Tyrion is committed to the good of both his House, and since Cersei married King Robert Baratheon, his family's hold on the throne. He got on well with Jaime, his niece Myrcella and nephew Tommen, but had a colder relationship with Cersei and the psychopathic Joffrey. Tyrion spent a lot of time at court in King's Landing to avoid his father. While two siblings occupied positions of power, Tyrion was put in charge of the sewers at Casterly Rock when he turned of age. Jaime confessed he had orchestrated the attack to help Tyrion lose his virginity. When Lord Tywin learned what had happened, he payed Tysha, a prostitute, to service every one of his guards while Tyrion watched. They later became lovers and got married in secret. While Jaime dispatched the attackers, Tyrion helped the girl, named Tysha, recover. When Tyrion was sixteen, he interrupted the attempted rape of a wheelwright's daughter. Had an infant with dwarfism like Tyrion been born a commoner, he'd have been left in the woods to die luckily, his birthright as a Lannister afforded him significant wealth and power. Tyrion is mocked for being a dwarf, called derisive names such as "Imp" and "Halfman", which he tries to embrace to keep his self esteem up. Tyrion's mother, Joanna Lannister, died giving birth to him, a tragedy which Tywin and Cersei unfairly blame Tyrion for. But neither gods nor men will ever compel me to let you turn Casterly Rock into your whorehouse." ― Tywin's response when Tyrion asks for Casterly Rock And to teach me humility, the gods have condemned me to watch you waddle about wearing that proud lion that was my father's sigil and his father's before him. Men's laws give you the right to bear my name and display my colors since I cannot prove that you are not mine. His path to Daenerys was laid and the story is far better for it." You are an ill-made, spiteful little creature full of envy, lust, and low cunning. Tyrion's contempt for his father came forth in his tirade about the trumped up charges against him and why they were made in the first place and it is clearly the moment when the old manner in which Westeros was run lost his allegiance. Martin concerning society's problems stemming from fathers deserting their own children? Perhaps not but we can certainly glean that as something to consider. Tyrion and Tywin, Lord Tarley and Sam, Walder Frey and his two dottering boys as well as several others. There is a major theme which runs through the show concerning fathers and how poorly they treat their children. And, minus the help of his brother in escaping his cell, he would have. ![]() He's guilty of being something his father hates through no fault of his own and is now expected to pay for it with his life. This pretty much summed it all up and might have been a foreshadowing of Tyrion's eventual murder of Tywin. Here are our 15 favorite quips from the estimable and strangely eloquent Imp. Face it, we've all encountered people who either think they're better than us or actually are better through no effort of their own. He makes us feel a little sorry for him and then, just as quickly, lets us know he never needed our sympathy.Īlthough they are filled with wisdom less often than scorn, his words give us a very guttural satisfaction. His personality, which switches constantly and smoothly between condescension, coercion and contempt is unusually attractive to the audience because he is normally plying it against a far more egregious character such as his sister or some other party, which desires his imminent and painful death. In fact, we wouldn't find ourselves rooting for the half-man known as Tyrion if the rest of his family weren't irritating blowhards and inbreeders. They were all born with silver spoons in their mouths, have despicable airs of entitlement to them and will throw pretty much anyone they come in contact with under the bus-or carriage as it were-provided they are not also a Lannister.
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