House Lannister

Trista BakerChelsea KalishAaron LuebbersShelby Zurick

[Spoilers ahead]

Lineage

Marriage

Robert Baratheon (Deceased)

Cersei Lannister Jamie Lannister Tyrion Lannister

TywinLannister

Joanna Lannister (Deceased)

Joffrey Baratheon Tommen BaratheonMyrcella Baratheon

Relationships• Tywin Lannister is the head of the Lannister Clan.

While he is not the King, since his family sits in the position of royalty, he still pretty much runs the show as if he were King.

• Cersei (Tywin’s daughter) is the Queen. She was married to the, now deceased, King Robert Baratheon.

• Cersei’s son, Joffrey, becomes King upon his “father’s” death. Joffrey is still a teenager, so his grandfather, Tywin, runs the show from the background.

• Jamie, Cersei’s brother and son of Tywin, is the biological father of Cersei’s 3 children: Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen.

• Tyrion is the third child of Tywin. He is a dwarf, and the rest of the family really does not care for him much. Although, there is a deep, below the surface brotherly bond between Jamie and Tyrion that they really don’t let the rest of the family see because of the stigma against Tyrion.

Roles

• Tywin Lannister has all of the power within this family. He dictates who does what, who marries who (even against their will), and how the kingdom is run even though he is only the King’s Hand (the main advice giver to the King).

• Cersei got comfortable being the previous King’s wife and having that power. Now that her father has kind of stepped in to clean up the mess in the capitol, her power has been greatly reduced. There is a gnarly under the surface power struggle going on between Cersei and her father that we don’t quite know how it will pan out in the end.

• Jamie was a member of the King’s guard, and a soldier for the Lannister Clan. He lost one of his hands, greatly reducing his effectiveness in battle. His role in the family is hazy right now because he doesn’t really fit anywhere in a solid capacity. He is currently trying to help save Tyrion’s life, however.

• [MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD]

Social Environment

• The Lannister family is currently residing in King’s Landing, the city where the royal family rules from. The land the family owns and rules as their own clan is called Casterly Rock.

• King’s Landing is a huge city.• Being of the royal family it is presented that the family is beyond rich. The Lannister

motto is that “A Lannister always pays their debts.” The reality, however, is that the Lannisters are going broke, and they are keeping that information as secretive as they possibly can because they have always been on the much richer side of the spectrum. This is one of the motivating factors for Tywin’s actions in King’s Landing and being the King behind the curtain.

• Another influential role within this family is the fact that Cersei and Jamie, while siblings, are the (secret) parents of the most recent as well as the current child King in King’s Landing, which puts an interesting twist on the family dynamics.

Rules

• 1. Lannisters always pay their debts.– Used both as a promise and as a threat.

• 2. While several family members know, NO ONE speaks of the fact that Jamie and Cersei are the parents of Cersei’s children. They are only known as the offspring of the deceased Robert Baratheon.

• 3. You do what Tywin says within this family OR ELSE.• 4. Tyrion is nothing more than an imp, and the killer

of their mother. (She was killed while giving birth to Tyrion).

Rituals

• Tywin rules from behind the curtain without much fuss from his children. Cersei gives him a certain amount of trouble over this because of her previous powerful position as Queen.

• Jamie is/was the glorious soldier. He is now being sent back to the homeland of Casterly Rock to run the family from that side of business. This is also a move by Tywin to separate Jamie and Cersei.

• Tyrion has always been a bit of a hell raiser and rebel due to the way he has been treated by his family. He has never really been a political rebel, just a rebel in the sense of partying all the time and spending copious amounts of time and money on the prostitutes around the lands.

The 6 Cs• Communication

• Tywin or Joffrey is usually the most dominant in conversations• Both very pejorative of other family members, especially Tyrion• Occasionally other family members will bring Joffrey down a peg as a

means of controlling some of his less appropriate behaviors• Contact

• Very little affectionate contact outside of Jamie and Cersei or Cersei and her children

• Frequent aggressive contact such as slapping.• Not unidirectional: Slaps go all around whenever one member

heavily disrespects another or behaves in a manner “unfitting”• Some manner of emotional contact as there is some empathy between

the family as even the more conflicted members can sometimes see eye to eye

The 6 Cs (Continued)• Care

– Cersei cares and provides for her children who, in turn, help her maintain her station.

– Though Cersei is the primary caregiver of her children the whole family provides some service in rearing the children, even if only discipline.

– Tywin was notoriously cold to his children and left much of their upbringing to his late wife and their servants.

• Coping– The individuals in the family cope in several unhealthy ways depending

on the individual: Alcohol, fighting, incest, prostitutes, murder.– None of these are partaken with any other members of the family

(except of course the incest).

The 6 Cs (Continued)• Conflict

– Frequently: Disagreements on methods of rearing the heirs, displays of power, arguing.

– Typically verbal, sometimes passive (such as making plays in the background that indirectly affect other members), occasionally physical.

– The most friction occurs between Tyrion and Tywin, Tyrion and Cersei, and Joffrey and everyone.

• Consensus– The family ultimately agrees that they need to maintain their

place in the world and that the heirs are the most important part of that.• Disagree often on how to do this.

– There is some agreement between members and for the most part they still prioritize family over non family.• Some members of the family get along fine, generally Jamie get’s

along with everyone (but especially Cersei and Tyrion), while even conflicted pairs like Tywin and Tyrion or Cersei and Tyrion have moments of agreement.