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| Sansa Stark — the stalking horse in the Game of Thrones. |
Sansa Stark
Jon Snow to Sansa Stark: "You almost sound as if you admire her [Cersei Lannister].
Sansa: "I learned a great deal from her."
Sansa Stark is the stalking horse in the GoT race. For a character who started out painfully irritating and naive, she has through great suffering and abuse acquired wisdom and cunning. Jon and Sansa have an uneven understanding, but each now hold the other in esteem and with respect. There is space for this relationship to develop (I don't think there will be any romance, just aligned interest and loyalty to the Stark family) and the woman for whom being the Queen of Westeros seemed all but certain in Season 1 may have a shot in Season 8. Lots of interesting possibilities especially if Queen Sansa has a hand in how Cersei Lannister is disposed of.
Sansa is not an easy pick, as she has some serious karmic flaws against her, including the loss of her direwolf Lady who by her lying she unwittingly sacrificed in the stead of Nymeria. Does that absolve her, or does that doom her? Hard to say. One of the signals that Sansa is going to play a role is her nuclear bomb of a sister Arya has returned to Winterfell with a hit list that doesn't have Sansa written on it. So, Sansa has means (Arya, Brienne of Tarth, Stark banner men (presumably)), motive (revenge at the very least, but she was queued to be queen Season 1), and now needs opportunity, which comes after the final clash with the Night King and the Army of the Dead or in whatever scheming and alliance building required to initiate that clash.
So, if Sansa does win, does she ascend to the Iron Throne alone? And if not, who stands beside her? She was married to Tyrion Lannister once — might she marry him again? That would go a long way toward cooling the hot blood in the Stark-Lannister conflict, especially if Cersei gets taken out. I think the Tyrion angle could actually work considering that almost all of the men she's dealt with have been schmucks to downright evil (looking at you dog-chewed corpse of Ramsay Bolton). Two that she (almost certainly) has come to see are not are Sandor Clegane aka the Hound and Tyrion Lannister. Despite the karmic drawback of not having a direwolf, Sansa is my early flier bet to win it all. Will hold off on the marriage to Tyrion for now, but recognize that it's really not all that crazy of an idea.
A summary of all original and current predictions with pointers can be found at the WBC Prediction Status page.
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