âHe feels it, the gentleness that escapes them anywhere but here, and just as he couldnât hold himself back, he knows this moment too will end too soon. In the morning she will be cross and he will feel embittered, and that is simply the way of things.â
"My darling wife." He mumurs, nosing at her temple, feeling her everlasting sadness crawling up his skin like a living thing. "What plagues you so?"
"Am I?" She asks after a while, her voice but a whisper. "Your darling wife?"
"Who else would you be?"
I feel we were robbed by not having the free folk be native/Inuit inspired because the wildlings have such potential for a rich culture like in real life
This has been one of my favorites ever since I joined the fandom and first read it:
the demons around you, 14k, complete
When Jon came back for her, he came with dragons.
Dragons, and an army, and the promise of a crown, but all Sansa had ever wanted was him.
(Or, the one in which Jon Snow knows his heritage, and the day Lord Stark betroths Sansa to Joffrey fucking Baratheon, he packs his things and travels to the other end of the world. The other end of the world turns out to be Astapor.
Astapor, and Daenerys Stormborn.)
this one too!
Found In Forbidden Nights, 16k, complete
In which Robb Stark still refuses to trade Jaime Lannister for his sisters, but Jon Snow decides if being an oathbreaker means he can tell strategy and politics to fuck off, then it's worth it to take matters into his own hands.'
(Itâs the after, though, that Jon and Sansa hadnât bargained on.)
(more below the cut)
Shelter As We Go, 65k, complete
âI was afraid.â Her ribs expand in his palm as she takes a breath. âBut I am not afraid now, Jon.â Tilt of her head as he sinks his mouth to chase away the heat of his fingers from her neck. âI am here with you.â
Lips resting on her skin as he breathes the scent of her. âYou are here with me.â Low and soft, voice curling from his throat like a fire burned down to embers. âWherever we may go, you are always here with me.â
A wildling scout finds a fire-haired stranger in the snow â but within each other they find something else entirely.
what do you want (that you do not have) 128k, complete
When the Winterfellians learn that Cersei has hired men to kidnap Sansa, they decide that Sansa needs to run away and Jon volunteers to protect her. During their travels the tension builds between them--especially after Jon suffers an injury and they're taken in by an older couple. Because, in hopes of protecting their identities, Jon and Sansa have to pretend to be happily married and in love. Every day. In close quarters. For quite some time.
Takes place after the war against the NK is won. Not a kidnapping fic.
Homecoming, 31k, incomplete
(it says there's meant to be one more chapter but there is a happy ending so it's safe to read)
Halfway to him, she broke composure; she flew at him, an arrow from a bow, and he opened to receive her, lifting her, clutching her to the soft, neglected animal of his body.
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Sansa has one request of Jon, and then he can leave her forever: help her to find a husband.
you're in my blood like holy wine, 72k, complete
Sansa finds it difficult to look at Jonâs face, with its weathered lines and cragginess. It is the face of the North and a face that northerners trust; the face of Sansaâs brothers and her father, who had been loved and respected by their tenants as their forefathers had been when they were kings. How can Sansa feel anything but resentment, looking into that face and knowing that all of her years of hard work will never earn her the respect that that profile engenders within seconds?
But she does. It is a small, burning coal of something that must be smothered.
Not a Suitor, 1k, complete
Jon smiles and reaches into his waist pocket to offer his calling card.
The man looks him up and down with a fearsome scowl, ignoring the card before speaking. âIâm sorry, sir, but suitors are received on Saturdays from 10 till 11 in the parlor. Youâll have to return to see Miss Sansa tomorrow,â he states in a monotone voice as if someone has drilled the phrase into him.
âIâm not a suitor.â
The monotone tone is absent when the man responds with clear sarcasm. âSure, you ainât. Weâve had a regular spring flood tide of âem since Miss Sansa got to town and word spread about her beauty and wealth. Left and right, they come at all hours with their cards and their neatly tied cravats looking to have a leer at âer.â
Unnatural, 2k, complete
Once he is close enough, she leaps at him, arms wrapping him up and his nose buried in her copper hair. The shuddering exhale he expels is the most amount of sound heâs made in days but all he can hear is Sansaâs sniffling and the way their two hearts talk to one another in beats of the same song.
and we can see the future and the dreams it's made of 17k, complete
This is how it goes: you stand, and you are bruised, aching, tired and worn. You have won again, as youâve won everything youâve ever won in your life: scrabbling, tussling, dust under your nails and blood hot in your mouth. Hard-won, bitter-fought. Victory is all the sweeter for it.
[Jon is raised by his father. It doesn't go according to plan. When he weds Sansa, that doesn't go according to plan either. It all works out anyhow.]
O Voyagers, 28k, incomplete
Jonâs eyes are fixed on the floor at her feet. To a stranger it might look like respect, the proper deference shown to a queen, but Sansa knows better. If he wished to look at her, he would.
He has not forgiven me, she thinks, her heart a stone in her chest. He likely never will.
I also made lists for specific popular jonsa tropes and a few of them are Jealous Jon fics, Rickon lives AUs, Free Cities Au, The Girl in Grey (book verse). I have a list of other book verse fics somewhere, but can't find it at the moment so here is a list kitnjon made once.
I will never get over how deep and intimate Jon and Sansaâs reunion was.It carried the weight of everything they both endured separately. Their pain, their abandonment, and their betrayals all quietly sit in that moment. And it takes only a single emotional shift for them to trust each other, because they recognize the same damage in one another.
Both of them were betrayed by the very people and dreams they once trusted. Jon only wanted a place to belong, the Nightâs Watch, a purpose he chose for himself, and he ended up betrayed and killed by those same people. Sansa dreamt of a perfect life, love, and royalty, and she too was betrayed by those she believed in. Their suffering is not just similar, it is parallel. They were both forced into survival and both stripped of who they once were. So when they finally meet again, it feels like two souls who have endured a long trial finally finding the one person who still remembers them as they were.
There is an immediate peace and trust between them that does not need explanation.
Most importantly, their reunion gives both of them something they had been deprived of for so long: someone they can finally say they belong to. When Jon mentioned to Sansa, âWhere will we go?â, He was making her part of his life. He is accepting her into his journey.
And it is Sansa, after all this time, who restores Jonâs identity. When she gives him the Stark cloak or when she tells him, âYou are a Stark to me,â she is giving him back something he had quietly lost. Their reunion becomes a reconciliation of their lost identities. From this point on, they remind each other of who they truly are. After a long journey of betrayal, isolation, and disconnection, they find that lost sense of belonging again, in each other.
âevidence upon evidence upon evidenceâ and itâs just chapter order and stuff like âoh jonnel is definitely the same as jonâ (which is basically saying alysanne is the same as alys) or val being blonde means she could be redheaded in certain lights. itâs still all a REACH so no evidence for romance
Looks like you have some gaps in your jonsa knowledge so Iâll help you out a little đ
A good place to start would be the jonsa compendium with at least 18 points of independent in-text evidence (not including the broader fun stuff like lotr lit parallels). We can also talk about the multiple allusions to Sansa being betrothed to a Targ (not including the ashford tourney theory already included in the compendium); here, here. Some other little tidbots I enjoy (a la 'blood of winterfell', jon/joff parallels, little in-text parallels, and too many others to mention) are in my parallels tag.
There are the BNFs/theorists who have speculated on jonsa; Alt Shift X and Adam Feldman have both found Jonsa to be significant enough to mention. Theyâve been invited to have dinner with GRRM, and he has said Adam Feldman âreally getsâ asoiaf. So, I kinda hold these theorists as just a bit more credible than whatever the twitter/reddit stans have to say.
And I know you brushed off the chapter analysis but letâs remember that GRRM has said that he is very particular about the sequence of scenes and chapters. So, itâs not absurd to say that the construction of the chapters is something that we should be paying attention to. Ignoring that is fine but donât pretend like itâs Jonsas reaching, when itâs just your own blind bullheadedness. That being said, hereâs an almost never-ending post analysing the in-text Jonsa parallels and references. And then here there's how whenever Jon or Sansa's chapters have a focus on love and marriage, then the other will almost always closely follow.
That's my little english lit seminar done, but I hope you're not too tired bc we've still got our AP hisory and political science class to go! GRRM has stated before that class is important (especially in relation to marriage) and he hates medieval-set stories where the highborn lady happily runs off with the stableboy. So, it's safe to say that Sansa will not be marrying any old glup shitto the fandom wants to pair her with. Her range of suitors is very, very limited. "Jonnel is definetly the same as Jon"...well, if the shoe fits? Like it just lines up too well, it's just a bit cheeky of GRRM to sow issues of northern succession in ASOIAF, all while providing a precedent for an inter-Stark union as a solution to a very similar issue. You could also make the case that Jonnel/Sansa is more of a foil for Jon/Sansa than a direct parallel (as instead of Jon marrying Sansa to supercede her claim, Sansa will choose to marry Jon in order to secure his position after Targ reveal). And really, is this anymore delulu than something like the Jon/Tyrion/Dany three heads of the dragon theories you see around?
Anywaysss this is just a fast and loose run down and better people than me have developed more comprehensive archives of the ever-extending jonsa meta universe, so please supplement your learning with some independent study: here, here, here.
So yeahâŠthe evidence is a little bit deeper than Jon/Jonnel or Val/Sansa. Iâm not trying to preach but calling Jonsa out on a lack of evidence or that weâre reaching for anything is giving very much illiterate on your side. If you wanna come into my ask and be a hater again pleassseeee at least do your research first. Next time there will be a quiz before I take anything you say seriously.
When he spots her on the pool deck, her lips are stained as red as her swimsuit. Red like the popsicle she eats. Signed for with her dadâs club number at the pool shack, where they stock chips and popsicles and sodas for kids and rich teenagers with nothing to do on a Tuesday afternoon. She looks sweet, and he's going to ignore her until he can't anymore.
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Jon/Sansa; Alternate Universe: 1980s; Tropes: Summer Love, Class Differences
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