Cersei is claiming to be pregnant again by Jamie, however I am very dubious about whether she is or not. The reasons I feel this are as follows:
First of all, the prophecy, which says she will only have three children, “gold their crowns and gold their shrouds”. I know she told Catelyn about the black haired baby, but in the books, she actually had an abortion, acquired by Jaime, on the only occasion that she became pregnant by Robert.
On the other hand, the pregnancy could always not go to term, still fulfilling the three children aspect of the prophecy, especially if it happens very early on.
Secondly, given the number of times she and Jaime had sex, and only three children being born, it makes me wonder about her fertility. Tommen was 9 in the books, and older if the TV series is to be used as evidence. Joffrey was 14, and Myrcella was a year older than Tommen, so there were 5 years between the three children. If you add in to that the amount that Cersei was drinking, the stress in her life, as well as the poor diet during her imprisonment in the Sept, it’s entirely possible that she is merely having irregular periods that she is interpreting as pregnancy. Even a hangover could be mistaken as morning sickness.
The period of time and the technology at hand is pretty much similar to the medieval period of Britain, and there weren’t any reliable pregnancy tests around at that time. Any missing periods could be seen as pregnancy, and quite famously, Mary Tudor had false pregnancies, one of which may well have been a tumour that eventually killed her. She had at least one period of lying in, when she was “due”, but no baby was born, and she eventually had to come out of her chambers as childless as she went in.
There is also the possibility of a phantom pregnancy. We already know that she has mental health problems because she suffers badly from paranoia, and having lost three children in pretty quick succession (one of which was directly caused by her actions, although she chooses to blame Tyrion instead), I would assume she is suffering from depression as well. It could be that she is so desperate to be pregnant that her body is giving all the signs without her actually carrying a child.
Finally, she seems to fear she is losing Jaime’s loyalty, as he has drawn back from her more than once, and while she was a prisoner of the High Sparrow, she messaged Jaime telling him to come at once, which he didn’t. Her paranoia will see him as possibly turning against her as so many others have already, and the news of another child could just be a way to try to bind him to her side. We know she is not above lying to get her own way, and this could just be another example of that.
I don’t know really. Is she pregnant? Is she faking it, knowingly or unknowingly? Could it be that she’s just mistaken because her periods are out of whack because of her lifestyle and incarceration? Could it be a deliberate lie, and the last straw that will see Jaime snap and kill her when he finds out about her duplicity, thus completing the prophecy about the Valonquar?
Personally I’m leaning towards her not being pregnant, but thinking she is, but continuing the lie to Jaime once she discovers the truth, then him finding out. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Submitted January 27, 2018 at 10:14PM by MagratM http://ift.tt/2DH2Cvz
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