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  1. It could be dormant or it could be luck or he could have some kind of Targ immunity!
  2. and cats! https://www.cats.org.uk/cats-blog/can-cats-see-colour
  3. I had noted this pattern of 'identity'- which starts in AFFC and continues in ADWD - and saw the rest simply as chapters that cover the Ironborn and the Dornish, who are introduced in these books. Having these titles made them seem temporary or extra somehow. Also, at least in AFFC, they tend to have only one or two chapters each. And they're giving different angles on the same events - the Kingsmoot in one, and Arianne's foolish Queenmaking foray in the other. So no real need for numbering by POV. However, I then realised that a lot of the Ironborn and Dornish chapters could also be seen as about changing identity e.g. Quentyn's are The Merchants Man where he plays the role of a servant to Gerris Drinkwater, then the WIndblown where his group has joined a mercenary company under false names in order to continue their journey, but are then instructed to go to Meereen; then The Spurned Suitor and finally, poignantly, The Dragon Tamer. I think the titles do actually add to the atmosphere of the books. I suspect he would think of them that way, too. I doubt he thinks or says "I am writing Tyrion XIX" now but thinks of them by shorthand - like "The Princess in the Tower" and "The Queenmaker".
  4. Aaargghh! Actually considering the major post before this was "Dark Days" (ignoring posts discussing releases) perhaps it means in the current climate dreamers will be lonely.
  5. (TWOW, ADOS) belong to him alone (not fans, not publisher) but it means he is lonely and can't help feeling negative vibes. Maybe from me! and you!
  6. Tyrion is my first thought. He seems like the most important character to the author, has the most mentions of any character in the text, I think, and as he is a real journeyer, he can journey on to the end. Brienne - possibly. Possibly as an undead person. Arya - who can say? I can't see why she wouldn't survive. Sansa - likewise I can't see a narrative/character necessity for her to die. Unless her role in the plot becomes limited to one thing like Petyr's machinations trying t make a northern force and then GRRM dumps her. Bran - he's become a greenseer, he doesn't seem like he'd be on the author's hit list Rickon - he'll be a blast from the past when the Kings of Winter were harder and wilder Jon - because I think he deserves to Samwell - he'll be a very wise advisor by the time he gets to the end Aemon Steelsong - what the point of knocking him off? Pure spite? Won't survive Jaime - I think he'll run his race in TWOW. Well, I think he'll live on for a while as an undead like Beric and Catelyn, but not for very long. Tommen & Mycella - too much to be hoped for. Shireen - I think the show gave away what is now obvious from various things like her ashy face and dragon nightmares. Not to mention Patchface jumping around her chanting creepily about the netherworld below the sea. Petyr - villain must die! There'll be no role for him once the war of five kings ceases to be the main struggle. Cersei - doomed doomed doomed Martells - Doran seems to have some wisdom but no practical brains at all. He sends his children on missions that are the opposite of any talents they have. (Except for Tyrion and Jaime, I really don't have much faith in my own list above. GRRM keeps us guessing).
  7. I guess its a pointless discussion in a way as GRRM hopefully doesn't write straight from a whatever-it-is-that-establishes-diagnostic-guidelines. I suppose 'some behaviours like those with a personality disorder but she doesn't really fit the bill' describes her, anyway.
  8. I don't really know what I think about this. Sandy Clegg makes good points that firstly, GRRM inserts in the text the information that the Strangler is not one of the Essosi names for the leaf or crystal and the Strangler seems to be a Westerosi nickname for it, and secondly that Cersei herself connects Joffrey's death from the Strangler with Maggi's prophecy. I really can't see a good reason for bothering to insert the information that the names of a poison are forgotten other than to set up for Cersei dying from something that's real name is the Little Brother Both having the little brother pool wider than Cersei realises, and having the word refer to a poison, do the job of the prophecies - to bite you in the bum - you can’t escape them and they are not what you think. It could be argued that having it refer to a poison makes a bigger twist and also a bigger surprise to the reader, but then, does that mean that it’s NOT going to be either of Cersei’s brothers? Because I think if she is strangled from poison administered by Tyrion and the reader somehow learns, “oh that poison is also called the Little Brother” it just messes things up. The only way it would work would be if she had someone kill Tyrion, felt very smug, and then someone poisoned her with the Little Brother. I suppose just hearing that Tyrion is dead and jumping for joy then dying because someone else gave you the Strangler would also work.
  9. poor old sweetrobin hasn't had any tiny chance of normal development! no need for an autism diagnoses. I agree re Pod and others. And I think Stannis is the only one where I think the author might have modelled him partly with a condition in mind. I seem to be landing the role of arguing that Cersei has a personality disorder when my initial reasoning was just that I didn't see her as autistic, and that, if anything, I'd say she had a personality disorder. I do see a chain from Tytos to Joffrey of troubled persons. Tywin's weird smileless personality develops in reaction to Tytos constant need to appease and please etc. PS I don't know that I buy 'just amoral'. I was thinking that labelling people as 'just amoral' probably allows psychiatrists to avoid having some very unpleasant people in their office!
  10. Sorry I can't really join you in this exploration I don't generally see any point in diagnosing characters in literature and in any case I don't have the knowledge to do it. I also managed to get through university before feminism got the academic treatment and dropped out of literature in first year as the particular faculty was completely unengaging. I never had the slightest inclination to study psychology. So after making an attempt to read your post properly I can see you may have some points but also I simply do not have the background to engage. I had family members with personality disorders and Cersei rings a giant gong for me, that is all I can say. I think its all explicable in what GRRM has given us about her childhood. The reaction that people in real life have to the behaviours of people with certain kinds of personality disorders (presuming said people aren't au fait with these conditions) is eventually just a frustrated "She's just CRAZY!" in my experience so perhaps if readers react that way it just shows how well GRRM presents her. BTW, I find this bit from your post puzzling But categorizing a character as having a personality disorder only really serves the narrative purpose of allowing readers to write off their interiority as “crazy”, and reduce the character to being important to a story for plot reasons alone, i.e., GRRM created Cersei so she could be a thorn in the side of the “actual” characters in the story, not a character with a story of her own. Why would readers thinking a character is autistic react differently to said character than if they think (or have been told) that said character has a personality disorder? It just sounds like autism is in fashion and no-one would 'write the character off as 'autistic' ' whereas for some reason they would of course write off a character as 'having a personality disorder'."
  11. I don't think her problems relating to others stems from autism. I think there is a line of personality disorder from Tywin's father to Cersei to Joffrey. I don't mean genetic.
  12. I have always considered Stannis as a character who was autistic-like, more as a comparison to explain his intractabilty than saying 'oh this character is meant to be autistic'. Although come to think of it when I look at Cersei I do think 'oh, this character is meant to have a personality disorder'.
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