Sansa Stark Appreciation Week: Day 5 – One scene
—Sansa and Cersei, 2×07
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I’m wondering why you think Jon’s going to reconnect with his Stark ‘siblings’ instead the more likely path of him embracing his heritage as a Targaryen (dragon riding, Dany, fulfilling Rhaegar’s prophecy)? Given that Jon gets killed for being trying to be a Stark (he reminisces about those siblings before he dies), Aemon’s warnings about killing the boy and letting the man be born. Isn’t him coming into his own as a Targaryen Prince much more thematically foreshadowed?
Simple – I don’t agree that it’s more likely Jon embraces his Targaryen heritage over his Stark heritage, and I don’t agree that this is more heavily thematically foreshadowed. Quite the reverse. I don’t see why Jon’s murder would cause him to reject the Stark family, and I read “kill the boy and let the man be born” as a comment on Jon’s maturity rather than his family identity.
Jon is established right at the beginning of the story as a member of the Stark family, even though he is somewhat set apart from them. He’s subject to the party scattering that the rest of the family is, and so he’ll be drawn back to Winterfell with the rest of his siblings. We see again and again and again through his story just how much he loves his siblings, and so I don’t think he’ll drop them like rocks because he found a shinier heritage. It’s a point of note regarding his bastardy that one of the things he hates about it is how it makes him not truly a part of the Stark family.
We also know that Jon is proud of being Ned’s son. The reveal that Rhaegar’s his bio-dad, and the realisation of everything that came from Rhaegar’s desire to have Jon is not the sort of thing this character can celebrate. Jon grew up knowing how reluctant Ned was to speak of Jon’s mother; he can work out just how much grief all of Westeros went through for Rhaegar’s prophetic vision. I think it’s far more likely that Jon is horrified and rejects said vision.
If Jon fulfils Rhaegar’s prophecy, I doubt it has anything to do with Rhaegar, and everything to do with what Ned taught him was the right thing to do.
Take it from a Targaryen loyalist, Jon is more Stark than Targaryen, and forever in his heart, infinitely more Snow than either
get to know me meme → [3/5] favorite female characters: Sansa Stark
“She had always heard that love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I’ll make them love me.”
Sansa could hear the wind rattling at the Moon Door. I must not look at it, she told herself, else I’ll start to shake as badly as Robert.
everythingwrongwiththegotfandom:
Fun things about Sansa
– She writes poetry, what a romantic
– She is a huge history nerd
– She seems to remember little facts about everyone
– She paractises two religions
– She loves to lock herself up with sweets and a good book
– People like her quickly, even when she was a hostage
– She is very erger to learn
– She loves fairytales
– She can guess peoples identities by their age and the house they belong to. Talk about using knowledge!
– She enjoys hunting with falcons, very unladylike
– She is currently running a household and organizing a tourney at age 13
– She can play the basics of multiple instruments
– She has a lovely singing voice
Feel free to add things, lets make this a long list!
– She is really emphatic and compassionate toward people and strangers, even when those persons have wronged her and don’t deserve her compassion
– Even after all the shit and abuse she went through, she still deep down longs for love, home and family
– She’s a know it all, cute not insufferable because she’s too damn charming
The outer parapet came up to her chin, but along the inner edge of the walk was nothing, nothing but a long plunge to the bailey seventy or eighty feet below. All it would take was a shove, she told herself. He was standing right there, right there, smirking at her with those fat wormlips. You could do it, she told herself. You could. Do it right now. It wouldn’t even matter if she went over with him. It wouldn’t matter at all.
For starters, Sansa didn’t have a lot of control on her life and destiny at the beginning of the story not because she was stupid or weak (she definitely wasn’t and still isn’t any of these two things), it’s a result of institutionalized and systematic sexism that puts women in these kinds of roles where they don’t get to have a say in their fate. It’s scary that so many people don’t get that and instead, they blame and hate on this preteen girl for not having any control on her future.
“You`re saying I`m the best man to go and ask the Lady Sansa Stark, heir to the north, possibly Queen in the North, if she`s content being a bastard?” he`d rasped wryly back at Elder Brother.
The bugger had just stared gravely back at him. “Yes, my friend. Because of all the trustworthy men I can gather, you`re the only one who would actually turn around and leave her be if that were her wish, never to speak of this assignment again. Keeping her safe.”
“Yes,” he`d answered at last, hoarsely, like the bloody idiot he was.
from Northern Lights and Midnight Sun by Ownsariver
life is not a song 