Whats going on guys Carmine here and welcome to another one of my theory videos and yes
you heard correctly: Theory Video.
Now normally I don't exactly do ones of these because there are a lot of Game of Thrones
related theories out there that I think are bullshit and really aren't that thought provoking
enough to get me excited about them but this is one I've enjoyed for quite sometime.
The theory is that Gendry, the apprentice blacksmith we first meet in season 1 is actually
the son of Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon.
Now I was never big fan of this theory when I first heard about it nor was I a big believer
in it when people in the comments brought up that Gendry could be her child but once
you start to piece the clues together and get to know Cersei and her character a bit
more then it all starts to make sense a little.
Also towards the end I will be going through my thoughts on where Gendry is and what his
role might be in season 7 so keep in mind that towards the end I will have some spoilers
but I will alert you in time so don't worry.
Okay so the one thing I really love about season 1 is that the first half is a murder
mystery with Ned Stark trying to piece in the clues while also deciding who he can and
cannot trust.
When it comes to this type of series you don't exactly see the mystery genre creep in like
that and it really got me hooked.
Who killed this man, who can I trust and what was he killed for.
It's exciting and the first half of season 1 is always entertaining.
When Ned Stark arrives in King's Landing we meet all the players and see the situation
first hand as to what has been going on and...well....some shady shit has been going on.
Jon Arryn, the previous hand of the King and a father figure to Ned was murdered and his
dying words spark a really interesting mystery: The Seed is Strong.
We now know that he meant that black hair is dominant in the Baratheon family tree no
matter who it is they have children with.
All of King Robert's children with other women have black hair even if the mothers don't
have black hair and his children with Cersei Lannister have blonde hair.
All of them.
The mystery is solved but one of his children remain: Gendry.
Could Gendry be the long lost son Cersei had with Robert back when she could tolerate him?
well to answer this we need to go back a little.
In season 1, during king Robert's visit to Winterfell, Ned Stark's son Bran falls from
a tower.
While in a coma Cersei tries to console the boy's mother, Catelyn, and tells the story
about how she lost her firstborn.
"i lost my first boy.
little black-haired beauty.
He was a fighter too.
Tried to beat the fever that took him".
So basically Cersei had a child who died of a fever shortly after being born.
In that same conversation she would later say how the baby looked like "him" and I'm
going to assume shes talking about Robert.
So black hair and resembled Robert a little.
Hmm...could Cersei be lying here?
trying to manipulate Catelyn into believing that she had nothing to do with Bran's fall?It's
possible because she is a great actress when it comes to faking things.
Or maybe Cersei is feeling a bit of guilt and wanted to comfort Catelyn, and maybe herself,
with her own experience.
Also keep one thing in mind: In this very same conversation with Catelyn, Cersei tells
her that "they" came to take the body away and that she never visited the crypts.
She never went to visit her son's grave.
Keep that in mind.
So how does this all connect to Gendry?
well before we get there I want you to go back and watch that scene in episode 2 again.
I find it curious that right after this conversation the very next scene is a blacksmith, with
black hair of course, making Arya's Needle.
Coincidence?
well maybe but the show runners have done things like this before.
Especially when alluding to the fact that Jon Snow is the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna.
We've seen them do this type of scene changing with Jon so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary
to see it being done with Gendry.
So in one scene Cersei talks to Catelyn about her black haired beauty, and depending on
who you ask the actor who plays Gendry is good looking so you have that, but Cersei
talks about her baby with black hair and looked like Robert, the next scene cuts to a blacksmith
with black hair and then later on then we meet Gendry, who is also a blacksmith with
black hair, Ned notices how he resembles a young Robert.
Could this be the show trying to give us a nice little connection here?
or is it just coincidence?
and before you make up your mind let me take this a little farther
In season 2 when Arya and Gendry are talking, Arya asks about his mom, Gendry replies that
she worked in a tavern and died when he was little.
Okay not really out of the ordinary.
But why would Robert go out of his way to sleep with some random tavern wench when he
can have one of the many whores in King's Landing.
Or maybe this tavern wench was Cersei.
See this is where it gets into book territory but I'm going to go ahead and assume this
happened in the show as well.
And no this isn't a spoiler because its so minor that I'm going to go ahead and save
you the trouble.
In the 4th book when Jaime is standing vigil over Tywin's dead body Cersei sneaks in dressed
as a tavern wench, in fact Jaime makes a note of it when she comes in and she asks him if
he remembers when they were younger, how she would sneak out in a disguise like that and
get with him in one of the taverns in King's Landing.
Not only that but Gendry tells Ned his mom had "yellow hair" and a couple of episodes
later Robert yells at Ned to make peace with "those yellow-haired shits".
See where I'm going with this?
So if Gendry really is her son then why is he working as a blacksmith's apprentice when
we first see him?
why is he not Robert's legitimate heir.
Why would Cersei give this child up?
Well...the theory is, is that Cersei hated Robert so much she couldn't bare the thought
of having his kids.
In the books she hints to Ned that she has had abortions to avoid giving Robert any children.
And yes abortions do exist in Game of Thrones.
It comes in the form of a tea that you can drink and it'll usually prevent or abort a
pregency.
In the books Cersei went all out to prevent any children from being born due to her hatred
for Robert but maybe in the show things are different.
In the scene between Cersei and Ned in the garden she admits that she really did like
him but all he could think of was Ned's sister.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that Cersei tried to make things work with
Robert even after their first night together.
She tried to make it work but Robert sucks at being a loving husband and she realized
this far too late into her pregency.
She realized that she could never really love this child but due to her motherly instincts
she could never hurt it either nor allow anybody else to do so.
When she gives birth she devises a plan to switch out the baby with another one who had
just died.
To do this she needed not just Jaime but Grand Maester Pycelle on her side.
Keep in mind that Grand Maester Pycelle is suppose to serve the King first but in a season
3 deleted scene we learn that he had always served House Lannister, despite who was in
charge.
Pycelle also admits this in season 2 when Tyrion confronts him for being a spy for Cersei.
So Jaime does the horrible deed of finding a child who has already died of sickness and
Pycelle does the job of convincing King Robert that the baby has died.
Perfect.
Oh and by the way this was also done by Varys during Robert's Rebellion but I won't get
into that because it is book spoilers so keep in mind that even in the books characters
have swapped out babies before so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for any character in
the show to do this as well.
So Cersei realizes she could never love this child and doesn't want to kill it so She had
Jaime and Pycelle switch out the child and convince Robert that their first born had
died.
She leaves the task of relocating the child to Jaime.
Jaime can't exactly leave King's Landing without anybody noticing he's gone so he makes sure
the kid has someone who'll take care of him.
This is also why she never visited the crypts...because she knew the child that died was never hers
in the first place.
Now we don't know much about Gendry's life from the time he was born up until he got
his job as a blacksmith with Tobho Mott and here is where Jon Arryn comes into the mix.
Cersei likely had this child within Robert's first year of being King and Robert was King
for more than a decade and that means Jon Arryn was Robert's hand for more than a decade
and he has spent a lot of time observing and interacting with Cersei.
And Jon isn't a stupid man, he correctly assumed Cersei's three children weren't Roberts and
he went into investigating this, looking up the children and making sure Robert's bastards
were all looked after or at least healthy.
We're lead to believe that Jon Arryn came looking for the kids to confirm they all had
black hair but that wasn't his only goal.
What if Jon Arryn planned to reveal the truth about Cersei's cheating and wanted to make
sure some of Robert's bastards were alive and well to be legitimate heirs.
Ultimately, even if Jon Arryn accused Cersei of cheating, he would have to convince Robert
of this.
Multiple bastards with different mothers, some of which have yellow hair as well, would
be presented as evidence.
It's not enough to have just one person, Gendry, but it would pay off to show Robert the more
than 10 bastards who share his family traits and this would explain why he tracked them
all down.
Not only that but it would also make sense that Gendry is Cersei son because, as we all
know, all of Cersei's plans backfire on her tremendously.
Think about it for a minute here: All of Cersei's plans backfire on her one way or another.
She planned for Joffrey to be king, so she had Robert get drunk out of his mind until
he eventually died in an accident.
She thought she could control Joffrey but he turned out to be an insane monster.
She thought she could use the Sparrows to remove the Tyrells but they ended up turning
on her.
You see all her plans eventually backfire and it would make a lot of sense that this
one would as well.
Even though Jon Arryn never had a chance to reveal this to anybody, it'll ultimately come
back to her, just like everything else.
Petyr Baelish knew of Jon Arryn's plans, this is why he lead Ned around in season 1.
But he couldn't let Ned use his trump card against Cersei just yet.
You see Gendry, in my opinion, is Petyr Baelish's trump card.
In season 5 we see that Petyr tells Olenna about a young man, we're lead to believe that
this young man is Lancel but why would Lancel all of a sudden confess to the High Sparrow
his incest with Cersei just because Petyr told Olenna?
See it would make more sense that Lancel, when we meet him again in season 5, has already
confessed to the High Sparrow everything before even arriving in King's Landing because when
we do see Lancel again he is already a devout follower.
He wouldn't be such a believer if he kept something THAT big from the High Sparrow until
Olenna revealed it.
No no.
Petyr's gift was Gendry.
Gendry is the key into removing Cersei from power, because he is the last Baratheon.
Not only that but he is a legitimate Baratheon, someone Margaery could marry.
Olenna wouldn't buy Petyr's bullshit unless he could back it up and I believe he has and
will.
But Gendry has been missing since season 3?
Well maybe he hasn't been rowing his boat across the ocean after all.
When we last saw him he was rowing his boat from Dragonstone to King's Landing and it's
not too far off.
This was at the end of season 3, in the beginning of season 4 when Joffrey dies, Sansa is swept
away to a ship waiting nearby in King's Landing and it happens to be Petyr Baelish.
What if when Gendry left dragonstone at the end of season 3, he happened to come across
Petyr's boat and Petyr has been hiding Gendry all this time and is planning to use his identity
to control the seven kingdoms.
As always whenever you proclaim your right to the Iron Throne you better back that up
with some allies and an army.
Well....Petyr has the Knights of the Vale and the whole of the North as his allies.
Not only that but if hes partnered up with Olenna he has the Tyrells too.
Gendry could be Cersei's last mistake in a long line of many.
Now that we're at the end of the video here is where the spoilers come but i want you
to continue on with me despite that and no i won't go into many heavy spoilers.
just one picture.
If I still have you with me then let me show you this: It looks like Gendry's back and
maybe, just maybe...Gendry will be the one that sits on the Iron Throne...unless Dany
sits on it which I don't think she will but thats a video for another time.
Oh and for those of you wondering about the Maggy the Frog prophecy?
well that also makes sense considering Cersei gave the child away and she doesn't consider
the child "hers" so in a crazy prophecy loophole type of situation Maggy never mentions Gendry
because Cersei didn't want him nor considered him her child.
In Cersei's mind her only children are the ones she had with Jaime, the ones with golden
crowns and shrouds so Maggy decides to only tell her about "her" children and nothing
else.
Makes sense to me.
So to recap: Gendry was Cersei's first child with Robert.
In the books she hated him and aborted all his children but because the show is in an
alternate timeline then I'm assuming even after realizing how terrible of a husband
Robert is, she tries to make it work.
She has a child with him but far too into the pregnancy she realizes Robert will never
change and doesn't want to have his children.
She devises a plan to give the baby away and make Robert believe he died.
Jaime switches the boy and Pycelle convinces the King.
Gendry grows up in King's Landing and Jon Arryn begins investigating all of Robert's
bastards in the hopes that he can tell Robert the truth.
Petyr has Jon Arryn poisoned and betrays Ned to protect his trump card until he can use
Gendry himself to control the seven kingdoms and undermine Cersei's rule.
Could all of this be possible?
Maybe but we'll just have to wait to find out
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