Application: Sansa Stark, A Song of Ice and Fire

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A beautiful girl dressed in a modest medieval gown appears in the Sorting Room. She looks around briefly, clearly surprised and disoriented, then takes a seat to fill out an application, carefully minding her sleeves so they don't get smudged with ink.


1. What is your favorite cheese? Why is it your favorite?
White cheese? I didn't know they had names. I suppose I like white cheese because... blue and green smell horrible.

2. Who would you kill first, Barney or Carrottop?
Those are strange names, who are they? I wouldn't... Why should I kill either one? They're nothing to me.

3. What time is it where you are?
Just after breakfast, midmorning. I was going to the sept. Lord Robert hates it and won't go there, which gives me some peace. I don't know where I am though.

4. If you were Albus Dumbledore returned from the dead, which member of the Order of the Phoenix would you sexually harass? How would you harass them? If you are Albus Dumbledore, please answer as if you were Sirius Black.
Who? What? I'm married. Or betrothed, I suppose, whichever pleases you better.


5. If you are pushing to be in:

A. Slytherin - please state the clever, witty name of the bar in which you bartend, in the dark.
Bastard girl I might be for now, but barmaid I am not. Not yet. Still, I have poured wine during my father's Petyr's Lord Baelish's meetings with the other Lords of the Vale, in the Eyrie and at the Gates of the Moon. Will either of those names do?

B. Gryffindor – Debate whether Harry should ultimately end up married to Fred or George. Use examples from a variety of world mythologies to bolster your argument.
Harry? Do you mean Harrold Hardyng? I don't know this Fred or George and Harrold Hardyng is by way of being betrothed to me, I'm told... neither one is a Royce? If one was, that would tie the... please, why are you asking me? I don't know these things.

C. Ravenclaw – You guys are supposed to be smart. Explain why my desk is inundated with paperwork at all times, even though I’m constantly disposing of it.
I have no head for paperwork, none at all, truly. You should talk to your steward.

...is there a fireplace near your desk?

D. Hufflepuff – Prove you are not useless.
I can sing, play the high harp, and sew very well. I know my letters and all my heraldry. Oh, and with the rest of my family dead (except for Jon Snow who doesn't count), I'm the heir to Winterfell and the North. Not that that means anything really anymore.

6. Offer a bribe to the members of this community so that they will not squib you. Items used in bribery do not necessarily have to belong to the person offering the bribe. Do not threaten us rather than offering a bribe. A threat indicates you either don't really want to be here, or don't have enough sense to answer the question properly. The hat will automatically squib you, regardless of other votes, if you do.
I don't have a lot with me, but I suppose I'm willing to offer whatever I have. I'll sew, I'll play. I've got several stories about the Winged Knight memorized. I have gotten really much better at running a castle and managing things. And I suppose it's lucky I decided to wear some jewelry today.

I won't offer to sing, though, unless I have to. I have had my fill of songs.

Comments

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She shrugged. "Ser Gregor and Harrenhal were bad. The Mountain's men used to torture people, and rape the women, and Weese used to beat me and starve me and threatened to rip out my tongue. But he's dead now, and so are most of Ser Gregor's men." She smiled, a self-satisfied look. "I was a boy for a while, then a servant, and no one looked at me twice. Nobody even recognized me until Ser Beric's men found me."

She scowled and gripped Needle tightly. She wished Joff were here just so she could slit his throat and watch him die for that, but knowing that he was dead would have to be enough. "I thought the Hound was lying about that. He was trying to get me to kill him and I thought he'd say anything to get me angry enough. I'll be nice to the Imp, then." She nodded fiercely. "Joff and his mother. If she shows up here, I'll kill her myself."

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Sansa frowned slightly. Why would the Hound try to make Arya kill him? "The Hound never hit me, though, just the others. So he was lying if he said that." He might have, but Joffrey never asked him. Sansa liked to think, sometimes, that he wouldn't have. "If she shows up here, do please." Though Arya might just be one of a crowd, if anyone else wanted to kill her.

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"He said he watched. If he said he had, I might have killed him, or I might have still left him to die. Polliver stabbed him in the leg and it went bad," she explained. "But he killed Polliver."

She nodded fiercely. "Someone told me that you can't kill people here at the school, but they never said anything about out of it. And the Kingslayer said he'd like to kill her, too, so that's one more person we can count on. And that Brienne woman as well. She told me she's sworn to protect us."

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"He didn't lie, then." For some reason that was a relief. The Hound was honest, whatever else he was. "You can't kill people here, truly?" That was good to know. It was a very large thing not to have to worry about getting killed. I don't think I'll be leaving here for a while. "Lady Brienne said the same thing to me. She said she swore it to our lady mother. I believe her."

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She glared, but nodded. "That's what I've heard from two people, anyway. I don't know who the man was and I don't trust him, but Lily said it too. I think we might be able to trust her. She was nice, she looks a little like a Tully, and she gave me a tiny dire wolf. It's a toy but it can walk and move and howl."

She grinned happily. "I'm going to vote you into Gryffindor, okay? It's where the Hat put me and it's nice enough."

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A Tully, really? Not like Aunt Lysa, Sansa hoped, but surely Arya wouldn't have spoken well of anyone like Aunt Lysa. "I will hope to meet her, then."

Sansa gave her sister another hug. "That sounds wonderful." It wasn't Winterfell, not even close, but with Arya actually here it was better than being alone in King's Landing or the Eyrie.

Vote: Gryffindor

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This was the happiest Arya could remember being in a long time. "Gryffindor tower is great. You have have a password to get in, and the door is a painting that talks! And the common room is nice. There's a fireplace. Oh, and there's house elves here that will bring you food if you ask them! They're easy to recognize, they're little funny-looking people wearing towels."

Re: Vote: Gryffindor

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"Wearing towels?" Yes, she immediately latched onto the clothes. Why not? "Poor things!"