do you think ned was lowkey a bad father? I mean he let her be all delusional and stuff ned literally hears how utterly delusional and naive she is when she talks about joffrey and never tries to talk some sense into her, never sitting her down and allowing her a glimpse of reality when she was the one who needed it the most, especially after losing lady. of course she doesn't sense any sort of danger when you've allowed her to walk with rose-coloured glasses all her life?
I mean he’s a good character but like sansa never got any real guidance from either parent…like ever?
Do you think that Ned was less delusional than her? Ok, before people come to attack me : PLEASE LET ME EXPLAIN.
Some time ago, someone asked me if Ned ever thought about the possibility of Robert being equally abusive to Lyanna as he was to Cersei and the answer was irrevocably no. Robert himself offered him the perfect opportunity to think about it when Robert himself talked about Lyanna immediately after hurting Cersei (and we see all this from Ned's pov), yet he does not think at all about it. We see Ned being absolutely sure that if Robert knew the truth about Jon he would hurt him, as he has no doubts that Robert would kill Myrcella and Tommen for the only sin to being born till the point to run to Cersei and tell the true despise knowning the danger of it..yet he still has rose-colored glasses around Robert and only genuinely start to understand that Robert is not a good man whan is too late. He saw Robert humiliate and hurt Cersei and still tried to justify it and pretend he was sad for it, no more no less than when Sansa tried to justify Joffrey's violence (Here is also interesting to remind that Joffrey thinks that a true man should use violence because..Robert does it). Now, how can THIS man teach to anyone, including his own daughter, to be less idealistic/more realistic about people and to be less naive? Like how do you think that Sansa is so naive when Catelyn is the most suspicious among all the Stark after maybe only Jon?
Being a parent is not a easy work, and i do not want to blame Eddard Stark for his desire to preserve the naivety and idealism of his very young daughter, she was 11 at the end of the day and to a northern man as him being idealistic was everything, but he was affected by the same curse.
Plus, is it really a curse? I think that people want to see Sansa's naivety and idealism as a con while GRRM see idealism and naivety as a pro. GRRM said more than once that his universe belongs to the dreamers, to those that naively yet stubbornly belives in better days like Brienne of Tarth or Duncan the Tall and i genuinely think that GOT show made a huge disservice to Sansa, Arya and Sandor by making not only Sandor and Arya's bond deeper but by making Sandor being the one that change them and not the reverse.
Sandor is the demonstration that Sansa's kindness and idealism is not weak or passive, but that can forever change someone's life. Sandor did not chose to save Arya because he wanted money and then recognized her cynism and teached her to indulge in it, Sandor constantly talk about Sansa with Arya because Sansa changed him. In my opinion we are not supposed to hate Sansa's naivety or see it as a weakness but to disdain those how take advantage of that naivety. ASOIAF IS NOT CYNIC, GOT IS.
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