I started out mostly joking, but I think I'm talking myself into genuinely shipping Podrick Payne/Sansa Stark. I'd call it a crackship, but given that they actually know and like each other it's...surprisingly plausible....
Pod is one of the few boys/men Sansa isn't terrified or repulsed by post book 1.*
They're the same age! Imagine! A Sansa love interest who isn't an adult man while she's 12!
Pod's so polite! Sansa's so polite! Let them be polite, shy, and sweet together, maybe?
Pod joined Brienne specifically to quest after his lost Lady Sansa. (Partly in the hopes he'd find Tyrion, but still). Quest! Quest! Quest!
Sansa would love knowing Pod is nobly questing for her, actually.
Maybe someone could write a song about it.
Pod's getting a True Knight crash course from the bestest, truest, not-actually-a-knight in Westeros.
Podrick Payne respects women. Ser. My lady.
Post not-actually-happening time-skip Pod might legitimately be Sansa's perfect man.
Podrick Payne had changed as well, and looked almost a proper squire for once, although a rather large red pimple in the fold beside his nose spoiled the effect of his splendid purple, white, and gold raiment. He is such a timid boy. Sansa had been wary of Tyrion's squire at first; he was a Payne, cousin to Ser Ilyn Payne who had taken her father's head off. However, she'd soon come to realize that Pod was as frightened of her as she was of his cousin. Whenever she spoke to him, he turned the most alarming shade of red.
"Are purple, gold, and white the colors of House Payne, Podrick?" she asked him politely.
"No. I mean, yes." He blushed. "The colors. Our arms are purple and white chequy, my lady. With gold coins. In the checks. Purple and white. Both." He studied her feet.
Sansa, my love, I'm not sure he's turning red because he's frightened of you.
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