Another day of quarantine, and I’m back on my Jonsa bullshit.
Got bored and decided to gather and rank my favourite Jon x Sansa book foreshadowing. Decided to leave parallels, chapter orders, and when they think of each other out of it. Just the good old juicy foreshadowing. The hidden text within the text.
Important to note, I discovered... none of these. I’m just a regular consumer of much smarter people. If you’re bored and want to read more, I went ahead and linked some of my favourite metas to accompany most entries.
If you have an interesting meta or think piece to share regarding any of the text, feel free to link and I’ll add.
21. Dragonflies
Another dragonfly was moving across the water, or perhaps it was the same one. What shall it be, Dunk? he asked himself. Dragonflies or dragons? – The Hedge Knight
Jenny of Oldstones and the Prince of Dragonflies (@butterflies-dragons)
20. A Tale of Two Vals
Then Ghost emerged from between two trees, with Val beside him. They look as though they belong together. Val was clad all in white; white woolen breeches tucked into high boots of bleached white leather, white bearskin cloak pinned at the shoulder with a carved weirwood face, white tunic with bone fastenings. Her breath was white as well... but her eyes were blue, her long braid the color of dark honey, her cheeks flushed red from the cold. It had been a long while since Jon Snow had seen a sight so lovely. – ADWD, Jon XI
Beyond, the haunted forest waited, dark and silent. The light of the half-moon turned Val's honey-blond hair a pale silver and left her cheeks as white as snow. She took a deep breath. "The air tastes sweet." "My tongue is too numb to tell. All I can taste is cold." – ADWD, Jon VIII
"OH, SWEET SHE WAS, AND PURE, AND FAIR! THE MAID WITH HONEY IN HER HAIR!" "You will love Highgarden as I do, I know it." Margaery brushed back a loose strand of Sansa's hair. – ASOS, Sansa I
Ser Jorah spent most of his waking hours pacing the forecastle or leaning on the rail, gazing out to sea. Looking for his silver queen. Looking for Daenerys, willing the ship to sail faster. – ADWD, Tyrion VIII
Val: A Subversion of BATB in Jon’s arc? (@lostlittlesatellites)
19. Snow & Stone
A song so sweet and sad it will melt even your frozen heart. – ASOS, Sansa VII
Instead, he blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. – AFFC, Samwell III
18. Cloaked
What was the name of that bastard he fathered?" Catelyn took a step backward. "Brienne." "No, that wasn't it." Jaime Lannister upended the flagon. A trickle ran down onto his face, bright as blood. "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
Sandor Clegane unfastened his cloak and tossed it at her. Sansa clutched it against her chest, fists bunched hard in the white wool. – ACOK, Sansa II
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
17. Bastards, Heirs & Two Sisters
His sisters Arya and Sansa would marry the heirs of other great houses and go south as mistress of castles of their own. But what place could a bastard hope to earn? – AGOT, Jon I
Jon / Sansa Reread - Jon I, AGOT (@tacitwhisky)
16. A Hero
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. – AGOT, Sansa VI
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
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
Sansa’s Hero (@theusurpersdog)
15. A Ghost Wolf
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
Off in the distance, a wolf howled. The sound made her feel sad and lonely, but no less hungry. – ADWD, Daenerys X
Of Ghostly Silences, Bats, Brimstone and a Ghost Wolf, Big as Mountains. (@stormcloudrising)
14. Ser Waymar
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 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
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
About Sansa’s first crush and her taste in men (@butterflies-dragons)
Jon and Waymar Royce (@theusurpersdog)
(🎨 Waymar Royce by Andantonius / Jon Snow by Michael Komarck)
13. You Know Nothing
Lately, though, he was noticing some other things. When she grinned, the crooked teeth didn't seem to matter. And maybe her eyes were too far apart, but they were a pretty blue-grey color, and lively as any eyes he knew. 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
Ygritte punched his arm. "You know nothing, Jon Snow. I'm half a fish, I'll have you know." – ASOS, Jon V
Of Sansa, brushing out Lady's coat and singing to herself. You know nothing, Jon Snow. – ADWD, Jon XIII
When Jon and Sansa think about each other (@fortunatelylori)
The Thing About Redheads (@theusurpersdogs)
Of Sansa, brushing out Lady’s coat and signing to herself. (@jonsasource)
12. The Blood of Winterfell
He was the blood of Winterfell, a man of the Night's Watch. – ASOS, Jon VI
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
The Blood of Winterfell (@nattyslove22)
Restoring Winterfell (@sxpiosexualx)
So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. (@butterflies-dragons)
11. Glory to your Betrothed
"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. This comet is sent to herald Joffrey's ascent to the throne, I have no doubt. It means that he will triumph over his enemies." – ACOK, Sansa I
Sansa Stark: A Wolf with Dragon Wings (@butterflies-dragons)
10. Treason for Love
"Three?" She did not understand.
...three heads has the dragon...the ghost chorus yammered inside her skull with never a lip moving, never a breath stirring the still blue air....mother of dragons...child of storm...The whispers became a swirling song....three fires must you light...one for life and one for death and one to love...Her own heart was beating in unison to the one that floated before her, blue and corrupt...three mounts must you ride...one to bed and one to dread and one to 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... – ACOK, Daenerys IV
The three treasons: all by one person? (@rose-of-red-lake)
9. Winterfell’s Winter Rose
"The Stark in Winterfell wanted Bael's head, but never could take him, and the taste o' failure galled him. 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." ...
"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
To the other maidens he had given white roses, but the one he plucked for her was red. – AGOT, Sansa II
"I will not have the rose and the direwolf in bed together," declared Lord Tywin. – ASOS, Tyrion III 👀
"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
Sansa Stark: A Winter Rose? (@lostlittlesatellites)
8. Prince Aemon
"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
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." – ASOS, Jon XII
Jon Snow is Aemon Targaryen (@thelawyerthatwaspromised)
7. The Stark Girl
Dany pulled the lion pelt tighter about her shoulders. "Viserys said once that it was my fault, for being born too late." She had denied it hotly, she remembered, going so far as to tell Viserys that it was his fault for not being born a girl. He beat her cruelly for that insolence. "If I had been born more timely, he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different. If Rhaegar had been happy in his wife, he would not have needed the Stark girl." – ASOS, Daenerys IV 👀
Red over silver. (@butterflies-dragons)
(🎨 Gif from @athimbleful)
6. Bed Your Sister
"It wasn't Longspear, then?" Jon was relieved. He liked Longspear, with his homely face and friendly ways.
She punched him. "That's vile. Would you bed your sister?"
"Longspear's not your brother." – ASOS, Jon III
Sweet sister or little sister? (@sherlokiness)
Is Jon even a brother? (@rose-of-red-lake)
(🎨 Gif from @c-sand)
5. Marry Your Cousin
"I... I am married, my lady."
"Yes, but soon a widow. Be glad the Imp preferred his whores. It would not be fitting for my son to take that dwarf's leavings, but as he never touched you... 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. – ASOS, Sansa VI
Why Sansa is Still Likely to Marry Jon Snow (@lupinusalbus)
(🎨 Gif from @c-sand)
4. Lover’s Kisses
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. 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
Snow: Lover’s Kisses (@lostlittlesatellites)
(🎨 Gif from @divinespairings)
3. Maiden & Warrior
The Maiden lay athwart the Warrior, her arms widespread as if to embrace him. The Mother seemed almost to shudder as the flames came licking up her face. A longsword had been thrust through her heart, and its leather grip was alive with flame. The Father was on the bottom, the first to fall. Davos watched the hand of the Stranger writhe and curl as the fingers blackened and fell away one by one, reduced to so much glowing charcoal. ... The head fell off the Smith with a puff of ash and embers. – ACOK, Davos I
The Maiden and the Warrior (@branwendaughterofllyr)
(🎨 Lady Stoneheart by Inna Vjuzhanina)
2. Ashford Champions
Lord Ashford was staging this tourney to celebrate his daughter's thirteenth nameday. The fair maid would sit by her father's side as the reigning Queen of Love and Beauty. Five champions wearing her favors would defend her. All others must perforce be challengers, but any man who could defeat one of the champions would take his place and stand as a champion himself, until such time as another challenger unseated him. – The Hedge Knight
One point (plus some extra ones) on the Ashford theory and Jonsa (@occupy-venus)
1. Jonnel Stark + Sansa Stark 👀
Stark Family Lineage (@occupyvenus)
Nah, I’m still not over this family tree, and I never will be. It’s raw predictive energy is too powerful for any foe to overcome. Forever grateful to Jonnel and Sansa, and the whole community.
All right then, I’ll leave you to your high horse but I’ll say I can wave my I’ve been in this fandom longer than you are card as much as you can continue with your blanket “ugh this fandom” tirades. I’d say you’re also being condescending towards other fanfiction writers by guessing their motivations by boxing them as misogynists because they do not fit to your standarts. And also you hadn’t read Tyler in any stories, right? He’s the douchey boyfriend in psychedelic kicks, the example you gave.
I can continue waving my “ugh this fandom” card, as a matter of fact, because I wasn’t the one jumping into anybody’s inboxes trying to lecture them, telling them what they can or cannot have as a pet peeve in a totally condescending tone, starting my argument with “Well, you must not read many fics” and “Clearly you weren’t here ten years ago so let me just explain to you how it really is”. When people hide behind an anon to be unpleasant to me, I don’t particularly feel like being nice, funnily enough.
And even after all this exchange, you’re STILL insisting that I haven’t read any fics with Tyler when not only I was pretty clear in stating that there aren’t nearly as many fics portraying the dudes as the douchebags as there are making the women out to be sluts who must be exterminated, but I also mentioned that he is marrying Caroline in one of my favorite fics. I can only be responsible for what I write, not for what you understand.
Every single day of my life I have to see derisive comments crossing my timeline making fun of the kind of fic I write. If I was going to take offense and start jumping into other peoples inbox’s to call them out just because I enjoy it and they don’t I would do nothing else.
I’ve seen many people bash Dany by calling her “Mad King’s daughter” but then moment someone reminds to them that going by that logic Jon should be also called “Mad King’s grandson” they all act offended.
20:46: Extremly happy because not only I finally found wounderful nsfw art for Delenn and Lennier, but also the first trailer for Star Trek Discovery is out and its amazining
20:56: Nervous and anxious again because some ashole-ish Delenn/Sheridan-shipper attacked me. Again.
Whoa, Delenn/Sheridan-shippers really never fail to destroy every tiny piece of fun I have about fandom...
Yeah, no, the show is about Daisy. The showrunner wrote it and directed it. Get the message. This is the same thing as still acting 4 seasons in like she’s a Mary Sue.
