I always think about that fact; how young Jaime is when he joins the Kingsguard. He's fifteen, the age of Robb and of Jon Snow, and he watches this mad cruel king do terrible things and these men who are paragons of honor, his brothers of the Kingsguard, do nothing and rebuke him for apparently showing his own revulsion in his face. And the disillusionment of that, plus the realization that Aerys chose him only to spite his father ... those are powerful shocks to someone, no?
I always think that Jon and Jaime have a lot of parallels in many ways - not least because they both have to make a difficult choice about which oaths are worth keeping and they have to do it when they are both young and alone.
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Date: 2006-01-28 01:33 am (UTC)I always think that Jon and Jaime have a lot of parallels in many ways - not least because they both have to make a difficult choice about which oaths are worth keeping and they have to do it when they are both young and alone.