There is something that fascinates me, and is Tywin and Stannis parallelism and admiration for each other. Tywin speaks of how he always felt Stannis as a grander threat that the rest of them (kings) combined, but even so he makes the same mistake than with Robb, namely, “his sun set at the Blackwater” “the rest of them are usurpers and thieves”. While Stannis spoke of how, with Robert holding his hand, both saw someone on the Iron Throne so solemn that they thought it was the king and even when Steffon confessed them that it was Tywin the hand, Stannis believed that was the image a king should have (just like Jon said Jaime was the image a king should have).
I say this because, while both have the same outward behaviour, is the same as Aerys and Robert’s behaviour, namely, Stannis and Tywin are very introverted, only in public when neccessary, frown upon them all, etc.
BUT, and here’s the problem, they are actually the same face on different coins, while Aerys and Tywin are faces on the same coin, Robert and Stannis are another coin, though Robert was corruptible and therefore worn away until it was unrecognizible but Stannis’ face has been kept untarnished. I say this because, well, summing up, Tywin is a gilded surface with a rotten core, while Stannis is a rotten (or simply rough) surface with a golden core.
I want to know where did they differ. I understand Tywin continously hearing mocks under a house whose ancient history he was keenly aware of (and therefore asking himself why do they have to suffer such shitty behaviour) but so is Stannis, specially after knowing Robert was horned, it was more than love for Robert (love that they did have, embittered as that may be) like humilliation for their entire house, the “Lannister woman” laughing at him. So, where did Tywin finally break and think that image and not substance nor acts were more important whereas Stannis chose to do the right thing? Where did they diverge?
And also, another thing I was thinking, having into account that Renly most likely was an attempt to give Rhaegar a royalblooded bride, and supposing that Robert is equally socially skilled with women as well as men, it may mean that Female Stannis STILL holds Storm’s End while leaving his two supposed children (as Rhaegar would have another plot-excused reason to have his third child with Lyanna, Ice and Fire after all) in Dragonstone, and I mean, Female Stannis would be a Doctoral Thesis on duty. What are your thoughts on that?
Wow. That’s a lot to take in. I guess I could see the parallels to an extent, but I don’t know if I agree entirely. For one thing, I think Tywin always cared about power primarily, and image only as it extended to power, whereas Stannis’ fixation on law counter-balanced his resentment.
RFTIT Tumblr Backup 