Let’s Speculate About What Cersei Was Doing During The Battle Of Winterfell

Warning: Game of Thrones spoilers lie ahead, proceed at your own risk…

We’re now at the halfway point in the final season of Game of Thrones, and the Night King has been defeated at the hands of Arya Stark, thereby ending the long and extremely grim Battle of Winterfell. But with the 82-minute entirely of “The Long Night” focused on the matter at hand (as well as the episode preceding it), viewers haven’t had a chance to check in with Cersei down at King’s Landing.

Contrary to popular theory, the Night King did not, in fact, ambush the throne while the north was distracted, so what was Cersei doing during the Battle of Winterfell We know what she wasn’t doing — sending her army north to help fight off the white walkers — since she straight up lied to Daenerys in the faction that concluded last season.

Instead, Cersei, who now has an additional 20,000 men and 2,000 horses from Euron Greyjoy, was presumably (and accurately) sitting back waiting for the wights to weaken the armies at Winterfell so she can handily defeat the survivors. Or at least that’s what she thinks, unaware that Danys, both of her brothers, two dragons, and all of the remaining Stark siblings (one, with her name at the top of a kill list) have all made it out mostly unscathed.

But as the battle was going down, it had to have been about 72 degrees in Cersei’s head. Her assumed attitude has since taken on life as a meme since the episode aired — as you can see in the examples below.

— Kieron (@KieronJW) April 29, 2019

literally cersei while everyone else was getting ready to die pic.twitter.com/AtjslXw13Z

— yohana desta (@yohanadesta) April 29, 2019

Cersei in Kings Landing hearing all that ruckus up North pic.twitter.com/Y0iqIpH5Jn

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) April 29, 2019

Cersei in King's Landing while everybody else is defending the North: pic.twitter.com/1F7GVcW1qP

— Shahd (@TheShosh_) April 29, 2019

Cersei at King’s Landings during the Battle for Winterfell #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/qREhpshtnv

— Aseel Saher (@AseelSaher) April 29, 2019

Meanwhile Cersei was on line one with her ravens getting the box score miles out of harms way like. #GameOfThronesv pic.twitter.com/TyGJVl2fbH

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) April 29, 2019

Meanwhile Cersei and Euron in King’s Landing #GOT pic.twitter.com/YGPk6SwdLO

— Tommi (@forbiddentom) April 29, 2019

#GameOfThrones cersei during the battle of winterfell pic.twitter.com/hAlMuhg2zy

— imaan (@sneeze97) April 29, 2019

Meanwhile Cersei back in King’s Landing…#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/sIg2hv5eZx

— José Fernández (@jose_miguel_fdz) April 29, 2019

Whatever Cersei was doing, hopefully she enjoyed herself, because next week …. well, we shall see!

— Jared Nabry (@jarednabry28) April 29, 2019