i wonder who sansa will end up with… for some reason i hope its gendry that may just be because he’s a good guy

thehound:

Yeah true I mean she 100% deserves a good guy. That’d be cute but I’m so for Arya x Gendry that I really hope they don’t make Sansa and Gendry happen like it would just feel like they’re giving Arya’s only love interest to Sansa and that would make me sad as hell lmao. Don’t get me wrong though, I love Gendry so much. But…

I think that in the books Sansa will end up with Sandor. His existence itself tears down everything she thinks to be true about who she’ll end up with and the pretty, courteous knights of the songs and stories she adores. He refuses to be called a knight because his views are skewed in the other direction–-seeing them as bad and almost evil and nothing like what Sansa envisions. He’s conflicted with himself and the knight he wanted to be in his childhood but it’s been muddied by the horror he has seen and endured. And he tries to protect her from the terror she’s being dealt but also wake her up to the real world. 

They are beauty and the beast come to “life” and tear down the trope that Sansa is built on in the beginning and the one she counts on coming true (early on, at least): that the fair maiden ends up with the handsome prince. But as she learns, that isn’t exactly real life and happily ever afters are very difficult to come by, as Sandor knows too well. But they sort of meet in the middle between optimism and cynicism and are fascinated by each other, especially in the other’s absence. 

However, I personally am not really sure at this point who they’ll have show!Sansa end up with. I think it’ll be Sandor (even if it’s just alluded to) or no one. Actually possibly Tyrion in the show but yeah.

I’ve written more on this here, here, and here.