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ABOUT YOU
Name: Shana
Are you 18 or over?: still!
Other characters played: Spike
CHARACTER
Name: Sansa Stark
Canon: A Song of Ice and Fire
Age: three-and-ten
History: There's a lot of it.
Point in canon: After Joffrey's wedding, while attempting to escape the castle. This is to match the ASOIAF universe already in progress here. For her, not much has changed. Arya Stark is still missing, but instead of being with Sandor Clegane, she's in another universe, and Robb Stark is still presumed dead, though it isn't true. Sansa, though, doesn't know where Arya Stark is and is one of the people presuming Robb's dead, so for her, the change isn't noticeable.
Window Location: I assume there was one here already, but if it could be moved to the Godswood of King's Landing, that would be dandy.
Universe: Earth 1 | 0085
Abilities: Nothing supernatural. She's excellent at needles and dancing and being courteous in all the ways expected of a Lady of Westeros. She's really good at being diplomatic and mastering smalltalk.
Possessions: A hairnet with poisonous purple stones, a fine gown… not much else.
Personality: Sansa is a proper young lady. She is beautiful, dutiful, kind, and polite. She has been taught her entire life what being a Lady in Westeros means, and she has lived by it. She knows how to sew and dance and sing, she always wears pretty clothes that she is careful not to tear or dirty, and she expects, in the first book at least, to grow up and marry someone her parents pick out for her to strengthen some alliance or other. Sansa is a romantic, so she hopes her marriage will be a good one, to someone handsome and brave who will love her very much. Growing up with two parents who loved each other dearly despite the fact that their marriage was arranged gave her expectations of love and happiness. When she finds out she's to be married to Prince Joffrey, heir to the throne of Westeros, she is initially thrilled. It seems like living out a fairy tale for her. Unfortunately, it turned out he was the beast, not the hero of her tale. Her life since leaving Winterfell has been all about learning that life is not a song, and she can't just expect a happy ending to fall into her lap.
Sansa loves the fashions and atmosphere of the south. It's so glamorous and bright compared to the dreary, cold north where everyone must always dress warmly and company is hard to find past the residents of Winterfell and the few visitors they may get. She enjoys being around other ladies and being able to learn new hairstyles and try different dresses and enjoy the high life. But she was raised in the north, and the north is in her blood. Winterfell is her home, and though she can be at home in any castle, there is a certain strength that comes from the north. For all of her sweetness and obedience, Sansa is far from weak. She can't swing a sword, but she has a strong survival instinct.
King's Landing is a snake pit of politics and intrigue, and Sansa has survived nearly two years there. She does not consider herself very brave, but tells herself she must be in order to survive. Bravery for her does not mean speaking her mind or assassinating the king, it means smiling at the king she hates and telling him she loves him because otherwise he'll have his men beat her at the least or put her head on a spike at the most. It means taking the small victories she can. She saves the life of Ser Dontos when he shows up at Joffrey's nameday tournament drunk through quick-thinking and making Joffrey think it was his idea. When she is forced to marry the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, she refuses to kneel to help him put the wedding cloak on her that will make them man and wife. She can't stop the marriage. If she'd made a fuss and refused to say the vows, they would still have found a way to marry her, but she can remain standing, making the affair as unpleasant for Tyrion as it is for her.
She felt badly after that one small rebellion, though, as the marriage wasn't Tyrion's fault. Tyrion actually treated her well compared to the other Lannisters, and Sansa has a remarkably generous heart despite everything she's been through. She recognizes that he didn't want this wedding either, and that not kneeling was horribly embarrassing for him, and she does feel sorry, a little. But no one is feeling sorry for her embarrassment and her pain and that was what drove the act in the first place. Their marriage is not a happy one. Sansa refuses to be anything but the picture of courtesy despite Tyrion's best efforts to get her to relax. He may not be Cersei or Joffrey, and he may have decided to wait for sex until she wants it, but he is still a Lannister, still ugly and stunted, and she still was forced to marry him. She can never trust him, and certainly never love him. All she has to offer him is the constant courtesy she hides behind.
The people Sansa truly loves are the people she hasn't seen for far too long. Her family. Unfortunately, it took her too long to realize how important her family was to her. She spent the first book doting over Joffrey and imagining how wonderful it would be to marry him, to the point that she betrayed her family twice and each time paid the price herself. She said she didn't remember what had happened when Joffrey and Arya had fought, despite knowing very well that the entire thing was Joffrey's fault. She didn't want to displease Joffrey and she didn't want to lie, so she refused to take a side, and lost her direwolf for it. She also sabotaged her father's attempts to sneak the family out of King's Landing by taking news of it to the king, which ended up getting many of her people killed and tipped the queen off to Ned's upcoming move against her. It takes her months to realize that the charming prince is just a façade and Joffrey is a monster, but by then it's too late. She tries desperately to get Joffrey to spare her father's life, but he refuses, chopping Ned's head off right in front of Sansa.
She is close to her family, though she only ever refers to Jon Snow as her bastard brother or half-brother, as she is very aware of the status of trueborn children in comparison to bastards. Her mother praises her for her beauty and skill at needlepoint. Arya Stark, however, leaves a lot to be desired as far as sisters go. Arya is not like Sansa at all. She wants to fight and run with the boys and is no good at any of the tasks ladies are supposed to be good at. Sansa works hard at being a lady, but to her it seems like Arya doesn't try at all, and yet despite all that their parents love both sisters equally. She doesn't understand Arya, who doesn't care about marriage or fashion or any of the things Sansa finds interesting. The things ladies are supposed to find interesting. Arya doesn't care about any of that, so they can't talk about it like Sansa does with her friends. Not understanding isn't the same as not loving, though. Arya isn't everything she'd ask for in a sister, but she is part of Sansa's family. Sansa may not have appreciated her family when they were all together, but now that they're apart, she misses them and would do anything to get them back. Sansa is a direwolf of House Stark, and her family is her pack. She'd protect them all if she had the power, but she doesn't have much power at all. She's a lady in a land where ladies rarely have much power save what they are given or what they manage to carve out for themselves, and there is precious little available for a young girl from a family that has been marked traitors. She has learned how to survive the game of thrones, but she is still just a pawn. She has a long way to go before she becomes a queen.
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Plans: Sansa will be remaining in Cittagazze for the time being, at least. Here, she has a sister and there are no Lannisters around. She's safe for the first time in over a year. She's not giving that up.
Notes:
DÆMON
Name: Galladon
Sex: M
Form: unsettled
Additional notes: For the most part, Galladon is very well behaved, and every form he takes is beautiful because like Sansa, he cares a lot about appearance. However, he's quicker to anger than Sansa and quicker to show emotion in general because even though Sansa has gotten very good at hiding her feelings, they're still very much there. She's a Stark of Winterfell, and she's got lots of pride and anger and sadness that she has learned to hide but still feels.
Why this form: I thought a lot about whether her form should be settled or not. Though she'd still be a child in modern Western society, in Westeros she's married and capable of having children, and she's had to grow up pretty quickly to survive her captivity in King's Landing. Despite that, I think she still has some growing up to do before her soul settles, so I am leaving her daemon unsettled for the time being. His name comes from Ser Galladon of Morne, a knight so perfect that the Maiden, one of the Seven Westerosi Gods, fell in love with him and gave him a magic sword. Sansa loves stories and songs and has from the start a very romantic view of the world. She expects her tale to be like that of Ser Galladon and the Maiden, and though by now she's lost that naïve optimism, songs and heroes and tales are still a big part of her upbringing. Naming her daemon after the perfect knight calls back to that part of her.
Name: Shana
Are you 18 or over?: still!
Other characters played: Spike
CHARACTER
Name: Sansa Stark
Canon: A Song of Ice and Fire
Age: three-and-ten
History: There's a lot of it.
Point in canon: After Joffrey's wedding, while attempting to escape the castle. This is to match the ASOIAF universe already in progress here. For her, not much has changed. Arya Stark is still missing, but instead of being with Sandor Clegane, she's in another universe, and Robb Stark is still presumed dead, though it isn't true. Sansa, though, doesn't know where Arya Stark is and is one of the people presuming Robb's dead, so for her, the change isn't noticeable.
Window Location: I assume there was one here already, but if it could be moved to the Godswood of King's Landing, that would be dandy.
Universe: Earth 1 | 0085
Abilities: Nothing supernatural. She's excellent at needles and dancing and being courteous in all the ways expected of a Lady of Westeros. She's really good at being diplomatic and mastering smalltalk.
Possessions: A hairnet with poisonous purple stones, a fine gown… not much else.
Personality: Sansa is a proper young lady. She is beautiful, dutiful, kind, and polite. She has been taught her entire life what being a Lady in Westeros means, and she has lived by it. She knows how to sew and dance and sing, she always wears pretty clothes that she is careful not to tear or dirty, and she expects, in the first book at least, to grow up and marry someone her parents pick out for her to strengthen some alliance or other. Sansa is a romantic, so she hopes her marriage will be a good one, to someone handsome and brave who will love her very much. Growing up with two parents who loved each other dearly despite the fact that their marriage was arranged gave her expectations of love and happiness. When she finds out she's to be married to Prince Joffrey, heir to the throne of Westeros, she is initially thrilled. It seems like living out a fairy tale for her. Unfortunately, it turned out he was the beast, not the hero of her tale. Her life since leaving Winterfell has been all about learning that life is not a song, and she can't just expect a happy ending to fall into her lap.
Sansa loves the fashions and atmosphere of the south. It's so glamorous and bright compared to the dreary, cold north where everyone must always dress warmly and company is hard to find past the residents of Winterfell and the few visitors they may get. She enjoys being around other ladies and being able to learn new hairstyles and try different dresses and enjoy the high life. But she was raised in the north, and the north is in her blood. Winterfell is her home, and though she can be at home in any castle, there is a certain strength that comes from the north. For all of her sweetness and obedience, Sansa is far from weak. She can't swing a sword, but she has a strong survival instinct.
King's Landing is a snake pit of politics and intrigue, and Sansa has survived nearly two years there. She does not consider herself very brave, but tells herself she must be in order to survive. Bravery for her does not mean speaking her mind or assassinating the king, it means smiling at the king she hates and telling him she loves him because otherwise he'll have his men beat her at the least or put her head on a spike at the most. It means taking the small victories she can. She saves the life of Ser Dontos when he shows up at Joffrey's nameday tournament drunk through quick-thinking and making Joffrey think it was his idea. When she is forced to marry the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, she refuses to kneel to help him put the wedding cloak on her that will make them man and wife. She can't stop the marriage. If she'd made a fuss and refused to say the vows, they would still have found a way to marry her, but she can remain standing, making the affair as unpleasant for Tyrion as it is for her.
She felt badly after that one small rebellion, though, as the marriage wasn't Tyrion's fault. Tyrion actually treated her well compared to the other Lannisters, and Sansa has a remarkably generous heart despite everything she's been through. She recognizes that he didn't want this wedding either, and that not kneeling was horribly embarrassing for him, and she does feel sorry, a little. But no one is feeling sorry for her embarrassment and her pain and that was what drove the act in the first place. Their marriage is not a happy one. Sansa refuses to be anything but the picture of courtesy despite Tyrion's best efforts to get her to relax. He may not be Cersei or Joffrey, and he may have decided to wait for sex until she wants it, but he is still a Lannister, still ugly and stunted, and she still was forced to marry him. She can never trust him, and certainly never love him. All she has to offer him is the constant courtesy she hides behind.
The people Sansa truly loves are the people she hasn't seen for far too long. Her family. Unfortunately, it took her too long to realize how important her family was to her. She spent the first book doting over Joffrey and imagining how wonderful it would be to marry him, to the point that she betrayed her family twice and each time paid the price herself. She said she didn't remember what had happened when Joffrey and Arya had fought, despite knowing very well that the entire thing was Joffrey's fault. She didn't want to displease Joffrey and she didn't want to lie, so she refused to take a side, and lost her direwolf for it. She also sabotaged her father's attempts to sneak the family out of King's Landing by taking news of it to the king, which ended up getting many of her people killed and tipped the queen off to Ned's upcoming move against her. It takes her months to realize that the charming prince is just a façade and Joffrey is a monster, but by then it's too late. She tries desperately to get Joffrey to spare her father's life, but he refuses, chopping Ned's head off right in front of Sansa.
She is close to her family, though she only ever refers to Jon Snow as her bastard brother or half-brother, as she is very aware of the status of trueborn children in comparison to bastards. Her mother praises her for her beauty and skill at needlepoint. Arya Stark, however, leaves a lot to be desired as far as sisters go. Arya is not like Sansa at all. She wants to fight and run with the boys and is no good at any of the tasks ladies are supposed to be good at. Sansa works hard at being a lady, but to her it seems like Arya doesn't try at all, and yet despite all that their parents love both sisters equally. She doesn't understand Arya, who doesn't care about marriage or fashion or any of the things Sansa finds interesting. The things ladies are supposed to find interesting. Arya doesn't care about any of that, so they can't talk about it like Sansa does with her friends. Not understanding isn't the same as not loving, though. Arya isn't everything she'd ask for in a sister, but she is part of Sansa's family. Sansa may not have appreciated her family when they were all together, but now that they're apart, she misses them and would do anything to get them back. Sansa is a direwolf of House Stark, and her family is her pack. She'd protect them all if she had the power, but she doesn't have much power at all. She's a lady in a land where ladies rarely have much power save what they are given or what they manage to carve out for themselves, and there is precious little available for a young girl from a family that has been marked traitors. She has learned how to survive the game of thrones, but she is still just a pawn. She has a long way to go before she becomes a queen.
Thread Sample:
Prose Sample:
Plans: Sansa will be remaining in Cittagazze for the time being, at least. Here, she has a sister and there are no Lannisters around. She's safe for the first time in over a year. She's not giving that up.
Notes:
DÆMON
Name: Galladon
Sex: M
Form: unsettled
Additional notes: For the most part, Galladon is very well behaved, and every form he takes is beautiful because like Sansa, he cares a lot about appearance. However, he's quicker to anger than Sansa and quicker to show emotion in general because even though Sansa has gotten very good at hiding her feelings, they're still very much there. She's a Stark of Winterfell, and she's got lots of pride and anger and sadness that she has learned to hide but still feels.
Why this form: I thought a lot about whether her form should be settled or not. Though she'd still be a child in modern Western society, in Westeros she's married and capable of having children, and she's had to grow up pretty quickly to survive her captivity in King's Landing. Despite that, I think she still has some growing up to do before her soul settles, so I am leaving her daemon unsettled for the time being. His name comes from Ser Galladon of Morne, a knight so perfect that the Maiden, one of the Seven Westerosi Gods, fell in love with him and gave him a magic sword. Sansa loves stories and songs and has from the start a very romantic view of the world. She expects her tale to be like that of Ser Galladon and the Maiden, and though by now she's lost that naïve optimism, songs and heroes and tales are still a big part of her upbringing. Naming her daemon after the perfect knight calls back to that part of her.