#Winterfell's daughter

[dr3adlady]

Sansa as a northern character being so aesthetically pleasing never gets old for me.

In a world of white and gray and black and of course, icy blue, the color auburn shows itself off very well. The way she looks like a weirwood with her porcelain skin and red hair is so cool. And her blue eyes can be a reminder of Others' eyes (and also a nod to Starks having Other ancestry which I root for). She even tolerates cold better than many other characters, spends half a day in snow and doesn't bat an eye.

Generally, storytelling with color and design is so powerful in her arc, with George reflecting her mood and goals through the things she wears, and the same attention has been put through her own colors.

[bighound-littlebird]

Sansa Stark Werewolf by mahsan556

[littlefeatherr]

Book accurate Sansa by Bianca Clark on X

[sansacherie]

sansa at being "alayne stone"

[willowycreature]

me: stripping sansa of her kindness that is a part of her to make her cynical and think that everything she loved as a child is stupid was a terrible decision

someone: exactly she would've been best friends with-

me: this is where i leave

[lifeisnotasong]

“I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though 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.

[catofoldstones]

why does the fandom so conveniently forget that she’s sansa of house stark

[atopvisenyashill]

IF YOURE SANSA MANDERLY STARK

And you realize, after your uncle Edric dies, that your husband Jonnel is going to name not Edric’s son Cregard his new heir, but his other brother Barthogan as his heir. He is doing this specifically because “Cregan died after Rickon, so since Rickon wasn’t a Lord, it passes to Cregan’s next born son. Since Edric wasn’t a lord, it passes to Barthogan.” You are very mad because you and your sister Serena have been raising Cregard to rule and now you’re worried about her daughters, and her sons, and what becomes of you if Jonnel also dies, and you’re still mad you were passed over, so you decide “yeah fuck it i’m not just going to set myself up well, i’m going to make sure i have the ability to take the lordship, make myself ruling lady, and make things easier for a woman to inherit because now i’m pissed off”

What do you like. Do. Marrying all of Serena’s kids well is important but what would “marry well” mean. Someone rich and southron who comes with money & a household that is loyal to the two of you? Someone Northern, who will back your claim because they have a vested interest in you ruling? A mix of both?

You have to get the King on your side right. Have an in with him so if someone complains he’s like “well a daughter before an uncle blah blah blah.” You want LYANNA and HER husband on your side, and you want all of ALY BLACKWOOD’S daughters and THEIR HUSBANDS on your side because if your ultimate goal is ABSOLUTE PRIMOGENITURE you want the older sisters on your side right. You want the people of Winters Town to like you more than Barthogan and Jonnel. You want to do good things for them, so you want money (again - good marriages for Serena’s children). You want to be more competent or at least seem more competent. You probably want like….what Barthogan and Brandon like Not In Winterfell with you…….

[wulfhalls]

The way we suffered through a whole season of Thomas seymour nonsense only to be DENIED the liz and rob drama and emotions the second season would have given us - TRAGIC

HONESTLY like. after we had to white knuckle our way thru 3837638 thomas seymour scenes this is what we get in return???? hate and violence on planet earth </3

[valarmorghulisarya]

It bothers me when people pretend they read the asoiaf, and the way you know that they are pretending is because they are literally describing show Arya when they are talking about her.

[exactlygeneralsalad]

Its so funny that jonsas get triggered when anyone even mentions sansa having anything less than a perferct ending. lmao. These are the same people who create "theorys" for arya to sail away and live on the sae or something. Whlie sansa lives safe in a castle. And arya should always be on the run and in danger. And followed by their clownery we love BOTH stark sisters, and BOTH should have happy endings. Because clearly, both these scenarios are equally happy. right?? Right??

Not to mention sansa stans are the only ones still holding onto the shows ending. When the rest of the world knows that its bullshit.

Also anyone saying ''arya always wanted adventure and thats why she would sail away'' is either an illiterate or never ever came near asoiaf.

Arya never wanted to leave her home. She was always happiest at winterfell. It was sansa who wanted to leave and see other places and have "adventures" so to say. So that sailing away ending is more appropriate for sansa than for arya. Arya loves her home and she is miserable anywhere else.

"It won't be so bad, Sansa," Arya said. "We're going to sail on a galley. It will be an adventure, and then we'll be with Bran and Robb again, and Old Nan and Hodor and the rest." She touched her on the arm.

The only adventure arya was ever interested in was the one taking her to her home.

Also adventure doesn't only mean sailing away. Arya can have adventures in winterfell as well. As she always did. Arya never enjoyed being away from home. She has always been longing to return home. And she was forced to stay away. Its not something she did by choice. So why would she ever do it again? Its absurd to think that. Its not something she wants to do. she is not having fun there.

When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?"

Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit, I smell hot bread baking, I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf, I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said, to see what he would say.

"You lie," he said, "but you may keep your secrets if you wish, Arya of House Stark." He only called her that when she displeased him. "You know that you may leave this place. You are not one of us, not yet. You may go home anytime you wish."

~

It's just a sword," she said, aloud this time . . .

. . . but it wasn't.

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile.

The gods wanted me to have it. Not the Seven, nor Him of Many Faces, but her father's gods, the old gods of the north. The Many-Faced God can have the rest, she thought, but he can't have this.

Arya has spent five books trying to get back home. When she finds her home again, there is no chance she is ever going to leave. That would be the most out of character thing ever. The show ending is bs and so are antis "theories" about it. And it is obviously not happening in the books.

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Arya II

“I do not mean to frighten you, but neither will I lie to you.

“We have come to a dark dangerous place, child. This is not Winterfell.

“We have enemies who mean us ill. We cannot fight a war among ourselves.

“This willfulness of yours, the running off, the angry words, the disobedience…at home, these were only the summer games of a child.

“Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter.

“It is time to begin growing up.”

“I will,” Arya vowed.

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

“I can be strong too. I can be as strong as Robb.”

[bighound-littlebird]

The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart.

[littlefeatherr]

Sansa Stark, Lady of Winterfell by Korime-chan

[shadowglens]

i just remembered that saella has two little grandkids by the time of season 2 😭

[frankchurchillsaysrelax]

WHY WOULD YOU SEND THAT ASK 🫠🫠😭😭

the peggy/shannon ask? because i love inflicting pain on others wherever i go 😇