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Sigrid and Gendry are those two kids who are super-comfortable almost-besties but not so comfortable with each other that they can admit how much they like each other. Sigrid defaults to displaying any affection as maternal (or filial, depending on the person's age) because that's what she knows and anything else is scary territory. This breaks up quite a bit with Gendry no matter how much she tries to hold it together. They're peers and they think similarly, so even when she tries to show her affection for him as familial, the cracks show. Eventually she'll work up the sense to drop an ice cube down his back or some other more teenage form of play. That time is coming sooner and sooner and it's a relief to see her having it with someone. As much as she and Sansa love each other, there's still a familiar class barrier, if transparent, just high enough that Sigrid still lays out Sansa's clothes and brushes and braids her hair. With Gendry there's no such thing. Maybe she's not going to tell him everything she's thinking, but more importantly, she's really learning to be herself around him in that way that doesn't have to involve speaking at all. Snowball fights, maybe, but no speaking beyond harried battle cries etc.
Sigrid has a wee bitty crush on Jon. What? He's beautiful and gallant and broken and puppydoggish so she can take care of him and make him happier. What else can a teenage not-mom want? Okay well yes she works for his dad and this is a complication but you know what, she's more likely to be attracted to a man she's pretty sure she can't have. That's safer.
He has brought out something unusual in her, very recently. She's rather suddenly realized she wants him to smile and laugh and take things less seriously, when she's usually the one who takes everything too seriously. Maybe it's because he's so damn precious. So that's her mission now. It may or may not lead her to crush even harder on him. We will see.
She's sort of depressed by Arya! She feels like she should be able to connect with her and is rather sad that she can't. She doesn't think Arya is a bad kid, but she's at once angry and ashamed that she hasn't been able to reach out successfully to her.
Of course she is only fifteen and thinks she can handle any kid so it's a bit humbling to her teenage ego.
She's pretty gutted that she helped kill his baby brother. But in terms of Maglor himself, Sigrid has a rather selfish desire for elves all to be bright, beautiful, and joyful, the way she imagines when she hears of the wood-elves and their festivities. She wants them to be a thing of beauty in a world beyond hers, where life is dirty, hungry, and poor, and the government picks on you and people gossip and you can't walk outside at night safely, and disease is everywhere and death is a looming certainty. That Maglor is burdened makes her angry and grieved that she can't take refuge in that idea of distant beauty from which sorrow is equally distant. An elf shouldn't be as grieved and frightened as she is. He's supposed to be someone who makes her forget her own messed-up life, not clutter it up more with troubles she never even knew about before. So it's nothing actually personal against Maglor, she's just sort of devastated by her last illusion failing her.
Galadriel is elfmom and Sigrid wants to be adopted by her and be an honorary elf-kid and learn her ways and be far from the sort of life she's obligated to now. That's the truth. Galadriel is everything she wanted to believe all elves are--beautiful and elegant and strong enough to withstand even grave sorrows or trials. Seeing her during Celebrian's coma wasn't devastating the way Maglor's woes were; it was exactly the sort of mountain-like endurance she has heard elves have. Galadriel will still be Galadriel when Esgaroth's ashes have long since been swallowed up by the earth and the Lake has run dry. That has become very, very important to Sigrid here. It keeps her hoping for brighter things.
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Sigrid of Esgaroth | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Christopher Tolkien's Anger Management Progress
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Sigrid and Gendry are those two kids who are super-comfortable almost-besties but not so comfortable with each other that they can admit how much they like each other. Sigrid defaults to displaying any affection as maternal (or filial, depending on the person's age) because that's what she knows and anything else is scary territory. This breaks up quite a bit with Gendry no matter how much she tries to hold it together. They're peers and they think similarly, so even when she tries to show her affection for him as familial, the cracks show. Eventually she'll work up the sense to drop an ice cube down his back or some other more teenage form of play. That time is coming sooner and sooner and it's a relief to see her having it with someone. As much as she and Sansa love each other, there's still a familiar class barrier, if transparent, just high enough that Sigrid still lays out Sansa's clothes and brushes and braids her hair. With Gendry there's no such thing. Maybe she's not going to tell him everything she's thinking, but more importantly, she's really learning to be herself around him in that way that doesn't have to involve speaking at all. Snowball fights, maybe, but no speaking beyond harried battle cries etc.
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He has brought out something unusual in her, very recently. She's rather suddenly realized she wants him to smile and laugh and take things less seriously, when she's usually the one who takes everything too seriously. Maybe it's because he's so damn precious. So that's her mission now. It may or may not lead her to crush even harder on him. We will see.
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Of course she is only fifteen and thinks she can handle any kid so it's a bit humbling to her teenage ego.
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