Her eyes, however, are beautiful and blue, her loveliest feature. She wears a cobalt suit of armour in battle, and is exceptionally skilled in the use of blade, axe and morningstar.
She is also rather skilled in the use of a dagger. In extreme situations, even, Brienne is an unpredictable and very dangerous unarmed brawler, purely due to her physical might.
On account of her status as a woman, her unattractiveness and ungainly nature, Brienne is awkward and shy. She has suffered scorn, condescension, mockery and cruelty her entire life from all but a few people - these people include her own father, the master-at-arms Ser Goodwin, and Renly Baratheon. Brienne has a deep capacity for loyalty, love and adoration, and craves for such adoration from those to whom she provides it.
Brienne has proven true to her word on many an occasion, and aspires to keep her promises and uphold chivalry despite all of the monstrous ways she has been treated for her gender - Jaime expresses amazement that Brienne actually intends to keep her word, while most knights in Westeros don't do anything of the sort. Even Renly, who considered Brienne rather ridiculous behind closed doors, admired her because, while other knights wanted lands or titles or personal wealth from Renly when he vied for the Iron Throne, Brienne only wanted to fight for him and die for him if she had to.
Brienne's loyalty and yearning for love can make her judgemental and naive, and she is originally a little blind to the unevenness of the world - however, not as much as the likes of Sansa Stark, as Brienne is already deeply familiar with how unfair one's situation can become.
Brienne's aspirations to be a true knight can get in the way of her pragmatism, but that doesn't keep her from continuing to follow them. Brienne is extremely brave, and surprisingly resourceful. There has been a fan-pleasing reunion with Jaime, a swordfight with a child assassin, a romantic subplot involving a flame-haired marauder called Tormund Giantsbane — standard Thrones stuff.
The cast have been well drilled not to reveal spoilers, and bat off inquiries with ease. It was a lot! Then she breaks out into a grin. They squeezed the orange. Every last drop of juice out of that orange! And just a husk was left behind. Christie is just as cheerfully evasive when I try to ask about her romantic life. She regularly appears in dresses made by fashion designer Giles Deacon, her partner for about the last five years.
Red carpets, intimate VIP parties. Having heard Christie speak about her youth, when she often felt like an outsider looking in, I wonder how it sits with her now — to be an insider looking out? But, yes, she takes my point. So the lesson is out there, I say. You support new people you believe in. We talk about life after Game Of Thrones, which will start more or less as soon as we finish our interview.
That seemed so far away. She gives an example, her recent escapades at New York fashion week. Before appearing in the oversized Koizumi costume, Christie was already taking up a lot of room, struggling to fit through doors, when she was asked: which shoes?
Flat ones, or eight-inch platforms that would push her up to a height of about 7ft? It was a boxing coach on Game Of Thrones who told me that. Gwendoline Christie. Without Ser Brienne, House Stark would have finished the show smaller than it was, if not extinct. She was the first knight in the show to keep her oath to a dead woman whom she just met by accident.
She had every reason to join the Lannisters and stay close to Jaime and the glory of King's Landing, but she stayed loyal to her oath. She basically turned herself into Sansa's mother and father by securing her escape from the Boltons, bringing her to Jon Snow and later, helping them defeat the dead.
Her loyalty to Sansa and Arya made house Stark strong and gave Sansa the chance to become the queen in the North, a throne she totally earned. Podrick was one of the most interesting people in Game of Thrones , transforming from a seemingly useless squire into a loyal warrior for Brienne. However, when they first met, Brienne didn't treat Podrick as nicely as Tyrion had. Podrick, who was rather stupid, stood by and watched as Brienne battled Sandor instead of helping prevent Arya from escaping which is just one of Podrick's many faults but he was loyal.
If Brienne treated him more nicely than she did, he would probably have learned to fight earlier than he did and been of better service. Brienne of Tarth was the first woman to stand up to Cersei and stay alive. Cersei's forbidden love for her brother Jaime motivated most of her decisions, and she wouldn't hesitate to take down anyone that stood in her way.
While every woman in the seven kingdoms seemed to fear her wrath, Brienne stood up to her and told her off when she threatened her. Standing up to Cersei proved that Brienne's beliefs didn't only come into action if it was a man doing the oppressing; she simply didn't like all oppressors. Tormund Giantsbane's love for "the big woman" was both sad and hilarious. Although she's never been married, Brienne has been engaged to three different men at different points of her life.
The first was when she was still just a child, and unfortunately her betrothed and most of his family died of an illness a few years later. The second was Ser Ronnet Connington, who broke the betrothal because he was repulsed by her. And the third was Ser Humphrey Wagstaff, a man who insisted that she behave like a proper lady after their marriage, and in return Brienne challenged him to a fight.
He lost. Or at least, he doesn't directly assign Podrick to be Brienne's squire. After Tyrion disappears, Podrick is looking for him, and when he finds out that Brienne is looking for Sansa he thinks he might be able to find Tyrion with Sansa, or that she might at least know where he is. He begins following Brienne, which she notices pretty quickly, and after Brienne confronts him she agrees that he can accompany her and she'll teach him some swordsmanship.
In a scene that may have been too gruesome to adapt to the screen, during her search for Sansa, Brienne finds herself in a brutal fight with a character that exists exclusively in the books named Biter.
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