Jon Snow x Sansa Stark - Book Hints
Before we start:
I will try to list almost all of the Jon and Sansa hints/foreshadowings in the books in the order of chapters.
I will try to explain these hints in the easiest and shortest way I can.
So don't consider this work as a list of Jonsa metas.
For metas I will give the links under every chapter I examine.
If you are the original poster of any of these hints or metas please let me know so I can give you credit.
I will keep updating the hints and sources in time.
So please try to be patient with me.
Because I realize that the hardest part was finding the sources.
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this. Main sources:
thejonsacompendium
bookjonsa.tumblr.com
Kissing Cousins
* Special thanks to Kelly @kellyvela
Let's start...
A) A GAME OF THRONES
A1) Prologue:
§ Waymar // Jon
Waymar was Sansa’s first crush.
“Bronze Yohn knows me,” she reminded him. “He was a guest at Winterfell when his son rode north to take the black.” She had fallen wildly in love with Ser Waymar, she remembered dimly, but that was a lifetime ago, when she was a stupid little girl.
[AFFC; Alayne I]
And he looks like Jon.
- His desription in Prologue:
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.
[AGOT; Prologue]
- Jon’s description:
Jon’s eyes were a grey so dark they seemed almost black, but there was little they did not see. He was of an age with Robb, but they did not look alike. Jon was slender where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast.
[AGOT; Bran I]
Jon and Waymar have grey eyes.
Jon and Waymar have brown hair.
Jon and Waymar have slender bodies.
Jon and Waymar are described as graceful.
> for more and sources:
About Sansa’s first crush and her taste in men
Waymar//Jon
Waymar//Jon
A2) Bran I
§ Jon saves magical beasts:
Sansa’s ideal hero knight doesn’t kill magical (white) beasts.
“I had a dream that Joffrey would be the one to take the white hart,” she said. It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream. Everyone knew that dreams were prophetic. White harts were supposed to be very rare and magical, and in her heart she knew her gallant prince was worthier than his drunken father.
“A dream? Truly? Did Prince Joffrey just go up to it and touch it with his bare hand and do it no harm?”
“No,” Sansa said. “He shot it with a golden arrow and brought it back for me.” In the songs, the knights never killed magical beasts, they just went up to them and touched them and did them no harm, but she knew Joffrey liked hunting, especially the killing part.
[AGOT; Sansa III]
In the same Sansa III chapter, Sansa calls men in Night’s Watch “black knights from songs” and she thinks about Jon.
“There was a black brother,” Sansa said, “begging men for the Wall, only he was kind of old and smelly.” She hadn’t liked that at all. She had always imagined the Night’s Watch to be men like Uncle Benjen. In the songs, they were called the black knights of the Wall. But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice. If this was what the Night’s Watch was truly like, she felt sorry for her bastard half brother, Jon.
[AGOT; Sansa III]
In Bran I, Jon saves direwolves aka magical and rare beasts (one of them is white)
“Lord Stark,” Jon said. It was strange to hear him call Father that, so formal. Bran looked at him with desperate hope. “There are five pups,” he told Father. “Three male, two female.”
“What of it, Jon?”
“You have five trueborn children,” Jon said. “Three sons, two daughters. The direwolf is the sigil of your House. Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord.” Bran saw his father’s face change, saw the other men exchange glances. He loved Jon with all his heart at that moment.
[…]
“He must have crawled away from the others,” Jon said.“Or been driven away,” their father said, looking at the sixth pup. His fur was white, where the rest of the litter was grey. His eyes were as red as the blood of the ragged man who had died that morning. Bran thought it curious that this pup alone would have opened his eyes while the others were still blind.
“An albino,” Theon Greyjoy said with wry amusement. “This one will die even faster than the others.”
Jon Snow gave his father’s ward a long, chilling look. “I think not, Greyjoy,” he said. “This one belongs to me.”
[AGOT; Bran I]
So Sansa shows us how Joffrey and Jon are foils.
> for more and sources:
Sansa's hero
White magical beasts
Special thanks to Kelly
A3) Eddard I
§ Sansa / Joffrey betrothal
Jon I chapter follows right after this betrothal:
“We were meant to rule together. If Lyanna had lived, we should have been brothers, bound by blood as well as affection. Well, it is not too late. I have a son. You have a daughter. My Joff and your Sansa shall join our houses, as Lyanna and I might once have done.”
[AGOT; Eddard I]
Lyanna // Sansa: Like Lyanna, Sansa also becomes betrothed to a Baratheon man
> for more and sources:
betrothals and chapter orders
A4) Jon I
§ Jon’s first words about Sansa is about her being “radiant”.
Sansa looked radiant as she walked beside him, [...]
[AGOT; Jon I]
§ Jon & Sansa’s first “real” impression of Joffrey sounds similar
Sansa looked radiant as she walked beside him, but Jon did not like Joffrey’s pouty lips or the bored, disdainful way he looked at Winterfell’s Great Hall.
[AGOT; Jon I]
Sansa stared at him, seeing him for the first time. He was wearing a padded crimson doublet patterned with lions and a cloth-of-gold cape with a high collar that framed his face. She wondered how she could ever have thought him handsome. His lips were as soft and red as the worms you found after a rain, and his eyes were vain and cruel. “I hate you,” she whispered.
[AGOT; Sansa VI]
§ Jon I // Sansa I
Jon I chapter is very similar with Sansa I:
The obvious parallel:
Ghost & Lady are beneath the table and Jon & Sansa feed them
Sansa is breaking her fast and Jon is having dinner.
Jon grinned and reached under the table to ruffle the shaggy white fur. The direwolf looked up at him, nipped gently at his hand, then went back to eating.
[AGOT; Jon I]
“I’ve never seen an aurochs,” Sansa said, feeding a piece of bacon to Lady under the table. The direwolf took it from her hand, as delicate as a queen.
[AGOT; Sansa I]
Noble Lady/Bastard Boy
His brothers and sisters had not been permitted to bring their wolves to the banquet, but there were more curs than Jon could count at this end of the hall, and no one had said a word about his pup. He told himself he was fortunate in that too.
[AGOT; Jon I]
Septa Mordane sniffed in disapproval. “A noble lady does not feed dogs at her table,” she said, breaking off another piece of comb and letting the honey drip down onto her bread.
[AGOT; Sansa I]
Queen/Savage like direwolves
Ghost ripped into it in savage silence.
[AGOT; Jon I]
The direwolf took it from her hand, as delicate as a queen.
[AGOT; Sansa I]
Sweet/Salty
“Hungry again?” he asked. There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table.
[AGOT; Jon I]
“I’ve never seen an aurochs,” Sansa said, feeding a piece of bacon to Lady under the table.
[AGOT; Sansa I]
Direwolves vs dogs
Jon watched the confrontation. The bitch growled low in her throat and moved closer. Ghost looked up, silent, and fixed the dog with those hot red eyes. The bitch snapped an angry challenge. She was three times the size of the direwolf pup. Ghost did not move. He stood over his prize and opened his mouth, baring his fangs. The bitch tensed, barked again, then thought better of this fight. She turned and slunk away, with one last defiant snap to save her pride. Ghost went back to his meal.
[AGOT; Jon I]
“She’s not a dog, she’s a direwolf,” Sansa pointed out as Lady licked her fingers with a rough tongue. “Anyway, Father said we could keep them with us if we want.”
[AGOT; Sansa I]
> for more and sources:
Jon I
Jon I // Sansa I
A5) Arya I
§ Jon is jealous of Joffrey
Sansa says Jon is jealous of her betrothed prince Joffrey:
“Jon says he looks like a girl,” Arya said.
Sansa sighed as she stitched. “Poor Jon,” she said. “He gets jealous because he’s a bastard.”
[AGOT; Arya I]
§ Arya says Sansa has fire in her hair
Sansa's hair // Ygritte's hair:
Worse, she was beautiful. Sansa had gotten their mother’s fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys.
[...]
Jon had their father’s face, as she did. They were the only ones. Robb and Sansa and Bran and even little Rickon all took after the Tullys, with easy smiles and fire in their hair.
[AGOT; Arya I]
Just like Ygritte’s “kissed by fire” hair
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.
[ASOS; Jon II]
A6) Sansa I
§ Finding comfort with their direwolves
Sansa and Jon (Jon III) are facing frightening situations and they find comfort in their dire wolves:
“You are shaking, girl,” he said, his voice rasping. “Do I frighten you so much?”
He did, and had since she had first laid eyes on the ruin that fire had made of his face, though it seemed to her now that he was not half so terrifying as the other. Still, Sansa wrenched away from him, and the Hound laughed, and Lady moved between them, rumbling a warning. Sansa dropped to her knees to wrap her arms around the wolf.
[AGOT; Sansa I]
As he watched his uncle lead his horse into the tunnel, Jon had remembered the things that Tyrion Lannister told him on the kingsroad, and in his mind’s eye he saw Ben Stark lying dead, his blood red on the snow. The thought made him sick. What was he becoming? Afterward he sought out Ghost in the loneliness of his cell, and buried his face in his thick white fur.
[AGOT; Jon III]
> for more and sources:
Sansa I // Jon III
A7) Eddard IV
§ Sansa // Lyanna
Ned sees Lyanna in Sansa’s sorrow
Yet even as he said the words, he remembered that chill morning on the barrowlands, and Robert's talk of sending hired knives after the Targaryen princess. He remembered Rhaegar's infant son, the red ruin of his skull, and the way the king had turned away, as he had turned away in Darry's audience hall not so long ago. He could still hear Sansa pleading, as Lyanna had pleaded once.
[AGOT; Eddard IV]
A8) Sansa II
§ Loras gives Sansa a red rose
Roses and tourney imagery reminds us Lyanna Stark, who was betrothed with Robert Baratheon but run away with Targaryen Prince Rhaegar
Ned remembered the moment when all the smiles died, when Prince Rhaegar Targaryen urged his horse past his own wife, the Dornish princess Elia Martell, to lay the queen of beauty’s laurel in Lyanna’s lap. He could see it still: a crown of winter roses, blue as frost.
[AGOT; Eddard XV]
Sansa// Lyanna
Sansa is betrothed with Robert Baratheon’s son and Jon is the son of Lyanna and Rhaegar
And like Lyanna, she also gets a rose in a tourney
To the other maidens he had given white roses, but the one he plucked for her was red. “Sweet lady,” he said, “no victory is half so beautiful as you.” Sansa took the flower timidly, struck dumb by his gallantry. His hair was a mass of lazy brown curls, his eyes like liquid gold. She inhaled the sweet fragrance of the rose and sat clutching it long after Ser Loras had ridden off.
[AGOT; Sansa II]
§ Loras looks like a hero and Jon:
Sansa thinks Loras is very beautiful and looks like a real hero
Loras also looks like Jon
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.
[AGOT; Sansa III]
When the Knight of Flowers made his entrance, a murmur ran through the crowd, and he heard Sansa’s fervent whisper, “Oh, he’s so beautiful.” Ser Loras Tyrell was slender as a reed, dressed in a suit of fabulous silver armor polished to a blinding sheen and filigreed with twining black vines and tiny blue forget-me-nots.
[AGOT; Eddard VII]
She could never hold a picture of Willas long in her head, though; her imaginings kept turning him back into Ser Loras, young and graceful and beautiful.
[AGOT; Sansa II]
Jon and Loras have brown hair.
Jon and Loras have slender bodies.
Jon and Loras are described as graceful.
And Jon also would like to give a flower to a redhead young girl.
If I could show her Winterfell … give her a flower from the glass gardens, feast her in the Great Hall, and show her the stone kings on their thrones. We could bathe in the hot pools, and love beneath the heart tree while the old gods watched over us.
[ASOS; Jon V]
> for more and sources:
Sansa's taste in men
Sansa=WF's Rose
Jonsa parallels
A9) Sansa III
§ Fire and blood imagery
Sansa’s ivory (white-ish color) silk dress stained with blood orange juice and (fire) ashes
“Liar,” Arya said. Her hand clenched the blood orange so hard that red juice oozed between her fingers.
[...] as Arya flung the orange across the table. It caught her in the middle of the forehead with a wet squish and plopped down into her lap.
[...]
Sansa wiped it away with a napkin. When she saw what the fruit in her lap had done to her beautiful ivory silk dress, she shrieked again. “You’re horrible,” she screamed at her sister. “They should have killed you instead of Lady!”
[...]
“Arya started it,” Sansa said quickly, anxious to have the first word. “She called me a liar and threw an orange at me and spoiled my dress, the ivory silk, the one Queen Cersei gave me when I was betrothed to Prince Joffrey. She hates that I’m going to marry the prince. She tries to spoil everything, Father, she can’t stand for anything to be beautiful or nice or splendid.”
[...]
Sansa stalked away with her head up. She was to be a queen, and queens did not cry. At least not where people could see. When she reached her bedchamber, she barred the door and took off her dress. The blood orange had left a blotchy red stain on the silk. “I hate her!” she screamed. She balled up the dress and flung it into the cold hearth, on top of the ashes of last night’s fire. When she saw that the stain had bled through onto her underskirt, she began to sob despite herself. She ripped off the rest of her clothes wildly, threw herself into bed, and cried herself back to sleep.
[AGOT; Sansa III]
The ivory silk dress was a “betrothal gift” from Queen Cersei, that Sansa later had to “dye it black” so the “blood and fire stain” couldn’t be seen at all.
Her gown was the ivory silk that the queen had given her, the one Arya had ruined, but she’d had them dye it black and you couldn’t see the stain at all. She had fretted over her jewelry for hours and finally decided upon the elegant simplicity of a plain silver chain.
[AGOT; Sansa V]
> for more and sources:
Targaryen imagery
A10) Sansa IV & Jon VII
§ Sansa IV and Jon VII are very similar:
These chapters follow each other. (Sansa -> Jon)
When Sansa peered down, she saw a body impaled on the huge iron spikes below. She averted her eyes quickly, afraid to ask, afraid to look too long, afraid he might be someone she knew.”
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
“Othor," announced Ser Jaremy Rykker, "beyond a doubt. And this one was Jafer Flowers.” He turned the corpse over with his foot, and the dead white face stared up at the overcast sky with blue, blue eyes.
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
“No,” Sansa blurted. “He wouldn’t do that. He wouldn’t!”
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
“No,” Jon said at once. “That couldn’t be. My father would never betray the king!”
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
“A child born of traitor’s seed will find that betrayal comes naturally to her,“ said Grand Maester Pycelle. "She is a sweet thing now, but in ten years, who can say what treasons she may hatch?”
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
“And then he heard the laughter, sharp and cruel as a whip, and the voice of Ser Alliser Thorne. "Not only a bastard, but a traitor’s bastard,” he was telling the men around him.
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
“Please, Your Grace, there’s been a mistake.“ Sudden panic made her dizzy and faint.
[...]
“But I love him,” Sansa wailed, confused and frightened. What did they mean to do to her? What had they done to her father? It was not supposed to happen this way.
[…] It wasn’t fair to take him away from her on account of whatever her father might have done.
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
“But it’s a lie,” Jon insisted. How could they think his father was a traitor, had they all gone mad? Lord Eddard Stark would never dishonor himself ... would he? He fathered a bastard, a small voice whispered inside him. Where was the honor in that? And your mother, what of her? He will not even speak her name.
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
“I’ll ... I’ll write the letters,“ Sansa told them.
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
“As to that, I cannot say, lad. I mean to send a letter. I knew some of the king’s councillors in my youth. Old Pycelle, Lord Stannis, Ser Barristan...”
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
The queen smiled. “I think of you almost as my own daughter. And I know the love you bear for Joffrey.” She gave a weary shake of her head.
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
The weirwoods were beyond the Wall, yet he knew Sam meant what he said. They are my brothers, he thought. As much as Robb and Bran and Rickon…
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
So she went to the queen instead, and poured out her heart, and Cersei had listened and thanked her sweetly ... only then Ser Arys had escorted her to the high room in Maegor’s Holdfast and posted guards, and a few hours later, the fighting had begun outside.
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
They took his knife and his sword and told him he was not to leave his cell until the high officers met to decide what was to be done with him. And then they placed a guard outside his door to make certain he obeyed. His friends were not allowed to see him, but the Old Bear did relent and permit him Ghost, so he was not utterly alone.
[AGOT; Jon VII]
*
Yet somehow it seemed colder with Jeyne gone, even after she’d built a fire. She pulled a chair close to the hearth, took down one of her favorite books, and lost herself in the stories of Florian and Jonquil, of Lady Shella and the Rainbow Knight, of valiant Prince Aemon and his doomed love for his brother’s queen.
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
Yet he was trembling, violently. When had it gotten so cold?
[...]
Metal crunched, glass shattered, oil spewed, and the hangings went up in a great whoosh of flame. The heat of it on his face was sweeter than any kiss Jon had ever known. “Ghost!” he shouted.
[AGOT; Jon VII]
§ Sansa & Jon and Aemon Dragonknight:
Aemon Dragonknight is one of the favourite historical heroes of Jon and Sansa.
Aemon and his sister Naerys were in love
[We will talk more about Aemon + Naerys // Jonsa later: C13]
Sometimes a Jon/Sansa chapter comes before/after a Jon/Sansa chapter where there is a Aemon Dragonknight mention
This two chapters that follow each other is an example for his:
> for more and sources:
Sansa IV // Jon VII
A11) Sansa V
§ Sansa // Lyanna
“dead before her time”
And so many others were missing. Where had the rest of them gone? Sansa wondered. Vainly, she searched for friendly faces. Not one of them would meet her eyes. It was as if she had become a ghost, dead before her time.
[AGOT; Sansa V]
"She was," Eddard Stark agreed, "beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time."
[AGOT; Arya II]
A12) Jon IX
§ Sweet lady
Jon whispers to his mare “Easy, sweet lady”
The mare whickered softly as Jon Snow tightened the cinch. “Easy, sweet lady,” he said in a soft voice, quieting her with a touch. Wind whispered through the stable, a cold dead breath on his face, but Jon paid it no mind. He strapped his roll to the saddle, his scarred fingers stiff and clumsy. “Ghost,” he called softly, “to me.” And the wolf was there, eyes like embers.
[AGOT; Jon IX]
Lady is also the name of Sansa’s dire wolf.
So: Lady and Ghost are mentioned together
At this point Lady is dead, so she is literally a “ghost”. And later in the books Jon also dies.
So we have a direwolf with a dead maste and a master with a dead dire wolf.
Sansa is the female character that is called ‘sweet lady’ the most.
People call Sansa “sweet lady” in AGOT too:
"Leave her alone," Joffrey said. He stood over her, beautiful in blue wool and black leather, his golden curls shining in the sun like a crown. He gave her his hand, drew her to her feet. "What is it, sweet lady? Why are you afraid? No one will hurt you.”
[...]
The older man in white spoke to Sansa gently. "Ofttimes Ser Ilyn frightens me as well, sweet lady. He has a fearsome aspect."
[AGOT; Sansa I]
To the other maidens he had given white roses, but the one he plucked for her was red. "Sweet lady," he said, "no victory is half so beautiful as you."
[...]Instead Joffrey smiled and kissed her hand, handsome and gallant as any prince in the songs, and said, "Ser Loras has a keen eye for beauty, sweet lady."
[AGOT; Sansa II]
> for more and sources:
Sweet Lady
A13) Sansa VI
§ A hero will behead Janos Slynt
Sansa wishes some hero would cut off his head but she knows there are no heroes
In the A Dance With Dragons book, Jon beheads Slynt just like the way Sansa wished
Frog-faced Lord Slynt sat at the end of the council table wearing a black velvet doublet and a shiny cloth-of-gold cape, nodding with approval every time the king pronounced a sentence. 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, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. “Life is not a song, sweetling,” he’d told her. “You may learn that one day to your sorrow.”
[AGOT; Sansa VI]
“I will not hang him,” said Jon. “Bring him here.”
“Oh, Seven save us,” he heard Bowen Marsh cry out.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.
[ADWD; Jon II]
> for more and sources:
Janos Slynt
**
B) A CLASH OF KINGS
B1) Sansa I
§ Betrothed to the “Dragon’s heir”
There is a passage that contains a hint of Sansa being the betrothed of the dragon’s heir
The morning of King Joffrey’s name day dawned bright and windy, with the long tail of the great comet visible through the high scuttling clouds. Sansa was watching it from her tower window when Ser Arys Oakheart arrived to escort her down to the tourney grounds. “What do you think it means?” she asked him.
“Glory to your betrothed,” Ser Arys answered at once. “See how it flames across the sky today on His Grace’s name day, as if the gods themselves had raised a banner in his honor. The smallfolk have named it King Joffrey’s Comet.”
Doubtless that was what they told Joffrey; Sansa was not so sure. “I’ve heard servants calling it the Dragon’s Tail.”
“King Joffrey sits where Aegon the Dragon once sat, in the castle built by his son,” Ser Arys said. “He is the dragon’s heir—and crimson is the color of House Lannister, another sign.
[...]
Is it true? she wondered. Would the gods be so cruel? Her mother was one of Joffrey’s enemies now, her brother Robb another. Her father had died by the king’s command. Must Robb and her lady mother die next? The comet was red, but Joffrey was Baratheon as much as Lannister, and their sigil was a black stag on a golden field. Shouldn’t the gods have sent Joff a golden comet?
[ACOK; Sansa I]
§ Snow white Kingsguard cloak
In the books KG’s white cloaks associated with SNOW
This is an important example for this, because we will see Sandor’s SNOW white cloak again
In the back of the royal box, Sandor Clegane stood at guard, his hands resting on his swordbelt. The white cloak of the Kingsguard was draped over his broad shoulders and fastened with a jeweled brooch, the snowy cloth looking somehow unnatural against his brown roughspun tunic and studded leather jerkin.
[ACOK; Sansa I]
> for more and sources:
Dragon's heir
B2) Davos I
§ Warrior and Maiden:
There is a romantic passage about Maiden and Warrior
The Maiden lay athwart the Warrior, her arms widespread as if to embrace him.
[ACOK; Davos I]
Jaime sees himself as the Warrior of his sister/lover Cersei and her as the Maiden:
I thought that i was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze.
[AFFC; Jaime IV]
Jon and Sansa can easily be considered Warrior and Maiden (there is a theory of Stark Family symbolizes Seven Gods)
The Warrior was Renly and Stannis, Robb and Robert, Jaime Lannister and Jon Snow.
[ACOK; Catelyn IV]
The Warrior had his sword sketched in beneath his face
[ACOK; Catelyn IV]
The Warrior stands before the foe, protecting us where e'er we go.
[ASOS; Samwell III]
“Sansa Stark remained a maiden, and half the castle seemed to know it.”
[ASOS; Tyrion IV]
I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.
[ASOS; Arya VII]
Brienne edged her mare forward. “My sister is lost as well. A girl of three-and-ten with auburn hair, fair to look upon.” “All the Mother’s children are fair to look upon. May the Maiden watch over this poor girl … and you as well, I think.”
[AFFC; Brienne I]
> for more and sources:
Warrior and Maiden
Maiden & Warrior & Stranger
B3) Jon III
§ Magic and Sansa
Jon mentions Sansa’s romantic nature
So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he'd dreamed of them last night. Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it, but Arya would run out laughing and shouting, wanting to touch it all.
[ACOK; Jon III]
§ Pretty name
Jon remembers Sansa’s advice about girls
“I don’t even know your name.”
“Gilly, he called me. For the gillyflower.”
“That’s pretty.” He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name. He could not help the girl, but perhaps the courtesy would please her.
[ACOK; Jon III]
B4) Daenerys IV
§ Sweet blue flower on the wall of ice = Daenerys’ doom
Daenerys’ this vision might be a foreshadowing for her doom and her last betrayal for love
The voices were growing louder, she realized, and it seemed her heart was slowing, and even her breath… three treasons will you know… once for blood and once for gold and once for love…
[...]
A blue flower grew from a chink in a wall of ice, and filled the air with sweetness… mother of dragons, bride of fire…
[ACOK; Daenerys IV]
Sweetness, color blue, ice and Wall are negative signs for Daenerys
A foul, sweet smell rose from the wound, so thick it almost choked her.
[AGOT; Daenerys VIII]
"Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones."
[ACOK; Daenerys II]
The merchant prince sat up sharply. "Pyat Pree has blue lips, and it is truly said that blue lips speak only lies. Heed the wisdom of one who loves you. Warlocks are bitter creatures who eat dust and drink of shadows. They will give you naught. They have naught to give."
[ACOK; Daenerys III]
"Blue lips speak only lies, isn't that what Xaro told you? Why do you care what the warlocks whispered? All they wanted was to suck the life from you, you know that now."
[ACOK; Daenerys V]
"Not all your enemies are in the Yellow City. Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips. You had not been gone from Qarth a fortnight when Pyat Pree set out with three of his fellow warlocks, to seek for you in Pentos."
[ADWD; Daenerys III]
That night she dreamt that she was Rhaegar, riding to the Trident. But she was mounted on a dragon, not a horse. When she saw the Usurper’s rebel host across the river they were armored all in ice, but she bathed them in dragonfire and they melted away like dew and turned the Trident into a torrent. Some small part of her knew that she was dreaming, but another part exulted. This is how it was meant to be. The other was a nightmare, and I have only now awakened.
[ASOS; Daenerys II]
The next morning she woke stiff and sore and aching, with ants crawling on her arms and legs and face. When she realized what they were, she kicked aside the stalks of dry brown grass that had served as her bed and blanket and struggled to her feet. She had bites all over her, little red bumps, itchy and inflamed. Where did all the ants come from? Dany brushed them from her arms and legs and belly. She ran a hand across her stubbly scalp where her hair had burned away, and felt more ants on her head, and one crawling down the back of her neck. She knocked them off and crushed them under her bare feet. There were so many…
It turned out that their anthill was on the other side of her wall. She wondered how the ants had managed to climb over it and find her. To them these tumbledown stones must loom as huge as the Wall of Westeros. The biggest wall in all the world, her brother Viserys used to say, as proud as if he’d built it himself.
[ADWD; Daenerys X]
These images are linked with Jon and Sansa
Sansa is the blue flower that bloomed from the North
We will examine this later. (Check B5)
But in summary:
Ygritte tells about the song of Bael the Bard and the Winterfell’s Rose in ACOK; Jon VI
In the story the blue roses of Winterfell just bloom and they represent a love between King Beyond the Wall and Winterfell’s maiden heir
Next chapter is Sansa (ACOK; Sansa IV) and she flowers for the first time, next chapter is Jon again. (Jon-Sansa-Jon)
Sansa’s courtesy (armor) is Wall
He had always had a yen to see the Titan of Braavos. Perhaps that would please Sansa. Gently, he spoke of Braavos, and met a wall of sullen courtesy as icy and unyielding as the Wall he had walked once in the north.
[ASOS; Tyrion VIII]
Sansa should take it off only for her husband
“Courtesy is a lady’s armor,” Sansa said. Her septa had always told her that.
“I am your husband. You can take off your armor now.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
But the Wall belongs to Jon
The Wall is mine, Jon reminded himself whenever he felt his strength flagging.
[ASOS; Jon VIII]
The Wall is mine, he reminded himself.
[ASOS; Jon IX]
The Wall was his, the night was dark, and he had a king to face.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
Never. "I cannot speak to what my father might have done. I took an oath, Your Grace. The Wall is mine."
[ADWD; Jon I]
The Wall is mine, and the Watch as well. The Night's Watch takes no part.
[ADWD; Jon II]
I should be walking the ice. The Wall is mine.
[ADWD; Jon III]
The Wall is mine, Jon reminded himself as the winchmen were swinging in the cage, for two more days, at least.
[ADWD; Jon XI]
"I must do as I think best. With respect, Your Grace, the Wall is mine, and so is this decision."
[ADWD; Jon XIII]
Sansa is sweet smelling
Sansa Stark, he mused. Soft-spoken sweet-smelling Sansa, who loved silks, songs, chivalry and tall gallant knights with handsome faces.
[ASOS; Tyrion III]
She brought a dozen of the queen’s favorite scents as well. Sansa chose a sharp sweet fragrance with a hint of lemon in it under the smell of flowers. The maid dabbed some on her finger and touched Sansa behind each ear, and under her chin, and then lightly on her nipples.
[ASOS; Sansa III]
> for more and sources:
Courtesy=Wall
Daenerys' doom
Sansa/Jon and sweetness
B5) Jon VI & Sansa IV & Jon VII
These three chapters follow each other (Jon -> Sansa -> Jon)
§ Bael the Bard and Winterfell’s Blue Rose
Jon meets with Ygritte and after the introduction of his future love interest comes a Sansa chapter.
She tells him the story of a song about the love between King Beyond the Wall and Winterfell’s maiden lady heir.
She smiled again, a flash of white teeth. “And she never sung you the song o’ the winter rose?”
“I never knew my mother. Or any such song.”
“Bael the Bard made it,” said Ygritte. “He was King-beyond-the-Wall a long time back. All the free folk know his songs, but might be you don’t sing them in the south.”
[...]
“...One day in his bitterness he called Bael a craven who preyed only on the weak. When word o’ that got back, Bael vowed to teach the lord a lesson. So he scaled the Wall, skipped down the kingsroad, and walked into Winterfell one winter’s night with harp in hand, naming himself Sygerrik of Skagos. Sygerrik means ‘deceiver’ in the Old Tongue, that the First Men spoke, and the giants still speak.
“North or south, singers always find a ready welcome, so Bael ate at Lord Stark’s own table, and played for the lord in his high seat until half the night was gone. The old songs he played, and new ones he’d made himself, and he played and sang so well that when he was done, the lord offered to let him name his own reward. ‘All I ask is a flower,’ Bael answered, ‘the fairest flower that blooms in the gardens o’ Winterfell.”
“Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious. So the Stark sent to his glass gardens and commanded that the most beautiful o’ the winter roses be plucked for the singer’s payment. And so it was done. But when morning come, the singer had vanished… and so had Lord Brandon’s maiden daughter. Her bed they found empty, but for the pale blue rose that Bael had left on the pillow where her head had lain.”
[...]
“Lord Brandon had no other children. At his behest, the black crows flew forth from their castles in the hundreds, but nowhere could they find any sign o’ Bael or this maid. For most a year they searched, till the lord lost heart and took to his bed, and it seemed as though the line o’ Starks was at its end. But one night as he lay waiting to die, Lord Brandon heard a child’s cry. He followed the sound and found his daughter back in her bedchamber, asleep with a babe at her breast.”
“Bael had brought her back?”
“No. They had been in Winterfell all the time, hiding with the dead beneath the castle. The maid loved Bael so dearly she bore him a son, the song says… though if truth be told, all the maids love Bael in them songs he wrote. Be that as it may, what’s certain is that Bael left the child in payment for the rose he’d plucked unasked, and that the boy grew to be the next Lord Stark. So there it is—you have Bael’s blood in you, same as me.”
[ACOK; Jon VI]
This little story is a hint for Jon’s parentage.
The Stark lady leaves with a singer King and gives him a baby boy. Like Lyanna and Rhaegar.
(Lyanna // Sansa)
Sansa is the maiden lady heir of WF and she also blooms (flowers) just like BLUE WINTER ROSES in the song in next chapter:
[...] ‘All I ask is a flower,’ Bael answered, ‘the fairest flower that blooms in the gardens o’ Winterfell.”
“Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious...
[ACOK; Jon VI]
Sansa lowered her head. “The blood frightened me.”
“The blood is the seal of your womanhood. Lady Catelyn might have prepared you. You’ve had your first flowering, no more.”
Sansa had never felt less flowery. “My lady mother told me, but I… I thought it would be different.”
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
Just like WF’s heir gave a baby boy to KING Beyond The Wall, Sansa is also ready to give children to the KING:
“Bael the Bard made it,” said Ygritte. “He was King-beyond-the-Wall a long time back.
[...]
“No. They had been in Winterfell all the time, hiding with the dead beneath the castle. The maid loved Bael so dearly she bore him a son, the song says…
[ACOK; Jon VI]
She took a sip of milk. “So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?”
“It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded,” said Sansa, “and to bear children for the king.”
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
Bael’s son with WF’s Rose was the heir of Winterfell:
“Lord Brandon had no other children. At his behest, the black crows flew forth from their castles in the hundreds, but nowhere could they find any sign o’ Bael or this maid. For most a year they searched, till the lord lost heart and took to his bed, and it seemed as though the line o’ Starks was at its end.
[...]
Be that as it may, what’s certain is that Bael left the child in payment for the rose he’d plucked unasked, and that the boy grew to be the next Lord Stark. So there it is—you have Bael’s blood in you, same as me.”
[ACOK; Jon VI]
Like Ygritte said: Jon has the blood of Bael and Winterfell.
In the same chapter he was also called “the blood of Winterfell”
"Then you must do what needs be done," Qhorin Halfhand said. "You are the blood of Winterfell and a man of the Night's Watch."
[ACOK; Jon VI]
Among Stark kids he and Sansa are the only ones who were called BLOOD OF WINTERFELL.
I am not your daughter, she thought. I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard's daughter and Lady Catelyn's, the blood of Winterfell.
[AFFC; Sansa I]
He was the blood of Winterfell, a man of the Night's Watch. I will not father a bastard, he told her. I will not. I will not. "You know nothing, Jon Snow," she whispered, her skin dissolving in the hot water, the flesh beneath sloughing off her bones until only skull and skeleton remained, and the pool bubbled thick and red.
[ASOS; Jon VI]
So; the son of King Bael and Winterfell’s Rose continued the blood of Winterfell and became the Lord of WF.
Jon is called blood of Winterfell in that chapter,
In next chapter Winterfell’s maiden Lady Sansa flowers and therefore she is ready to give children to the King.
She also calls herself the “blood of Winterfell” in later books.
Also next chapter is JON. (again) (Jon -> Sansa -> Jon)
§ Targaryen imagery:
Sansa’s bedclothes stained with moonblood & fire
[...] When she threw back the blanket and saw the blood, all she could think was that her dream had somehow come true.
[...]
Then she remembered the bedclothes. She rushed back to the bed and stared in horror at the dark red stain and the tale it told. All she could think was that she had to get rid of it, or else they’d see. She couldn’t let them see, or they’d marry her to Joffrey and make her lay with him.
[...]
She pulled the torn sheet from the bed, and the stained blanket as well. I’ll have to burn them. She balled up the evidence, stuffed it in the fireplace, drenched it in oil from her bedside lamp, and lit it afire. Then she realized that the blood had soaked through the sheet into the featherbed, so she bundled that up as well, but it was big and cumbersome, hard to move. Sansa could get only half of it into the fire.
[...]
In the end it took three of them to pull her away. And it was all for nothing. The bedclothes were burnt, but by the time they carried her off her thighs were bloody again. It was as if her own body had betrayed her to Joffrey, unfurling a banner of Lannister crimson for all the world to see.
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
§ Sansa // Lyanna
A bed stained with blood reminds us Ned’s dream of Lyanna’s death. And Lyanna gave birth to Jon
When she threw back the blanket and saw the blood, all she could think was that her dream had somehow come true.
[...]
Then she remembered the bedclothes. She rushed back to the bed and stared in horror at the dark red stain and the tale it told.
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.
[AGOT; Eddard X]
§ Climbing and Bran
In the Jon VI and Sansa IV chapters they both do some climbing and there are mentions of Bran, fire and smoke
Up they went, and up, and up, black shadows creeping across the moonlit wall of rock. Anyone down on the floor of the pass could have seen them easily, but the mountain hid them from the view of the wildlings by their fire. They were close now, though. Jon could sense it. Even so, he did not think of the foes who were waiting for him, all unknowing, but of his brother at Winterfell. Bran used to love to climb. I wish I had a tenth part of his courage.
[ACOK; Jon VI]
Down by the Mud Gate, outlined against the drifting smoke, she could make out the vague shape of the three huge catapults, the biggest anyone had ever seen, overtopping the walls by a good twenty feet. Yet none of it made her feel less fearful. A stab went through her, so sharp that Sansa sobbed and clutched at her belly. She might have fallen, but a shadow moved suddenly, and strong fingers grabbed her arm and steadied her.
She grabbed a merlon for support, her fingers scrabbling at the rough stone. “Let go of me,” she cried. “Let go.”
“The little bird thinks she has wings, does she? Or do you mean to end up crippled like that brother of yours?”
Sansa twisted in his grasp. “I wasn’t going to fall. It was only… you startled me, that’s all.”
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
§ Grey eyed man // Redhead girl
Jon/Sandor puts a sword to Ygritte's/Sansa's neck
The men send the girls away
He pulled Longclaw over a shoulder. “Aren’t you afraid?” “Last night I was,” she admitted. “But now the sun’s up.” She pushed her hair aside to bare her neck, and knelt before him. “Strike hard and true, crow, or I’ll come back and haunt you.” Longclaw was not so long or heavy a sword as his father’s Ice, but it was Valyrian steel all the same. He touched the edge of the blade to mark where the blow must fall, and Ygritte shivered. “That’s cold,” she said. “Go on, be quick about it.” He raised Longclaw over his head, both hands tight around the grip. One cut, with all my weight behind it. He could give her a quick clean death, at least. He was his father’s son. Wasn’t he? Wasn’t he? “Do it,” she urged him after a moment. “Bastard. Do it. I can’t stay brave forever.” When the blow did not fall she turned her head to look at him. Jon lowered his sword. “Go,” he muttered. Ygritte stared. “Now,” he said, “before my wits return. Go.” She went.
[ACOK; Jon VI]
He laid the edge of his longsword against her neck, just under her ear. Sansa could feel the sharpness of the steel. [...] Sandor Clegane spat at her feet to show what he thought of that. “So long as I have this,” he said, lifting the sword from her throat, “there’s no man on earth I need fear.” [...] “True knights protect the weak.” He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different.” Sansa backed away from him. “You’re awful.” “I’m honest. It’s the world that’s awful. Now fly away, little bird, I’m sick of you peeping at me.” Wordless, she fled.
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
§ Children of mountain
In Jon VI, they tell him that mountain is his mother. And Jon has no mother/lost his mother.
Soon they were high enough so that looking down was best not considered. There was nothing below but yawning blackness, nothing above but moon and stars. “The mountain is your mother,” Stonesnake had told him during an easier climb a few days past. “Cling to her, press your face up against her teats, and she won’t drop you.” Jon had made a joke of it, saying how he’d always wondered who his mother was, but never thought to find her in the Frostfangs. It did not seem nearly so amusing now. One step and then another, he thought, clinging tight.
[ACOK; Jon VI]
In AFFC; Alayne II chapter it’s said that Stone is daughter of mountain. And mountain is Stone’s father.
Alayne is a Stone. And Alayne Stone/Sansa has no father/lost her father.
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust my father, and I trust my mules. I won't fall." She put her hand on a jagged spur of rock, and got to her feet. "Best finish. We have a long way yet to go, and I can smell a storm.”
[AFFC; Alayne II]
§ Sharing room/bed with siblings
Jon remembers nights in WF that he used to share bed with his brothers
And it is similar with a Sansa chapter in ASOS that she remembers nights in Winterfell where she used to share her chamber with her sister
They ate cold salt beef, hard bread, and harder cheese, and slept clothed and huddled beneath a pile of cloaks and furs, grateful for each other’s warmth. It made Jon remember cold nights long ago at Winterfell, when he’d shared a bed with his brothers. These men were brothers too, though the bed they shared was stone and earth.
[ACOK; Jon VI]
She awoke all at once, every nerve atingle. For a moment she did not remember where she was. She had dreamt that she was little, still sharing a bedchamber with her sister Arya. But it was her maid she heard tossing in sleep, not her sister, and this was not Winterfell, but the Eyrie. And I am Alayne Stone, a bastard girl. The room was cold and black, though she was warm beneath the blankets.
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
§ Sansa calls for Aemon the Dragonknight again
We talked about how Aemon is one of the Jon and Sansa’s favourite historical heroes.
And sometimes a Jon/Sansa chapter comes before or after a Jon/Sansa chapter where he/she mentions Aemon the Dragonknight
ACOK; Sansa IV is another example for his. Jon chapters comes BEFORE and AFTER this Sansa chapter:
(This time she mentions Ser Ryam Redwyne too. We will see this name again later in the books)
She called for the heroes from the songs, for Florian and Ser Ryam Redwyne and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, but no one heard.
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
§ Sansa wants to be loved
At the end of the ACOK; Sansa IV chapter Sansa tells us that she wants to be loved.
And remember this Sansa chapter is between two JON chapters.
A half smile flickered across the queen’s face. “[…]Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?”
“Everyone wants to be loved.”
“I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
> for more and sources:
Targaryen imagery
Nights in WF
Mountain's children
Sansa = Winter Rose
Blue Flower
Rose
Special thanks to Shuri
B6) Catelyn VII
§ Snow white cloak = Jon Snow
The Kingsguards’ cloaks are a type of cloak that represents a celibate order of men (like Night’s Watch) and have been describe as being snow-white several times.
But in Catelyn VII; Jaime makes a direct connection between these cloaks and Jon Snow
His smile cut. “I’ve never lain with any woman but Cersei. In my own way, I have been truer than your Ned ever was. Poor old dead Ned. So who has shit for honor now, I ask you? What was the name of that bastard he fathered?”
[…]“Snow, that was the one. Such a white name…like the pretty cloaks they give us in the Kingsguard when we swear our pretty oaths.”
[ACOK; Catelyn VII]
Kingsguard // Night’s Watch
Queen Visenya Targaryen created the Kingsguard brotherhood and modeled their vows on those of the Night’s Watch
Many kings had champions to defend them. Aegon was the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms; therefore, he should have seven champions, Queen Visenya decided. Thus did the Kingsguard come into being; a brotherhood of seven knights, the finest in the realm, cloaked and armored all in purest white, with no purpose but to defend the king, giving up their own lives for his if need be. Visenya modeled their vows on those of the Night’s Watch; like the black-cloaked crows of the Wall, the White Swords served for life, surrendering all their lands, titles, and worldly goods to live a life of chastity and obedience, with no reward but honor.
[Fire & Blood]
Other examples for snow white cloaks: (also check: B1)
Yet the huge man at the head of the column, flanked by two knights in the snow-white cloaks of the Kingsguard, seemed almost a stranger to Ned…
[AGOT; Eddard I]
The seven knights of the Kingsguard took the field, all but Jaime Lannister in scaled armor the color of milk, their cloaks as white as fresh-fallen snow.
[AGOT; Sansa II]
Arya recognized the Hound, wearing a snowy white cloak over his dark grey armor, with four of the Kingsguard around him.
[AGOT; Arya V]
> for more and sources:
Cloaks
Jaime-Cloaks
Kingsguard//Night's Watch
B7) Sansa V
§ Sansa prays for Jon too
Sansa sings the Gentle Mother Hymn and she sings for Jon too
She sang with those inside the castle walls and those without, sang with all the city. She sang for mercy, for the living and the dead alike, for Bran and Rickon and Robb, for her sister Arya and her bastard brother Jon Snow, away off on the Wall.
[ACOK; Sansa V]
> for more and sources:
Hymn
B8) Sansa VII
§ Jon-Ygritte meeting // Sandor-Sansa last scene
Jon meets with Ygritte in ACOK; Jon VI (Also check: B5)
Sansa sees Sandor for the last time in ACOK; Sansa VII
Jon has grey eyes // Sandor has grey eyes
Ygritte has red hair // Sansa has red hair
Jon // Sandor puts a knife to her throat
Ygritte tells him a song // Sansa sings for him
His hand froze. “A girl.”
“A watcher,” said Stonesnake. “A wildling. Finish her.”
Jon could see fear and fire in her eyes. Blood ran down her white throat from where the point of his dirk had pricked her. One thrust and it’s done, he told himself.
[ACOK; Jon VI]
She had forgotten the other verses. When her voice trailed off, she feared he might kill her, but after a moment the Hound took the blade from her throat, never speaking.
[ACOK; Sansa VII]
She smiled again, a flash of white teeth. “And she never sung you the song o’ the winter rose?”
“I never knew my mother. Or any such song.”
“Bael the Bard made it,” said Ygritte. “He was King-beyond-the-Wall a long time back. All the free folk know his songs, but might be you don’t sing them in the south.”
[ACOK; Jon VI]
“I’ll have that song. Florian and Jonquil, you said.” His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.”
Her throat was dry and tight with fear, and every song she had ever known had fled from her mind. [...] It was not the song of Florian and Jonquil, but it was a song. Her voice sounded small and thin and tremulous in her ears.
Gentle Mother, font of mercy, [...]
[ACOK; Sansa VII]
§ Jon-Ygritte last scene // Sandor-Sansa last scene
Sansa-Sandor last scene ACOK; Sansa VII
// Jon-Ygritte last scene ASOS; Jon VII
Ygritte cups Jon’s cheek // Sansa cups Sandor’s cheek
Ygritte // Sandor says her/his catchphrase:
You know nothing, Jon Snow // Littlebird
one last time and dies // leaves.
“We’ll go back to the cave,” he said. “You’re not going to die, Ygritte. You’re not.”
“Oh.” Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” she sighed, dying.
[ASOS; Jon VII]
Some instinct made her lift her hand and cup his cheek with her fingers. The room was too dark for her to see him, but she could feel the stickiness of the blood, and a wetness that was not blood. “Little bird,” he said once more, his voice raw and harsh as steel on stone. Then he rose from the bed. Sansa heard cloth ripping, followed by the softer sound of retreating footsteps.
[ACOK; Sansa VII]
§ Snow white cloak tainted with fire and blood
Sansa finds Sandor’s SNOW white Kingsguard cloak (Cloak = Jon: check B6) tainted with BLOOD and FIRE aka Targaryen motto and Jon is a TARGARYEN
When she crawled out of bed, long moments later, she was alone. She found his cloak on the floor, twisted up tight, the white wool stained by blood and fire. The sky outside was darker by then, with only a few pale green ghosts dancing against the stars. A chill wind was blowing, banging the shutters. Sansa was cold. She shook out the torn cloak and huddled beneath it on the floor, shivering.
[ACOK; Sansa VII]
> for more and sources:
Sandor-Sansa//Jon-Ygritte
Sandor-Sansa//Jon-Ygritte
Sandor-Sansa//Jon-Ygritte
Kiss with a blade
Targaryen imagery
Targaryen imagery
**
C) A STORM OF SWORDS
C1) Sansa I & Jon I
These two chapters follow each other (Sansa -> Jon)
§ Sansa I // Jon I
Meeting with QUEEN // KING
Sansa knelt at the feet of her future queen. “You do me great honor, Your Grace.” “Won’t you call me Margaery? Please, rise. Loras, help the Lady Sansa to her feet. Might I call you Sansa?”
[Sansa I, ASoS]
“I would be pleased to eat, Your Grace. And thank you.”
“Your Grace?” The king smiled. “That’s not a style one often hears from the lips of the free folk. I’m Mance to most, The Mance to some. Will you take a horn of mead?”
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
Beyond the spiked moat, two dozen men were taking their practice with sword and shield. With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.[…] A fire was crackling in the hearth, and sweet-swelling rushes had been scattered on the floor. Around the long trestle table a dozen women were seated.
[Sansa I, ASoS]
Elsewhere two bearded youths in boiled leather were sparring with staffs, leaping at each other over the flames, grunting each time one landed a blow. A dozen women sat nearby in a circle, fletching arrows.
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
Pale, elegant Lady Graceford was with child, and Lady Bulwer was a child, no more than eight.
[Sansa I, ASoS]
A pregnant woman stood over a brazier cooking a brace of hens[…]
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
“Sansa,” Lady Alerie broke in, “you must be very hungry. Shall we have a bite of boar together, and some lemon cakes?”
“Lemon cakes are my favorite,” Sansa admitted.
[Sansa I, ASoS]
“Sit, if you like,” Rayder said when they were gone. “Are you hungry? Tormund left us two birds at least.”
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
“He will,” Sansa lied. “He is very… very comely.”
[Sansa I, ASoS]
Jon had his lie all ready. “The Lord Commander sent me to the Halfhand for seasoning, so he took me on his ranging.”
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
You must not offend them, be careful what you say.
[Sansa I, ASoS]
Weigh every word before you speak it, he told himself.
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
The old woman called to Butterbumps. “Fool! Give us a song. A long one, I should think. ‘The Bear and the Maiden Fair’ will do nicely.” […]
“As my lady commands.” Butterbumps bowed low, let loose of an enormous belch, then straightened, threw out his belly, and bellowed. “A bear there was, a bear, a BEAR! All black and brown, and covered with hair… ”
[Sansa I, ASoS]
[…] a grey-haired man in a tattered cloak of black and red sat crosslegged on a pillow, playing a lute and singing […]
The Dornishman’s wife was as fair as the sun,
and her kisses were warmer than spring.” [...]
[Jon I, ASoS]
*
Sansa realized that her mouth was open again. She filled it with a spoon of broth […]
[Sansa I, ASoS]
He took a long draught of mead to buy time for his answer.
[Jon I, ASoS]
§ Bael didn’t steal Jon’s sister
Jon and Mance talk about Bael the Bard but Mance jokes about that he didn’t steal Jon’s sister
(More about Bael the Bard and WF’s Rose check: B5)
“Bael the Bard,” said Jon, remembering the tale that Ygritte had told him in the Frostfangs, the night he’d almost killed her. “Would that I were. I will not deny that Bael’s exploit inspired mine own . . . but I did not steal either of your sisters that I recall. Bael wrote his own songs, and lived them. I only sing the songs that better men have made. More mead?”
[ASOS; Jon I]
§ The gallant men in Sansa’s chapter and Jon
Loras looks like Jon and he gave Sansa a red rose (A8)
Garlan and Jon parallels:
Is training as a lone knight against three foes
He knocks one senseless
Tries to be prepared for battle
Is better with a sword while his brother is better with a lance
On the edge of the yard, a lone knight with a pair of golden roses on his shield was holding off three foes. Even as they watched, he caught one of them alongside the head, knocking him senseless. “Is that your brother?” Sansa asked.
“It is, my lady,” said Ser Loras. “Garlan often trains against three men, or even four. In battle it is seldom one against one, he says, so he likes to be prepared.”
“He must be very brave.”
“He is a great knight,” Ser Loras replied. “A better sword than me, in truth, though I’m the better lance.”
“I remember”
[ASOS; Sansa I]
Jon swelled with pride. “Robb is a stronger lance than I am, but I’m the better sword, and Hullen says I sit a horse as well as anyone in the castle.”
[AGOT; Jon V]
“When Iron Emmett spied him, he raised a hand and combat ceased. “Lord Commander. How may we serve you?”
“With your three best.”
Emmett grinned. “Arron. Emrick. Jace.” …“Which one do you want first?” asked Arron.
“All three of you. At once.”
“Three on one?” Jace was incredulous. “That wouldn’t be fair.” He was one of Conwy’s latest bunch, a cobbler’s son from Fair Isle. Maybe that explained it.
“True. Come here.”
When he did, Jon’s blade slammed him alongside his head, knocking him off his feet. In the blink of an eye the boy had a boot on his chest and a swordpoint at his throat. “War is never fair,” Jon told him. “It’s two on one now, and you’re dead.”
[ADWD; Jon VI]
§ Almost a Targaryen bride
Olenna says she was almost married with a Targaryen
Next chapter is Jon who is a Targaryen
Her grandmother snorted. “Gallant, yes, and charming, and very clean. He knew how to dress and he knew how to smile and he knew how to bathe, and somehow he got the notion that this made him fit to be king. The Baratheons have always had some queer notions, to be sure. It comes from their Targaryen blood, I should think.” She sniffed. “They tried to marry me to a Targaryen once, but I soon put an end to that.”
[ASOS; Sansa I]
§ All men are fools & Jonquil and Florian
Olenna says all men are fools and this reminds us directly the Florian the Fool and next chapter is Jon
Ser Florian, called Florian the Fool is a legendary hero of the Riverlands from the Age of Heroes.
He is known for falling in love with a maiden named Jonquil.
Songs about Florian and Jonquil are favorites of Sansa Stark.
No, don’t blush, with your hair it makes you look like a pomegranate. All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
[ASOS; Sansa I]
Jonquil: You are no knight, I know you. You are Florian the Fool.
Florian: I am, my lady, As great a fool as ever lived, and as great a knight as well.
Jonquil: A fool and a knight? I have never heard of such a thing.
Florian: Sweet lady, all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.
[The Hedge Knight]
Like Florian and Jonquil, Sansa’s mother comes from Riverlands too.
Florian calls Jonquil “sweet lady” and Sansa is called “sweet lady” in the books a lot.
Jon calls his mare “sweet lady” (A12)
And Ser Dontos calls himself Florian the Fool and says Sansa is his Jonquil.
"Florian," Sansa whispered. A shiver went through her.
"Sweet lady, I would be your Florian," Dontos said humbly, falling to his knees before her.
[ACOK; Sansa II]
Dontos covered his mouth to stifle a burp. "Gods preserve you, my little Jonquil."
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
Florian is a fool and a knight:
Jon is a man of Night’s Watch and they are called “black knights of the Wall” in the songs
Ygritte keeps telling him that “he knows nothing” aka a fool.
"Jon Snow, you know nothing. You don't go in with clothes."
[ASOS; Jon II]
"You know nothing, Jon Snow. It went on and on and on. There are hundreds o' caves in these hills, and down deep they all connect. There's even a way under your Wall. Gorne's Way."
[...]
"Aye, and wiser. You know nothing, Jon Snow." She pushed away from him, and shrugged out of her rabbitskin vest.
[ASOS; Jon III]
"Oh." Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. "You know nothing, Jon Snow," she sighed, dying.
[ASOS; Jon VII]
Sandor wanted Sansa to sing him the song of Florian the Fool and Jonquil in ACOK; Sansa VII but she didn’t sing that song to him.
For parallels between Sandor-Sansa (ACOK; Sansa VII) and Ygritte-Jon scenes, please check: B8
"I'll have that song. Florian and Jonquil, you said." His dagger was out, poised at her throat. "Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life."
[ACOK; Sansa VII]
§ Sansa/Willas
After Sansa and Willas betrothal comes a Jon chapter
Willas has a bad leg and Jon gets shot in his leg later in the book.
“Willas has a bad leg but a good heart,” said Margaery. “He used to read to me when I was a little girl, and draw me pictures of the stars. You will love him as much as we do, Sansa.”
[ASOS; Sansa I]
Noye crossed the room. “Your leg is drenched in blood.” Jon looked down dully. It was true. His wound had opened again. “An arrow wound…”
[ASOS; Jon VI]
> for more and sources:
Sansa I // Jon I
Garlan // Jon
About songs in these chapters
Jon is always close to Sansa's suitors
The men around Sansa and Jon: Disfigurements
C2) Jon II & Sansa II
These chapters follow each other (Jon -> Sansa)
§ Jon II // Sansa II
These two chapters are similar
Jon wears a cloak that Wildling King gave to him. So that he can make them believe that he is one of them aka his enemies
Cersei, a Lannister Queen, orders a new gown for Sansa.
But Sansa doesn’t know that this gown is for her wedding with Tyrion. So Sansa will become a Lannister aka her enemy.
Again Jon is close to mention of a new marriage for Sansa
Jon wheeled and followed Tormund back toward the head of the column, his new cloak hanging heavy from his shoulders. It was made of unwashed sheepskins, worn fleece side in, as the wildlings suggested.
[…]
“I wear the cloak you gave me, Your Grace.”
[ASOS; Jon II]
A new gown?” she said, as wary as she was astonished.
“More lovely than any you have worn, my lady,” the old woman promised. She measured Sansa’s hips with a length of knotted string. “All silk and Myrish lace, with satin linings. You will be very beautiful. The queen herself has commanded it.”
“Which queen?” Margaery was not yet Joff’s queen, but she had been Renly’s. Or did she mean the Queen of Thorns? Or…“The Queen Regent, to be sure.”
[ASOS; Sansa II]
Both in Sansa and Jon chapters, people sing and share bed
Jon tries to act like a Knight from the stories that probably Sansa would love
And there is a mention of Sansa’s (and Jon’s) favorite Knight: Aemon the DK and Queen Naerys in Sansa’s chapter.
Again Jon is before/after a mention of Aemon the DK.
Rangers often shared skins for warmth, but warmth was not all Ygritte wanted, he suspected. After that he had taken to using Ghost to keep her away. Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade between them for honor’s sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword.
[…]
“And they’ve built a great wall through my valleys, and fished all the fish from my rills,” Ygritte and Tormund sang back at him in turn, in suitably gigantic voices.
Tormund’s sons Toregg and Dormund added their deep voices as well, then his daughter Munda and all the rest. Others began to bang their spears on leathern shields to keep rough time, until the whole war band was singing as they rode.
[ASOS; Jon II]
The cousins took Sansa into their company as if they had known her all their lives. They spent long afternoons doing needlework and talking over lemon cakes and honeyed wine, played at tiles of an evening, sang together in the castle sept… and often one or two of them would be chosen to share Margaery’s bed, where they would whisper half the night away. Alla had a lovely voice, and when coaxed would play the woodharp and sing songs of chivalry and lost loves.
[...]
I shall have the finest knight in the Seven Kingdoms protecting me night and day, as Prince Aemon protected Naerys.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
§ They know nothing, just songs...
There were tears on Ygritte’s cheeks when the song ended. “Why are you weeping?” Jon asked. “It was only a song. There are hundreds of giants, I’ve just seen them.”
“Oh, hundreds,” she said furiously. “You know nothing, Jon Snow. You—JON!”
[ASOS; Jon II]
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her father’s head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
§ Remembering sister Arya
She reminded him a little of his sister Arya, though Arya was younger and probably skinnier. It was hard to tell how plump or thin Ygritte might be, with all the furs and skins she wore.
[ASOS; Jon II]
Sister. Sansa had once dreamt of having a sister like Margaery; beautiful and gentle, with all the world’s graces at her command. Arya had been entirely unsatisfactory as sisters went.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
§ The men didn’t touch redhead girls but girls say they did
Jon didn’t touch Ygritte but Ygritte lies that he did and Sansa believes that Sandor kissed her in ACOK; Sansa VII but he didn’t
(More about Jon-Ygritte// Sandor-Sansa scenes: B8)
Sansa remembers UNKISS after a Jon chapter.
Tormund shook his shaggy head. “What fools you kneelers be. Why did you steal the girl if you don’t want her?”
“Steal? I never …”
“You did,” said Tormund. “You slew the two she was with and carried her off, what do you call it?”
“I took her prisoner.”
“You made her yield to you.”
“Yes, but … Tormund, I swear, I’ve never touched her.”
[...]
“A sheepskin cloak!” said Ygritte. “And there’s many a night we dance beneath it, too!”
[…]
“Is that the way of it, Jon Snow?” asked Mance Rayder, mildly. “Her and you?” It was easy to lose your way beyond the Wall. Jon did not know that he could tell honor from shame anymore, or right from wrong. Father forgive me. “Yes,” he said.”
[…]
“I never asked you to lie for me.”
“I never did,” she said. “I left out part, is all.”
[ASOS; Jon II]
Megga couldn’t sing, but she was mad to be kissed. She and Alla played a kissing game sometimes, she confessed, but it wasn’t the same as kissing a man, much less a king. Sansa wondered what Megga would think about kissing the Hound, as she had. He’d come to her the night of the battle stinking of wine and blood. He kissed me and threatened to kill me, and made me sing him a song.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
§ Ygritte // Sansa
They are both “kissed by fire”
Jon had their father’s face, as she did. They were the only ones. Robb and Sansa and Bran and even little Rickon all took after the Tullys, with easy smiles and fire in their hair.
[AGOT; Arya I]
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.
[ASOS; Jon II]
Sometimes she sang in a low husky voice that stirred him. And sometimes by the cookfire when she sat hugging her knees with the flames waking echoes in her red hair, and looked at him, just smiling … well, that stirred some things as well.
[ASOS; Jon II]
I often sent away her maid so I could brush her hair myself. She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft … the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper.
[ACOK; Catelyn VII]
Ygritte cries because of a song which is something that Sansa would do...
“Why are you weeping?” Jon asked. “It was only a song. There are hundreds of giants, I’ve just seen them.”
“Oh, hundreds,” she said furiously. “You know nothing, Jon Snow. You—JON!”
[ASOS; Jon II]
Jon loves Ygritte’s red hair and singing...
Sansa –a redhead- is known with her singing
Sometimes she sang in a low husky voice that stirred him. And sometimes by the cookfire when she sat hugging her knees with the flames waking echoes in her red hair, and looked at him, just smiling … well, that stirred some things as well.
[ASOS; Jon II]
It wasn’t fair. Sansa had everything. Sansa was two years older; maybe by the time Arya had been born, there had been nothing left. Often it felt that way. Sansa could sew and dance and sing. She wrote poetry. She knew how to dress. She played the high harp and the bells. Worse, she was beautiful. Sansa had gotten their mother’s fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys.
[AGOT; Arya I]
§ Jon should find a she-bear for himself
Tormund suggests Jon to find himself a she-bear
In Sansa VII, Sansa is a bear-cub (comes after Jon XII)
“Well, you are a free man now, but if you will not have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear.”
[ASOS; Jon II]
“I wish you could see yourself, my lady. You are so beautiful. You’re crusted over with snow like some little bear cub, but your face is flushed and you can scarcely breathe.
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
§ Kissed by fire little girl
Jon fears that he might get Ygritte with a child and Tormund says he might have a girl with “kissed by fire” hair.
Sansa is kissed by fire... She can have a girl with kissed by fire hair
“You are a free man now, and Ygritte is a free woman. What dishonor if you lay together?”
“I might get her with child.”
“Aye, I’d hope so. A strong son or a lively laughing girl kissed by fire, and where’s the harm in that?”
[ASOS; Jon II]
Sansa dreams of children which she could name them after her father and siblings in her chapter.
She even dreams of a girl who looks like Arya. And Arya looks like Jon...
Jon can give her a daughter looks like Arya.
Jon had their father’s face, as she did. They were the only ones.
[AGOT; Arya I]
She pictured the two of them sitting together in a garden with puppies in their laps, or listening to a singer strum upon a lute while they floated down the Mander on a pleasure barge. If I give him sons, he may come to love me. She would name them Eddard and Brandon and Rickon, and raise them all to be as valiant as Ser Loras. And to hate Lannisters, too. In Sansa’s dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
But Sansa can’t keep herself from dreaming Loras instead of Willas. And Loras looks like Jon (Check: A8)
She could never hold a picture of Willas long in her head, though; her imaginings kept turning him back into Ser Loras, young and graceful and beautiful.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
Sansa’s dream sounds like Jon’s deepest desire that he tells us in ASOS; Jon XII (next chapter is: Sansa VII)
Being a Lord/Lady of Winterfell/Highgarden
Having sons that they can name after their brothers.
I would need to steal her if I wanted her love, but she might give me children. I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb. Val would want to keep her sister’s son, but we could foster him at Winterfell, and Gilly’s boy as well. Sam would never need to tell his lie. We’d find a place for Gilly too, and Sam could come visit her once a year or so. Mance’s son and Craster’s would grow up brothers, as I once did with Robb.
He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
§ Jonnel-One Eye-Stark & Sansa Stark
There is a Jonnel Stark and Sansa Stark marriage in House Stark family tree.
JONnel was Sansa’s “half” uncle.
(And people believe that Jon is Sansa's half brother)
Jonnel’s mother’s name was Lynara which really sounds like Lyanna (which is Jon’s mother name)
First Sansa’s father Rickon died in South like Ned Stark
Jonnel was called “ONE EYE” and in this ASOS; Jon II chapter Jon almost loses his one eye and become Jon-One Eye-Snow.
And let’s not forget that next chapter is SANSA STARK
So Jon-Almost One Eye-Snow and Sansa Stark are next to each other.
Ygritte said, “Orell tried to take his eye out.”
“It was him I asked. Has he lost his tongue? Perhaps he should, to spare us further lies.”
Styr the Magnar drew a long knife. “The boy might see more clear with one eye, instead of two.”
“Would you like to keep your eye, Jon?” asked the King-beyond-the-Wall. “If so, tell me how many they were. And try and speak the truth this time, Bastard of Winterfell.”
[ASOS; Jon II]
> for more and sources:
Jon II // Sansa II
Jonnel/Sansa
C3) Tyrion III
§ North = Stone + Snow
North is described as Stone and Snow and Jon is a SNOW and later Sansa becomes a STONE (Alayne Stone)
“Lord Redwyne laughed. “What is there north of the Neck that any sane man would want? If Greyjoy will trade swords and sails for stone and snow, I say do it, and count ourselves lucky.”
[ASOS; Tyrion III]
C4) Jon III & Sansa III
§ Jon-Ygritte // Tyrion-Sansa
Jon beds Ygritte and it kind of means they are married in Wildlings’ sense.
Because they believe in stealing + bedding = marriage philosphy.
Meanwhile Sansa really marries Tyrion
Two hearts that beat as one. Mance Rayder’s mocking words rang bitter in his head.
[ASOS; Jon III]
The septon raised his crystal high, so the rainbow light fell down upon them. “Here in the sight of gods and men,” he said, “I do solemnly proclaim Tyrion of House Lannister and Sansa of House Stark to be man and wife, one flesh, one heart, one soul, now and forever, and cursed be the one who comes between them.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
Jon has sex with Ygritte because he needs to prove that he is loyal.
But he feels guilty because he takes pleasure.
So he stole her and bed her. They are basically married.
He didn’t want to but he was forced to.
Sansa had to do it because she is surrounded by the enemy.
And Tyrion believes he has to consummate the marriage because his father commanded him.
He desires Sansa even though she is a child and he feels a slight shame because of it.
But unlike Jon’s situation, Tyrion doesn’t bed Sansa.
I have no choice, he’d told himself the first time, when she slipped beneath his sleeping skins. If I refuse her, she will know me for a turncloak. I am playing the part the Halfhand told me to play.
His body had played the part eagerly enough.
[…]
“I know I want you,” he heard himself say, all his vows and all his honor forgotten.
[ASOS; Jon III]
“You’re a child,” he said.
She covered her breasts with her hands. “I’ve flowered.”
“A child,” he repeated, “but I want you. Does that frighten you, Sansa?”
“Yes.”
[…]
“On my honor as a Lannister,” the Imp said, “I will not touch you until you want me to.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
§ Ygritte// Sansa
There are some parallels between Ygritte and Sansa in these chapters
Having bath in pool/tub with cold/hot water
Their beauty, smell, red hair, smiles, legs, breasts...
Ygritte stumbled into the pool and screeched at the cold of the water.
[ASOS; Jon III]
On the morning her new gown was to be ready, the serving girls filled Sansa’s tub with steaming hot water and scrubbed her head to toe until she glowed pink.
[ASOS; Sansa III]
He had never seen how beautiful she was. Her legs were skinny but well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. Does that make it even luckier? He pulled her close. “I love the smell of you,” he said. “I love your red hair. I love your mouth, and the way you kiss me. I love your smile. I love your teats.” He kissed them, one and then the other. “I love your skinny legs, and what’s between them.”
[ASOS; Jon III]
Cersei’s own bedmaid trimmed her nails and brushed and curled her auburn hair so it fell down her back in soft ringlets.
[…]
Sansa chose a sharp sweet fragrance with a hint of lemon in it under the smell of flowers. The maid dabbed some on her finger and touched Sansa behind each ear, and under her chin, and then lightly on her nipples.
[…]
“You are very beautiful, my lady,” the seamstress said when she was dressed.“I am, aren’t I?” Sansa giggled, and spun, her skirts swirling around her.
[…]
When he hopped up on the bed and put his hand on her breast, Sansa could not help but shudder. She lay with her eyes closed, every muscle tense, dreading what might come next. Would he touch her again? Kiss her? Should she open her legs for him now? She did not know what was expected of her.
[ASOS; Sansa III]
§ Maids
Both Jon and Sansa were maids
“There’s been no one,” he confessed. “Only you.”
“A maid,” she teased. “You were a maid.”
[ASOS; Jon III]
“You’re a child,” he said.She covered her breasts with her hands. “I’ve flowered.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
§ Bed your sister
Ygritte asks some interesting questions... while someone was about to bed Jon’s sister.
She punched him. “That’s vile. Would you bed your sister?”
[ASOS; Jon III]
§ Sansa’s dream wedding
Sansa’s dream wedding sounds like the wedding that Jon arranges for Alys Karstark in ADWD; Jon X
She had dreamed of her wedding a thousand times, and always she had pictured how her betrothed would stand behind her tall and strong, sweep the cloak of his protection over her shoulders, and tenderly kiss her cheek as he leaned forward to fasten the clasp.
[ASOS; Sansa III]
The Magnar all but ripped the maiden’s cloak from Alys’s shoulders, but when he fastened her bride’s cloak about her he was almost tender. As he leaned down to kiss her cheek, their breath mingled.
[ADWD, Jon X]
§ Targaryen imagery
In his wedding with Sansa, Tyrion looks like a Targaryen
And not some random Targaryen but Rhaegar Targaryen and Rhaegar is Jon’s father.
Black,
Three headed dragons/lions,
Rubies
Tyrion wore a doublet of black velvet covered with golden scrollwork, thigh-high boots that added three inches to his height, a chain of rubies and lions’ heads. But the gash across his face was raw and red, and his nose was a hideous scab. “You are very beautiful, Sansa,” he told her.
[ASOS; Sansa III]
They had come together at the ford of the Trident while the battle crashed around them, Robert with his warhammer and his great antlered helm, the Targaryen prince armored all in black. On his breastplate was the three-headed dragon of his House,wrought all in rubies that flashed like fire in the sunlight.
[AGOT; Eddard I]
Yet when the jousting began, the day belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen. The crown prince wore the armor he would die in: gleaming black plate with the three-headed dragon of his House wrought in rubies on the breast. A plume of scarlet silk streamed behind him when he rode, and it seemed no lance could touch him. Brandon fell to him, and Bronze Yohn Royce, and even the splendid Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning.
[AGOT; Eddard XV]
The day had been windy when he said farewell to Rhaegar, in the yard of the Red Keep. The prince had donned his night-black armor, with the three-headed dragon picked out in rubies on his breastplate. “Your Grace,” Jaime had pleaded, “let Darry stay to guard the king this once, or Ser Barristan. Their cloaks are as white as mine.”
[AFFC; Jaime I]
§ I didn’t steal you... I’m no thief
Ygritte says that Jon stole her like Bael the Bard and talks about the star called Thief
But Jon says he didn’t steal her.
In TWOW; Alayne I, Ser Roland also calls Sansa a thief for stealing his heart
But she says she is no thief.
Ygritte is a girl with Tully look with her red hair and blue-grey eyes
And Ser Roland has Stark look with his brown hair and long face
Sansa even says he is horse faced and Arya is called Horsaface too and she looks like Jon.
Arya took after their lord father. Her hair was a lusterless brown, and her face was long and solemn. Jeyne used to call her Arya Horseface, and neigh whenever she came near.
[...]
Jon had their father’s face, as she did. They were the only ones. Robb and Sansa and Bran and even little Rickon all took after the Tullys, with easy smiles and fire in their hair.
[AGOT; Arya I]
Ser Roland was the oldest of the three, though no more than five-and-twenty. He was taller and more muscular than Ser Wallace, but both were long-faced and lantern-jawed, with stringy brown hair and pinched noses. Horsefaced and homely, Alayne thought.
[TWOW; Alayne I]
“Like the night you stole me. The thief was bright that night.”Jon sat up. “Ygritte, I never stole you.”
[ASOS, Jon III]
“You wrong me, ser. I am no thief!” Ser Roland placed his hand over his heart. “Then how do you explain this hole in my chest, from where you stole my heart?”
[TWOW, Alayne I]
> for more and sources:
Stealing, Thief
Sansa's dream wedding
Tyrion//Rhaegar
C5) Jon V
§ Jon feels alone and so does Sansa
These passages are very similar
Jon/Sansa feels alone,
mentions of dreams,
Ghost/ Lady
Castle Black/ Winterfell
Running in Woods/ Godswood
Ygritte/ Tyrion
Dying alone
Wolfpack/Family
Jon wondered where Ghost was now. Had he gone to Castle Black, or was he was running with some wolfpack in the woods? He had no sense of the direwolf, not even in his dreams. It made him feel as if part of himself had been cut off. Even with Ygritte sleeping beside him, he felt alone. He did not want to die alone.
[ASOS; Jon V]
That was such a sweet dream, Sansa thought drowsily. She had been back in Winterfell, running through the godswood with her Lady. Her father had been there, and her brothers, all of them warm and safe. If only dreaming could make it so...
She threw back the coverlets. I must be brave. Her torments would soon be ended, one way or the other. If Lady was here, I would not be afraid. Lady was dead, though; Robb, Bran, Rickon, Arya, her father, her mother, even Septa Mordane. All of them are dead but me. She was alone in the world now.
Her lord husband was not beside her, but she was used to that. Tyrion was a bad sleeper and often rose before the dawn.
[ASOS; Sansa IV]
§ Ygritte // Sansa
Ygritte is a northern girl with Tully hair and she says she is a “half fish”
Sansa is a half Tully aka fish, redhead and northern
Ygritte punched his arm. “You know nothing, Jon Snow. I’m half a fish, I’ll have you know.”
[ASOS; Jon V]
§ Snowgate to Queensgate
Jon is talking about Good Queen Alysanne Targaryen and her visit to Wall.
They changed the SNOWgate’s name to QUEENSgate after her visit.
“Alysanne, the wife of King Jaehaerys the Conciliator. He’s called the Old King because he reigned so long, but he was young when he first came to the Iron Throne. In those days, it was his wont to travel all over the realm. When he came to Winterfell, he brought his queen, six dragons, and half his court. The king had matters to discuss with his Warden of the North, and Alysanne grew bored, so she mounted her dragon Silverwing and flew north to see the Wall. This village was one of the places where she stopped. Afterward the smallfolk painted the top of their holdfast to look like the golden crown she’d worn when she spent the night among them.”
“I have never seen a dragon.”
“No one has. The last dragons died a hundred years ago or more. But this was before that.”
“Queen Alysanne, you say?”
“Good Queen Alysanne, they called her later. One of the castles on the Wall was named for her as well. Queensgate. Before her visit they called it Snowgate.”
[ASOS; Jon V]
§ Alysanne and Jaehaerys // Sansa and Jon
Jon and Sansa have some parallels with this historical royal couple.
Jon // Jaehaerys:
Tenuous claim to the Iron Throne
Male guardian (Rogar Baratheon/ Eddard Stark)
Wielding a sword of Valyrian steel
Mother died during childbirth
Conciliator
Sansa // Alysanne:
Appearance:
Alysanne:
Tall and straight, unbowed by time, she had high cheekbones, clear blue eyes.
[…]
Alysanne was slim of waist and small of breast, with a long neck, a fair complexion , a high forehead.
[So Spake Martin, June 2006 ]
Sansa:
“And at Winterfell, Sansa was a little girl with auburn hair. My daughter is a maiden tall and fair , and her hair is chestnut. Men see what they expect to see, Alayne.“
[AFFC; Alayne I]
Sansa had gotten their mother's fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys.
[AGOT; Arya I]
“You have your mother’s eyes. Honest eyes, and innocent. Blue as a sunlit sea. When you are a little older, many a man will drown in those eyes.
[AFFC; Sansa I]
Personality, education, charm, intellengence
Alysanne:
His queen, Alysanne, was also well loved throughout the realm , being both beautiful and high-spirited, as well as charming and keenly intelligent...
[...]
Some said that she ruled the realm as much as the king did, and there was some truth to that. It was at her behest that King Jaehaerys at last forbade the right of the First Night, despite the many lords who jealously guarded it.
[TWOIAF, The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys I]
No man ever questioned her wits. Later, it would be said of her that she learned to read before she was weaned, and the court fool would make japes about little Alysanne dribbling mother’s milk on Valyrian scrolls as she tried to read whilst suckling at her wet nurse’s teat. Had she been a boy she would surely have been sent to the Citadel to forge a maester’s chain, Septon Barth would say of her…for that wise man esteemed her even more than her husband, whom he served for so long. That was far in the future, however; in 49 AC, Alysanne was but a girl of thirteen years, yet all the chronicles agree that she made a powerful impression on those who met her.
[...]
It is written that the young king and queen were seldom apart during that time, sharing every meal, talking late into the night of the green days of their childhood and the challenges ahead, fishing and hawking together, mingling with the island’s smallfolk in dockside inns, reading to one another from dusty leatherbound tomes they found in the castle library, taking lessons together from Dragonstone’s maesters (“for we still have much to learn,” Alysanne is said to have reminded her husband).
[...]
“If I had not become queen, I might have liked to be a maester,” she told the Conclave. “I read, I write, I think, I am not afraid of ravens…or a bit of blood. There are other highborn girls who feel the same. Why not admit them to your Citadel? If they cannot keep up, send them home, the way you send home boys who are not clever enough. If you would give the girls a chance, you might be surprised by how many forge a chain.”
[...]
For three days she lost herself in the Citadel’s great library, emerging only to attend lectures on the Valyrian dragon wars, leechcraft, and the gods of the Summer Isles.
[...]
Once the initial frost had thawed, his lordship took the queen hunting after elk and wild boar in the wolfswood, showed her the bones of a giant, and allowed her to rummage as she pleased through his modest castle library.
[Fire & Blood]
Sansa:
"The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.” “I will remember, Your Grace,” said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I’ll make them love me.
[ACOK; Sansa VI]
Tyrion led Sansa around the yard, to perform the necessary courtesies. She is good at this, he thought, as he watched her tell Lord Gyles that his cough was sounding better, compliment Elinor Tyrell on her gown, and question Jalabhar Xho about wedding customs in the Summer Isles. [...] Yet when Sansa praised his valor and said how good it was to see him getting strong again, both Lancel and Ser Kevan beamed. She would have made Joffrey a good queen and a better wife if he’d had the sense to love her.
[ASOS; Tyrion VIII]
“At the Hand’s tourney, don’t you remember? You rode a white courser, and your armor was a hundred different kinds of flowers. You gave me a rose. A red rose. You threw white roses to the other girls that day.” It made her flush to speak of it. “You said no victory was half as beautiful as me." Ser Loras gave her a modest smile. "I spoke only a simple truth, that any man with eyes could see."
[ASOS; Sansa I]
The queen took Sansa’s hand in both of hers. "Child, do you know your letters?” Sansa nodded nervously. She could read and write better than any of her brothers , although she was hopeless at sums.
[AGOT; Sansa IV]
Sansa could sew and dance and sing. She wrote poetry. She knew how to dress. She played the high harp and the bells.
[AGOT; Arya I]
“… I signed myself, as Lord Protector. Why?” “So … if you are removed, or … or killed …"
”… Lord Nestor’s claim to the Gates will suddenly be called into question. I promise you, that is not lost on him. It was clever of you to see it. Though no more than I’d expect of mine own daughter."
[AFFC; Sansa I]
It was clever. The tourney, the prizes, the winged knights, it had all been her own notion . […] And no sooner did she tell Petyr her idea than he went out and made it happen.
[TWOW; Alayne I]
Different than her sister
Alysanne:
Alysanne was a bright but unremarkable girl; small but never sickly, courteous, biddable, with a sweet smile and a pleasing voice. To the relief of her parents, she displayed none of the timidity that had afflicted her elder sister, Rhaena, as a small child. Neither did she exhibit the willful and stubborn temperament of Rhaena’s daughter Aerea.
[Fire & Blood]
Sansa:
“Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. Men would say she had my look, but she will grow into a woman far more beautiful than I ever was, you can see that. I often sent away her maid so I could brush her hair myself. She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft … the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper."
And Arya, well … Ned’s visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart’s desire.
[ACOK; Catelyn VII]
Wedded but not bedded
Alysanne:
The princess was three-and-ten years of age, and had recently celebrated her first flowering, so it was thought desirable to see her wed as soon as possible. (…) A modest feast followed the ceremony, and many toasts were drunk to the health of the boy king and his new queen. Afterward Jaehaerys and Alysanne retired to the bedchamber where Aegon the Conqueror had once slept beside his sister Rhaenys, but in view of the bride’s youth there was no bedding ceremony, and the marriage was not consummated.
[Fire & Blood]
Sansa:
“How old are you, Sansa?” asked Tyrion, after a moment.
“Thirteen,” she said, “when the moon turns.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
“She is old enough to be Lady of Winterfell once her brother is dead. Claim her maidenhood and you will be one step closer to claiming the north. Get her with child, and the prize is all but won. Do I need to remind you that a marriage that has not been consummated can be set aside?”
[ASOS; Tyrion IV]
Sight of the Wall
Alysanne:
Her first sight of the Wall from above took Alysanne’s breath away, Her Grace would later tell the king.
[Fire & Blood]
Sansa:
So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. He found himself thinking of his sisters, perhaps because he’d dreamed of them last night. Sansa would call this an enchantment, and tears would fill her eyes at the wonder of it, but Arya would run out laughing and shouting, wanting to touch it all.
[ACOK; Jon III]
[There are “too many” Sansa and Alysanne parallels. Please check the sources for more...]
Bonus:
In one of the earlier drafts of the Targaryen family tree, dating circa 1998, Alysanne was displayed as the daughter of King Maegor I Targaryen. Not much later, however, George R. R. Martin changed the family tree and Alysanne became the daughter of King Aenys I Targaryen, Maegor's older brother, instead. As a result of this change, Alysanne's husband, Jaehaerys I Targaryen, became her brother instead of her cousin.
[Westeros.org]
> for more and sources:
Alysanne//Sansa
Jaehaerys//Jon
Cousin to brother
The change in Targaryen family tree
C6) Catelyn V
§ Stark and Snow as the heir of Winterfell
This chapter is all about succession issues. They even talk about the succession issue with the Greyjoys etc.
And Robb says that he wants Jon to be his heir over Sansa
“Young, and a king,” he said. “A king must have an heir. If I should die in my next battle, the kingdom must not die with me. By law Sansa is next in line of succession, so Winterfell and the north would pass to her.” His mouth tightened. “To her, and her lord husband. Tyrion Lannister. I cannot allow that. I will not allow that. That dwarf must never have the north.”
[…]
“Mother.” There was a sharpness in Robb’s tone. “You forget. My father had four sons.”
She had not forgotten; she had not wanted to look at it, yet there it was. “A Snow is not a Stark.”
“Jon’s more a Stark than some lordlings from the Vale who have never so much as set eyes on Winterfell.”
[…]
He is set on this. Catelyn knew how stubborn her son could be. “A bastard cannot inherit.”
“Not unless he’s legitimized by a royal decree,” said Robb. “There is more precedent for that than for releasing a Sworn Brother from his oath.”
[…]
Arya’s gone, the same as Bran and Rickon, and they’ll kill Sansa too once the dwarf gets a child from her. Jon is the only brother that remains to me. Should I die without issue, I want him to succeed me as King in the North. I had hoped you would support my choice.”
[ASOS; Catelyn V]
Robb wants to put Jon in front of Sansa in the succession. He needs to legitimize him for his.
But the problem is that Robb believes that Jon is Ned Stark’s son. But in truth Jon is Rhaegar’s son. So Robb’s legitimization is based on false parentage.
The problem with Sansa is that she is married to a Lannister. But lucky for her that the marriage was not consummated therefore can be annulled. So Sansa can still has her claim on WF.
Divorce doesn't exist in the Faith of the Seven, but Sansa's marriage to Tyrion can be annulled upon request - it was obviously forced against her will, and Tyrion never consummated it.
[gameofthrones.fandom]
So Sansa is a Stark but Jon is still not and Robb’s will can’t give him the Stark namebecause it was based on false parentage.
How can Jon take the Stark name? His mother is already a Stark (Lyanna Stark) and he can also marry into Stark family. (?) For example: Sansa Stark.
Sansa is from a noble ruling House. Without Bran and Rickon she is the heir to the Northern Throne.
She can continue the Stark line. So maybe (?) she can make her husband a STARK (There was Joffrey Lydden in history who took his wife's name and became a Lannister and the King of the Rock)
At least she can make him Lord of WF and his children would be Starks (Examples: Maege Mormont, Anya Waynwood)
§ Jenny of Oldstones and Prince of Dragonflies
Interestingly this chapter (about succession) starts with Jenny of Oldstones and Prince of Dragonflies.
What is their story?
The Prince of Dragonflies was a Targaryen prince who gave up the throne to be with his love, a girl called Jenny of Oldstones:
Aegon’s eldest son Duncan, Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the throne, was the first to defy him. Though betrothed to a daughter of House Baratheon of Storm’s End, Duncan became enamored of a strange, lovely, and mysterious girl who called herself Jenny of Oldstones in 239 AC, whilst traveling in the riverlands. Though she dwelt half-wild amidst ruins and claimed descent from the long- vanished kings of the First Men, the smallfolk of surrounding villages mocked such tales, insisting that she was only some half-mad peasant girl, and perhaps even a witch.
[...]
His Grace did all he could to have the marriage undone, demanding that Duncan put Jenny aside. The prince shared his father’s stubbornness, however, and refused him. Even when the High Septon, Grand Maester, and small council joined together to insist King Aegon force his son to choose between the Iron Throne and this wild woman of the woods, Duncan would not budge. Rather than give up Jenny, he foreswore his claim to the crown in favor of his brother Jaehaerys, and abdicated as Prince of Dragonstone.
[...]
Jenny of Oldstones—Lady Jenny, as she was called by courtesy—was eventually accepted at court, and throughout the Seven Kingdoms the smallfolk held her especially dear. She and her prince, forever after known as the Prince of Dragonflies, were a favorite subject of singers for many years. Jenny of Oldstones was accompanied to court by a dwarfish, albino woman who was reputed to be a woods witch in the riverlands. Lady Jenny herself claimed, in her ignorance, that she was a child of the forest.
[TWOIAF; The Targaryen Kings: Aegon V]
Catelyn remembers playing to be Jenny of Oldstones, with the flowers in her hair, and Petyr “pretending” to be her Prince of Dragonflies:
“Oldstones, all the smallfolk called it when I was a girl, but no doubt it had some other name when it was still a hall of kings.” She had camped here once with her father, on their way to Seagard. Petyr was with us too . . .
“There’s a song,” he remembered.
“‘Jenny of Oldstones, with the flowers in her hair.’”
“We’re all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.” She had played at being Jenny that day, had even wound flowers in her hair. And Petyr had pretended to be her Prince of Dragonflies.
[ASOS; Catelyn V]
This reminds us the first encounter between Sansa and Lord Baelish in AGOT:
When Sansa finally looked up, a man was standing over her, staring. He was short, with a pointed beard and a silver streak in his hair, almost as old as her father.
“You must be one of her daughters,” he said to her. He had grey-green eyes that did not smile when his mouth did.
“You have the Tully look.”
“I’m Sansa Stark,” she said, ill at ease. The man wore a heavy cloak with a fur collar, fastened with a silver mockingbird, and he had the effortless manner of a high lord, but she did not know him. “ I have not had the honor, my lord."
Septa Mordane quickly took a hand. "Sweet child, this is Lord Petyr Baelish, of the king’s small council.”
“Your mother was my queen of beauty once,” the man said quietly. His breath smelled of mint. “You have her hair.” His fingers brushed against her cheek as he stroked one auburn lock. Quite abruptly he turned and walked away.
[AGOT; Sansa II]
The second connection in the books between Sansa and the story of Jenny of Oldstones is the dwarfish, albino woman who accompanied Jenny to court, that we knew in ASOS; as the Ghost of High Heart
And most of the dreams of the Ghost of High Heart are about Sansa and her family. She dreamt about the Purple Wedding and Sansa killing some savage giant in a castle built of snow:
“...I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.”
[ASOS; Arya VIII]
All connections with Sansa:
Jenny is a girl from Oldstones in the Riverlands. The Riverlands are ruled from Riverrun by House Tully, the Lords Paramount of the Trident. Here’s a connection with Sansa’s mother Catelyn Tully, daugther of the Lord of Riverrun.
Jenny claimed to be descent from the long- vanished kings of the First Men. Here’s a connection with House Stark. They are descendants of the First Men and still follow some of their ancient traditions and the old gods of the forest.
Jenny claimed that her friend, a dwarfish, albino woman, the Ghost of High Heart, was a child of the forest. Here’s another connection with House Stark. They worship the old gods of the children of the forest.
Sansa’s mother Catelyn Tully was fond of the love story of Jenny of Oldstones and her Prince of Dragonflies.
Petyr Baelish was in love with Catelyn Tully and he pretended to be her Prince of Dragonflies. Then he developed a sickly obsession with Sansa, a new and upgraded version of Catelyn.
Most of the dreams of Jenny’s friend, the Ghost of High Heart, are about Sansa and her family.
Jenny might (?) have been a redhead.
In the books people are after Sansa for her claim on WF
...It is not me she wants her son to marry, it is my claim. No one will ever marry me for love. But lying came easy to her now.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
In the same book Stannis offers WF to Jon but Jon refuses and unlike many others he respects Sansa’s claim. So he kind of chooses Sansa over WF.
Also remember: this chapter was about the succession of North and it started with Jenny & Duncan.
Six pups they’d found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.
He had his answer then.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
“By right Winterfell should go to my sister Sansa.”
[ADWD; Jon I]
All Jon connections:
Duncan was a Targaryen prince who gave up the throne to be with his love, Jenny of Oldstones. Jon gave up the one thing he has always wanted: Being the Lord of Winterfell, his father’s heir, a Stark; and he did it for love. He refused to despoil Sansa of her rights, even if her claim is the one thing he has wanted as much as he had ever wanted anything.
Duncan was named after his father’s best friend, Ser Duncan The Tall. Jon was named after Jon Arryn, the beloved friend of Eddard Stark. And even Rhaegar had a friend named Jon (Jon Connigton)
Jon is the son of a Targaryen Prince: Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. And the great nephew of the Prince of Dragonflies.
Also, there are the parallels between Duncan Targaryen, his betrothed Baratheon and Jenny of Oldstones & Rhaegar Targaryen, Lyanna Stark and her betrothed Robert Baratheon: A Targaryen prince breaking an engagement with a member of House Baratheon that then originates a rebellion.
Sansa was betrothed with Joffrey “Baratheon” and the engagement was broken in the middle of a war with Robb Stark leading an army against King Joffrey, and Jon almost breaking his vows to join Robb’s army to avenge Ned’s death and rescue their sisters.
The parallels: Sansa being a hostage in King’s Landing & Lyanna’s “abduction”, Ned’s death & Rickard’s death, Robb’s death & Brandon’s death. And that leaves Jon to possibly play the role of Ned Stark in the future.
Basically if Jon and Sansa happens, they will parallel two stories: Rhaegar and Lyanna, a Targaryen/Stark couple; and Ned and Cat, a Stark/Tully couple.
Prince Duncan Targaryen had brown hair, like Jon is a brown haired Targaryen man.
BONUS:
Jenny of Oldstones High in the halls of the kings who are gone Jenny would dance with her ghosts The ones she had lost and the ones she had found And the ones who had loved her the most The ones who'd been gone for so very long She couldn't remember their names They spun her around on the damp old stones Spun away all her sorrow and pain And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave Never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave They danced through the day And into the night through the snow That swept through the hall From winter to summer then winter again Til the walls did crumble and fall And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave Never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave Never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave
> for more and sources:
Marriage in ASOIAF
Jenny & Duncan // Sansa & Jon
C7) Sansa V
§ Sansa V// Jon VIII
Very similar passages in Sansa and Jon chapters.
One more step, she told herself, one more step. She had to keep moving. If she stopped, she would never start again, and dawn would find her still clinging to the cliff, frozen in fear. One more step, and one more step.
[ASOS, Sansa V]
One more arrow, and I'll rest, he told himself, half a hundred times. Just one more. Whenever his quiver was empty, one of the orphaned moles would bring him another. One more quiver, and I'm done. It couldn't be long until the dawn.
[ASOS; Jon VIII]
C8) Jon VII
§ Jon-Ygritte // Sandor- Sansa
The last Jon and Ygritte scene in this book is very similar with the last scene of Sandor and Sansa in ACOK (Please check: B8)
“We’ll go back to the cave,” he said. “You’re not going to die, Ygritte. You’re not.”
“Oh.” Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” she sighed, dying.
[ASOS; Jon VII]
Some instinct made her lift her hand and cup his cheek with her fingers. The room was too dark for her to see him, but she could feel the stickiness of the blood, and a wetness that was not blood. “Little bird,” he said once more, his voice raw and harsh as steel on stone. Then he rose from the bed. Sansa heard cloth ripping, followed by the softer sound of retreating footsteps.
[ACOK; Sansa VII]
C9) Tyrion VII
§ Tyrion, Dragons, Lovers, Sansa and Jon
Tyrion meets with his lover Shae in the cellar filled with dragon skulls and thinking about his wife Sansa and Jon Snow in the same passage.
Within, the dragon skulls were waiting, and so was Shae.
[…]
Her dress was draped over a black tooth near as tall as she was, and she stood within the dragon’s jaws, nude. Balerion, he thought. Or was it Vhagar? One dragon skull looked much like another.
[...]
“M’lord will pluck me from the dragon’s jaws, I know.”
[…]
By the time she slipped into his arms, he was flushed and out of breath from stumbling into dragon skulls.
[…]
After, as they lay entwined amongst the dragon skulls, he rested his head against her, inhaling the smooth clean smell of her hair.
[…]
The Spider was right. Tyrion groped through the dragon-haunted darkness for his smallclothes, feeling wretched.
[…]
“M’lord, where are you? Did the dragons eat you up?”
[…]
“No. Here.” He groped at a dragon skull.
[…]
The skulls of the Targaryen dragons were emerging from the darkness around them, black amidst grey. “Day comes too soon.” A new day. A new year.
[...]
Shae snatched her dress down off the dragon’s tooth and slipped it over her head.
[ASOS; Tyrion VII]
The Others can take my guilt, he thought as he slipped his tunic over his head. Why should I be guilty? My wife wants no part of me, and most especially not the part that seems to want her. Perhaps he ought to tell her about Shae. It was not as though he was the first man ever to keep a concubine. Sansa’s own oh-so-honorable father had given her a bastard brother. For all he knew, his wife might be thrilled to learn that he was fucking Shae, so long as it spared her his unwelcome touch.
[ASOS; Tyrion VII]
> for more and sources:
Special thanks to Shuri
C10) Jaime VII
§ Ghostly direwolf and Sansa
People talk about how Sansa killed Joffrey and they tell tales about a (male) GHOSTLY dire wolf was seen in the Red Keep with blood dripping from his jaw.
So we have a Ghost and Sansa connection
“The dwarf’s wife did the murder with him,” swore an archer in Lord Rowan’s livery. “Afterward, she vanished from the hall in a puff of brimstone, and a ghostly direwolf was seen prowling the Red Keep, blood dripping from his jaws.”
[ASOS; Jaime VII]
> for more and sources:
Ghostly direwolf
C11) Jon VIII
§ Son and Daughter of Winterfell
Both Jon and Sansa are called Son/Daughter of WF
"Yes, Jon. It need not be for long. Only until such time as the garrison returns. Donal chose you, and Qhorin Halfhand before him. Lord Commander Mormont made you his steward. You are a son of Winterfell, a nephew of Benjen Stark. It must be you or no one. The Wall is yours, Jon Snow."
[ASOS; Jon VIII]
"I forgot, you've been hiding under a rock. The northern girl. Winterfell's daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leather wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. But she left the dwarf behind and Cersei means to have his head."
[ASOS; Arya XIII]
§ Gentle mother hymn
In ACOK; Sansa V, Sansa prayed for Jon too before the Blackwater Battle by singing the Gentle Mother Hymn. (B7)
And now in this chapter someone sings Gentle Mother before the Battle of Castle Black
Yet still the drums beat on, the trebuchets shuddered and thumped, and the sound of skinpipes came wafting through the night like the songs of strange fierce birds. Septon Cellador began to sing as well, his voice tremulous and thick with wine.
Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
save our sons from war, we pray, [...]
[ASOS; Jon VIII]
§ Giants attack Wall
Jon thinks about the possibility of actual giants attacking the Wall
And in ASOS; Sansa VII; a toy giant attacks her snowcastle’s wall.
The Wall was too big to be stormed by any conventional means; too high for ladders or siege towers, too thick for battering rams. No catapult could throw a stone large enough to breach it, and if you tried to set it on fire, the icemelt would quench the flames. You could climb over, as the raiders did near Greyguard, but only if you were strong and fit and sure-handed, and even then you might end up like Jarl, impaled on a tree. They must take the gate, or they cannot pass.But the gate was a crooked tunnel through the ice, smaller than any castle gate in the Seven Kingdoms, so narrow that rangers must lead their garrons through single file. Three iron grates closed the inner passage, each locked and chained and protected by a murder hole. The outer door was old oak, nine inches thick and studded with iron, not easy to break through. But Mance has mammoths, he reminded himself, and giants as well.
[ASOS; Jon VIII]
“It’s not so great.” The boy knelt before the gatehouse. “Look, here comes a giant to knock it down.” He stood his doll in the snow and moved it jerkily. “Tromp tromp I’m a giant, I’m a giant,” he chanted. “Ho ho ho, open your gates or I’ll mash them and smash them.” Swinging the doll by the legs, he knocked the top off one gatehouse tower and then the other.
[...]
She grabbed for his hand but she caught the doll instead. There was a loud ripping sound as the thin cloth tore. Suddenly she had the doll’s head, Robert had the legs and body, and the rag-and-sawdust stuffing was spilling in the snow. Lord Robert’s mouth trembled. “You killlllllllled him,” he wailed.
[...]
“It was my fault.” Sansa showed them the doll’s head. “I ripped his doll in two. I never meant to, but …”
“His lordship was destroying the castle,” said Petyr.
“A giant,” the boy whispered, weeping. “It wasn’t me, it was a giant hurt the castle. She killed him! I hate her! She’s a bastard and I hate her! I don’t want to be leeched!”
[...]
A mad rage seized hold of her. She picked up a broken branch and smashed the torn doll’s head down on top of it, then pushed it down atop the shattered gatehouse of her snow castle.
[...]
“If the tales be true, that’s not the first giant to end up with his head on Winterfell’s walls.”
“Those are only stories,” she said, and left him there.
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
> for more and sources:
Giants
C12) Sansa VI
§ Jon IX
ASOS; Jon IX follows this Sansa chapter
Jon meets with Janos Slynt
“Ser,” snapped the jowly man. “You will address Ser Alliser as ser, and myself as m’lord. I am Janos Slynt, Lord of Harrenhal, and commander here at Castle Black until such time as Bowen Marsh returns with his garrison. [...]
[ASOS; Jon IX]
§ Wind in their hair
Similar passages in the chapters that follow each other
The wind ran salty fingers through her hair, and Sansa shivered.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
A gust of wind sent icy tendrils wending through his long brown hair.
[ASOS; Jon IX]
§ Ned and Cat 2.0
Ned and Cat were in love and married. They are the parents of Stark kids.
Sansa looks like Cat whereas Jon looks like Ned.
And they both dream of children that they can name after their siblings.
They are basically Ned and Cat.
“I see it now,” the Lady Lysa said, as she set the core aside. “You look so much like Catelyn.” “It’s kind of you to say so.” “It was not meant as a flattery. If truth to be told, you look too much like Catelyn. Something must be done.”
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
“Your father was no friend of mine, but only a fool would doubt his honor or his honesty. You have his look.” […]
[ASOS; Jon XI]
“Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. Men would say she had my look, but she will grow into a woman far more beautiful than I ever was, you can see that. [...]”
[ACOK; Catelyn VII]
She might have overlooked a dozen bastards for Ned’s sake, so long as they were out of sight. Jon was never out of sight, and as he grew, he looked more like Ned than any of the trueborn sons she bore him. Somehow, that made it worse.
[AGOT; Catelyn II]
§ Becoming a bastard of their uncle
Sansa becomes a dark haired bastard of her uncle (Baelish) like Jon was his uncle’s (Eddard) bastard.
Both Ned and Baelish played a role in the deaths of their true fathers. (Ned-Rhaegar, LF-Ned)
She also calls her new name “pretty” like she once adviced Jon
Natural?” Sansa was aghast. “You mean, a bastard?”
[...]
“Alayne is pretty.” Sansa hoped she would remember.
[…]
Darken my hair? “If it please you, Aunt Lysa.”
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
§ Bastards born from lust
Both Sansa and Jon face the prejudiced belief about bastards
“Unhand me. You forget yourself.”
“Mercy. I have been singing love songs for hours. My blood is stirred. And yours, I know... there’s no wench half so lusty as one bastard born. Are you wet for me?”
“I’m a maiden,” she protested.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous. Once Jon had meant to prove them wrong, to show his lord father that he could be as good and true a son as Robb.
[ASOS; Jon X]
§ Sara Snow and Jacaerys Velaryon
Sansa becomes a bastard of WF. This reminds us another historical bastard girl of WF. Sara Snow. Even their names sound similar.
Sara was rumored to be married with Jacaerys Velaryon
At Winterfell he encounters a “wolf maiden,” Sara Snow, Cregan’s bastard sister (Sara would be Sansa/Jonnel’s great aunt), Jace was so smitten he bedded her. Cregan found out and was angry, but Sara said that they were in love and had married that very night:
“They had spoken their vows in Winterfell’s own godswood before a heart tree, and only then had she given herself to him, wrapped in furs amidst the snows as the old gods looked on.”
[Fire and Blood]
Jacaerys // Jon:
Jacaerys Velaryon is Rhaeynra Targaryen’s first born son. She declared him heir to the Iron Throne and Dragonstone during her coronation.
There were rumors that Jace was a bastard when he was younger
Jace was a brown-haired Targaryen
Jace was 15 when the Dance started - around Jon’s age.
There is also an issue of whether Rhaenyra’s sons were Targaryens or Velaryons. The bastard rumors also introduced a third paternal name, so Jacaerys and Jon have three names to contend with: Targaryen/Velaryon/Strong and Targaryen/Stark/Snow.
Pact of Ice and Fire:
Jace signs the Pact of Ice and Fire with Cregan. Cregan would declare for Rhaenyra on certain terms.
Cregan’s son Rickon would marry Jace’s first born daughter and she would be fostered at Winterfell
(Jace did not have a daughter yet). Nothing else on the subject of Sara Snow is mentioned at this point.
However, if Jace did in fact marry Sara, then their daughter–the “Targaryen princess”–would be half Northern, half Targaryen, and raised at Winterfell (a gender flipped Jon).
She would have also married her Stark cousin. The Pact was never fulfilled because Jace died in a sea battle on his dragon.
§ Refusing Pomegranate
Hades and Persophene imagery
The tale of Persephone in Greek mythology is of the stolen daughter of Zeus and the harvest Goddess Demeter. Hades had abducted Persephone for himself as Queen of the underworld. Grief stricken and infuriated, her mother Demeter cursed the crops to wither and made the earth barren, prompting Zeus to interfere. However, while in the underworld, Hades had tricked Persephone into eating his pomegranate seeds, therefore binding her to him for a third of the year. And so Persephone from thence would spend eight months on earth with her mother, and four in the underworld with Hades. The months she spends with the latter correspond with winter during which Demeter would make the soils barren, while spring would mark her return.
[Please read the source for more about Hades- Persophene and Jon- Sansa parallels.]
Baelish offers Sansa pomegranate in this chapter but she refuses
Petyr cut a pomegranate in two with his dagger, offering half to Sansa. “You should try and eat, my lady.” “Thank you, my lord.” Pomegranate seeds were so messy; Sansa chose a pear instead, and took a small delicate bite.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
Right after her refusing the pomegranat, Petyr talks about hidden daggers:
Lord Petyr dismissed him with a wave, and returned to the pomegranate again as Oswell shuffled down the steps. “Tell me, Alayne—which is more dangerous, the dagger brandished by an enemy, or the hidden one pressed to your back by someone you never even see?”
“The hidden dagger.”
“There’s a clever girl.” He smiled, his thin lips bright red from the pomegranate seeds.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
Jon also refuses Pomegranate by refusing Bowen Marsh’s warnings (Marsh is called “Old Pomegranate”) and advices in ADWD:
Dolorous Edd sometimes called Marsh “the Old Pomegranate,” which fit him just as well as “the Old Bear” fit Mormont.
[ASOS; Jon V]
“Common cause against a common foe, I could agree with that,” said Bowen Marsh, “but that does not mean we should allow tens of thousands of half-starved savages through the Wall. Let them return to their villages and fight the Others there, whilst we seal the gates…”
[…]
Whether we face a hundred foes or a hundred thousand, so long as we’re atop the Wall and they’re below, they cannot do us harm.”
He’s not wrong. […] Yet what Bowen was suggesting went against all of Jon’s instincts. “If we seal the gates, we cannot send out rangers,” he pointed out. “We will be as good as blind.”
[…]
“…Every death diminishes us, and we are stretched so thin … Take the high ground and win the battle, my uncle used to say. No ground is higher than the Wall, Lord Commander.”
[…]
Marsh hesitated. “Lord Snow, I am not one to bear tales, but there has been talk that you are becoming too … too friendly with Lord Stannis. Some even suggest that you are … a …”
A rebel and a turncloak, aye, and a bastard and a warg as well. Janos Slynt might be gone, but his lies lingered. “I know what they say.” Jon had heard the whispers, had seen men turn away when he crossed the yard.
[ADWD; Jon III]
In the end of the ADWD, Jon gets stabbed by Bowen Marsh (Old Pomegranate) and some other men of Night’s Watch in the mutiny at Castle Black with daggers...
Then Bowen Marsh stood there before him, tears running down his cheeks. “For the Watch.” He punched Jon in the belly. When he pulled his hand away, the dagger stayed where he had buried it.
Jon fell to his knees. He found the dagger’s hilt and wrenched it free. In the cold night air the wound was smoking.
“Ghost,” he whispered. Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold…
[ADWD; Jon XIII]
Edd was right…
Dolorous Edd had heard the entire exchange. As Bowen Marsh trotted off, he nodded toward his back and said, “Pomegranates. All those seeds. A man could choke to death. I’d sooner have a turnip. Never knew a turnip to do a man any harm.”
[ADWD; Jon V]
§ Marry your cousin
Lysa wants Sansa to marry her COUSIN Robert. Sansa is bitter because they all want her for her claim. She wants to marry for love.
And next chapter is her cousin JON. Once again Jon comes right after her new suitor.
And Jon chooses her over Winterfell later in the book.
“ … How would you like to marry your cousin, the Lord Robert?” The thought made Sansa weary. All she knew of Robert Arryn was that he was a little boy, and sickly. It is not me she wants her son to marry, it is my claim. No one will ever marry me for love. But lying came easy to her now.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
> for more and sources:
Wind in hair
Jace/Sara // Jon/Sansa
Pomegranate
C13) Jon XII & Sansa VII
These chapters follow each other. (Jon -> Sansa)
§ Jon XII // Sansa VII
Jon thinks about WF’s pools in godswood and wishes to rebuild WF
In the next chapter Sansa really builds the WF out of SNOW and she even talks about pools in the godswood.
It was short walk to the bathhouse, where he took a cold plunge to wash the sweat off and soaked in a hot stone tub. The warmth took some of the ache from his muscles and made him think of Winterfell’s muddy pools, steaming and bubbling in the godswood. Winterfell, he thought. Theon left it burned and broken, but I could restore it. Surely his father would have wanted that, and Robb as well. They would never have wanted the castle left in ruins.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
The snow fell and the castle rose. Two walls ankle-high, the inner taller than the outer. Towers and turrets, keeps and stairs, a round kitchen, a square armory, the stables along the inside of the west wall. It was only a castle when she began, but before very long Sansa knew it was Winterfell. She found twigs and fallen branches beneath the snow and broke off the ends to make the trees for the godswood. For the gravestones in the lichyard she used bits of bark. Soon her gloves and her boots were crusty white, her hands were tingling, and her feet were soaked and cold, but she did not care. The castle was all that mattered.
[…]
“No. It was always warm, even when it snowed. Water from the hot springs is piped through the walls to warm them, and inside the glass gardens it was always like the hottest day of summer.”
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
§ Children
Jon thinking about becoming the Lord of WF and having wife and kids.
He wants to name his son Robb after his brother.
Jon thinks about marrying Val and next chapter is Sansa
And this sounds similar with Sansa’s dream about Highgarden and Willas in ASOS; Sansa II (C2)
I would need to steal her if I wanted her love, but she might give me children. I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb. Val would want to keep her sister’s son, but we could foster him at Winterfell, and Gilly’s boy as well. […] Mance’s son and Craster’s would grow up brothers, as I once did with Robb.
He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
She pictured the two of them sitting together in a garden with puppies in their laps, or listening to a singer strum upon a lute while they floated down the Mander on a pleasure barge. If I give him sons, he may come to love me. She would name them Eddard and Brandon and Rickon, and raise them all to be as valiant as Ser Loras. And to hate Lannisters, too. In Sansa’s dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
§ Snow kisses
Sansa’s chapter is full of snow imagery. She romanticizes snow.
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks.
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
§ Snow maid and snow knight
Sansa thinking about making a snow knight. Jon is a SNOW and a black KNIGHT of the Wall. And Sansa is a SNOW MAID.
I could build a snow knight instead, she thought.
[…]
Petyr straightened his cloak. “Kissing a snow maid.”
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
§ Snow of Winterfell
Sansa feels the snow on her lips and it tastes like WF, innocence and dreams. Jon is the SNOW of Winterfell.
She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
“And you are Ned Stark’s bastard, the Snow of Winterfell.”
[ASOS; Jon I]
§ The heroes
Jon remembers calling himself Ser Ryam Redwyne and he is another hero of Sansa has called to her help in ACOK; Sansa IV.
And ACOK; Sansa IV comes between two Jon chapters. (B5)
She called for the heroes from the songs, for Florian and Ser Ryam Redwyne and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, but no one heard.
[ACOK; Sansa IV]
They were not little boys when they fought, but knights and mighty heroes. “I’m Prince Aemon the Dragonknight,” Jon would call out,and Robb would shout back, “Well, I’m Florian the Fool.” Or Robb would say, “I’m the Young Dragon,” and Jon would reply, “I’m Ser Ryam Redwyne.”
[ASOS; Jon XII]
Jon also remembers calling himself Aemon the Dragonknight in this ASOS; Jon XII chapter and next chapter is Sansa.
We talked about how Aemon is one of Jon and Sansa’s favourite historical heroes. And sometimes after or before a mention of him in their chapters, comes the chapter of the other.
They were not little boys when they fought, but knights and mighty heroes. “I’m Prince Aemon the Dragonknight,” Jon would call out, and Robb would shout back, “Well, I’m Florian the Fool.” Or Robb would say, “I’m the Young Dragon,” and Jon would reply, “I’m Ser Ryam Redwyne.”
[ASOS; Jon XII]
§ Aemon the Dragonknight and Queen Naerys
Sansa and Jon have some parallels with this historical couple.
Aemon was inseparable from his sister Naerys when they were young. Stories speak of Aemon's doomed love for his sister. Aemon and Naerys supposedly loved each other. According to the singers, both Aemon and Naerys cried the day Naerys married Aegon in 153 AC, although historians report that Naerys had only cried during the bedding, while Aemon had quarreled with Aegon at the wedding feast. Aemon grew to be so accomplished in the lists and with the sword that he was deemed worthy of carrying the Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister. Shortly after Naerys and Aegon's wedding, Aemon joined the Kingsguard, taking his vows at the age of seventeen during the reign of his uncle, King Aegon III Targaryen. During his life, Aemon would serve under five kings: his uncle Aegon III, his cousins Daeron I and Baelor I, his father Viserys II, and lastly his brother Aegon IV.
Aemon loved his sister Naerys but she married with their brother Aegon IV.
Sansa claimed to love Joffrey like Naerys loved Aemon.
“Father, I only just now remembered, I can’t go away, I’m to marry Prince Joffrey.” She tried to smile bravely for him. “I love him, Father, I truly truly do, I love him as much as Queen Naerys loved Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, as much as Jonquil loved Ser Florian. I want to be his queen and have his babies.”
“Sweet one,” her father said gently, “listen to me. When you’re old enough, I will make you a match with a high lord who’s worthy of you, someone brave and gentle and strong. This match with Joffrey was a terrible mistake. That boy is no Prince Aemon, you must believe me.”
[AGOT; Sansa III]
But like Ned said, Joffrey was no Aemon.
Joffrey says he is Aegon IV in ASOS; Sansa III
“You shouldn’t look so sad. My uncle is an ugly little thing, but you’ll still have me.”
“You’re to marry Margaery!”
“A king can have other women. Whores. My father did. One of the Aegons did too. The third one, or the fourth. He had lots of whores and lots of bastards.”
[ASOS; Sansa III]
Then who is the brave, gentle and strong Aemon that Ned promised to her?
(There are also theories about Aemon being Jon’s real name.)
Aemon // Jon:
Sworn to Celibacy
Prince Aemon joined the Kingsguard at 17, taking an oath of celibacy and swearing to die for the King. The Kingsguard are referred to as White Knights. He was eventually made Lord Commander of the Kingsguard
Jon was 14 when he joined the Nights Watch, taking an oath of celibacy and swearing to die protecting the realms of men. The men of the Night’s Watch are referred to as the Black Knights of the Wall. Jon was made Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch
Young Dragon & Young Wolf
Prince Aemon’s cousin Daeron was called the Young Dragon, and was killed while under the peace banner trying to take away Dorne’s independence.
Jon’s brother, who is actually his cousin, Robb was called the Young Wolf, and was killed while under Guest Right at the Red Wedding trying to regain Northern Independence.
Valyrian Steel Blade
Prince Aemon was so impressive in the lists that he was given Visenya’s blade Dark Sister
Lord Commander Mormont was so impressed by Jon that he gave him Longclaw.
Served Under Five Kings
During his time as Kingsguard, Aemon served under five kings: Aegon III, Daeron I, Baelor I, Viserys II, and Aegon IV (the Unworthy)
While serving in the Night’s Watch, Jon is technically sworn to all five kings during the War of the Five Kings (Robb, Joffrey, Balon, Renly, Stannis)
Aemon-Naerys-Aegon // Jon-Sansa-Joffrey:
Prince Aemon joined the Kingsguard shortly after his sister Queen Naerys was married to Aegon IV. At their wedding feast, it was said that Prince Aemon cried.
Jon breaks down in tears during the feast where Sansa’s betrothal to Joffrey Baratheon was announced. Shortly after the betrothal was announced, Jon joins the Night’s Watch.
§ Winterfell belongs to Sansa
In ASOS; Jon XII, Jon thinks about Stannis’ offer of giving him Winterfell.
Becoming the Lord of WF is Jon’s greatest desire.
That morning he called it first. “I’m Lord of Winterfell!” he cried, as he had a hundred times before. Only this time, this time, Robb had answered, “You can’t be Lord of Winterfell, you’re bastard-born. My lady mother says you can’t ever be the Lord of Winterfell.”
I thought I had forgotten that. Jon could taste blood in his mouth, from the blow he’d taken.
[…]
Ygritte wanted me to be a wildling. Stannis wants me to be the Lord of Winterfell. But what do I want?
[…]
I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb.
[…]
He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
But in the end he chooses family and refuses Stannis’ offer
Six pups they’d found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.
He had his answer then.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
And he verbalizes his decision in ADWD:
"By right Winterfell should go to my sister Sansa."
[ADWD; Jon I]
But in ASOS; Jon XII, it was GHOST who helped him to decide.
Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre’s. He had a weirwood’s eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they’d found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.
He had his answer then.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
Ghost reminds him the weirwood in godswood of Winterfell. And this helps him to decide.
But in the same chapter Jon also says that weirwood is the HEART of Winterfell.
When Jon closed his eyes he saw the heart tree, with its pale limbs, red leaves, and solemn face. The weirwood was the heart of Winterfell, Lord Eddard always said … but to save the castle Jon would have to tear that heart up by its ancient roots, and feed it to the red woman’s hungry fire god. I have no right, he thought. Winterfell belongs to the old gods.
[ASOS; Jon XII]
So Ghost is Weirwood aka Heart Tree and Weirwood is the HEART of Winterfell
Ghost is Jon, so JON = HEART OF WINTERFELL
And who is Winterfell?
Sansa Stark says she is the heir of WF in next chapter.
She wasn't a beggar, no matter what her aunt said. She was thirteen, a woman flowered and wed, the heir to Winterfell.
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
Sansa has been used and abused for her claim on Winterfell.
She is WINTERFELL.
"My claim?" She was lost for a moment.
"Sweetling," he told her, "you are heir to Winterfell." He grabbed her again, pleading that she must not do this thing, and Sansa wrenched free and left him swaying beneath the heart tree. She had not visited the godswood since.
But she had not forgotten his words, either. The heir to Winterfell, she would think as she lay abed at night. It's your claim they mean to wed.
[ASOS; Sansa II]
"The man who weds Sansa Stark can claim Winterfell in her name," his uncle Kevan put in. "Had that not occurred to you?"[...]“Our alliances in the south may be as solid as Casterly Rock, but there remains the north to win, and the key to the north is Sansa Stark.”
[ASOS; Tyrion III]
It is not me she wants her son to marry, it is my claim. No one will ever marry me for love.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
Unlike other characters in the books, Jon respects Sansa’s claim and refuses Stannis’ offer.
So he refuses WF and chooses Sansa instead. This really sounds like Prince of Dragonflies (C6)
"By right Winterfell should go to my sister Sansa."
[ADWD; Jon I]
Jon said, "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa."
[ADWD; Jon IV]
In conclusion:
Sansa= Winterfell
Jon= Winterfell’s Heart
> for more and sources:
Aemon // Jon
JoJo Theory: Jon and Joffrey are foils
Two hearts beat as one
Heart of WF
Sansa = WF
Very special thanks to Kelly
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D) A FEAST FOR CROWS
D1) Sansa I
§ Blood of WF
Sansa calls herself the Blood of WF like Jon did. (B5)
I am not your daughter, she thought. I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard's daughter and Lady Catelyn's, the blood of Winterfell.
[AFFC; Sansa]
He was the blood of Winterfell, a man of the Night's Watch.
[ASOS; Jon VI]
D2) Alayne I
§ Having wings
Sansa wishes to have wings after seeing a falcon.
A falcon soared above the frozen waterfall, blue wings spread wide against the morning sky. Would that I had wings as well.
[AFFC; Alayne I]
In the end of AFFC, Sansa learns Petyr’s plan of marrying Sansa to Harry the Heir which also known as the Young Falcon.
So actually this was a foreshadowing of Sansa’s future betrothal.
So those are your gifts from me, my sweet Sansa... Harry, the Eyrie, and Winterfell. That’s worth another kiss now, don’t you think?”
[AFFC; Alayne II]
But Sansa is already known as a wolf with wings. BAT wings.
“I forgot, you’ve been hiding under a rock. The northern girl. Winterfell’s daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leather wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. But she left the dwarf behind and Cersei means to have his head.”
[ASOS; Arya XIII]
Big leather wings reminds us of dragons and Targaryens in the series. They even look similar.
“Monstrous,” Mirri Maz Duur finished for him. The knight was a powerful man, yet Dany understood in that moment that the maegi was stronger, and crueler, and infinitely more dangerous. “Twisted. I drew him forth myself. He was scaled like a lizard, blind, with the stub of a tail and small leather wings like the wings of a bat. When I touched him, the flesh sloughed off the bone, and inside he was full of graveworms and the stink of corruption. He had been dead for years.
[AGOT; Daenerys IX]
In the center of the Plaza of Pride stood a red brick fountain whose waters smelled of brimstone, and in the center of the fountain a monstrous harpy made of hammered bronze. Twenty feet tall she reared. She had a woman’s face, with gilded hair, ivory eyes, and pointed ivory teeth. Water gushed yellow from her heavy breasts. But in place of arms she had the wings of a bat or a dragon, her legs were the legs of an eagle, and behind she wore a scorpion’s curled and venomous tail.
[ASOS; Daenerys II]
So Sansa already has bat wings which look like dragon wings. So she is already betrothed to a Dragon.
§ Her first crush
Sansa’s first crash was Waymar and he looks like Jon and he foreshadows Jon’s story.
She had fallen wildly in love with Ser Waymar, she remembered dimly, but that was a lifetime ago, when she was a stupid little girl.
[AFFC; Alayne I]
§ Her hair still has fire
Sansa’s hair was kissed by fire like Ygritte.
And now her hair turns from auBURN to BURNT brown.
Alayne had darkened it again last night before she went to bed. The wash her aunt had given her changed her own rich auburn into Alayne’s burnt brown, but it was seldom long before the red began creeping back at the roots.
[AFFC; Alayne I]
> for more and sources:
Wolf with dragon wings
D3) Samwell III
§ Jon’s heart turns into stone
Sam says that Jon’s heart turned into stone. This is a foreshadowing of Jon’s coming death and resurrection like Lady Stoneheart
But also Sansa is now a STONE. His heart turned into her. And Alayne’s heart is frozen... like SNOW.
Instead, he blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon’s heart had turned to stone.
[AFFC; Samwell III]
“Do you require guarding?” Marillion said lightly. “I am composing a new song, you should know. A song so sweet and sad it will melt even your frozen heart. ‘The Roadside Rose,’ I mean to call it. About a baseborn girl so beautiful she bewitched every man who laid eyes upon her.”
[ASOS; Sansa VII]
> for more and sources:
Stone heart
D4) Alayne II
§ Unkiss
We talked about the first Unkiss chapter in ASOS; Sansa II. (C2)
It was coming after a Jon chapter which was similar with Sansa one.
We talked about that how Jon also said that he didn’t touch the redhead young girl but the redhead said he did.
(For Sandor-Sansa // Jon-Ygritte, please check: B8 & C8)
Sansa remembers the Unkiss again in this AFFC chapter:
Before she could summon the servants, however, Sweetrobin threw his skinny arms around her and kissed her. It was a little boy’s kiss, and clumsy. Everything Robert Arryn did was clumsy. If I close my eyes I can pretend he is the Knight of Flowers. Ser Loras had given Sansa Stark a red rose once, but he had never kissed her… and no Tyrell would ever kiss Alayne Stone. Pretty as she was, she had been born on the wrong side of the blanket.
As the boy’s lips touched her own she found herself thinking of another kiss. She could still remember how it felt, when his cruel mouth pressed down on her own. He had come to Sansa in the darkness as green fire filled the sky. He took a song and a kiss, and left me nothing but a bloody cloak.
It made no matter. That day was done, and so was Sansa.
[AFFC; Alayne II]
This time her COUSIN Robert kisses her. (Jon is her cousin)
She wants to picture LORAS (Loras //Jon)
She remembers being a BASTARD (Alayne // Jon)
She remembers the Unkiss (C2)
She remembers the SNOW white cloak that was tainted with BLOOD and FIRE. (B8)
§ Sweet to see him again
Sansa learns about Jon becoming the Lord Commander of Night’s Watch. And she wishes to see him again.
Myranda gave her a shrewd little smile. “Yes, she was the very soul of wisdom, that good lady.” She shifted her seat. “[…] There’s a new High Septon, did you know? Oh, and the Night’s Watch has a boy commander, some bastard son of Eddard Stark’s.”
“Jon Snow?” she blurted out, surprised.
“Snow? Yes, it would be Snow, I suppose.”
She had not thought of Jon in ages. He was only her half brother, but still… with Robb and Bran and Rickon dead, Jon Snow was the only brother that remained to her. I am a bastard too now, just like him. Oh, it would be so sweet, to see him once again. But of course that could never be. Alayne Stone had no brothers, baseborn or otherwise.
[AFFC; Alayne II]
Just right after the mention of Jon, she learns about Harry the Heir fort he first time (her future betrothed)
“Our cousin Bronze Yohn had himself a mêlée at Runestone,” Myranda Royce went on, oblivious, “a small one, just for squires. It was meant for Harry the Heir to win the honors, and so he did.”
“Harry the Heir?” “Lady Waynwood’s ward. Harrold Hardyng. I suppose we must call him Ser Harry now. Bronze Yohn knighted him.”
[AFFC; Alayne II]
§ Bridge of ice
Sansa finds herself in a dangerous journey and the way she describes it is very similar with the situation that Jon find himself in ADWD; Jon II (He kills Slynt in this chapter: A13)
All around was empty air and sky, the ground falling away sharply to either side. There was ice underfoot, and broken stones just waiting to turn an ankle, and the wind was howling fiercely. It sounds like a wolf, thought Sansa. A ghost wolf, big as mountains.
[AFFC; Alayne II]
“Lord Tywin will say it was too much.”
“Stannis says it’s not enough. The more you give a king, the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.”
[ADWD; Jon II]
And Sansa passes the bridge of danger with the howl of a giant GHOST WOLF by her side.
All around was empty air and sky, the ground falling away sharply to either side. There was ice underfoot, and broken stones just waiting to turn an ankle, and the wind was howling fiercely. It sounds like a wolf, thought Sansa. A ghost wolf, big as mountains. And then they were on the other side, and Mya Stone was laughing and lifting Robert for a hug.
[AFFC; Alayne II]
§ Harry Hardyng
Littlefinger tells her the plan of marrying her to Harry the Heir.
So those are your gifts from me, my sweet Sansa… Harry, the Eyrie, and Winterfell. That’s worth another kiss now, don’t you think?”
[AFFC; Alayne II]
So marrying Harry is Sansa’s way to take back WF.
This sounds similar with the offer of Stannis to Jon in ASOS.
By marrying with Val, Stannis was going to give Jon the WF.
But in the end Jon chose honor and respected Sansa’s claim on WF. (C13)
(Pretty blondes Harry and Val-who are waiting for Sansa/Jon’s sick children relatives: Robin/Shireen to die- are their key to the WF)
[…] Stannis wants me to be the Lord of Winterfell. But what do I want?[…] Would I sooner be hanged for a turncloak by Lord Janos, or forswear my vows, marry Val, and become the Lord of Winterfell?
[ASOS; Jon XII]
Also like Lyanna Stark’s betrothed Robert Baratheon, Sansa’s new betrothed has bastard in Vale. (Lyanna // Sansa & Robert // Harry)
"Robert will never keep to one bed," Lyanna had told him at Winterfell, on the night long ago when their father had promised her hand to the young Lord of Storm's End. "I hear he has gotten a child on some girl in the Vale." Ned had held the babe in his arms; he could scarcely deny her, nor would he lie to his sister, but he had assured her that what Robert did before their betrothal was of no matter, that he was a good man and true who would love her with all his heart. Lyanna had only smiled. "Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature."
[AGOT; Eddard IX]
Instead she said, “I have heard that you are about to be a father.” It was not something most girls would say to their almost-betrothed, but she wanted to see if Ser Harrold would lie.“For the second time. My daughter Alys is two years old.” Your bastard daughter Alys, Alayne thought, but what she said was, “That one had a different mother, though.”
[TWOW; Alayne I]
§ Ashford Theory
It’s a strange coincidence that the champions of the Ashford Tourney, from the Dunk and Egg stories [The Hedge Knight], seem to follow the pattern of Sansa’s suitors in the series.
1. Lyonel Baratheon -> Joffrey Baratheon (A3)
2. Leo Tyrell -> Willas Tyrell (C1)
3. Tybolt Lannister -> Tyrion Lannister (C2)
4. Humfrey Hardyng -> Harry Hardyng
5. Prince Valarr Targaryen ->?
The name Hardyng coming into the story is very interesting. Unlike the other names Hardyng is not a great House (like Lannisters/Tyrell/Baratheon/Targaryen)
“Harry the Heir?” “Lady Waynwood’s ward. Harrold Hardyng. I suppose we must call him Ser Harry now. Bronze Yohn knighted him.”
[AFFC; Alayne II]
If Sansa’s suitors continue to follow this pattern, that would make her final suitor a Targaryen.
They were inside a long gallery. Along the walls stood empty suits of armor, dark and dusty, their helms crested with rows of scales that continued down their backs. As they hurried past, the taper’s light made the shadows of each scale stretch and twist. The hollow knights are turning into dragons, she thought.
[ASOS; Sansa V]
§ The Princess in the Tower
AFFC; The Princess in the Tower is an Arianne chapter and it comes before this AFFC Alayne chapter.
First of all TPITT trope reminds us also Sansa.
And Arianne and Sansa have some parallels. They were both unlucky about their suitors.
“I never hated you.” Prince Doran’s voice was parchment-thin, and full of grief. “Arianne, you do not understand.”
“Do you deny you wrote those words?”
“No. That was when Quentyn first went to Yronwood. I did intend for him to follow me, yes. I had other plans for you.” “Oh, yes,” she said scornfully, “such plans. Gyles Rosby. Blind Ben Beesbury. Greybeard Grandison. They were your plans.”
She gave him no chance to reply. “I know it is my duty to provide an heir for Dorne, I have never been forgetful of that. I would have wed, and gladly, but the matches that you brought to me were insults. With every one you spit on me. If you ever felt any love for me at all, why offer me to Walder Frey?”
“Because I knew that you would spurn him. I had to be seen to try to find a consort for you once you’d reached a certain age, else it would have raised suspicions, but I dared not bring you any man you might accept. You were promised, Arianne.”
Promised? Arianne stared at him incredulously. “What are you saying? Is this another lie? You never said...” “The pact was sealed in secret. I meant to tell you when you were old enough... when you came of age, I thought, but...”
[AFFC; The Princess In the Tower]
It turns out that Doran’s plan was to make her Queen by marrying her a TARGARYEN.
Later we learn that Doran plans her to marry her COUSIN AEGON VI TARGARYEN.
And let’s see how this AFFC Arianne chapter that comes before Alayne one ends? FIRE AND BLOOD.
She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?”
“Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.”
[AFFC; The Princess In the Tower]
§ ADWD; Jon IX
When we check for a reading order for A Feast for Crows & A Dance with Dragons (because these two books were supposed to be one book), we see that Jon’s ADWD chapter follows this AFFC; Alayne II chapter.
In this Jon chapter (fake) Grey Girl comes to him (for the Grey Girl Sansa theories please check the sources)
A grey girl on a dying horse. Melisandre’s fires had not lied, it would seem.
[ADWD; Jon IX]
What was the deal with Grey Girl?
“I have seen your sister in my fires, fleeing from this marriage they have made for her. Coming here, to you. A girl in grey on a dying horse, I have seen it plain as day. It has not happened yet, but it will.”
[ADWD; Jon VI]
So right after Sansa’s new betrothal the FAKE!Grey Girl comes to him.
Sansa is his sister and facing a new marriage,
She knows that he is the Lord Commander on the Wall,
Grey is House Stark color,
And she is surrounded with danger...
Also he comes right after another of her suitors
And like in the Ashford Theory: he (Targaryen) comes after the Hardyng suitor.
> for more and sources:
Ashford
Hollow Knights
Sansa // Arianne
Special thanks to Shuri
Grey Girl Sansa
True Grey Girl
Jon is always close to Sansa's suitors
AFFC&ADWD reading order
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E) A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
E1) Jon I
§ Winterfell belongs to Sansa
Jon refused Stannis’ offer in ASOS and respected Sansa’s claim.
Now he verbalizes his decision
“By right Winterfell should go to my sister Sansa.”
[ADWD; Jon I]
E2) Jon II
§ A hero beheads Janos Slynt
Jon beheads Janos Slynt just like Sansa wished. (A13)
Frog-faced Lord Slynt sat at the end of the council table wearing a black velvet doublet and a shiny cloth-of-gold cape, nodding with approval every time the king pronounced a sentence. 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, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. “Life is not a song, sweetling,” he’d told her. “You may learn that one day to your sorrow.”
[AGOT; Sansa VI]
“I will not hang him,” said Jon. “Bring him here.”
“Oh, Seven save us,” he heard Bowen Marsh cry out.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.
[ADWD; Jon II]
E3) Jon III
§ He chose honor
Instead of being the Lord of WF (his greatest desire) he chose honor and respected Sansa’s claim.
Lonely and lovely and lethal, Jon Snow reflected, and I might have had her. Her, and Winterfell, and my lord father’s name. Instead he had chosen a black cloak and a Wall of ice. Instead he had chosen honor. A bastard’s sort of honor.
[ADWD; Jon III]
E4) Jon IV
§ Winterfell belongs Sansa
Once again Jon refuses Stannis’ offer (C6, C13)
Which would you have as Lord of Winterfell, Snow? The smiler or the slayer?”Jon said, “Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa.”
[ADWD; Jon IV]
§ Our best hope is Eyrie
Jon is having problems with finding food and he thinks his best hope is in Eyrie
Sansa is a bastard girl in Eyrie and she is the Tully woman that would like to help him.
“If we had sufficient coin, we could buy food from the south and bring it in by ship,” the Lord Steward said.We could, thought Jon, if we had the gold, and someone willing to sell us food. Both of those were lacking. Our best hope may be the Eyrie. The Vale of Arryn was famously fertile and had gone untouched during the fighting. Jon wondered how Lady Catelyn’s sister would feel about feeding Ned Stark’s bastard. As a boy, he often felt as if the lady grudged him every bite.
[ADWD; Jon IV]
> for more and sources:
Best hope in Eyrie
E5) Jon VI
§ Grey Girl
We learn about Grey Girl and this girl is most likely going to be Sansa Stark
“I have seen your sister in my fires, fleeing from this marriage they have made for her. Coming here, to you. A girl in grey on a dying horse, I have seen it plain as day. It has not happened yet, but it will.”
[ADWD; Jon VI]
E6) Daenerys VII
For Jon and Sansa being Dany’s doom, please check: B4
§ Cousins and love between Targaryen man & Stark girl
This is Dany’s wedding chapter and she learns about her father’s jealousy about Tywin and Joanna
Tywin and Joanna were cousins and in love. They were married
Daenerys also thinks about a love between a Targaryen man and a Stark girl. And she knows that no one is coming for her
So we have cousins in love and a love between a Targaryen man and a Stark lady.
Jon is a Targaryen man and his cousin Sansa is a Stark lady
“I want to know. I never knew my father. I want to know everything about him. The good and … the rest.”
“As you command.” The white knight chose his words with care. “Prince Aerys … as a youth, he was taken with a certain lady of Casterly Rock, a cousin of Tywin Lannister. When she and Tywin wed, your father drank too much wine at the wedding feast and was heard to say that it was a great pity that the lord’s right to the first night had been abolished. A drunken jape, no more, but Tywin Lannister was not a man to forget such words, or the … the liberties your father took during the bedding.” His face reddened. “I have said too much, Your Grace. I—”
[...]
If he loved you, he would come and carry you off at swordpoint, as Rhaegar carried off his northern girl, the girl in her insisted, but the queen knew that was folly.
[ADWD; Daenerys VII]
§ ADWD; Jon IX
After this Dany chapter comes the Jon chapters. So he is the Targaryen man... And Fake!Grey Girl comes to him... (D4)
A grey girl on a dying horse. Melisandre’s fires had not lied, it would seem.
[ADWD; Jon IX]
§ AFFC; Alayne II
We talked about this chapter in D4: She was facing a new marriage etc. (Grey Girl )
We also said that according to reading order: ADWD; Jon IX chapter is following this Alayne chapter.
But according to same reading order, this Alayne chapter comes between this Daenerys chapter and Jon chapter.
So:
Dany: Cousins in love, Targaryen man & Stark girl are in love
Sansa: Stark girl faces a marriage and she is cousin of Jon
Jon: Grey Girl comes to Targaryen man & his cousin faces a marriage
> for more and sources:
ADWD; Dany vs Jon & Sansa
E7) Jon XIII
§ Daggers in the dark
In the first Jon ADWD chapter Melisandre warns Jon against the daggers in the dark.
“Do not be so certain.” The ruby at Melisandre’s throat gleamed red. “It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold.”
“It is always cold on the Wall.”
“You think so?”
“I know so, my lady.”
“Then you know nothing, Jon Snow,” she whispered.
[ADWD; Jon I]
This reminds us the conversation between Sansa and Littlefinger in ASOS; Sansa VI
Lord Petyr dismissed him with a wave, and returned to the pomegranate again as Oswell shuffled down the steps. “Tell me, Alayne—which is more dangerous, the dagger brandished by an enemy, or the hidden one pressed to your back by someone you never even see?”
“The hidden dagger.”
“There’s a clever girl.” He smiled, his thin lips bright red from the pomegranate seeds.
[ASOS; Sansa VI]
“It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold.”
[ADWD; Jon I]
We talked about how this Sansa chapter about pomegranates and hidden daggers gave us the foreshadowing of Jon’s death by the hands of Bowen Marsh aka Old Pomegranete.
And Jon faces the hidden daggers in the dark like Melisandre said. But even before her that Sansa chapter gave us the hint.
Then Bowen Marsh stood there before him, tears running down his cheeks. “For the Watch.” He punched Jon in the belly. When he pulled his hand away, the dagger stayed where he had buried it.
Jon fell to his knees. He found the dagger’s hilt and wrenched it free. In the cold night air the wound was smoking.
“Ghost,” he whispered. Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold…
[ADWD; Jon XIII]
§ Remembering Sansa
Before his assassination Jon remembers all the people he cared about in his last chapter.
But the way he remembers Sansa is in very romantic way. And he thinks about his dead redhead lover just right after Sansa.
(For Sansa// Ygritte: A5, B8, C2, C4, C8)
Jon flexed the fingers of his sword hand. The Night’s Watch takes no part. He closed his fist and opened it again. What you propose is nothing less than treason. He thought of Robb, with snowflakes melting in his hair. Kill the boy and let the man be born. He thought of Bran, clambering up a tower wall, agile as a monkey. Of Rickon’s breathless laughter. Of Sansa, brushing out Lady’s coat and singing to herself. You know nothing, Jon Snow.
[ADWD; Jon XIII]
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We are done with the books for now ...
Some small summaries about repeated hints:
Jon is close to Sansa's suitors so is Sansa:
A3) Sansa/Joffrey (Eddard -> Jon)
B5) Jon/ Ygritte (Jon -> Sansa)
C1) Sansa/Willas (Sansa -> Jon)
C1) Jon/Val (Sansa -> Jon)
C2) Sansa/Tyrion (Jon -> Sansa)
C12) Sansa/Robert (Sansa -> Jon)
C13) Jon/Val (Jon -> Sansa)
D4) Sansa/Harry (Alayne -> Jon)
Lyanna // Sansa:
A3) Betrothed to a Baratheon
A7) Ned sees Lyanna in Sansa's pleading
A8) Roses and Tourneys
A11) Dead before her time
B5) Winterfell's blue rose
B5) Bed of blood
D4) Robert// Harry
Targaryen imagery:
A9) Blood orange on her dress
B1) Betrothed is Dragon's heir
B5) Burning the blood on bed
B8) Snow white cloak that was tainted with blood&fire
C4) Tyrion // Rhaegar
D2) Bat winged wolf
Sansa and Jon with others:
B5) Jon//Hound - Ygritte//Sansa
B8) Jon//Hound - Ygritte//Sansa
C4) Jon//Tyrion - Ygritte//Sansa
C4) Jon//Sansa - Ygritte//Roland
C8) Jon-Ygritte // Hound-Sansa
Mentions of Aemon the Dragonknight
A10) Sansa (ADK) --> Jon
B5) Jon --> Sansa (ADK)
C2) Jon --> Sansa (ADK)
C13) Jon (ADK) --> Sansa
Parallel/Similar passages/chapters:
A4) Their first impression of "real" Joffrey
A4) Feeding direwolves under the table
A10) Traitor seed// Traitor's bastard
B5) Sharing bed/chamber with siblings in WF
C1) Meeting with Olenna//Mance
C2) Lady// Lord of HG//WF & naming kids after siblings
C4) Sansa's dream wedding
C5) Feeling alone
C7) One more step// one more arrow
C12) Wind in hair
Other couples:
C1) Jonquil and Florian
C2) Jonnel and Sansa
C5) Alysanne and Jaehaerys
C6) Duncan and Jenny
C12) Ned and Catelyn
C12) Sara and Jace
C13) Aemon and Naerys
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