George RR Martin’s original Game of Thrones draft from 31 years ago was far worse for Sansa Stark

Few people get along well Game of Thrones And A Song of Ice and Fire However, even by Westerosi standards, Sansa Stark was particularly hard done with where the story took her. She went from one bad marriage match to another, lost her family, and had to survive a lot. you Game of ThronesThe ending was a fitting one, at least, with Sansa rising to become Queen in the North, though whether that happens in the books remains to be seen.

Sansa’s path in Game of Thrones Completely diverged from the books in season 5What took you to Winterfell to marry Ramsay Bolton. Still, things could have been very different for both books and shows if George RR Martin had stuck to his original outline for ASOIFWhich he wrote back in 1993. It presented a very different idea for the series, including it just a trilogy, and one major change for Sansa.

Sansa Stark has Joffrey Baratheon’s son in the A Song of Ice and Fire outline

Sansa was more loyal to Joffrey than in Game of Thrones

Sansa is, of course, betrothed to Joffrey A Song of Ice and Fire And Game of Thrones For a long time, but never had to go through with him marriage. This was different in Martin’s initial outline for the series, where not only would they be married, but she would also have his son:

“Each of the contending families will learn that it has a member of dubious loyalty in its midst. Sansa Stark, married to Joffrey Baratheon, will give him a sonThe heir to the throne, and when the crunch comes, she will choose her husband and child over her parents and siblings, a choice she will regret later.”

In the books and subsequent show as written, Sansa avoids marrying Joffrey when he instead marries Margaery Tyrell to seal an alliance between the Crown and House Tyrell, after the Battle of the Blackwater. She then marries Tyrion, which apparently wasn’t part of Martin’s plan. He noticed that Tyrion eventually grows close to both Arya and SansaBut actually falls in love with the former.

Notable differences in George RR Martin’s original ASOIAF outline

• He planned only three books: A game of thrones (focus on the Lannisters versus the Starks); A dance with dragons (focusing on Daenerys Targaryen’s invasion of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros); And The winds of winter (Focus on the final battle against the real threat, the Others or White Walkers).

• Robb Stark would die on the battlefield, defeated by the forces of Jaime and Tyrion Lannister, though he would at least shut Joffrey down.

• Catelyn Stark would flee to the Wall after Ned’s death, along with Bran and Arya. Cat would eventually be killed by the others.

• A love triangle formed with Arya, Tyrion and Jon Snow.

• Daenerys would eventually kill Hal Drago to avenge Viserys’ death.

• Jaime Lannister would become king after Joffrey, by killing everyone else in the line of succession.

In the books and show, Sansa initially sides with and defends Joffrey, until she comes to learn how cruel and sadistic he is. It sounds like she would learn the same lesson and side with her remaining Stark family members again, but perhaps not until much later.

How Sansa being Joffrey’s son would have changed and hurt her ASOIAF Story

It’s a good thing GRRM changed his plans

While the plan may still have been for Sansa to turn away from the Lannisters, her with Joffrey’s son – and heir – would still bind her to them, making it even more difficult for her to break free from their grasp. so too, Joffrey’s cruelty would be even worse for Sansa if she had borne him a childServing as a further reminder of that and still giving her someone else to try to protect besides herself as well, an added burden that seems drastically unfair given how much he’s put her through.

There may also be another brutal twist in this, which is that It is quite possible that Sansa’s son would have been killed by JaimeBecause he takes away the inheritance in order to become king himself. This would potentially mean that Sansa had a child with the man she thought she loved, discovered exactly what he was really like, tried to protect the child, and then lost her son anyway, having him killed by another family member .

Martin’s plan also doesn’t seem to place as much importance on Sansa. It takes five characters as central to the story and surviving until the end: Jon, Daenerys, Bran, Arya and Tyrion. With so much happening to Sansa, it’s quite possible that he also planned for her to be killed earlierRather than surviving and becoming Queen in the North (which, although not confirmed, seems a decent possibility for the books now).

That would have impacted Sansa Game of Thrones The story too, and her actually marrying Joffrey and being even more loyal to him would hurt her arc, making her less of a misguided young girl if she stuck with him for much longer. sad, Game of Thrones made his own mistakes with Sansa’s story that wasn’t in the book – namely, the regrettable story of sexual assault with Ramsay (in the books, she’s still in the Valley at this point, and the story was given to Jeyne Poole , under the guise of being Arya), which was one of the show’s lowest moments.

It’s hard to say where the books would have ended up with Martin’s original outline: the reason things changed so much is that he’s not a writer who plans things. too Phil, but goes where the story takes him. As he describes it [via The Guardian]He is more of a gardener than an architect. Nevertheless, I think it is safe to tell Sansa’s book story – and most of her Game of Thrones arc – It was much better not to have Joffrey’s child.