voicetesting goldenhand; spoilers for ASOS, spoilers for AFFC and ADWD possible

[slayedaking]

You suffer, so I must suffer with you, is that the way? So be it.

You know you cannot take this back, girl. If my hand is gone, it's gone. The only way you might return it would be to make the past half a year you've played with me for naught. All the work you have done in your efforts to change me, erased.

Life has grown dull, I agree; is cutting my hand off the balm you truly wish?

[Those who know him might see him as quieter, somehow; darker, but not lesser. Don't try to tell Jaime this, but there's more of him intact than he realizes. Then again, it might be hard to see when you look for the golden knight with an ego too big for the room and find this. As if he were just a man now.]

I know by now I can't change your mind, and that you'll do as you wish. Why listen to me at all? [There's an awkward moment where he uses his weak left hand to fit the stem of the glass into the sculpted gold of his right. Then he drinks.]

Comments

[cassielschoice]

That seems cruel, even for one of them.

[slayedaking]

It's only what my home does to me. Not that anyone in Atia who knows has seen fit to warn me.

[cassielschoice]

Which is, perhaps, a worse lapse on their parts. Though it would do little good to know.

[slayedaking]

I suppose it would be kinder not to tell me, it's true.

[starktomboy]

You say she's making an effort to change you? Let her. I think having your hand cut off would improve your personality greatly.

[S n e r k.]

[slayedaking]

Go find another heel to snap at, little wolf.

[starktomboy]

Why should I do that when yours is available?

[She'd feel sorry for him, having lost his sword hand, if she didn't hate his family so much.]

It must have been painful.

[And that's as close as she's getting to saying she feels bad. Horrible sibling or no, no one deserved to lose a hand - even if he'd used his to push her brother out of a window. :|]

[antlered]

Ooh, that must hurt.

[slayedaking]

[Awesome.]

Have you something to say?

[tryacorset]

I dare say she will not listen to you. They tend not to, but they like to put on a show of doing so every now and again. I'm not entirely sure why.

[slayedaking]

There's still hope that this doesn't come to pass. Some.

[tryacorset]

I know so little about the man you were in your home that I feel I cannot fully understand what would befall you. All I know is that I consider you a friend and that I do not wish for any harm to come to you.

[regretzio]

[strum]

♪ Look up; she has told you of the day
When you may be harmed
For you see, as they say
Forewarned is forearmed ♪

[slayedaking]

[Oh gods. Not this again.]

[At least there's no instant "attempt to stab" reflex...although that might be because he can barely stab his dinner.] Yet there's nothing I can do to change it.

[upheld]

They hardly do. Listen to us, that is.

[ and now she just feels guilt for not haven spoken of it to him. ]

[slayedaking]

I've known that for some time. [Beat.] My lady.

[upheld]

Would that I could be glad you now know me. [ a sigh, and she considers her words before speaking. ]

I am sorry. I had wished to speak to you of it before, truly.

[thebeggar]

[ Guess who's a tad "thrilled" to stumble upon this discovery. ]

What is a "lion" without its paw?

[slayedaking]

And what is a dragon that can't withstand fire? [He's heard about you, pal.]

[thebeggar]

[. . .]

I take it that news travels awfully quick in Westeros.

[the_true_dragon]

[He is saying nothing accusatory Jaime because he knows not who you are, but can you look upon the face, the eyes, the faint sadness there and not remember.]

Would it be that I know you, your face seems familiar.

[slayedaking]

[Of all the dead men to appear...Jaime might have preferred Aerys. At least he can be said to have hated Aerys -- he never had a real quarrel with Rhaegar. He tilts his head back a little, but gives little else away.]

You would.

[the_true_dragon]

Yet you offer no name, must I request this as well?

[He studies the man, much older yet, there is something that Rhaegar is considering. Perhaps it is the eyes, but there is familiarity there.]

[alittlelion]

Your hand?

[What was his brother without his sword hand? He couldn't imagine a Jaime without the ability to fight. It was such a biggest part of him. He wished he had some witty response or some snide remark, but he couldn't. The shock of imagining his brother without his sword skills, without the ability to be a knight in the most basis sense of the word, it left him speechless.]

Let's hope she reconsiders.

[slayedaking]

The decision isn't yet made. So the hope isn't futile.

[But yeah. He's not feeling good about it.]