Drew some Sandors in the battle of me vs. inkwash
And then says something that I always sob while reading - “I have no lands nor wife to forsake” - ugh if you cannot tell that this character secretly wants a place to belong, a family, a wife, a home, more than anything else you are not paying attention. That’s all there is to it. I will brook no arguments.
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Maybe this approach would have worked a little better that night. *cough* @Sansa_S
Broadcast “Come On Let’s Go”
You won’t find it by yourself
You’re gonna need some help
And you won’t fail with me around
Come on let’s go
I will tell you if you change
And who’s been saying things
It’s hard to tell who is real in here
Come on let’s go
You know who to turn to
Now everything’s changed
Come on lets go
Stop looking for answers
In everyone’s face
Come on let’s go
What’s the point in wasting time
On people that you’ll never know
Come on let’s go….
Oh, god. Sandor. Do I have to narrow it down to five things?
This is actually hell for me.
Disclaimer: Out of everyone in ASOIAF, Sandor Clegane is my favorite. It is incredibly difficult for me to be brief about him.
1. This turned into a huge-ass essay about how Sandor Clegane’s identity arc is the most beautiful identity arc in the series. I’m saving this essay for later because it really is huge and exploded the fuck out of my list. But believe me, it’s the most beautiful, inspiring, perfect part of the whole series. Yes, the identity arc of a non-POV character. Yes, you heard me.
2. Every time he threatens to beat someone bloody and utterly, utterly fails to carry the threat out. Basically, he protests way too much, and it’s the key to understanding his character.
This extended into an essay comparing him to Littlefinger and the lies they both tell, but it, too, exploded my list.3. He is fucking hilarious. Like. Everything he says. Everything. It’s so over-the-top. It’s like he actively worked on sounding and acting like a bad-ass.
“Come try it, Archer. I’ll take that quiver off you and shove those arrows up your freckly little arse.”
“Say, make my horse a knight. He never shits in the hall and doesn’t kick more than most, he deserves to be knighted. Unless you meant to steal him too.”
“Sedgekins can bugger himself with a hot poker.”
“Seven bloody buggering hells.”
4. He cries. Three separate times. In the space of a book. I think he cries more than Arya does in the same time frame? Sandor is the winner of the Manly Tears Award.
5. I love his bromance with his horse, and how by AFFC his horse even becomes a good indication of his state of mind (Stranger biting a guy’s ear off for trying to geld him, anyone? How was that not a metaphor for Sandor still being a fighting man?). By far the best horse in the series. It’s been scientifically proven by scientists. Stranger »» Silver, Honor, Glory, everyone.
I will have to post about the rest some other time. But I think you get it. Favorite character, favorite favorite favorite favorite.
Reblogged again. With pleasure.
