#christ.

GIRLS WANT... stamps (II S2 cast ver)

First off, their lives being ruined by blonde products of incest. Say what you want about Rhaegar but you have to admit he did ruin Lyanna’s life (given that he assisted in the process to end it)(and she was FOURTEEN). That’s not even touching all the ways Joffrey ruined Sansa’s life, but she did not come out of King’s Landing the same girl she went in as.

Sansa initially wanting nothing more than to leave Winterfell and go South to find a knight like the songs. Lyanna wanting nothing but to not marry South, to a man Ned described as a “maiden’s dream.”

Multiple times they were both described as being sensitive (Lyanna crying at Rhaegar’s song)(Sansa and her fairytales). Along with both enjoying flowers to some extent where Ned notices it.

They were both girls trapped alone with older, stronger and crueler men. The kingsguard purportedly did not do anything to Lyanna but there is a constant under current of knowledge that she couldn’t fight them off if they wished her harm. Sansa was trapped under the constant threat of physical harm, of rape and abuse. They both knew that they were fundamentally powerless to do anything if it came to it.

In the duration of their capture their father and brother(s) died. Rickard and Brandon died in an attempt to recover Lyanna through proper channels. Ned died due to his own folly and Robb during the war he started to recover Sansa.

They both had a debatably legitimate marriage to a much older and powerful man. Rhaegar was already married and whilst there was a precedent that occurred when Targaryen possessed Dragons they no longer do, and by any metric in this patriarchal society Lyanna was not her own to give. Sansa married Tyrion whilst she was a political prisoner, arguably Tywin had no right to have her married, she was the only concrete heir to the North, that should have saved her. It did raise some eyebrows (if I remember correctly).