Trauma Activated

7 AGOT Catelyn II: Catelyn intentionally upsets Ned with the memory of his brother Brandon in order to undermine his confidence in his decision to decline Robert's offer. Ned would reject Joffrey for Sansa:

"And Joffrey...Joffrey is..."

"...crown prince and heir to the iron throne. And I was only twelve when my father promised me to your brother Brandon." That brought a bitter twist to Ned's mouth.

"Brandon. Yes. Brandon would know what to do. He always did. It was all meant for Brandon. You, Winterfell, everything. He was born to be a king's Hand and a father to queens. I never asked for this cup to pass to me." 60

20 AGOT Jon III: When Toad calls Jon's mother a whore, Jon flies at him. Donal Noye takes Jon aside and Jon seethes at the insult.

21 AGOT Eddard IV: Considering whether Robert may have known about or conspired in the knife sent for his son, Bran, makes Ned recall Robert's desire to send knives after Daenerys and how Robert turned a blind eye to Rhaegar's infant son's murder by Lannister. Ned then remembers having recently seen Mycah's body cut in two and hears Sansa's voice pleading, along with Lyanna's. It almost passes for thinking to have trauma activated.

23 AGOT Arya II: When Ned finds Needle, Arya explains she asked Mycah to help her train and that it's her fault he was killed. She breaks down crying and turns her anger on the Hound and the queen.

35 AGOT Catelyn VI: "'Mya Stone, if it please you, my lady' the girl said. It did not please her; it was an effort for Catelyn to keep the smile on her face. Stone was a bastard's name in the Vale, as Snow was in the north, and Flowers in Highgarden; in eachg of the Seven Kingdoms customs had fashioned a surname for children bron with no names of their own. Catelyn had nothing against this girl, but suddenly she could not help but think of Ned's bastard on the Wall, and the thought made her angry and guilty, both at once. She struggles to find words for a reply." 369.

45 AGOT Sansa III: Irritated from her argument with Jeyne Poole the night before, and wanting to defend the Hound from Arya's claim he should be beheaded like the Mountain, for Mycah, Sansa claims Mycah attacked Joffrey: the lie used to justify his brutal execution. Arya throws a blood orange, ruining the ivory silk engagement dress the queen gave her. Sansa loses her temper and tells Arya "they should have killed you instead of Lady!" Blaming Arya has been Sansa's way to ignore that it was Cersei who called for Lady's pelt. Foreshadowing her period in 126 ACOK 53 Sansa IV Sansa throws the dress into the cold hearth. She dreams of Lady. Later, when Ned tells Sansa her engagement to Joffrey is over, she feels she's being undeservedly executed, like Lady was. This is why she runs to Cersei for aid.

48 AGOT Eddard XIII: Waking from a dream of Lyanna and haunted by the three kingsguard who died defending her at the Tower of Joy, Ned hears Robert's plea "promise me" deeply and as related to his basic integrity. Robert wants Ned to promise the boar tgat killed him will be served at his funeral, but the gravitas remains when Robert asks Ned to care for his children. He might as well mean all the children of the realm. Ned believes in protecting children. Ned can't consider Renly's proposal to seize Joffrey in such a frame of mind.

53 AGOT Jon VII: When Mormont shares the news Ned has been imprisoned as a traitor, he curses Jon's mother (meaning Catelyn) for taking Tyrion captive. Jon is onlyt sharp explaining Lady Stark is not his mother, but thinks "If Lord Eddard was killed, she would be as much to blame as the queen." 562 Later, when Ser Alliser Thorne intentionally provokes him, Jon lunges with dagger drawn.

55 AGOT Daenerys VI: Dany's triggered past fears provoke her to anger."Dany was near tears as they carried her back. The taste in her mouth was one she had known before: fear. For years she had lived in terror of Viserys, afraid of waking the dragon. This was even worse. It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby." 592 "'No. He cannot have my son.' She woud not weep, she decided. She would not shiver with fear. The Usurper has woken the dragon now, she told herself...and her eyes went to the dragon's eggs resting in their nest of dark velvet." 592 Daenerys tries to hatch the eggs on the brazier in her wroth at the Usurper's attempt to poison her.

60 AGOT Catelyn IX: Walder Frey's primary grievance against the Tullys is that his proposal for Edmure was absolutely refused. Hoster didn't even haggle. But when he brings up the topic, it's the grievance that Lord Hoster delined to attend his last two weddings and calls him "Late Lord Frey," like he's dead." 648

62 AGOT Daenerys VII: On page 667, Dany initally turns away from Eroeh, a lamb girl being raped after a battle, but cannot because she identifies with her. As Jorah talks about selling children to be sex slaves in Meereen while Eroeh wails, Dany can't take more and commands an end to the rapes. Her childhood fears of sex, either with abusive Viserys after marriage or with the barbarian they were selling her to resurface, despite the fact that Dany was never raped by Viserys and has found happiness with Drogo.

70 AGOT Tyrion IX: Believing Tywin meant to kill him on the Green Fork by putting him on the left flank he intended to sacrifice, Tyrion is concerned when he learns Tywin is sending him to court to rule. "A part of him was more pleased than he cared to admit. Another part was remembering the battle upriver and wondering if he was being sent to hold the left again. 'Why me?' he asked, cocking his head to one side. 'Why not my uncle? Why not Ser Addam or Ser Plement or Lord Serrett? Why not a ...bigger man?'" 770 Tywin's answer fails Tyrion's test, so Tyrion plans to hurt Tywin and to survive him.

71 AGOT Jon IX: News of Ned's execution prompts Jon's desertion.

A Clash of Kings

75 ACOK 2 Arya I: When Yoren pulls Arya off Hot Pie he says "It wasn't him who killed your father, girl, nor that thieving Lommy, neither. Hitting them won't bring him back." 35

82 ACOK 9 Tyrion II: Tyrion is upset by the deaths of Barra and her mother.

102 ACOK 29 Bran IV: Bran angers when Jojen wants to talk about his thir eye opening and about wolf dreams and the three-eyed crow because he's been reliving his fall from the broken first keep in his nightmares. He's remembered he was pushed by Jaime Lannister for seeing him with the queen, but hasn't told anyone. It also seems he's afraid to open his third eye related to fear associated with his fall. The fear makes him defensive, which makes him angry and then Summer trees the Reeds and Bran can't call him off.

103 ACOK 30 Tyrion VII: When Tyrion realizes he's faithful to Shae, he thinks he hears Tysha's song. When it isn't, he feels bitter and thinks Tysha had been a lie but, free of her, he can go to Shae. Tyrion later feels he's fallen in love with Shae due to his enjoyment of the power of the Handship.

104 ACOK 31 Arya VII: Arya names Chiswyck for the story he told.

105 ACOK 32 Catelyn III: Stannis clenched his jaw so tight Cersei said she thought his teeth would break when Robert gave Storm's End to Renly to end Stannis's too frequent requests for the castle.

106 ACOK 33 Sansa III: "She thought the Imp's men would take her back to her bedchamber in Maegor's Holdfast, but instead they conducted her to the Tower of the Hand. She had not set foot inside that place since the day her father fell from grace, and it made her feel faint to climb those steps again. Some serving girls took charge of her, mouthing meaningless comforts to stop her shaking."

126 ACOK 53 Sansa IV: The Hound wants Sansa to be glad to see him, but always menaces her. When she thinks he wants praise and calls him brave, he turns on her, unwilling to show vulnerability, especially when she is only being perfunctory. From her memory of the bread riots, it seems the Hound's smoldering fury is shared by the smallfolk of King's Landing, and that they all suffer from the same willingness to take out their pent up rage on random others. Bully's Bravery

128 ACOK 55 Tyrion XII: Tyrion's repressed feelings about what happened to Tysha emerge when Cersei seizes Alayaya. Anger at the false acusation he wed a whore is brought up as a reminder of Catelyn's accusation and seizure of him for the catspaw sent against Bran. Guilt about Tysha's undeserved punishment is brought up by Alayaya's. When Tyrion searches obsessively for the secret door Varys used to bring Shae through, he is addressing the feeling of being compromised.

129 ACOK 56 Catelyn VII: Catelyn may be acting from unconscious motives when she frees Jaime, perhaps related to repressed guilt about not having returned to her boys, as she had intended. Jaime is certainly acting on activated trauma when he kills Aerys and even when he drunkenly defends this decision to Catelyn, bitterly explaining that Aerys was a monster.

131 ACOK 58 Sansa V: Ser Ilyn's presence at Maegor's triggers Sansa's memory of seeing him behead her father. She's been made to acknowledge, at the sept, that she could not hear Joffrey prayed for. She knows she is a traitor and so does anyone who knows of her situation. Sansa does not consciously fear beheading but rather is inarticlulately upset and questions, openly, why it should be the headsman who defends them.

133 ACOK 60 Tyrion XIII: The Hound's helm's damage in the scene where he refuses to return to battle suggests he's relived his childhood trauma, that left him scarred. "Sandor Clegane wrenched off his helm with both hands and let it fall to the ground. The steel was scorched and dented, the left ear of the snarling hound sheered off. A gash above one eye had sent a wash of blood down across the Hound's old burn scars, masking half his face." 841 When Tyrion then sees fear in his eyes and acknowledges that the Hound is dead on his feet, it surprises him. He'd thought of the Hound as fearless and untiring. Really, battle does not require old trauma to be activated in order to send a man into a state of primal survival, a step toward desertion. When Ned beheaded Gared for desertion, it was in injustice.

136 ACOK 63 Sansa VII: The Hound weeps when Sansa sings to him the Hymn of the Mother.

138 ACOK 65 Arya X: Arya relives her escape from the Red Keep in her escape from Harrenhal. She talks to a cat. "It stopped and spit at her, waking memories of the Red Keep and her father and Syrio Forel." She calms herself by sharpening Roose's dagger the way Syrio Forel taught her. She later gains strength by feeling the presences of Syrio, Yoren, Jaqen and Jon Snow walking beside her.

141 ACOK 68 Tyrion XV: When Tyrion awakes from fever dreams, he remembers Ser Mandon Moore's attempt on his life, wets himself, and spirals into paranoia. He's in Cersei's clutches and she's already tied to kill him recently, assuming Ser Mandon is her creature. The combination of intense emotions and milk of the poppy dreams awakens Tyrion's repressed anger about Tysha's betrayal of him. He strangles Maester Ballabar, who he mistakes for Tysha, with his own maester's chain and orders his bandaged removed. Tyrion has assued the bandages are Cersei's doing to keep him silent about Ser Mandon's role in his injury--a role that points to her. But when the bandages are off, Tyrion remembers his wound. While it's not indicated here, except by subtle and indirect nods, Tyrion's trauma in suggested to involve his birth and scapegoating for the death of his mother.

A Storm of Swords

144 ASOS 1 Prologue: One needn't have personal trauma activated to act out, only to be afraid for one's life.

146 ASOS 3 Catelyn I: On his deathbed, Hoster faces his conscience and cries out pain and grief for his and errors in judgement. It suggests a final clarity and justice.

148 ASOS 5 Tyrion I: Tywin overreacts when Tyrion asks for Casterly Rock. It may be more than one trauma has been activated. One relates to Aerys taking Jaime, Tywin's heir. That would not stick, Tywin determined. He didn't tell Jaime or Tyrion, though. Perhaps it in some way relates to the deeper issue about whores. With Hoster's Tansy reveal recent, the question is raised whether Tywin may have loved a whore. It doesn't ring true. The story about Twyin's punishment of his father's mistress will seem to answer it, but it's likely deeper. New thought: Tywin taps this rage because he will not see Tysha as she was. In any case, Tywin taps this rage to shut Tyrion down and shame him, ending their conversation by promising "this was the last time I will suffer you to bring shame onto House Lannister. You are done with whores. The next one I find in your bed, I'll hang." 66

149 ASOS 6 Davos I: When Davos reaches reflexively for his luck and finds his pouch of knucklebones missing, he panics. Held down by the weight of self-condemnation for leading his sons ino the fire, Davos feels the loss of his luck as a final condemnation. It even is a death sentence, since he needs a burst of energy to climb the Merling King's Spear to flag the passing ship, or he'll die of standing idly by. Davos faces his conscience in the form of the Mother's voice blaming him for aiding Melisandre and doing nothing as his gods were burned. Davos emerges from his panic with a solution: redeem himself by killing Melisandre. This very bad idea seems more activated trauma than divine intervention.

150 ASOS 7 Sansa I: Joffrey has abused Sansa psychologically as well as physically so that she fears Maragery's invitation to dinner in actually a trap set by Joffrey. Olenna intentionally activates Sansa's trauma to be the rescuer. She presses until Sansa says Joffrey is a monster to create conspiracy between them, even for Sansa to know Olenna has blackmail worthy information on her, or feel simultaneously set up for the presentation of Willas as suitor in contrast to Joffry, with the heavy implication that Willas is not comely.

157 ASOS 14 Arya II: When Lem stops Arya reaching for her sword, "Again! Arya thought. It's happening again, like it happened in the village, with Chiswyck and Rolf and the Mountain That Rides. They were going to steal her sword and turn her back into a mouse." 186 Arya breaks Lem's nose with her tankard, screaming "Run!" But they're taken. When Arya sees Harwin, she calls out to him and, crying, says he has to know her. She wants the safety of family.

164 ASOS 21 Catelyn III: Rickard Karstark, in his grief over his sons, slew Willem Lannister and Tion Frey, who were innocent hostages, in place of Jaime Lannister.

167 ASOS 24 Daenerys II: Barristan Selmy's (Arstan's) advice to hire sellswords from the Free Cities, reminds Daenerys of her childhood experiences there with Viserys as "beggar king." Daenerys says she won't be a beggar again. "Better to come a beggar than a slaver," Arstan said. Daenerys's trauma is activated then and she asks if he knows what it's like to be sold.

Later, speaking to Jorah, she recalls the horrors of Unsullied training and she slaps him. "I have hard all I care to of their training." Dany could feel tears welling in her eyes, sudden and unwanted. Her hand flashed up and cracked Ser Jorah hard across the face. It was either that or cry." 326 She then rages privately about how he dared kiss her. It's unclear what trauma she's specifically returning to, fear related to her wedding or more likely abuse by Viserys. Jorah apologizes for suggesting she view Unsullied and asks if he should tell the cpatain to prepare sail. "I want to sail far and fast and never look back. But I can't, can I? There are eight thousand brick eunuchs for sale, and I must find some way to buy them." 327 It is as though she must end the atrocity for the sake of her younger self.

175 ASOS 32 Jaime IV: Jaime is ready to die, his wound is so bad. Brienne gives him the strength to continue by calling him craven, or rather asking "Are you so craven?" "What else can I do but die?" "Live. Live and fight and take revenge." 415 Later, when he expects Bloody Mummers to rpe her, Jaime fears Brienne will be psychologically damaged, as he was watching the Starks burn, he shouts "SAPPHIRES" to defend her. 417

178 ASOS 35 Arya VI: After his trial by combat, the Hound cradles his burnt arm and cries like a baby.

181 ASOS 38 Jaime V: In the bath at Harrenhal, Jaime wants to feel better by being close to Brienne but she's furious at him. Misunderstanding, he provokes her until she gets out of the tub. He wants a truce. She says she can't trust him. He breaks down and tells Brienne how Aerys fire trapped King's Landing. "The man who had cooked Rickard Stark in his on armor." 506 He finally gets so angry at the memory of being judged by Eddard Stark for sitting the throne that he smashes his stump on the side of the tub and passes out.

186 ASOS 43 Daenerys IV: Forging a new path enroute to Pentos, Daenerys is beginning to become aware that freeing the slaves of Astapor did not mean they chose to claim their city and that she has indeed taken them into her protection, as she did for the abused Unsullied. The difference in the camps is stark, for where the soldier ranks keep a regimented security, the freedmen constitute a hoard of refugees living in chaos. Still, Dany uses her anger at the practice of slavery, ssociated with the rape of Eroeh and her own fears about her arranged marriage to Drogo, to inspire the demand that Yunkai free its slaves to her. Though Daenerys means to acquire soldiers, it is problematic that she misunderstands her freedmen as such. This is even clearer in relations to the bedslaves trained in Yunkai.

187 ASOS 44 Arya VIII: This chapter is part of an arc where Arya realizes she's angry to the point of vengeance because she feels guilty. Though Riverrun is not so far, the brotherhood have their own agenda and finding Dondarrion did not turn into an immediate escort. When signs say Catelyn and Robb are at the Twins and that Lannisters will soon lay siege to Riverrun, Arya is told they'll return toAcorn Hall and she flies into such a rage she runs out into the rain and is taken by the Hound. What stoked her emotions to a boiling point is the stoy told by Edric Dayne, called Ned, of how her father loved his aunt Ashara who lept from a tower of a broken heart when he left to marry her mother. The implied culpability is too much. In later chapters, we'll see Arya confront this feeling at the root of her list.

188 ASOS 45 Jaime VI: Retracing his journey from the tourney at Harrenhal where he was invested into the kingsguard then sent back to King's Landing to test his loyalty, Jaime recalls the abuse and his knowledge of being captive. The weirwood dream he has that height fully activates his secret self-judgements and he decide to become conscience aware. Acknowledging his feeling of sibling loyalty to Brienne, his culpability in her likely rape, and his power to turn back as he must have wanted to empowers Jaime to return to Harrenhal and recue Brienne. He learns from his abuse by Aerys that the one being protected is the one who decides what happens. Realiziung he can't menace men any longer, he emulates Tyrion and invents an insult to effect. He masters Steelshanks, the bear and Vargo Hoat with all his Bloody Mummers.

189 ASOS 46 Catelyn V: Returning through The Whispering Wood and Old Stones, Catelyn remembers happier days when so many were alive. Petyr Baelish played Dragonfly prince to jer Jeny and, somewhere deep down (thpough it rarely surfaces, and not in this cahpter) Catelyn remembers the revelation she had with Tyrion, the Littlefinger had lied about dagger, that Lysa had lied about Robert Arryn's warding and suspects the full extent to which Littlefinger leveraged his knowledge of her weaknesses to start a war between Stark and Lannister.

190 ASOS 47 Samwell III: Returning to the Wall and having to backtrack around a lake, Sam knows they're lost. The village isn't Whitetree though it does have a weirwood at its center. Sam continues to struggle with memories of being devalued by a disappointed father who wanted Sam to be heroic and manly instead of sweet and loving. Now, because of Gilly and her baby, Sam dreams of an alternatiive to life as a man of the Nigt's Watch, one where he returns to be lord of Horn Hill and raise a family among friends.

191 ASOS 48 Arya IX: Back at the ruby ford, the Hound confronts Arya about the validity of her hatred for him. She's always throwing Mycah in his face, trying to kill him and telling him she hates him. When he talks of killing the Mountain, Arya says "But he's your brother." This recalls the Brotherhood and idea that soldiers should look out for each other, be like knights and defend women and children. The Hound throws it back at her not believeing she's never had a brother she wanted to kill. He sees something in her face at the mention of Sansa and guesses that Arya feels guilty for wanting to kill Sans (for taking Joffrey's side about the ruby ford?) He strangely proceeds by saying he saved Sansa and she sang him a song. Arya calls him a liar but then unearths that he's not taking her to Joffrey and the queen. The chapter was Arya's reliving of her four days on the lamb from Lannister soldiers, expecting the Hound had killed Mycah.

These chapters show a clear connection between retracing old footsteps and confronting original traumas. Especilly the chapters from 188-191 focus on paths revisited, from new directions in some cases and memories rising to allow past issues to be addressed.

192 ASOS 49 Jon VI: As he approaches Castle Black up the kingsroad from the south, as he has twice before, Jon stews over his treatment of Ygritte. He shouldn't have left her, but he shouldn't have been with her in the first place. The chapter ends with a milk of the poppy dream wherein he repeats that he will not father a bastard when she tries to entice him with sex. Jon sees himself as having married the Night's Watch with his vows the way his father married the woman he was arranged to and then returned to honor his vows. Jon's being a bastard continues to hoard him, though Robb has named him heir to the north and is about to die.

193 ASOS 50 Catelyn VI: Their rooms in the Water Tower of the Twins recall when Robb first crossed. It was the last time Catelyn saw Walder Frey.

194 ASOS 51 Arya X: Arya looks for anyone she might recognize but becomes concerned at the recollection that Lord Bolton might recognize her and know she murdered that guard to escape Harrenhal. It's an indication of how deeply guilty she feels and of how little aware of appearances and way different people view what's before them. The Hound explains that the knights vetting them will hardly look at a peasant. Similarly, Lord Bolton wouldn't concern himself with runaway servants. Neither does Arya appear a likely murderer, due to her youth.

195 ASOS 52 Catelyn VII: In the room where she negotiated Robb's deal to cross in Game of Thrones, Catelyn holds a dagger to Jinglebell's throat remembering the feel of steel against her own when the catspaw almost killed her in Bran's sickroom.

This is a section with much activated trauma. Most characters misunderstand their motivations. Arya thinks she's angry with the Hound when she confsedly relates to and fear him. Daenerys thinks she want to free slaves bcause she abhors slavery, having been sold herself, but freeing them is a pretext for bypassing a moral compass in service to her military goals. Such motivations are both painfully clear and difficult to discern on a first reading, especially.

196 ASOS 53 Arya XI: At the Twins, when the massacre starts, the Hound has to defend himself. Arya helps buyt still wants to go to the castle. They're close. The Hound says he won't. Arya makes a run for it but he still wants his gold sohe rides her down. "And Arya ran. Not for her brother now, not even for her mother, but for herelf. She ran faster than she has ever run before, her head down and her feet churbing up the river, she ran from him as Mycah must have run." 710

203 ASOS 60 Sansa IV: Tyrion has some trauma activted when Jffry destroys his wedding gift: a rare book of important history. Tyrion, told to replace his gift, suggests a Valyrian steel dagger to match Widow's Wail. One wih a dragonbone hilt, perhaps. Tyrion implies Joffrey sent the catspaw, but its clear Joffrey has no idea what he's talking about . Still, Tyrion brings it up with Sansa, later. He ends by saying Catelyn accused him...but "I never harmed your brother, Bran. And I mean no harm to you." He wants to be recognized as her protector. But, when Sansa can't figure out how to respond, he punishes her by asking if she'd like to know details about her mother and brother's deaths at the red wedding, information he'd given himself credit for protecting her from.

213 ASOS 70 Jon IX: When Janos Slynt says "Your father died a traitor," Jon contradicts him bluntly. But when Slynt orders Jon hung and he does allow Thorne to grab him by the arm, "Jon yanked way and grabbed the knight by the throat with such ferocity that he lifted him off the floor." 959

223 ASOS 80 Jon XII: Jon's anger is explored further. He attacks Iron Emmett with too much fury during training after a memory from childhood.

A Feast For Crows

227 AFFC 2 The Prophet: Throughout the chapter, Aeron is troubled by the memory of "the sound of a door opening, the scream of a rusted iron hinge. Euron has come again." 35

229 AFFC 4 Cersei I: "Her legs were weak as water. Ser Boros tried to take her by the arm, but the queen recoiled frm his touch. For all she knew, he might be one of Tyrion's creatures." 78

231 AFFC 6 Samwell I: When Jon tells Sam he's being sent to Oldtown he thinks of how that's close to home and begins to protest. He squeaks, thinks of his father. "Who will care for the ravens?" He argues Aemon's life would be at risk. It's storm season. They could all drown. Dareon could take Gilly Oldtown..." 116 Later, Sam feels he's choking, remembering the punishment his father devised for Sam's ambition tobecome maester. "For three days and nights Sam had sobbed himself to sleep, manacled hand and foot to a wall. The chain around his throat was so tight it broke the skin." 117

238 AFFC 13 Cersei III: At Tommen's wedding, he coughs. She'd thought him safe: "My son is safe," Cersei told herself. "No harm can come to him, not here, not now." Yet every time she looked at Tommen she saw Joffrey clawing at his throat. And when the boy began to cough the queen's heart stopped beating for a moment. She knocked aside a serving girl in her haste to reach him." 255 When it turns out to be nothing, Cersei goes into the hall to cry. Taena Merryweather follows her eastern voice reminding Cersei of Maggy the Frog. Taena preys on Cersei's vulnerability to insinuate herself as loyal.

256 AFFC 31 Jaime IV: When Jaime hears Lancel's confession at Darry, he is moved to confess, himself. Having already told Peck he could use the Lord's bed with Pia, Jaime confesses to Ser Ilyn that he had sex with Cersei on that bed while Robert lay drunk on the floor. But what Jaime is upset by is not the incestuous treason, nor even the knowledge he'd have killed Robert if the king had woken. It's that he now sees that Cersei used sex to compel him to commit crimes on her behalf. "As I was fucking her, Cersei cried 'I want.' I thought she meant me, but it was the Stark girl that she wanted, maimed or dead. The things I do for love...If I had come on her first..." 655 Earlier, he thought "I thought I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze." 654

A Dance With Dragons

284 ADWD 13 Reek I: When Ramsay mentions flaying Reek, he recalled the agony: so excruciating men beg to have the piece cut off." It was the sort of pain that drove men mad and could not be endured for long." 183

304 ADWD 33 Reek III: At mention of Bran & Rickon, Theon panics. "His on head was pounding. He did not want to think about anything that had happened before he knew his name. There were things too hurtful to remember, thoughts almost as painful as Ramsay's flaying knife" 467

308 ADWD 37 Daenerys VI: When she learns the Second Sons have defected to Yunkai, Daenerys is thrown. She'd trusted Brown Ben Plumm and her dragons had liked him. More than anything, its confusion about the prophecy of the Undying that undoes her. She had not wanted to send Jorah away and would not have except he was so unrepentant, his crime so severe. She had to or she'd have had his head. But if only one person betrayed her for gold it was Plumm. Daenerys is so spun she second-guesses her mistrust of Daario Naharis and takes him to bed. It's a terrible decision, but she'd that spun and he's a skilled manipulator who has been working on her for some time.

312 ADWD 41 Tyrion IX: When Tyrion deduces that Daenerys sent Jorah away for spying on her, he continues "Maybe you should hop up on that pig, Ser Jorah, Put on a suit of iron motley, like Florian the --" The blow the big knight gave him cracked his head around and knocked him sideways so hard his head bounced off the deck.. "I do believe I poked a wound." 579 Jorah met his first wife at the tourney at Lannisport, so it could have something to do with that. Or, Jorah's entire interest in Daenerys and silver haired whores could stem from that. Or... It might have been Tyrion's suggestion Jorah humble himself before Daenerys angered him. He may know he was sent away for being unrepentant, and offer Tyrion as a substitute for sincere apology.

313 ADWD 42 The Turncloak: When Rowan plies Reek for information on a secret way out of Winterfell, he won't speak to her. She says he can trust her and puts her hand on his inside its glove. "Theon wrenched away. This was a ploy, he knew it. Ramsay sent her. She's another of his japes like Kyra with they keys. He wants me to run so he can punish me. He wanted to hit her, to smash that mocking smile off her face. He wanted to kiss her, to fuck her right there on the table and make her cry his name. But he knew he dare not touch her, in anger or in lust. Reek, Reek, my name is Reek. I must not forget my name. He jerked to his feet and made his way wodlessly to the doors limping on his maimed feet." 592 Anger makes Reek feel like Theon again and that is dangerous.

337 ADWD 66 Cersei II: When, during her walk of atonement, Cersei realizes the people now know her to be a common woman, she hallucinated Maggy the Frog in the crowd saying she'll be queen until another, younger and more beautiful, comes to cast her down. Then Cersei breaks. She behaves as she'd vowed she wouldn't, trying futilely to cover herself while scrambling on all fours up the hill.

The Winds of Winter

Tyrion: Tyrion is so upset at the idea Shae may have feigned trembling in fear on the morning of the green fork that he wants to slap Penny qafter he scres her. He says he japes and drinks to keep the fear away. She says "You're brave. Little people can be brave." He associates this with Shae calling him My giant of Lannister, thinking Penny is mocking him. Penny apologizes to Tyrion for making him angry but he stews about Shae thinking "I know what she was." "His hands curled into fists and Shae's face swam before him, grinning. Then the chain was tightening about her throat, the golden hands digging dep into her flesh as her own hands fluttered against his face with all the force of butterflies. If he'd had a chain to hand... if he had a crossbow, a dagger, anything, he would have...to might have...he..." Tyrion is distracted from his concern about self control by shouts. "He opened his hand, took a breath, turned away from Penny." It seems Tyrion worried he would hurt Penny fter associating her with Shae.

Victarion: " restlessness was in him, a hunger for the dawn and the things his day would bring. Death or glory, I will drink my fill of both today. The Seastone Chair should've been his when Balon died, but his brother Euron had stolen it from him, just as he had stolen his wife many years before. he stole her and he soiled her, but he left it for me to slay her. All that was done and gone now, though. Victarion would have his due at last. I have the horn and soon I will have the woman. A woman lovelier than the wife he made me kill."

It is his desire for revenge upon Euron that drives Victarion. Euron has promised him the Seastone Chair when he takes Westeros, but Victarion--who never really felt entitled--names it a theft as part of the feeling of Euron having stolen his life whe he stole his wife. Victarion's anger is so great because Euron did not even have the decency to kill him man to man, deck to deck. He didn't even have decency to kill his wiofe but made Victarion do it. Euron has to die for ending Victarion's. The iron captain only has to realize it.