Killing My Father With My Own Hands

A Lannister Pays His Debts • Game of Thrones

TYWIN: Tyrion? Put down the crossbow. Who released you? Your brother, I expect. He always had a soft spot for you. Come, we’ll go and talk in my chambers.
TYWIN: This is how you want to speak to me? Shaming your father has always given you pleasure…
TYRION: All my life you’ve wanted me dead.
TYWIN: Yes. But you refused to die. I respect that… even admire it. You fight for what’s yours. I’d never let them execute you. Is that what you fear? I’d never let Ilyn Payne take your head. You’re a Lannister. You’re my son.
TYRION: I loved her.
TYWIN: Who?
TYRION: Shae.
TYWIN: Oh, Tyrion… Put down that crossbow.
TYRION: I murdered her. With my own hands.
TYWIN: It doesn’t matter.
TYRION: It doesn’t matter?
TYWIN: She was a whore!
TYRION: Say that word again.
TYWIN: And what? You’ll kill your own father in the privy? No. You’re my son. Now, enough of this nonsense.
TYRION: I am your son, and you sentenced me to die. You knew I didn’t poison Joffrey, but you sentenced me all the same. Why?
TYWIN: Enough. We’ll go back to my chambers and speak with some dignity.
TYRION: I can’t go back there. She’s in there.
TYWIN: What, are you afraid of a dead whore?
(Tyrion shoots the first crossbow bolt)
TYWIN: You shot me. You’re no son of mine.
TYRION: I am your son. I have always been your son.

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Tywin taught Tyrion that a Lannister pays his debts. This teaching presupposes that Tyrion exists as a being who shares the same purpose and identity as a Lannister. When Tywin says “You are my son,” what he is asserting is the impossibility of a survival instinct that would lead one to kill oneself. And when Tyrion attempts to kill him and Tywin responds “You’re no son of mine,” this too is consistent with the same logic.

Nevertheless, Tyrion is able to kill Tywin — by recognizing an asymmetry: that despite sharing the same identity, everything impure and degrading — the body of a dwarf, humiliation, contempt — is concentrated solely upon himself. These negative attributes appear metonymically as the privy. All waste produced by an organism must be processed only within a designated, segregated compartment. And naturally, what has once been expelled need hardly be looked at again.

Tywin must remain the creator of a flawless system. Flawlessness demands that its own attributes apply under all circumstances — even when the content of those attributes betrays the system itself. Tyrion fires the bolt. He returns the pure Lannister principle, “a Lannister pays his debts,” exactly as it is. Therefore, by killing Tywin, Tyrion either proves that he is indeed a son of Lannister, or at the very least, by performing an act that contains no internal contradiction, secures one piece of evidence for his own existence:

I am your son.

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Below this point follows a ‘kind postscript’ that irreversibly damages the aesthetic completeness of the analysis. I genuinely do not wish for you to read it.

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