Why is Cersei Lannister so cruel? 

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Tywin, Cersei, and Joffrey are the holy trifecta of narcissists. Like father, like daughter, like son.

I think Cersei and Margaery are mirror images of each other, yet it seems Margaery is all that Cersei is not. She’s younger, more politically savvy, and has the love of the common people.

22:24 I couldn't be more pleased about those thoughts about Daenerys, they sum her up so perfectly. She is literally the combination of Sansa and Cersei. Kind and compassionate like Sansa but also ruthless and harsh like Cersei. It's so hard to not admire this character, I don't see how most of the fandom started to hate her so quickly.

I would love to hear more about Cersei and Jaime's relationship and parallels to twins in mythology, personally.

This was incredible! Given her mother’s role in separating her & Jaime as children, I wouldn’t be surprised if she were subconsciously grateful for her mother’s early death- however, given how beloved & idealised Joanna was- she was *never* going to be able to articulate that. I’ve always thought that she really only loves people as extensions of herself- she largely disregards Tommen until he’s elevated to kingship, & tries to control him- but her lack of respect for his position only weakens the power of the crown- Joffrey’s spoiled & cosseted, because she wanted to keep him for her (another way to control/ isolating him from his ‘father’) - even though he often sought Robert’s approval. I don’t see that we have much idea of her feelings for her only daughter; as a physical mirror, she loves her- I get what you say about her feeling because she can’t use Myrcella directly for power, she matters less- but I have had the theory for a while, that *_Cersei_* - directly or indirectly, will be responsible for her daughter’s death in the books. I see it going one of two ways; either she _accidentally_ kills her trying to kill Arianne/ the Sand Snakes, *_or_* having done away with the former, she will slowly come to think Myrcella is the ‘younger Queen’- wether she subconsciously understands that the action brings the prophecy closer to fulfillment- & thus her death closer, or not- her ego & paranoia is such that she cannot lose, not in any way- not even to her own child - & she sacrifices Myrcella, & then tries to draw Tommen ever-closer- perhaps thinking if she keeps him safe, she too, will endure - but I think the show did manage a good interpretation of how that will go - while protective, she’s also reckless & careless; when she’s met with ‘defiance’ or ‘dissent’, she lashes out... - & the loss of her final child will drive her to claim ultimate power in her own right, regardless of whether she has a right to it, or not - while the later show didn’t really accurately show the inner workings of the Court, the way the book & earlier show did- there were signs of how repressive it would be under her regime... Sorry for the rambling- just my thoughts... Edit: missed a word

I would love for you to discuss Jaime and Cersei twincest further.

Putting books analysis of Cersei over images of her of the show just reminds me how much the show Cersei is different from the books, hence more now Show version will be called Carol

I love your contrasts between Cersei, Sansa and Daenerys. Yes Daenerys is the more mature one, they just destroyed her character arc in season 8.

Cersei is an true narcissist, so much so that it’s questionable whether or not she really loved Jaime, or her children. In the books, her and Jaime are described as being mirror images of each other, and she claims the only time she feels whole is when her and Jaime are intimate. It’s probably not the idea of sleeping with Jaime that she loves, but rather the idea of her sleeping with herself. As far as her children go, it’s possible that she may only love them because she sees them as an extension of herself, and her Jaime (herself).

I thought this was Sansa narrating at the beginning

I found the background music a little bit distracting. But only a little bit. If it was just a little bit quieter it would have been fine. I don't agree with Daenerys being mature but I haven't read the books yet either. I'm waiting for George R.R. Martin to finish writing them before I read them. How is Daenerys portrayed in the books? Is she portrayed differently than the show? When you answer that question don't even bother discussing seasons 7 & 8. I think we can all agree that those seasons were atrocities. Also, thank you for always trying to take time to respond to everyone's comments. I know I always enjoy reading your answers to my questions.

Good work. Never thought to associate Cersei with Circe or Calipso. I hope the channel expands to accomodate other content of fiction. I feel like I would like this type of analysis on more stories

I can’t wait to see you do one on Tyrion! Specifically book Tyrion because that version of him is so much more multilayered... the show really butchered him from Season 5 onwards 😢

This is currently my favorite channel! Your ASOIAF content is top-notch!

Damn you put to much work into your vids to be this underrated. I love the video though! Your ASOIAF vids are the best.

Loved your analysis of House Lannister especially given that they are handing down narcissism from one generation to the next. I would love to hear your thoughts on House Bolton (Roose and Ramsay)!

Great stuff 🥰 I love that you actually speak at a slower pace like it was suggested

I’m writing dialogue between characters in my book. Dialogue is extremely difficult. This video helps a bit. Thank you.

Your vids are superb. Can’t wait to dig into all of them!

this is so wonderfully informative; i can't wait to binge all your videos!!

once again a exclent video! Im loving seeing u grow

Truly an amazing analysis on such a complex, fascinating character as Cersei. Compounded with your take on Daenerys and with the trajectory the books look to be going, I am even more convinced that should it occur, it will be Cersei and not Dany that fulfils the prospective ‘Mad Queen’ plot thread.

I would love to see a deeper dive into the relationship between Jaime and Cersei. Your analysis of the characters is fascinating.

Great video!!!! I love how you highlighted that Cersei's narcissism is a coping mechanism for her own self-loathing, most of the fandom usually dismisses that! Also, I would love to hear more about your thoughts on the twincest! Narcissism seems to play a big part in that relationship but i feel that there is also a lot of codependency (?) on both ends (not just Jaime)...Reminds me a lot of the dysfunctional relationship of Heathcliff and Cathy from Wuthering Heights and the way Cathy perceives Heathcliff (the whole "shared souls/existence" kind of thing )

Yes please do the twin mythology with Cersei and Jamie please!!!!

This is so interesting, thank you! I look forward to more videos ❤️❤️

This is a really interesting video, keep up the great work!

This was marvellous! The thing about the show is that so many people forget about the actual complexity of the characters, and how for even the 'worst' George has that gift to make you feel empathy and to root for them. I sincerely hope to see more of your work, with ASOIAF and with other fantasy characters.

This was an excellent breakdown of the personality of Cersei! I just found your channel and I definitely subscribed! Thank you.

I ADORED the video! I can't believe you said many things I already had speculated about Cersei, who's my favourite character from the show. The video was worth the wait. It would be really nice if you could analyse the Starks, given that they seem to be the opposite of the Lannisters' toxicity. Or mayhaps the Tyrells. Anyways, beautiful, wonderful, great, marvelous, compelling and very well done to you!!!

Just shared this video to a couple ASOIAF groups on Facebook! It’s fantastic!

Just found this channel. Bloody _brilliant_ video and analysis 💗 And yes, pretty pretty _please_ do a video on Jaime and Cersei!!!

I am so glad I found your videos. This video about Cersei is great and it's wonderful to see the ASOIAF Cersei and not the HBO Cersei. Please keep posting these videos about the Psychology of ASOIAF characters it is a fascinating world GRRM created. I would welcome one about Jaime and Cersei that would be a good one! Keep up this awesome content!

Wow this is impressive, subscribed! Will watch all your videos tonight for sure! Please do Daenerys' analysis, and Cersei/Jamie relationship analysis.

I really like your content, keep up the good work

Damn this video was good. Underrated RU-vidr right here!

Awesome stuff! Thank you!

It's been almost a year since I haven't watched this video essay. Now I got to watch it again and I can't believe I failed to acknowledge all the details, all the background profiles of Cersei! It's an incredible analysis, the best Cersei analyze on the internet by far! Also, it's unbelievable how George Martin managed to create such a series with a lot of characters and different concepts, and all of them are so well-written. I mean Cersei isn't even a main character (not like Tyrion or Daenerys or Jon), yet Martin wrote such a realistic character with a 3 dimensional psychological profile!

Aww, I'm sorry I missed the premiere!

This is soooo good! Could you maybe make a video about Jaime and/or Brienne? That would be really cool!

Wow this video is awesome, cersei is such an interesting and complex character, your video helped me understand her a lot more thank you 😊 please make a video analyzing Jaime and cersei relationship. By the way, may I offer a suggestion? I think that viserys targaryen would be another awesome character to dissect, he doesn't seem to have been always bad, daenerys tells that when they were younger in the house with the red door he was kind and good to her, that it was when they were expelled from the house that he started changing, I think he is an interesting and intricate character as well that is often overlooked.

I enjoyed your analysis. Looking forward to more content from you. Please lower the background music a bit.

Love these videos

excellent analysis

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Fantastic video! Thank you. Will you do a Ramsay character analysis too?

Thank you for the video! Looking for Jaime's and Brienne's parts))

Feast for Crows is my favorite book of the series. I love Cersei!

Please do an analysis on Catelyn TULLY, because while I do not care for her actions, she has a lot of similarities with Cersei.

A video comparing and contrasting Shireen Baratheon and Lyanna Mormont would be pretty awesome. Or Shireen and Davos. 💜

I think her line of "they hurt little girls everywhere in the world" explains her cruel nature perfectly, she is just a product of how she was treated by the men of those times when she was developing.

Joffrey's Psychology should be next.

Okay your voice is so good and just listening to you is enchanting. I truly loved it and made me feel so interested. Also, please please could you also do Jaime? PS: I am going to follow you NOW ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I love how she sounds like Sansa

Please do Jaime Lannister

Hello this was an amazing analysis, could you please do one of Princess Azula of avatar the last airbender?

Here before this channel before huge

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, would you do a video on Jaime Lannister? I love your vids and am very curious what your angle on him would be. He’s my favorite ASOIAF character. Or perhaps a video on their sibling/twin bond? Anything! 😊 Thank you.

Yeees i NEED a Video in the twincest!!

The four dislikes must be from Cersei, Joffrey, Jamie and Tywin.

Hi I loved your video, I only have one criticism: I wish you would have talked about her relationship with Robert and also the abuses she suffered from him.

Section "prophesy and murder" thank you for explaining what some of us call "self fulfilling prophesy" only for many to still not understand and call us crazy

Love this! Can't wait to see more like Arya and tyrion just because they're my favorite 🤞🥰

Could you analyse some of the Targaryens please? I feel like the notorious ones such as King Maegor the Cruel would be interesting to do a psychoanalysis on.

Awesome analysis! 🍷 as her brother would say "We drink and we know things" 😏

Oh my fuck, this will surely be something epic!

I would love to hear your thoughts on the role of MOTHER, with regard to lady Stoneheart.

Can you do a video on why and how Jaimie and Cersi's sexual and romantic feelings occurred? It baffles me because siblings generally find each other repulsive in that regard.

I know this comment might be late, but I would love to see a video on twins as you have mentioned!

21:34 big yes

so it's about book cersei not show version/ book cersei and show cersei are very different

can you make one for daenerys targaryen and jaime lannister? love your videos

15:34 damn. Well a chair made of swords welded together with presumably dragonfire isn’t super safe.

Great, GREAT stuff! Now we (I :P) want Tyrion!

please do a video analysing jaime and cersei further

I have been watching Breaking Bad (10 years after every other person on earth). I feel like Walter White and Cersei are very similar characters. The paranoia, perfectionism, aggression and need to ”protect my family” that ends up causing so much harm to the family.

Okay, we had Tywin and Cersei, i can't wait for Jaime

Hello, I ve been searching scott buckley- sanctum song but there is no slowed deep version of it like its in your video (( could you tell me where I can listen this song in slowed version 🧡

Please do the twincest video about Cersei and Jamie, I think it would be very interesting.

Will you do a video about Tyrion?

these are as funny to me as other junk like conspiracy theories. I hope you keep making them.

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Cersei’s ownership of Kings Landing makes me laugh, the continual reference to the smell/presence of pig sh:+ is too amusing in its irony for grrm to have not taken influence from the Odyssey

Mostly her father. As great and mighty a ruler as Tywin was he is easily one of the most callous men in Westeros. His domineering, cloak and dagger methods and callous pragmatism bled well over onto Cersei and Joffrey. Many people are so desperate to hate Joffrey whilst cutting out like 90% of the context as to why he's so awful.

Have you done one on Tyrion? He is hands down my favorite character

You sound so much like Sansa Stark, I thought she was talking at first XD

Nice video! Interesting accent. It sounds RP english but with a heavy Flemish or dutch flavour to it. Something about the pronunciation of the word "o" and the emphasis on the consonants at the end of words. More clipped. Sorry; accents fascinate me.

This video made me think about something, Cersei in the books was described as the most beautiful woman in Westeros by alot of the characters but it was women like Lyanna and Catelyn that bought out the madness is men. Lyanna had a war started for her by two of the men Cersei wanted. Petyr foolishly dueled Brandon Stark for Cats hand and almost died. Then he schemed his way into positions to be good enough for her and intentionally caused a war. Ned ended up falling in love with her.

U should deff get ahold of greyarea here on youtube they plug folks and host them for GoT talks.

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Cersei strikes me as having Boderline Personality Disorder but I don't see major narcissism. Often people with BPD come across as narcissists when they're not. I just feel like she felt it was her and her children against the world.

Danny committed genocidal cleansing in Kings Landing and elsewhere, had a distorted self image, seeing herself as a Queen and conquerer instead of a politician, which reflected her unconscious need to exercise prerogative power, power without constraint. Cersi, Sansa, Daenerys -- three expressions of an unexamined will to power. Catelyn had a legitimate reason for her fateful mistakes. But her mistakes furthered the war of the 5 Kings for which there can be no forgiveness. The women of the GoT world were no better than their male counterparts. The lot of them, both male and female, brought misery and death with them. We're no better today.

She is still my favorite

The music is very distracting.

Ramsay Bolton analysis. 😎

Maybe do a little bit better audiomixing. The music is so loud I have difficulty understanding you.

Will you do Daenerys yet?

Back in the day, when GRRM talked about his characters, i've always been astonished about all this female interviewers who praised him for the creation of such a "strong woman" like Cersei Lannister. Back then I just thought: "This is just a fear- and spitefull little girl in a womans body. How can't anybody see that? Cersei is what Arya may become if she follows her way of hate to the end."

its always weird when a psychologist attempts to understand someone in power when they have never been in power themselves. They don't know the cost, they don't know the upkeep, and they don't understand what, to them, is antisocial personality disorder, is actually the only way you can complete and survive when everyone is out to take from you at the first sign of weakness. BTW. those same people who subject themselves to that are the only reason we are here typing on youtube.