Prologue

Bran I

Catelyn I

Daenerys I

Eddard I

Jon I

Catelyn II

Arya I

Bran II

Tyrion

Jon II

Daenyris II

Eddard II

Tyrion II

Catelyn III

EXACTLY SANSA UNDERSTANDS THE WAY THIS GAME IS PLAYED

gods be good I love Sansa. And not to compare her constantly to Arya, but they're so much alike sometimes it just slays me. They both understand that ALL MEN MUST DIE.

AND THAT ALL MEN MUST SERVE; HENCE HER SUBMISSION TO JOFFREY IN ORDER TO STAY ALIVE

my best friend: what about this margaery character

my best friend: is SHE going to die

me: no

me: right?

me: no she won't

me: she'll live

She should be flattered, she knows, that Drogo's bloordriders chose her, out of all the new slaves their khal won, to be handmaiden to the new khaleesi. She should be glad; relieved, even.

But all she can feel is a wordless terror, and grief- grief for her father, with his crinkly-eyed smile just for her, lying dead in the grass somewhere, his slain horse beside him. Grief for her older brother, whom she watched be cut down effortlessly with one savage blow from a foe's arakh. Grief for her mother, who was sold to a slaver, whom she will never see again.

Irri thinks about all of them often, for a while. As she runs her fingers through the khaleesi's hair to untangle the knots she remembers how her mother used to do the same to her, at night, and it is all the girl can do to bite back tears and continue. When the khalasar's long column rides through the land of the Lhazarene, burning and raping and stealing- people as well as their possessions- Irri feels a familiar sense of dread for the lamb men who she had once looked down upon. She wonders how many families shall be destroyed beneath the hooves of Dothraki horses, and she feels unspeakably ill. Her queen, she sees, feels much the same. 

It changes when Daenerys emerges as the Unburnt. Irri crosses the Red Waste, survives the city of bones, sails away from Qarth unscathed. Irri survives, where her parents and Doreah and the lamb men did not. Irri endures, Irri does her duty, Irri lives.

Sansa grows; Sansa conquers: a mix

Sansa allowing Littlefinger to kill a child would be a massive turning point in her character- probably akin to when Arya killed the guard at Harrenhal. At that point it's going to be a near-impossible choice: murder of Robert Arryn, marrying Harry the Heir, taking back Winterfell with his help... or saving an innocent, albeit annoying child and foiling Littlefinger's plotting.

but there's a general consensus that losing everyone and going through everything she will go through and has already been through will turn her cold; steely

and I understand that; it makes sense