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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 13, 2019 3:37 AM UTC  Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister Lena Headey as Cersei LannisterHelen Sloan—HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 13, 2019 3:37 AM UTC **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for [_Game of Thrones_ ](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/)[season 8](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/). As Daenerys rained dragonfire down on King’s Landing in the fifth episode of _Game of Thrones_‘ eighth season, Jaime frantically searched for Cersei in the Red Keep. After being mortally wounded in his winning fight against Euron Greyjoy, the Kingslayer was desperate to reunite with his sister one last time. The Lannister twins then died together as the Red Keep crumbled around them, something that George R. R. Martin has frequently hinted would happen in his _A Song of Ice and Fire_ series. In the [books that _Game of Thrones_ is based on](http://time.com/5567981/game-of-thrones-books-show/), Jaime and Cersei have both directly stated that they believe they will die together, just as they were born together. “I cannot die while Cersei lives,” Jaime thinks in _A Storm of Swords_. “We will die together as were born together.” “If he were dead, I would know it,” Cersei tells [Kevan Lannister](https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Kevan%5FLannister) in _A Dance With Dragons_. “We came into this world together, Uncle. He would not go without me.”  Jamie and Cersei reunite on Game of Thrones. Helen Sloan—HBO Cersei also makes a similar to statement to Ned Stark in season 1 of _Game of Thrones_. “Jaime and I are more than brother and sister; we shared a womb, came into this world together — we belong together.” Many fans believed that Jaime would be the one to take Cersei out, whether it was a mercy killing or simply a way to end the madness that surrounded her chaotic reign and their doomed relationship. However it was ultimately the castle collapsing around them that killed them both. The belief that [Jaime would kill Cersei](http://time.com/5575274/game-of-thrones-cersei-prophecy-tyrion/) largely stemmed from the [flashback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5F6kQJ9HPpQ4) in season 5 in which a young Cersei has her future told by a witch named Maggy the Frog. “You will never wed the prince, you will wed the king,” Maggy tells her. “You’ll be queen, for a time. Then comes another — younger, more beautiful — to cast you down and take all you hold dear…The king will have 20 children, and you will have three…Gold will be their crowns, gold their shrouds.”  Helen Sloan—HBO By the time that season 8 rolled around, all of these predictions had already come true. Cersei was promised to Prince Rhaegar Targaryen as a young girl, but ended up marrying King Robert Baratheon following [Robert’s Rebellion](http://time.com/5554587/game-of-thrones-timeline-history/). During their marriage, he fathered many illegitimate children while Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen — who are all dead — were a product of Cersei’s incestuous relationship with Jaime. As for the younger queen, both Margaery Tyrell and Daenerys could arguably fill that role. However, in Martin’s books, there is a cryptic final line to the prophecy that the show left out: “And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.” Since “valonqar” means “little brother” in High Valyrian, in the books, Cersei long assumes that Maggy was talking about [Tyrion](http://time.com/5575274/game-of-thrones-cersei-prophecy-tyrion/). However, because Jaime is the second-born twin and, therefore, also her little brother, many fans thought that Jaime would turn out to be the one who does the deed. However, it turns out the show didn’t just scrap that line out to not give away what was coming. It wasn’t Jaime or Tyrion who killed Cersei in the end, but her own destructive decisions. 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