The reasons why I believe Sansa will be queen

Potential Spoilers Below

ASOIAF: Sansa's punishment 

“I’d shoot you too, but if I do Mother says they’d kill my uncle Jaime. Instead you’ll just be punished and we’ll send word to your brother about what will happen to you if he doesn’t yield. Dog, hit her.”

Jaime Lannister

“Let me beat her!” Ser Dontos shoved forward, tin armor clattering. He was armed with a “morningstar” whose head was a melon. My Florian. She could have kissed him, blotchy skin and broken veins and all. He trotted his broomstick around her, shouting “Traitor, traitor” and whacking her over the head with the melon. Sansa covered herself with her hands, staggering every time the fruit pounded her, her hair sticky by the second blow. People were laughing. The melon flew to pieces. Laugh, Joffrey, she prayed as the juice ran down her face and the front of her blue silk gown. Laugh and be satisfied.

Ser Dontos

Joffrey

Joffrey did not so much as snigger. “Boros. Meryn.”

Meryn Trant

Ser Meryn Trant seized Dontos by the arm and flung him brusquely away. The red-faced fool went sprawling, broomstick, melon, and all. Ser Boros seized Sansa.

“Leave her face,” Joffrey commanded. “I like her pretty.”

Boros slammed a fist into Sansa’s belly, driving the air out of her. When she doubled over, the knight grabbed her hair and drew his sword, and for one hideous instant she was certain he meant to open her throat. As he laid the flat of the blade across her thighs, she thought her legs might break from the force of the blow. Sansa screamed. Tears welled in her eyes. It will be over soon. She soon lost count of the blows.

Meryn Trant plays the Boros parts in the show
Boros is the knight in armor on the right

“Enough,” she heard the Hound rasp.

“No it isn’t,” the king replied. “Boros, make her naked.”

Boros shoved a meaty hand down the front of Sansa’s bodice and gave a hard yank. The silk came tearing away, baring her to the waist. Sansa covered her breasts with her hands. She could hear sniggers, far off and cruel. “Beat her bloody,” Joffrey said, “we’ll see how her brother fancies—”

“What is the meaning of this?”

The Imp’s voice cracked like a whip, and suddenly Sansa was free. She stumbled to her knees, arms crossed over her chest, her breath ragged. “Is this your notion of chivalry, Ser Boros?” Tyrion Lannister demanded angrily. His pet sellsword stood with him, and one of his wildlings, the one with the burned eye. “What sort of knight beats helpless maids?”

Tyrion chastising Joffrey

“The sort who serves his king, Imp.” Ser Boros raised his sword, and Ser Meryn stepped up beside him, his blade scraping clear of its scabbard.

“Careful with those,” warned the dwarf’s sellsword. “You don’t want to get blood all over those pretty white cloaks.”

“Someone give the girl something to cover herself with,” the Imp said. Sandor Clegane unfastened his cloak and tossed it at her. Sansa clutched it against her chest, fists bunched hard in the white wool. The coarse weave was scratchy against her skin, but no velvet had ever felt so fine.

“This girl’s to be your queen,” the Imp told Joffrey. “Have you no regard for her honor?”

“I’m punishing her.”

“For what crime? She did not fight her brother’s battle.”

“She has the blood of a wolf.”

“And you have the wits of a goose.”

“You can’t talk to me that way. The king can do as he likes.”

“Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has your mother ever told you what happened to him?”

Ser Boros Blount harrumphed. “No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.”

Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?”

Bronn

Timett

“Ser Boros turned a dark shade of red. “The queen will hear of this!”

“No doubt she will. And why wait? Joffrey, shall we send for your mother?”

The king flushed.

“Nothing to say, Your Grace?” his uncle went on. “Good. Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am. Wanton brutality is no way to win your people’s love . . . or your queen’s.”

“Fear is better than love, Mother says.” Joffrey pointed at Sansa. “She fears me.”

The Imp sighed. “Yes, I see. A pity Stannis and Renly aren’t twelve-year-old girls as well. Bronn, Timett, bring her.”

Stannis

Renly

TWOT: Egwene's punishment 

“Silent tears of humiliation began to stream down her cheeks. She wanted to kill Silviana, yet that would only mean a new Mistress of Novices laying the strap across her every morning until Elaida relented.”

Silviana, the Mistress of Novices 

Elaida

“She wrote furiously, unaware that her free hand had risen to her and gently eased herself onto the goose-down cushion on the chair at the writing table. Not gently enough to stop a wince as her weight settled, though. She barely stifled a whimper. At first, she had thought the humiliation of Silviana’s strap far worse than the pain, but the pain no longer really faded. Her bottom was a mass of bruises. And tomorrow, the Mistress of Novices would add to them. And the day after that, and the day after…. A bleak vision of endless days howling under Silviana’s strap, of fighting to meet the eyes of sisters who knew all about the visits to Silviana’s study.”


“That first morning before dawn, in Silviana’s study, she did her best while the Mistress of Novices plied a hard-soled slipper on her bared bottom. She made no effort to stifle her sobs when they came, or later her wordless howls. When her legs wanted to kick, she allowed them to flail until the Mistress of Novices trapped them under one of hers, awkwardly because of Silviana’s skirts, and then she let her toes drum the floor while her head tossed wildly. She tried to draw the pain inside her, to drink it in like breath. Pain was as much a part of life as breathing. That was how the Aiel saw life. But, oh, Light, it hurt!”

Aiel warriors

What they have in common:

While a prisoner in the White Tower Elaida had Egwene beaten, on a daily basis, by the Mistress of Novices, to break her will. 

While a prisoner in the Red Keep Joffrey constantly terrorizes Sansa and has her stripped and beaten by his Kingsguard.

The Red Keep

Elaida, the Amyrlin Seat, was an Aes Sedai who had a foretelling that directed her actions.  Her foretellings were not about her but she misinterpreted them as such.  Because of this she sent Aes Sedai to capture the Dragon Reborn.  Aes Sedai refer to the Amyrlin Seat as Mother.  When a rescue was attempted Rand was able to shatter the shield of the three Aes Sedai holding him.  The shield was shattered with such force that it stilled the Aes Sedai.  Stilling to an Aes Sedai was a death sentence as the Aes Sedai in question eventually lost the will to live.

The Dragon Reborn

This to me equates to the prophecy given to Cersei by Maggy the Frog.  She was told when asked “Will the king and I have children?”  The answer was returned “Oh, aye.  Six-and-ten for him, and three for you.”  Maggy was not done and proceeded to tell her that “Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds.”  The stilling of the three Aes Sedai is the equivalent of death of Cersei’s three children.

Young Cersei seeking out Maggy the Frog

Maggy the Frog

When the Seanchan attacked the White Tower Egwene with the help of novices creates a gateway to the Tower store room where ter’angreal, angreal and sa’angreal were kept.  She retrieved Vora’s sa’angreal, also known as the white rod, to assist in fighting off the attackers.  In the end she uses it and created a counter weave to balefire called the Flame of Tar Valon.

Battle through an open gateway

Egwene wielding vora's sa'angreal

Egwene fighting to'raken during the attack on the White Tower

Balefire in use

I believe that Cersei will probably order Ser Robert Strong, aka the Mountain, to kill Jaime.  She will then send him out to ignite the wildfire that has been strategically placed around the Red Keep and King's Landing similar to the events that took place with Mad King Aerys.  This also suggests to me that the city is once again under attack.  I then see Jaime reanimating as a wight, making him the valonqar, and wrapping his hands around Cersei’s throat and choking the life from her.  Sansa will witness all this and be helpless when the Hound enters the throne room and the two will come together again.  I don’t know if it will be the same cloak that he left behind or another one but I believe that Sansa will ask him to take an oath to defend the city and he will accept, making him the knight she always knew he could be.  It is then that he will seek out his brother where they will fight to the death.  It is during this fight where the Mountain will meet his demise at the hands of his brother.  How fitting it will be when the Hound in the end burns him with wildfire.

Ser Robert Strong

Wildfire explosion from the show

King's Landing

Wight

In this scenario Sansa is Egwene, the white rod is the Hound in his white cloak and his actions of stopping the city from being burned by wildfire is the counter weave to balefire.

During the attack on the White Tower Elaida was rendered unconscious and taken by the Seanchan from the Tower tied to the back of a to'raken.  When she came to she discovered that she had an a’dam placed around her neck.  The a’dam is a flexible collar.  Once the collar is in place it stops a woman from being able to channel the One Power without the express permission of the woman who controls the bracelet and leash.  This in essence is another form of stilling as the leashed person never has control of when she can use the One Power.

To'raken in flight

To'raken with rider

A'dam around the neck of someone who can channel

This to me is why Cersei dies the way she does by the hands of the valonqar.  The hands of the valonqar is the a’dam.

While taking her test for accepted there was a resonance caused by the dream ring ter'angreal that caused oddities. During each of the three tests the resonance becomes more pronounced and the visions more prophetic. During the final test she experiences the following:

“Something is wrong, she thought. The wrongness had nothing to do with her sudden dizziness, or at least that was not what felt wrong. It was something else. But she had no idea what.

There was an Aes Sedai at her elbow, a woman with Sheriam's high cheekbones but dark hair and concerned brown eyes, and the handwide stole of the Keeper on her shoulders. Not Sheriam, though. Egwene had never seen her before; she was sure she knew her as well as she knew herself. Haltingly, she put a name to the woman. Beldeine.

Sheriam

“Are you ill, Mother?”

Her stole is green. That means she was raised from the Green Ajah. The Keeper always comes from the same Ajah as the Amyrlin she serves. Which means if I'm the Amyrlin — if? — then I was Green Ajah, too. That thought shook her. Not that she had been Green Ajah, but that she had to reason it out. Light, something is wrong with me.”

Egwene sees herself as the Amrylin seat which comes to fruition.

Egwene after Elaida is taken is chosen as the Amyrlin Seat to all Aes Sedai in the now healed White Tower.  I believe that after Cersei is killed Sansa will be made the new queen and completes the prophecy “Aye.  Queen you shall be…until there comes another younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.”

Summary:

Both Egwene and Sansa experienced beatings and torment at the hands of their captors.  Both were put in their position because of prophecies that undermined the women who tried to force them to be in one case and avoid them in the other.  Because of the prophecies one woman caused the metaphorical death of three women who called her “Mother” the actions of the other brought about the actual death of her children.  Egwene was punished at the hands of a sister who called Elaida mother.  Sansa was punished at the hands of Cersei's son Joffrey.  Elaida is killed metaphorically when an a’dam is placed around her neck and Cersei is killed when the valonqar wraps his hands around her neck and chokes the life from her.  Nobody believed that Egwene was a Dreamer.  Is this why Sansa was such a daydreamer?  She dreamt of being a regal Queen like Cersei Lannister, and that just like in the epic songs she will meet her knight in shining armor.  Ironically the Hound who never wanted to be a knight turned out to be one in the end.

Comments encouraged.  Love to hear the idea’s of others.  Most believe that since I present my idea’s as “fact like” I’m not open to change my viewpoints which is far from the truth.  I simply look at the information presented and go from there.  If you can shine a light on another way of thinking that opens the door to debate.