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He discounts Tyrion even while knowing Tyrion is the intelligent child. The child most like him. Tywin knows and it galls him. He would deny it though. I think that adds to his dislike of Tyrion.

Tywin can't see beyond his son's stature. His birth being an insult to all things Lannister. Didn't help that the only person Tywin loved outside himself, his name, his rank, and his holdings died while giving birth to Tyrion.

Tyrion craves Tywin's approval and that's tragic. Course, he will get over that soon.

Tywin has crushed other families - yet fails to see how the Lannisters are killing themselves off with their pride and arrogance. Even while they die at the hands of others, it's Lannister pride and arrogance at the root of it. Tywin is blinded by both and he blinded (and crippled) his children with it. Even Tyrion, though arguably less so and not without internal turmoil at the hypocrisy of it all. Still, Tyrion does have daddy issues and he was never afraid to use his last name as an advantage. He mocked himself and his family - but he never failed to believe in the power of that name.


Until he doesn't.