11/09/15 - Chapter 41: Tyrion IX

[Clara]

Long chapter today

1-Myrcella is leaving, and she never cried. Tommen did, and she comforted him. It seems they were pretty close, and spent a lot of time together. Four ships went with Seaswift, the one Myrcella is in. I wonder what Cersei had to say about Robert naming one of the ships Lady Lyanna. Once the ships hit Bravos, Myrcella will be safe. Doran Martell called his banners, but won’t move unless Dorne is under attack, Tyrion knows. As he knows Stannis won’t attack it.

2-The ships should avoid going near Dragonstone. As far as they know Stannis is still in Storm’s End, so they should have no problema reaching Bravos. But if he knows, Tyrion knows they’ll never get there. He’s not happy losing those ships, but he thinks Cersei was wise on that point, Myrcella is the princess after all.

3-The Seaswift is the fastest ship they have, and he gave the captains orders: to attack one ship, but if there are many the Seaswift must sail and reach Bravos. Ser Arys Oakheart is Myrcella’s sworn shield. I liked Myrcella waved and smile while she was saying goodbye. It must not be easy for her, yet she had a princess attitude.

4-Tyrion hopes a forthnight passes before Stannis attacks, because by then it will be done. The chain, I guess. Tyrion offered a knighship for the captain of the Seaswift if Myrcella gets safe, when he returns. I don’t know if there’s a captain who is also a knight in the story.

5-He started noted unkind eyes when they started getting back. Tyrion found out about Cersei’s plan, she sent the Kettleblacks to buy her sellswords for her own. She knows her brother took them all away, and want them back. But she doesn’t know Bronn is paying the brothers as well, so she’s getting nothing. I wonder how the Kettleblacks make her believe she’s getting what she asked for.

6-I really liked Sansa defended Tommen when Joffrey said he shouldn’t cry. As usual, he threatened her. Tyrion wonders if Cersei is so blind she doesn’t see how he really is. I think she knows he’s a monster, but she looks the other way.

7-Tyrion realised he relies too much on Varys, who he knows can’t trust. He needs his own informers, but think trust would get him killed. After all, he’s surrounded by liars.

8-He wonders what happened to Littlefinger, and how is the talk going. I laughed at this: “If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey’s head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.” Omg!

9-He can tell the resenment in the looks people gave them, and from every man who shout for Joffrey, a hundred stayed silent. No good sign. Cersei was laughing, but Tyrion she was putting on the brave show. Maybe she was alredy scared at that point.

10-A woman with her dead baby up in her arms was near them, and it must have been awful. It was even more awful it looked like Joffrey planned to run her over. Sansa told him something, and he throw a silver at her. She didn’t move, but when Cersei talked, she woke up. She started calling her whore and brotherfucker, which for some reason I found the word weird.

11-Someone throw a dung at Joffrey, which he deserved and more. Of course, he lost it and started shouting for the man who did it and offereing gold. He said the man would lick it of his face or lose his head. I am not surprised. He sent Sandor to look for the man, but there was so many people he couldn’t pass. Tyrion said he should leave it, the man was gone, but Joffrey didn’t care. People started shouting at him now, calling him bastard, whore to his mother and freak and halfman to Tyrion. People shouting for the other kings, even for Renly, but then they all shouted for bread. I can’t even imagine how much hungry they all are.

12-From that on, it was a disaster. Attacks began, people shouted and throw things, so Tyrion thinks it’s time to ride to the castle.They get there, but Lady Tanda is freaking out, her daughter Lollys was knocked and left behind. Some saw the High Septon being knocked as well. Sandor was outside as well. Tyrion got so mad he slapped and then kicked Joffrey. He deserved it of course, but he’s the King after all, and he doesn’t get killed because he’s his uncle. He told Joffrey it all started because he set his dog on them, and how he killed him. Other Sers were out as well. It was horrible, really.

13-Suddendly, he realised Sansa was not there, and if she was dead so was Jaime. He told Boros to go find her, but he doesn’t want to go back, what if they see his cloak? Tyrion just lost it, he’s so stressed over all this, and I get why.

14-Sandor arrives with Sansa, who is bledding from her brow, but it’s okay. Tyrion is the only one who asked her if she was fine. Poor girl, she’s in shock, and told how she tried to tell them she didn’t have any bread with her. A man tried to hurt her, and Sandor cut his arm. Again, por girl!

15-They are told Flea Buttom is afire, a lot going on at once! Tyrion sends Bronn and Sandor, if the wildfire burns, they would be lost. He remembered Sansa is terrified of fire, but Clegane said finally he would go. Tyrion commands others to make the people return to their homes. He tells Shagga to take care of Shae, and to tell her if he could, he would go that night. He didn’t, the city was still a mess.

16-I was genuinely surprised Cersei was so mad at the guards, and told them to do what Tyrion said. How she didn’t care if they go out naked, people could then see they were men, they didn’t behave like so before. It’s like she cared for a momento. We know she just does not give a fuck about the people, and that’s why I was so shocked at her reaction to the situation.

17-Later, Tyrion was in his chamber, and didn’t want fire to light the room, and sent the servants away when they tried to light it. Bywater told him what happened, the High Septon, who was big as a house according to Tyrion, was ripped apart, and eaten up for what I understood. Lollys was raped by at least 50 men, and was found walking naked. How terrible! Bywater said they would find the Septon’s crown (I always wondered why he would have one anyways), but Tyrion does not care, he wants them to find Tyrek, whose father was always kind to Tyrion, alive or dead. I don’t remember what happened to Tyrek.

18-Bywater also says he may not be able to hold the city if something like that would happen again, and Tyrion knows. There was a flux going on, the city was full of thieves and people weren’t safe in their houses. If it wasn’t enough, Bywater does not trust all his men, and knows a lot would not fight if the time comes.

19-Bywater told Tyrion what the people said, they have no lost love for the Lannisters, but blamed Tyrion the most. Simply because Cersei and Varys were alredy there in Robert’s time, when things were better, but he wasn’t. He brought those savages to the city, and unfairly sent Slynt away and put good old Pycelle in a cell. And it was said he wanted the throne for himself. I was so mad, it’s so unfair to him! He did a lot of good things, but so many were wrong, people couldn’t tell.

20-This was really sad: “Perhaps my lord father was right to despise me all these years, if this is the best I can achieve.” Poor Tyrion!

21-It also surprised me how Bronn behaved, he light up the room, ate what Tyrion left and suggested all would be better if Tommen was King. Tyrion said “You go too far,” and Bronn replied “And you never go far enough.” He talks really freely around Tyrion. But he couldn’t think about Joffrey’s death, mainly in my opinion because he’s Jaime’s son.

[Vicki]

Your point 6, I think so too. She has to live with Joffrey, so she knows he's a bad apple. I think as long as he doesn't try to kill anyone she turns a blind eye, lol.

Your point 14, that's true, Tyrion was the only one who asked if Sansa's okay. Wow, I missed that. No one else cared if she was hurt, only that she was alive.

Your point 19, yeah that's the way it tends to go; blame the one in charge. It only makes sense. Tyrion was sent to clean things up but the whole mess was already heading toward disaster anyway and there was only so much he could do to stop the train wreck from happening. It goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished.

Your point 21, oh you have a good point there. I didn't think of Tyrion's reason to keep Joff alive because he's Jaime's son. I just assumed Tyrion never thought of that as an option because he's a good person and, officially, Joffrey IS the king. You're not supposed to kill your king. That's taboo, lol.
1. So Myrcella is getting ready to board the Seaswift to go down to Dorne and be Doran Martell’s ward until she and his son are old enough to marry. She never cried, but Tommen did, awe. King Robert’s great war galley will accompany her as escort, as well as three other ships; one’s called Lady Lyanna. Robert must have named her that. Tyrion didn’t want to part with so many ships but Cersei insisted, to protect her daughter. They’ll be sailing past Dragonstone, after all. She’ll stop in Braavos first, I forgot about that, to throw off Stannis’s ships. The Seaswift is the fastest ship they have. Ser Arys Oakheart is her sworn shield, so there goes the nicest Kingsguard from King’s Landing...

2. It’s said Braavos is the greatest and most powerful of the Free Cities. That’s significant since Braavos is also the only one among the nine that happily opposes slavery. I believe Pentos abolished slavery as well, but only because if they don’t Braavos will attack them.

3. They are getting ready to head back to the castle when Tyrion notices how angry the commonfolk look at him. They are starving while he gets to eat, he figures.

4. Lancel informed Tyrion that Cersei is really going to see a hedgeknight named Ser Osmund Kettleblack when she has everyone believing she’s going to the Great Sept to pray. Slut. Cersei is trying to use the Kettleblacks in order to buy her own force of sellswords. She doesn’t know Bronn is buying all the sellswords away from her. Tyrion knows the Kettleblacks are much better at deceit than killing.

5. Joffrey scolds Tommen for crying but Sansa stands up for him, saying the Dragonknight cried when his sister wed his brother, Aegon. I believe that was the Unworthy one who fathered a crap-ton of bastards. Joffrey threatens to have Ser Meryn beat her if she doesn’t shut up and Tyrion sees that Cersei isn’t paying any attention. He wonders if she can really be so blind to her son’s psychopathic ways.

6. Tyrion acknowledges he relies too heavily on Varys, who is of doubtful loyalty. He’d like to have his own informers but knows he wouldn’t be able to trust them either. “Trust would only get you killed.” On Littlefinger he wonders how the negotiations are going. I laughed at this: “If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey’s head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.”

7. Among the procession is Ser Horas Redwyne, so his brother, Ser Hobber, was the one that got to go home. I bet Ser Horas is pissed about this.

8. Tyrion doesn’t like how so many commonfolk are bitter and resentful looking and fears his sellswords and gold cloaks won’t be enough if a riot broke out. For every man who shouted for Joffrey a hundred keep silent. The mood is ominous.

9. Then a woman runs out in front of Joffrey and presents him with her dead baby, all blue and swollen. Sansa manages to convince him to give her a silver coin. The crowd fights over it while the woman doesn’t move. When Cersei tries to sound compassionate to her woes this causes the woman to turn on her and shriek a score of insults at her, including “Brotherfucker.” Someone throws a piece of shit at Joffrey’s head -- nice! This is the match that lights the dynamite.

10. Joffrey demands the head of the man who threw the dung, ignoring Sansa’s pleading to let it go. He commands the Hound to find him for him. Tyrion commands the Hound to stay. The crowd screams that Joff’s a bastard and other obscenities. They even insult Tyrion, lol. They fight to get through the guards and more things are thrown at the procession. I like how people are demanding for “King Bread!” This reminds me of The Hunger Games and the Latin term, “Panem et circensis (sp?),” “Bread and entertainment.” That’s what the people really want. If you give the people those two things they will love you for it.

11. One person grabs Joff’s leg but Ser Mandon chops off their hand and the crowd breaks through the line of gold cloaks. Tyrion screams to get back to the castle. Nobody needs him to tell them, they’re all riding hard for safety. The Hound goes missing among the crowd. Parts of the procession makes it safely back to the Red Keep but not everyone. Lollys, Lady Tanda’s daughter, was knocked off her horse and was left behind. The High Septon didn’t make it either. Sansa is missing too.

12. I just love how Tyrion gives Joffrey a good beating for screaming he’ll kill them all, and calls him a blind bloody fool. They attacked because he threatened to kill them. He calls him spoiled and witless. Nice! Ser Mandon has to pull Tyrion off Joffrey. Cersei commands the Kingsguard to find Sansa. If something happens to her Jaime is as good as dead. Ser Boros is afraid the crowd will be even more enraged if they see their white cloaks, rightly so. But Tyrion tells him to take his cloak off if he’s too afraid to wear it. Ser Boros nearly attacks Tyrion for calling him ugly, lol, but Bronn pushes Tyrion out of the way. Even Cersei yells at Boros to do as the Hand tells him or he’ll lose his job. He made an oath.

13. Sandor shows up with Sansa as they’re arguing. She’s injured and badly shaken. The Hound saved her. The Hound says he saw Ser Aron Santagar’s head get bashed in by the mob. Lol, Sandor cares more about his horse than Lollys.

14. Now Flea Bottom’s on fire. Tyrion’s afraid of flames getting to his wildfire. That would be devastating. He commands Sandor to put it out and sees fear in his eyes, awe. He forgot he’s frightened of it. The Hound says he’ll go, but only so he can get his horse back, lol.

15. Surprisingly, Cersei rounds on the rest of the Kingsguard for disobeying the King’s Hand. She tells them to do as her brother says, wow. She chastises them for how they behaved, even though they were only following Joff’s orders, which in of itself is pretty stupid.

16. Lol, Tyrion has to restrain himself from yelling at his mountain men for being difficult. He commands them to protect Shae.

17. Later that night the mob disperses and a “butcher’s bill” comes in with the names of all those who were found dead, including the High Septon. Ser Preston and Ser Aron are also dead, two of the Kingsguard. Miraculously, Lollys was found still alive, though she’d been raped by fifty different men and is delirious. Tyrion’s cousin, Tyrek, is still missing, including the Septon’s crystal crown. Tyrion doesn’t care about the crown, though. Like really.

18. Ser Jacelyn Bywater speaks to him frankly. They held the rioters off for now, but he can’t speak for tomorrow. Open threats of treason are heard on the streets now. He doesn’t trust half his gold cloaks, being Slynt’s men. “...It takes more than a gold cloak to make a watchman.” And the ones he says are good men are still only half-trained. He says if it comes to battle, the gold cloaks will not hold. So now it seems to me they really need Highgarden on their side! They produce most of the food, I believe. He says the smallfolk hate the Lannisters, and for good reason. Some still blame Tywin Lannister for sacking the city. So the smallfolk hate them for executing Ned Stark, that’s interesting to know. But they don’t hate Joffrey the most, surprisingly. They blame Tyrion for all this mess, lol, of course. They don’t know he’s trying to fix things and they think he started them. He’s responsible for Joffrey, who is “just a boy.” They think the fault lies with his Hand. As soon as he came to King’s Landing things took a turn for the worst. It’s almost as if Tywin knew this would happen.

19. Poor Tyrion doubts his own achievements. He calls in Varys and Bronn, his most trusted advisors, and realizes it doesn’t make him look good, having a master of whisperers and a sellsword for advisors. He snaps at Bronn for things he wouldn’t normally care about, like eating his dinner for him. Bronn casually suggests Tommen would make a better king than Joffrey, hinting they should kill Joff. Tyrion is outraged at the notion. He tells Bronn he could have his head for talking like that but Bronn only laughs. Wow... Bronn is ballsy. He knows Tyrion can’t have Bronn killed, he needs him. Varys calls them friends, tells them not to quarrel, and to take heart. Tyrion asks whose, as there’s several he can think of. I’m not sure what he means by that, though.

[Clara]

Yeah I think (about Tyrion not wanting to kill Joffrey) is because he's the king as well. And Tyrion is a good person, so I think even if Joffrey wasn't Jaime's son, he wouldn't have done it anyway. But I have the idea the fact he is Jaime's son is a huge part in his decision of not doing it.

About your point 2, I remember at some point Daenerys said there were no slaves in Pentos, officially, but there were slavers anyway.

Interesting in your point 10 it reminded you of The Hunger Games. But it's true!