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Oberyn means the world to her. Her father is, undoubtedly, the one person she looks up to the most. Nymeria loves him wholeheartedly, and is very proud of being his daughter. That said, she might not have known him as well as she believes she did.

I couldn’t find anything about bastards in Old Volantis, but considering they are so proud of tracing back their lines to Old Valyria, those of the Old Blood likely don’t take well to mixing their blood with that of foreigners. I doubt Nym’s mother was proud of having her, and believe she was most likely relieved to give her to Oberyn and have him take their daughter to Westeros. 

I’m just saying that because that too would play a part on her devotion towards her father; because he was a prince, yet he didn’t leave her or her sisters just because they were bastard born — her mother being nobility that wanted nothing to do with a bastard child would only make her more thankful to him for caring for her.  As a child, one unwanted by her mother, this would mean a lot. From a young age, Oberyn would’ve been her hero.

Nymeria wouldn’t ever have worried about Oberyn going to King’s Landing; even as an adult, her father seemed invincible to her. Her immediate reaction to the news would be disbelief — she’d doubt it, doubt the letter and the messenger, doubt until she couldn’t deny that was indeed the truth. 

Then, I think all of the Sand Snakes chose to be angry over sad, and Nym is no exception. She doesn’t focus on the loss, but on the revenge. It isn’t a healthy way to grief, but as I’ve said, her father meant the world to her and she doesn’t know how else to deal with his loss. So she settles for anger and resentment and seeks revenge; not against one person, but against all of house Lannister, even someone undoubtedly innocent, as Tommen is.

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I have a lot of feelings about this okay.

Between the three of Cersei’s children, we’re lead to believe Myrcella would be the best ruler. I personally believe that to be true, and I think she might make an even better one with Ari’s counseling. 

Myrcella, at age nine, was fully capable of understanding the situation she was in. When going to Dorne, they dye her hair a darker color and dress Rosamund as her, as a precaution in case Stannis attacked. They do not tell Myrcella that, instead approaching the matter with her as if it was a game, something that seems quite natural since she’s still a child. Yet she sees through it and understands the purpose of the switching places, knows it is a precaution against Stannis even though no one told her so. 

I believe her liking of cyvasse, her fast learning and how often she is said to be winning are also very telling; considering cyvasse is somewhat similar to our chess, it is a game of strategy, and one based on war. Not only this is a sign of her being clever and observant, like the previous moment I spoke of, this leans towards indicating she’s also tactically skilled to some extent, or could come to be. 

Myrcella is observant, adaptable, clever and confident; that, as well as brave, as more than one character says so about her. When she is the one leaving her home to seal an alliance, she doesn’t cry but makes an effort to smile and comfort her little brother, although she is the one being sent away. 

I don’t think she’d be no Margaery Tyrell, seeking to win the people. While Myrcella would lean towards being loved rather than feared, she’d care very little for the commonfolk’s opinion of her — it isn’t the mindset she was raised to have, not when she was raised by Cersei “a lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep” Lannister. This, particularly, is a place where the advising she gets could make for a crucial difference. Myrcella has qualities that would make her a strong possibility for a good queen, but she has flaws as well, many of them connected to entitlement and pride. 

I personally think she has a lot of potential to become a good queen, under the right advising, or along someone that would make up for the skills she lacks. I’m not sure she will ever be queen though, and if she does, she likely will die before reaching her full potential. 

All that said about why I think she could be a good queen, I’d like to add Myrcella never had queenly ambitions. The Throne was supposed to fall to her older brother when her ‘father’ passed, and she was more than okay with this. Her position as crown princess is a privileged one, where she lacks for nothing; Myrcella is more than happy with the status she has. The thought of becoming queen is never one she entertained, likely until the queenmaker plot. And then, I’d like to add, Myrcella would never want to fight Tommen for a crown. 

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The easy answer to this would be that she never had many thoughts about him because he was, at best, a distant figure; but it is a little more complicated than that.

Myrcella has no problems with being the center of attention. In fact, I’d defend she enjoys it very much so. Being the second child might have robbed her of that, but she is the only princess which undoubtedly gave her a sense of ‘specialness’, and she isn’t shy about taking advantage of it. 

As a child, one treated with some deference, used to receiving attention and to be spoiled, it would be a harsh contrast to have a father that doesn’t care for her. Joffrey, hearing the stories about Robert, saw him as a hero, as someone he wanted to receive approval from; at first, I believe the sense of heroic-ness would’ve been there for Myrcella as well, considering she’d know more of the tales than the person. Even so, while I think this sense of seeking approval would be present in some extent in all three of Cersei’s children, I think Myrcella would be a little resentful as well. As a little girl, I can see her having thoughts along the lines of “why doesn’t he look like the hero people sing about? why doesn’t he act like the hero of songs? if he is a hero, why does he seem to not care about us?” because the way he acts isn’t what she would’ve expected of the hero people sing about. If he is to be seen as an example, shouldn’t he be nicer and closer to his own children (and wife)?

Those would remain thoughts, though. Myrcella wouldn’t voice her complains. If she ever did, it would be to her siblings or her mother, but even then she isn’t likely to do so. Complaining isn’t how Myrcella goes about things.

I also think that visiting Winterfell and witnessing a whole differently father-children dynamics would sour her image of Robert further. At this point, I imagine there’d be several moments of catching small things between Ned and his children (like, apparently meaningless, common things that the Stark kids likely took as just normal), where her thoughts would definitely go to “why isn’t my father like that?” or even “why do they have that and I don’t?”. It would be deeply unsettling to her, because she isn’t used to be the one that wishes for something she doesn’t have (and doesn’t know how to get, more importantly). It would also mark the beginning of consciously resenting her father, I think — they’re both heroes, they fought the same war, her father is supposed to be even better than Eddard Stark; so why isn’t he? He’s supposed to be so great, but that isn’t the experience Myrcella has.

While those feelings are always there, they’re mostly unconscious, the thoughts are occasional; for the most part, Robert is a very distant, rather small part of her life. When he dies, she is upset for her father’s death, but even that isn’t something huge. She never grew to love him as anything more than an idea maybe. It isn’t easy to miss someone that was never really there to begin with.

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What they dislike the most about your muse: Robb died. What kind of Kingsguard lets their king die? 

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