Game of Thrones/ASOIAF Fic: Nights Without Armor (Chapter 4 - Sansa)

[bratanimus]

Author: bratanimus
Title: Nights Without Armor (Chapter 4 - Sansa)
Fandom: Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
Pairing: Jaime/Brienne, Podrick/Sansa
Word Count: 6,234 this chapter (~32,000 entire story)
Rating & Warnings: M for adult themes, sexual innuendo
Summary: An unlikely trio - Jaime, Brienne, and Podrick - set out to rescue Sansa from Petyr

Comments

[gilpin25]

Oh, how I enjoyed this. Even more so on the second read, as I've learnt there is so much depth to this story and your writing, that I always find things I've missed or not thought enough about

[bratanimus]

Thank you thank you thank you!! Your feedback is, as always, so generous and beautiful and thoughtful. You help me to recognize the worth of my writing, and to see things I hadn't noticed but somehow made it into the chapter anyhow. THANK YOU. *hugs

[gilpin25]

In addition, the mirroring in Sansa goes deeper as she takes on aspects of everyone from Winterfell who has influenced her. I'm sure you noticed that her voice is wrecked (like Catelyn's), she's learning to fight (Arya), she cuts her hair (Arya), her hand is injured (Cat, Jon), she "becomes" the wolf (Bran), she takes up the crown (Robb), she's a former ward who's betraying the Red Keep (as Theon did Winterfell), she's the heir to Winterfell (Ned).

OOH, I LOVE THIS!!! I'd spotted almost all of these (forgot Jon. As always!), but not joined the dots and put the family connections together to see how they're echoing in Sansa...

Brat, there are more layers going on in this story than the average Banoffee Pie. ;) Which is exactly what the best and deepest-thinking writers do. ♥

[bratanimus]

*insert random Davos-as-wise-man-grinning here*

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Now, if only I could manage to do this in some ORIGINAL writing. ;)