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[theladyofwinterfell]

OOC INFORMATION

Player Name: Cerie
Are you over 18?: yes
Contact: tessituras
Other Characters in Game: n/a

IC INFORMATION

Character Name: Sansa Stark
Canon: Game of Thrones
Canon Point: end of series
Age: 20
Background: here

Arrival Scenario:

Sansa will be arriving in Thorne.

Suitability:

Sansa has developed from a naive girl into a politically astute Queen in the North over the course of her young life and while she has come by this knowledge in less than pleasant ways, it aids her in Westeros as she navigates the difficult politics of being both a ruler and a woman. This will aid her as she arrives in Thorne, as well, because she will make it a priority to learn who the nobles are, what their political leanings are, and what the terms of the current relations between factions are.

While she isn’t a war-monger or someone to engage in physical combat, she will take a keen interest in negotiations and leveraging her own position to get ahead. This will be difficult at the beginning considering her status as a Stark and a Queen will mean nothing in Thorne but she will work toward becoming someone of influence through the means available to her. She is a patient woman in spite of being very young and this plot will be overarching and last quite a long time; this is not something I intend to accomplish with her within a month or two.

Sansa has canonmates in both her brother and Sandor Clegane and they can serve as anchors to jump off her CR and make it easier for her to fit into the game. I do not intend to rely heavily upon this as it is a game and not a PSL but it is helpful to have that initial hook for introductions to new characters and connections.

Finally, Sansa is a skilled sewer and will be able to craft tapestries and clothing to sell, which gives her a way both to earn her own money and meet new people so she will not be completely reliant on the charity of Castle Thorne even though the castle is the most similar to her own home.

Powers: Sansa does not have any powers and she is a baseline human being.

PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them.

Sansa has many important things that have happened in her life but her most defining moment was the death of her father. This is the loss of her innocence, the first time she can see that people can be beautiful and awful at the same time and that she has to protect herself from them as best she can. She still makes mistakes after this but before his execution, she was a girl, and afterward she was somewhat else.

This is the turning point for her where she goes from pretty, polite lady to someone with a sharp tongue and a sharp mind and that only gets honed to a keener edge as the years go on. This is when she realizes you can learn from your enemies as much as hate them and that you can be one thing on the outside and something else on the inside.

The death of Ned Stark is the thing that shatters her perfect childhood and shows her what the world truly is.

Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by?

Sansa does have a moral code but it is not purely honor or goodness. She has been influenced by the likes of Cersei, Tyrion, Littlefinger, and Ramsay so she knows that to be strong and effectual in the world you have to sometimes discard honor in favor of strategy and she is more than capable of doing this when she needs the upper hand on someone. For example - she is happy to call upon Littlefinger and his influence in the Vale during the Battle of the Bastards in spite of the fact that he betrayed her to Ramsay because she knows Littlefinger wants her in some way and would see it as a favor she could repay with her love or her body; Jon is vehemently against this as it violates his honor.

Sansa looks out for Sansa and, by extension, the North. She knows that no one will care for her or love her enough to protect her but herself and so she gathers power around her so that she can advance her own interests. At the Kingmaking council, she is quick to assert her claim on the North as an independent country in spite of protest and does not back down from it. Her loyalty to her family is paramount, as well, and she is willing to send an entire army to protect Jon if need be because she claims him as Stark, not Targaryen.

The only thing that Sansa will not compromise is herself.

What quality or qualities do they admire most?

Sansa admires those who are strong - not in a physical sense but in their personalities and their minds. She admires strong rulers and she admires those who can shift perceptions around themselves to advance their interests over others. She wants to control all the pieces in the game and those who prove worthy adversaries to her in this cause earn her respect even if they may also earn her ire and consternation.

Those who bend but do not break are those she respects and sees as equals because she, too, has done that before. She does not admire those who are totalitarian or blinded by honor and principles (aside from her own father and brother, of course).

Do they have a part of themselves they dislike?

Sansa dislikes her weakness. Anything that is girlish or soft is something she wants to excise from herself because that is what gets you hurt. She used to be very naive and because of it, she suffered, so now she holds her emotions tight to her chest except with those that she truly, truly trusts.

She can easily put on a facade of happiness and merriment if the occasion calls for it but she is always watching everyone, always looking for the angles, and calculating who may be an ally or an enemy. When she forgets to do this and loses herself in the moment, she chastises herself because it is a crack in her carefully-constructed mask.

What is their sign, and why?

Sansa is The High Priestess but she seeks knowledge in a strategic sense, not an academic one. She needs to know things in order to leverage them for her own benefit, not to simply know them, so anything she deems useful is something she wants and she feels that her mind and knowledge are her sharpest weapons.

SAMPLES

Samples: i. ii.