Lioness: Cersei Lannister in the Game of Thrones books 

Cersei from casterly rock gets killed by castley rocks. Perfectly foreshadowed

Turns out that valonqar has been mistranslated to mean "little brother," when it actually meant "falling bricks."

The younger and more beautiful Queen: Bran The Valonquar: rocks

Almost all blondes hair goes darker when they age, when kids are late teens their hair ceaaes to be gold-blonde and becomes a darker blonde. "Gold will be their shrouds" infers that her kids will die young, in my opinion.

If you recall -- when the Lannister twins were born, Cersei was born first... followed by Jaime, who was holding her foot. When Jaime's hand was cut off, it's almost like the link between he and Cersei was severed as well.

Arya, wearing the face of Dwayne Johnson

If she listened to Eddard and ran with her children they would have all lived but she wanted everything. I think the love of her children is exaggerated in her own mind. She really cares about herself above all else.

I love Cersei chapters. It's so cleverly written. You hear her train of thought and understand how stupid she behaves.

"A female misogynist" Rarely have I heard a more apt description for Cersei

Turns out what ended up killing Cersei was bad writing

I know I'm late but maybe cersei is so critical of other women's appearance because it also serves as a way to comfort herself that the younger, more beautiful queen that is destined to overthrow her hasn't appeared yet. That way her rejecting other women as unattractive instead becomes her unwilling to give up power.

Just reread feast of crows. Another Cersie Robert similarity is, Cersie starts to gain weight like Robert did. In one of her chapters she says that her hand maids had ruined several of her favorite clothing and that they had shrunk, she punishes the handmaids for being careless. By itself not much, but the next chapter on her way to the sept for the first time to meet the high sparrow she complains about how her gown doesn’t fit anymore, and she hadn’t worn this gown in a while and can’t blame someone for it’s tightness

Or maybe it will just be some rocks lol

I’m from the future, can confirm, it ended terrible.

we thought cersei was the most evil in GOT. turns out D&D is.

The other part of her emulation of Tywin is that she seems to (in the books) only half listen to Tywin's lessons. Like the one about Robert wiping out the Iron Isles. Tywin literally tells Joffrey when he's being Joffrey that you need to both give fire and blood for defiance but then raise people up that bend the knee or else no one would ever bend to you. She just stops at the fire and blood part. It's like she just mimicks what she saw him do without clear understanding of the why. Show Tywin had it right about her: It's not just that she's a woman it's that she's not as smart as she thinks she is.

Alt Shift X: *25 minute video on all the theories and ways cersei could die Cersei: *dies in a way literally any other character could, with no narrative purpose*

I have this weird feeling that whatever happens, everything she's worked for will come crumbling down around her.

This video made me realize that Cersei isn't angry about abuse, but rather that SHE is abused. The concept of hurting others doesn't upset her. It's that she can't be the abuser. She is another embodiment in the ASOIAF universe of those who should not have power.

23:47 Damn imagine if the people being paid millions of dollars to write the most successful television show in recent history were as creative or competent at writing compelling stories as some random youtuber making fan theory videos as a passion project.

The thing is, in the books, Cersei does not love her children the way she does in the show. In the books she loves them as though they were physical assets. To add to Olenna's claim about her possibly being the worst person she's ever met, there's a fucked-up passage in the books that when Joffrey was younger, he cut open a pregnant cat for kicks, and Robert smacked him so hard for that, but Cersei enables Joffrey's psychotic behavior.

10:30 - On Cersei being with Rhaegar, ironically, if that had been approved by King Aerys her marriage to the king _still_ would have been plagued by her husband's love for Lyanna. Perhaps Lyanna was the younger and more beautiful queen all along, regardless of what had happened.

Tywin told Cersei that he doesn't mistrust her because she's a woman, he mistrusts her because she isn't as smart as she thinks she is. Father knows his daughter well. Yes, Tywin is a horrible monster but even he only kills those who cross him or pose a threat, he isn't overly friendly or nice to anyone but unlike Cersei he doesn't just hate every single person. Jamie did say that Cersei likes no one but her children. Yara neither has dragons, nor did she have a father who loved her unconditionally, she endured her father and became who she wanted to. Cersei was afraid of her father, of Robert, of her son, everything she did, she did because she was a miserable human being. She didn't love her kids or even Jamie. Ofc, Jamie is responsible for the part that he played in that relationship but Cersei unknowingly or knowingly perhaps, had a relationship with Jamie, to slap Tywin Lannister metaphorically. She really wanted to be the one Tywin considered extremely talented, she knew that Tyrion wouldn't get anything but seduced Jamie and bound him by having kids with him. Jamie was the heir, by every right, he could have married a beautiful woman, he could have had kids of his own, could have had a good life. She made sure both her brothers seemed incapable in Tywin's eyes, she didn't have to do much in Tyrion's case. She never realized that Tywin was a miserable human himself, that he could not give her that validation that she desperately craved. One of the reasons why she was an overprotective mother yet wasn't a good mother at all. One of the reasons she hated the Starks so much, they had power but above everything they cared about family and people of the North. Why she hated Sansa so much, Ned got his head cut off because he believed in his 13 year old daughter so much yet her father doesn't even believe her even as a woman. She hated everyone.

Honestly, as soon as I realized that her “younger brother” would be the one to kill her I didn’t think of tyrion, my mind went to Jaime. there’s a very big possibility he could be the younger twin, probably by only like 5 minutes but that makes him the younger one nonetheless Kinda weird how Cersei convinced herself it would be Tyrion when she had a brother/lover that is WAY closer to her and realistically have reasons to kill her under the right circumstances

Wow! Bran Stark is yunger and more beautiful.

I like the idea that the 'younger, more beautiful' queen prophecy could be a reference to a younger Cersei. It's her actions when she was younger (namely her reaction to the prophecy) which, as stated at the end of the video, has led to her own downfall.

She's one of the best villains in TV history, honestly, I'm crushed by her death.

I wouldn't call what Robert felt love. He was infatuated with his mental construct of Lyanna that he created third hand via Ned's talk of her. Lyanna was understandably reluctant about the match, and I feel that if they'd married he'd have ended up much the same as he did in canon when he was forced to reckon with Lyanna as an actual person instead of the creepy one dimensional construct he'd created in his head.

Cersei loves Jaimie because Jaimie is who she should be. She sees her ideal self in him.

Cersei's arc resembles that of Macbeth IMO On an unrelated note, Bran ended up being the younger more beautiful Queen, the successor of Cersei

It's heartbreaking to watch with how much passion this video was composed, especially after knowing how Cersei did die - by the hands of two bricks (D&D)

"I thought I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze." -Jaime Lannister's thoughts

16:12 You fucked up, Alt Shift X. Everyone knows the younger and more beautiful queen will be Loras. As soon as those burn scars heal anyway.

You ever hear the prophecy about the badass queen, her brother/lover and the BRICKS that were determined to stop their love?

Interesting note on the torture of the Blue Bard, it actually seems like Cersei feels a bit bad. Or that she can't stomach this sort of stuff. But also that her father is STILL a major influence on her choice to be so cruel: 'The razor flashed, the singer shrieked. On his chest a wet red eye wept blood. Cersei felt ill. Part of her wanted to close her eyes, to turn away, to make it stop. But she was the queen and this was treason. *Lord Tywin would not have turned away.'* (note:... i wrote this before the quote appeared on the screen...)

Narcissists can be male or female. Obviously. But the curious thing that has been found by people who spent their careers studying narcissists, is this: be they male or female, they hate women, all women, in a way that they do not hate all men. To that extent, grrmartin nailed that aspect of Cersei.

11:00 - Robert didn't really love Lyanna. As Ned said, he didn't really know her. Robert was in love with the idea of Lyanna. It's also important to remember that Cersei could have had a fourth child but because it was Robert's she drank moon tea out of hatred for him and the desire to deny him any legitimate children.

Seven hells! Start the damn season before I piss myself!

I suffered from dyslexia for my entire life, and I found that listening to the audiobook book, and reading along at the same time has helped me immensely to understand the stories, but it’s channels like yours that you complete breakdowns and bloodlines and storylines that I really truly grateful. Grateful and appreciate immensely. Keep up the great work..

Cersie and Lyanna : -Both are hot tempered -Both are frustrated because they are discriminated against because they are women -Both hated the idea of marrying someone they didn't like -Both fell in love with the idea of a sad sexy prince who was weird af -Both wish for power. Lyanna wished to be a warrior, Cersie a ruler. -Lyanna (and the realm) paid the price of her stupidity. Cersie (and the realm) will pay the price of her stupidity.

The part about the map with The Neck and The Fingers, holy shit.

Tywin was cruel but also smart, yes he did terrible things but they were a means to an end. Cersei does cruel things because she is cruel, she doesn't think things through and then wonders why they didn't go as planned.

I LOVE the theory of Brienne being the 'more beautiful one' who would take everything away from Cercei, which I was not familiar with before now. Even ignoring the idea of inner beauty (which I certainly will not!), we have already seen hints in the book that Cercei's own beauty is diminishing quickly, partly due to her new fondness for drinking and partly due to aging. I also suspect that as she grows more and more like the Mad King, giving in to paranoia and rage, she too will grow more ragged and unsightly over time. Throw in some mishaps with wildfire, and it may get bad enough that Brienne might actually start looking attractive by comparison.

I just want to second trying the audiobooks for ASOIAF. Roy Dotrice's narrations remind me of being a child and having my dad tell me stories about him wrestling grizzly bears in Alaska (if my dad was an old British man, of course). Also equally as fictional, as it turns out.

"Maggie in the show looks like a sexy Halloween witch".... LMAO. Loved that line 18:30

The Neck and The Fingers... holy shit man. The minutiae of this series is amazing.

Guys! There's still hope for Cersei's story having a satisfying ending! We've still got the Books! ....Right? ....Guys??

Tbh I don't think I've hated a fictional character more than Cersei. Her death was so underwhelming in the show, I wish we got your version but lazy writing is lazy

OMG the foreshadowing of standing on the Neck and Jamie by the Fingers blew my mind away. You're awesome Alt Shift X!!!

Tywin knew Cersei best, and he revealed his summation of her when he said, "You're not as smart as you think you are. "

I always said that the three Lannister kids each individually inherited one of tywins best qualities, but those qualities alone were never enough. Cersei has his brutality, Tyrion his intellect, and Jaime his physical gifts. Lacking either of the other two causes the quality to mean nothing

Holy crap! That was definitely a deeper look into this character. Some of those I would have never put together like her becoming more like Robert. Thank you Alt Shift X!!

I wish this version actually happened instead of what we actually got

Probably the most fleshed out character in the books and I love her back story. She's one of the most entertaining characters to watch whether you love or hate her.

Here I am a few years later, after the show has collapsed. 23:50 is pretty interesting, how Cersei is standing on "the neck" and Jaime on "the fingers". They obviously never actualized that in the show, but I'm wondering if somebody in the crew did this on purpose haha.

I love the effort you put into this and how creative you were with the images and captions, it was a joy to watch

Alt Shift X: I have a really great theory! Some rocks: I’m about to end this whole mans career

I don't really have a lot of theories about where the story will go in general, but I really see Jaime killing Cersei as a fitting end for her

The theory about wildfire is interesting. Maybe just as aegon enters the city in victory and glory, and as his troops start the sack, cersei will blow up the entire city, causing the death of all the golden company and aegon. Jaime might have been rushing south with the Lannister host, and just as he closes in, he sees the flames from far away. Once he get there, with the city, burnt to ash, cersei might be waiting in the castle, and he kills her.

Your videos are hands down the greatest A Song of Ice and Fire breakdown/lore videos on all of RU-vid. I love your channel.

If she wanted to break the prophecy, all she had to do was give them DIFFERENT COLORED SHROUDS. Duh. Fate would be all like... wuuuuut?

17:11 "Ironically it isn't Maggy's prophecy, so much as Cersei's _fear_ of the prophecy". As Varys would say : "Prophecies are fulfilled when men believe in them, no more no less. They're tricks. Shadows on the wall." All fulfilled prophecies are self-fulfilled prophecies, as we can already observe from the prophecies of ancient Greek drama and some historical accounts - where in the place of Maggy the Frog there was Pythia ("Πυθία"), the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Interestingly the name "Pythia" itself betrays precisely the above function : "Πυθία" is an ancient Greek version of the modern Greek word "πειθώ" , which simply means "persuasion". Hence if the subjects of the various prophecies did not buy what Pythia said, and in particular did not fear and try to avoid the events of the negative prophecies, then they were safe from them. Of course almost everyone believed the pure BS the various Pythias sold them, because supposedly the prophecies (or, quite often, utter ramblings due to intoxication) were dictated by the god Apollo himself.. By the way, excellent analysis as always, with a very professional looking presentation.

8:57 So Cersei is like any female HR manager at a medium sized company?

Cersi in the books will be killed by the Valonqar (her younger brother). The book goes through great effort to tell you that Cersi emerged from the whom first, making Jamie her younger brother as well. Jamie will most likely kill Cersi, BUT perhaps he will do it as a kindness and a mercy at Cersi's request rather then in anger.

Many people write that Cersei’s children are most important to her, but this is not true. Her desire for power is most important, and it leads to the death of all her childrenn.

This video proofs that Cersei is one of the best characters of the whole show. Such a complex fascinating character arc.

When you think about it the prophecy is actually harmless, especially in the show. "You will marry the king" quiet harmless already. "A younger, more beautiful queen will cast you down." Unless she planning on dying early or marrying her son Cersie will be cast down by another Queen since her son, the king, will need to marry. "You will have 3 childeren... gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds" you will have 3 childeren with golden hair(I think thats what it means or maybe 'gold crowns' means her childerens power will come from Lannister gold) and they will die. Like no shit, everyone dies. It doesn't even say that they will die young. Valenquar is the only part of the prophecy thats directly ominous and even that doesn't mean Cersies younger brother just a younger brother. If Cersie wasn’t such a bad person maybe she could have lived a long happy life and would be killed crying tears off happines at an event or smthing when a younger borther just assassinate her when she is in her late 90s because someone lost a bet to her or smthing. That would fulfill the prophecy compeletely when her childerens eventually died as well.

She hears prophesies that she doesn't want to come true, then immediately fulfills one of them by killing her friend. First thing she does and she's already ensuring them. Imagine she instead just stays in her room with her friend all night and morning comes and her friend is alive. Then the witch is wrong and she can stop worrying about all the rest!

So, Cersei has Tywin's cruelty, Robert's hedonism, and Aerys II's pyromania. .... STRAP YOURSELVES IN, BOYS AND GIRLS! THE SEVEN KINGDOMS ARE IN FOR ONE WILD RIDE!!!!!!

cersei's chapters are always so entertaining.. can't wait for the ones to come. Lena Headey was an excellent casting choice somehow makes the crazy so attractive & exciting on screen

These videos are absolutely terrific. Well done.

Beautiful video, I always somehow find my way back to these videos. Thank you.

Alt Shift X: Makes a 25 minutes video about how Cercei´s story might end, giving multiple possibilities based off foreshadowings and prophecies D&D: How about some rocks?

This was really well done, kinda like a college essay about GOT

It’s so funny how Ceresi is still obsessed with rhegar but hates Robert for being obsessed with Lyanna

If that "neck" and "fingers" reference on the map from season 7 is actually planned to occur in the books, that's some 300 IQ foreshadowing.

I'd say: Chance of Tyrion killing Cercei: 20% Chance of Jamie killing Cercei: 75% Chance of someone else killing Cercei: 5%

you should totally narrate books on audible. your voice is so soothing!

Gotta love how the show runners made a genius hint with Westeros map, the neck and the fingers without even realizing

I love your Vids! I believe it's the most comprehensive understanding of The GOT's world on YT! Well done and please keep making vids on anything that fancies you, your breakdowns on GOT are the BEST!!!

I've never realized the westeros' map detail about the neck and the fingers! I really like your videos. Keep up with the excellent work.

Fun fact : Lyanna Stark was loved by the two men Cersei loved (Rhaegar and Robert).

I always thought that the younger more beautiful queen was lyanna. I know that given how the prophecy is worded it makes it seem like her downfall will come AFTER her kids have died but imo her children dying is her downfall - since they’re the people she cares about the most. Her marriage to Robert and the subsequent death of her children is the result of the aftermath of Robert’s rebellion which wouldn’t have happened if not for lyanna who was younger than Cersei and “more beautiful” in the eyes of some - rhaegar who Cersei was into. Also her being crowned “queen of love and beauty” adds to that. In got we’ve seen that prophecies don’t always work out the way the characters think they do had lyanna running away/ being kidnapped not happened then who knows maybe Cersei would’ve had a better life

13:42 it was certainly cercei who killed her friend melara. Thr witch said "can you smell her breath? She is very close" and with that she ment Cerceis breath

So much for this...... What a crushing end..... I’m sorry...

It would be so great if you did a video like that about Theon

Great video, really helps me better understand Cersei and her motivations. I appreciate your empathy for her

I wonder what would have happened to her if Robert had been good and loving to her? Would she still have had children with Jamie? Part of me feels sorry for her. Not for the woman she turned into but for the girl who wanted to be seen and respected like her father.

I take issue with the statement that "Robert loved Lyanna". They go to great lengths in both versions of the story to show us that Robert loved an idea that he had that LOOKED like Lyanna. That is called "infatuation" not "love". Plus a good 45% of that supposed love came from the fact that marrying her would make his best friend his brother ("by-law"). The other 55% stemmed from the fact that she was pretty and had a wild spirit. Who she actually was underneath that didn't seem to factor in. Book-Ned is so frustrated by Robert's constant pining away for the perfect life he thinks he would've had with his fantasy version of Lyanna that at one point he blurts out "You didn't even know her." Show-Robert openly admits that he can't even remember what she looked like. Because what she looked like and who she actually was is not important. What she represented to him is all he knows of her.

25 minutes? Oh my god, you're too beautiful to behold

Another popular fan theory is that the young beauty to usurp her will be Sansa, as whilst Margaery is never actually stated to be as beautiful or more than Cersei, Sansa is actually compared to Cersei directly in a way that suggests she is at least as beautiful and potentially more. At least in this outcome Sansa would get to do something other than be a massive pain

The prophecy of the bricklonqar...

In the show Jamie is going north to help jon snow....what I think is that Jamie will die fighting the white walkers....then arya will use Jamie's face and come to kings landing and kill cersei as she is in her list of names. Cersei will think Jamie is killing her when in reality it will be arya..also arya will be accompanied by the hound who will take his revenge from the mountain.

"Sexy Halloween Witch"--Alt Shift X 2017 Best line I've heard on one your GOT/ASOIAF Theory videos! :D

Great analysis! I enjoyed it a lot.

I'm 1000% percent sure that the writers don't even know how those 2 regions that Cercei and Jamie are standing on are even called.

I really loved your psychological evaluation of Cercie s life. She had so much pain and loss It would be a fitting end for her to die at the hands of her beloved Jamie as the wild fire bust around them

Haha that Rick and Morty reference: I JUST LOVE KILLIN' 😂

Just a side note on every alt shift x video I absolutely love when he quotes the show he makes the lip movements of the characters he’s quoting follow along w what he’s saying. Like when he quotes cerseis power is power, he says it the same time her lips move and that always has just tickled me in the right spot 😂

I absolutely love this video and I come here from time to time to watch it again! ♥️