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the golden son of Casterly Rock
Jaime Lannister: the second child and first son of Lord Tywin Lannister. Born with exceptional talents - a keen mind, extraordinary natural athleticism and unusual physical beauty, he was raised to become the heir of Casterly Rock, the richest land in Westeros. However, at the age of fifteen, he gave it all up to become a member of the Kingsguard, sworn to hold no titles and take no wife, and to protect the King's life with his own.
Like most things in life, he did it for love.
ONE PERSON IN TWO BODIES
We shared a womb together. He came into this world holding my foot.
Jaime spent his early years a veritable prince of Casterly Rock - heir to the largest fortune in the Seven Kingdoms... and the most powerful family name, aside from the Targaryens. Beloved of his family, his own favorite person was his twin sister, Cersei. When thinking of a word to describe his relationship with Cersei, begin with inseparable... and begin to move upward. As children, they were identical - when wearing one another's clothes, they were impossible to tell apart. And they did wear each other's clothes, and share each other's bed. Innocently, at first, and then less so. Eventually, they were caught at "play" by a servant. As a result, Jaime's room was moved to the other side of the castle, and they were chastised, told never to do such a thing again. Of course, they didn't listen. For over twenty years, they continued their 'play"... but that is another, longer story.
In the meantime, we have this: the story of his other sibling, Tyrion. Tyrion's birth killed their mother... which would likely have been enough to earn the poor baby the resentment of their powerful father even if the child had not been born deformed. Of the family, Jaime was the only one who showed the child genuine affection, and so he and Tyrion grew up relatively close.
At eleven, he was squired to Crakehall, and there he discovered a passion for battle that consumed much of his life. He won his first tourney melee only two years later, at 13 years old, while still a squire.
But it was at fifteen that Jaime's life changed entirely, as he entered the service of the Kingsguard, and become what Tywin Lannister would call a glorified bodyguard.
He did it for love.
The recently knighted youth traveled to see his family, and there became aware of his father's plans to marry Cersei to Prince Rhaegar, and Jaime to Lysa Tully. It was Cersei's idea for him to join with the Kingsguard, eschewing his titles, his inheritance, and his right to marry. It would bring him to King's Landing, where she would be at court. They would be close together, forever. For her, he would do anything. For her, he agreed.
The plan failed. Tywin was infuriated and resigned, moving his family, including Cersei, back to Casterly Rock, while Jaime remained in service at King's Landing.
THE KINGSLAYER
I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did,
and reviled by so many for my finest act
His time with the Kingsguard taught Jaime a number of hard lessons. The most prominent of them was this: go away inside.
When King Aerys orders the deaths of noble men, go away inside. When he rapes and brutalizes his wife, go away inside. When Jaime found his moral sense in conflict with his duty to defend the king, as he did more every day... go away inside. Perhaps that is when his idealism began to sour, and he became cynical, sarcastic, callous. Perhaps. Or perhaps it was in the years to come, after he earned his best known moniker, the Kingslayer.
It was at the end of Robert's Rebellion - a conflict that split the Seven Kingdoms down the center. Aerys kept Jaime with him, refusing him the glory of participation in the war, in order to control Lord Tywin, who had not yet made his allegiance clear. This became a fatal mistake when, learning of Aerys' plan to destroy King's Landing and all its citizenry rather than allow it to fall into Robert's hand, Jaime slew Aerys to prevent this plan from coming to fruition. After killing Aerys, Jaime had the opportunity to pass the throne to whoever he pleased - his father, perhaps, or himself. Instead, he stated that he didn't care who took it, and simply sat in wait on the Iron Throne, until it was claimed in the name of Robert Baratheon.
Robert issued a pardon to Jaime for his offense, and he remained as a member of the Kingsguard. In a certain sense, this brought his plan to be near Cersei to fruition, as she became Robert's wife, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
And as for Jaime, he became the queen's lover... and the father to her three children.
THE GAME OF THRONES
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For seventeen years, life remained relatively stable... excepting smaller incidents such as the rebellion of the Iron Islands or, on a more personal level, a disturbing incident involving Tyrion's marriage to Tysha, a poor man's daughter. It was the death of Jon Arryn that threw the crown once more into disarray. King Robert brought his family and guard North to see his old friend, Eddard Stark, and offer him Arryn's old position. And one day, while the court went hunting, Jaime remained behind and seduced Cersei the upper floors of a largelty abandoned tower. Bran Stark, Eddard's son, happened upon their coupling, prompting Jaime to toss the boy from the tower window, crippling him for life. Meanwhile, the court, now including Eddard, returned to King's Landing... where Stark began to investigate the true parentage of Cersei's children.
To make matters worse, Tyrion was taken captive by Stark's wife, Catelyn, to which Jaime responded by attacking Stark in the streets, killing his men and severely injuring Stark himself before fleeing to meet with his father outside the city. Perhaps he would have been brought to justice, had Robert not died, leaving the kingdoms in the hands of Joffrey - Jaime's own son, though he did not know it. Stark, however, did, and refused to accept Joff's claim to the throne, leading to his arrest, and sparking a war between the Starks and the Lannisters that culminated in Jaime's capture by Eddard's heir Robb Stark... and Eddard's own execution for treason.
Jaime remained captive in the dungeons of Riverrun for some time before Catelyn freed him in desperation, hoping to trade him for the return of her daughters. Weakened and eventually maimed, Jaime returned to King's Landing less one hand, and changed - though more on the inside than the out.
He returned to find Joffrey had been killed, seemingly by Tyrion, and that Tyrion had been sentenced to death for it. Unable to stomach his brother's fate, and still carrying the guilt over Tyrion's brutalized young wife, Jaime freed his from prison... and confessed his part in Tysha's fate. As Tyrion left, Jaime asked simply if it were true - if Tyrion had murdered Joffrey, whom Tyrion knew to be Jaime's son. Angry over Tysha, Tyrion said simply, "Yes, I killed your vile son."
Jaime had not yet managed to decide how he felt about this when he arrived, suddenly, in Anatole.
PERSONALITY
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Jaime Lannister is described, by Catelyn Stark, as perhaps the most beautiful and vile man in the world. Many people would agree with her. ...Jaime, really, thinks that's a bit of an overstatement. But even so, he neither apologizes for nor regrets his various, and yes, potentially vile, behavior. In most cases.
But, okay, let's start at the beginning. Jaime is the son of Tywin Lannister - born a few minutes after his twin sister, Cersei. Despite being younger than her, he was (by way of penis) considered the heir to their extraordinary wealth and power. It was something impressed upon him from an early age, as Tywin manipulated the realm, controlled the mad king (as well as anyone could) and arranged for his family to continue to prosper long after his own death. But while he was born to power, Jaime had no true love of it. No, instead, his great passions were battle and sex. The former passion, in addition to his immense physical gifts (he is stronger, taller, faster, more agile, sturdier, and more coordinated than most men - a born warrior), made him one of the most skilled warriors in Westeros, even as a teenage boy. The latter passion... well, that was more focused, and possibly his downfall. Because when it came to sex, his only true desire was Cersei.
Yes, that Cersei. They were lovers from an early age - in secret, of course, for the sake of propriety. And his passion for her led him to give up his right to their family's home, Casterly Rock, and travel instead of King's Landing, where Cersei had gone to be paraded before the Crown Prince as a potential bride. To be near her, he became one of the Kingsguard, sworn to defend the king from all danger. Sworn to celibacy as well - he gave up the right to marry, the right to inherit, the right to love... but of course, rights never were the primary boundary between Jaime and what he wanted to do, and so he continued to be with Cersei through the fall of one king and the rise of another.
But wait, let's talk about that fall.
Jaime was with that king, Aerys, on the night his family fell to ruin at the hands of the usurper, Robert Baratheon. Jaime was there when Aerys chose to give the command to burn the entire capital city to the ground, slaughtering everyone in it, out of spite. Rather than allow that to happen, he betrayed his oath and executed the king. Making him a hero... perhaps. Or perhaps it should have. But instead, he became reviled, known as the kingslayer, an oathbreaker, and scorned by many of his own brothers in white cloaks. Jaime has remarked that he considers that broken oath to have been his finest act.
Through these experiences , he has become hardened... at least on the outside. As a youth, he dreamed of being a brave and gallant knight - defender of the good and just. As an adult, he contents himself with simply defending his own interests, and that of his family, and terrifying people through his presence and his power. Still, inside, there is a smidge of idealism yet untarnished - enough to leave him frustrated, at times, by his inability to live up to those ideals. It isn't, after all, that justice and honor mean nothing to him - it is simply that they mean less to him than other things, and some of those other things include people such as his father and his sister... and honor and justice truly do mean nothing to them, which frequently leaves him defending dishonorable principles regardless of what he, personally, thinks of them.
Not that it bothers him all that much.
But, well, other things do. He is possessive, protective, and proud... and so deeply troubled by the idea of Cersei being with other men - even her own husband. Cersei, once struck by Robert in the face, commented that if Jaime knew he would slay Robert. Robert, who was the king. An act that would lead immediately to execution... but for her, he would do nearly anything. Indeed, he did throw a child from a window on her behalf, once. His pride leads him to bristle at insults, for example the ubiquitous nickname 'kingslayer'... but it also leads him to pretend that he isn't bristling, lest people believe he cares what they think.
Having been controlled, or at least manipulated, by his father for much of his life, Jaime also bristles at attempts to force him down a path - any path. This has given him quite the rebellious streak, which goes well with his fiery and impetuous nature. He is the sort of man who will go down fighting rather than run or surrender if he cannot win. And like many who live with an air of entitlement, he will happily flaunt tradition, admit to his ill-doings, and spit in the face of the rules whenever possible.
...provided they are not rules he, himself, favors, anyway.
Furthermore, despite having every opportunity to rise to power, Jaime really doesn't have the stomach or the desire for it - he has, as has been pointed out, run from every opportunity to rule he's ever had. In that sense, one might call him more of a soldier and general than a true leader. Despite all this, there is a part of Jaime that yearns for approval - at least from those he cares about. In particular, he feels the weight of being a great man's son, and always strives to loom as large as his father's massive shadow.
POWERS
quoth the raven.
Jaime's primary skills are those of a warrior - he is an extremely successful tourney fighter, as well as one of deadliest combatants in Westeros, renown for his extraordinary skill with a blade, as well as his strategic ability as a battle commander. He is also highly literate, which is unusual enough in Westeros, an accomplished hunter, charming and rather intelligent, albeit without particular focus.
...alll of this being the case before he lost his right hand, of course. As for now, well, let's say the Mist can be generous, sometimes.
Physical Enhancements: Jaime has received your garden variety warrior enhancements from the Mist - strength, speed, regenerative abilities, coordination, endurance, etc. The latter two would be enhanced human rather than superhuman - the regeneration in particular has allowed him to rebuild his appearance, ravaged from his time in prison, though it hasn't allowed him to regrow his hand.
His strength, however, is more complicated. While most of his body has what one might call enhanced physical strength - similar to a Slayer, for example - he has arrived with a particular enhancement - namely, an arm infused with metal. More on the arm itself below, but the effect on his strength is profound - while he is only marginally stronger than a human with most of his body, his right arm is truly extraordinary. Of course, it's just one arm so that mostly affects things like his grip, or anything he can pull with one arm!
As for the arm itself...
The Golden Hand: He doesn't mention it often, but when Jaime was last in King's landing, he didn't have a golden hand at all. Indeed, he had nothing but a stump. And yet, upon arriving here, there it was - a golden addition to his body. And it is an addition to his body, because the hand has become a part of him. While only the part above the end of his stump appears golden, in truth the metal runs deeper, beneath his skin and through his bones. This has two primary effects:
Shape shifting: With practice, he can learn to change the shape of his metallic arm, shifting the metal around to create weapons, shields, etc.
Midas touch: This is actually out of his control, and only occurs when his powers are misfiring (for example, out in the mist or during power-freakout events), but it is possible to spread the 'infection' of gold, turning objects to gold as well.
All of these enhancements, bar the Midas touch, will grow stronger with practice and use. E.g. his strength, which may start at Buffy-level, can eventually wind its way significantly upward to truly superhuman levels if he keeps pushing his limits upward. The speed of this progression depends on the extent to which which he pushes himself.
PROJECTS AND AFFILIATIONS.
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AS YET NONE.
jaime lannister
there are no men like me. there's only me.
NICKNAMES: The Kingslayer
AGE: mid-30s
DATE OF BIRTH: Unknown
PLACE OF BIRTH: Casterly Rock
DEATHS: None
FAMILY: Tywin and Joanna (parents, deceased), Cersei (twin sister), Tyrion (brother), Kevan (uncle), Gemma (aunt), Tytos (grandfather, deceased), Lancel (Cousin)
MARITAL STATUS: Single.
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
OCCUPATION: TBA
Height: 6'2" | Weight: 190ish. | Build: Athletic
Eyes: Green
Hair: Blonde.
OOC
NAME: Ariel
EMAIL: the.red.we.painted@gmail.com
PLURK: alovelyburn
CONTACT: Private Message or Plurk, please.
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