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sᴀɴsᴀ (winterfelled) wrote in somerealityrpg,
@ 2021-02-17 01:58:00

Entry tags:

active: sansa stark, active: torunn thorsdottir

tribulations of families

Well that escalated quickly

WHAT. taking a walk to clear her head
WHERE. a non-damaged area of the park
WHEN. right now
WARNINGS. potential ruminations on torture, forced marriage, abuse & death. also 4 large wolves.
STATUS. open & in progress

Calling Sansa and Arya's relationship complicated would be, in Sansa's opinion, an understatement. She'd attempted once to explain it to Margaery, who'd had a darling brother and a close relationship with him -perhaps similar to Jon and Arya in some ways, but Sansa couldn't really find the words to explain things.

Sometimes, it felt worse since the Battle of Winterfell, sometimes it felt better. But there were aspects of their childhood that never seemed to move away, and Sansa's extended periods with people like Cersei and Littlefinger had hardened some corners of her heart. Not showing weakness, distrusting it in others, keeping people at arms length.

It didn't really surprise her that Arya could be as cutting with words as she was with a knife. Nor did it surprise her that when animosity was delivered it was sent back. Arya brushed off her injury as if it were nothing, either unaware of the panic hearing about her sister's injury caused Sansa, or just not considering it. She had seen so many people she cared for struck from this life; witnessing father's beheading, being told in gory detail of Robb and her mother's final moments, of the niece or nephew that had been killed before it took breath, seeing Rickon so cruelly hunted by such a heartless beast. Margaery and Ser Loras, Theon, Sandor. All gone and Sansa learning with each death that caring for people brought pain.

Cersei may actually have been right about one thing.

As Shaggy Dog chased Summer through some trees, Lady staying quietly by Sansa's side and Grey Wind kept careful watch (Nymeria and Ghost with Arya wherever she was in this half ruined world), Sansa realised that perhaps she had underestimated her sister's propensity for causing pain.

Joffrey had been the biggest mistake of Sansa's life, and she knew that. She'd been young, full of ideas and swept up in the fantasy of being Queen, with an adoring husband and beautiful children and ruling with compassion and love. Of course, those turned out to be two things Joffrey wasn't capable of at all, and Sansa's childish dreams turned to ash in her mouth, dead as a dove held too tight, the moment her father's head was lobbed from his shoulders at her betrothed's orders.

She could only have wished that Joffrey would've been the worst of it. Although Lord Tyrion had been gentle and kind, attempting to make her captivity as easy on her as he possibly could, they both knew she was unhappy with their situation.

Not that any of it could have prepared her for Ramsey.

As a shudder ran down her spine, Lady nudging at her legs with a whine, Sansa buried her hand in the soft fur at Lady's neck before locating a tree with suitable shading where she could sit for a moment, keeping an eye on Shaggy Dog and Summer chasing each other.

She just needed some time and air before going home.

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	girlofthunder 2021-02-19 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Torunn smiled and nodded as she noticed Lady perk up. "Looks like she agrees," she responded. "So what are you up to? I didn't mean to interrupt." However, she wasn't sorry she stopped. There was something about Sansa that she liked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

winterfelled
2021-02-19 12:46 am UTC (link)

Lady had always been emotive, her expressions very in tune with Sansa's moods, in truth all the Direwolves had bonded closely with their Stark. "You didn't interrupt anything important," Sansa had just needed a little time, some air, the chance to shake off what Arya had said to her. Memories from home were never far away, and her ability to be in a room with some of these people was tested greatly at times. She was mostly thankful for Diana's quiet grace and strength, Margaery's support, even Arya's fierceness.

It also helped that the males in each of their lives were gentlemen. "I just came out for some air, and to get the wolves out for some exercise."

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girlofthunder
2021-02-19 12:52 am UTC (link)

"It does get suffocating in there sometimes," Torunn said. It was partly why she didn't like traditional school. She wasn't used to being held up for hours at a time. She and her brothers were tutored, of course, but encouraged to learn hands on. Besides, she spent years in a dome. Granted, it was a spacious dome she could explore in, but still a dome she couldn't escape. "But if you are sure you are alright..."

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winterfelled
2021-02-19 01:37 am UTC (link)

It did get to be too much sometimes, "I grew up in a busy home," Winterfell was usually busy, being the central fort of the North. "It's just..." Well, Torunn had siblings, so she likely understood, "Sibling stuff."

Their dynamic was odd, there wasn't that much time between their births, but they grew up so different, and then they had such vastly different experiences. "It's just better to walk away and get some air sometimes."

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	girlofthunder 2021-02-19 01:48 am UTC (link)
	"Ah. Yeah, sometimes I want to take my sword to my brothers," she joked. She'd never *really* hurt her family, but sometimes they needed a good uppercut. "I spar with James sometimes. It is a good way to get frustrations with each other out." She guessed, from what Sansa mentioned, that suggestion wouldn't work for her. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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