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CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Maegaery Tyrell
CANON: Game of Thrones
AGE: 26
CANON POINT: 6x10 "The Winds of Winter"
BACKGROUND: Wiki
INCENTIVE: Knowing that both her father and brother are already dead (and having been taken from the moment of death herself), Margaery asks the representatives to look after her grandmother and see that she survives Cersei Lannister's machinations. It doesn't matter what her grandmother does (though Margaery suspects it is vengeance), she wants to know that Olenna Tyrell continues on and carries what remains of their house for as long as she can. While Margaery knows Olenna won't find happiness with all of her family dead, she wants to see her grandmother receive satisfaction and contentment in some form. Her last gift to the person she loved most.
FIT: Margaery is a warm loving person, unafraid of intimacy or sex. It's implied in the show that she's enjoyed a number of relationships, enough to be able to advise Sansa to keep an open mind about her wedding night. She enjoys a healthy sex life with her third husband Tommen in the show (bragging later that he slept with her four times in one night) until her imprisonment when she claims sex no longer gives her pleasure. However, despite that statement, it was likely false as Margaery was pretending to have fallen into the religious fanatics "The Sparrows" line of thinking.
Margaery is capable of close, intimate friendships. She befriends Sansa and helps her to open up and even show some measure of happiness after the brutality she suffered under Joffery. Along with that, Margaery befriended Brienne of Tarth for the brief time they saw each other, showing her great kindness and believing her statements that she did not kill Margaery's former husband.
She never turns down an opportunity and being in Eudio would give her a chance to start again and not be confined under the dictates or fear of the Sparrows. The terms of this world are ones that she can abide by, having to rely on sex and intimacy to protect herself and advance her family. She's not afraid of having to do so again and actually derives satisfaction for the happiness and pleasure that she gives others. Given that she is trying to help her grandmother survive, she would view this as little sacrifice, but an honor to help her family continue on.
CONSENT: Despite Margaery's seductions and allures, she has never broken the rules of consent. One example being when she is advised by her Grandmother to seduce and gain Tommen's affections. Margaery meets Tommen in his room and the pair talk. She tells Tommen that she is to be his wife and will be his entirely. However, as she is leaving, instead of kissing him on the lips, she kisses him on his forehead, rather than forcing an intimate situation on him. Margaery is always careful, allowing the men to come to her, rather than she force their hands. She will dangle herself in front of them and flirt, but consent is something she always waits for.
Margaery does manipulate situations to earn affection and loyalty from her husbands, but both instances were Cersei's children, who she was aware was under their mother's control. Because Cersei isn't fond of Margaery or allowing the Tyrells power, Margaery works to earn the love of her future husbands, ensuring not only her own survival, but that power will shift into her favor. In no way does she ever force Joffery or Tommen into loving her. She offers them what they want most, which is love and acceptance, something they didn't receive much of at their mother's hands. In the end, Joffery barely listens to her, proving that her methods don't always work. It is Tommen who becomes entranced by her and falls in love with her. While he is eager to sleep with her again and again (at one point asking what the record is, because surely they can break it), Margaery is the one to pull away and asks him for a chance to catch her breath and relax. She genuinely cares for Tommen, showing that her affections for him were not entirely a means to secure power, as she forgives him for failing to stop her arrest and her brother's.
She is not forceful with intimacy, but shows tact and restraint, as she does in a number of political situations.
SAMPLES: One Two Three Four
ANYTHING ELSE? Margaery will be arriving in the same dress she wore when she arrived in King's Landing (seen here.) She will be wearing the small crown that she had at both of her weddings to Joffery and Tommen respectively. Coming along with her is Tommen's cat "Ser Pounce". As the cat never showed up in the show again (and Tommen is dead), we can just assume that Margaery got to take him with her.