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theladyofwinterfell) wrote2019-02-13 02:34 pm
theladyofwinterfell) wrote2019-02-13 02:34 pm
Entry tags:
A Gentle Night; application
CHARACTER
Name Sansa Stark
Canon Game of Thrones
Age Approximately 18/19
Birthright Jewel Purple Dusk, as determined by RNG
Dreams made flesh
Sansa very much wants Winterfell to survive war and winter. She fought very long and hard to make her way back home again and agreeing to leave it, even if temporarily, would take an extraordinary boon from the Queen of Hayll. Winters are dangerous in the North and doubly so because they're engaged in a war against the Night King currently. If Sansa could have an assurance that her people and her keep survive, she would certainly have offered to come help in Draega.
Canon point
Sansa would be entering the game from the end of Game of Thrones season 7. At this point, she is Lady of Winterfell holding the keep for her brother, Jon Snow, and has just found out that he bent the knee to Daenerys Targaryen in exchange for her support in the war against the Night King. She's been reunited with both her sister Arya and her brother Bran and she's eliminated Petyr Baelish as a threat to Stark rule and to her personal safety.
Canon Powers
Sansa does not have powers canonically. Magic is rare in the Game of Thrones universe and is, on the whole, not trusted. It isn't something common in Westeros where Sansa lives and the priests and priestesses who wield it (they serve the Red God) are looked upon with disdain. Adapting to Craft is going to be something difficult for her. She won't have the comfort of vanishing and conjuring objects the way Blood do without a thought and she will certainly not feel comfortable utilizing Craft for things like cleaning, summoning objects, healing or communicating. Allowing someone into her mind will certainly feel like an intrusion - if access to psychic threads or any characters with telepathy do enter the game, of course.
I am eager to see how she adapts to her jewel and Craft itself, being from such a different world. I also like that her birthright is Purple Dusk. Purple is a color that Sansa strongly favors and very often, in her canon, Sansa makes and wears clothes of significant meaning. Considering the importance of jewels in this universe, she will be very attracted to wearing hers a lot of the time and designing clothes to feature it. I also feel this is a good jewel for someone who isn't used to wearing one or even being Blood. She will not have the extreme difficulty with moon blood that darker Jeweled witches usually do and she'll be able to adapt on a gentler learning curve before (and if) she ever makes an Offering.
Personality
Sansa Stark is a girl who has been tempered by fire and has let that which burns her simply make her stronger. Born the eldest daughter of a noble family, Sansa has gone from treasured lady to political pawn and has learned, over time, to shift from being played to being a player in the never-ceasing game of thrones. Originally naive and concerned only with the fanciful notions of love and chivalry, Sansa’s eyes have been opened to the cutthroat world of politics and all it entails; her ability to read people and settle disputes would certainly have factored into the Queen's choice to bring her to Hayll. Coming from an aristocratic family as well, she very much understands how castes work even if she won't be familiar with Hayllian society in particular. I feel this will help her to adapt to her new home quicker than she might normally, considering she's at a vast disadvantage coming from a world that does not have much magic and does not value it.
Sansa knows how to sing a pretty song - both figuratively and literally. She knows how to say one thing and mean another entirely and she knows, all too well, how to suppress her own wants and desires in order to achieve a higher purpose. None of these lessons have come easily. Sansa’s tutelage has been the cruellest trial by fire she can imagine and has been paved with angst, betrayal and pain. She knows that wars aren’t always won with swords and that sometimes words and gold do a lot more to change a man’s mind than notions of honor. Sansa has learned to operate in shades of grey, infinitesimal layers between black and white, and that right and wrong seem to be dictated by who is wearing the crown and writing the history and not the gods themselves. It's Sansa's ability to adapt and withstand trials that would have contributed to her being given the Purple Dusk (and, the potential someday, of wearing one of the darker Jewels); she has done what the world has asked for her, however much, and risen to that challenge.
Sansa still holds close to her heart that family and honor are the important things in life and that there are some, albeit few, people who hold those same ideals close to the chest. She isn’t completely jaded and hasn’t been turned entirely from the little girl she used to be, she’s simply learned how to suppress it and keep it close to herself while showing the world another face. Sansa has learned that courtesy is, in fact, a lady’s armor and she has armed herself to the teeth with it. She knows exactly how to phrase something that seems innocuous but can cut to the quick depending on the delivery and the intended audience. While she has no desire to sit the Iron Throne, she has an all-consuming desire to be free of it and see Winterfell held by House Stark once again so that she can be free to be the girl she’d been before treason took her family away. There is a sweetness beneath her steel that will never go away, a softness that Sansa is careful to keep hidden away from those who might want to exploit it. She knows how to play it false, to manipulate it to get what she wants or to seem less than she is but her true self is buried impossibly deep, locked away so that no one can touch it. This, if known or discovered by a potential enemy, would be her undoing.
Sansa’s enemies are numerous but unlike her sister, her weapons are words and not swords. She has spent the last six or seven years of her life quite literally in a den of lions and has learned how to say the words that keep her head upon her shoulders while harboring other feelings deep within her heart. Sansa is the sort to observe what happens to others and keep that knowledge locked away so she can avoid their fates; she knows firsthand that royalty can be fickle and just because something seems pretty on the surface, it is often rotten underneath. She handles adversity with grace now, having been subjected to more adversity than a girl her age should ever experience, and refuses to let her enemies see weakness.
Sansa has lived through harrowing experiences as a prisoner of first the Lannisters and later the Boltons and has learned to keep herself and her desires close to the chest. She is savvy politically, knowing when to leverage for an alliance and when to leave a card on the table as she deems fit. Less prone to rash action than her brothers Robb and Jon, Sansa is coolly analytical of most situations and tries to see the board from all angles and predict what her enemy will do next - predict how best to wound them. She learned, after all, from those quite adept at cruelty. She is still fragile beneath that, especially in matters of love and sex, and the Blood attitude to relations between men and women is something she'll struggle with. She won't be comfortable with flirting, not in the traditional sense, and does not feel that sex is something more than a duty to be performed for a husband. Sansa's marriages have both been political and the most recent one to a sadist; while she may seek out physical companionship, she will try to remove herself from feeling anything at all.
History https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Sansa_Stark
SAMPLES
Network Sample
Here are two network samples that I feel strongly showcase Sansa's difficulty in reconciling the differences between her own society and Blood society so far as male and female relations are concerned. The thread with Damon, in particular, does highlight her difficulties with physical intimacy due to past trauma and her incredulity at the idea that sex could be pleasurable for a woman (as in Westeros, many marriages are arranged and women are often treated very poorly). This, of course, would be a sharp difference from Blood society, where women are highly esteemed.
Log Sample
I, II.
I selected two log samples because each displays separate aspects of Sansa's personality and realistic situations she may experience while in Draega. In the first, she's been asked to watch over a classroom of basic Craft students. She has no familiarity with magic at all and would feel a bit overwhelmed being suddenly tasked with a room full of children who likely know more about how Craft works than she does. Still, she does try to handle the situation with diplomacy and an even temper as is her nature.
In the second, she and another character have been asked to settle a Blood and Landen feud. It demonstrates her discomfort at physical touch (when the other character grabs her arm) and her uncertainty with politics in a new place. She isn't certain whether they should be inserting themselves in the feud but wants to find a fair solution. It also reflects her struggle in being an unknown quantity in Draega versus her position as a leader and daughter of a Great House in Westeros.
PLAYER
Name Cerie
Are you 18 or older? Yes/No
Contact PM this journal
Current character none
Name Sansa Stark
Canon Game of Thrones
Age Approximately 18/19
Birthright Jewel Purple Dusk, as determined by RNG
Dreams made flesh
Sansa very much wants Winterfell to survive war and winter. She fought very long and hard to make her way back home again and agreeing to leave it, even if temporarily, would take an extraordinary boon from the Queen of Hayll. Winters are dangerous in the North and doubly so because they're engaged in a war against the Night King currently. If Sansa could have an assurance that her people and her keep survive, she would certainly have offered to come help in Draega.
Canon point
Sansa would be entering the game from the end of Game of Thrones season 7. At this point, she is Lady of Winterfell holding the keep for her brother, Jon Snow, and has just found out that he bent the knee to Daenerys Targaryen in exchange for her support in the war against the Night King. She's been reunited with both her sister Arya and her brother Bran and she's eliminated Petyr Baelish as a threat to Stark rule and to her personal safety.
Canon Powers
Sansa does not have powers canonically. Magic is rare in the Game of Thrones universe and is, on the whole, not trusted. It isn't something common in Westeros where Sansa lives and the priests and priestesses who wield it (they serve the Red God) are looked upon with disdain. Adapting to Craft is going to be something difficult for her. She won't have the comfort of vanishing and conjuring objects the way Blood do without a thought and she will certainly not feel comfortable utilizing Craft for things like cleaning, summoning objects, healing or communicating. Allowing someone into her mind will certainly feel like an intrusion - if access to psychic threads or any characters with telepathy do enter the game, of course.
I am eager to see how she adapts to her jewel and Craft itself, being from such a different world. I also like that her birthright is Purple Dusk. Purple is a color that Sansa strongly favors and very often, in her canon, Sansa makes and wears clothes of significant meaning. Considering the importance of jewels in this universe, she will be very attracted to wearing hers a lot of the time and designing clothes to feature it. I also feel this is a good jewel for someone who isn't used to wearing one or even being Blood. She will not have the extreme difficulty with moon blood that darker Jeweled witches usually do and she'll be able to adapt on a gentler learning curve before (and if) she ever makes an Offering.
Personality
Sansa Stark is a girl who has been tempered by fire and has let that which burns her simply make her stronger. Born the eldest daughter of a noble family, Sansa has gone from treasured lady to political pawn and has learned, over time, to shift from being played to being a player in the never-ceasing game of thrones. Originally naive and concerned only with the fanciful notions of love and chivalry, Sansa’s eyes have been opened to the cutthroat world of politics and all it entails; her ability to read people and settle disputes would certainly have factored into the Queen's choice to bring her to Hayll. Coming from an aristocratic family as well, she very much understands how castes work even if she won't be familiar with Hayllian society in particular. I feel this will help her to adapt to her new home quicker than she might normally, considering she's at a vast disadvantage coming from a world that does not have much magic and does not value it.
Sansa knows how to sing a pretty song - both figuratively and literally. She knows how to say one thing and mean another entirely and she knows, all too well, how to suppress her own wants and desires in order to achieve a higher purpose. None of these lessons have come easily. Sansa’s tutelage has been the cruellest trial by fire she can imagine and has been paved with angst, betrayal and pain. She knows that wars aren’t always won with swords and that sometimes words and gold do a lot more to change a man’s mind than notions of honor. Sansa has learned to operate in shades of grey, infinitesimal layers between black and white, and that right and wrong seem to be dictated by who is wearing the crown and writing the history and not the gods themselves. It's Sansa's ability to adapt and withstand trials that would have contributed to her being given the Purple Dusk (and, the potential someday, of wearing one of the darker Jewels); she has done what the world has asked for her, however much, and risen to that challenge.
Sansa still holds close to her heart that family and honor are the important things in life and that there are some, albeit few, people who hold those same ideals close to the chest. She isn’t completely jaded and hasn’t been turned entirely from the little girl she used to be, she’s simply learned how to suppress it and keep it close to herself while showing the world another face. Sansa has learned that courtesy is, in fact, a lady’s armor and she has armed herself to the teeth with it. She knows exactly how to phrase something that seems innocuous but can cut to the quick depending on the delivery and the intended audience. While she has no desire to sit the Iron Throne, she has an all-consuming desire to be free of it and see Winterfell held by House Stark once again so that she can be free to be the girl she’d been before treason took her family away. There is a sweetness beneath her steel that will never go away, a softness that Sansa is careful to keep hidden away from those who might want to exploit it. She knows how to play it false, to manipulate it to get what she wants or to seem less than she is but her true self is buried impossibly deep, locked away so that no one can touch it. This, if known or discovered by a potential enemy, would be her undoing.
Sansa’s enemies are numerous but unlike her sister, her weapons are words and not swords. She has spent the last six or seven years of her life quite literally in a den of lions and has learned how to say the words that keep her head upon her shoulders while harboring other feelings deep within her heart. Sansa is the sort to observe what happens to others and keep that knowledge locked away so she can avoid their fates; she knows firsthand that royalty can be fickle and just because something seems pretty on the surface, it is often rotten underneath. She handles adversity with grace now, having been subjected to more adversity than a girl her age should ever experience, and refuses to let her enemies see weakness.
Sansa has lived through harrowing experiences as a prisoner of first the Lannisters and later the Boltons and has learned to keep herself and her desires close to the chest. She is savvy politically, knowing when to leverage for an alliance and when to leave a card on the table as she deems fit. Less prone to rash action than her brothers Robb and Jon, Sansa is coolly analytical of most situations and tries to see the board from all angles and predict what her enemy will do next - predict how best to wound them. She learned, after all, from those quite adept at cruelty. She is still fragile beneath that, especially in matters of love and sex, and the Blood attitude to relations between men and women is something she'll struggle with. She won't be comfortable with flirting, not in the traditional sense, and does not feel that sex is something more than a duty to be performed for a husband. Sansa's marriages have both been political and the most recent one to a sadist; while she may seek out physical companionship, she will try to remove herself from feeling anything at all.
History https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Sansa_Stark
SAMPLES
Network Sample
Here are two network samples that I feel strongly showcase Sansa's difficulty in reconciling the differences between her own society and Blood society so far as male and female relations are concerned. The thread with Damon, in particular, does highlight her difficulties with physical intimacy due to past trauma and her incredulity at the idea that sex could be pleasurable for a woman (as in Westeros, many marriages are arranged and women are often treated very poorly). This, of course, would be a sharp difference from Blood society, where women are highly esteemed.
Log Sample
I, II.
I selected two log samples because each displays separate aspects of Sansa's personality and realistic situations she may experience while in Draega. In the first, she's been asked to watch over a classroom of basic Craft students. She has no familiarity with magic at all and would feel a bit overwhelmed being suddenly tasked with a room full of children who likely know more about how Craft works than she does. Still, she does try to handle the situation with diplomacy and an even temper as is her nature.
In the second, she and another character have been asked to settle a Blood and Landen feud. It demonstrates her discomfort at physical touch (when the other character grabs her arm) and her uncertainty with politics in a new place. She isn't certain whether they should be inserting themselves in the feud but wants to find a fair solution. It also reflects her struggle in being an unknown quantity in Draega versus her position as a leader and daughter of a Great House in Westeros.
PLAYER
Name Cerie
Are you 18 or older? Yes/No
Contact PM this journal
Current character none