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♥ then you react if you want!
♥ other people do the same thing to you! maybe you can harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later!

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[porcelainandsteel]

well one thing's for damn sure: their relationship isn't any simpler in Panem than in Westeros.

Sansa values Arya a lot more for having thought she'd lost her. She really does. She's much more willing to be patient, and not in a "look how patient I'm being" way that's for the benefit of onlookers. She's mostly (mostly) over her resentment that of all the siblings to have survived, it was Arya; she's much more able to take a step back and appreciate Arya for who and what she is. It helps that she can recognise that Arya's skill set is more useful than hers in the Arena.

But that definitely doesn't mean their relationship is all happy and gentle. Sansa is totally baffled by how stupid Arya can be about the need for people to like her, in a place like this. Arya's attitude is even further outside Sansa's understanding than it was when they were younger, and so she often ends up mistaking it for wilful blindness.

She's also hurt and angry that Arya keeps downplaying Sansa's own skills - and it really stings her that Arya seems to think she wasn't suffering in Westeros. I think that's starting to let up a little, but to Sansa it's very clear that Arya still thinks she sold their family out for a life of luxury, and besides awakening all her own guilt issues about it, that's really upsetting for her because it makes it sound as if she was just sitting in King's Landing taking tea and eating lemon cakes. (She reads more of this into what Arya says than Arya intends, I think) She spends a lot of time wanting to take Arya by the shoulders and shake her and shout in her face about all the horrible things that happened to her.

She also has this conflict where on the one hand, she feels responsible for Arya (because she's the big sister, and Ned and Cat and Septa Mordane kept putting Arya as her responsibility), but on the other hand Arya knows more about this world than she does. Plus, as always, trying to take responsibility for Arya is like herding cats. So she gets frustrated with that, especially when it's tied up with what I mentioned before, about Arya not recognising her skills.

(She's also really resentful of Tom, Molotov, and Éowyn, because Arya clearly cares a lot about them, and it makes her feel very small and lonely and left out)

(and she doesn't trust any of them)

So, like... she definitely feels the need to love and protect Arya, both as her little sister and the last Stark besides her. But also she wants to strangle her. So the broad brushstrokes of their relationship haven't changed that much. But there's a lot more guilt there, and fear, and everything else is intensified too.

(I've done my best not to go into a ramble about their canon relationship, because it would be way too easy and I would write you reams that you already know. So. Yeah)