ginmo:

ginmo: myrandaroyce: ginmo: “If you think anyone but [Insert Queen, most commonly Dany] is the YMB then you’re delusional” is something I have seen quite frequently, so I’ve been inspired to explain why that’s uh…well, complete bullshit. To be delusional, you need to be spewing garbage without any reason or support and lack any sense of reality. But… there is plenty of evidence and reasoning, based in reality, to simply entertain a theory that isn’t [Insert Easy Choice].

Let me state that I’m not saying with total confidence that Brienne is YMB. I am not saying she is or is not. My claim is that Brienne is a perfectly logical candidate, and that being completely sold on a traditional choice, to the point where you’re publicly making asshole cocky comments about it, is risky af. I’m tired of people shutting down any discussion of it. This is GRRM. This isn’t supposed to be easy (he literally said this, as shown below). There should be multiple interpretations to this prophecy. People who think it’s Brienne or Sansa or Marg or whoever may be wrong, or people who think it’s Daenerys may be wrong. Or maybe this is supposed to be ambiguous and we’ll never get a definitive answer. Maybe it’s multiple people. It all depends on what angle GRRM is going with. He could be going very literal and traditional with this, sure. Or, he could be going a more poetic route, which is also a style of his writing. Obviously by this post, I prefer the latter, but I see different angles. I’m not going to pretend I’m psychic by claiming I’m right and you’re wrong, and I’m not going misuse the word delusional. If you come after me later with, “LOL I TOLD YOU SO” I’m just going to say you missed the entire point of my post and my point is still 100% valid. SO. Here is why you all have NO RIGHT to a) be so damn confident in your traditional choices and b) put down others for entertaining Brienne. Hang on tight. This is long as fuck. First, you need to promise me you’ll do two things.

My two rules:

Consider authorial intent when thinking about meaning and trajectory and

Step outside the bubble and look at this story from a professional angle. A good narrative written by a professional author has structure and purpose. Before I properly dive into this, let’s see what GRRM has to say about prophecies: Keep reading I’ll just add this here. She’ll cast her down by killing her champion: okay reblogging for the addition, because I’ve never heard this before. wait hold up He would not use the Maid against a mortal man, for she was so potent as to make any fight unfair. - BRIENNE, AFFC And shortly down the page Against a foe eight feet tall mounted on an aurochs, he might well have unsheathed the Just Maid. >.> <.<

Nice catch. I wanted to make an entire post with all potential foreshadowing for this theory, but I feel like I’ll need another re-read for that.

Instead I’ll focus on what I remember and what could lead to this duel.

“Where do you see Jaime and Cersei headed?”



GRRM: “Well, as for the books, I have two more to write. I’m certainly going to be dealing with Jaime. Jaime and Cersei’s relationship is in a very different place in the books than the show has reached now. They are effectively estranged now.”



Notice how he focused on Jaime in his response. Not only that, but he accidentally spoiled outcome of Jaime’s meeting with Stoneheart. l don’t know how much she could be involved in his twow storyline, but I think it’s safe to say she’ll be a big part of it and turning point in his storyline.

By the end of ADWD Jaime is missing for a whole month if not more. He’s clearly not dead. So I’ll focus on his last thoughts about Tommen:

“My place is with my king. With my son. Would Tommen want to know that? The truth could cost the boy his throne. Would you sooner have a father or a chair, lad? Jaime wished he knew the answer.”



Jaime even suggests he doesn’t want to kill Cersei. (rolling my eyes at the readers who think he would) He doesn’t want his son to hate him, but he’s trying to think of another way to put her aside (hmm cast her down???)

“He would need to find some way to winkle Tommen from her clutches before the boy became another Joffrey. And whilst at that, he should find the lad a new small council too. If Cersei can be put aside, Ser Kevan may agree to serve as Tommen’s Hand.”



Now why am I bringing this up? GRRM said some characters that died in the show will survive the series. Maggy never said that Cersei’s children have to die before her. Maybe they will die later in the series, maybe they will die of old age. In Jaime’s prophetic dream, there’s no mention of them. Cersei dies and joins dead Tywin and Joffrey. If Tommen and Myrcella were dead at this point I feel like they’d appear in the dream.

So before Jaime goes off with Brienne, he realizes that his place is with his king and son, that he must put Cersei aside and select a new hand. Here is one interesting quote. Tommen’s current hand is Mace Tyrell and his next hand could be Jaime which means he could replace Cersei as a ruler for little Tommen:

“And the king is just a boy,” said the oldest of the four septas. “Who is to rule us until he comes of age?” “Lord Tywin’s brother,” said a guardsman. “Or that Lord Tyrell, might be. Or the Kingslayer”



YMB coming and taking everything away from her could include her children as well. Or at least Tommen. And without him she can’t rule. So it makes complete sense if she’s connected to Jaime. Why do you think GRRM would give Jaime love interest that is much younger in the first place?

Ok, now back to Brienne. Here are some interesting parallels between her and Sandor. I’ll mention the most suggestive ones:

- Jaime jokes that Brienne is “the Hound with teats, except she has no teats”.

- Sandor is about 29. Brienne is about 19, but when last seen by Jaime, he remarks that she seems to have aged 10 years.

- Brienne’s eyes are blue, which would appear grey in dim light. Sandor’s eyes, when seen by Sansa by torchlight, when he was drunk and angry, appeared grey.

I don’t even know how many times Qyburn and Cersei claimed that Robert Strong cannot be defeated by a living man. Way too many imo and they seem to be pretty confident. Well we all know how things go down for Cersei. lol

Bran’s vision is pretty telling and links The Hound to Jaime. Will he try to defeat Cersei’s champion and Brienne will join him or will it be the other way around? I kinda like the idea that the whole bear pit could actually repeat and Jaime would jump in to help in front of Cersei and the whole King’s Landing. 🥰 We know that Robert Strong has no head and I believe Brienne will be the one who will knock his visor to reveal the world that Cersei’s champion is not a human and I assume this could get her in trouble and lead to end of her reign:

“He looked south, and saw the great blue-green rush of the Trident. He saw his father pleading with the king, his face etched with grief. He saw Sansa crying herself to sleep at night, and he saw Arya watching in silence and holding her secrets hard in her heart. There were shadows all around them. One shadow was dark as ash with the terrible face of a hound. Another was armored like the sun, golden and beautiful. Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood.“

Anyway The Hound’s helm is currently in possession of Brotherhood Without Banners and I believe Goldenhand the Just will become their new leader.

If anyone finds some other interesting references, feel free to add. :)