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Winter rose
𝜗ϱ ┆ 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 (of you.)
──INCLUDES ‧ Robb ‧ Jon ‧ Cregan ‧ Sansa ೃ࿐
warnings: 18+ due to suggestive themes, female body descriptions ( a bit specific, sorry) queen!Sansa era.
The more a character feels historically grounded, the more people tend to hate them because realistic characters are usually constrained, contradictory, compromised, and shaped by the social systems around them instead of acting like modern power fantasies.
People say they want “realistic medieval women,” but the second a female character actually behaves like someone raised in a brutal patriarchal feudal society valuing marriage, children, family duty, reputation, religion, social survival, they start calling her weak, annoying, regressive, or evil.
A lot of audiences only like “historical” female characters when they secretly think like modern people with modern freedoms and modern feminist language. The second a woman feels too authentically shaped by her world, people get uncomfortable because she stops functioning as easy wish fulfillment.
That’s why characters like Alicent, Catelyn, or Sansa get more hatred than dragonriding fantasy characters. They feel closer to the actual emotional and political realities of aristocratic women in medieval-inspired societies: constrained agency, strategic marriages, motherhood as political survival, soft power instead of brute force, emotional repression, power through diplomacy and social intelligence.
Meanwhile people are more forgiving toward characters wrapped in spectacle (dragons, prophecy, magic, warfare, chosen-one narratives) because fantasy aesthetics soften or distract from the harsher social realities underneath.
Ironically, the grounded characters are doing the heaviest thematic lifting in the story. They’re the ones making the world actually feel historical instead of just becoming dragon CGI and modern politics wearing medieval costumes.
DAY SEVEN - PAWN TO PLAYER
sansa and bran. two winged wolves with the weirwood's quiet beauty; pale as bark, crowned in red, and grounded in ancient roots.
Quick sketch of Arya in a dress and Sansa in armour, cause we never see that in fan art.
●•° SANSA STARK of the North. The Red Wolf °•●
Can you elaborate on your choices for a book focused Jonsa ship name? I liked all your suggestions and would enjoy reading more about their significance.
(About this thread.) For the blood of Winterfell, this exact phrase is used four times in the books, three in Jon's chapters and one in Sansa's. It ties Sansa and Jon to Winterfell and its future and arguably to the future of the Stark bloodline, and it's one of my personal favorite links between the characters.
ACoK, Jon VI
"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."
ASoS, Jon VI
Recently found an old drawing I did of Sansa Sark as Queen in the North. From time I was practicing drawing with dip in ink pen.