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🜙 Player Information
⤛ Name: Sansa Stark
⤛ Appearance: example 1, example 2
⤛ Canon: Game of Thrones
⤛ Age: 18
⤛ Race: Human
⤛ Racial trait: Silver-Tongue
⤛ Race details: No changes here, she looks exactly as she does in canon.
⤛ Choice: Reason
⤛ Skills:
Canon skills: sewing and embroidery, other ladylike duties such as singing, dancing, poetry, literature; horseback riding, lying and deception, politics and strategy.
⤛ Abilities:
Game abilities: she has no special abilities in canon, but her aptitude for lying and deception, as well as her general skill in surviving with no combat skills and instead with just her words, are in-game translated into some basic control of magic taught to her by Littlefinger (just as he teaches her to lie in canon). she mostly has trained in charms and illusion.
⤛ Personality:
Strengths:
Fortitude. For a young woman, Sansa's greatest strength is the strength of mind that doesn't fail her, even in the worst of situations. In King's Landing, being a prisoner of the Lannisters in all but name, she uses her courtly skills and courtesies as her armor, being nothing but dutiful and hiding her true feelings behind the empty deference she shows towards her captors. She doesn't let her armor down even for a moment: even after Joffrey has had her beaten publicly, when Tyrion asks if she wants an end to the engagement, she declares her love and loyalty to Joffrey with her head held high. She names her family to be traitors over and over again, never letting her true feelings come to light, showing her determination and strength to survive where most would not. She faces adversity and abuse with inner strength that allows her to keep on surviving.
Kind. Underneath that facade of steel, Sansa Stark is a sweet, kind girl. She shows kindness for those less fortunate, and in King's Landing she tries to stop Joffrey from being cruel to those who have done nothing to deserve it. She's compassionate, helping the ladies of the court during Stannis' attack on the Red Keep when Cersei abandons them, lifting their spirits and singing together with them so that no one gives in to panic. Her kindness manifests in different ways, whether it is laughing with Robin Arryn and building a snowcastle with him, reaching out to Theon and trying to help him after realizing he did not kill her brothers, or solemnly accepting Brienne's vow to be her knight. To those who have done nothing to anger her, and to those less fortunate, she is very sweet and cares much of their well-being and happiness.
Intelligent. She's also smart, capable and clever: she can come up with stories on the spot, an example of which is her managing to save a drunken knight from being killed by making up a tale that makes Joffrey do what she wants him to do. Furthermore, she clouds her true thoughts behind words that seem to say one thing, but in reality mean another, like her famous comment to Tyrion about praying for his safe return, just as she prays for the King's. It is wordplay, a clever way for her to tell her captors just what she truly thinks, without really saying anything incriminating at all.
She also picks up the ways of politics and how it all functions quickly, enough so to survive in the court, and later even instruct (or argue) with her brother Jon about how he is managing as the King in the North.
Diligent. Ever since childhood, Sansa has been very dutiful. She takes great pleasure and pride in being good at being a lady, in knowing everything one is supposed to know, from singing to dancing to sewing. Whatever she does, she wants to do well — later, as the Lady of Winterfell, she makes sure she knows what is going on, examines what everyone is doing and provides insights and suggestions as they prepare for the war with the Night King's army. It is the duty of whoever is in charge of Winterfell to make sure the people are taken care of, that their armor is the best it can be, that they have enough food for everyone, and she takes that duty seriously.
Loyal. This is a quality present in all the Starks, and she is no exception. Someone else might be swayed to shift their allegiance when put into a situation as hers is in King's Landing, but Sansa never once considers allying herself with the Lannisters willingly — her loyalty is absolute, and it is to her family. The Stark name is a source of comfort and pride to her, and even after being married twice, she states she has done what was necessary to survive but that at the core, she is always a Stark. And furthermore, once you secure her loyalty, it is unfailing: though she initially despises Theon for betraying Robb and killing her brothers, when she realizes he didn't kill Bran and Rickon and when he helps her flee Winterfell, she reciprocates this loyalty by refusing to leave him to the Bolton hounds, even when leaving would mean that she would escape and survive.
Weaknesses:
Dishonest and mistrusting. During her time in King's Landing, Sansa has realized what trusting the wrong people can cause, and so trusts very few — even the people who say they're to help her: she refuses to go with Brienne of Tarth the first time they meet, even though Brienne tells her she promised her mother to look after her. And though her mistrust in others is based on some very real experiences of having been betrayed, it causes her to distrust those who only mean well.
As honesty is something she couldn't afford in King's Landing, Sansa learns to lie convincingly, easily, well enough to fool even those most used to playing the game (culminating in her lying about her aunt Lysa's death, speaking so convincingly that for a moment, even Littlefinger believes her) — but it is all because it's a necessity. But as lying becomes a necessity, it also becomes a habit: even after she has made it to the Wall and been reunited with Jon, she still lies to him, withholds information about the army of the Vale that she calls to battle; because it is her instinct to do so.
Selfish. Even though later on in the series, she is far from the child who only thought of herself, a degree of selfishness still remains. She bemoans her marriage to Tyrion, only to realize the person listening to her is going to have to marry someone far worse; her first instinct is to tell Arya that her own experiences are far worse, even though she hardly knows what her sister has been through; and when Jon decides to leave to meet Daenerys, she expresses concern for the North when in reality, her biggest concern is him leaving her, when they'd decided to stick together. This isn't to say she is unable to change her point of view — as with Arya, eventually she takes back her words and tells Arya she is far stronger than her — but often her first thought is to herself, not to others.
Bitter. A true sign of just how badly all the horrible things in her life have affected her is the bitterness that follows: she even gives up on praying, believing that the gods won't care, not if they have let so many horrible things happen already. She feels alone, she's certain that no one can truly protect anyone as her experiences have proven to her, and is resigned to people only ever seeing her as a piece on a chess board, a prize that will give them a claim to the North, rather than an actual person.
Afraid. It is impossible to imagine she could make it through everything that's happened to her without fear. Her days in both King's Landing and as Ramsay's wife are spent in terror, fearing for her remaining family, uncertain of her own future, knowing that it is not in her own hands. She blamed herself for believing in the tales she used to read, often thinking that she was just as they keep telling her: a little bird, caged because of her own stupidity. The abuse she has endured has made her afraid of speaking her mind, manifesting already in King's Landing when she begs Margaery and Lady Olenna to not make her say any more as they ask her about Joffrey, fearing it would somehow get back to him.
Vengeful. Because of her experiences, Sansa has also grown colder, hardened, angrier and more vengeful: she hates Joffrey and wants him to die, even considering killing him herself when he shows her Ned's head on a spike, and later thinking she has little sympathy for any of the Lannisters, for what they have done to her and her family.
She is angry for what her family has endured, and seems to think the "monsters" in life deserve suffering for what they have done, as is evident from when she meets Theon in Winterfell: she feels no sympathy for him and the abuse he's endured, instead telling him he's deserved it all for betraying Robb. And later, when Jon has defeated Ramsay, she takes her revenge on him by feeding him to his own dogs, while telling him about how his name and house will be forgotten. This is a cruel vengeance, even if Ramsay's own deeds have been just as cruel — but it shows well just how far Sansa is willing to go, to get back to the people who have wronged her and her family.
⤛ Canon History: here
⤛ Key History Events:
1. early life and leaving home
2. the Lannister-Baratheons and her engagement to Joffrey
3. marriage to Tyrion and fleeing Atrómitos
4. Littlefinger and Aunt Lysa
5. more betrayals and her death
⤛ Name: Lady
⤛ Species: an arctic fox
⤛ Gender: female
⤛ Appearance: like this
⤛ Approximate size: head-and-body length of 50cm / 2.5kg weight
⤛ Sample 1:
⤛ Sample 2: i couldn't decide, hopefully two samples are okay:
Secondary Sample 1 + Secondary Sample 2
⤛ Name: Sansa Stark
⤛ Appearance: example 1, example 2
⤛ Canon: Game of Thrones
⤛ Age: 18
⤛ Race: Human
⤛ Racial trait: Silver-Tongue
⤛ Race details: No changes here, she looks exactly as she does in canon.
⤛ Choice: Reason
⤛ Skills:
Canon skills: sewing and embroidery, other ladylike duties such as singing, dancing, poetry, literature; horseback riding, lying and deception, politics and strategy.
⤛ Abilities:
Game abilities: she has no special abilities in canon, but her aptitude for lying and deception, as well as her general skill in surviving with no combat skills and instead with just her words, are in-game translated into some basic control of magic taught to her by Littlefinger (just as he teaches her to lie in canon). she mostly has trained in charms and illusion.
⤛ Personality:
Strengths:
Fortitude. For a young woman, Sansa's greatest strength is the strength of mind that doesn't fail her, even in the worst of situations. In King's Landing, being a prisoner of the Lannisters in all but name, she uses her courtly skills and courtesies as her armor, being nothing but dutiful and hiding her true feelings behind the empty deference she shows towards her captors. She doesn't let her armor down even for a moment: even after Joffrey has had her beaten publicly, when Tyrion asks if she wants an end to the engagement, she declares her love and loyalty to Joffrey with her head held high. She names her family to be traitors over and over again, never letting her true feelings come to light, showing her determination and strength to survive where most would not. She faces adversity and abuse with inner strength that allows her to keep on surviving.
Kind. Underneath that facade of steel, Sansa Stark is a sweet, kind girl. She shows kindness for those less fortunate, and in King's Landing she tries to stop Joffrey from being cruel to those who have done nothing to deserve it. She's compassionate, helping the ladies of the court during Stannis' attack on the Red Keep when Cersei abandons them, lifting their spirits and singing together with them so that no one gives in to panic. Her kindness manifests in different ways, whether it is laughing with Robin Arryn and building a snowcastle with him, reaching out to Theon and trying to help him after realizing he did not kill her brothers, or solemnly accepting Brienne's vow to be her knight. To those who have done nothing to anger her, and to those less fortunate, she is very sweet and cares much of their well-being and happiness.
Intelligent. She's also smart, capable and clever: she can come up with stories on the spot, an example of which is her managing to save a drunken knight from being killed by making up a tale that makes Joffrey do what she wants him to do. Furthermore, she clouds her true thoughts behind words that seem to say one thing, but in reality mean another, like her famous comment to Tyrion about praying for his safe return, just as she prays for the King's. It is wordplay, a clever way for her to tell her captors just what she truly thinks, without really saying anything incriminating at all.
She also picks up the ways of politics and how it all functions quickly, enough so to survive in the court, and later even instruct (or argue) with her brother Jon about how he is managing as the King in the North.
Diligent. Ever since childhood, Sansa has been very dutiful. She takes great pleasure and pride in being good at being a lady, in knowing everything one is supposed to know, from singing to dancing to sewing. Whatever she does, she wants to do well — later, as the Lady of Winterfell, she makes sure she knows what is going on, examines what everyone is doing and provides insights and suggestions as they prepare for the war with the Night King's army. It is the duty of whoever is in charge of Winterfell to make sure the people are taken care of, that their armor is the best it can be, that they have enough food for everyone, and she takes that duty seriously.
Loyal. This is a quality present in all the Starks, and she is no exception. Someone else might be swayed to shift their allegiance when put into a situation as hers is in King's Landing, but Sansa never once considers allying herself with the Lannisters willingly — her loyalty is absolute, and it is to her family. The Stark name is a source of comfort and pride to her, and even after being married twice, she states she has done what was necessary to survive but that at the core, she is always a Stark. And furthermore, once you secure her loyalty, it is unfailing: though she initially despises Theon for betraying Robb and killing her brothers, when she realizes he didn't kill Bran and Rickon and when he helps her flee Winterfell, she reciprocates this loyalty by refusing to leave him to the Bolton hounds, even when leaving would mean that she would escape and survive.
Weaknesses:
Dishonest and mistrusting. During her time in King's Landing, Sansa has realized what trusting the wrong people can cause, and so trusts very few — even the people who say they're to help her: she refuses to go with Brienne of Tarth the first time they meet, even though Brienne tells her she promised her mother to look after her. And though her mistrust in others is based on some very real experiences of having been betrayed, it causes her to distrust those who only mean well.
As honesty is something she couldn't afford in King's Landing, Sansa learns to lie convincingly, easily, well enough to fool even those most used to playing the game (culminating in her lying about her aunt Lysa's death, speaking so convincingly that for a moment, even Littlefinger believes her) — but it is all because it's a necessity. But as lying becomes a necessity, it also becomes a habit: even after she has made it to the Wall and been reunited with Jon, she still lies to him, withholds information about the army of the Vale that she calls to battle; because it is her instinct to do so.
Selfish. Even though later on in the series, she is far from the child who only thought of herself, a degree of selfishness still remains. She bemoans her marriage to Tyrion, only to realize the person listening to her is going to have to marry someone far worse; her first instinct is to tell Arya that her own experiences are far worse, even though she hardly knows what her sister has been through; and when Jon decides to leave to meet Daenerys, she expresses concern for the North when in reality, her biggest concern is him leaving her, when they'd decided to stick together. This isn't to say she is unable to change her point of view — as with Arya, eventually she takes back her words and tells Arya she is far stronger than her — but often her first thought is to herself, not to others.
Bitter. A true sign of just how badly all the horrible things in her life have affected her is the bitterness that follows: she even gives up on praying, believing that the gods won't care, not if they have let so many horrible things happen already. She feels alone, she's certain that no one can truly protect anyone as her experiences have proven to her, and is resigned to people only ever seeing her as a piece on a chess board, a prize that will give them a claim to the North, rather than an actual person.
Afraid. It is impossible to imagine she could make it through everything that's happened to her without fear. Her days in both King's Landing and as Ramsay's wife are spent in terror, fearing for her remaining family, uncertain of her own future, knowing that it is not in her own hands. She blamed herself for believing in the tales she used to read, often thinking that she was just as they keep telling her: a little bird, caged because of her own stupidity. The abuse she has endured has made her afraid of speaking her mind, manifesting already in King's Landing when she begs Margaery and Lady Olenna to not make her say any more as they ask her about Joffrey, fearing it would somehow get back to him.
Vengeful. Because of her experiences, Sansa has also grown colder, hardened, angrier and more vengeful: she hates Joffrey and wants him to die, even considering killing him herself when he shows her Ned's head on a spike, and later thinking she has little sympathy for any of the Lannisters, for what they have done to her and her family.
She is angry for what her family has endured, and seems to think the "monsters" in life deserve suffering for what they have done, as is evident from when she meets Theon in Winterfell: she feels no sympathy for him and the abuse he's endured, instead telling him he's deserved it all for betraying Robb. And later, when Jon has defeated Ramsay, she takes her revenge on him by feeding him to his own dogs, while telling him about how his name and house will be forgotten. This is a cruel vengeance, even if Ramsay's own deeds have been just as cruel — but it shows well just how far Sansa is willing to go, to get back to the people who have wronged her and her family.
⤛ Canon History: here
⤛ Key History Events:
1. early life and leaving home
Sansa Stark was born as the second child and the first daughter of an aristocratic family from Thalassa. Her childhood was easy: she excelled in everything she was taught, from sewing to singing to dancing and was much loved by her parents (especially by her mother). A point of pride to her was the fact that unlike some of her siblings, she was not a shiftling — she'd heard of the shiftling bloodline be referred to as a curse when young, and that attitude towards it stuck with her throughout her childhood. But despite being so seemingly happy and content, Sansa was always a girl who loved to read stories of other places and races, and she'd always admired elves, and so when her father's old friend Robert visited their home with his son, a half-elf Joffrey, and proposed a union of their two families, she was instantly infatuated and wouldn't stop asking for her father to agree to let her marry Joffrey... which he did, and so they traveled from Thalassa to Atrómitos.
2. the Lannister-Baratheons and her engagement to Joffrey
Initially, Atrómitos was everything Sansa had ever dreamed of: Joffrey's mother Cersei was even more beautiful than she'd imagined elves to be, and the Lannister-Baratheon family seemed to have everything she'd ever wanted. However, things started quickly going wrong with the start of the war... and the death of her father. Ned Stark was assassinated by a magician whose identity was never discovered, nor was the reason behind his murder — but it left Sansa in the hands of the Lannisters, as with the start of the war they insisted they could not let her go back to Thalassa as it was far too dangerous a trip to make. At the same time, a wealthy man by the name of Petyr Baelish, talented in magic, started visiting the Lannister-Baratheon family and made a point of treating Sansa very kindly, as he'd been friends with her mother as children.
With Ned gone, it became apparent very quickly that Joffrey had little interest in a non-elf wife, as he had aspirations to become a serious contender for the throne one day, and he frequently had Sansa beaten, or tormented her with reports of her family's gruesome deaths. She had no choice but to pretend to love him and be loyal to the Lannisters, for fear that they would treat her even worse if she showed how much she now despised them. But after Robert's death in suspicious circumstances, their engagement was broken; it had been Robert who had insisted that the wedding take place even after Ned's death, and with him gone, there was no longer a reason for Joffrey to marry someone who could have hindered his future aspirations. Instead of letting Sansa return to Thalassa, though, she was forced to marry another Lannister, Cersei's brother Tyrion, as the claim to the Stark land in Thalassa was still too good to be passed on. Sansa, as basically a hostage in everything but name, had no choice but to go along with this.
3. marriage to Tyrion and fleeing Atrómitos
Luckily for Sansa, her marriage to Tyrion was not as bad as it could have been: Tyrion treated her kindly, and as he was not a particular favourite with his sister, or nephew, they shared a hatred towards Cersei and Joffrey that brought them closer. But not even her marriage could save her from Joffrey, who continued to torment her. Perhaps that was why when Joffrey was eventually assassinated with mysterious poison, she was blamed for it. Before Cersei or her guards could catch her, Petyr Baelish used his magic to smuggle her away from the Lannisters.
4. Littlefinger and Aunt Lysa
Petyr Baelish, or "Littlefinger" as he was known as, explained to Sansa that he had recently married Sansa's aunt Lysa and would take her to her, and there she would be safe. On the way to Lysa's lands, situated on the border of Atrómitos and Thalassa, he started teaching her magic, so that she could avoid the Lannisters from finding her. For a while, she was safe with her aunt and new uncle, but her aunt became increasingly paranoid and accused Sansa of trying to seduce Petyr, finally going so far as to trying to kill her. Littlefinger saw this happening and killed Lysa instead, telling her he had never loved her at all. During the investigation of Lysa's death, Sansa used what charm-magic she had learned to lie and save Littlefinger, as she feared they would cast her out if they found out the truth.
5. more betrayals and her death
For a time, Sansa continued to learn magic from Littlefinger as he took control over Lysa's home, but she was now suspicious of him, after seeing him kill her aunt in such cold blood. One night, during when she was practicing an illusion charm, she overheard him speak of Jon Snow, her brother, even though he had told her all of her family was dead. Realizing that he had lied to her and kept information from her, she started to snoop through his letters, and eventually found out he'd set plans in motion to annull her marriage to Tyrion so that he could marry her himself. This was enough for her to want to leave, and now she had a destination: to try and find her brother. On the run from the men Littlefinger sent after her to bring her back, she eventually found herself approaching a battle — and instead of letting the men capture her and take her back to marry another man she had no desire to wed, she decided to try her luck with getting through the battle. Her charms got her about halfway through, but eventually an errant arrow caught her and she died, an unwilling participant in a battle she had never wanted to fight in.
⤛ Name: Lady
⤛ Species: an arctic fox
⤛ Gender: female
⤛ Appearance: like this
⤛ Approximate size: head-and-body length of 50cm / 2.5kg weight
⤛ Sample 1:
She makes no sound as she hides behind the trees, a cloak drawn over her red hair, Lady crouched on the ground next to her. Hiding is second nature to her, now — and though it may very well be that no one hunts her still, that there is no one to drag her back to Littlefinger, still Sansa stays out of sight.
"You headin' for the City, too?" asks one of the men.
"Aye,", answers another, "Think there's anything to loot there?"
"Of Atrómitos? Nah, all that burned. All that's left's some skeletons."
Sansa presses her hands against her mouth, to cover her sharp intake of breath. Atrómitos, gone? Burned? The city had been so beautiful, she'd once thought so, and even when her memories turned ashy and dark, the splendor she'd witnessed never once faded. Even before death had claimed her, she'd never once thought Atrómitos would not stand.
But then, she'd never considered the dragons could be gone, either.
Lady nudges her foot gently, looking up at her, and suddenly Sansa is very aware of how quiet everything has become. The men, she thinks, as Lady starts to growl. How small she looks, even with her fangs bared, her ears pressed back.
"Lady, run!" It's a sharp command — one to be obeyed, no matter how much Lady might want to protect her. But she has to protect Lady, too. And she's run away from worse people before — she'll run away this time, too.
The City, she thinks as she runs, ducking underneath branches. I have to see it.
⤛ Sample 2: i couldn't decide, hopefully two samples are okay:
Secondary Sample 1 + Secondary Sample 2