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whatever you do... DO NOT imagine Clarke after her father’s execution, drawing a chalk circle on the floor of her Skybox cell, curling up in it, and crying for her dad like that one scene in A Little Princess.
honestly just... like... whatever you do.
D O N ’ T !!!
Jon: And their lights shall never be seen again...
Me:
A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya, the lone wolf, still lived, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.
Get off or I will never forgive you, do you hear me? Jasper come on! Don’t say that, don’t live with that.
Jon stared at Sansa’s body where is was laid in repose in the Great Hall of Winterfell Castle, with Ghost keeping vigil at her feet. She was still as the grave; still as she had been since she took a bite of Queen Cersei’s poisoned apple and breathed her last. Her skin is still white as snow, hair red as a rose; were it not for how still she was, and how cold, it was almost as though she could merely be sleeping. Jon swung up his wineskin and took a long drag as he approached her. “You deserved better... I once had a wife, Princess. Ygritte was her name. When I came back from the wars I carried with me the stench of death and the anger of the lost. I wasn't worth saving, that's for sure. She did so anyway. And I loved her so much. I loved her more than anyone or anything. Then I let her out of my sight and she was gone. And I became myself again. A self I never cared for. Until you. See, you remind me of her. Her heart, her spirit. But now you, too, have gone. You both deserved better and I'm so sorry I failed you. I'm so sorry. But you'll be a queen in Heaven now and sit among the angels.” He took a shuddering breath and fought to keep the tears he felt coming at bay. As he leaned down to press a soft kiss to her lips, Jon felt one hot tear slide down his cheek. “Rest well my love.”
When Octavia Blake was six years old, her brother's dad showed up and took her brother away to live with him. She always thought he'd come back, but he never does.
And then she's fourteen, her mother dies, and Bellamy says he'll take her.
Instagrams for Octavia, Bellamy, and Clarke based on @ponyregrets‘s EXCELLENT modern au, Exiles Among You.
About that anon hate. Sansa DID show sadness, she told Ramsay he was going to bite the dust and leaved their meeting just after being thrown Shaggydog's head at her feet (and I think that it's in that very moment that she gave up any hope she had about Rickon. She was genuine when she said she wanted to save him, and it's common for people to be delusional about their loved ones' fates, no matter the odds). What more do people want? To have 'misery' inked all over her face? Seriously...
In general I think I can understand how some people might be uncomfortable with Sansa’s seeming lack of reaction to Rickon’s death, but I think a lot of it is also subjective interpretation. I saw that scene as Sansa barely holding it together, barely containing her emotions, and then later taking out all her pain and anger and grief on the evil man who caused it. She might have done it is a less physically direct or obvious way than Jon, but the emotion was still there to me. I also think that Sansa knew and had, at least somewhat, accepted Rickon’s fate already honestly, so I agree with you there. If anyone knew what Ramsay was capable of doing, it was Sansa.
But yes, I do think a lot people wanted grief and misery inked all over her face and tattooed on her forehead in big black letters. I think many people have developed or accepted ideals about the “right way” for a “good character” to death with grief, and trauma, and pain, and loss. And any character who doesn’t fit into that little box must somehow be wrong or bad, which I find extremely and unnecessarily narrow minded tbh.
Good, compelling, well written fictional characters, while they are not real people, are written as imperfect humans. And there is no “right way” for a human to grieve. Just because Sansa’s reaction didn’t fit into the little narrative box that some people have marked as their “grief and trauma comfort zone” doesn’t make it wrong.
all of this, and also, remember that Sansa has spent years being a captive, having to steel herself and hide her grief (to avoid giving any satisfaction to her captors) that at this point it’s just a knee-jerk reaction for her to do the same even when she’s technically not in enemy territory anymore. I saw a great deal of barely controlled emotion seeping through her icy facade when she took a glance at Rickon’s body, and that’s 100% Sansa in my opinion.
Yes! Sansa has grown, and she has changed, she’s clearly an entirely different person. To have her react the same way she did to Ned’s death would make no sense.
We have seen Sansa’s character growth and development over the past 6 seasons, and as a character she has definitely become far more inclined to tamper down her emotions. I think its especially clear in how she grieves and reacts the the loss of her loved ones…
Porcelain.
Ivory.
Steel.
Just because this progression doesn’t fit within some peoples’ ideal narrative for how Sansa Stark “should be” doesn’t mean that this isn’t Sansa Stark.
About that anon hate. Sansa DID show sadness, she told Ramsay he was going to bite the dust and leaved their meeting just after being thrown Shaggydog's head at her feet (and I think that it's in that very moment that she gave up any hope she had about Rickon. She was genuine when she said she wanted to save him, and it's common for people to be delusional about their loved ones' fates, no matter the odds). What more do people want? To have 'misery' inked all over her face? Seriously...
In general I think I can understand how some people might be uncomfortable with Sansa’s seeming lack of reaction to Rickon’s death, but I think a lot of it is also subjective interpretation. I saw that scene as Sansa barely holding it together, barely containing her emotions, and then later taking out all her pain and anger and grief on the evil man who caused it. She might have done it is a less physically direct or obvious way than Jon, but the emotion was still there to me. I also think that Sansa knew and had, at least somewhat, accepted Rickon’s fate already honestly, so I agree with you there. If anyone knew what Ramsay was capable of doing, it was Sansa.
But yes, I do think a lot people wanted grief and misery inked all over her face and tattooed on her forehead in big black letters. I think many people have developed or accepted ideals about the “right way” for a “good character” to death with grief, and trauma, and pain, and loss. And any character who doesn’t fit into that little box must somehow be wrong or bad, which I find extremely and unnecessarily narrow minded tbh.
Good, compelling, well written fictional characters, while they are not real people, are written as imperfect humans. And there is no “right way” for a human to grieve. Just because Sansa’s reaction didn’t fit into the little narrative box that some people have marked as their “grief and trauma comfort zone” doesn’t make it wrong.
