Echo was a nymph in Greek mythology who really liked to talk, and was well-liked by Aphrodite because she had a beautiful voice. Echo, however, made a dumb move when she tricked the ever-jealous Hera; Hera then cursed her to only be able to repeat the last words of the people around her. When Echo came upon Narcissus in the forest, she fell in love with him, but he rejected her. After praying to Aphrodite, she faded away into nothing but a voice. Narcissus rests by a pond and when he sees his own reflection, he falls madly in love. Like Echo before him, he eventually fades away; he becomes a flower, though, rather than just a voice.
I don't necessarily abhor her (because she did have it rough, and she has a couple of halfway-decent qualities), but Cersei Lannister is a narcissist extraordinaire. She wants all the power in Westeros for her and her children, to be respected and revered as the Queen, and she thinks she's a major player in the game when, in reality, most of her decisions are idiotic. She thinks highly of herself when, honestly, there's not that much to think highly of.
An altruistic person from the same series that I adore is Daenerys Targaryen. She has liberated hundreds of thousands of slaves, caring for them as her children, and makes all of her decisions with kindness and fairness in her mind. While she is faced with tough choices liberating Slaver's Bay and being Queen of Mereen, I still believe that she is a truly altruistic person. She'd much rather help people than hurt them.
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