@allyriadayne i don’t think i’ve talked about it a lot. i have mentioned i think petyr’s motives are to be her second husband & to really obviously cuck her first lmao BUT i don’t know that his plans surrounding ~getting revenge have always been particularly concrete, i think it was more like first step establish evil reputation second step ??? third step REVENGE but i think the moment he saw Sansa the gears starting turning & I think NedCat being so obviously in love Right In Front Of Him is what cements it. i also think he has plots on plots, like he has several contingencies in case something doesn’t work out.
there’s that “the realm won’t survive the war of the three queens” comment that he refuses to explain to sansa. i don’t want to concretely say it’s ABSOLUTELY about sansa, it could be about a number of things. but it COULD be about sansa & that would track to me - i think he always intended to get Sansa BACK into the capital so they could continue to be together.
now, IF the idea that he’s working with illyrio & varys to crash the bank of braavos is true i just feel like…he’d HAVE to know about aegon, if he’s THAT involved with illyrio. and maybe what he knows is just like “varys has some king claimant stashed away” and not a lot of finer details about WHO that kid is, it doesn’t have to be PRECISE knowledge to make the leap to “hey sansa would work as a wife for him if varys pulls it off.”
but IF he isn’t in any sort of financial conspiracy w illyrio, i do feel like….he’s in a really good position to have found something out about varys anyway. it’s p explicit that varys knows about littlefinger’s schemes, and never stops them - we know he’s trying to cause chaos, and his relationship w lf is mutually beneficial in this way. lf gets to do whatever he wants & varys can focus on other stuff - he hasn’t had to sow chaos until feastdance, bc he’s let lf run wild. george has even said they both know a lot about each other’s schemes….but what is varys’ big scheme?
i see the idea that lf knows about the aegon plot shot down a lot bc like, varys is too smart for that, but there IS this comment george made about varys & lf in an interview:
Both of them know a lot about the other one, including some very damaging things so they’re both essentially in a stalemate. Because each one knows that if he revealed what he knew about the other one that the other one could reciprocate and then they would both be destroyed. So they’re kind of locked in a stalemate. I think Littlefinger has a better idea of what Varys wants than Varys has an idea of what Littlefinger wants.
i mean. 🤨. but again, that tracks to me - varys is someone who plans 50 steps ahead and that leaves a trail. like joncon. like septa lemore. like illyrio himself. lf is someone who will just go with the flow of things, capitalize on chaos, so he doesn’t NEED to plan ahead as far so varys likely knows incriminating things he’s DONE but not as much about his exact future plans.
so i think making sansa lady of the vale is ONE plan but it’s not his only one and imo it’s a BACKUP plan - because he intends to announce a BETROTHAL but not a WEDDING (there is still the tyrion match on the books that gives them an out) which means if he HAS to he can off harry if there’s a better option, but fall back on harry depending how things shake out. and lf LIKES being in the capital - and as far as he knows, so does sansa! making sansa queen keeps her w him bc he can continue as master of coin. i’m sure he doesn’t have a concrete plan to off aegon once sansa has had some sons but i bet he’s thinking “if cersei can do it i can pull some shit together” & then she’s tied to the capital FOREVER bc she has children there.
