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Name:Corri
Age: 32
AIM/Plurk/Dreamwidth/Email: My dw account iscorrielle.
What characters do you already play here, if any? None.
How did you hear about the game? Kia.
[IC Information]
Character Name: Jaime Lannister
Series: A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Species: Human
Appearance: Jaime is on the tall side for a human man. He has the body of swordsman, but he's not terribly bulky. He has green eyes, golden hair, and a short, well-trimmed beard that's starting to show a bit of grey. Jaime is also missing his right hand. His right arm ends in a stump just above the wrist.
Personality: Jaime is, at heart, a deeply disappointed idealist. When he was younger, he idolized the famous knights in his world and wanted to be like them. He also believed in things like honor and chivalry and the strong protecting the weak. Since his knighting, he's been witness to some pretty horrific things, none of which he was able to stop because the very king he'd sworn to protect was the one doing the horrible things (like burning people alive and abusing the queen). Jaime protected himself psychologically by "going away inside" while all of this was going on and thinking of something that made him happy, usually his twin sister Cersei, to cope with the horror.
Jaime has a complicated relationship with honor and how other people perceive him. On the one hand, he's grown up thinking that he is better than everyone else by virtue of being a Lannister. (House Lannister’s sigil is a gold lion on a red field, and one of Jaime’s father's favorite things to say is "The Lion does not concern itself with the opinions of sheep".) On the other hand, Jaime is keenly aware of the fact that everyone calls him "Kingslayer" behind his back, and he hates it. He also resents that he has, because of said Kingslaying, "shit for honor." On top of all of this, Jaime tries very hard to pretend like he couldn't care less about honor or what people think of him. But he does, and recent events in his canon have made him determined to make fewer oaths, and actually keep the ones he makes.
The disconnect between Jaime's society's conceptions of honor and chivalry and the harsh realities he's had to face has made Jaime quite jaded, and he presents a flippant, sarcastic face to the world. He is a son who failed to live up to his father's expectations, and he knows it. He likes to talk, and he has a dark sense of humor and something of a temper when provoked. He likes to pick apart others' conceptions of how the world works (especially if he finds that conception to be naive). However, he is also deeply loyal to his family and the few friends he has.
Abilities: Before Jaime lost his hand, he was an excellent swordsman. He is trying to re-learn the sword with his left hand, but he's mediocre at best. He's still a decent horseman, though. Jaime has also had training in medieval military tactics, and he's proved himself to be an able military commander.
Items: The clothes he fell asleep in, a somewhat tattered cloak, and a pair of decent boots.
History: Jaime Lannister is the oldest son of Tywin Lannister, one of the richest and most powerful men in the Seven Kingdoms. He has a twin sister named Cersei and a little brother, who was born a dwarf, named Tyrion. Their mother died giving birth to Tyrion when Jaime and Cersei were nine, a fact for which their father never forgave Tyrion. Jaime, though, loves his little brother and admires his intelligence.
Tywin groomed Jaime to be his heir, but when Jaime was fifteen, the king of the Seven Kingdoms chose Jaime to be a member of his Kingsguard, a small group of warrior whose only job is to protect the king. The position is for life, and members of the Kingsguard cannot marry or inherit. Jaime's selection for the Kingsguard made Tywin furious, but Jaime did not object because being near the king meant being in the capital, King's Landing, which meant being near his sister Cersei.
When Jaime was seventeen, many of the King's (his name was Aerys, for what it's worth...) nobles rebelled against him, and for good reason. Aerys had earned the nickname "The Mad King" and was known to burn alive those who he thought were disloyal. During the rebellion, Jaime stayed in King's Landing at Aerys' side, both to protect the king and because Aerys wanted to be sure of Tywin Lannister's loyalty.
When it seemed that the capital, King's Landing, might be about to fall to the rebels, Aerys gave orders that would have led to the entire city of half a million people burning to the ground. Before Aerys could have the orders carried out, Jaime killed the king he had sworn to defend, effectively ending the war and earning the nickname "Kingslayer." Until recently, he never told anyone why he killed the king, and most people assumed he did it to advance his own family's interest and looked down on him for it.
After the rebellion, his sister, Cersei, married Robert, the new king. Jaime stayed in the Kingsguard. Cersei and Robert's marriage was not a happy one, which is why Cersei has given dark-haired Robert Baratheon three golden-haired, green-eyed offspring (Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen). In fact, Jaime is the real father of all three of Cersei's children.
The two of them have been intimate since they were quite young, and Jaime is very much in love with his twin, and she with him. Until recently, he thought of her as his mirror, his other half. Also, the ruling family in the Seven Kingdoms has married brother to sister for four hundred years. Still, if anyone found out about the children's true parentage, it would mean all of their deaths, and his, and Cersei's. Jaime has protected this secret since the children were born, and when a young boy named Bran Stark happens to climb up to the top of the tower where he and Cersei are making love, Jaime pushes him out the window with every intention of killing him. (The boy doesn't die, and Jaime mentions regretting the necessity of what he did later, but there's no hesitation in the moment.)
Long story short, Bran's father Ned becomes Hand of the King (this is a most trusted councilor/enforcer position) and figures out that there is no way that a black haired man and a blonde woman had three blonde children. Bran's mother Catelyn is convinced that Tyrion (Jaime's little brother) tried to assassinate Bran while he was recovering from the fall that left him paralyzed. Catelyn takes Tyrion hostage in order to "bring him to justice," Jaime prepares to go to war against the Starks and their allies in order to get his little brother back, and while he's gone from the capital, Ned confronts Cersei about her "treason.”
In the middle of all of this, King Robert dies, Joffrey (Jaime and Cersei's oldest son) gets crowned King, and Ned Stark is accused of and then beheaded for treason for suggesting that Joffrey is not legitimate. This means open war between the North (where the Starks are from) and King Joffrey. In a battle with the Northern forces, Jaime is captured and held captive for about a year. He tries to escape once, and spends the rest of his captivity chained hands and feet to a wall in a dungeon.
Eventually, Catelyn Stark (Ned's widow) released Jaime against her son's wishes. She made Jaime promise that in exchange for his freedom, he would make sure that her two daughters, Sansa and Arya, were sent back to her unharmed. In order to protect him and make sure he kept his oath, Catelyn Stark sent a woman named Brienne with him. Brienne is a warrior who is cruelly nicknamed "The Beauty," since she is quite ugly. She is also honorable, idealistic, and entirely unimpressed with Jaime.
Their journey back to King's Landing does not go smoothly. They are captured by a group of mercenaries who are being paid by a Northern house, and though Jaime takes a risk and manages to keep them from raping Brienne by lying about how rich her father is (The truth? Not very.), the mercenaries recognize Jaime and cut off his hand.
Losing his hand changes everything for him. He thinks to himself that he WAS that hand, and without it, he's nothing. He is treated very badly afterwards, his wound gets infected, and he gets very sick. He nearly gives up and dies, Brienne's reminder to live for his family (and revenge) is the only thing that keeps him alive.
Eventually, a Northern Lord who wants to betray the North gets his hands on the two of them and offers to send Jaime south to his sister, but refuses to let Brienne come with him. Jaime agrees at first, but he has an intense dream where everyone he loves leaves him in the darkness and Brienne is the one who comes to him with light. He goes back for her, and he ends up jumping into a bear pit to rescue her from the angry bear her captors are having her fight. (Yes, he has one hand and no sword at this point. Never let it be said that Jaime Lannister is craven.) He knows his life is more valuable than hers, and he stands between Brienne and the bear until they are rescued.
Jaime and Brienne are grudging friends by the time they get back to King's Landing. But his homecoming is not at all what he expected. Jaime's son, King Joffrey, has died on his wedding day; Catelyn Stark, the woman he made the oath to in the first place, has been killed at her brother's wedding, and the two girls he was to be exchanged for are both missing.
Jaime is reunited with Cersei while Joffrey is still lying in state, and with Robert dead, he tells her he is sick of lies and wants to tell everyone about their relationship and have her for his wife. She does the sensible thing and tells him that this would be MADNESS. It would de-legitimize their son Tommen, who is now king, and likely get them all killed. Still, she is happy to see him. At first.
In very short order, his father Tywin tries to get Jaime to leave the Kingsguard and take up his duties as Tywin's heir, and he starts arranging another marriage for Cersei. Neither of the twins are very happy about this, and Jaime refuses to be anything but a Knight of the Kingsguard. Tywin refuses to acknowledge Jaime as his son after this, which means Jaime is no help to Cersei when Tywin tries to force her to marry.
Jaime and Cersei argue and have a falling out, Jaime sends Brienne off to find Sansa and take her to safety, thereby fulfilling his oath and regaining some of his honor, which is becoming increasingly important to him. While all of this is happening, Cersei accuses Tyrion (their little brother) of plotting Joffrey's death. He is wrongly convicted, and without Cersei's knowledge, Jaime goes down into the dungeons and frees him in order to protect him from the death sentence that's hanging over his head. Because of a really awful truth about something that happened years ago that Jaime told Tyrion before letting him go, instead of escaping right away, Tyrion sneaks into Tywin's quarters and kills him before disappearing. Tyrion also does a number on Jaime's head by telling him that Cersei has slept with men other than him and Robert, which is quite a blow to Jaime, who has only ever been with her. At first, he won’t believe it, but when he realizes it’s the truth, it’s quite a blow to him. He feels betrayed that, with Robert dead, she would choose to go to bed with any man other than him.
With Tywin dead, Cersei tries to convince Jaime to be Hand of the King in his place. Jaime refuses (He knows for sure that he set Tywin's killer free. Cersei doesn't.) The two of them fight, and the rift between them continues to grow. Cersei gets more paranoid and trusts Jaime less and less, and the two of them say hurtful, awful things to each other until finally Cersei sends Jaime away to besiege an important castle. Jaime protests that he wants to stay near the king, but Cersei will have none of it.
It's after he leaves King's Landing again that Jaime finally starts retraining himself to fight with his left hand. He retakes the castle without a pitched battle, but only after threatening the life of castle's lord's unborn child. (Most likely this wasn't a threat he would have followed through on, but he did once push Bran Stark out a window...)
When last we see Jaime in A Feast for Crows, he is off to find one of the enemy lords who escaped before he could take the castle, and he has just received a letter from Cersei begging him to come back and be her champion in a trial by combat. While he was besieging the castle, she has been accused of treason against Robert by the religious authorities. Jaime reads the letter begging him to come defend her, and instead of going to her or sending a response, he puts it in the fire. (I haven't read the fifth book yet, and I don't plan to for a while. I'll be sourcing Jaime from this point at the end of AFFC.)
Name:Corri
Age: 32
AIM/Plurk/Dreamwidth/Email: My dw account is
corrielle. What characters do you already play here, if any? None.
How did you hear about the game? Kia.
[IC Information]
Character Name: Jaime Lannister
Series: A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Species: Human
Appearance: Jaime is on the tall side for a human man. He has the body of swordsman, but he's not terribly bulky. He has green eyes, golden hair, and a short, well-trimmed beard that's starting to show a bit of grey. Jaime is also missing his right hand. His right arm ends in a stump just above the wrist.
Personality: Jaime is, at heart, a deeply disappointed idealist. When he was younger, he idolized the famous knights in his world and wanted to be like them. He also believed in things like honor and chivalry and the strong protecting the weak. Since his knighting, he's been witness to some pretty horrific things, none of which he was able to stop because the very king he'd sworn to protect was the one doing the horrible things (like burning people alive and abusing the queen). Jaime protected himself psychologically by "going away inside" while all of this was going on and thinking of something that made him happy, usually his twin sister Cersei, to cope with the horror.
Jaime has a complicated relationship with honor and how other people perceive him. On the one hand, he's grown up thinking that he is better than everyone else by virtue of being a Lannister. (House Lannister’s sigil is a gold lion on a red field, and one of Jaime’s father's favorite things to say is "The Lion does not concern itself with the opinions of sheep".) On the other hand, Jaime is keenly aware of the fact that everyone calls him "Kingslayer" behind his back, and he hates it. He also resents that he has, because of said Kingslaying, "shit for honor." On top of all of this, Jaime tries very hard to pretend like he couldn't care less about honor or what people think of him. But he does, and recent events in his canon have made him determined to make fewer oaths, and actually keep the ones he makes.
The disconnect between Jaime's society's conceptions of honor and chivalry and the harsh realities he's had to face has made Jaime quite jaded, and he presents a flippant, sarcastic face to the world. He is a son who failed to live up to his father's expectations, and he knows it. He likes to talk, and he has a dark sense of humor and something of a temper when provoked. He likes to pick apart others' conceptions of how the world works (especially if he finds that conception to be naive). However, he is also deeply loyal to his family and the few friends he has.
Abilities: Before Jaime lost his hand, he was an excellent swordsman. He is trying to re-learn the sword with his left hand, but he's mediocre at best. He's still a decent horseman, though. Jaime has also had training in medieval military tactics, and he's proved himself to be an able military commander.
Items: The clothes he fell asleep in, a somewhat tattered cloak, and a pair of decent boots.
History: Jaime Lannister is the oldest son of Tywin Lannister, one of the richest and most powerful men in the Seven Kingdoms. He has a twin sister named Cersei and a little brother, who was born a dwarf, named Tyrion. Their mother died giving birth to Tyrion when Jaime and Cersei were nine, a fact for which their father never forgave Tyrion. Jaime, though, loves his little brother and admires his intelligence.
Tywin groomed Jaime to be his heir, but when Jaime was fifteen, the king of the Seven Kingdoms chose Jaime to be a member of his Kingsguard, a small group of warrior whose only job is to protect the king. The position is for life, and members of the Kingsguard cannot marry or inherit. Jaime's selection for the Kingsguard made Tywin furious, but Jaime did not object because being near the king meant being in the capital, King's Landing, which meant being near his sister Cersei.
When Jaime was seventeen, many of the King's (his name was Aerys, for what it's worth...) nobles rebelled against him, and for good reason. Aerys had earned the nickname "The Mad King" and was known to burn alive those who he thought were disloyal. During the rebellion, Jaime stayed in King's Landing at Aerys' side, both to protect the king and because Aerys wanted to be sure of Tywin Lannister's loyalty.
When it seemed that the capital, King's Landing, might be about to fall to the rebels, Aerys gave orders that would have led to the entire city of half a million people burning to the ground. Before Aerys could have the orders carried out, Jaime killed the king he had sworn to defend, effectively ending the war and earning the nickname "Kingslayer." Until recently, he never told anyone why he killed the king, and most people assumed he did it to advance his own family's interest and looked down on him for it.
After the rebellion, his sister, Cersei, married Robert, the new king. Jaime stayed in the Kingsguard. Cersei and Robert's marriage was not a happy one, which is why Cersei has given dark-haired Robert Baratheon three golden-haired, green-eyed offspring (Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen). In fact, Jaime is the real father of all three of Cersei's children.
The two of them have been intimate since they were quite young, and Jaime is very much in love with his twin, and she with him. Until recently, he thought of her as his mirror, his other half. Also, the ruling family in the Seven Kingdoms has married brother to sister for four hundred years. Still, if anyone found out about the children's true parentage, it would mean all of their deaths, and his, and Cersei's. Jaime has protected this secret since the children were born, and when a young boy named Bran Stark happens to climb up to the top of the tower where he and Cersei are making love, Jaime pushes him out the window with every intention of killing him. (The boy doesn't die, and Jaime mentions regretting the necessity of what he did later, but there's no hesitation in the moment.)
Long story short, Bran's father Ned becomes Hand of the King (this is a most trusted councilor/enforcer position) and figures out that there is no way that a black haired man and a blonde woman had three blonde children. Bran's mother Catelyn is convinced that Tyrion (Jaime's little brother) tried to assassinate Bran while he was recovering from the fall that left him paralyzed. Catelyn takes Tyrion hostage in order to "bring him to justice," Jaime prepares to go to war against the Starks and their allies in order to get his little brother back, and while he's gone from the capital, Ned confronts Cersei about her "treason.”
In the middle of all of this, King Robert dies, Joffrey (Jaime and Cersei's oldest son) gets crowned King, and Ned Stark is accused of and then beheaded for treason for suggesting that Joffrey is not legitimate. This means open war between the North (where the Starks are from) and King Joffrey. In a battle with the Northern forces, Jaime is captured and held captive for about a year. He tries to escape once, and spends the rest of his captivity chained hands and feet to a wall in a dungeon.
Eventually, Catelyn Stark (Ned's widow) released Jaime against her son's wishes. She made Jaime promise that in exchange for his freedom, he would make sure that her two daughters, Sansa and Arya, were sent back to her unharmed. In order to protect him and make sure he kept his oath, Catelyn Stark sent a woman named Brienne with him. Brienne is a warrior who is cruelly nicknamed "The Beauty," since she is quite ugly. She is also honorable, idealistic, and entirely unimpressed with Jaime.
Their journey back to King's Landing does not go smoothly. They are captured by a group of mercenaries who are being paid by a Northern house, and though Jaime takes a risk and manages to keep them from raping Brienne by lying about how rich her father is (The truth? Not very.), the mercenaries recognize Jaime and cut off his hand.
Losing his hand changes everything for him. He thinks to himself that he WAS that hand, and without it, he's nothing. He is treated very badly afterwards, his wound gets infected, and he gets very sick. He nearly gives up and dies, Brienne's reminder to live for his family (and revenge) is the only thing that keeps him alive.
Eventually, a Northern Lord who wants to betray the North gets his hands on the two of them and offers to send Jaime south to his sister, but refuses to let Brienne come with him. Jaime agrees at first, but he has an intense dream where everyone he loves leaves him in the darkness and Brienne is the one who comes to him with light. He goes back for her, and he ends up jumping into a bear pit to rescue her from the angry bear her captors are having her fight. (Yes, he has one hand and no sword at this point. Never let it be said that Jaime Lannister is craven.) He knows his life is more valuable than hers, and he stands between Brienne and the bear until they are rescued.
Jaime and Brienne are grudging friends by the time they get back to King's Landing. But his homecoming is not at all what he expected. Jaime's son, King Joffrey, has died on his wedding day; Catelyn Stark, the woman he made the oath to in the first place, has been killed at her brother's wedding, and the two girls he was to be exchanged for are both missing.
Jaime is reunited with Cersei while Joffrey is still lying in state, and with Robert dead, he tells her he is sick of lies and wants to tell everyone about their relationship and have her for his wife. She does the sensible thing and tells him that this would be MADNESS. It would de-legitimize their son Tommen, who is now king, and likely get them all killed. Still, she is happy to see him. At first.
In very short order, his father Tywin tries to get Jaime to leave the Kingsguard and take up his duties as Tywin's heir, and he starts arranging another marriage for Cersei. Neither of the twins are very happy about this, and Jaime refuses to be anything but a Knight of the Kingsguard. Tywin refuses to acknowledge Jaime as his son after this, which means Jaime is no help to Cersei when Tywin tries to force her to marry.
Jaime and Cersei argue and have a falling out, Jaime sends Brienne off to find Sansa and take her to safety, thereby fulfilling his oath and regaining some of his honor, which is becoming increasingly important to him. While all of this is happening, Cersei accuses Tyrion (their little brother) of plotting Joffrey's death. He is wrongly convicted, and without Cersei's knowledge, Jaime goes down into the dungeons and frees him in order to protect him from the death sentence that's hanging over his head. Because of a really awful truth about something that happened years ago that Jaime told Tyrion before letting him go, instead of escaping right away, Tyrion sneaks into Tywin's quarters and kills him before disappearing. Tyrion also does a number on Jaime's head by telling him that Cersei has slept with men other than him and Robert, which is quite a blow to Jaime, who has only ever been with her. At first, he won’t believe it, but when he realizes it’s the truth, it’s quite a blow to him. He feels betrayed that, with Robert dead, she would choose to go to bed with any man other than him.
With Tywin dead, Cersei tries to convince Jaime to be Hand of the King in his place. Jaime refuses (He knows for sure that he set Tywin's killer free. Cersei doesn't.) The two of them fight, and the rift between them continues to grow. Cersei gets more paranoid and trusts Jaime less and less, and the two of them say hurtful, awful things to each other until finally Cersei sends Jaime away to besiege an important castle. Jaime protests that he wants to stay near the king, but Cersei will have none of it.
It's after he leaves King's Landing again that Jaime finally starts retraining himself to fight with his left hand. He retakes the castle without a pitched battle, but only after threatening the life of castle's lord's unborn child. (Most likely this wasn't a threat he would have followed through on, but he did once push Bran Stark out a window...)
When last we see Jaime in A Feast for Crows, he is off to find one of the enemy lords who escaped before he could take the castle, and he has just received a letter from Cersei begging him to come back and be her champion in a trial by combat. While he was besieging the castle, she has been accused of treason against Robert by the religious authorities. Jaime reads the letter begging him to come defend her, and instead of going to her or sending a response, he puts it in the fire. (I haven't read the fifth book yet, and I don't plan to for a while. I'll be sourcing Jaime from this point at the end of AFFC.)
