Comment fic meme #3

[gotexchange_mod]

Here we go for the post-exchange comment fic meme. (Posted on the mod account as usual because I don't want to enable anonymous comments on the exchange comm.)

A couple of rules:

- please include the pairing/character (and maybe a short prompt/kink) in the comment title - both for prompts and for fills.
- there are both show and book fans in this

Comments

Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 1/2)

[juno_chan]

(I have been side-eyeing this prompt forever but couldn't decide how to approach it, I HAVE CRACKED

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[juno_chan]

“No,” he answers immediately, truthfully. He had not loved Catelyn Tully, had certainly never lain with her and so unlike the girl before him, does not know what she would have looked like naked underneath him. He had harbored a thought, for the briefest of moments, of how it would be to wed her rather than her insipid sister, and how it would not be entirely terrible as he thought marriage to another beside Cersei would be. He had kissed her in the godswood of Riverrun, and she had laughed, and he had pushed his hands (two hands, both hands) through her hair, but he had not loved her.

He had not loved her, and yet when he lies with Sansa he cannot help but think of those days so long gone. He had not loved her but he had loved himself then - strong and eager, handsome and infallible, the world at his feet and his heart still full of dreams. He still believed in knights then, he thinks, and had cared not a fig for things such as crowns and castles and conquering. He had still believed if he loved Cersei enough, if he wanted her

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[oparu]

awwww, this is all beautiful and sad and FEELINGS.

Really nice characterisation. (and Cat, dammit, CAT)

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[juno_chan]

Thank you my dear!!! Ugh I have so many Sansa feelings I just leak them everywhere. (And CAAAAAAT!!)

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[lainemontgomery]

HAAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAA!!!! I KNEW I WOULD BREAK YOU EVENTUALLY!!!!!

UGH, this is just so good. So, so good. YOU ARE GIVING ME SO MANY JAIME FEELS HERE THEY ARE LOOK AT THEM. I LOVE how he's constantly afraid of calling her "Cersei", but that he comes to realize that she'd be able to handle that better than what he DOES call her. AND AHHHHH CATELYN TULLY MAKES HIM THINK OF BETTER, PURER TIMES. Those had been the days before war, before kingslayers and kinslayers, before Starks and Baratheons and Lannisters were felled one by one, where a boy could chase a girl through the godswood with no true intention of catching her. This line is perfection. Because my darling Jaime believed in dreams and knights once upon a time. ATHEIOARPJEIROPEJAO KEYBOARD SMASH

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[juno_chan]

YOU KNOW ME TOO WELl, MY DEAR, YOU KNOW ME TOO WELL!!!

I hadn't even really planned on it before I started writing, but once I did I just EXPLODED WITH JAIME FEELS. Because part of the reason I like Jaime/Catelyn is the sort of juxaposition of the first meeting (adorable innocent flirty times in Riverrun) and their interactions when he's the prisoner in the Stark camp. And in a situation where he DID call Sansa 'Cat', I see it more as a longing for those TIMES rather than a longing for Catelyn herself (although head!canon will forever be that even later on, he likes Catelyn because she's KINDA A LOT LIKE CERSEI IN SOME WAYS). And that period in his life was when he was golden and infallible and sometimes he just wants to be there again. <333 OH JAIME

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[fields195]

I really like where you took this prompt for both Jaime and Sansa. The idea that Cat represents Jaime's lost youth and optimism is brilliant. As you said above, one of the neatest things about Jaime/Cat is the major differences between their teenage meeting and their ACOK meeting; they both go through so much! I love that Jaime feels bound to his promise to Cat and that he wars with himself over it and the question of his honor.

And Sansa gives me all the feelz! Her reasoning for being upset is perfect. The way that Petyr tries to appropriate Cat for himself and rewrite Sansa's childhood is one of the most galling things about him. Like Sansa says, "she was my mother," and I love that Jaime understands that much. Sansa's family belongs to her, not to dodgy not-ex-boyfriends, XD. Great job with this!!

Re: Fill: I carry your heart with me (pt 2/2)

[juno_chan]

Thank you my dear! In a prompt like this, I thought it definitely would have to mean something that he calls a teenage Sansa 'Cat' - he's seen Catelyn more recently and certainly knows she's not 16 anymore. And as Laine said above, that Jaime - the Jaime that went to Riverrun - was basically the most privileged person ever and I can definitely see him being wistful for those days, and mournful of what a hopeful person he once was.

AND OH MY SANSA. =( I didn't want to make Sansa into Lysa v.2.0, aka resentful of the comparisons or delusional. Instead she's just angry that people keep trying to hone in on our family. Like you said, they're hers, not dodgy not-ex-boyfriends. XD So glad you liked!