#ofc it’s understandable why but it’s that running imagery of Cersei always being the anvil waiting to drop on this kid

[melrosing]

How do you think Tommen and Myrcella will die?

wouldn’t be surprised if the sand snakes are responsible for Myrcella’s death, think their rebellion against Doran’s passivity is foreshadowed pretty clearly. maybe revelations wrt Gregor will be sufficient motive?

as for Tommen, I tend to think Cersei will be indirectly responsible for his death. he’ll be the last to go and the one she’s determined not to lose, but that determination will end up killing him. if I had to guess…. he’s going down w the wildfire. likeno way an eight year old is hopping out the window per the show, so I think somehow Cersei is distracted from Tommen’s exact whereabouts when she enacts the wildfire plot to take out the Tyrells (or else he escapes her confines and goes to Margaery), and he burns w the rest of them

it occurred to me on the last reread that this passage feels like a really grim bit of foreshadowing

Green flames leapt into the sky and whirled around each other. Tommen shied away, till Margaery took his hand and said “Look, the flames are dancing. Just as we did, my love.”

“They are.” His voice was filled with wonder. “Mother, look, they’re dancing.”

“I see them.”

[…]

The wildfire was cleansing her, burning away all her rage and fear, filling her with resolve.

CERSEI III, AFFC

by foreshadowing I mostly just mean the placement of the characters in this scene: here’s Cersei learning the appeal of wildfire, embracing her inner Aerys etc, letting it burn away all sense and reason. and then there’s the Tyrells all standing around, not knowing the significance of this just yet, and Tommen cowering at first but then being drawn a little closer by Margaery, and they both just decide ‘oh, the flames are pretty’. whereas obviously the reader know what wildfire is capable of. I think it would be more obvious if we had actual visuals of this scene where the green is bouncing off the faces of the Tyrells and Tommen lol.

and ofc it’s a given that all of AFFC and ADWD is Cersei telling herself ‘it’s all for Tommen’ when ofc it’s not, it’s for her, she loves Tommen on some level but subconsciously places herself first every time. she beats him down whilst telling herself she’s lifting him up, she draws him closer into an embrace that’s suffocating etc etc, it’s standard self-fulfilling prophecy stuff she’s gonna kill that kid bc that is the ultimate irony