"True Power Can Reside Wherever The Hell It Wants But Not With Me! Now Let Me Swing My Sword Around"

"True power can reside wherever the hell it wants but not with me! Now let me swing my sword around" is the only acceptable answer to Varys's riddle from the sellsword's perspective and Jaime wins the game

it’s soooo crazy that after jaime killed aerys they ASKED him who he was declaring king was he naming himself or tywin or robert or viserys. because so much of the power politics so much of the crown power is this long absurd constructed legitimacy oh the baratheons have a targ ancestor it’s almost continuity that’s why it’s ok. you can’t kill a king and get rid of all that power it was more inherent than that. but when the kings dead on the floor that doesn’t fucking matter at all ask the kid who killed him if he’s king now it’s a moment out of reality. he might as well be isn’t that the way it worked back then. none of that was real it’s all violence might makes right and momentum and jaime says i don’t care name whoever you like. it won’t be me