she's a deconstruction of a damsel. All she wanted is to be married to a handsome prince and be a traditional woman but look at all the hardships she has to endure with no knight in shining armor for her. Despite that she retains her kindness and does not have bloodlust despite everything.
Yeah Arya is awesome but I hate it when Sansa's standard is to be "as awesome" as her sister. The two are fighting parallel battles. If they switched places they both would die, Arya uses her skills to survive out in the wild while Sansa uses her emotional resilience and ability to hold back any undesirable actions to survive in KL where no Stark lasted long. Just imagine if Arya stayed and lashes out to Joffey every now and then!
Arya had Yoren, Gendry, Jaqen, Hot Pie, Lommy, the Brotherhood of Banners, and now The Hound to help her. Sansa has... Shae and Littlefinger?
Ned Stark said that the only way they could survive was to stick together, and that was never an option. Robb had their mother. Rickon and Bran had Winterfell and then each other. Jon is on the wall, with his brothers, and then across it with Ygritte, then back to the wall. Arya had Gendry, and is still linked to Nymeria. But Sansa has absolutely no one who is her family. So she takes the strength and poise of a lady, and turns it into something as deadly and defensive as a direwolf’s fangs and claws. She knows that she is alone, and that no one is coming for her, so she adapts. She plays the game, she keeps her mouth shut, she stays alive. Because the best way to hide a wolf, to keep people feeling safe, is to make them think it’s just a well trained dog.
http://echrai.tumblr.com/post/52542952202/i-have-direwolf-feelings-and-now-im-going-to-talk
Long rant ahead.
