Where is tommen

After Joffrey's death , Margaery shifted her focus to Tommen as a way to realign the powerful families. They soon married, but conflict quickly arose when Cersei grew jealous of Margaery's influence on her son and gave the High Sparrow more power.

After the Faith Militant arrested Margaery and her brother Loras, Cersei's plan to separate her son from the Tyrells backfired, leading to her own capture and walk of atonement. Tommen became more and more brainwashed by the High Sparrow and his religious sect.

Despite abolishing trial by combat, Cersei was still set to be tried for her crimes. As the trials were set to begin, Cersei orchestrated a wildfire explosion at the Great Sept , killing thousands including Margaery. After witnessing the disastrous event, Tommen took off his crown and killed himself by walking out of his bedroom window.

The death of Margaery was a major factor in his suicide, but the actions of his mother were a bigger piece of the puzzle. Almost everyone who encountered Tommen in Game of Thrones manipulated him in some way. Margaery seduced him when he was in a vulnerable state, while his mother also tried to keep control of him, knowing that her youngest son was weak.

Even the High Sparrow knew he was a gullible young man who could be used to push the Faith of the Seven. He reassures her the crowds would go easy on his wife since Margaery is popular with the people. In her cell, Margaery speaks positively of the Sparrow and expresses contriteness for her "sins. His religious piety reaches its apex when his "uncle" Jaime Lannister leads a Tyrell show of force outside the Great Sept of Baelor , where Tommen and his Kingsguard exit the doors of the sept under the Sparrow's signal.

The Sparrow announces to the crowd that Margaery will not have to make the Walk because she has brought another to the Faith. Addressing the crowd, Tommen announces that the Crown and the Faith are the two pillars that hold up the realm.

As a symbolic gesture, he and Margaery raise their hands to the applause of the crowd. During a royal announcement, King Tommen restates that the Crown and the Faith are the two pillars that hold up the world.

He adds that all those who break the law will be judged by the Father. He declares that the trials of Cersei and Loras Tyrell would take place at the Great Sept on the first day of the festival of The Mother. To Cersei's horror, Tommen then abolishes trial by combat , denouncing it as a barbaric practice that has allowed corrupt rulers and lords to evade justice.

He adds that Cersei and Loras will be tried before seven Septons as it was in the earliest days of the Faith. Tommen kills himself; the love of his life and his ideology of peaceful unity dead. Tommen is preparing to attend the trials of his mother and brother-in-law, only to have his progress blocked by Ser Gregor Clegane , who keeps Tommen in his chambers presumably on Cersei's orders.

He then watches in horror as the Great Sept explodes , killing everyone inside including Margaery, her brother, and their father Mace Tyrell , as well as hundreds of innocents in the surrounding district. Tommen watches the Sept burn for some time, his shock replaced with grim determination. With the death of his wife and family, the loss of the center of his newfound faith, as well the knowledge that his own mother was responsible for the deaths of so many innocents, he lays down his crown and calmly, with no hesitation, steps out of his bedroom window to his death.

Later, Cersei visits Tommen's body and orders him to be burned and buried in what is left of the Great Sept of Baelor, saying he should be buried where his grandfather, brother , and sister are buried.

Jaime remarks that he and Cersei never talked about Tommen's suicide, to which she says it was a betrayal and that it doesn't matter, and even though she loved him, he is dead and she needs to focus on Daenerys Targaryen's war for Westeros.

Throughout his life, it has been fundamentally clear that Tommen's most prominent quality is his innocence. He has been the victim of his older brother Joffrey's intense cruelty, sadism and overindulgence by their mother, and this has set the two brothers apart quite considerably.

Where Joffrey was arrogant, monstrous and a dolt, Tommen was humble, gentle, polite, compassionate, kind and sweet to a fault. Tommen was extremely emotional, crying helplessly when his sister Myrcella was sent to Dorne by Tyrion. He didn't stand up for himself when Joffrey callously mocked Tommen for crying, showing that at this point Tommen was underconfident, especially where Joffrey was concerned because Joffrey had tormented his little brother his entire life.

Tommen is so kind that he heartily says he doesn't want Joffrey to kill Robb in battle, despite the fact that officially the Starks and Lannisters were in a pitched war with one another. One of the most unfortunate elements of Tommen's innocence and kindness is that he is considerably easy to manipulate. This set him apart from Joffrey, who was willful and fearsome in his own way and had to be disciplined into following others.

Both Tywin and the High Sparrow saw this weakness in Tommen, and exploited it. That being said, Tywin had the decency to say that he thought Tommen would be a much better ruler than his psychopathic older brother was. In this exact same conversation, Tommen is shown to be surprisingly intelligent and didn't require much prompting to figure out what made a good king, without taking it as a criticism as Joffrey would have done.

Tommen's intelligence didn't necessarily make him perceptive of people manipulating him, though. Tommen's compassion stretched to shocking degrees, since he apologized and even speculated that he'd hurt Margaery when she cried out during the consummation of their marriage. Even after the mass expansion of rumors which of course are true that Tommen and his siblings were products of incest between Cersei and Jaime, Tommen still loved his mother, but he did gain some independent emotions towards other people despite Cersei's best efforts.

Tommen loved Margaery extremely deeply and expressed uncharacteristic anger and frustration when confronting the High Sparrow and demanding Margaery's release.

Tommen's love for Margaery and the faith was so powerful that, when he saw the Great Sept of Baelor explode in a blaze of wildfire, and knew immediately that Margaery, her family and thousands of innocent people who were inside and outside it had been exterminated at Cersei's doing, feeling he lost everything, he immediately removed his crown and silently, calmly, threw himself from the window to his death.

The role of Tommen was recast in Season 4 with actor Dean-Charles Chapman , who previously played Martyn Lannister in Season 3 - who was actually Tommen's first cousin. In an interview with the Game of Owns podcast two weeks after " Oathkeeper " aired, writer Bryan Cogman stated that Tommen was recast in Season 4 because he becomes the new king, which meant a lot more heavy acting rested on the character, so they wanted a more experienced actor.

He also confirmed that they did not cast Dean-Charles Chapman as Tommen's first cousin Martyn Lannister in Season 3 to somehow set him up as the new, older Tommen Martyn and Tommen are related, so logically, an older Tommen might resemble his older cousin. Rather, Chapman was cast simply to play Martyn in Season 3, and after Martyn was killed Chapman thought his time working on the TV series was over. Chapman was only called back to the TV series after the production team had decided to recast Tommen in Season 4 it isn't clear if he had to audition or was hand-picked.

Chapman's natural speaking voice actually has an Essex accent: the Received Pronunciation accent he adopts to play Tommen is a conscious part of his performance.

He is a gentle boy with an interest in tournaments and kittens. He is blonde haired, green eyed, plump, and not very good at martial skills though he is very young , but he does try hard. When the royal party visits Winterfell, Tommen is matched against Bran Stark in a training fight with wooden swords and padding. He is repeatedly knocked into the mud and loses easily, but shows good sportsmanship about it and is happy that Bran was willing to spar with him so he could give it a try.

Many characters believe he would be a better king than his brother. Like all of Cersei's children he was mostly ignored by King Robert. While Cersei felt she doted on all of her children, she is more attached to her own mental constructs of them than the reality. As Cersei's loveless marriage with Robert dragged on year after year, she increasingly fantasized about how Joffrey would one day succeed Robert and become a great king himself, never acknowledging that he was really a petulant sociopath.

Ironically, despite Cersei's defiant claims and even earnest belief that she is a devoted mother to all of her children, she actually became so obsessed with Joffrey and her fantasies about him that she all but ignored Myrcella and Tommen throughout their lives.

From the moment she gave birth to Joffrey, Cersei dreamed about the great king he would grow into, and how as Jaime's secret son he would be her ultimate revenge on Robert: the births of her two subsequent children were barely an anecdote in the narrative of this mental fantasy which has already been established in her mind years before.

Her younger children were pushed off to the side, and with Robert a non-factor in their lives as well, they were functionally raised by court servants, such as Septa Eglantine.

Even so, Cersei will still become hypocritically enraged when anyone questions her relationship with her younger children. TV viewers who haven't read the books may find it odd that while the children of the current generation of House Stark are given a large amount of screentime, the younger children of the current generation of House Lannister barely appear at all.

This is much as it was in the earlier books of the series, and is actually a key plot point: the almost total absence of Myrcella and Tommen from the inner dynamics of House Lannister is indicative of just how little importance they have to Cersei.

People are aware they exist, but rarely even pause to consider treating them as individuals with their own emotions or agendas between the two of them, they had only a single throwaway speaking line in the entire first season, "is Bran going to die? At best, Cersei will argue over their treatment on general principle, such as when she opposed "selling" Myrcella off to a political marriage in Dorne.

However, Cersei was more angered in the sense that she felt something was being taken which belonged to her. Thus it is all the more shocking when in later books, as they grow older, Myrcella and Tommen increasingly turn into major characters in the very midst of House Lannister, on the scale of Arya or Bran Stark, where before they were treated as non-entities.

The other family members and courtiers and by extension, the readers or TV viewers are even criticized for ignoring them this entire time, and simply assuming they were content.

Later books also retroactively reveal that Tommen has lived in terror of Joffrey their entire lives. At one point Tommen even says that he used to "go away inside" mentally when Joffrey did certain things to him, though the exact extent of what he did killing his pets or something far more sinister has not been made clear.

However, despite their parents' loveless marriage, absent father, sociopathic and abusive older brother, willfully blind and functionally absent mother, Myrcella and Tommen still seem to have a good and genuinely loving relationship between the two of them, as fellow-sufferers sharing a household with Cersei and Joffrey. Thus Tommen burst into tears when Myrcella left on her ship for Dorne, because in many ways he was losing the only family member who he loved, and who reciprocated his love.

Tommen goes to the tournament for Joffrey's nameday, having been given permission by Cersei to do a practice mounted sword fight against a quintain with a straw filled mannequin as his opponent. Joffrey sees that the quality of the jousting is poor the Hound says they are all gnats, and Ser Dontos Hollard shows up drunk , and Joffrey decides to cancel the whole thing.

Tommen and Myrcella protest, as Cersei said Tommen could take part, and Joffrey can't just cancel it. When Joffrey says they are acting childish, Myrcella responds, "We are children. We are supposed to act childish.

Then Sansa realizes that Tommen has picked himself up and wants to try again. She realizes that even at eight years old, Tommen has all the kindness, determination, and character that Joffrey lacks and she wishes she was to marry him instead. Tommen is not present in King's Landing during the Battle of the Blackwater in the books.

Instead, while Cersei viciously punishes subordinates who flee the city, she hypocritically sends Tommen to the nearby town of Rosby so he will be safe during the battle. Also, she had been furious when Myrcella's marriage contract and transport to Dorne had been arranged by Tyrion without her input, and she wants Tommen away from King's Landing and out of Tyrion's power.

Tyrion learns of it and decides it's a good idea, as it will ensure both Tommen's safety and that there is still a claimant to the throne for their faction, should the approaching Stannis Baratheon take King's Landing and have Joffrey executed. He lets the plan go through, but then sends gold cloaks under Ser Jacelyn Bywater to intercept Tommen on the road so Tyrion's own forces will be in control of Tommen's security at Rosby.

Cersei is incensed, and she has Ser Boros Blount stripped of his white cloak of the Kingsguard for letting them just take over security and have Tommen, instead of what he should have done, which was dying fighting them.

Cersei later takes the prostitute Alayaya prisoner, thinking that she is Tyrion's lover Shae , threatening her safety if Tyrion lets anything happen to Joffrey or Tommen during the battle in the TV series, the prostitute was changed to Ros , and the subplot about Tommen in Tyrion's custody was cut, so Cersei only warned Tyrion about Joffrey's safety.

After Tommen is crowned, his only activity as a king is using the royal seal on every document put in front of him for example, Ramsay's decree of legitimization , regardless of its contents, which he finds entertaining. Margaery takes him often to her tours at the city, in order to make him popular among his subjects, and encourages him to attend the small council in order to learn how to rule. Cersei, however, refuses to have Tommen involved in the political affairs of the realm until he comes of age.

Cersei proves to be a very incompetent mother for Tommen, as she was to Joffrey, though in the opposite way: she used to dote on Joffrey, failing to restrain his violent and psychopathic behavior; in respect of Tommen she is incredibly domineering, as if making up for her prior lack of control over Joffrey.

Whenever Tommen shows the least signs of backbone or a will of his own, Cersei ruthlessly suppresses him by having his whipping boy Pate beaten, or worse - by ordering Tommen to whip Pate himself until he bleeds, otherwise she'll have Pate's tongue ripped out, knowing well this will break gentle Tommen's heart. At the same time, Cersei is bothered by the fact Tommen is so weak and meek, in comparison to his brother. It does not mean Cersei does not care for Tommen: when she hears him coughing at his wedding, she immediately rushes to him, fearing that he may suffer the same fate as his brother.

Both Tywin and Kevan, fully aware that Cersei is a total failure as a mother figure, intend to separate her from Tommen before she corrupts him. Each of them, however, is killed before he can take care of that matter.

Tommen has no idea about the arrests of his wife and mother, nor about the charges against them. To spare Tommen the humiliation of watching his mother's walk of atonement, Kevan keeps him away in the Red Keep. In the epilogue of the fifth novel, Kevan allows Cersei to spend time with Tommen, since they may not have long together before her trial.

Tommen is quite cheerful to dine with his mother, unaware that soon she may be executed. After resolving the Siege of Riverrun, Jaime gives a lot of thought about Tommen. He wants to be a father figure to Tommen, to have him raised properly, to protect him from Cersei's negative influence before she can turn him to another Joffrey exactly what his father and uncle planned to do prior to their deaths. He believes Kevan is the best choice for Tommen's Hand. I mean, considering all that, what other unexpected twists of fate are in store for Tommen in Game Of Thrones Season 6?

The boy king was conspicuously absent from the final run of Season 5 episodes, so let's briefly recap what Tommen was up to last time we saw him. In Episode 6, he watched as his beloved Margaery was carted off to prison for lying under oath about her brother's sexual proclivities.

Apparently he had temporary amnesia and forgot that he was the king and could, you know, order the Sparrows to not imprison his queen. The last time we saw him was in Episode 7, "The Gift," when he was threatening to start a war with the Faith to get his wife back. Cersei managed to talk her son down and agreed to go speak with the High Sparrow herself. We all know how well that worked out for her:. So, what's next for Tommen? We don't have any book material left to analyze for the character, as Season 5 caught up with the end of his story in A Dance With Dragons , so it's hard to predict Remember, Season 5 opened with a flashback to Cersei's youth, which pinpointed the source of paranoia surrounding her children.

When she was a little girl, a woods witch gave Cersei a prophecy that stated all three of her children would die. Now that Joffrey and Myrcella are both dead RIP, one of you, you know which , Tommen's got a great big target on his back, whether he knows it or not.