You have to swear you’ll never tell another soul.
# where are you now, Sansa fans … i don´t see you. But really now. I personally thought too, that Sansa would keep her word, because this secret was also Ned Starks secret. He died for this secret. He lied to his wife, he lied to all only for protecting his nephew, Jon and his daughters. How could she be so cruel to her father´s memory?
Literally what are you talking about? Sansa did what was necessary by telling Tyrion, because she new dany didn’t belong on the throne. She knew that dany was dangerous and not to be trusted (and was totally right btw. Dany literally burned down the entire city like the mister she is, and it’s fine for dany stans to admit Sansa stans were right the whole time), and wanted to make sure the realm was in good hands, and Jon was the best option at the time. And the entire reason Ned had to keep it a secret was to hide from Robert, and now that he’s dead, the secret doesn’t have to be a secret anymore. Tbh the only one being cruel to Ned’s memory is Jon, kneeling to the daughter of the man Ned lost so much to overthrow
Thank you.
Like, say, the series didn’t have a theme that oathbreaking to stop a tyrant or lying to protect the innocent could be a good thing…
Here’s the thing: Sansa’s decision to break her oath is actually a direct reflection of Ned choosing to uphold his, and at the end of the day, with the exact same motivations and end goals in mind.
Ned chose to sacrifice his honor and the integrity of his relationships (i.e his wife, considering the marriage-long deception of his ‘infidelity’) in order to protect Jon. He had a choice. Keep his honor, or hold to the lie.
But that must beg the question, ‘What is honor?’ Well, here’s one definition for you: Honor is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.
In Ned’s view, honor doesn’t mean keeping his reputation as a one-woman man when an innocent babe is in danger, when his sister’s dying wish is for him to protect her child. It doesn’t mean putting his own image above an actual human life. Making the honorable choice meant sacrificing this perceived idea of ‘honor’, and in the process, the chance of reconciliation with his wife, which he had no guarantee of upon first bringing a bastard infant home to Winterfell. It didn’t matter what people said about him, or even what his own wife thought about him, because keeping that oath, and keeping Jon safe, was the right thing to do. The honorable thing to do. Damn whatever personal consequences came of it.
Sansa does exactly the same in her decision to reveal Jon’s secret. She risked her own relationship with him (and possibly with her siblings as well) and this ‘perceived idea of honor’, as well as her very life, in order to protect Jon. She had a choice. Faced with knowing what Daenerys was capable of, and what consequences laid ahead should she truly come to power, not only for Jon but for the North and all of Westeros - faced with that - she had a choice. Keep her honor, or expose the lie.
Looking at it as ‘Ned kept his word vs Sansa broke hers’, is a grossly narrow-minded view of what each of those decisions is actually trying to accomplish, and that’s to protect Jon. If valor, chivalry, honesty, and compassion are benchmarks of honor, then Sansa made just as honorable a decision as her father did. Different means, same motives. But you’re too busy missing the forest for all the trees. It’s not about blind devotion to a string of promised words, its about choosing what is right and worth protecting, even at the cost of those promised words, or at the cost of more.
In the end, both Ned and Sansa made exactly the same choice. They chose Jon.
