Cersei loves the Cersei she sees in Jaime and Joffrey. She is a narcissist through and through. She views her kids as extensions of herself. She loves her kids and will protect them, but she’s no more protective of her kids than she is of herself. She takes risks with her kids’ well-being in order to reach for power. She has the most severe case of penis envy in the entire story.
Cersei blames everything on everyone else and casts herself as the victim. She convicts people of crimes they’ve only committed in her imagination.
Cersei seems to get some sort of pleasure out of watching a young girl like Sansa have her hopes and dreams unfairly destroyed. Because Cersei feels as though her childhood hopes and dreams were unfairly destroyed. People tend to go one of two ways in response to such unfairness. They either want to stop it from happening to anyone else, or they want to spread it to everyone else. I think Cersei is the spreading type.
Cersei’s chapters a really interesting to me because I think from the author’s perspective there is a lot of opportunity to hide valuable information in the things that Cersei doesn’t see.
Ten thousand of your children perished in my palm, Your Grace, she thought, slipping a third finger into Myr. Whilst you snored, I would lick your sons off my face and fingers one by one, all those pale sticky princes. You claimed your rights, my lord, but in the darkness I would eat your heirs. (AFFC Cersei VII)
Apples and Dragons 