Jon’s Letter To Sansa Foreshadows Problems Between The Starks In ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8

Now that we know Sansa was working with Arya and Bran to expose Littlefinger as the cockroach that he is (well, was) during Game of Thrones season seven, it’s time to start worrying about how the Lady of Winterfell will react to the traveling semi-Stark next season. Jon Snow/Aejon and Sansa care for and respect each other, but they both believe they’re the right person to lead the North. This tension could prove, let’s say, uncomfortable, especially now that Jon is hooking up Aunt Daenerys and, oh yeah, he’s also working with Cersei Lannister, the woman who kept Sansa hostage in King’s Landing.

Sansa and Jon were already not on the best of terms. The scroll she reads from in “The Dragon and the Wolf” (we don’t see it in the episode, but HBO released the prop on a behind-the-scenes website) won’t help things.

Sansa,

Cersei Lannister has pledged her forces to our cause, as has Daenerys Targaryen. And if we survive this war, I have pledged our forces to Daenerys at the rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. We are both coming to organise the defence of the realm.

Jon Snow. Warden of the North. (Via)

Outside of the fraught collaboration with Cersei, who’s secretly scheming with Euron and the Golden Company to defeat the Starkgaryens, Sansa probably didn’t take too kindly to the “I have pledged our forces” phrasing (there’s no “i” in “team,” Jon), and her sort-of brother’s new title: Warden of the North. The King of the North vs. Warden distinction is an important one — basically, as King of the North, Jon ruled over an independent kingdom, but as warden, he’s now the leader of the entire region and part of the Seven Kingdoms. So, if Daenerys says, “Hey, we’re going to war,” Jon lawfully must obey. The title change doesn’t just affect Jon — it affects the entire North.

And he told her in a scroll. That’s like breaking up with someone via text. Of course, once Bran drops the R+L=J bomb, it won’t be Jon and Sansa arguing over titles; it will be Jon and Dany. No wonder Tyrion looked concerned.