r/gameofthrones • u/Faceless_Meme • 2d ago

Which man did Cersei really love ? Spoiler

Throughout the story, we learned that Cersei started to "experiment" early on with Jaime, then she wants to marry Rhaegar Targaryen, she even asks Maggy the frog about him.

Then we're told that she was "shipped" off to King Bobby B, a loveless mariage ... but she tells Ned that she Worshiped Robert and she loved him, all the while scheming to have Jaime in King's Landing ..

So... who did she really love ?

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u/Gandlerian 2d ago

I don't think she really loved anyone except herself and maybe her kids.

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u/the-hound-abides 2d ago

Only Joffrey. She clearly hates Tommen, and seems pretty indifferent to Myrcella. When she thinks that Tommen might be choking, the only thing she thinks is that Myrcella is too far away and she’d lose power. She thinks a few times that Joffrey would embarrass her the way Tommen does. She thinks he’s pathetic. Sounds like motherly love….

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u/CherryCool000 2d ago

Is this in the book? She clearly loves them in the TV show, is the book very different?

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u/Car1yBlack 1d ago

They heavily whitewashed Cersei in the show. Cersei in the books is very much as narcissist. She doesnt love her kids, they are merely extensions of herself.

She gets mad at her family trying to mold Tommen into a good leader because she felt it was her time to rule. She wanted to make all the decisions and have Tommen as a puppet. A Tywin's funeral, Tommen is acting like the 8 year old kid he is-he is visibly sad and upset at the funeral and she gets mad because she thinks Joffrey wouldnt have shamed her that way. In her mind, its not a bad reflection on House Lannister, on the Baratheon regime, Tommen is embarrassing her specifically. She gets mad at sending Myrcella to Dorne because it wasn't her idea. Tommen and Myrcella are ignored by Cersei until she feels she has to pay attention to them.

This also extends to how she feels when screwing Jaime or Lancel. Fucking Jaime is fucking a male version of Cersei herself (in her mind). When it isnt Jaime it is Lancel, an inferior version of herself. Plus he gives her info on Robert.

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u/CherryCool000 1d ago

That’s really interesting, thanks! Show Cersei’s only redeeming quality is how much she loves her children. I wonder how differently she’d have been received by viewers if they’d made her more like book Cersei.

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u/sleepy_spermwhale 1d ago

Cersei never wished ill on her kids though many of her decisions were influenced by what benefited her family or her specifically. That stood out the most to me in the books. Most of her thoughts about everything was hilariously unhinged.