Jaime Bracken

the Kingsguard

Ser Jaime Bracken is the sole and only son that came to be between Axel Bracken and Liane Frey. He was appointed to the Kingsguard in 115 AC, replacing Alyn Corbray after he took the black.

## **Appearance and Character**

Jaime stands at six feet tall and has a burly and muscular build due to years of training in his service to the KIngsguard. He keeps his medium length hair clean and pushed back revealing a handsome defined face along with a well groomed beard. His eyes are an icy light blue and shine the brightest in the moon. When he smiles, which is rare, he has noticeable dimples that appear.

Jaime carries an aggressive energy around him, he walks in a hurry and scowls at anything that displeases him making his feelings known. He rarely expresses his emotions, and when he does he counters any sliver of vulnerability with rage. He struggles to control his temper but has progressed while in the Kingsguard. However, behind all that anger lies melancholy and despair. Jaime holds a cold and unchanging expression everywhere he goes. Loyalty is one of Jaime's unwavering values, he would die and do the worst atrocities for his King.

## **History**

### Early Age

Jaime came into this world screaming and crying. Taking the life of his mother who died shortly after he was born. Born to a cruel world, his father was tough and at times cruel on Jaime from a young age. Axel, his father, forbid Jaime from crying under any circumstance, telling him it was a sign of weakness.

As he grew alongside his heir cousins, he quickly became friends with them. Going out to cause mischief, playing with training swords and racing on horseback. He began his training in the art of war and all things combat at the age of two and ten due to his father's insistence that he was ready to become a 'real man'.

### A Dream

Cuts and bruises became Jaime's reality from then on. He grew to become a rather well built and tall young man.

On a visit to King's Landing with his Lord Uncle, he would come to behold the great Knights of the Kingsguard in their bright white armor and cloaks. Jaime's aspiration of becoming the best knight he could grew tenfold. A dream all in itself.

### Green Bandits and Knighthood

At the age of seven and ten, Jaime was sent out into the woods outside Stone Hedge accompanied by his cousin and heir, Addam Bracken, to investigate on a report of banditry. The bandits ambushed the two red stallions. The odds were not in their favor, 10 Bracken men against 30 Green Bandits. The fight that ensued was a bloody one.The leader of the Green Bandits had Addam cornered and the latter was winning. In a swift move of no hesitation, Jaime swung his axe on the Green Bandit leader saving the heir of Stone Hedge. It is here that Jaime came to claim his first victim. Only Jaime and Addam survived that day as the rest of the bandits scattered in cowardliness when they saw their leader fall.

On their return to Stone Hedge, the news of the event that had occurred brought great pride to Axel. Lord Lyle Bracken knighted Jaime in front of all his family as his father looked on with joy.

### Reconciliation

Jaime came to be the happiest he had ever been. He smiled, laughed, and japed often. Made strong connections with family and friends, hunted with his cousins and danced with fair maidens. Always with a bright smile on his face.

The person he came to love the most, despite their history, was his father. Jaime came to learn that his father always wanted the best for him. Axel taught everything Jaime knew and more. Both men came to care for each other and the nurture Jaime was neglected of from a young age had arisen anew.

### Cobbler's Rebellion

In the year 114 AC, Marq the Cobbler and his followers rose up in rebellion. At the age of nine and ten, Jaime, a newly appointed knight went to war alongside his father, his Lord Uncle and his cousins. It was at the Slaughter of Harroway that Jaime came to know true despair. Both his cousins and childhood friends, Bennet, William and Addam, died in battle taking arrows and swords defending their father.

It was at the Battle of the Bloody Gate, that Jaime came to lose his father. Axel Bracken died defending his only son, taking a spear to the chest and dying in his arms, leaving Jaime saddened and broken. Time passed and Jaime came to discover a new found rage and terror inside of him. One that would torment him in his sleep.

When the Hammer and Anvil at the Ford came, Jaime volunteered to personally go out in search of any informants that could point to the whereabouts of Marq the Cobbler and his lieutenants. Marq the Cobbler was captured and the rebellion came to an end with Jaime and his Lord Uncle coming back to Stone Hedge.

Lord Lyle Bracken named his only surviving child, Bethany Bracken, his heir. Soon after Lord Lyle Bracken, a second fatherly figure to Jaime, died succumbing to injuries gained in the war leaving Bethany Bracken as Lady of Stone Hedge.

### White Cloak

The day King Viserys appointed Jaime to the Kingsguard should have been the happiest day of his life. His mind, however, was riddled with anger, sadness and despair.

After Cobbler's Rebellion came to an end. Jaime became the most distant and angry he had ever been. When news that Ser Alyn Corbray took the black, Jaime was quick to offer his lifelong service to the King. He wished to be away from Stone Hedge, everything and everyone he had ever known was dead or gone. His wish, and once dream, came true in 115 AC, when King Viserys replaced Alyn Corbray with Jaime Bracken, aged twenty.

It has been 15 years since Jaime joined the benevolent Kingsguard.

The ghost of what he once was, of those he lost and once loved following him to present day.

## **Character Build**

Attribute: Strong

Social Status: Principal Bannermen, Knight of the Kingsguard

Skill Points: 20 (Member of the Kingsguard)

Skills: Precision, Weapons Proficiency (Axes & Shields), Skirmishing, Marshaling

Mastery: Berserker