Hi maester steven, in ACOK we’re told that the people of KL think that tyrion is the real evil behind joffrey. Do you think is possible that this notion comes not only from ableism but that Littlefinger had something to do too? The whole myrcella’s marriage thing had happened not long before, and he has proven himself very adept at starting rumours (the whole shireen’s a bastard deal, and the way he used gossip to manipulate the tyrells into the purple wedding and placing loras in the KG).

Not really. I think GRRM shows his hand with this passage:

“His Grace is but a boy. In the streets, it is said that he has evil councillors. The queen has never been known as a friend to the commons, nor is Lord Varys called the Spider out of love … but it is you they blame most. Your sister and the eunuch were here when times were better under King Robert, but you were not.”

I don’t think LF needed to do anything to get the common people to turn on Tyrion. 

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