for killing Barra, wanting to "do justice." In A Dance with Dragons, he risks his life to protect Aegon and even in his lowest he looks out for Penny even though she is a complete stranger to him.

Daenerys is a foil to Cersei, whose ruling philosophy is expressed in the statement "Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?" Daenerys tries to live up to the image of an ideal monarch who protects the weak. She liberates the oppressed from slavery and tries to protect them, even performing acts like tending to those afflicted with the bloody flux herself, marrying someone she doesn't want and putting her plan of going to Westeros on hold to achieve peace. Working as Hand to Queen Daenerys, Tyrion may find himself in a change of pace in a different environment where for once his more positive tendencies are encouraged with his fondness for "cripples, bastards and broken things."

In short, in cutting himself off from his toxic family, Tyrion may actually find a new beginning in service to Daenerys. He's the Machiavellian polymath and court politician she needs, and she's the competent monarch with idealism he needs.

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Tyrion being unjustly accused of being a murderer (Joanna / Bran / Joffrey) his entire life on account of his disability, taken to trial and judged for it, and then deciding, you know what? might as well is a character arc that never fails to make me cry.

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Thank you for Tyrion’s Seasons of Love Part 4: A Dream of Spring!

Thank you again for the wonderful response to the Tyrion’s Seasons of Love project. Under the cut, you will find a masterlist of all the fanworks created for the Spring Event. If you are posting late, remember to tag @tyrionsource so that your work will be sure to be reblogged added to the masterlist! There will be a final masterlist posted with fanworks spanning the entire project. So look out for that!

FIC

green as spring, with saltspray in her hair (Tyrion/Asha) by nonexistentwench @hell-heron

A Little Lion (Tyrion/Margaery) by actuallysango

Tysha Remembers (the seasons of her love) (Tyrion/Tysha) by @selkiewife

EDITS/GRAPHICS

Spring (Tyrion/Sansa) by @bellawedderburn

GIFSETS

Tyrion/Tysha and their Future Family by @selkiewife

Tyrion and Sansa’s daughter by @tyrionsource

Tyrion and Arya meta gifset by @the-key-five

The Sailor’s Wife by @selkiewife

META

Tyrion’s Arc following the Progression of The Seasons of My Love by @selkiewife

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Reading A Song of Ice and Fire and found my favorite line. I call it “Tyrion Lannister in one sentence”

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A Game of Thrones points of view characters (second version)

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Thank you for Tyrion's Seasons of Love!

A very quick thank you for Tyrion's Seasons of Love! It has been an epic journey and all of the beautiful fanwork and fan support for the project is immensely appreciated. There will be a Master List of all the fanworks created for the Spring Event as well as Master List of all the fanworks that were created for the entire event. So keep a look out for those posts soon. You can also, as always, post creations late, just remember to tag @tyrionsource so that your work will be reblogged!

Thank you! Thank you again!

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THERE ARE WORSE WAYS TO DIE THAN DROWNING. AND IF TRUTH BE TOLD, HE HAD PERISHED LONG AGO, BACK IN KING’S LANDING. IT WAS ONLY HIS REVENANT WHO REMAINED… ~ A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, TYRION V

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Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire Relationship: Tyrion Lannister/Tysha Summary: Tysha Lannister remembers the seasons of her love. This fic will follow Tysha's POV from the aftermath of her brutal rape to her journey to Braavos where she becomes known as the Sailor's Wife. Please heed the warnings as there will be a lot of triggering subject matter. However, I promise a happy ending. (It is the reason I began writing this.)

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Tyrion’s Seasons of Love ❀ Tyrion and Arya

In the original outline, Tyrion was supposed to fall in love with Arya. Obviously that didn’t end up happening in the published series. However, Arya does have links to each of Tyrion’s love interests. Arya’s sister Sansa is forced to marry Tyrion in A Storm of Swords. She is close with the Sailor’s Wife (theorized to be Tyrion’s first wife Tysha) when she is Cat of the Canals. And in the Mercy chapter of The Winds of Winter Arya plays a version of Shae in The Bloody Hand.

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—Suzanne Collins

tyrion’s seasons of love: spring

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Tyrion's Seasons of Love

I’ve been wondering if Tyrion’s arc in the novels can be seen as following the progression of the song that Tysha used to sing to him, The Seasons of My Love.

I loved a maid as fair as summer with sunlight in her hair I loved a maid as red as autumn with sunset in her hair I loved a maid as white as winter with moonglow in her hair

The song begins in the summer and summer is also where we first meet Tyrion. In the summer section of the novels, Tyrion is facing the outcome of his spring dreams being crushed- his past naïveté and hopefulness is examined under the harsh light of day. Because of Tywin's brutal abuse, Tyrion believes that the only way he can have love or friendship is through purchasing it with gold, as he does with Shae and Bronn. He also no longer dreams of dragons, as he tells Jon on the way to the wall. Yet it is still summer, and he is still somewhat optimistic in spite of himself. There is warmth in his relationship with Bronn and he falls in love with Shae in spite of himself. He also believes he is coming into his own as Hand of the King, using his unique talents to accomplish great things for his family.

Then the sun sets dramatically and Tyrion finds himself in a dark place. He is abandoned after the battle of the Blackwater and all his contributions to save the city are forgotten or attributed to others. He loses his nose and his position as Hand of the King. He survives an assassination attempt by Cersei, is forced to marry Sansa Stark, and finally is put on trial for a murder he did not commit. During the trial, Shae betrays and humiliates him (though she didn't really have a choice) and his father was ready to either execute him or exile him to the wall. Though his brother Jaime helps him escape, he also reveals the truth about Tysha.

After all he has recently been through coupled with a lifetime of abuse and trauma and Jaime's revelation, Tyrion murders both Tywin and Shae. Later, after escaping, he buys a sexual slave in Volantis called the Sunset Girl. She is called the Sunset Girl because she is believed to be from “The Sunset Kingdom,” (Westeros) though as it turns out she does not speak the common tongue. She also could be called the “Sunset Girl” because of her curly red hair. The Sunset Girl is very aptly named because she is a symbolic culmination of the sunset portion of Tyrion's arc. Tyrion knows that she is a sex slave and cannot refuse him, but he buys her anyway. It is deeply, deeply disturbing. He has tragically become "the monster" everyone thought he was. He is a rapist. He is a murderer. He is a villain. The end.

Except if Tyrion’s arc is following the song, it is not the end. It is only autumn. It is only sunset. It is only half way through the song.

Winter is still coming for Tyrion and for all the characters. And, there is still the possibility of "a dream of spring" for Tyrion. GRRM doesn't write easy characters and he doesn't write easy wins. He complicates the catharsis of Tyrion killing his lifelong abuser, Tywin, with the murder of Shae and the rape of the Sunset Girl. It is through these acts that the Tyrion we knew, who once defended and protected sex workers and who refused to rape Sansa (as his father instructed him to do) symbolically dies. As he says himself:

There are worse ways to die than drowning. And if truth be told, he had perished long ago, back in King’s Landing. It was only his revenant who remained, the small vengeful ghost who throttled Shae and put a crossbow bolt through the great Lord Tywin’s bowels. No man would mourn the thing that he’d become. (ADWD, Tyrion V)

But, the dead are rising in these novels. Tyrion is rising out of his own long night already the way he cares for and protects Penny, which is reminiscent of Theon Greyjoy's protection of Jeyne Poole. There’s evidence that he will also join forces with Daenerys and her crusade to end slavery. He will see the dragons that he use to dream about as a boy. The spring verse of The Seasons of My Love has not been revealed in the novels. Can this be seen as hopeful? Unlike a straight tragedy, Tyrion's future is not yet written. Just like Jaime's page in the white book: He could write whatever he chose, henceforth. (ASOS, Jaime IX.)

Tyrion's arc mirroring The Seasons of My Love song makes sense, because in spite of the tragedy of his life and the bitterness of his story, he may yet claw his way toward a hopeful ending. After all:

He had been born in the dead of winter, a terrible cruel one that the maesters said had lasted near three years, but Tyrion's earliest memories were of spring. (AGOT, Tyrion III)

The spring verse is likely the first verse of the song. Yet, it's reveal will be the last, ending the books with a beginning.

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A Little Lion

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Relationship: Tyrion Lannister/Margaery Tyrell Summary: Margaery is married to Tyrion. She gives him a lion instead of kittens. This sweet and delightful fic explores a potential political match between Tyrion Lannister and Margaery Tyrell when true romantic feelings between the two begin to blossom. A Little Lion (you will need to be signed in to read)