The Twisted Love Story of Jaime Lannister and Cersei Lannister

       One of the most twisted narratives in HBO’s Games of Thrones is the incestuous relationship between siblings (they’re twins, actually) Jaime Lannister and Cersei Lannister. Of the two, it is Jaime who’s faithful and who’s more in love. Cersei, who is married to a king, clearly loves him but cheats on him.

       Jaime often rues that you can’t choose whom you love and he is probably the best person (or fictional character) to complain about it. Gorgeous, princely, swashbuckling, a legendary swordsman and scion of the richest man in Seven Kingdoms, Jaime can have any woman he wants, but he’d rather be with his sister. She is the only woman he’s been with. They, in fact, already have three kids who are heirs (and heiress) to the throne. The king thinks they are all his children but the whole kingdom know they are not.

       If everyone can choose whom they will fall in love with, obviously, they’ll choose someone with whom they can have a peace of mind loving and caring for. You will not pick someone who is married and you will certainly avoid falling for your sister, or any relative for that matter. Incest is not only immoral and disgusting, it is also a crime.

       If you can choose the person with whom you’ll fall in love with, you will, of course, choose someone who requites your feelings,  someone who’s always been affectionate to you, someone who shares your sense of humor, not someone whose predilection is to hurt you, shun you and make you suffer.

       But alas, Jaime, the fearless kingslayer, is perfectly right, we don’t choose whom we love—so he’s stuck with Cersei. "The things I do for love," Jaime says as he pushes a young lord, a ten year old boy, from a tower window so that their affair will remain secret.

       So most of us are stuck with someone who can’t return what we feel, or when they do, they do it with hurt.