“You’re going to die tomorrow, lord Bolton”
sansa stark
1. hungry like the wolf – snow hill
2. million years ago – adele
3. mirror mirror – jeff williams & casey lee williams
4. sweet dreams – emily browning
5. the state of dreaming – marina and the diamonds
6. hope in the air – laura marling
7. torn – natalie imbruglia
8. if it doesn’t kill you – siouxsie
9. rabbit heart (raise it up) – florence and the machine
10. the king is dead – kent
11. the devil within – digital daggers
12. sansa’s hymn – karliene
Why are all the Battle of the Bastards reviews so terribly insistent that Sansa didn’t care about Rickon? Yeah, she was pragmatic about what would most likely happen to him (and she was right) but her seeing his dead body is the final nail in the coffin for her to subject Ramsay to his deservedly horrible death. Yeah, she’s changed but she still loves her family, she’s still Sansa, there was no way Rickon’s death wasn’t heartbreaking for her.
I don’t know if anyone mentioned it, and I know not everyone will agree, but I’m personally really glad that in Sansa’s murder of Ramsay, she didn’t physically kill him.
There have been so many critics of Sansa who have harped on her for not being a warrior, someone who can physically draw a blade and ride into battle, and if she were to suddenly become a battle tactician or stab Ramsay with a knife I don’t think I would have enjoyed that – because, if she were to stab him and become some warrior, it would oddly support those who said they’d only like her if she became a physical fighter. So, I’m so glad that the way she was portrayed in the episode was wonderful.
She said she didn’t know a thing about battle, but still managed to save the day because what she did know was that they didn’t have the numbers. She killed Ramsay, but she didn’t do it with her bare hands. She let those dogs on him and she watched. She killed him, she “swung the sword”, in a sense, without ever physically laying a hand on him, and I love that. I wish that it wasn’t shown in a rape-revenge trope plot, because that’s a shitty trope, but I love that fans got to see how smart and powerful Sansa is without her having to physically fight and be something she’s not.
Honestly I don’t even know which sibling I feel worse for over Rickon’s death because it just hits me in different ways for them.
Jon was so adamant about saving Rickon, he was right there, he had hope that he could save his brother but he had to watch him die in front of him. He has to live with knowing that he was right there and his brother still died.
Sansa knew that this would happen, she tried to accept it before it even happened, but you could see the pain in her eyes when she saw Rickon and the fact that she didn’t allow herself to hope for Rickon just breaks me up.
Even Arya is going to go home, and find out that her youngest brother is dead. How awful is it to be so filled with hope and find out your baby brother is gone?
And Bran. Fucking Bran. He told Rickon to go, he heard Rickon say that he was supposed to protect him and he let his brother go off with a smile and told him that he had to protect him now. He wanted his baby brother safe and the people he entrusted his brother to betrayed him and caused his death and just. Ugh. When he finds out he’s going to be so, so heartbroken.
The Starks are too good to have to go through losing a brother again.