Tyrion is the sort of man who finds compromises: his queen is not. He knows well that her preference towards politics tends to conquering and enforcement, ruling equally with love and fear. Unlike the tyrants he has known she is selfless, good, unswaveringly morally right—
And in that upright view she had found room for a twisted little dwarf from the family of her enemy, and an old Westerosi man who loved and betrayed her, and a eunuch, and a slave. She is kind to cripples, bastards and broken things. Despite everyone who has betrayed her, he believes she has room in her heart for leniency. She can stay her rage. ]
Thank you, my queen.
[ A touch relieved. ]
He freed me, you know. I said terrible things to him — I was angry. I still am. But he helped me to escape King's Landing rather than die there.
Without him, I would never have met you.
[ Which Tyrion considers something of a debt her owes to Jaime. And a Lannister ... well, everyone knows how that goes. ]
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Tyrion is the sort of man who finds compromises: his queen is not. He knows well that her preference towards politics tends to conquering and enforcement, ruling equally with love and fear. Unlike the tyrants he has known she is selfless, good, unswaveringly morally right—
And in that upright view she had found room for a twisted little dwarf from the family of her enemy, and an old Westerosi man who loved and betrayed her, and a eunuch, and a slave. She is kind to cripples, bastards and broken things. Despite everyone who has betrayed her, he believes she has room in her heart for leniency. She can stay her rage. ]
Thank you, my queen.
[ A touch relieved. ]
He freed me, you know. I said terrible things to him — I was angry. I still am. But he helped me to escape King's Landing rather than die there.
Without him, I would never have met you.
[ Which Tyrion considers something of a debt her owes to Jaime. And a Lannister ... well, everyone knows how that goes. ]