#Sansa you're a queen i love u

[rodri11421]

So... I read A Game of Thrones

For quite some time now, I've been quite interested in A Song of Ice and Fire. I bought the first book, A Game of Thrones months ago, but I didn't really begin reading it until three/four weeks ago. Now, I finally finished the book, so I thought it would be nice to write down what I thought abot each of the POV characters in the book!

First of all, here's a tier list I did of all the POVs from the first book:

S tier - Sansa Stark

Sansa wasn't my favourite a first, but her chapters started picking up steam by the end; I couldn't take my eyes off the pages for her last couple of chapters and it was probably one of the most immerse I have felt in a book in a lot of time!

If I had to pick what I liked the most abot her character, I'd say it is her mentality in her last chapter: I have personally struggled with my mental health throgh the years, so seeing her experiencing suicide ideation in an oh-so-familiar way, how this stems from a combination of her guilt from what happened to her father, the general situation she's in and how she was betrayed by people she trusted unquestionably (Cersei and Joffrey)... I am taking a week-long break before beginning A Clash of Kings, but I really cannot wait to read her chapters and see her development.

Also? "I will give you your brother's head", "I hope he will give me yours"? Sansa, dear, I love you so much <3

A tier - Jon

Here I have to say that I'm not beginning this series completely spoiler-free: I know about the red and purple weddings, that Daenerys would hatch her dragons, R+L=J, the ending of the show and such. One of the things I know is that Jon is kind of considered to be the male protagonist of the book series. After reading the first book, I can definitely see why (the only other male character with that kind of presence in this book is Ned, who... Yeah): not only does he have many POV chapters, but his storyline is directly related to the conflict established in the prologue of the book (ICE ZOMBIES :D). Now, did I like his chapters? Definitely.

I would not put him on the same level as Sansa, but I can remember reading the chapter in which he saves Lord Mormont from the Others. I turned page after page, loving the prose and the description of undead's attack. Then, the chapter finally ended and I found myself a little bit frustrated with having to get through other POVs before going back to Jon, so I went to the index to see how many chapters I would have to read before going back to him and, well... I remember audibly groaning, lmao.

To end this section, there is something Lord Mormont in Jon's last chapter that I disagree with: he told Jon that it was honor that tempted him to leave the watch and honor that brought him back.

No.

It was love.

Even if he knew Robb could have had him executed for desertion, even if he knew running away from the watch would ruin his life and destroy any chance of having a future, he loved his family above everything else and wanted to help his dear brother Robb wage war against the Lannisters, as well as to save his father and sisters.

And, on the other side, even if he wanted to leave the watch, he couldn't bring himself to fight his way through his new friends from the watch. Jon definitely did not love them as much as his family, but he cared about them and he knew that they cared enough that they tried to stop him.

In the end, it is all about love.

A tier - Daenerys

Daenerys' chapters were more detached from the main story than the other POVs and I honestly found them just okay for the most part. Her general situation is obviously abhorrent, but there was nothing in her chapters that managed to grip me like Jon's, Arya's or Ned's at the beginning. Honestly, the main reason why she ranks so high is because George RR Martin's prose seemed to suddenly become absolute perfection in her last few chapters.

Don't wake up the dragon

Wake up the dragon

The dragon

The last dragon

And isn't that what she is? The last dragon?

(...I also know that there is a guy that may or may not be prince Aegon in book 5, but I'll get there when I get there, lol).

Also, the parallelism between Sansa and Daenerys' longing for their home, the former for what she has always known and latter for what she has only been told? Me that likey.

A tier - Eddard Stark

There wasn't any specific chapter that was astounding like with any of the POVs above him, but he still ranks here for an overall really strong showing. His best segments are when he's either high on milk of the poppy or imprisoned (his reminiscence of Lyanna's death was haunting and I really love how Martin described the tragic event).

You will be missed, Ned. Your eldest daughter and son/nephew are better, though.

B tier - Arya, Tyrion and prologue (I think that guy is from the prologue???)

Really strong chapters here. Not mch to say in particular about Tyrion and the prologue, but I truly debated with myself about putting Arya in A tier: the chapter when she finds the dragon skulls and spies on who I'm almost 100% sure is Varys was really strong, as well as her last one in which she witnesses Ned's execution. However, after thinking a little bit about it, I realized that, well, I just didn't enjoy her chapters as much as I did the A tier characters. I'd still say she's above Tyrion, though.

C tier - Catelyn Stark

...Look, I understand that judging a character for not making perfect decisions is a flawed method of criticism, but she made so many bad decisions that I just couldn't find myself liking her that much. From almost implicitly trusting a guy she hadn't met for decades (Littlefinger) to arresting an innocent man (Tyrion), who she then allowed her sister to place in deplorable imprisonment (not to talk about that sham of a trial, lol). And all this is without talking about how she treated Jon (it's perfectly understandable that she was in a terrible mental state after what happened to Bran, but telling a 14/15 year-old that he should have been the one to fall off a tower and end up in a coma was not the most endearing thing Catelyn could have done for me as a reader) I also felt that her negociations with Lord Frey ended up benefiting him way more than the North, but that is more comprehensible considering that they really needed to pass the Neck.

I know that many people love Catelyn, so hopefully the next cople of books will improve my opinion of her!

D tier - Bran Stark

Bran wasn't bad, just a little bit boring for me. His chapters were fine, but they were not patricularly interesting or exciting. I know he's supposed to end up as the king of Westeros in the books, so... We'll see if he improves?

Conclusion

Good book. Would recommend :D

[selwynsel]

you're FOURTEEN and A CAPTIVE and they KILLED YOUR FATHER but then your MARRIAGE is CANCELLED and you're like YAYY YIPPEE. and then. and then this girl comes to town. she's ALSO fourteen and she's gonna marry the prince INSTEAD and her MEAN GRANDMA is there and you FINALLY get to tell SOMEONE about the CONDITIONS and THEY'RE NICE. REALLY nice. so nice you forgot how nice people could be and they're all HAPPY and you go RIDING on your HORSES. TOGETHER. and she's PRETTY and BRAVE.

sansaery is so real to me. what do you mean this beautiful girl came into your life and took on the problems destined for you. what do you mean shes suuuuuper nice and pretty and likes hawking and is sympathetic to ur problems and is the only one u can say out loud your fear of the prince. she wants to take u to her castle? to marry her brother we never see? okayyyyyyyyy

[damn-daemon]

Um seeing u answer spoilers brought me back to the good old days when that was all people would ask about so here's my spoiler question: what are sansa's thoughts on myra being queen of the north? In the books she loved the idea of robb being king because it guaranteed her safety, but in the show, by the time jon was crowned, she'd already gone through hell and back so the protection of a title meant little to her. Sansa is my favourite character (and I don't think you're going down the ramsay route...?) so yeah I was just wondering how she's going to react to that. And arya too seeing as myra is her idol

I don't really think it's a spoiler, but currently Sansa doesn't think that much of Myra being the Queen in the North, mostly because she's not using that title. She's playing the role of Lady of Casterly Rock right now. Sansa can understand why, but she still can't help but resent Myra a little bit for not embracing it more. But if Myra embraces it, Sansa will be right there to back her.

Pretty sure Arya is going to form a Queensguard just for Myra lol.

And I won't mark this as a spoiler either, but you're right, Anon, I'm not going the Ramsay route with Sansa. So, no one needs to worry about that.

[thefudge]

What she says: I'm fine

What she means: It's been more than a year since game of thrones ended and yet I'm still disappointed that sansa fans ate up the hollow "queen in the North" montage just because they gave sansa cool robes and a majestic crown to wear. Sansa, as a leader, has deployed a full isolationist policy, making sure only "true" northerners are a part of her new ethnostate...and she has also been reduced to a "hardened" woman who thinks that rape builds character and that her old self was stupid and that feelings are for pussies anyways. It's like they thought hmmm what if we wrote a waifish version of a young Margaret Thatcher, the ppl will love it, and hey, they were right *sigh*

[reignof-fyre]

My problem with Stansas is that they don't give you a chance to even argue a certain point with them. I'll post about Dany or someone and they'll jump on it screeching about how I'm wrong and list a plethora of points about why I'm wrong and why Sansa is the best ever and I'm like ??? You say you want to have a civil debate about these characters but you don't leave your response open ended. They straight up say "No, you're wrong. This is why. Full stop, the end."

And they wonder why we get so fucking frustrated after we respond and they state, once again, in their flowery way: "No. You're wrong. Sansa is the best because she said once that if she was ever queen she'd make the smallfolk love her in book 2 and hasn't done anything else since to prove why she'd make a great ruler. That's all the proof we need :) also this quote about Arya is actually JONSA foreshadowing and this Dany scene is foreshadowing for Queen in the North Sansa :) this is why jonerys or jon/arya will never happen and dany is insane and will end up burning westeros to the ground and shes a slaver and her father's daughter and arya will become a mass murderer and-"

????

If u really wanted an open debate/argument/discussion you'd ask questions and ask for our opinions like civilised people not just state your unfounded reasoning as to why you think things, like I and many others do with our thoughts/head canons.

[thelegendofclarke]

hey mere ♥ as u already know i'm a dany stan but i love sansa so i feel you & get why you're sad about her in the promo - like she finally have winterfell back and it's being taken away from her by a stranger queen?? but i do think and hope winterfell is gonna be sansa's (at least in the end). dany doesn't need / want winterfell. i too am rooting for sansa to be queen in the north ♥ lots of love

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*sniffles* thank you Luna, you are so sweet! I CAN’T EVEN!

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