Why do antis act as if Alayne is a completely different character from Sansa??? Like... that is Sansa, just under a different disguise. It's still her. It's no different than Arya currently with different identities. But the way they talk its as if Sansa suddenly morphed into a different girl and everything about her old identity is now dead and now Sansa Stark doesn't exist.
I really don't know how to describe this but I've seen posts saying things like Sansa is 'too deep' into the Alayne persona and can't go back to her old name. Thats not how this works???
Because it pushes their agenda that Sansa is not a member of House Stark and therefore not important to the story. Sansa forever being Alayne eliminates the threat she poses to Arya becoming the queen in the north and/or Jon, Dany, Arya becoming this ragtag group of ya teenage underdogs who save the world from the Others. Itâs the same idea as behind the theory that Sansa is going to die or is no longer a Stark because Lady died.
They also donât want to see Sansa in a position of power because they still blame her for lying about Arya hitting Joffrey (never mind realising who the real villains here are), and later getting Ned killed by ratting him out to Cersei (which has been debunked time and again). Furthermore, if she is Alayne and not Sansa, then she clearly does not have the Starksâ best interests at heart considering that she Baelishâs protĂŠgĂŠ and holds similar motivations as him - which actualises her as a villain. And if sheâs a villain, then she obviously canât be the Lady/Queen of Winterfell, or just someone who deserves a happy ending in the least. Are you looking at the mental gymnastics?
As for Sansa being too deep into Alayne, I can only say that she constantly thinks of herself as Sansa during the Alayne chapters. In fact, she thinks like she is Sansa, not Alayne, no matter how hard she tries.
The Freys had broken all laws of hospitality when theyâd murdered her lady mother and her brother at the twinsâŚ
Before this sheâs just reminding Baelish who she actually is saying Bronze Yohn will know who she really is as soon as he looks at her. She blurts out Jon Snowâs name and thinks of him fondly. None of which she would do if she were âin too deepâ Alayne. Her pre-released TWOW chapter is littered with her still thinking as Sansa.
She felt alive again, for the first since her father⌠since Lord Eddard Stark had died.
For just a little while, as she ran, she forget who she was, and where, and found herself remembering bright cold days at Winterfell, when she would race through Winterfell with her friend Jeyne Poole, with Arya running after them trying to keep up.
She others Alayne a lot too, as if Alayne is a friend she knows and not her own disguise.
âNo, my lady. I am from Gulltown.â And I am not, though Alayne was born there.
And these are just some of the examples. Moreover, the recently leaked outline, even in its scarce information, has bashed the final nail in the coffin of this argument and that has obviously caused much anxiety amongst the antis. Never mind it not working like that because these arguments are clearly bad faith and hold no water next to the deluge of evidence saying otherwise.
