Sandor Is Still An Old Man Who Needs To Stay Away From Sansa.

sandor is still an old man who needs to stay away from sansa.

“You look almost a woman … face, teats, and you’re taller too, almost … ah, you’re still a stupid little bird, aren’t you?” he made like this comment towards a 11-12 year old. don’t even get me started on him telling arya about how he wished to assault her. if you honestly ship sansa with him i don’t trust you.

Perhaps the most weapons-grade stupid anti argument is, “If you ship Sansa with an old man, you’re not a real Sansa fan and even less so if he's disabled in some way” because it’s such low hanging fruit and ableist and gross.

I assume that many of these people self-insert themselves into Sansa’s place and thus react to Sansa’s canon pairings as if they themselves were presented with those options. (For the record, if a Sandor Clegane-type man shows up at their door, they can certainly send him my direction and I will take him off their hands and into mine 😏)

It’s not inherently wrong to identify with a character. In fact, one of GRRM’s strengths as a writer is writing compelling characters who are flawed and dimensional. But trying to police what parts of a character and character arc constitute being a “real fan” is even more laughable than just engaging in a good ol’ fashioned ship war.

And what’s ironic is that these are the same people who ignore and trivialize the canon basis of SanSan and Sandor's role in her character arc. Notice I said nothing about them being end game here. I simply acknowledge that they both had a meaningful impact on each other.

So, tell me again who’s the TrUe FaN—the people who read the books and correctly comprehended Sansa’s arc and how other characters impacted it or the people who try to shoehorn their teenage heartthrob fantasies onto a fictional character and get mad when that shoe doesn't fit.

do you think Sansa is poisoning/will poision Sweetrobin or is a willing accomplice in the plot?

Littlefinger is the one poisoning Sweetrobin. It’s Baelish who explicitly suggests the sweetsleep to the unwilling Maester Coleman:

“No, I think not. I suggest you find another way. The boy is fond of sweets, is he not?”

“Sweets?” said Colemon.

“Sweets. Cakes and pies, jams and jellies, honey on the comb. Perhaps a pinch of sweetsleep in his milk, have you tried that? Just a pinch, to calm him and stop his wretched shaking.”

“A pinch?” The apple in the maester’s throat moved up and down as he swallowed. “One small pinch… perhaps, perhaps. Not too much, and not too often, yes, I might try…”

“A pinch,” Lord Petyr said, “before you bring him forth to meet the lords.”

“As you command, my lord.” The maester hurried out, his chain clinking softly with every step.

Now, we’re not explicitly told that Littlefinger knows about the poisonous properties of sweetsleep (it’s only identified as a poison in “Cat of the Canals”), but considering he A) suggested it to the unwilling master B) has centered his plans on Robert’s soon-coming death (“When Robert dies. Our poor brave Sweetrobin is such a sickly boy, it is only a matter of time”) and C) knows how to acquire and use at least two different other kinds of poison, I’m pretty confident Littlefinger made the suggestion knowing exactly what the repercussions would be.

But Sansa? Sansa only knows that it’s another tactic to make little Robert calm and stop his shaking fits.

“Give his lordship a cup of sweetmilk,” she told the maester. “That will stop him from shaking on the journey down.”

“He had a cup not three days past,” Colemon objected.

“And wanted another last night, which you refused him.”

“It was too soon. My lady, you do not understand. As I’ve told the Lord Protector, a pinch of sweetsleep will prevent the shaking, but it does not leave the flesh, and in time…”

“Time will not matter if his lordship has a shaking fit and falls off the mountain. If my father were here, I know he would tell you to keep Lord Robert calm at all costs.”

“I try, my lady, yet his fits grow ever more violent, and his blood is so thin I dare not leech him any more. Sweetsleep… you are certain he was not bleeding from the nose?”

“He was sniffling,” Alayne admitted, “but I saw no blood.”

“Just give him a cup of the sweetmilk before we go, and another at the feast, and there should be no trouble.”

“Very well.” They paused at the foot of the stairs. “But this must be the last. For half a year, or longer.”

Coleman doesn’t tell Sansa the full story - partially because he’s interrupted by her - and so she’s left in ignorance of the true dangers of constant doses of sweetsleep. Sansa does not suspect, at this point, that Littlefinger is actively trying to murder Robert Arryn, and so would not see Littlefinger’s insistence on sweetsleep and its variants as anything other than a means to make sure he did not have a shaking episode while the Lords Declarant were visiting. Consequently, Sansa is going to be as shocked as anyone else if and when, as @poorquentyn speculates, Lord Robert dies during the Winged Knight Tourney from a collective overdose of sweetsleep in his body

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“sansa sat up. lady, she whispered. for a moment it was if the direwolf was there in the room with her, looking at her with those golden eyes, sad and knowing. she had been dreaming, she realized. lady was with her, and they were running together, and trying to remember was like catching rain with her fingers. the dream faded and lady was dead again.” -sansa agot III

“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.” - sansa asos VII

The northern girl. Winterfell’s daughter.

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