Game of Thrones/ASOIAF Fic: Nights Without Armor (Chapter 3 - Brienne, Part 2)

[bratanimus]

Author: bratanimus
Title: Nights Without Armor (Chapter 3 - Brienne, Part 2)
Fandom: Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
Pairing: Jaime/Brienne, Podrick/Sansa
Word Count: 4,441 this chapter (~ 32,000 entire story)
Rating & Warnings: M for sexual content, language
Summary: An unlikely trio - Jaime, Brienne, and Podrick - set out to rescue Sansa from Petyr

Comments

[gilpin25]

This is fast climbing the ranks of my favourite fics, and this chapter gave it another boost upwards on its merry way! That icon of Brienne is perfect; it's lovely to see her start to shed the inclination to hide her body, and start to accept the scars and who she really is.

I must do the usual and start by praising your characterisation and storytelling. Pod might not say much here, but when he does it's either comedy gold (“I - yes, my lady, Ser, I am! I merely - I thought -"), or one of those loyal and touching lines that makes me think Tyrion couldn't have picked a better squire, so long ago. And now he's there for the three of them (but increasingly for Sansa, it seems. LOL). I grinned at Brienne and Jaime teasing him, too, despite the fact I'm sure they're less than thrilled at the prospect of another meeting with the Brotherhood. I am though

[bratanimus]

Thank you SO much for all your wonderful, thoughtful, generous comments!! As always, you've seen everything I hoped you'd see, and then some

[gilpin25]

Merrynovice wrote on AO3 a beautiful and horrific endgame!fic called Corruption by Salt Water, starring Brienne, with Jaime/Cersei, and it killed me dead.

Wow, that is a powerful and well done piece. Even more so, because it seems horribly likely that Jaime will take Cersei out in some way before meeting his own fate. Leaving Brienne behind. AAGH.

My one hope with the books is that Cersei and Jaime's fates have been SO heavily signposted from the very beginning, what with prophecies and dreams and their own words throughout, that it's almost expected should it occur? And GRRM doesn't like to give the reader what they might expect.

Can you tell I've had quite enough of my ships dying and will therefore grasp at any straw? LOL. But I agree with you that Jaime's arc surely has some way still to go; he wants to fill that page in the book for a start.

Of all the squicky moments of canon, that one was right up there for me.This. I suppose it needed to be utterly wrong in so many ways that they'd actually go there, to show how

[bratanimus]

Can you tell I've had quite enough of my ships dying and will therefore grasp at any straw? LOL.

YES. AND I QUITE AGREE. Speaking of those ships, did you see the Remus bio from Pottermore?? Guh.

I really do hope you're right about GRRM not wanting to give the readers what he's so heavily foreshadowed. Especially in light of what you reminded me of re: Jaime's dream about he and Brienne being the only survivors. Do you have that quote? I'd love to read it again. No worries if it's not at your fingertips. :)