I haven't studied the actual brackets, but I hope Jaime gets to face down with Elric at some point.

Go Jaime!

All right, Mr. Martin, now your man has to go all the way. There's no other way for this to end!

Both Aslan and Cthulhu went down. Man, not a good day to be a god...

when Dany invades Westeros

Is that a promise? :)

That's an amazing upset! Go Jaime!!! :)

Hooray! It was totally Tyrion's strategy that helped :)

Your bit of fiction based on the fight I believe was quite convincing. It's only fitting that Jaime won.

Glad to hear it's a WHEN Dany invades Westeros, not an IF.

question is, does he face Temeraire alone, or Temeraire + crew and captain? I imagine just Temeraire is defeatable, but Temeraire with bell- and top-men, as well as riflemen.. I dunno. would be an interesting fight, that's for sure!

Yay!!! Go Jaime!!!

Having a bit of a crisis of conscience now as I really, really like Temeraire (whose roar is probably superior to any Lannister lion's, sorry to say that:-)

Does it have to be a straight Win or Lose in this contest? For Temeraire would rather tell Jaime endless stories about dragons and honor (and end up psychoanalyzing his entire family on top of that) until they call it a draw.

Just my 2 cents....

This next match just breaks my heart. You and Novik are my two favorite contemporary authors and the two of your blogs sit next to each other in my bookmarks. Enough so that, despite having followed you regularly for months I created an account to comment.
Frankly, what it comes down to is that we just don't know how Jaime would deal with a dragon. Obviously it's something we hope to see in the future (and my dear God, sir, do we hope to see it) but it just has yet to happen. I hope I don't presume to much to say that my, and perhaps others, votes will be predicated on the weighing in of the authors. Though Mrs. Novik has not yet actually weighed in with a passage the way you have, I for one hope for dueling narratives.

I'll be honest: My money was on the big guy.

... than Polgara. I voted her out so that Jaime would have a better chance. It's just a dragon. (But... were any dragons killed battle in ASOIAF history? And how?)

"Should be good training for when Dany invades Westeros."

omg, spoiler!! ;)

i as rooting for Cthulhu but your recounting of the fight won me over to Jaime =>

Oh man, two of my favorite literary characters pitted against each other? Good luck Jaime, you'll need it against that amazing Celestial.

Three cheers for the golden-haired champion of incest! Breaking down social taboos and slaying elder gods! Plainly a role model for us all.

Spoiler alert? Ha ha

How did he do it? Deploy his sister's charming personality?

Dany's going to invade weteros? Brign it on... Just kidding (with arya at her side right?)

JAMIE! Going strong :D

Spoilers!

Oh come on! Where's the spoiler alert.

Just kidding.

Cthulhu's no slouch. My regards to Jaime.

In all honesty, as much as I love Jaime, I voted for Cthlhu, because well.. It's still Cthulhu! I liked your version where he doesn't show up though ;)

Dany invades Vesteros? :( Oh, damn, that's a huge spoiler, I didn't know that. I wish I never read this post, but this journal is included into numerous Russian fandom "friend lists", so as long as one reads them, one can't help reading this journal, as well.

Please, please, avoid spoilers next time!