What will be Littlefinger's fate?

[Ocelot]

I hope Sansa wargs into a direwolf and rips him apart. Eating him would be icing on the cake.

[SacredOrderOfGreenMen]

Littlefinger wins.

Sansa Marries Harry the Heir. After Sansa's pregnant with Harry's child Harry marches north to claim the North for Sansa. During the conquest of the North LF arranges for Harry to have an "accident." Sansa's child becomes ruler of the Vale and LF steps in to act as regent until the child comes of age.

Eventually LF consoles the grieving widow Sansa and marries her. Their first child becomes ruler of The North and LF acts as regent until that child comes of age. Sansa's second child with LF becomes LF's heir to rule the Riverlands.

After the war with the dragons and the war against the Others Westeros is in shambles and the nobles get together to select a strong leader to become the new king. It just so happens that LF is effectively runing three of the seven kingdoms and is considered a master at the game of thrones. He's selected to become the new king. Sansa's his queen. His children become the most prominent lords in the Seven Kingdoms.

Once again GRRM subverts expectations, the man most people think of as the villain ends up winning.

Ned and Cat's and Robb's deaths, actually, from a literary standpoint, were forseeable from the beginning.

Ned and Cat were older people whose stories were already done. They were also mentors that had to die for our three stark protaganists to have their coming of age stories. Robb didn't have a POV, and if he lived, then Sansa and Arya and Bran don't need to learn what they learn. They could have just found safety with his army. No story.

Just sayin'

[Lonin]

I think LF is one of grrm's favorites - short and smart... I think LF survives the series.

[Falcon2908]

Sweetrobin will make him 'fly'

[James Steller]

I think LF is one of grrm's favorites - short and smart... I think LF survives the series.

No. This isn't Saul Goodman we're talking about here. Littlefinger has gotten far too powerful to just slink away unscathed from what's going to happen, whatever does happen. He has had his rise, inevitably he must fall. And it will be a cruel fate, given who the true god of Westeros is.

[Dya of Oldstones]

So this is basically a short little write up I did just recently about how I think Sansa and Littlefinger's story in the Vale will end, hope you enjoy:

Sansa, her father’s death, and what hold her to her Stark identity

When Ned is murdered, we don’t see the sword come down. It’s told from Arya’s POV, and Yoren shields her from the sight, gods bless his soul. When we get Sansa’s POV immediately after, this is what we get for a description:

“Waking or sleeping, she saw him, saw the gold cloaks fling him down, saw her Ser Ilyn striding forward, unsheathing Ice from the scabbard on his back, saw the moment….the moment when….she had wanted to look away, she had wanted to, her legs had gone out form under her and she had fallen to her knees, yet somehow she could not turn her head, and all the people were screaming and shouting...and for a moment she’d felt safe, but only for a heartbeat, until he said those words, and her fathers’ legs…that was what she remembered, his legs, way they jerked when Ser Ilyn…when the sword….

And Sansa just refuses to think farther or complete the picture. What’s strange is that this is in her mind. She doesn’t ever give us an explicit flashback to it for the rest of her story. Which is strange, and I don’t think it’s an accident

When Joffrey forces her to look at Ned’s head on a spike, she thinks, “He can make me look at them but he can’t make me see.”

Sansa, we know, represses thing she cannot bear to withstand: the less savory parts of her time with the Hound, the UnKiss, “Littlefinger was only a mask he had to wear” etc..

Which brings me to my point: The thing that holds Sansa to her Stark identity is the traumatic memory she’s been repressing since AGOT, and she won’t reclaim her name until she looks it in the face, and recalls every detail and every second.

As this Tze post makes an outstanding case for, Littlefinger has hopelessly overplayed his hand. He really has only a piece of paper to protect him, which was all Ned Stark had. Nestor Royce ruled the Vale for 15 years in Jon Arryn’s absence, and was the other candidate to be lord protector. Tze writes, “At the end of AFFC, Nestor Royce has physical control of Robert Arryn, complete physical control of Lord Robert's home for the foreseeable future, physical control over Littlefinger (the garrison at the Gates being loyal to Lord Nestor, not Littlefinger), and probably the support of the Lords Declarant as well.”

Now comes Sansa’s time to shine. When he trusts her to gather some key allies to his side, it will already be too late. His enemies will be closing in and “Alayne” will betray him.

Littlefinger will no doubt be put to death, which will probably be beheading. “Alayne” will be a witness. As the executioner draws his sword, the memory will start coming back, the horror of that moment. Suddenly the headsmen is Ser Ilyn Payne, his sword is Ice. It’s her father’s neck stretched out over the block, his hair rat brown, then black, then brown again. Was always he so gaunt before they put him in the dungeons? The blade comes down, and cuts through in a dull silver flash. She sees it, for the first time. Her father’s head rolls across the stone of the sept. The crowd at Baelor’s is cheering and roaring, but the godswood of the Gates of the Moon is silent and still.

Littlefinger is dead, and so is his daughter Alayne Stone, and with her all the lies she had ever believed.

Only Sansa Stark remains now, and the memory of the terrible thing they did to her father, her real father: Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell.

The North Remembers.

I'm still not sure how it will play out point for point, but this makes quite a bit of sense to me. I see a lot of similarities between Sansa's and Jon's story arcs, and I'm thinking that LF will provide Sansa with her "Edd, fetch me a block" moment, but we'll have to wait to see how it plays out. I don't feel she has to completely kill Alayne, since there are some important things she's learning from needing to be "bastard brave."

[JonCon's Red Beard]

I'm torn.

I want Sansa to be his demise, but at the same way, I want him to triumph and be King and realise Winter is Coming and he can't stop it.

[Sword of the Morgan]

I think Sansa will bring about his demise...I believe she is the maiden slaying the giant (House Baelish's original sigil was the Titan of Bravos I believe).

[Lost Melnibonean]

I think Sansa will bring about his demise...I believe she is the maiden slaying the giant (House Baelish's original sigil was the Titan of Bravos I believe).

That's the standard interpretation.

[Lord_Tyrell]

I think we're told in in Sansa's final chapter in "A Storm of Swords". Sweet Robin tries to destroy Sansa's snow castle with his giant doll, but Sansa rips it's head off and then mounts it on the walls of Winterfell.

Something tells me that Littlefinger will make it to Winterfell with Sansa and an army in hand. Littlefinger will then find out about Bran and Rickon still being alive, Jon rising from the dead, and that the Others are now on their way south to kill them all. Sansa will have figured out LF's role in her family's demise. When the Others arrive, defeat seems imminent, but Tyrion and his army come over the hill and force the Others into a retreat. Tyrion will demand Littlefinger to surrender his army to him in order to defeat the Others, but Littlefinger refuses, and battle commences this time with LF and Tyrion's forces.

Tyrion flies over the wall on Viserion, and then sees LF flee into the crypts. Tyrion follows him, but LF is able to ambush him. LF then brags on trying to destroy Tyrion in the past (with the dagger, Ser Mandon, poisoning Joffrey), but that him getting away always worked to LF's advantage, now with it ultimately culminating with Tyrion personally giving him a dragon, which he'll use to conquer the rest of the Seven Kingdoms and the Others, but as he goes in for the kill on Tyrion, a small dagger goes through the middle of LF's chest. He drops and Sansa is standing behind him with the dragonbone Valyrian dagger that he used to frame Tyrion. LF will look up and then realize he's under Ned Stark's tomb, and dies.

Sansa will then get Tyrion a maester and have him nursed back to health quickly, and as Sansa and Tyrion leave Winterfell, all that remains is a single head on the gates of Winterfell, the head of Petyr Baelish.