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Podrick Payne- The Boy Littlefinger was

I read a post a while ago about how Podrick only joined Brienne to search for Sansa, not for Tyrion. Podrick's chivalrous love for Sansa reminded me of Littlefinger's infatuation with Catelyn. Both Littlefinger and Podrick came from small houses, were fostered by a Great House, (in Podrick's case, he was Tyrion's squire), and developed a crush on someone unattainable. Sansa's romantic ending is still uncertain. However, if she rejects Podrick, I don't think Podrick will fall into self-pity and bitterness like Petyr did.

I may have said that somewhere before, but!

Jaime "gave" Podrick to Brienne not only because the boy needed to go away from KL, but also to help Brienne. Jaime knows that when she's taking care of somebody, she's less likely to behave resklessly. She's very responsible in that way. And, of course, it was done so she wouldn't be alone. Pod would keep her company and make her smile.

So, thank you for that legendary duo, J👏

Should the ship name for Podrick and Sansa be Podsa or Sandrick?

Hear me out he’s a hero he’s gentle he’s kind he’s brave in the face of his own fear he’s assisting Brienne in her search for Sansa he’s of age with her. He blushes when he speaks to her.

Podrick had a dog named Hero and Sansa’s direwolf was Lady HELLO come on.

girl help im making game of thrones fanart in 2022

Podsa Anastasia AU could be extremely compelling the only catch being that Brienne and Podrick are too honest in canon to have the goal of passing off a fake as the real Sansa Stark. Arya would be a good Anastasia too but Anastasia is a romance and I am not invested in a single Arya ship. Gendrya could work for sure though…

songs: “juliet” by cavetown, “love” by lana del rey / sansa fc: kaitlyn dever, podrick fc: brenton thwaites / paintings: “in the grass” by arthur hughes, “the last defender” by andrey shishkin, “pelleas and melisande” by edmund leighton

“Whenever she spoke to him, he turned the most alarming shade of red.

“Are purple, gold, and white the colors of House Payne, Podrick?” she asked him politely.

“No. I mean, yes.” He blushed. “The colors. Our arms are purple and white chequy, my lady.” / A Storm of Swords - Sansa IV

another sansa ship i adore

the princess & the squire hooray!!! @harrenhals i'm your velaryontines this year... :o) i was inspired by your children's book-esque artstyle for this one ! hope you like it

the princess & the squire hooray!!! @harrenhals i'm your velaryontines this year... :o) i was inspired by your children's book-esque artstyle for this one ! hope you like it

Lil twow podsa sketch for @danally20 🧡

Sansa stark & Podrick Payne : the lions, A Lady and a Knight

Princess and the squire : a princess who aspires to be the ultimate image of a lady, a squire who "trains" under a brave chivalrous knight

Crush : its layed out that Pod probably has a crush on sansa or is shy around her,she's completely oblivious to this however.

Pets : Sansa's direwolf being known as lady for her personality, Pod had a dog named hero it kinda makes me cry

Orphaned Hostage : Both parents being dead or absent . Sansa's been in an hostage situation since book 1 and podrick...He's FINE ok , maybe Podrick has been taken as a hostage by lady stoneheart thats a reason why Brienne goes along with the deal of bringing Jaime to stoneheart.

Lions : For house Lannister , sansa is surrounded by Lannisters,almost married Lancel and now is married to Tyrion,Podrick’s house is sworn under Lannisters , he squires for Tyrion might be knighted by a Lannister. Lannisters have their colours as red and gold, it’s unconfirmed why house Payne has gold coins on their sigils but might be related to the saying of “Lannisters always pays their debts”

Slaying giants (?) : for sansa its self explanatory for eventually slaying petyr but for pod....OK hear me out before you stone me i think i'd be sick if Pod was the one to slay(or help slay) lem lemoncloak in the same way jaime helped slay the smiling knight as a squire of Arthur dayne, he already pushed a knight in the rivers🤷🏽‍♀️. There’s a chance Jaime will knight brienne and podrick once they defeat stoneheart’s brotherhood. He constantly talks about killing people who want to harm brienne that’s my baby✨

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion : mostly allusions as he squires under 2 Lannisters (Tyrion and Jaime being there as a possibility in the future ) but could also be taken for brienne’s travels/relations with Jaime in the riverlands and cersei as the spurned lady, strangely brienne teaches a Payne to fight and a Payne trained Jaime for awhile, if podrick is turning 15 in twow he’d be the same age as Jaime when he was knighted. yvain also slayed a giant, killed 3 knights and his cousin was killed in an enchanted forest (Cedric in the riverlands) and had a story involving coins.

rhaena targaryen parallels: im DEEPLY reaching here but consider the allusions and opposite parallels of sansa and rhaena targaryen, in the end she marries Garmund hightower unexpectedly , garmund was also a noble squire ,both came from families who hated each other, both podrick and sansa are around the same age as were garmund and rhaena

Courtly love : Sansa's story involves LOTS of arranged marriages,plans and schemes without much care for her happiness or done for political gain it'd be nice if she at least gets to choose her lover in the future, courtly love in medieval romances/poetry often involved a Lady who's arranged marriages were mostly out of obligation/economic value and a knight who's romantic love or devotion was experienced outside of the marriage, the Knight was pious,brave,often of lower status and chivalrous while often having quests in the lady's name or affection, Podrick is currently on his own quest to find tyrion in relation to brienne's quest to find sansa, it’s not marriage but courtly love could also be an answer to sansa's wish of romanticism that's been denied to her throughout the story.

Roman de la rose : a poem related to courtly love depicting a Lady as a rose, Sansa's often associated with flowers, she's given a red rose by loras tyrell

Princesse lointaine : related to courtly love of an unattainable princess, Pod is often extremely awkward with sansa,she's closed off emotionally in king's landing and she seems far away while he's trying to find her but they haven’t met up again in the story how they interact later on is yet to be seen

Season 8; Episode 1

Sansa: OMG welcome, welcome! Tyrion, brienne, pod, sandor?! Oh, Ser Jaime! Ser Bro-

Jon: Sans-

Sansa: DOGS SLEEP OUTSIDE

Tonight’s Episode summary

Podrick: I bet it would actually make Ser Jaime really happy to know that Ser Brienne is moving on. I bet he’s looking up at us and smiling right now.

Sansa: Looking up?

Podrick: Oh yeah, he’s in hell for sure!

Post-War AU – After the destruction of Winterfell, Sansa eschews convention and marries for love: her trusted protector, Podrick Payne. As a reward for his valor in the War for the Dawn Pod is granted a lordship and a seat in the Westerlands, where he and Sansa raise their family in peace.

“I want to stay with ser,” said Podrick. “I mean, my lady.”

brienne time 😤

Losing It.  Jaime and Brienne

Podrick was tending the fire.  They had ridden as hard, and as long, as they dared.  The horses were exhausted and so were they.  He hoped that no one was following them, that the Brotherhood without Banners would feel that pursuing them was not a priority.

Jaime realized that Brienne had been gone a long time.  When they stopped to make camp she had gone off by herself.  He thought she just needed a moment of privacy, but she had yet to return,  He decided to look for her.

Jaime found her a short distance from the camp.  Her back was against a tree, facing the river.  Just the faintest glow from the fire reached this spot.  She was all shadow and shape.  Her arms were wrapped around her legs, and her head was bowed over her arms.  It looked like she was crying, but that couldn't be right.  Brienne didn't cry.

He sat down beside her, and touched her shoulder.  She looked at him for a moment, with a face ravaged by tears.  Then she looked away and wiped the tears from her face.

"Brienne ..." He said, but left the thought unfinished because he didn't know what to say.

"She saved my life once, you know."  She was talking about Lady Catelyn.

"No I didn't know"

"When Renly died do you think anyone wished to hear about a demon shadow. I cut down two of his guards without thinking, but Renly was on the ground bleeding out.  I was lost.  It was Lady Catelyn that brought me to my senses. She made me a part of her travelling party, and snuck me out of the camp in the middle of the night.  If it wasn't for her I would probably be a prisoner. or dead.  And now I've... "  Her voice trembled and caught as her eyes filled with tears once more.

"Brienne, listen to me.  That woman, Lady Stoneheart, she wasn't Lady Catelyn.  She may have had her body, but it wasn't truly her.  Lady Catelyn would have never harmed you.  She would have never asked you to do anything dishonorable.  You have to know that."

"Oh Jaime, I don't know anything."  She sighed.  "When I made that vow it seemed quite simple. I had no idea how much it would cost me.  I have killed more men than I like to think about.  Multiple men have tried to rape me.  I was thrown into a bear pit.  Biter tried to eat me alive.  I almost perished from fever, and they hung me from a tree to die."

"Why did they try to hang you?  You had done nothing to deserve that"  She gave a short bark of laughter.

"Because I lay with lions.  Or one lion in particular"  She said looking at him.

"Me?" She nodded.  "Shit, they were going to hang you because you associated with me?" 

"Yes. it now seems that I am universally known as the Kingslayer's whore." Jaime cringed.  He knew how much she would hate that.

They sat there quietly for a few moments.  Jaime thinking about all she had said.  Then Brienne got up, undid her sword belt, and handed him Oathkeeper.

"What are you doing?"

"I am giving it back to you"

"It was a gift"

"A gift you gave me to fulfill a vow.  I no longer believe I can fulfill that vow.  You once said that it wasn't possible to uphold every oath.  I didn't want to believe you, but now I see that you were right."  

Jaime felt something shift uncomfortably in his chest.

"Brienne, please don't say that.  You are the one person in this life that gives me hope"

"I am sorry Jaime.  I failed you, and I failed myself."

"You didn't fail me.  You could never fail me.  You are the one person that I know is truly good and selfless."

"Jaime your a fool, and so am I." And, she walked away. 

A03

The Return - Jaime and Brienne

Note:Since it looks like the will be no LSH on the show I thought that this maybe an alternative way for Jamie to get to Brienne A03

Jaime was pacing the Kingsgaurd room.  He was thinking of his confrontation with Cersei.  He could see that there was an uncrossable rift between them. He didn't know what to think, what to feel, what to do with himself.

There was a knock on the door. Ser Loras entered.

“I am sorry to disturb you Lord Commander, but there is a young man most insistent on speaking with you”

“Who is it?”

“His name is Podrick Payne.”  It took him a moment to place the name.  Then he remembered he was Brienne’s squire.

“Send him in”

Podrick Payne entered.  He looked pale and frightened, but what turned Jaime’s stomach was he had Oathkeeper in his hands.

“Podrick, where is Lady Brienne?”

“They are holding her hostage, Ser”

“Who is? Where? When did this happen?” Jaime demanded.  Podrick looked like he was about to cry.

“He looks scared to death” said Ser Loras.  Jaime hadn't even realized he was still in the room.

“Boy, why don’t you sit down and start at the beginning” Loras reassured him. Podrick sat down and placed Oathkeeper on the table.  Jaime tried not to look at the sword, and concentrate on the young man before him.

“About two, maybe three weeks ago m’lady and I stopped at an inn in the riverlands.  The inn was run by children and young people who’s parents had died during the war.”  Jaime wished he could hurry him along, to get to the most pertinent information.

“I don’t know all that happened next, because I was inside the inn and m’lady was out in the yard.  From what I could gather, some brigands attacked, and m’lady tried to defend the inn” Gods, that did sound like something she would have been foolish enough to do, thought Jamie.

“She fought off one attacker and killed him, but another knocked her on the ground.  He probably would have killed her if the inn’s smith hadn't used his hammer to smash the man’s head in.  That is where I found her, bleeding and passed out in the yard.  That is also when they showed up.”

“Who?” asked Jaime

“The Brotherhood without Banners.” Shit, thought Jaime.

“They captured us, and took us to their hideout”

“Where?”

“A cave.  I don’t know where.  They covered my eyed so I wouldn't know it’s location.”

“You said this was almost three weeks ago?” Podrick nodded.  “Why are they sending you now?  Why not sooner?”

“Because m’lady was ill with fever.  For a time I was afraid she would not live.” Jaime felt a pain in his chest.  “But she pulled through.  Then they put us on trial for being enemies of the realm.”

“You said she tried to save the children at the inn.  How could she be an enemy of the realm?”

“Because she serves the Lannisters”

“But she doesn't”

“She has a lion sword, and ...” Podrick hesitated for a moment “They called her the Kingslayer’s whore.”  Jaime cringed.

“She tried to tell them about finding Lady Sansa, but they didn't believe her. They wanted her to bring them your head to prove she wasn't serving Lannisters.  She refused.  Then they hanged us”  Podrick turned down his collar, showing the bruising that circled his neck.  Gods, Brienne, thought Jaime, what did I send you into.

“I don’t know what she said, but she stopped them from killing us.  Then she promised that she would help them in anyway they needed.  They argued for a time, but they decided to send me here, to you.  Two men escorted me to the edge of King’s Landing.  They said that if I don’t return in four days time, with you and 1000 golden dragons, they will send word to the Brotherhood and Lady Brienne will be killed.”

“Alright, I will start making the arrangements immediately”  Jaime turned as if he meant to leave.

“Ser” called Podrick “You are not to come back with me.”  Jaime turned to Podrick.

“I don’t understand”

“Before I left, m’lady old me that I am not to bring you to the Brotherhood.  She says it’s a trap.  That they will kill you if they get their hands on you.  She said the most important thing was getting me to safety.  I think she means to die in order to safe me.”  Podrick started to cry in earnest. 

Dammit, thought Jamie, why did she have to be so self sacrificing.  The fool woman.

“Podrick, listen to me, I am not going to let Lady Brienne die.  Do you hear me?”  Jaime turned to Ser Loras.  “Ser, I may need your help.”

Loras nodded. 

Surprise - Jaime and Brienne

He tasted of wet, and heat, and sweet wine.  Her hands were on his shoulders. she grasped them for a moment, than shoved him away.  Her thoughts were scattered.  Jaime looked surprised, surprised that she pushed him away, or surprised that he kissed her, she wasn't sure.

“What was that?”

“You know what that was Brienne.”  To avoid looking at him she stared intently at a large beige stain on the wall across the room, it kind of looked like a map of Westeros.

“I know you like to tease me, but you have never kissed me before”

“You should be glad any man wants to kiss you.”  Jaime replied, aggravatingly running his fingers through his hair.  Brienne felt a moment of embarrassment, but it was soon surpassed by anger.

“So it was a moment of pity.” She threw at him. 

“Yes” he paused “No. I don’t know.”  Brienne wished she could just walk out, but she told Pod she was going to rest, and knowing Jaime he would just follow her, like her followed her in here.

She looked around the room.  She looked at the scratched and worn table and chairs, the sagging bed with large straw mattress.  Piled in the corner was her armor, no longer handsome, but damaged and faded, like her.  She sighed, and went over and sat on the bed pulling her knees up to her chest.

“Your lonely, and away from the woman you love.  I understand that, but please don’t use me.”

“How do you know who I love?” asked Jaime.

“Please, everyone from Dorne to the Wall knows who you love.”

“I am not sure how everybody else knows when I don’t know myself.”  Brienne turned to Jaime.

“Your no longer in love with Cersei?”  Jaime sat beside her on the bed.

“I don’t think so.  She is my sister, my twin, I will always love her, but I don’t want to be her lover anymore.”

Brienne felt a bubbling of joy, but she dare not express it.  Jaime was obviously upset about the loss of his relationship with his sister.  She should tell him that she is sorry, but that doesn't feel right.

“When we were apart” said Jaime drawing her attention to him “I thought about Cersei, but I also thought about you.  I wondered where you were, about your search for Sansa, if you were safe. I worried that your honesty and stubbornness was going to get you into trouble.”  A piece of hair had fallen in Brienne’s face, Jaime tucks it behind her ear.

“I thought that when you and I were truly alone for the first time there was going to be so much I wanted to say, but instead I kissed you.”  Brienne looked into his green eyes, there were so many emotions behind them, but she didn't understand all of them.

“It was a nice kiss.”  Jaime flopped back on the bed and laughed.

“Brienne kisses aren't supposed to be nice, you are supposed to lose yourself in them.”

“I did, for a moment” she admitted.  Jaime stopped laughing.

“Jaime do you want to kiss me again?”  He didn't reply.  She laid down on her side facing him.

“You can, but don’t kiss me because your lonely or confused.  Kiss me because you want to kiss me.”

“That shouldn't be a problem” he said as he pulled her down to his sweet mouth once again.

A03