WARNING: This post contains very mild spoilers for anyone who hasn’t seen the early seasons of Game of Thrones
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This could be quite the case of life imitating art.
On the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, Dean-Charles Chapman and Nell Tiger Free play Tommen Baratheon and Myrcella Baratheon respectively, brother and sister and part of the Lannister dynasty.
Ostensibly the children of Robert Baratheon, fans of George R. R. Martin’s novels know that the two are really born of incest, fathered by their mother Cersi’s brother Jamie Lannister.
Of course that’s all in the fictional land of Westeros, but it does add a certain irony to rumours that the two may be more than just cast mates.
Buzzfeed points to a number of cute and cosy tweets and Instagram’s of the pair, including one snap where Nell refers to Dean-Charles as “my boy”.
My boy be lookin like a serial killer ????? pic.twitter.com/rsHkavg9z6
— free nell free (@nelltigerfree) August 8, 2015
@Dean_C_Chapman pic.twitter.com/PeaMiytvUj
— free nell free (@nelltigerfree) August 19, 2015
@nelltigerfree miss you toooo ?
— Dean-Charles Chapman (@Dean_C_Chapman) August 10, 2015
@Dean_C_Chapman he loves me pic.twitter.com/w3h9C0Xli2
— free nell free (@nelltigerfree) July 19, 2015
I have him on whip @Dean_C_Chapman pic.twitter.com/tk3gWG5hWH
— free nell free (@nelltigerfree) July 13, 2015
Flying with this one @Dean_C_Chapman ✈️ pic.twitter.com/VOrO88ColG
— free nell free (@nelltigerfree) August 19, 2015
If romance is indeed blooming, let’s just hope they get a happier ending than most of the characters on GOT.