cerseiandjaime:Jaime Lannister losing a hand, the very thing he defined himself on, is crucial to wh
cerseiandjaime:Jaime Lannister losing a hand, the very thing he defined himself on, is crucial to where I want to go with the character. He questions: ‘What you make of yourself after you’ve lost that?’ And now I have Tyrion going through similar things. He has always focused on the things he did not have, like his father’s respect or admiration, or women didn’t look at him the way he liked them to look at him. But in the aftermath of the events of the recent books, he’s now realizing the things that he did have, that he has now lost: the Lannister name, gold that could allow him to buy and sell everything. He has been reduced to the most primal, difficult situation where has nothing but the clothes on his back and even those don’t belong to him. And the Walk of Atonement: it was a punishment directed at women to break their pride - Cersei is defined by it. When you take that away from a queen like Cersei, who has only been seen by her subjects as this incredibly beautiful woman attended by maids and protected by knights… it’s a way to strip her all of the power. Indeed, she goes out defiant, but she’s broken and damaged by the end of it.- George R. R. Martin on Jaime, Tyrion and Cersei -- source link