[ SECRET POST #2819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2819 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

See, that's an interesting point to me. Right now I'm rereading Feast For Crows, the one where Cersei's suicidally incompetent regency is screwing everything up, and I feel like she has two separate problems that interact really badly.

The first is that she doesn't really have any idea how things actually work. How money works, what peasants are good for, how wars are fought... it's all just vague notions to her. And that, yes, is shit she would have been trained in had she been born with a wang. Tywin's dismissal of her potential is a real loss on that level.

However, her real failure, the thing that drives most of her worst decisions, is that she's the most self-centered person in the entire story. All her decisions are based on what she wants at that particular moment, and she never thinks beyond that. She doesn't like other people being smarter than her or having power she thinks should be hers, so she surrounds herself with incompetents and suck-ups. She packs the Kingsguard with handpicked morons she thinks she's in control of. She lets the church rearm itself in exchange for something she happens to want at that moment, and doesn't wonder for a second whether that might be consequences of that decision. She's thrilled to hear Ser Loras is on the brink of death because she dislikes him, ignoring the fact that he's the last competent knight in the Kingsguard. And so on and so forth. All her decisions are shortsighted, petulant, and entirely about herself.

Patriarchy kept her from achieving her potential, yes. But from what we see of her from childhood on, I'm not sure we're missing out on much there.

[(Anonymous)]

this is a good comment.

[(Anonymous)]

This, basically. A lot of Cersei's problem is that she thinks she's smarter than she actually is and she refuses to listen to anyone else, no matter how good their advice is. Plus she is super petty.