Three GoT theories that make perfect sense

GAME of Thrones fans have been madly coming to their own conclusions ahead of the season finale. Warning: Spoilers.

WARNING: Spoiler alert

GAME of Thrones fans have been madly coming to their own conclusions ahead of the highly anticipated season finale.

These are the best of them.

Boys will be boys.

1. CLEGANEBOWL IS A THING

From the moment we realised The Hound was not dead, back in season 6, hype began to build around a potential battle against his brother The Mountain.

But by the end of season six, there was no face-off between the Clegane boys — leaving fans around the world disappointed.

Until now.

Remember back in episode one of this season, when The Hound looked into the flames and said he could see a mountain?

Many took it literally — that he could see an actual mountain beyond The Wall. The theorists didn’t, claiming The Hound’s use of the word “mountain” was no mere coincidence.

With The Hound now headed for King’s Landing, where The Mountain is protecting Cersei Lannister, the scene is for a long-awaited battle between the two resurrected giants.

Do you see what I see?

2. BRAN IS THE NIGHT KING

The theory goes that Bran Stark and the Night King are one and the same — and it makes perfect sense.

Reddit user turm0il26 believes the crippled Stark boy’s incredible mental powers and his ability to “warg” — placing his soul in to the body of a different person or creature — mean he is actually the Night King.

In a detailed post, he states Bran believes he can rewrite history, so travels back multiple times only to end up fulfilling his own fate.

He claims Bran travels back several decades to prepare the Mad King for the White Walkers by whispering that he needs to prepare wildfire under King’s Landing.

However, the Mad King is left believing he is hearing voices and instead tries to burn the city in a crazed frenzy.

Bran then travels back even further in time and “succeeds to become Bran the Builder, building the Wall and securing his birth by building Winterfell and creating the words ‘There must always be a Stark in Winterfell.’”

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The theory then claims that the third and final trip to the past takes him to when the Night King was created.

While here, turm0il26 claims Bran either wargs into the human who becomes the Night King, or tries to kill the Children of the Forest who create the zombie king.

However, he ends up becoming the Night King as he has travelled too far back to leap back in to the present day.

The turn of events means he is then trapped behind the wall he built in a future life, and is left patiently waiting for himself to be born in thousands of years.

Turm0il26 adds: “You can actually see in the scene where young Bran goes back to the creation of the Night King, that when the children push the dragonglass into his heart, we see Bran tighten his grip on the veins, just as it is himself experiencing the pain.

“Also in the end of the flashback, Bran is laying in the exact same position in the cave, as the human pushed up to the tree is.”

Even GoT hairstyles have hidden meanings.

3. WHY CERSEI’S HAIR IS STILL SHORT

LIKE her or loathe her, we were all glued to the screen during that memorable scene when Cersei Lannister was made to walk the streets of King’s Landing stripped bare to pay penance for her bad behaviour.

To add insult to injury, the glamorous queen’s long locks were shaven for the exercise.

Prior to this, Cersei had been known for her flowing golden hair but since then she has only been seen with a short boy-ish crop.

But with so much time passing as battles are fought and war rages on, why has the current Queen of the Iron Throne’s hair not started to grow out?

As all of the other characters change and move around and develop, Cersei’s short hair has remained the same.

For example when we first met feisty Tyene Sand, her hair was the same length as Cersei’s but when we saw her most recently in the dungeon her hair was shoulder length.

So what’s going on with the infamous Lannister Queen?

Journalist Joanna Robinson had a sensible theory for Vanity Fair.

Joanna suggested that Cersei has chosen to keep her hair short and it is a deliberate move to assert her status as a warrior of Westeros.

She goes on to say that after losing her children the Queen is “reborn” with the shorter more masculine hairstyle.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton said: “The short hair allows Cersei to trade in soft robes in pink, red, and gold for what Clapton describes as the ‘squared shoulders’ and shorter hems that invoke her father Tywin’s ‘strength’.”

Perhaps this harsher look is a power play, breaking the lioness Queen from her feminine image.