Cersei & Lysa Parallels

starklyannas:

Envious of their sibling

When we were little, Jaime and I were so much alike that even our lord father could not tell us apart. Sometimes as a lark we would dress in each other’s clothes and spend a whole day each as the other. Yet even so, when Jaime was given his first sword, there was none for me. ‘What do I get?’ I remember asking. We were so much alike, I could never understand why they treated us so differently. Jaime learned to fight with sword and lance and mace, while I was taught to smile and sing and please. […] Jaime’s lot was to be glory and power, while mine was birth and moonblood. (Sansa VI, ACOK)

Yes, your mother, your precious mother, my own sweet sister Catelyn. Don’t you think to play the innocent with me, you vile little liar. All those years in Riverrun, she played with Petyr as if he were her little toy. She teased him with smiles and soft words and wanton looks, and made his nights a torment. (Sansa VII, ASOS)

Suspicious of Sansa

Queen you shall be … until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear. (Cersei III, AFFC)

You think you can have any man you want because you’re young and beautiful. (Sansa VII, ASOS)

Resented the patriarchy for being “sold off”

I was to be sold to some stranger like a horse, to be ridden whenever my new owner liked, beaten whenever he liked, and cast aside in time for a younger filly. (Sansa VI, ACOK)

Father said I ought to thank the gods that so great a lord as Jon Arryn was willing to take me soiled, but I knew it was only for the swords. (Sansa VII, ASOS)

Unhappy marriages

There were chills in this room, and her wretched royal husband had died beneath this canopy. Robert Baratheon, the First of His Name, may there never be a second. A dim, drunken brute of a man. Let him weep in hell. (Cersei VII, AFFC)

That was hard, to see him every day and still be wed to that old cold man. Jon did his duty in the bedchamber, but he could no more give me pleasure than he could give me children. His seed was old and weak. All my babies died but Robert, three girls and two boys. All my sweet little babies dead, and that old man just went on and on with his stinking breath. So you see, I have suffered too. (Sansa VI, ASOS)

Killed their husbands

Oh, indeed. Cersei gave him the wineskins, and told him it was Robert’s favorite vintage.“ The eunuch shrugged. “A hunter lives a perilous life. If the boar had not done for Robert, it would have been a fall from a horse, the bite of a wood adder, an arrow gone astray … the forest is the abbatoir of the gods. It was not wine that killed the king. It was your mercy. (Eddard XV, AGOT)

No need for tears … but that’s not what you said in King’s Landing. You told me to put the tears in Jon’s wine, and I did. (Sansa VII, ASOS)

Had secret affairs

And Jaime and I are more than brother and sister. We are one person in two bodies. We shared a womb together. He came into this world holding my foot, our old maester said. When he is in me, I feel … whole. (Eddard XII, AGOT)

I want you now, this very night. And I must warn you, after all these years of silence and whisperings, I mean to scream when you love me. (Sansa VI, ASOS)

Killed by their lover, the last person they expect to betray them

And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you. (Cersei VIII, AFFC)

“Only Cat.” He gave her a short, sharp shove.

Lysa stumbled backward, her feet slipping on the wet marble. And then she was gone. She never screamed. For the longest time there was no sound but the wind. (Sansa VII, ASOS)