The Northman's Daughter: Every Dog Has Its Day 5.2

[kimberlite8]

Title: The Northman's Daughter/Every Dog Has His Day 5.2
Character/Pairings: Sansa/Sandor
Rating: M
Chapter Word Count: 4000
Warnings: Sex, crude language
Description: This story is a continuation of "The Northman's Daughter" from Sandor's POV

Comments

[kimberlite8]

Well, when I started writing this story, I found angst to be compelling source of inspiration. But that was back in March.

Now, I find being in Sandor's head a rather a funny space, which is why he finds Arya's ire silly, uses words like ahem, cuntlapping (I was chuckling hard while I was writing that) and why I ended the scene with "A distant part of him thought it was all shit."

This is the man that named his horse Stranger. Which is now less badass to me, than some endearingly emo posturing - as if he was a teenager who named his black muscle car 'Satan' (Jaime says that men seldom named their horses because of how often they died).

And then while a captive at the mercy of Lord Beric, he joked that they should knight his horse because his horse doesn't shit in the Red Keep. Even in stressful situations he likes to crack jokes, so I imagine in his head, he's making fun of the experience even while he participates in it with sincerity.

humor and erotics aren't too bad a combination anyway.More humor in the last part

[kimberlite8]

lol, I don't mean to imply he would listen to Fall Out Boy. Just that calling your horse Stranger is strikes me now as melodramatic and makes me titter. My husband is a metalhead and writes metal music (I'm not a fan of this genre). A lot of his poetic imagery about grey worms eating us and on the hills you'll hear my roar just makes me smile indulgently.

[westeroswolf]

I really like reading this and comparing it to Sansa's versions. There's a line in a northmans daughter where she says that she has other people in her life and Sandor's only has her which really comes through in his POV. I love the sense of obsession he has here with all his flashbacks and the lack of guile in his thoughts.

[kimberlite8]

Thank you! I wish I hadn't waited so long to write this as now my prose style is a little less flowery, which makes Sandor's POV more jarring compared to wear I left it off.

I really appreciate you reading it all this time.

the lack of guile in his thoughts.
I'm glad you liked that part as I didn't know if all this humor was working. I was definitely laughing while writing this. I wasn't quite sure if people would enjoy funny sex. I don't want Sandor to be some miserable angsty git when he's getting what he wants, but I'd think to think his internal monologue wouldn't be so tralalala either.

[ladytp]

Oh! So much emotion... Reading both POVs separately shows how even the closest of lovers have their own mind and thoughts, and despite all, are still on their own in the end...

But still so close!

[kimberlite8]

Thank you! I found a tumblr review of my this fic a long time ago and she remarked how flowery everyone spoke. I tried to develop a greater sense of different vernaculars for Sandor and Sansa this time around. And a greater sense of abrasion between the two. They are in sympathy, not fighting with each, but they don't experience events or react to them in the same way.

Thanks for hanging with me through one year long journey. Final piece coming up...

[caroh99]

Awwww this was just absolutley Great!!!!

[kimberlite8]

Thank you Caroh99! I appreciate you reading and commenting still as this story winds down.

[voodooqueen126]

I can't believe I haven't reviewed this earlier.
So brilliant. You have mastered humour, which you once said was not easy for you.