//// I am doing this for safekeeping. We never know when things could disappear. I want to be able to come back to his words.
(Regular) Baahal:
Her loyalty and her dedication to her family were the first things that Jaime noted about her, and Jaime admires these things about her so, so much. Loyal to a fault, brave, stubborn Baahal. When they first met at Winterfell, when they had their conversation and Jaime snapped her out of her whole ‘sacrificial lamb’ mentality, he never would have imagined that they would go from where they were then, to where they are now.
She is so brutally honest, so good, so dedicated to doing what she believes to be the right thing. She is the opposite of what Jaime was for so long, and exactly the kind of person that he hopes to one day deserve.
How and why she fell for him, Jaime will never really completely understand. She obviously has a foolish streak. But also… also… you and I know that she see’s something in Jaime that even Jaime himself thought that he had let die. She is rare, in that she doesn’t despise him for being the “Kingslayer”. He killed one man to save an entire city full of people, and Baahal (even though that man was her father) understands better than anyone else ever has that what he did, he did out of basic human decency.
Jaime has made mistake after mistake, he fell for the wrong woman, did unspeakable things to protect her and their children. He’s easily one of the most hated men in the entire Seven Kingdoms. And she’s a Targaryen, he’s a Lannister. Hating him would have been the easy choice. But Baahal didn’t make the easy choice. She recognized that Jaime spoke to her the way that he did, because he didn’t want to see her die. He showed up at Winterfell because he wanted to do the right thing. Most people would have doubted his motivations, but Baahal was sure of it from the beginning, and she hasn’t wavered in that faith since.
And when the war was over, she turned around and saved Jaime in return. She went looking for him, she turned up at Highgarden looking to snap him out of his grief and his guilt. Who else in all the world would have bothered to go looking for him? I tell you who. No one.
The trust that she has for Jaime is everything. No one trusts him. The care that she has for him? No one else cares about him. And her belief that past everything he has already done, he is still a good man, deserving of a second chance? He hopes that she is right. She makes him believe that it might still be possible for him. If it is, it will be with her.
Baahal is exactly the person that Jaime needs. He’s not a rational person. Even now. Jaime is a person ruled by emotions, by his heart. He would do anything, anything at all for the person that he loves. Baahal is good, and honest. She knows this about him but would never use him like Cersei did. She would never push him to do bad, knowing full well that he would do those things for her if she asked. Jaime always runs the risk of falling into old patterns under the right circumstances. Baahal is the person who won’t let that happen.
I know you took a bit of a chance on Jaime when you decided to follow me into this verse. You weren’t a big fan of him then, but you went with it. And I am so glad that you did, and that you have come to see Jaime the way that I see him. He’s not a one-dimensional character. He’s not just a villain. I always felt that way, and you gave me the chance to really get into his head and portray the version of him that I think deserves to be seen.
Looking at what she has grown into, it is so difficult to believe now that Baahal started off as a one-off character for you. She has become a fully formed character with all kinds of complexities and nuances of her own. She suffered through so many hardships of her own early in life, growing up a slave, being used, seeing the things that she saw. Only to come out the other side of it as caring and compassionate and strong as she is. Baahal is incredible.
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