Tommen Baratheon
The younger prince, a gentle, plump little boy who loves his kittens and his sister far more than any thought of crowns.
A soul of House Lannister, born at King's Landing.
The fuller tale
Season Four
Tywin begins schooling Tommen on what makes a good king ÔÇö beside Joffrey's corpse. Tommen is crowned; Margaery starts on husband number three; Cersei plays nice with everyone she hates.
Season Five
Tommen weds Margaery; the new queen sweetly suggests his mother might prefer Casterly Rock. The Faith Militant is reborn; Loras Tyrell is seized for his sins; Tommen bounces off the steps of the sept.
Season Six
Margaery converts the crown to the Faith; Tommen fuses crown and church; Jaime is shipped to Riverrun. Cersei chooses violence; the Mountain de-heads a Faith Militant; Tommen abolishes trial by combat. Tommen steps from a window; the last of the prophecy's gold shrouds is used.
How it ends for them
On the screen. Died when the sept burned (S6┬ÀE10)
The gentle boy king watched the Great Sept ÔÇö and his queen inside it ÔÇö vanish in green fire from his window. He set down his crown, and stepped quietly out into the air. The last of Cersei's children, as the prophecy promised.
The show gives him the quietest death in a season of loud ones. On the morning of Cersei's trial, Tommen waits at his window for the bells ÔÇö and instead watches the Great Sept of Baelor, with Margaery and the High Sparrow and half his court inside, erupt in a bloom of green fire across the city. He says nothing. An attendant announces him; he sets the crown carefully on its stand, looks a long moment at the smoke where his wife was, and steps out of the window without drama or sound. Cersei, who burned the sept to save herself from trial, has fulfilled the prophecy's third shroud with her own hands ÔÇö and her instruction for his body, that he be burned and his ashes interred in the sept's ruins, is as close as the show lets her come to admitting it. In the published books Tommen is alive: still eight, still king, still signing what he is told to sign, with readers left to dread how the novels intend to collect on the same prophecy.
Their chapters, book by book
A Feast for Crows 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The versions diverge on age and therefore on everything. Book Tommen is a small child ÔÇö his marriage to Margaery is ceremonial, his kingship a rubber stamp, his story so far a hostage's ÔÇö while the show's aged-up Tommen is old enough to love his queen, defy his mother, and be genuinely complicit in his own manipulation, which gives his arc a moral weight the books reserve for later. The show also hands him decisions the books haven't reached: the crown-Faith alliance and the abolition of trial by combat are television inventions, the latter aimed like a weapon at Cersei's one escape route. As of the published novels his story is all potential energy: a boy king on a poisoned throne, with Maggy's prophecy ÔÇö gold their crowns, gold their shrouds ÔÇö hanging over all three of Cersei's children and two installments still unwritten.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.