When arya was in bravos she pass beneath Titans legs n think about old Nan said about young girls pink juicy flesh is eaten by Titan n she feels salt n water on her face. There is also when mance who disguise as Abel sings dornishmen wife in wf but changes lyrics to tasting northern man daughter. Do you think lf will perform oral rape on Sansa while she is drugged? I've read this in a meta. Maybe Sansa will be drunk n try to repress it.
Hi anon!
I have actually started and discarded several replies to this because it was mostly a lot of words to say “Umm, dunno? Maybe, probably not? BUT LOOK AT THE PARALLELS!” So, really, not much of a reply. But I’ve thought about the parallels a bit more, and I think, I feel a bit more confident now.
The most important detail to add is that Arya is making this journey while on the ship called the Titan’s Daughter. So, this is something that connects her to Sansa, as the figurative Titan Littlefinger’s fake-daughter. But probably on a different level also to Dany (dragon’s daughter), Cersei (lion’s daughter) and even Arianne (sun’s daughter). I think they all have their “pass beneath the shadow” moments before they come into their own, good or bad. But only focusing on Arya, Sansa and Dany here.
1) The act of passing beneath a statue’s legs to enter a “city without walls” is a clear parallel to Dany’s arrival in Vaes Dothrak, where she passes beneath the statues of the two horses. The Horse Gate. One of many parallels between Arya and Dany. In Vaes Dothrak, Dany is foretold that her son will be the king of rape and pillage (Huzzah….?) and passively watches her horrible brother being murdered, disowning him, she escapes a poison attempt and in response Drogo initiates his rape-and-pillage campaign to get her back to Westeros, which leads to his death, Rhaego’s death and the birth of the dragons. Big themes. Who is your family, who can you rely on, what are you willing to do and where is the line between justice and revenge, protection and cruelty. The ethics of power. Where is home, what makes home? Arya dances around these same themes in Braavos, and while it may look like an empowering training montage, it really is the same abyss that Dany faces: murder, poison, shifting identity. And in the end, the path home, after catastrophe strikes. But as a monster, or as a savior?
2) Passing between the Titan’s legs with a few yards to spare does invoke an intimate act, and the running commentary of his feasting on the flesh of little highborn girls (repeated thrice) invokes sexual assault, or at least metaphorical abuse. LF certainly fulfills that with Jeyne Poole, who is the member of a House (House Poole) and NOT lowborn (as some claim) and is most certainly made a heart-breaking “feast” of already. Also his on-going molestation of Sansa. But the point is that the Titan’s Daughter and Arya do pass beneath it. With yards to spare and no damage done.
3) The image is another clear foreshadowing of Arya’s revenge on Raff the Sweetling for Lommy’s murder in TWOW (sample chapter: Mercy). She pretends to initiate oral sex while slicing open his thigh. She re-enacts his murder of Lommy, she uses quotes from that moment. Past sins will be revisited. No one will escape unscathed. While I think this also foreshadows Arya slaying a different “giant” (Tyrion), there is a murder that someone else witnessed that will bear re-enacting.
4) Sansa, the Titan’s Daughter, passes beneath that same shadow. Arya kills Raff, Sansa will kill the Titan. And she do it in a way that wakes echoes of Arya and Raff. Sansa in the Vale faces the same themes of power, abuse, revenge and justice, home and family, as Arya and Dany do. She, too, will be set upon the path home. She, too, will gain power, come to enact justice or revenge. Littlefinger will be happy, in anticipation of complete triumph and his “joy will turn to ashes in his mouth” - the way he killed Lysa, with significant parting words. Everything he has done to her family, the smirking way he betrayed Ned, his monstrous treatment of Jeyne Poole, his molestation of Sansa... Past sins will be revisited. He won’t see it coming. Sansa will do it.
5) The Horse Gate, two stallions facing each other, their hooves meeting, that’s another image that will make sense in retrospect. The immediate read is her confrontation with Viserys. The bigger read will play into the endgame: Is it the Dance of the Dragons 2.0? Is it the counter-image of the two wolves facing each other that Jon and Sansa wore in Season 7, and on Sansa’s crown? Is it both, and several other things besides? Probably. But it’s the shadow that Dany will pass beneath before she *ahem* “touches the light”.
So, to sum up, no I don’t think this is meant to foreshadow Littlefinger triumphing over Sansa, it will be the other way around. This image is the portent of his doom.
