In fact, in ADWD, Tyrion VII, he explicitly wants a reward of rape of Cersei for his service. His repeated statements that he wants to rape his sister are pause-worthy if nothing else. I won't quote the entire passage, but the Meereenese Blot did a really good analysis of Tyrion in Selhorys. In ADWD, Tyrion VI, Tyrion does some pretty ugly things to a dead-eyed whore in Selhorys that reek of rape. You're right that Tyrion hasn't devolved into Ramsay-level psychopathy or Arya-level sociopathy, but Tyrion's outlook is very dark by the end of ADWD and the start of TWOW. It may not reveal itself as often, because he hides it behind what looks like the normal Tyrion, but its there.īy the time of ADWD, we're seeing a much changed, much darker Tyrion. It's definitely a darker version of himself. He's acting just as cruel as the world was to him. He doesn't care anymore, because no one seems to care about him. Above all, I think this is a Tyrion that's just had enough of everyone's shit. No matter all of the good he's tried to do in the past, people have spat in his face, hated him, and accused him of crimes.
He's pretty mentally unstable.īeing pushed to the limit is what causes him to be this way. He fixes his mind around, "Where do whores go?". When I first read it, I almost missed it entirely. While this could be justified, actually strangling someone would probably take a lot of resolve and anger, and he just casually does it. He tells Jaime he killed Jofferey because he wants to hurt Jaime. It gives a look into the much darker thoughts lying just below the surface, which is his usual, clever self. He still has mercy, kindness and hope in him, and even if his darker thoughts are closer to the surface now his actions aren't noticeably so.ĭoesn't he claim at one point that he wants to rape and murder Cersei? I mean, obviously he may not literally do it, but the way he says it and the act itself is just out of a desire to hurt. He's just grieving for his brother, and trying to reassemble his personality after losing everything. I love the character, and he's definitely got a dark side, but he's not, in my opinion, noticeably darker in Essos than he was in Kings Landing. He's a remarkably strong character whose main desire has admittedly changed from recognition as a good man to revenge on those who wronged him, but the majority of the evidence I see for his 'darkness' is thoughts and threats he has and makes that are pretty much never acted on. I think it's remarkable that Tyrion hasn't become an abusive psychopath, Ramsey Snow style. Then he let Tyrion think he'd done him a favour by his actions for his whole adult life! And at the root of it all his father, creating an atmosphere where it was ok to treat Tyrion as less than everyone else because of two things Tyrion never chose- his mother dying and his dwarfism. The wanting to kill his family is more about Jaime and Cersei than actually killing all the Lannisters- he hates Cersei because she hated her own brother so much she condemned him to a shadow life in exile, and he hates Jaime because of the Tysha thing- he took the only true happiness Tyrion ever had, made him think it was false while directly causing Tyrion to help in the gang-rape of the only woman who ever loved him. He hates his family, but he's not become a monster- he looks after Penny in a limited way, he does what he has to to survive and retains his curiosity about events. I see a character pushed beyond his limits who snapped, and discovers to his shock that he's not sorry for what he did to his father. being more and more of a 'dark' character in ADWD, after he escapes the black cells.
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