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Character Base

• Character Name: Sansa Stark (Alayne Stone)
• Age: 16 if I am allowed to blend show and book canon, 14 otherwise
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: A Song of Ice and Fire, Alayne I from The Winds of Winter, (4/2/2015). costume and prop details taken from the live action adaptation Game of Thrones
• Items Coming Along:

Lady (direwolf)
black 'raven' dress
jewelry (black needle necklace, gold lannister pendant, silver dragonfly pendant, black and gold moth necklace, silver moth ring, black amethyst ring, ruby ring)
stays/corset
bottle of brown tyroshi hair dye
boots from the eyrie

• Content Warnings for Character: captivity/hostage-taking, grooming, attempted murder, attempted rape, discussion of rape, assault of a minor, pet death, parent and sibling death, forced marriage, forced kissing of a minor by an adult guardian, I'm very sorry if I'm missing anything??

Character Background

• History: here
• Core Relationships:

A Song of Ice and Fire is a book primarily about relationships and power dynamics which seeks to provide a detailed look at the sort of life lived in a variety of lower tech castle settings that require a good deal of labor to maintain. All characters meet and interact with a lot of people throughout the course of their story arcs. I have tried to focus on the relationships that best define Sansa as a character, but I would be happy to elaborate on any relationships left off this list.

Winterfell/formative relationships:

Lady: Pet direwolf. When Ned Stark and his sons happen upon orphaned direwolf puppies in the Wolfswood, Jon Snow manages to convince him to allow each child to adopt one. Sansa is given a female puppy she names Lady and proves an adept trainer, teaching her to walk on a lead and eat delicately out of her hand. Lady is the sweetest, gentlest, and best mannered of the litter, and she is forced to pay the ultimate price when her sister Nymeria bites Prince Joffrey's arm in defense of Arya and her friend, as Arya sent her away but Lady remained to satisfy Cersei's need for revenge.

Eddard 'Ned' Stark: father. Sansa greatly admired her father and took pride in his role as Warden of the North and later Hand of the King. He imparted many lessons on leadership to his children and Sansa finds herself drawing on his wisdom in her quest to become a leader, desiring to rule through love instead of fear if she ever becomes queen. He is the one who was forced to put Lady down and Sansa spends a good deal of time angry with him, and Arya, over that. She more or less puts her anger aside after Joffrey begs her forgiveness and offers her a necklace, but resists Ned's plan to send them away from King's Landing and instead informed Cersei, something she regrets deeply when he is arrested shortly after. She pleads for his life to Joffrey, who promises to grant him mercy, but instead has him executed in front of Sansa. Since his death Sansa has been in various states of trauma and shock, and considers her time at the Gates of the Moon to be the first she's felt alive since he was killed.

Catelyn Stark: mother. Sansa naturally looked up to her mother and aspired to someday be a great lady just like her. In King's Landing she admonishes herself to be 'as strong as her lady mother.' Catelyn taught Sansa how to make clothes for herself and her brothers, and Sansa developed a knack for dressmaking as well as decorative embroidery. Catelyn generally found Sansa an easy child to raise who took gracefully to the role she had been assigned as the daughter of a great house, and had a habit of sending the maids away to braid Sansa's hair herself in order to be closer to her. Catelyn was a shrewd diplomat with a strong sense of duty to her people and family from a young age, as her mother had died giving birth to her younger brother Edmure, leaving Catelyn to run the household for her father at Riverrun. She models this to Sansa and Sansa draws upon her example throughout her time at King's Landing and the Eyrie, even suggesting Cat (Catelyn's nickname) as a pseudonym before Littlefinger decides on Alayne.

Robb Stark: older brother. He largely maintained peace between the Stark siblings when Sansa was at Winterfell. He led them on expeditions to the crypts and the Wolfswood, and dutifully rescued Sansa when she played the imperiled maiden in their games. Indeed in King's Landing he was her last hope of rescue. When Joffrey threatens to bring Sansa his head, she is unable to hide her pride and fury when she says that 'maybe, he'll bring me yours.' She is forced to denounce him and their mother, his advisor and connection to the Riverlands, as traitors, though in her heart she prays for their victory. After her forced marriage to Tyrion Lannister Robb and Cat feel they must remove her from the line of succession, something she doesn't know but would likely understand and agree with. Cat wants him to name Arya his heir, but he is suspicious of her absence in all communication from the capital and chooses instead to legitimize Jon Snow and name him heir. After his death she forces herself to continue on by telling herself she can be brave like him. She remains proud of him, believing he 'died a king' and a hero, more gallant and grown-up than other boys his age like Wallace Waynwood.

Jon Snow: (adopted) 'half-brother,' older. We don't see Jon and Sansa interact directly but they consistently think of each other throughout the books. Sansa seems to base her Alayne persona partially on him, declaring that she must be 'bastard-brave' (Jon is definitely brave, consistently attacking enemies, speaking out, and forging ahead with little regard to his own safety. after the tragic events of the first three books, this behavior verges on suicidal), and older than Sansa. Jon joins the Night's Watch at the beginning of the books, who wear only black by custom. Sansa is shown wearing black in her time in the Vale and it remains her 'power color' throughout the show. Sansa believes him to be her only living brother and longs to see him again, but doesn't have very much hope of it as he is stationed at the Wall at the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms and must largely remain there.

Arya Stark: younger sister. Sansa and Arya have an antagonistic relationship for most of their childhoods. They have very different interests, and while Sansa's conform to the expection of a girl of her social status, Arya's very much do not. Arya plays pranks on Sansa that verge on cruel and Sansa can be quite rude and critical of her. She is frustrated by and jealous of the affection Ned shows Arya even when she 'misbehaves' (getting her clothes dirty in the process of picking him flowers); conversely Arya believes Sansa to be their mother's 'favorite' as Catelyn praises her sewing and good manners (and despairs of Arya's). This conflict comes to a head several times in the first book; when Joffrey shows his true nature by taunting Arya and her friend Mycah for playing with swords and uses his own to cut Mycah's face, Sansa responds with distress that the illusion is being ruined and fails to defend Arya when her direwolf bites Joffrey's arm in Mycah's defense (claiming she 'it all happened so fast,' this kind of quick pragmatic thinking would later come to her aid as a hostage). Though it is Sansa's direwolf, Lady, who ultimately pays the price as Arya releases Nymeria into the wild, she is too quick to forgive Joffrey for Arya's liking. They remain at loggerheads, with Arya vocally expressing her distaste for Sansa and her behavior and Sansa maintaining a desire to marry him and become queen, until their father is arrested and Arya runs away. Sansa's last glimpse of Arya is moments before their father's death. Her experience in the riots during the siege of king's landing lead her to believe Arya cannot have survived in the city for long, and she deeply regrets not reconciling with her sister when she had the chance, and believes Arya went to her grave thinking Sansa had chosen Joffrey over her family. She does her best not to dwell on this as it causes her great pain and is something she is trying to distance herself from as Alayne Stone.

Bran Stark: younger brother. He was in a coma (after being pushed off the broken tower at Winterfell by Jaime Lannister) when Sansa left for King's Landing, and he didn't wake up until Lady was killed. He's the most powerful warg of the Stark children and training to be a Greenseer by Sansa's canonpoint and has a strong connection to all the direwolves. She believes him to have been killed by theon Greyjoy after his capture of Winterfell, and had hoped to have a son to name after him with Willas Tyrell. She harbors enormous resentment over his death and feels frustrated that other children like Tommen Baratheon and Robin Arryn are alive when her brothers are dead.

Rickon Stark: younger brother. Sansa also believes he was killed by Theon Greyjoy and likewise harbors enormous resentment over his death. She hoped to name a child after him as well.

Theon Greyjoy: Ned Stark's ward and hostage against his father Balon Greyjoy's continued good behavior following the Pyke Rebellion, when Balon Greyjoy led the lords of the Iron Islands in a bid for independence from the Iron Throne and were defeated. Sansa found him crude and uncouth compared to her older brothers, who were often found with him (although only Robb truly liked him as he enjoyed teasing Jon Snow). Robb sends him as an envoy to the Iron Islands against his mother's advice, seeking an alliance with the Iron Islands and offering in exchange to acknowledge the independence of the Iron Islands with Balon Greyjoy as their king (as well as a share in the plunder of the wealthy Lannisters, who helped put down the Pyke Rebellion, killing the two elder Greyjoy sons). Instead Balon Greyjoy chooses to invade the North left relatively undefended as Robb and Catelyn lead their bannermen south against Joffrey. Theon joins his father despite significant misgivings, and indeed sees his chance in Winterfell left under the care of young Bran Stark and his advisors. The Starks uniformly see his capture of Winterfell as a great betrayal and can't understand why he'd repay the kindness they felt they and Ned showed him in this way. Ultimately he is coerced by a disguised Ramsay 'Bolton' (illegitimate son of eventua traitor Roose Bolton and already responsible for multiple deliberately cruel murders) into executing two local children in the place of Bran and Rickon, displaying their mutilated corpses which he insisted belonged to the Stark heirs. They were able to escape and are alive as of the latest canon materials, but neither Sansa nor her family have any way of knowing that. She considers him a traitor of the worst kind and the murderer of her brothers as well as the chief instrument in the fall and destruction of Winterfell.

Jeyne Poole: The daughter of Winterfell's steward Vayon Poole and Sansa's closest childhood friend, Jeyne was often responsible for the teasing Arya endured (and blamed Sansa for) and most 'mean girl' behavior around Winterfell. She accompanies Sansa to King's Landing, and is imprisoned alongside her when Ned Stark is arrested. Her constant crying in fear for her father makes it difficult for Sansa to think, but she tries to comfort her friend nonetheless, and when she is summoned before Cersei she inquires after Jeyne's father Vayon Poole. Shortly afterwards Jeyne is removed from Sansa's quarters and Sansa assumes she is killed along with the rest of the staff. She tries not to think about if she drew the Lannisters' attention towards Jeyne with her request.

Septa Mordane: Septas traditionally look after children and tutor young ladies especially in the courtesies expected of them. Septa Mordane was very fond of Sansa and took pride in her accomplishments. When Ned Stark is arrested, she holds off the guards long enough for Sansa to barricade herself in her room with Jeyne Poole and pays for her life. Her head is displayed next to Ned Stark's on the ramparts of the Red Keep and Joffrey forces Sansa to witness it. Sansa is angry about her death, but accepts it as a noble sacrifice no less than her father's guards endured.

King's Landing:

Joffrey 'Baratheon': Sansa's (former) fiancé and chief tormentor in King's Landing, a cruel teenage king with sadistic tendencies and a deep hatred of those who challenge his power (likely rooted in insecurity over the 'rumors' concerning his legitimacy (that his father is not Robert Baratheon but Jaime Lannister, his mother's brother, proved by Ned Stark and confirmed by Cersei Lannister herself) and his perceived father's indifference and occasional violent dislike of him. he also resents that his mother is technically regent and attempts to govern over and through him). Initially she is thrilled to be betrothed to him, and he plays the part of the handsome prince well enough at Winterfell. It is only when he discovers Arya and her friend Mycah playing with swords that his cruel nature emerges. Sansa is overwhelmed and more upset at her fantasy of a perfect marriage to the crown prince being disrupted than at the actual events taking place. She is eager to accept his apology and resume her fantasy against the wishes of her family and guardians. When Ned Stark discovers proof of Joffrey's illegitimacy he intends to send the girls away before he confronts Cersei, but Sansa refuses and instead begs Cersei to allow her to stay and marry Joffrey. After Ned's confrontation with Cersei and subsequent arrest, however, their relationship begins to sour. She begins to wonder what she ever saw in Joffrey, but she flatters him and begs his mercy anyway. He appears to indulge her request, only to reveal that his idea of mercy is a quick death. Ned is beheaded in front of Sansa and she is escorted away sobbing. Later he forces her to look at her father and septa's heads on spikes on the walls of the Red Keep. She attempts to push him off the ramparts, heedless of her own safety, but is stopped by Sandor Clegane. As king, Joffrey orders his Kingsguard to beat Sansa, at one point ordering her stripped naked first, in payment for her brother Robb raising arms against him. She is incredibly relieved when their engagement to him is broken in favor of his betrothal to Margaery Tyrell, but is quickly made aware that he intends to keep her as a mistress with all the horrors of marriage but none of the benefits being queen might confer. The Tyrells and later Tyrion manage to shield her from his wrath directly, but he does his best to continue his abuse, declaring that 'everyone is mine to torment.' When his murder is discovered many assume Sansa had something to do with it, even going so far as to spread outlandish rumors about her involvement.

Cersei Lannister: Cersei and Sansa have a tense understanding for much her time at court. Politically they are enemies and Sansa blames Cersei almost as much as Joffrey for the deaths of her family, but Sansa seems to be the closest thing Cersei has to a friend. Cersei almost confides in Sansa, lecturing her about life and politics from her perspective. Sansa generally considers her an example of what not to do if she ever becomes queen. Cersei shifts her attention to Margaery Tyrell when Joffrey agrees to marry her instead of Sansa, and more or less ignores her until her wedding to Tyrion, after which she considers her a sort of accomplice and appendage to him.

Sandor Clegane: A difficult man initially sworn into service of Joffrey Baratheon by family loyalty, he appears as a hulking menace at Winterfell and on the road but becomes a sort of protector to Sansa once she's taken hostage in King's Landing. He saves her life several ties, first when she attempts to push joffrey off the struts of the ramparts at the Red Keep where he lodges her father's head without regard for her own life or balance in the process, and again during bread riots in King's Landing, where she is separated from the group and cornered by a group of men. He offers her a handkerchief when Joffrey has one of his other men, Ser Meryn Trant, slap her in the face with armor, and he offers his cloak when Tyrion Lannister interrupts another beating in which her dress is torn open, asking for one. She has the sense that he too is a prisoner of Joffrey and feels some sympathy for him, knowing that his brother Ser Gregor Clegane mutilated his face by holding his head in the fire and likely killed his unnamed younger sister, who Sansa suspects might have been the first Little Bird. Drunk and incoherent during the battle of Blackwater he forces her to sing for him and does consider assaulting her, but ultimately breaks his oath to the Kingsguard and flees the city. He asks Sansa to come with him but she refuses, not entirely believing he will make it and preferring to rely on Ser Dontos Hollard.

Margaery Tyrell: Margaery offers Sansa friendship at the Red Keep, and Sansa deeply admires her. Margaery introduces her to Olenna and the various Tyrell ladies and is instrumental in arranging her secret betrothal to her older brother Willas. Sansa is delighted at the prospect of having Margaery as a sister, as she always wanted a sister who shared her interests in fashion and romantic songs. While Sansa finds Margaery's younger cousins somewhat sheltered and annoying, she is never frustrated or uncomfortable with Margaery, and sees her as an a example of a great queen and leader. Margaery's concern for her subjects as well as her ability to bend Joffrey to her will leave a lasting impression on Sansa and no doubt inform her actions as Alayne Stone. After Sansa's marriage to Tyrion the younger Tyrell cousins snub her to indicate their disapproval of the match, but Margaery remains kind, although she no longer allows Sansa into her inner circle.

Olenna Tyrell: the de facto head of house Tyrell, Olenna had hoped to marry Sansa to her grandson Willas, the heir to Highgarden and the Reach. She manages to build some trust with Sansa and gets a fair picture of Joffrey's character over tea and lemoncakes. She is known as the Queen of Thorns, leading Sansa to expect a much harsher character, and is pleasantly surprised that most of her barbs seem to be superficial and aimed elsewhere. Though she no longer allows Sansa at her teas after her marriage to Tyrion, which Sansa finds an understandable if unfortunate aspect of court politics, she treats Sansa with kindness when circumstance allows, and Sansa respects her. She is the one to take the poison from Sansa's jewelry and slip it into Joffrey's wine, but Sansa understands it was largely Littlefinger's plan to supply the poison in such a way and does not particularly blame the Tyrells or hold their involvement in the events leading to her exile much against them.

Tyrion Lannister: Tyrion is one of the few Lannisters that is openly kind to Sansa, preventing a brutal beating at the hands of Joffrey and finding her a cloak to cover her ruined dress. Any gratitude or good feeling she may have felt over this is immediately forgotten when she is forced to marry him against her will, tying her to house Lannister and ruining her chance of escaping to Highgarden to marry the Tyrell's youthful and well-regarded heir Willas. She sees this as a theft of her birthright as her children with Tyrion will by law inherit Winterfell as she is believed to be the sole surviving heir. But Tyrion treats her fairly, declaring himself unwilling to pursue sexual activity until she comes to love him, and acknowledging that that may never come to pass. She comes to understand that he was forced into this marriage too although she suspects he could have tried harder to get out of it, and they strike an uneasy sort of friendship, sometimes walking together and making friendly conversation. When he is blamed for and later convicted of Joffrey's murder, she is automatically considered an accessory. He escapes with a massive bounty on his head, and though Sansa doesn't entirely wish him dead she doesn't see any other way out of this marriage, and she would sooner he had died than her household and family, who she believes to be decidedly more innocent.

Dontos Hollard: an alcoholic knight of a nearly extinct house, Sansa persuades Joffrey to spare his life after he drunkenly shows up half-naked to Joffrey's nameday tournament. Littlefinger bribes him into using this connection with Sansa to spy on her, promising her his protection and that he will lead her to freedom some day. She has deep affection for him and believes him her true knight, but Littlefinger kills him shortly after he delivers Sansa into his clutches, telling her he would have given away her location in exchange for wine.

The Vale:

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: One of Sansa's defining relationships especially at her canonpoint is with Littlefinger, her mentor and abuser. She is posing as his illegitimate daughter Alayne Stone as Cersei considers her a co-conspirator (with Tyrion) in Joffrey's murder and has placed a bounty on her head. He almost certainly set the events in motion that would lead to Ned Stark's death and Sansa's imprisonment in an effort to win a second chance with Sansa's mother Catelyn Tully Stark, whom he had maintained an unrequited passion for since his childhood spent as a ward to her father in Riverrun. He made calculated advances to Sansa throughout her time in King's Landing, offering her unsolicited advice and gifts, and he was the one who told the Lannisters of her engagement to Willas Tyrell after she told his spy Dontos Hollard in confidence. After her mother's death he proceeds to isolate Sansa, passing her off as his illegitimate daughter and bringing her first to his family estate in the Fingers, where he reveals that he has agents within Cersei's confidence in King's Landing, and then to the Eyrie, where he marries her aunt Lysa. He kisses Sansa against her will, and when Lysa threatens Sansa's life over this, he instead kills Lysa, blaming a singer imprisoned in the Eyrie for attemtping to assault Sansa at an inn, who is also executed. He then makes her promise to be Alayne not only in appearance but also in her heart in order to maintain a deep cover, forcing a bond between them. He then promises to broker a marriage between her and Harry Hardyng, Robin Arryn's landless cousin and heir, once Tyrion Lannister can be proven dead, and forcibly kisses her again. Sansa is deeply ambivalent about their relationship and even describes him as two different people: Petyr, the kind protector who laughs at her jokes and teaches her lessons, and the scheming Littlefinger that grabs and kisses her. Ultimately she has no choice but to go along with his schemes, and perhaps even enjoy herself in the process, though deep down she fears what may happen after she weds Harry Hardyng and no longer needs her 'maidenhead' as a bargaining chip. She understands that he is a bad person, but also believes that she will remain alive as long as he wants her to, because the worst ones always live. She doesn't like him, exactly, but she's not sure she can survive without him.

Lysa Arryn: Maternal aunt. Though Sansa was initially glad to stay with a relative of her mother's she found Lysa's erratic behavior increasingly frightening, culminating in an incident in which Lysa witnessed Littlefinger kissing Sansa against her will and accused her of seducing him, eventually holding her over the Moon Door and threatening her with death. Littlefinger was then able to talk her down and proceeded to push her out the Moon Door to her death. Lysa confesses to murdering her husband, the hand of the King, causing Robert Baratheon to bring Ned Stark to King's Landing as the new Hand and setting the course of events that would lead to Sansa's imprisonment and the deaths of her family members at Littlefinger's behest, but Sansa does not know exactly how true it is, as Lysa has proved an unreliable witness--regardless she doesn't believe she can do anything useful about it at this time.

Robert 'Robin' Arryn: Cousin. An immature and poorly socialized preteen boy whose mother Lysa Arryn breastfed until her death as a home cure for a seizure disorder (after her death, Littlefinger 'treats' this with a dangerous sedative called sweetsleep). Lysa initially proposes that Sansa marry him, which she finds unappealing. He quickly latches on to Alayne and she becomes responsible for much of his emotional care as Littlefinger has no interest in being a parent to him. She finds him clingy, irritating, and his behavior inappropriate, but she engages with him as patiently as she is able. Secretly she resents him for being alive when her brothers are not, and she isn't particularly concerned about whether the sweetsleep, or his illness, will kill him.

Randa Royce: Sansa's first close friendship as Alayne. Randa is an older girl in her 20s who has already been widowed and speaks authoritatively on the subject of sex and sexuality which Sansa finds amusing and intriguing. She dearly appreciates that Randa shares gossip with her and in fact told her that Jon Snow had been elected Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

Mya Stone: Mya is the first girl Sansa has a friendly relationship with who doesn't broadly conform to her idea of a 'lady.' She admires Mya for her toughness and competence on the mountain, though finds her grasp of the nuances of courtly life lacking. She guides Sansa's party in and out of the Eyrie and the Gates of the Moon and teachers her that a 'stone's father is a mountain,' modeling a form of independence Sansa hasn't seen in other women. Subconsciously she may remind Sansa a bit of a grown, successful Arya, and she finds her presence soothing.

Harry Hardyng: Robin Arryn's cousin and heir. Littlefinger arranges a marriage pact between him and Alayne Stone. He does not appreciate being pushed into a marriage with a lower-status girl and speaks derisively to Sansa, distressing her considerably. She finds him pompous and unpleasant and later quite stupid as well, though she recognizes that her freedom and perhaps her life might well rest on how he feels about her and is quick to seek out Littlefinger to try and remedy the situation. Littlefinger instructs her to win him over at the feast and she finds it remarkably easy, affording her some confidence in her ability to read people and charm them.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:

While Sansa had a happy childhood at Winterfell, what positive experiences she has had since then have come as pleasant respites from a difficult period in her life and have often ended poorly. Her strength of character is demonstrated in her ability to retain her life, humanity and dignity as a young adolescent in the face of great challenges.

Sansa is compassionate. One obvious example is her immediate response to Joffrey's stated intention to execute Ser Dontos Hollard, unthinkingly declaring that he 'can't!' which she follows with desperate action to save his life. She continues to act with compassion, wishing to distribute bread to the men who attacked her in the King's Landing riots. During the battle of the Blackwater, stuck in the Red Keep with Cersei and her ladies, she offers comfort in counterpoint to Cersei's cynicism and leads the anxious ladies in a hymn. Her compassion does not diminish as Alayne Stone, though it is joined by a skeptical internal monologue. She gracefully welcomes all the visitors to the Gates of the Moon for the tourney she has organized to select a new Brotherhood of Winged Knights to serve the Lord of the Eyrie, doing her best to accommodate Ser Wallace Waynwood's stutter and talking so he doesn't have to, and encouraging the hedge knight Ser Shadrich to participate in the melee as he can't afford to enter the tourney itself.

Sansa is adaptive and resilient. She thinks quickly on her feet. In King's Landing she soon learns what to say to survive her hostage situation, decrying her mother and brother Robb as traitors without having to be told. In the Vale she listens closely to Littlefinger's lessons on politics and manipulation and soon learns to follow his machiavellian reasoning, correctly deducing that he staged an incident in which one of the representatives of the Lords Declarant, Ser Lyn Cobray, threatened him physically, nearly violating sacred guest right, in order to push the other Lords to take a stand against Lyn Cobray and back his claim to Lord Protector of the Vale (a sort of regent position speaking for the young Lord Arryn).

(2+) Negative Experiences:

Sansa relies on manipulation and deception. She learns to do this in King's Landing for self-defense and to mitigate some of Joffrey's behavior, like when she convinces him to spare the life of Ser Dontos and make him a court fool instead by telling him it's bad luck to kill a man on his nameday and making him think the fool persona was his idea. She even pushes Joffrey to take a more dangerous position in the battle of Blackwater, telling him that as king 'of course' he'll be fighting in the vanguard, since Robb does and 'he is only a pretender.' In the Vale this becomes second nature to her, for good or for ill. She convinces Maester Colemon to dose Robin Arryn with sweetsleep against his own medical advice, insisting it would be more dangerous for him to have a seizure in front of his men than to take another dose, and that he would be violating Littlefinger's orders were he to refuse it. She doesn't fully understand the cumulative nature of the poison, but she does know that any dose has the potential to be fatal. At the Gates of the Moon, she plays on Robin's emotions when he expresses a desire to make her, as Alayne, his mistress and have illegitimate children with her, she expresses hurt that he would 'dishonor her,' causing him to backtrack immediately.

Sansa has a tendency to get carried away with fantasies. This is most obvious in her in determination to marry joffrey and become queen, becoming upset when he betrays her fantasy of handsome noble prince and readily accepting his apologies (against her father's advice) so she can return to her chosen narrative. After Ned Stark's death she deeply regrets this but repeats similar patterns with regards to her engagements to Willas Tyrell and Harry Hardyng. She becomes despondent these fantasies are disrupted and seems to harbor self-blame for allowing herself to indulge in fantasy in the first place. To that end Alayne Stone is only another narrative she is playing out, a daring and clever girl with none of Sansa's perceived failures to account for.

Sansa is mistrustful. She has been betrayed by Joffrey, and again by Ser Dontos telling the Lannisters about her betrothal to Willas Tyrell. She is very careful about who she shares information with, and has told her true identity to no one who knows her as Alayne Stone. She backs up Littlefinger's claim that Marillion killed Lysa Arryn instead of exposing him as the real murderer because she is afraid the Lords Declarant may believe the Lannisters' version of Joffrey's death which casts her as an accessory to murder and return her to King's Landing, while she knows Littlefinger intends to keep her safe for the moment.

Ultimately Sansa is a teenage girl trying to keep a handle on an enormously difficult and complicated situation. As a teenager she lacks a sense of perspective and proportion and can't fully grasp the magnitude of the danger that she's in. She's grown quite adept at hiding her feelings and passing as the young adult she's been pretending to be, but her equilibrium is fragile and skin deep.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Bran confirms all the Stark children have the ability to be wargs and perhaps Greenseers. Sansa was not able to experience the 'wolf dreams' (inhabiting the body of her familiar while her human body sleeps) that her siblings (Arya and Jon as well as Bran as of the most recent published materials) did as Lady was killed prematurely.
• Blood Type: Paleblood
• Omen: leucitic raven, Winterfell
• Blessed Day: January 1st
• Patron Pthumerian: Madam Generosity
• Blood Power Manifestation:

enhanced canon powers: She will be able to warg Lady more easily and intuitively than she would in canon, and work her way up to warging any animal without a defined sense of personhood, aside from other people's familiars, starting with ravens that resemble those used for messages in Westeros (any attempt to warg a person will be met with a powerful, painful resistance). I would be interested in exploring parallels to other greenseer abilities.

After a few months of wolf dreams Jon is able to experience Ghost's senses of smell, taste, and hearing when they are in physical proximity to each other, and Arya is able to borrow the sight of nearby cats when the Faceless Men temporarily blind her. Sansa will immediately experience Lady's physical senses and soon find herself borrowing senses from local creatures (primarily birds, but also friendly batcats and hellhounds) when she needs to enhance or replicate her own senses.

perception control: she will exert an influence over the degree to which people generally pay attention to her. if she doesn't want to be noticed, she won't be. Over time and with training she may learn how to use this power to alter people's perception in other ways.

Writing Samples

One: january tdm
Two: february tdm

The Player

• Player Name: Lindsey
• Player Age: 31
• Player Contact: Boots#0099 on discord, bitterends
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