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She wants her children near her at all times even to their own detriment, and wants to mold them into people of her own liking instead of allowing them to develop as people of their own. In other words, she wants to control and dictate their lives instead of guiding them as a normal parent would.
I would say yes and no. I do believe Cersei loves her children but not in a healthy way. We get snippets here and there showing her ‘love’ for them. For example, she tears up after thinking that Tommen was going to die when he choked a little on the food at his wedding feast, pushing aside people in her haste to get to him.
Cersei loves them in a way that she would protect them and would do anything for them to be safe. But she doesn't feel empathy towards her children (or anyone, for that matter). She doesn't care what her children feel, she doesn't care about their problems, opinions, desires, their emotional state.
Apr 25, 2012 · I think Cersei is paranoid about the wellbeing of her children, because she has to constantly cover-up their parentage. But I would still say that she loves her children, and Jaime too. Cersei made a choice to have these particular children with Jaime instead of Robert.
- I think she really did love Joffery, Tommen suffers from having to step in Joff shadow. You say she only showed affection for Myrcella becaus...
- This is true, touche. I just seems that the love Cersei has for Tommen is phony. This is how I read AFFC. The same thing with Jaime
- "My son is safe. Cersei told herself. No harm can come to him, not here, not now. Yet every time she looked at Tommen, she saw Joffrey clawin...
- I am sure that she loves her children! But all parents in some way live THROUGH their children, especially parents who feel like they have no...
- I think Cersei does love her family - it's just that she has very specific expectations about the love she is owed in return. To Cersei, love...
- She has a very funny way of showing her love, if that's what it is. Look at the terrible way in which she treats poor Tommen at Tywin's funer...
- Great description of how I more-or-less feel about Cersei's love. It's probably why I cannot find myself sympathetic to the character, becaus...
- Cersei only truly loves herself and power. She only loves her children as a means to power. Her love for Jaime was a sort of lustful self-reg...
- Cersei is, no doubt, excessively proud, and should have handled Tommen crying with more tact like Jaime did. However, this scene reminded me...
- Since Cersei only becomes a POV character in AFFC, it is the only point of reference as regards to Tommen and Cersei's relationship that we h...
Cersei then asked if she and the king would have children, and Maggy predicted that he would have sixteen children, and Cersei three. She went on to prophesy that Cersei would outlive her children, who would die crowned, and that afterwards the valonqar would come to "choke the life from [her]."
Mar 23, 2016 · You have to remember that Cersei has a mental disorder. A trauma induced mental disorder, and her symptoms come in the forms of paranoia, delusions of persecution (everyone is out to get her when really they just disagree with her), and a stark over protection of her children.
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Jan 7, 2020 · Cersei is shown to be utterly devoted to her children, and crushed by the deaths of Myrcella and Joffrey (who if anything, was even harder to control than Tommen). CERSEI: You may never love the king, but you will love his children.
