Rorge, gleefully rapes children, cuts breasts off grown women and commits mindless atrocities because he can't find a boat. He threatens to fuck Arya with a broomstick. And it wasn't an idle threat. He would have done it. Unlike the Hound, he has no stain on his soul from his foul deeds. No secret urge to do right. No idealism crushed out of him by cruel deeds, yet still living on deep in his heart.Protecting someone like Sansa from Joffrey's excesses (as the Hound did) is as alien to him as it would be for Joffrey to play with a puppy.
Rorge is a straight up monster.
Look, Sandor Clegane is no mister nice guy. He's a bitter, twisted man who has murdered children and laughed about it, contemplated the rape of a 12 year old and who knocks people unconscious to take what he wishes. He's mean as hell and he lives in a nightmare world where the strong prey on the weak mercilessly, where beauty and honor are nothing but a pile of horse shit.
But he didn't rape the girl, in fact he protected her, and he was under orders to murder the boy from the crown prince. The crimes he has committed are a real stain on his soul and they torment him. Deep down, it's clear that there is some inner code of honor that he adhere's too, and if he breaks it sometimes, well, at least he hasn't been hypocritical enough to swear an oath.
Make no mistake: his various advice and shieldings of Sansa, his travels with Arya...they may have come out rough and twisted but they were coming from an urge to do the RIGHT thing.
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