Are jonsa an actual ~thing~ or is it just subtle chemistry/ implied feelings without confirmation? I just started binging and I don't wanna get my hopes up lol
Hey Anonny!
Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by an Actual Thing™ lol.
As far as any actual latent or apparent romantic feelings for each other on either of their parts? No, I honestly don’t think there are at this point. I think they still strictly see each other as brother and sister and that it probably wouldn’t have even occurred to them to think of each other as anything but. While they do clearly care deeply about each other, their relationship as it stands is platonic.
But, personally (at the risk of sounding ~delusional~ or whatever it is), I think that last season and the beginning of this season could have been a set up for a potential future relationship. While I don’t think the show runners were trying to frame Jon and Sansa in an implicitly or explicitly romantic light, I do think they were showing us two people who care about each other and are comfortable being emotional with each other. I also think all the “we” and “us” language, as well as all the Ned and Cat parallels, could very well have been to get us used to viewing them as a unified front.
I talked last season about how intense their magnetism seemed to be from their very first episode reunited. And personally I don’t think it really let up at all during s6 tbh. It is possible, of course, that the reason all the Jon and Sansa scenes seemed so significant was because two characters who had never interacted before suddenly became one of the most important people in each others’ lives. But I really do think it’s just as possible that they were setting up for a change in their relationship later in the series. This is obviously just all me speculating though so take it as you will… I could be completely wrong!