Dontos2 Littlefinger says he sold Sansa, but he IS from a culture where people expect rewards, like the North lords who are sincere in their Stark-loyalty, but still try to cash in on their service. Maybe LF had already convinced him that Sansa was safer if he stayed behind and there was no connection. LF has a lot of motive to lie, because of his agenda of breaking her idealism & making her dependent, and Dontos really tried to protect her from Joffrey. I doubt LF expected him to prevent abuse.
I’m sorry to say that no, I do not find that plausible. Littlefinger might be a liar, but it doesn’t follow from that fact that he’s lying to Sansa in that instance. And we see plenty to indicate that Dontos’ interest in Sansa is not so selfless.
Regarding his personal interest in her, Dontos gets handsier when he’s drunk, he gets in Sansa’s face to the point where she can smell his breath, he appeals to the romance of Florian and Jonquil to gain her trust…
And yeah, he’s also clearly gaslighting Sansa. Here’s one good example:
“I will be safe in Highgarden. Willas will keep me safe.”
“But he does not know you,” Dontos insisted, “and he will not love you. Jonquil, Jonquil, open your sweet eyes, these Tyrells care nothing for you. It’s your claim they mean to wed.”
– Sansa II, ASoS
What does Dontos know about Willas Tyrell? How can he be so certain that Willas will never come to love Sansa? That line is designed to get her to mistrust others, as well as her own read of the situation. He can be sincere in his belief that going home is better than a suspect marriage and he can gaslight her over the issue. Likewise, he can make every effort he can to protect her from Joffrey and he can sell her to Littlefinger. Speaking of, we can be reasonably sure he was reporting on her to Littlefinger against Sansa’s immediate interests.
When Lord Tywin nodded, he continued. “And there is this—Lord Petyr continues to demonstrate his loyalty. Only yesterday he brought us word of a Tyrell plot to spirit Sansa Stark off to Highgarden for a ‘visit,’ and there marry her to Lord Mace’s eldest son, Willas.”
– Tyrion III, ASoS
This is shortly after Sansa passes that information on to Dontos.
So, yeah, I’m sorry, but Dontos is just another person on the long list of people in King’s Landing that Sansa cannot trust as wholly as she might like. And another person creeping on her, too.
…that Nagini was actually some cursed human woman all along, and that Voldemort kept a cursed human woman as his pet and companion, and that Neville beheaded a human woman, and that even though the snake got better treatment from and was closer to Voldemort than literally anyone else, Bellatrix is still his baby mama?
Like. Don’t get me wrong. All of this is dumb and unnecessary. But like. I’d buy the snake lady being his baby mama before I buy that Hermione was tortured by a 36 weeks pregnant Bellatrix without noticing that in the slightest. And yes, keeping a human woman as a pet snake and then also fucking her makes the situation a LOT grosser, but if you decide to be gross, COMMIT, DAMMIT.
But no. No commitment. No continuity. Just a sexy Asian lady for the Fantastic Beasts movie, apparently. Lovely.
“Brown eyes are so plain and ugly you can’t even compare them to gems like emerald and saph-”
Stop.
Carnelian
Cairngorm
Cassiterite
Smoky Quartz
Zircon (brown)
Citrine
Diaspore
Dravite
Enstatite
Hessonite
That’s not even all of GORGEOUS BROWN GEMS THAT EXIST IN THIS WORLD. Just like there are a lot of beautiful brown gems they’re a lot of BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES. BROWN IS A GORGEOUS COLOR. Start treating it like one.
I am so glad someone did this.
if you don’t want someone to have brown eyes because you can’t compare them to a gem then you’re a bad writer
As a brown-eyed person, I appreciate this for a lot of reasons
Okay I’m sorry I love these a lot and I love people with brown eyes but if I have to read the words “she stared into his cairngorm orbs” i will Cease to Exist
Overdressed & Underappreciated 