“Her father’s decision still bewildered her. When the Knight of Flowers had spoken up, she’d been sure she was about to see one of Old Nan’s stories come to life. Ser Gregor was the monster and Ser Loras the true hero who would slay him. He even looked a true hero, so slim and beautiful, with golden roses around his slender waist and his rich brown hair tumbling down into his eyes. And then Father had refused him! It had upset her more than she could tell. She had said as much to Septa Mordane as they descended the stairs from the gallery, but the septa had only told her it was not her place to question her lord father’s decisions.” - Sansa, A Game of Thrones.
Interesting how we get this insight to what Sansa thinks a “true hero,” would look like, “slim” and “slender” with “brown hair”.
“Jon was slender where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast.” - Jon, A Game of Thrones.
and of course(keeping in mind Jon’s has been said to have dark, brown hair and grey eyes), curiously linking Jon’s appearance to that of Waymar Royce’s, the brother of the Night’s Watch who Sansa coincidentally fell wildly in love with(and who also served as a foil to Jon’s death):
“Ser Waymar Royce was the youngest son of an ancient house with too many heirs. He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife” - Prologue, A Game of Thrones.
It seems oddly fitting then that Jon becomes her hero, by beheading Janos Slynt.
“Sansa stared hard at his ugly face, remembering how he had thrown down her father for Ser Ilyn to behead, wishing she could hurt him, wishing that some hero would throw him down and cut off his head. But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes…” - Sansa, A Game of Thrones.
“The smile that Lord Janos Slynt smiled then had all the sweetness of rancid butter. Until Jon said, “Edd, fetch me a block,” and unsheathed Longclaw.” - Jon, A Dance with Dragons.
He already looks the part, by Sansa’s account.
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