Game of Thrones blog 5 Sansa

This chapter starts off with the new Queen Cersei giving Sansa her freedom back to go anywhere within the castle, the Red Keep, as long as she doesn’t go out beyond the walls. Even with this freedom Sansa still feels like she is being watched since she has to have guards with her everywhere she goes. It seemed as if the people were ignoring her as she was making her way to Prince Joffrey’s, who is now King, first court session and she rarely seen any familiar faces. She starts to feel afraid being around so many unfamiliar faces but has to remind herself that she has no reason to be because the queen and Joff loves her which is all that matters at this point. At this court session a list of names and families were read that would have to swear loyalty to King Joffrey or they would be deemed traitors, Sansa’s family was along the list. They also fired Ser Barristan from being the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard and gave the position to Ser Jamie Lannister. Towards the end of this session Sansa went before the king and queen to ask for mercy for her father Eddard and tried to defend what he said about Joffrey not being the true king. King Joffrey agreed to his mercy if only he confessed to his treason, which Sansa believed he will.

I don’t think Queen Cersei fully’s trust Sansa which is why she have guards follow her around and claims them as ‘honor guards for her daughter-to-be’ so it won’t seem obvious that she’s keeping eye out on her. I think it’s mainly because Sansa is Ed’s daughter who Cersei is now enemies with. Sansa might think Cersei loves her but I think it’s all for show and she’s using Sansa to make her stay on her side for maybe a bigger plan she might has. I like how Sansa stood up for her father even though she decided to be on King Joffrey’s side and not her father’s. I think Sansa is playing the role that she believes her father is a traitor to keep herself safe and because she loves King Joffrey so much and she really wants to hold that queen title one day.  Even though Sansa doesn’t like Arya, I hope she sends another letter to Winterfell to see if Arya really made it back there because I know out of everything that has happened so far, Sansa does love her sister.