Do you think book!sansa would react the same way as show!sansa? Would she agree with it?

So, my gut instinct to this was no (because anger @ plotline), but the more I think about it, I actually think it’s possible she would.  Naturally, you have to pretend that this scenario is “real” for Sansa’s characters in the book, which the release of the Alayne Chapter pretty much says lolnope to.  But, let’s for a moment pretend.

Her reaction in this week’s episode was basically “These people betrayed my brother and mother, they have my home and you’re selling me to them for what purpose?”  And I think that that’s a visceral reaction that Sansa would have had in the books as well.  She took such strength from Robb’s defiance while she was in King’s Landing, and constantly was inspired by her mother that I can’t really see how she wouldn’t be horrified at the concept of marrying one of the Boltons. 

As to the extent to which she’d succumb to Middlefinger’s plans...I’m not sure.  I don’t think she’s at a point of being able to out-gambit him by any means, which already has me nervous.  For all she seems to have more agency and confidence in the books, I don’t actually see her as being completely independent of him.  I mean, looking at that TWOW chapter, he tells her to seduce Harry, and she’s really uncomfortable with it on several levels, but she does it anyway.  (My view of that chapter is that Sansa is more wary, definitely, but more wary of others, not necessarily of Petyr.)  But no matter what, she’s not in control of the situation--Petyr is, and she’ll resist or not as she can.  So that rings true a little bit in this episode as well--Sansa will resist internally, but she can’t resist externally.  What will that win her?  She’s not really got choice.  (It’s not agency if you don’t have choice!)  Sansa putting on a face and being charming and making people think she’s fine--that’s how she survived in King’s Landing to some extent.  

So I don’t think it would look identical, per se, but I’m not wholly convinced it’s entirely out of character.  We’ll see how it continues to play, I suppose.

Do you think book!petyr would think it was smart to work with boltons?

No.  I don’t.  I’m 100% sure that Book!Petyr wouldn’t take that sort of gamble.  My biggest frustration with mustache-twirling Baelish as he is on the show is that they have him pretty much characterized as a pimp and a gambler.  Which, I mean, he is all those things, but he’s also someone who doesn’t leave things up to chance.  He plans everything so wildly meticulously that it may look as though he’s gambling, but I really don’t think he is.  

It’s a really dumb-ass move on his part, tbh, especially given the way that he and Roose interacted where Roose pretty much ended up beasting him.  I mean, I don’t see that as being in-character for book!Roose either, per se, but I can’t fathom Baelish putting himself in a situation where that might even begin to happen.