ASOIAF/GOT: Will Jaime die in Cersei's arms?

GoT S5E4
BRONN: I've had an exciting life. I want my death to be boring. How do you want to go?
JAIME: In the arms of the woman I love.
BRONN: She want the same thing?

Who will kill him ?

It think it will be Brienne.

SPOILERS FROM A FEAST FOR CROWS/A DANCE WITH DRAGONS--books not show

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When we leave Brienne in A Feast for Crows, she's about to be hanged by Lady Stoneheart and the Brothers Without Banners for her association with the Lannisters(proven by her sealed letter from King Tommen and her Valyrian sword Oathkeeper, reforged from the Stark's greatsword Ice. She is given the choice between 'the sword'(i.e., pledging her sword agan to Lady Stoneheart and finding Jaime Lannister and delivering him for trial), and 'rope', i.e. being hanged along with her 11 year old squire Podrick Payne and her other comrade and would-be suitor Ser Hyle Hunt. She shouts a word. We're left hanging.

(After the publication of A Dance with Dragons, GRRM confirmed that the word she shouted was 'sword'. )

In A Dance with Dragons, Brienne shows up near the village of Pennytree, telling Jaime that she has found Sansa Stark in the hands of the Hound, a day's ride away. Jaime goes with her to help 'save' Sansa Stark.

Except she's probably lying.

I believe that what is going to happen is she is going to deliver Jaime to Lady Stoneheart for trial. And it's a trial he's going to lose, (having just threatened to catapult Edmure Tully's baby from the wall in the presence of Tom o' Sevens, a minstrel who works for the Brothers Without Banners.)

Jaime will demand trial by combat. And Brienne will be the champion chosen to fight him.

How will it end? I don't know. Jaime with one hand is no match at all for Brienne in a fight; so she should make short work for him.

But here's the thing. They both love each other.

Yes, I know, I know.

Jaime loves Cersei.

But Brienne and Jaime love each other too, strongly. It may not ever be consummated sexually. It may not even be sexual in nature, though Jaime's estimation of Brienne's beauty seems to have gone up as his feelings for her have developed; both of them have dreamed of the other. And one dream in particular that Jaime had seemed to point to him dying before she did.

So how will it go? Will Brienne kill Jaime, the man she loves, for her sake of her oath--with the sword he gave her explicitly to keep her oath? (This explores the 'Love versus honor' theme that is so prevalent in A Song of Ice and Fire.)

Or will she break her oath and allow Jaime to kill her from love?

Or will she (or he) choose  attack Lady Stoneheart instead? (choosing love over honor)

I don't really know. But remember the myth of Azor Ahai and his sword Lightbringer:

Darkness lay over the world and a hero, Azor Ahai, was chosen to fight against it. To fight the darkness, Azor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword. He labored for thirty days and thirty nights until it was done. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. He was not one to give up easily, so he started over. The second time he took fifty days and fifty nights to make the sword, even better than the first. To temper it this time, he captured a lion and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the steel shattered. The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew before hand what he must do to finish the blade, he worked for a hundred days and nights until it was finished. This time, he called for his wife, Nissa Nissa, and asked her to bare her breast. He drove his sword into her breast, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer.

Lightbringer

I think that Oathkeeper might be the sword that will become Lightbringer. Does that mean Brienne or Jaime will be Azor Ahai? I think it's a strong possiblity...but not a definite yes.

But...but...but...isn't it all but confirmed that Jon Snow is Azor Ahai reborn?Or at least Daenerys Targaryen?

Neither at this point is confirmed. For all I know, the prophecy of Azor Ahai Rebornand the Prince that Was Promised is all just a bunch of hooey.

There you go, I'm an Azor Ahai atheist. I think there will be many candidates that might fit the bill; and it will be up to fans to figure it out--if there really is an answer.

But I think the prophecy is a bunch of mumbo jumbo, basically.

So, yeah.

I don't make any strong predictions. But I think that that was foreshadowing when he said that in the show. And the show is hardly subtle when it comes to foreshadowing.

But I think the twist is that the 'arms of the woman [Jaime] loves' will be Brienne's.

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