#i'm really giving away the fact that i lived in the appalachians for a while i guess

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I wish you'd write Southern belle Sansa (not sure where Jon comes in but you make the rules haha)

ANON I LIVE IN THE SOUTH DON'T TEMPT ME

Seriously tho, I would probably write like, modern southern belle Sansa because i'm fairly certain I have MET modern southern belle Sansa. There would be church services and cotillion, shit tons of sweet tea, everyone wears lily pulitzer and pearls, and of COURSE Sansa goes to the Kentucky Derby dressed to the nines. The biggest scandal in town is when the pastor at the local church gets divorced. Jon's family just moved below the mason-dixon line, he's extremely New England and grumpy about it, and Sansa's tasked with showing him around and helping him acclimate. She tells him to bring a toboggan to a party at one point, and jon has no fucking clue why she expects him to do THAT (in the south, toboggan = hat, in the north, toboggan = sled), and introduces him to the vinegar-based v. tomato-based barbecue debate. Jon initially thinks she's kind of an airhead, based on her accent and how she dresses, but she pretty quickly whips him into shape.

The other version of Southern!Starks would be having the Starks be a family from the Appalachians, which i think fits their vibe more. Sansa dreams of going to school in Charleston or Chapel Hill or something- of getting out of middle of nowhere Appalachia (Even though it's probably not middle of nowhere- the Starks seem like they'd settle around Asheville where Ned's like, a city councilman or something), and eventually makes it happen.

She probably goes to UNC Chapel Hill (god bless bc the parking there is an absolute nightmare) or Duke, joins a sorority, and then moves to Charleston for her happily ever after, where she starts dating resident little shit Joffrey. Everything kind of goes sideways, there's probably a church-related scandal involved somewhere, and sansa ends up WILDLY homesick, missing snow and family and flannels, and ends up quitting her fancy job to move back home to Asheville, where she runs into Jon Snow, who is an old friend of Robb's, and who probably works for the Appalachian Regional Commission or something equally noble.

Sansa's still a bit gun shy about making new friends after Charleston, but she remembers Jon coming over to their house to hang out with Robb, and they start spending time together when Sansa (who is currently between jobs) offers to help watch Ghost during the day. They end up going hiking together a few times, and Sansa gets snowed in at his cabin at one point (of COURSE bc this is fanfic we're talking about), and Sansa seems like she would thrive in Asheville bc it's very artsy and adorable and progressive, and she knits her own really cute (and warm) hats and scarves to wear in the winter. They probably go to MerleFest together.

in both versions, Cersei Lannister says 'Bless her heart' after almost every sentence.

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