having 347485 feelings about briennesansa being a deconstruction of a stereotypical fantasy romance in the same sense that got is a deconstruction of a tolkienesque fantasy world.
they're, in some senses, both characters from the wrong genre. in a more lighthearted story, they'd be in their element, brienne as the picture-perfect knight and sansa as a kindhearted princess. except they're not, they're in a crapsack world that wants to beat their idealism out of them. the world sucks, and they've both developed their own ways of coping with that, but they haven't /given up/. both of them still look for that light and hope in the world, and they're some of the few characters that do, despite the ridicule and how hard it is to keep believeing in humanity when it continues to not believe in them. they stay true to themselves and what they believe in.
and together, are they anything like the songs? fuck no. sansa didn't get rescued until it was far too late and brienne is only a single person who can't protect her all the time and at best, their "happy ending" is brienne as an affair in sansa's loveless political marrage (and realistically, not even that, because that's dishonorable as shit). but it's almost, sort of /something/ like this impossible ideal they both have, and having each other helps take the sting out of the world not being the place it should be.
