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Realistically speaking, Cersei in the books probably winds up dead very soon.

The show turned her into the central villain because viewers loved her as the bad guy, and D+D were very much up for pandering to the audience at the expense of the plot (which is probably a large part of why they fucked up the Dany, Jon, and Tyrion storylines). But the books were almost certainly setting up the pieces for her to fall long before Dany even sets foot in Westeros, with characters who aren't even IN the show moving more into the southern political antagonist role, at the same time as the northern supernatural storyline keeps growing in importance.

Cersei in the books is almost completely self-destructing, and has almost no support left to actually listen to anything she might command or demand. She can be as crazy as she wants to be, but it won't matter if whoever's left just tosses her into a cell to rot.

If anything, this might actually be the REAL ending the "little brother" prophecy is heading for. Jaime winds up choking Cersei to death, but he doesn't do it in anger or disgust - he does it out of mercy. All of her dreams collapsing, all of her children dying, her family broken, even her beloved brother turning against her - all of that would be more than enough to break her mind forever and leave her a ruined wreck. Jaime might kill her just to put her out of her misery.
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