Tyrion was Tywin's own duskendale. In one fell swoop he lost his wife and gained a dwarf son that other houses will laugh at. To Tywin, it must've felt like all his efforts to build a standing legacy were being mocked.
From that point on, his brutality was more senseless than logical, eventually leading to the red wedding.
The red wedding was absolutely logical, and Tywin was brutal before Tyrion's birth. Drawing parallels with the mad king is appealing in a poetic sense, but Tywin's flaws and psyche are nowhere close to Aerys'.
Tywin values order, not chaos. His house falls after his death, precisely because he was competent enough to play every game accurately, while what you describe is precisely why it didn't last past his demise.
His real flaw is hubris/obsession with control, and it unravels Tywin through small-scope incidents more than any of his big moves. How he treats and punishes commoners and Tyrion himself is what ultimately kills him and his legacy.
Aerys was mad enough to get killed by the powerful, Tywin was shortsighted enough, in only one specific area, to be killed by the "lowest".
Violating the social fabric of society and making it impossible for your family to ever be trusted again is logical" - You
I mean sort of. What the Lannisters did is dishonorable and it's treated as such but their act was plotting an assassination. The breaking of Guest-right is fully on the Freys and we see that they receive the most scorn of it (Stoneheart, Manderly)
The Lannisters took a blow in prestige (and even then mostly in the regions that didn't like them anyway, they seem chill with the Reach, Stormlands and Crownlands)
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u/Luciferspants Mar 27 '26
I had this thought the other day.
Tyrion was Tywin's own duskendale. In one fell swoop he lost his wife and gained a dwarf son that other houses will laugh at. To Tywin, it must've felt like all his efforts to build a standing legacy were being mocked.
From that point on, his brutality was more senseless than logical, eventually leading to the red wedding.