***Warning: Game Of Thrones, season 8 episode 5 spoilers are on their way***
Game Of Thrones is only one episode away and some of the shows most beloved characters are dropping like flies…but Cersei Lannister’s fate has left viewers feeling all kinds of feelings.
In fact, the long-held prophecy of her destiny turned out to be missing a large chunk.
This is your last chance to look away if you don’t want to know what happens to her. Seriously.
So…as the battle of King’s Landing saw Daenerys rain literal hellfire upon the city (killing hundreds of innocents in the process), some of the key main characters finally met their maker.
Most notably, Jaime Lannister reached his twin sister/incestuous lover in time for them to die together as the Red Keep collapsed around them.
Now, many people may have feelings about this (both good, bad and ‘why did you play Brienne like that, Jaime?’ in nature), especially considering a prophecy held the long-time fan theory that Jaime, in his final act of redemption, would kill his wicked queen sister.
The prophecy, as told by Maggy the Frog in season five, told Cersei through a series of questions her future – most of which came true.
This included: ‘Never wedding a prince, but a king’ (her marriage to Robert Baratheon); that he would have 16 children, but she would only have three (Robert gave birth to a number of children out of wedlock, including Gendry); and her three children would all die before her (Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen have all been killed in the series run).
However, the book and the show then split, with the series choosing to miss out the final line: ‘the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.’
Valonqar (or ‘little brother’ in Valyrian) could’ve meant Jaime or Tyrion, with a long held theory believing she would go to her final moments believing it was Tyrion, only to be wrong.
But that belief was firmly squashed last night when the pair, in each other’s arms, were buried under rubble together.
So as it turns out, it’s been their fate all along (at least, in the show).
Having literally almost killed a child after he caught them having sex in the first ever episode, it was clear that Cersei and Jaime’s relationship was going to be anything but a conventional one.
But in the books, Jaime thought in his head: ‘I cannot die while Cersei lives. We will die together as were born together,’ during a Storm of Swords.
A similar feeling was reciprocated by Cersei, who told her uncle Kevan in the series: ‘We came into this world together, Uncle. He would not go without me.’
Even for those unfamiliar with the books, it should’ve come as no surprise that the twins’ unbreakable bond was the forefront of their minds, with Cersei saying as such during an interaction with Ned Stark in season one.
‘Jaime and I are more than brother and sister; we shared a womb, came into this world together — we belong together,’ she declared.
Game Of Thrones continues Sundays on HBO and Sky Atlantic.
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