Aquarius, 20-something. Just a fucked up girl looking for her own piece of mind. I live my life between one dream world and another, but my heart belongs to Avatar: the Last Airbender. Zutara forever.
you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy
We are in 2024 and I still see (stupid) people claiming that Braime shouldn't have happened because it was "awkward" and they use as argument Jaime saying to Brienne "It's bloody hot in here" making memes of how Jaime looks like a stupid teenager at the first crush and how his flirting sucks.
But the thing is that.. his flirting IS SUPPOSED to sucks. Jaime Lannister is a 40+ years old man who has been all his life in an abusive and incestual relationship with his sister who manipulated him since they were kids and used sex to have something from him in return and because of that he never slept with another woman because he never felt attraction for another woman.. until now. Brienne is the first woman he sexually and romantically desired outside his sister so IT'S HIS FIRST TIME TRYING TO SEDUCE A WOMAN.
Just look at him. The awkward smile, the eyes constantly moving. HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING. HE IS SO NERVOUS HE CAN'T EVEN UNDRESS HIMSELF.
And Brienne is as awkward as him. She is a virgin who has been mocked because of her appearance since ever, she wasn't estethically attractive and she knew. She never knew what it meant being courted or desired because she thought this day for her wouldn't come. So after Jaime patethic way of flirting she initially doesn't understand what the fuck is going on and gets confused, until she realized what is happening and all you can see is her completely disbelief.
The scene is supposed to be awkward because Jaime and Brienne are feeling awkward. Because it's their first time. Because they are getting vulnerable to someone who they disliked at first, but that now they love. Because they are living something that they never thought it would happen to them.
Just another prove of how Nikolaj Coster Waldau and Gwendoline Christie always understood their characters. While these people never did.
BONUS Jaime's face when he realized it's finally happening MY GOD I CAN'T WITH THESE TWO-
“blue is a good color on you, my lady,” jaime observed. “it goes well with your eyes.” she does have astonishing eyes. brienne glanced down at herself, flustered.
where against all odds Lu Da manages to escape his life of crime, settles down (much as a sea-loving pirate can) with Rinna, only for her to fall ill and die a few years later in a cruel twist of fate.
Just three days after her passing, neck-deep in grief, he's on his way to get sustenance when some punk thug and his cronies try to bully him into selling his crossbow (a one-of-a-kind piece of craftsmanship, worth many times its weight). When Lu Da refuses, they track him down in the night, beat him bloody, and kill his beloved dog Lady Luck, just to steal the damn weapon (and for petty revenge).
Problem is, this thug has no idea what he just did, or who he did it to, or that this man is clean out of fucks. But his father does. A big, bad dude Lu Da used to work with, who's very familiar with how Lu Da got his name and reputation, as well as the reason he escaped and settled down.
He recognizes the crossbow. His son is an idiot. And he knows Lu Da is coming.
Reimagining that scene, pirate king injured and finally captured, and Big Bad feeling very smug:
Lu Da, bloody and seething: "Give me your son."
Bad Dude, sighing: "Lu Da..." *mockingly* "Dirty Hands. It was just a fucking crossbow! Just a fucking dog!"
"Just a dog..."
"...Yeah."
"When Rinna died I lost everything. That dog was my only semblance of hope, a chance to grieve unalone. And your son took that from me—"
"Oh, come on."
"Stole that from! KILLED THAT FROM ME! People keep asking if I'm back, and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back! So you can either hand over your son, or you can die screaming alongside him!"
Commence de-redemption (re-corruption?) arc, and a frothing, feral Dirty Hands coming out of "retirement" to deliver the reckoning of his career.