In the books, Cersei and Jaime look so alike that even their father Tywin couldn't tell them apart as children. The implication is that when they share a bed, they're effectively sleeping with themselves — pure narcissism dressed up as passion. Their incest isn't about desire so much as self-love, which reframes the entire relationship as a symptom of arrested development rather than romance.
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