Winds of Winter Predictions: Arya's Escape
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2020
- Arya has been in Braavos for quite some time. How much will she hone her skills? How powerful will she become? Can she escape the clutches of the faceless men?
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It's interesting that the most powerful thing Syrio taught Arya was self control and not sword fighting. Those skills have been important to her throughout the story much more than using swords.
That scene with Arya feeling her face being taken off and tasting that metallic taste of blood always, for me, reminds me and tells me that Bran ate Jojen paste. Arya and Bran use almost the same wording when they both taste blood.
I think we also need to talk about the fact that Arya has eaten human meat while in Nymeria. And she loved it. I always thought it was interesting how when she hotpie and gendry escaped, Nymeria and her pack ended up attacking the people who were pursuing them. I believe that is why the ghost of high heart was so disgusted and frightened of Arya is because she will warg Nymeria and eat her enemies. Which is one of the things that you're not supposed to do while in your animal's.
The Faceless Men essentially use the most advanced glamours in the world. Melisandre emphasises how important it is for Mance to wear items that belonged to Rattleshirt to keep the glamour working, as if a residual imprint of the person remains in their belongings. Well what could be better in that sense than wearing someone else's face? I think they essentially combine blood magic and glamouring when it comes to wearing a face, and that's how it works.
I wish the skin changing for Arya was present in the adaptation. I love her so much in the books and didn't do her justice
Technically that dude, Dareon, was a deserter from the Night's Watch so Arya killing him is in a sorta way just doing her duty as a Stark. Altough she wasn't with the boys when her father had to execute the deserter, but she surely must have heard of it. So she might be doing it in honor of her father, but especially for her brother, Jon Snow.
This story quickly shaping up to be WAY different than the show.
I kinda think that Aria killing the nights watchman was her doing her brother jon a Stark duty. Perhaps it's Martin's way of telling us she is still Ned Starks daughter at heart.
On how the faceless men control animals. Arya learns from the waif while training, that the faceless men have access to a paste which, when spiced with basilisk blood, makes cooked meat smell savory but induces violent madness when consumed. This may have been how Jaqen manipulated the dog into killing Weese.
"if you think you know how it ends" no, thank god. Season 8 was just a fevre dream..
Arya's is definitely one of the darkest/most tragic character arcs in the series. A child destroyed by trauma and violence, becoming a cold assassin to survive and possibly enact revenge. There's nothing cool or awesome or badass about that, despite what the show tried to make of it. Book!Arya is one of my favourite characters to read about, but I ended up hating snarky, arrogant little b*tch Show!Arya lol.
Based on what you all are saying, I'm starting to wonder if any of Arya's 'mistakes' that she thinks she's making by killing people she's not asked to kill are 'mistakes' at all or if the FM are putting her in situations where they know she'll meet people she wants to kill in order to test her abilities and ruthlessness. Think about it, she's had her list since the Riverlands, and it wouldn't surprise me if Jaqen overheard it at some point, so he knows who is on it. She becomes Cat of the Canals and just so happens to run into a NW deserter? That's too tasty a kill for her to pass up, but the FM want to know if she's willing to go kill someone not on her list but out of a sense of Northern justice. Then, once she's killed Daeron, they upgrade her. And the next chance she gets to have an extra-judicial kill it's someone that Cersei sends to treat with the Iron Bank and Arya just so happens to have been apprenticed to the mummer's troop where he shows up? Seems like too much of a coincidence for the FM not to have orchestrated it to test her. I wonder how much of the 'no-one' ideology is real and how much is facade. Do they really want their assassins to be no one or do they specifically recruit people with that lust for revenge sometimes (perhaps not all the time) because, like magic, it's a useful tool they can exploit to accomplish their goals.
The cutting of Arya's face in the Hall of Faces was a blood magic ritual which bond her to the faces and allows her to magically use them, like the Wierwoods wear faces. Remember the Wierwood Door on the House of Black And White.
It's almost as if Syrio was screening her for warg abilities by having her catch cats in book one. Maybe he alerted jaqen and the other faceless about her as a potential candidate for training
I think the Frodo leaving comparison seems likely, and very sad. Her dying seems very likely too..perhaps her spirit warging in Nymeria. I’m constantly reminded of how well GRRM writes his characters and Arya’s journey in the books is one of my favourites to read/witness. I hope she can find happiness in some form - if not for herself than for the ones she loves that are still left standing. Giving Lady Stoneheart the gift of mercy would be beautifully dark.
Masie did an amazing job with that role for any actor let alone a child. She learned all that choreo for sword play with her non dominant hand. Blows me away everytime i watch it.
The faceless men actually don’t have faces. When she saw the skull that was his face. That’s why she must become no one.
you say "the kindly man was caught off guard here", but with all the detail about learning to control their faces, maybe he was just feigning surprise.
I think the faceless men have known about the stark children and their warging. I think The man in Winterfell who gave Bran the BlackBerry every day was Jaqen. The FM have wanted their warg skills and were working on Bran until his fall and switched to Arya and followed her to kingslanding.
One of the broad readings that can be made of the "ASoIF" story is the effect that war and violence has on people, especially women, and the things they do to try to cope. Although circumstances force their fates upon them to some extent, I think Arya and Sansa are contrasts in two opposite strategies women have traditionally used to ensure their own safety in dangerous times: the latter tries to work within the existing social structure to find trustworthy allies who can keep her safe, thereby using her femininity for the protection and indirect power it can command; the former rejects social convention and responds to the violence around her by learning to become proficient at it herself. That's not the common reaction for a lady from a noble house, but it has precedent in the real world in times and places where violence was endemic, such as the French countryside during the Hundred Years War, which I know was one of the historical events from which Mr. Martin drew inspiration. And credit to him for not letting readers off the hook, because it's easy for a modern person to think, why just passively try to survive when you could be actively fighting back. But there's a psychological cost to using violence, no matter how justified it may be, and we see in Arya's gradually increasing callousness and detachment one of the costs of using violence.