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❅ Seventeen (Text)
Have you ever been in love?
(This is asked late one night and it might seem frivolous with the current concerns hovering over the populace of Hadriel. Yet Sansa believes love is important no matter how long someone lives - or where they are imprisoned. Besides, she had a taste of love recently and it's a frightening - and exhilarating - change of scenery for her.)
Can it last?
(This is asked late one night and it might seem frivolous with the current concerns hovering over the populace of Hadriel. Yet Sansa believes love is important no matter how long someone lives - or where they are imprisoned. Besides, she had a taste of love recently and it's a frightening - and exhilarating - change of scenery for her.)
Can it last?
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[He privates the video.]
Aside from growing up a cripple, my father, mother, and brother all died within a year, my brother at my own hand. [A terrible crime even among Vikings to kill your own family.] My mentor, the one I saw as a second father, abandoned me in grief over losing his wife. Then my brothers all abandoned me one after the other-- [He pauses, knowing the next part will not show him in a good light.] --but the last to leave, Hvitserk, was because I murdered the two women he loved and abused him for far too long. I thought I found happiness with a wife and child but it was not meant to be. My child was born deformed, and I would not subject him to the cruel life I had gone through, a life of pain and misery. I left him to the fate of the gods and they ended his suffering. Then my wife betrayed me in the worst way she could, selling me out to my brothers. I strangled her with my own two hands even still loving her all the same. [He's been a kinslayer three times over in his life, the most terrible of his many cruel, insane acts.]
And still, I remain, without family or titles now, but not dead. So I will keep on fighting for what I want.
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She can't judge him and she won't. Whatever judgement he deserves, the gods will give in their time.)
I am sorry you have been beaten and suffered. I bear the scars of being treated likewise, though my obstacles in life - particularly when I resided at Winterfell - are laughable compared to yours.
(Her heart hurts especially for his child and his wife, however. If she had given birth to a deformed child, she would have tried her best to keep them safe and alive.)
What do you want?
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He thinks of answering her sarcastically, but he's too emotionally worn down to put up his usual defenses.]
I want to be remembered by men as long as they tell stories to remember those who have done great things by. More famous then my father and his many accomplishments and moreso than my brothers, who have all taken their own paths. [His voice hardens.] And for revenge. I will take back what was taken from me by force and fire and those that wronged me will regret it for however long I choose to keep them alive.
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You deserve justice for what was taken from you, I agree, and that, in itself, will be a fine revenge. But do not make the mistake of seeing yourself through the eyes of those who are ignorant. So many spend their days living like drones. You know your value - you know why your mother kept you alive. Build on that strength and leave your bitterness behind.
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[And a pretty one too, but he'll hold his tongue on that. He does have some degree of tact on occasion.]
If you have children, you will be a good mother to them. [A high compliment considered the idealization of his own mother that he had in his mind.]
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(Her cheeks flush; he likely couldn't give her a higher compliment.)
They won't go through what I did and if I have a son like you, I will love him just as much as the rest. (Oddly, while Sansa started out emulating her mother; she has ended up being more like Eddard Stark, her father. Anyone in her pack will be protected with teeth and claws if need be.)
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True compassion is a rare trait to find, but it serves you well.
[He would see as a weakness in himself, but in others, it could be a strength.]
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There is so little of it in our worlds. When I can show it, I will do so to make the world better.
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[He'd been feeling rather glum since coming back from his world. But Ivar had never been kicked so hard he stayed down. He would always get back up even if he did mope for a little bit first. It helps having good friends here. He doesn't have that kind of support system in his own world.]
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[For once, Ivar wasn't full of rage. He was just sad and depressed, wondering if he'd ever get a family of his own that he wouldn't lose.]
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If he deserved his death, then satisfaction should well be taken. Revenge is something one should always savor.
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(She had enjoyed his death. It had been a relief and just as awful as he deserved.)
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[Which really wasn't a healthy attitude to have. Where did the line between revenge and doing terrible things for his own satisfaction blur? Probably about the time he started burning the people who spoke out against him alive.]
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(She can't blame him, but sometimes the fires that are set can devour their creator.)
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[But will it be enough? Could anything ever be enough for Ivar? The eternal question for one as angry and bitter as he was.]
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(It's difficult standing up! For her, at least. Sitting down must be double the chore.)
Why am I not surprised?
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[It was all about equilibrium with ranged weapons. He pleased with himself.]
When you have no limits, you can accomplish many things.
[Not that this is necessarily a good thing. People were meant to have limitations to them in their minds. Deciding not to have any had pushed Ivar into some pretty psychotic territory as he did whatever it took to accomplish what he deemed necessary.]