#@ grrm why you threw there so many problematic shit honestly 😭

[aerltarg]

@scyllaramshorne tbh there's too much hints at sansan and grrm's open favouritism towards them. he is one of her canonical suitors and, considering the narrative of unlearning that beauty = goodness & ugliness = evilness that sansa still goes through, i can see more sense in sansa ending up w him rather than any random guy who jumped out from nowhere. the same goes for the “knights = good” narrative where sansa gets rid of these delusions and is saved by the “not real knight” sandor who in fact despises them and doesn't swear any knighthood oaths out of principle. additionally, it would be an interesting narrative circle where sansa first refused sandor's offer of help to get her out of kl, her golden cage, in the end of acok (smth both sandor and she came to somewhat regret) but then would accept the similar offer to help her get out of another golden cage, the eyrie. (and the second time it would be even more poetic, imo. birds, eyrie, etc, etc, lol)

also i doubt that sansa will be willing to marry someone of not high enough birth even by the end of the series which is not a problem w sandor since she already knows him and already dreams abt him. she also doesn't wish to be wanted as someone's wife bc of her claim for once and if her husband is from northerners it will remain a possibility that she might be used as a pawn in the game (of winning starks' favour as the ruling house in the north) again. which is not a problem w sandor again bc he clearly doesn't give a fuck abt her claim.

though there are still too many possibilities ahead! it's just my personal stance on it given all the canon base we have this far. who knows, maybe w the more canon material (if we ever get the next book lmao) i will see evidence that can change my mind!

thinking again how names of direwolves given to them in the very beginning actually speak very loud abt starklings' arcs and even foreshadow them BUT re: stark sisters.

nymeria, huge female alpha leading hundreds of wolves, with no fear of men and hunting everything she sees fit, that got her name after the historical figure, the princess of her people, the leader and military commander, who fought to get a new home for them and succeeded in that, changed the laws of the lands she conquered to the better for women and left her daughters as heirs, who is remembered as a “warrior queen” and a “witch queen”.

and lady, a simple yet a sweet name given by the girl who was “a lady at three” herself, never misbehaved pup.

and dead too early.

i think it only adds up to the already rich leadership arc and foreshadowing of arya, her ties to northern politics plot and even her warging and skinchanging abilities if you remember the “witch queen” bit. after all, she's the only one who got separated from her direwolf so early on but still became a warg, so powerful that she has wolf dreams even from another continent.

and it opens some interesting speculations abt sansa's ending. currently she is in a very complicated and dangerous position. imo, there's no other purpose for her to be in the vale than to use the power she has (or the greater power she might have in future) for helping the north w food, possibly in the great war and considering the losses the north will endure during the upcoming war against the boltons and the set up inheritance crisis of the starks, when we are said multiple times how rich it is when it comes to food supplies. however, i don't think sansa will stay in the vale forever for multiple reasons, major of which are several obstacles in her way of becoming the lady of the eyrie. and now, looking at this direwolves names foreshadowing, i got persuaded even moreso that sansa won't become a lady of the castle, possibly she will give up the noble lady's position whatsoever. how exactly will it look like? i don't know though hope for the happiest outcome, e.g. sansa escaping w the help of sandor and settling for the simpler life w him.

it actually will be so poetic! arya who never hoped to be a queen will become the leader of her people because of her natural gift for this and important lessons she learnt, and sansa who craved the flashing luxury and glory of life of royalty and was so eager to conform to whatever standards southern lords might have for their wives will come to appreciate the simple life w man whom she judged first by his looks, smth she never thought abt before too.

it becomes double interesting if you consider there all the parallels arya shares w alysanne targaryen but especially these ones:

Alysanne Targaryen, the youngest child of King Aenys and Queen Alyssa, had been little known amongst the lords and ladies of the realm before then. Her childhood had been spent in the shadow of her brothers and her elder sister, Rhaena, and when she was spoken of at all it was as “the little maid” and “the other daughter.” She was little, this was true; slim and slight of frame, Alysanne was oft described as pretty but seldom as beautiful, though she was born of a house renowned for beauty. Her eyes were blue rather than purple, her hair a mass of honey-colored curls. No man ever questioned her wits. (Fire & Blood)

skinny, pretty, smart, but in the youth overshadowed by elder sister? sounds too familiar, isn't it? yet, it was alysanne who is forever remembered as the “good queen” and who also changed the laws of the lands she came to rule for the better, especially for women, just like nymeria of ny sar, and who wanted her eldest daughter (called, funnily enough, daenerys) to be the next ruler as the queen regnant. while her elder sister rhaena was never happy as a wife to kings or a lady wife to a lord.

tldr; arya and sansa will end up in positions they didn't expect but even moreso didn't expect such positions to make them happy.