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meganbmooreThis is nothing in depth, really, just something I've noticed while reading A Storm of Swords. I think everything that could actually be considered a direct spoiler was in the first book, but I'll use a cut anyway.
So, normally, any hint of incest, especially with anything resembling a main character, is enough to send me heading for the hills, but here, it doesn't bother me. Yeah, the fact that he's been having sex with his twin sister since they had anything resembling urges is kinda a deterent for me as far as liking Jaime goes, but really, it's barely a blip on my radar as compared to his tossing a kid out a window for daring to wonder what the noises were while wandering around his own father's castle...
Of course, Jaime/Cersei is the most centric bit of incest, as their incestuous relationship is, in many ways, the cause of everything...Bran's injury, Robert's death, Ned's death, the war, etc. Not to mention that, while two of their kids seem to be decent enough, their oldest son is a horrid little monster who needs to die very, very soon. Now, Cersei is very much a villain, and Jaime started out that way, but now he's being sent on what looks like a redemptive path of sorts(not that I'm quite prepared to buy it yet, but I understand that his relationship with Brienne-who seems to keep getting stuck with men who aren't good enough for her-and it's aftermath made a fair chunk of my flist big fans of Jaime, so we'll see.
Then there's Castor, who marries his daughters and then, when they're old enough, marries their(and his) daughters as well, while he abandons his infant sons to the wild because...well...he can't use them for breeding. Not the way he prefers, at least. The men of the Wall know about this(about his daughters, at least) but, because he's an aid to them, they allow it to continue, even though they're effectively endorsing rape and incest. Oddly, as much as I find the act itself despicable(of course) as a plot device, it doesn't bother me all that much.
Then there's the fact that most of my flist who's caught up on the books thinks that the series will end with Jon and Dany together. This would be fine...except that most of them also seem to think that Jon is Rhaegar's son, which would make him Dany's nephew...
As I said, no deep theories here, just something that occurred to me while reading one of Samwell's chapters earlier.
Of course, Jaime/Cersei is the most centric bit of incest, as their incestuous relationship is, in many ways, the cause of everything...Bran's injury, Robert's death, Ned's death, the war, etc. Not to mention that, while two of their kids seem to be decent enough, their oldest son is a horrid little monster who needs to die very, very soon. Now, Cersei is very much a villain, and Jaime started out that way, but now he's being sent on what looks like a redemptive path of sorts(not that I'm quite prepared to buy it yet, but I understand that his relationship with Brienne-who seems to keep getting stuck with men who aren't good enough for her-and it's aftermath made a fair chunk of my flist big fans of Jaime, so we'll see.
Then there's Castor, who marries his daughters and then, when they're old enough, marries their(and his) daughters as well, while he abandons his infant sons to the wild because...well...he can't use them for breeding. Not the way he prefers, at least. The men of the Wall know about this(about his daughters, at least) but, because he's an aid to them, they allow it to continue, even though they're effectively endorsing rape and incest. Oddly, as much as I find the act itself despicable(of course) as a plot device, it doesn't bother me all that much.
Then there's the fact that most of my flist who's caught up on the books thinks that the series will end with Jon and Dany together. This would be fine...except that most of them also seem to think that Jon is Rhaegar's son, which would make him Dany's nephew...
As I said, no deep theories here, just something that occurred to me while reading one of Samwell's chapters earlier.