Game of Thrones Gossip #46 Tyrion Lannister

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Having survived the Battle of the Blackwater with a badly scarred face, Tyrion has lost his position as acting Hand of the King with the return of Tywin, his luxury chambers and his loyal hill tribe bodyguards who have returned home. He asks his father for Casterly Rock, knowing that Jaime cannot inherit land or titles as a member of the Kingsguard and is stunned by Tywin's furious response to giving it to his younger son.

"You who killed your mother to come into the world? You are an ill-made, spiteful little creature, full of envy, lust and low cunning. Men's laws give you the right to bear my name and display my colours since I cannot prove that you are not mine. 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. But neither gods nor men will ever compel me to let you turn Casterly Rock into your whorehouse."-Tywin Lannister

Tyrion now knows where he stands and that Tywin will never regard him as his son or give him Casterly Rock. He is also aware of the danger Shae is in as Tywin has promised to execute the next whore that is found in Tyrion's bed. Living in King's Landing with Cersei and Tywin's spies around him means that danger is everywhere and he fears for her safety. Tyrion and Varys become aware through Ros and Shae that Littlefinger is planning to smuggle Sansa out of King's Landing and decide that they have to save her. Tyrion tries to stop Littlefinger being allowed to leave by pointing out that they need a Master of Coin so close to Joffrey's wedding, so Tywin appoints his son to the post instead. Varys then concocts a plot with Olenna Tyrell to marry Sansa to Loras but this is ruined and instead, Tyrion is told that he will marry Sansa and Cersei will marry Loras. Cersei and Tyrion are equally furious about it.

Tyrion is distraught at having to marry Sansa, knowing the shame it will bring to her and the fury it will bring to Shae, but on the plus side, he can now protect his new wife from Joffrey and Littlefinger. Joffrey ensures humiliation for his uncle at the ceremony by removing the steps that Tyrion planned to use to cloak the bride. He comforts himself by getting drunk and threatening Joffrey when he mentions a bedding ceremony. Alone in their chamber, Tyrion tells Sansa that he won't bed her until she wants him to but is hurt when Sansa asks what happens if she never wants him. When news comes of The Red Wedding, Tyrion knows that any chance of Sansa softening to him is gone, as his family have now murdered her parents and brother. With Bran and Rickon believed dead at the hands of Theon and Arya missing and presumed dead, there is no comfort that Tyrion can give her. Dealing with Shae's insane jealousy over the wedding proves to be just as difficult for him, with her furious mood swings and determination to break the rules he tries to impose on her.

Tyrion does learn who his actual friends are, with Bronn and Pod never far from his side. It is in this season that he becomes closer to Varys and sees the dark side to his nature when Varys reveals what happened to the man who made him a eunoch. It is his family that cause him the struggles. Tywin forces his to marry and demands that he reproduces for the good of the family that he continually announces that Tyrion is not really part of. Cersei agrees that he should give Sansa children as only then can his wife be happy, something she knows only too well from marrying Robert. Tyrion's relationship with Joffrey descends into open contempt and public threats as Tyrion loses all patience for his evil nephew. 

An unhappy wife and angry mistress are soon going to be the least of Tyrion's problems.