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Why didn't Jaime tell anyone about the wildfire scheme?


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I've never understood why he didn't. He tells Brienne that he said nothing because no one would have believed him, but at the same time, why wouldn't he at least try?



Maybe he secretly kind of liked the extra attention he garnered from being the Kingslayer. Even though he was reviled, he was also feared, and he knew he'd be immortalized forever in stories because of what he'd done in King's Landing.



He also knew the real reason he did it, and because there were no witnesses, like Equilibrium said, no one can verify the wildfire story, however believable it might be thanks to Aerys's madness and obsession with fire.


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well... he was 17. Who isn't whiny, immature and entitled at that age?

And in his thirties was still bitter about Eddard judging him. :)

"by what right does the wolf judge the lion?"

Every right. The lion put himself in a situation that he had to explain and he chose not to because Eddard saw it all without the context and understandably made an assumption. It was up to Jaime to explain himself but he didn't. So his complaints about being judged are really stupid to me.

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Who would he tell? Tywin? Tywin had just sacked the city, and despite Jaime's believe that Tywin would not have harmed children, Rhaenys and Aegon had been killed in a horrible way, just as Elia was.


Tywin knowing about the wildfire would not be a good idea, ;)



Robert? I don't think that Jaime had such a high opinion of Robert, and it did not get better over the years.



Ned? Ned wouldn't even have wanted to listen to him, and even though he could have told Ned, Ned would have acted to Jaime the same way he did when he didn't know.. To Ned, Jaime had broken his vows as a KG, and thus was dishonourable.


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