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life has been a lot and extremely overwhelming the last few months but things are slowing down and looking up! i miss writing with everyone. hopefully we talk soon<3
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while there are plenty of theories about cersei, jaime, and tyrion's lineage when it comes to their mother or even tywin, i want to focus on a singular bloodline in order to draw even more parallels between daenerys and cersei. they are canonically written as foils (two sides of the same plot mechanic / character) and i feel this headcanon would further solidify that. it's one of the things i like most about asoiaf; the parallels between cersei and dany.
this headcanon is not based on any kind of evidence from canon. in fact, everything canon tells us says that it's literally impossible, but in all honesty i'm gonna do whatever the hell i want. i've already made cersei a lesbian and that isn't canon either.
CERSEI IS A DESCENDANT OF ALICENT HIGHTOWER.
this would also mean that jaime and tyrion are as well, but i'm going to focus solely on cersei when it comes to this.
while there is no information or evidence (at this moment in time) on whether or not jaehaera (aegon ii & helaena targaryen's daughter) procreated in her marriage to queen rhaenyra targaryen's son aegon iii, my headcanon hinges on the fact that they did.
fearing the barely settling tension left over from the dance of dragons, jaehaera and aegon report their child a stillborn but secretly send the child to oldtown to keep them safe. the child was a boy, and he was named after aegon's half brother lucerys, who's death was the catalyst for the dance of dragons.
lucerys takes the bastard name of flowers and is raised by the maesters of the citadel but does not join them. instead, he decides to travel westeros in order to gain more knowledge than the citadel can offer him. he ends up in lannisport after a while and makes a living telling oral histories of not only westeros, but old valyria.
he becomes popular in the westerlands because of this, and ends up falling in love with and marrying a woman from a somewhat prominent family. the daughter lucerys has with his wife marries the son of loreon lannister.
from there, the lineage is as follows: lucerys' daughter > damon lannister > gerold lannister > tytos lannister > tywin lannister > cersei lannister.
it is important to note that tywin and joanna were first cousins, so the lineage also splits as follows: gerold > jason lannister ii > joanna lannister > cersei.
i love this headcanon because it puts emphasis on the stark differences between cersei and daenerys, even more so than we can already see. daenerys is a direct targaryen descendant of rhaenyra, while cersei is a muddled mix of both, but more closely related to alicent.
cersei has far less royal blood in her while daenerys is a third generation of pure targaryen lineage. and yet, cersei somehow manages to acquire more power than daenerys and even the iron throne itself; this directly mirrors alicent's ascent to queen of westeros. daenerys's struggle to claim what is rightfully hers by her targaryen blood also directly mirrors rhaenyra's struggle to remain named heir to the iron throne, and to take what is hers when others try to steal it from under her.
there are several other mirrors/parallels that tie in with this headcanon that i will link later as i type them up. this one has gotten pretty lengthy already. thank you for reading!
