#Penny a song of ice and fire full

But I can still see her as a twist of Tyrion's statement that all dwarfs are bastards in their fathers eyes. Many of you rule out the possibilty that the curly girl can be indeed the Penny to Tysha's silvers and gold, because Tyrion may be too young to be her natural father. Since Penny looks very much alike Tysha you have to wonder why. GRRM makes quite a point showing us affection between those two individuals and yet stresses the lack of sexual desire. In return Tyrion might encourage a kind of love that goes beyond blood relation, if he accepts her brother's place. Penny gives him another option, an option more like himself. Tyrion was always out for laughs rather than to frighten people the way his father deemed right. There is a lot of self-hatred, but Penny liberates the dwarf-self Tywin oppressed and turns it into something noteworthy. In AGOT he wondered what it were like would he have a twin like Jaime has - only to be grateful for not having a look at someone like him all the time. Only that there were times when Tyrion would not allow himself such a sibling. Penny is at loss since her brother's death and maybe intends to fill the gap. Look again at how Tyrion described his ideal love and you can see that he is getting there after a sour mix of assumptions - good or bad - concerning his first love.

#Penny a song of ice and fire full

Penny toughens up around Tyrion since this is a world full of loss and battle compared to the as ifs of the theatre world she knew before. But instead Tyrion suppresses his impulse to force himself onto women around Penny and accepts her simple care without turning it into something else. Nonetheless it seemed like the beginning of a very dark path for Tyrion, with Penny as his next victim. In a twisted way the original setting was restored when Jaime told the truth and when Tywin was found with Shae. This changed when Jaime lied to Tyrion about Tysha's innocence and when Tywin turned Tyrion into one of Tysha's oppressors. They were not expecting much and surprised by their actual potential. Tyrion and Tysha both did not know what they were doing, because Tysha expected bad from men and Tyrion was merely trying to help when they met. Of course the lack of sexual desire can still lead into romance. I can think of three possibilities for Penny, all of them an improvement for her's and Tyrion's personalities rather than the dark end many of you expect. Of course there is yet no true evidence for any outcome and it is bound to be a gut feeling with two books in the making. I think he's too bitter to admit it, but I think in some ways he even envies her life in that she is a dwarf that grew up with a family that liked her. Her being a dwarf makes her instantly relatable to Tyrion and makes her a genuine character to him. It shows that Tyrion's relationship with women has changed/is changing, especially after the woman at Illyrio's palace - that seemed like rock bottom for that kind of behaviour for him Tyrion needs someone right now to lead him out of the darkness - the fact that she's a dwarf and a woman serves two purposes:

I definitely see her as a Brienne parallel, in the sense that for better or worse she ends up accepting who Jaime is and what he's done, and encourages him to be better.

Even if I wouldn't label it as 'sister' per se, I definitely don't see Penny as Tyrion's love interest or daughter just because she's a female and she's a dwarf. I think GRRM wants us to draw that comparison, whether as contrast or as mirror we can't know at this point. Some of you compared Penny to Brienne, who is a POV character and by that open for bigger changes. All in all I see a bright end for our dwarf duo.