#imagine thinking that giving a bladed weapon to a 9 yo child without proper instruction is something anyone with common sense would approve

[kellyvela]

Dude, Sansa didn't always rat Arya out. Sansa defying her father to stay betrothed to Joffrey is foreshadowed by Lyanna defying her father to running away with Rhaegar.

[kellyvela]

It makes me laugh when people (Jon*ya) will use

the line of "don't tell Sansa" as a negative view on

her character. A way of showing or excluding her

in some way. Yet it's just another way the author

is letting us know to not forget about Sansa. Even

when it came to his "favorite sister."

I like the fact that George, having denied us of a goodbye scene between Jon and Sansa, compensated us by making Sansa's presence very palpable in Jon and Arya's goodbye scene.

There's not only the "don't tell Sansa" part (because obviously Sansa would have told her parents about a real sword in possesion of her nine years old little sister), but said sword was the first one named after Sansa. Yes, Needle was named after Sansa, since she excelled with the sewing needles, Jon used that fact to provide Arya with a more suitable needle, a sword named Needle.

This perfectly fit with the dichotomy of Sansa and Arya being two faces of the same coin, like day (sun) and night (moon), flowery name and sharp name, life and death, lady and warrior. A lady that sews, a warrior that cuts, cuts that can be sewn by skilled hands, a full circle.

The second sword named after Sansa was Oathkeeper.

So, the two female sword fighters from Asoiaf, Arya and Brienne, wield swords named after Sansa Stark, the Lady of the Song of Ice and Fire.