#songs in asoiaf

[agentrouka-blog]

Ngl I don’t know what to make of Sandor clegane saying “one day I'll have a song from you, whether you will it or no” — and Sansa saying “I’ll sing it for you gladly”. Like….singing is so clearly associated with s3x, and in her chapters specifically.

It pretty well foreshadows the scene during the Battle of the Blackwater.

Sandor is clearly using the song as a sexually charged, threatening metaphor here - and does it again in his attempted sexual assault with a knife at her throat.

Sansa doesn't catch this implication. She is twelve and grew up sheltered, she promises a song. And she represses his vicious implied meaning again when he uses it the second time. She twists his darkly cynical, cruel demand for a "song" into a spiritual self-defense. An actual song. Gentle Mother, font of mercy. It defeats him. It saves her. He cries with shameful despair and leaves, further atrocity avoided.

Sansa rewrites the traumatic experience of narrowly averted rape, the "kiss" of the blade, into a fictional kiss. It's less horrific, easier to bear. A lie to cover the true extend of the horror. He asked for a "song", he "kissed" her.

This isn't foreshadowing for some romantic entanglement at a later point. This is foreshadowing a scene that has already played out for us.

Whoever Sansa will end up freely singing for (or sharing a metaphorical "song" with) in the future, it's not this guy.

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[ambafaerie]

Joffrey throwing Lucerys’ toy into his funeral pyre so his big brother can take it with him into the afterlife 💔

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[emproleon]

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[visenya-targarye]

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[reneewalkersknives]

one egregious thing the game of thrones show misses out on is that the stark kids are CONSTANTLY thinking abt each other!! there isn’t like a single POV chapter from any of them where they don’t long for their siblings!! Jon wants to have a son and name him Robb!! Bran wants to be a bird so him and his siblings can live in a nest together!! Sansa prays for her siblings every night and makes the Winterfell castle and then gets upset bc there’s no one to throw snow at!! Needle IS Jon!! Arya’s list is her own prayer for her siblings, she doesn’t care that Joffrey is dead bc Robb is too!! Every single one of them believes that their big brother will come to save them!! there’s sm love and tenderness there and GOT missed out on lots of it bc it tries too hard for the grimdark angle without realising that the center of the stark’s story is their love for each other. anyways.

[agentrouka-blog]

Hello, I am new to your blog, so sorry if you've already answered questions like that. I agree with Sansa ending up as Queen in the North. What are your thoughts about her ending up as some sort of Princess-Diana figure to her people? Not a messiah, but a figure that you can believe will protect you. Sort of like what we can see what Ned Stark was to the North. Do you see popular songs being written in her honour? Or even for jonsa as a pairing. Like Florian and jonquil but better.

(Not sure Princess Diana would be a good comparison?)

In all likelihood Sansa will be a queen presiding over half a century or more of rebuilding, renewal, adjustment and dramatic change - she won't just hold on to what has been handed down to her like some other Stark monarchs, she will be actively guiding the North into a new era for the course of her lifetime as reigning queen. And she loves the arts, making her a probable supporter and patron of their education and practice and proliferation for a long long time.

In an era where "the songs" function both as a main form of popular entertainment and a form oral history, the question is not if there will be songs written about her, but how much she will actively influence what kind of songs they are to forge an effective public image for herself in a world that is still marked by plenty of sexism and prejudice against female leadership. Maiden, Mother, Crone - she'll have many options to model her image after during her life.

As for Jon and Sansa, that likely depends on the official story presented about their courtship and marriage. I will take a wild guess and speculate that they won't be leaning into the whole "pseudo sibling incest" angle when they craft their public image as a ruling couple. That's a private angstfest they don't need to share with the world in the aftermath. And if some travelling bard should dramaticize or extrapolate in the direction of the truth, they can't do much harm, since they will have ended up married cousins one way or the other. It would probably just end up adding more intrigue and romance to them in the eye of the public.

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