#cersei would have poisoned have the cast of hotd then tried to seduce the rest before even thinking about the consequences

[mmelolabelle]

it’s not that cersei lannister is actually smarter than alicent hightower (she isn’t) rather that cersei lannister is not burdened by such trivialities as ‘empathy’ or ‘self-awareness’ or ‘the reality of the situation’; the idea that she cannot do something just doesn’t occur to cersei, ever, every societal norm and moral code is a personal inconvenience to her

oh and she is actually for real insane

it all enables cersei to just do shit to a degree that other characters can only marvel at