Thinking about the fact that all of the couples who either had “I am hers she is mine” playing for them or sampled in one of their songs had a tragic ending DONT text

jackoshadows:

It’s funny how the idiot branch of the fandom goes on and on about GRRM inverting tropes and making heroes into villains and how morally dark characters are interesting than plain old heroes and how this is what GRRM is doing with Dany and Jon and all that…

But this discussion never, ever touches Sansa. Why? In the books,  Sansa is currently in the Vale participating in the slow poisoning of her little cousin. Why is no one writing metas about dark!Sansa and how GRRM was writing an interesting morally complex dark Sansa who slowly becomes more villainous under LF’s influence? That would also be inverting tropes right?

On the show,  they clearly play with Sansa’s divided loyalties between herself and her family. For two seasons we have had to sit through Sansa lying to Jon, keeping important information from him and nearly getting him killed, undermining him, fighting with Arya over power, nearly having Arya executed under LF’s manipulation - this is ALL show canon. This all actually happened on the show. But mentioning any of this brings out the hordes of rabid Sansa stans screaming about Sansa haters. So even thought the show plays with a morally grey Sansa who wants to be Queen rather than Jon and passive-aggressively tries to get it from him, her fans see her as this kind, compassionate, selfless beacon in the North. No flaws, no mistakes. She is wise, intelligent, super smart, best queen the world has ever seen. And such a character is perfectly ok in ASoIaF.

But Jon, Dany and Arya? They all have to be bad and do bad things and be morally dark and invert tropes to be interesting.

So Dany has to go mad and do evil shit and die miserably.

Jon has to become LF and sexually manipulate her.

Arya has to slit the throat of the mother of dragons and have more blood on her hands.

And Sansa? Notice how she does not get her hands dirty in any of these theories. The most benevolent saint Sansa only has to kindly marry Jon and bestow her pure, best Stark name onto him and banish the evil Targaryen name away. That’s all. And she will then become queen and get her brave, gentle husband she wanted at the start of book one, season one.  And she will still be the best, most interesting, relatable, complex character ever written in the history of ASoIaF.

But Jon, Dany and Arya? No. They are all boring as good guys. They have to do evil shit to be interesting and GRRM is going to invert all the tropes with them.

Their absolute hypocrisy is what is maddening about all this. Their acute focus on making the Dany the bad guy because GRRM is inverting tropes or some such nonsense. But Sansa is for some reason exempt from this trope inverting business - even though both her book and show plots constantly write her as a character with shaky loyalties to her family.