okay we know that sansa and jon weren’t very close growing up so presumably robb played more of the “big brother” role in her life, in my head robb is to sansa what jon is to arya. so like. what happens when sansa finds out that jon broke his vows and died for arya, meanwhile robb left her as a hostage with the lannisters AND disinherited her (he certainly felt guilty and conflicted about it, we know that from cat’s pov, but still. he did it). like yes I get that robb had legitimate political reasons to do so and as a king he probably made the better choice (giving the northerners and riverlanders a major advantage + probably preventing an uprising that would have resulted from trading a man for two girls and keeping his crown + protecting winterfell/the north from being claimed by the lannisters) but also…jon had legitimate political reasons to choose the watch over arya too. it would have saved his own life, plus he’s not only responsible for castle black and a good portion of the free folk, but also he’s kind of the only person doing anything about the literal apocalyptic threat that almost nobody else believes in. and he chose arya anyway, just as he almost certainly would have done in robb’s place, the choice that robb did not make for sansa twice over (or for arya when he still believed that she was alive). like basically jon did for arya what robb refused to do for sansa. godd as if sansa hasn’t suffered enough, as if this realization wouldn’t be torturous given that she’s mourning robb’s death at the same time, just as she’s mourning catelyn’s (who also agreed to disinheriting her in order to keep winterfell out of lannister hands). and okay I do think that sansa would give robb some grace (as arya does when she understands that robb may not be able to ransom her now that he’s a king), sansa could probably tell herself that it was all political and not personal, but ?? how would that not hurt. how would it not kill her that it stopped being personal (see this is why we need a robb pov because I know his angst over this was CRAZY based on the little snippets that we get from catelyn). anyway hopefully it would bring sansa some comfort to know that jon’s memories of her ultimately played a part in him choosing love over duty. obviously he died trying to save arya specifically, but it was the memories of all of his siblings that pushed him to do so, including his memory of sansa (“of Sansa, brushing out Lady’s coat and singing to herself”). robb I love you but you better step up your big brother game because jon has you beat in every category (just kidding it’s too late for that. rip king).
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