“This is fitting,” Sandor admits to himself, “I got to do it. Gregor never needed words to convey his meager thoughts. With one eye, Sandor meets his brother’s gaze enraged and undead eyes glare back at him. Because it’s fan fiction, dammit, and I can do what I want.
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Mandala-lore: In which Sandor faces his fears, Stranger behaves like a loyal dog, and all wrongs are soothed and corrected. Arya looks down, but can’t bring herself to smile, like the Hound, her revenge does not bring her joy. Arya slits Cersei’s throat, just like her own mother Catelyn had been killed by the Freys. Still kneeling, Cersei grasps onto Jaime’s golden hand. She maybe shares her final words either relating to Jaime, like ‘ It doesn’t make sense to live when he does not, we were born together, and so we will die together.’ or maybe even mentioning Daenerys, as the beautiful queen that will take her throne, but destroy everything else. Knowing that this is the end, and that she deserves her fate. ‘You play the game of thrones, you win or you die’ says Arya, having been told by Bran of Cersei’s words to Ned. She also talks about Cersei’s mistreatment of Sansa, a sister who wishes the same revenge as her. If it weren’t for the Lannisters, her whole family would still be alive, even Rickon, who was left unprotected by his mother’s absence. She reminds Cersei of her involvement in her father Ned’s death, and in turn the deaths of her mother Catelyn and brother Robb. She kneels and begs Arya to spare the life of her and her child.īut Arya is stoic.
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She finally reveals her desperate humanity, the mother who still grieves for her three lost children, her dead father and whose just lost the only other person she held dear. Realising that her love has been killed, and before her stands her family’s greatest enemy, she breaks down. She turns to see Arya, dressed in Jaime’s armour. But as she does her eyes fall on another figure, an unarmored man with no face, and to her horror, sees that he is wearing Jaime’s golden hand. She voices her relief in his death and compliments Jaime on his fight. Cersei runs up ahead for air and sees the dead Euron. We have the scene when Jaime reaches Cersei and they embrace and Jaime guides her through the secret tunnel back to the cove.
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We see Jaime fight Euron by the cove, which results in Jaime getting injured and Euron dying. We last see Jaime stumbling away towards the secret entrance. So in my version Arya hasn’t killed the Night King, so she’s really gunning for Cersei.Īfter saying goodbye to the Hound, Arya is seen her running past the dragon skulls, having played there during her time in King’s Landing. In my opinion it should have been Jaime (to fully redeem himself and make him a hero) or Bran, should have killed him. This is how I think it should have played out in Episode 5:īear in mind, I don’t think Arya should have been the one to kill the Night King. Instead she only used this power to kill minor characters Walder Frey and Meryn Trant. It made sense that after all that training with the House of Black and White, that Arya would use the trick of the Faceless Men to kill a major character using the face of another main character. I have always been a fan of the theory that Arya would kill Cersei using Jaime’s face. To think minor characters like Lyanna Mormont, Missandei and Edd had better deaths than two of the biggest characters on Game of Thrones. To have her and Jaime killed by a collapsing ceiling, was probably the WORST possible ending for these two. Cersei’s death is probably one of the most anticipated death on Game of Thrones, having long been built up as the real baddie of the series. I think this ending for Jaime and Cersei was AWFUL.