I have to admit that I loved Jaime from the start. Admittedly, I didn't read the first two books - I wanted the first two seasons of GoT instead.
I think Jaime does care about honor and loyalty, his ideals of honor just happen to be a little left to center. Would it have been more honorable to let the mad king burn thousands of innocent people? The thing with Bran was shocking and It's definitely hard to excuse that but he was protecting Cersei and his children by this act and I think to Jaime that made sense - Bran is no one to him, Cersei and his children are family, people he loves and his first and foremost loyalty is to them, at any cost. IMO there IS something honorable in that and I think there is something honorable to Jaime. (I also don't think that he is as voluntarily estranged from his children as it seems. I don't remember where but Jaime thinks some on how Cersei would not let him hold Joffrey when he was born or any of the other kids, how she pushed him away, convincing him that if was too tender with them that would only arouse more suspicion.) Jaime says that everything he does, he does for love and I think that's true.
I think Jaime does care about honor and loyalty, his ideals of honor just happen to be a little left to center. Would it have been more honorable to let the mad king burn thousands of innocent people? The thing with Bran was shocking and It's definitely hard to excuse that but he was protecting Cersei and his children by this act and I think to Jaime that made sense - Bran is no one to him, Cersei and his children are family, people he loves and his first and foremost loyalty is to them, at any cost. IMO there IS something honorable in that and I think there is something honorable to Jaime. (I also don't think that he is as voluntarily estranged from his children as it seems. I don't remember where but Jaime thinks some on how Cersei would not let him hold Joffrey when he was born or any of the other kids, how she pushed him away, convincing him that if was too tender with them that would only arouse more suspicion.) Jaime says that everything he does, he does for love and I think that's true.
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