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silverflameataraxia · 2 days

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It would be so epic to get a moment before a battle where Dany and Jon come riding in on the dragons and below them is Arya, riding Nymeria, surrounded by her superpack.

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aryastarkthelittleshewolf11 · 1 year

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George: *using the scene where Arya gives water to the men in the cadges as a continuation of the theme of mercy/justice vs vengeance and how vengeance is not good*

Someone in my comments: She sympathies with a rapist just because he’s northern so she’s anti feminist!

Me:

#I can never post Arya content in peace on that stupid app #fuck tiktok #arya stark #book arya stark #canonarya #canonaryastark #pro arya stark

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aryajon · 2 years

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ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH

DAY 15 I ROMANTIC INTERESTS

GRRM's Rule of Thirds: Three Kings + Arya Stark

Jon Snow rallies kings to save Arya from her marriage to Ramsay Bolton.

#jonsnowedit #aryastarkedit #aryastarkmonth2022 #canonjonsnow #canonaryastark #asoiafedit #jon snow #arya stark #stannis baratheon #mance rayder #jon x arya #jonrya #aj:gifs #aj*#*#aly

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docpiplup · 1 year

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#arya stark #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf book quotes #asoiaf polls #canonaryastark #canonarya #arya quotes #feel free to add more #there are many good quotes

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hewantshisbrideback · 2 years

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ARYA STARK AND THE GODS ❦ KIN TO THE OLD GODS

That night she lay in her narrow bed upon the scratchy straw, listening to the voices of the living and the dead whisper and argue as she waited for the moon to rise. They were the only voices she trusted anymore. She could hear the sound of her own breath, and the wolves as well, a great pack of them now. They are closer than the one I heard in the godswood, she thought. They are calling to me.

The old gods are nameless deities of stream, forest, and stone worshiped in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and beyond the Wall. They are nameless and numerous. It is said that the sigh of the wind and the rustle of leaves are the old gods speaking back to worshippers. It is a folk religion, passed from generation to generation.

The old gods were originally worshipped by the children of the forest, and after the Pact, by the First Men. This was until the coming of the Andals. Seeing the old gods as little more than demons, the Andals destroyed the great white trees wherever they found them and the worship of the old gods was supplanted with the Faith of the Seven. In the north, however, the majority of houses still worships the old gods.

There are no priests, no holy texts, no songs of worship, and practically no rites that go with the worship of the old gods, though blood sacrifice was performed in the past. Worshippers visit godswoods and prayers are done in silence. The maesters teach that the weirwoods are sacred to the old gods.��However, worshippers believe the old gods watch through the trees. The First Men believed that greenseers could see through the eyes of the weirwoods.

Worshippers believe that no man can tell a lie in front of a heart tree, as the old gods know when men are telling a lie. As such, an oath might be made in front of a weirwood tree, or with a hand placed in the mouth of the weirwood’s face. Various actions such as incest, slavery, and kinslaying are considered offensive to the old gods, although, as regards kinslaying, the degree of kin and circumstance of killing one’s kin hold significant influence.

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aegon · 2 years

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ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH

day two I nymeria

#aryastarkedit #canonaryastark #aryastarkmonth2022 #asoiafedit #arya stark #asoiaf #mine #just a mess about on my phone oof idk how I feel about this #but hey a warm up before I get back into gifs I guess

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aemontargaryen-bloodraven · 2 years

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Arya Stark Appreciation Month

Day 3: Jon Snow

The memory of her laughter warmed him on the long ride north. -Jon II, A Game of Thrones

He is a man of the Night's Watch, she thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Cat Of The Canals, A Feast For Crows

Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold …Jon XIII, A Dance of Dragons

#Arya Stark #Asoiaf #Needleheart #Needleheartedit #Jonrya #Jon Snow #canonjonsnow #canonaryastark #aryastarkmonth2022

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buttercuparry · 2 years

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Arya and Nature: day 1

A few years ago I read a wonderful meta on how Arya represents the wilderness which contrasts quite distinctly with her sister's more constricting imagery of the court life.

Indeed ever since AGoT we have seen Arya's affinity towards the natural world. From gathering flowers for her father to exploring the landscape with her friend Mycah, Arya certainly thrives in a world that's untouched by artifice. And yet as luck would have it, it is artifice that she must look for to thrive in her future.

Let me explain what I mean;

When I think about 'Nature' in terms of Arya's storyline, I tend to go beyond the representation of the elemental. Because 'nature' in Arya's storyline is not limited to the wolf/water/moon/flower/the oak tree imagery.

It is present in the way she treats those around her. For Arya the societal constructs of class doesn't matter, it is to her an almost unnatural concept. Afterall it is unfathomable to a nine year old as to why one's station in life should inhibit one from behaving naturally with one's friend?

And yet this natural sensibility suffers a shock when Joffrey cruelly decides to interfere in a harmless play on the banks of Trident. The resulting tragedy becomes a commentary on the Westerosi society's perverse distortion of the natural to enforce a hierarchy that punishes the innocent ( both Mycah and Lady).

Arya's storyline can then be seen as a repeated refrain of protest against this very cruel treatment of the overlords upon those who are the closest to nature: the peasants, the farmers, the small folks. It is against the practice in which human bonds are judged not on their natural merits but on account of power, class, legitamacy of birth and control.

Also ironically there is a general consensus in this fandom that since Arya is so loud in her proclaimation of injustice of the current world order, her ending should be in the wilderness of the forest or among the wild waves of an ocean. And yet they forget that the strongest influence of nature found in Arya's storyline is in the natural love of the human bonds- Of family, of friends, of a child named weasel who clung to her amidst chaos, of the inn keeper's daughter who deserved justice, of the prostitutes of Braavos and countless others.

And it is for them that Arya would come back. Come back and stay in this world of artifice and look through it to arrive at the natural so that she may serve her people better. Afterall in AGoT we see Syrio teaching her to look, to really look beyond the 'glamour' and arrive at the actual and we know how Arya used to sit with her father in an attempt to know the people around her. So now that she is serving the Many Faced God, serving 'Death' (who is the natural equalizer of all beings) and learning to hone her perceptive abilities and intuitions, it can be deduced that she may, in time, learn to look through the various masks worn by ambitious politicians and arrive at the very basis of their nature. That Arya would be a part of this world of artifice but would thrive in being able to look into the wilderness of man.

#arya stark #canonaryastark #aryamonth2022 #i think this reallyreally is pretentiouspretentious #aryastarkmonth2022

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ladyaryawolf · 2 years

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"The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth."

#wow this is something i have done at my 15yrs #it was here all along #rsrsrsrs #sharing because hey it is finished right #arya stark #book!arya #canonaryastark #it is so simple #maybe that was the reason i didnt want to post it at the time

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asongofstarkandtargaryen · 2 years

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Arya Stark Month - Favourite arc

Harrenhal arc

#arya stark #aryastarkmonth2022 #canonaryastark #asoiaf #jaqen h'ghar #harrenhal #mycreations

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thelustybraavosimaid · 2 years

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What's interesting about Jon and Arya's relationship isn't just they are each other's favourite sibling - they are one another's favourite person. This is why Jon thinks of her with just about everyone, has a specific type that she is a reference to (as was confirmed by George):

It's a reference to a certain physical type, and a certain indication of what Jon finds admirable.

Jon, also, misses her more than Robb, his best friend and constant companion:

He missed his true brothers: little Rickon, bright eyes shining as he begged for a sweet; Robb, his rival and best friend and constant companion; Bran, stubborn and curious, always wanting to follow and join in whatever Jon and Robb were doing. He missed the girls too, even Sansa, who never called him anything but "my half brother" since she was old enough to understand what bastard meant. And Arya…he missed her even more than Robb, skinny little thing that she was, all scraped knees and tangled hair and torn clothes, so fierce and willful. Arya never seemed to fit, no more than he had…yet she could always make Jon smile. He would give anything to be with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear her finish a sentence with him. (Jon III, AGoT)

It hits me how Jon's thoughts about Arya alone take up half of the passage!

Jon, on the way to Castle Black:

The memory of her laughter warmed him on the long ride north. (Jon II, AGoT)

Arya does the same thing, being reminded of Jon in other people:

"NO!" Arya and Gendry both said, at the exact same instant. Hot Pie quailed a little. Arya gave Gendry a sideways look. He said it with me, like Jon used to do, back in Winterfell. She missed Jon Snow the most of all her brothers. (Arya I, ASoS)

And with the Ghost of High Heart:

Ned, Gendry, and many of the others were fast asleep when Arya spied the small pale shape creeping behind the horses, thin white hair flying wild as she leaned upon a gnarled cane. The woman could not have been more than three feet tall. The firelight made her eyes gleam as red as the eyes of Jon's wolf. He was a ghost too. Arya stole closer, and knelt to watch. (Arya VIII, ASoS)

Despite not interacting since the very beginning of AGoT, the two of them have interconnected narratives, to boot. Arya interacting with Yoren, being dressed up as a boy to join the Night's Watch, her desperation to get to Jon and desire to go to the Wall to be with him is mentioned repeatedly throughout the whole of the series.

This is just one example:

But that was stupid. Her home was gone, her parents dead, and all her brothers slain but Jon Snow on the Wall. That was where she had wanted to go. She told the captain as much, but even the iron coin did not sway him. Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach. (Arya I, AFfC)

Despite Arya being a continent away from Jon, George still has her interact with members of the Night's Watch (with Dareon, and defending Sam). And for Jon, George has him settling on a loan with Tycho Nestoris of the Iron Bank, which is connected to the Faceless Men. Arya already has a hand in the Iron Bank's politics - in the form of her ruining their negotiations with the Lannisters in the Mercy chapter.

She is so steadfast in Jon's love for her that she thinks:

"I know where we could go," Arya said. She still had one brother left. Jon will want me, even if no one else does. He'll call me "little sister" and muss my hair. It was a long way, though, and she didn't think she could get there by herself. She hadn't even been able to reach Riverrun. "We could go to the Wall." (Arya XII, ASoS)

He is among those she imagines walking alongside her to quell her fear:

Alone, she slid through the shadow of the Tower of Ghosts. She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear, and it felt as though Syrio Forel walked beside her, and Yoren, and Jaqen H'ghar, and Jon Snow. (Arya X, ACoK)

How far are you willing to go to prove your love?

They both have relatively shaky vows to their respective institutions because of one another. Arya stows away Needle, a representation of her family but also specifically referred to as Jon Snow's smile in the HoBaW. She will give up every other thing but that. And because of this anchor - which includes Nymeria and her wolf dreams, but especially Needle and, by association, Jon - is what prevents her from becoming No One completely.

The marriage letter Ramsay sends to Jon is what well and truly tests Jon's vows - and it's what caused the intense anguish that culminates in his death in ADwD.

Jon loves her so dearly that she is his heart:

"The heart is all that matters. Do not despair, Lord Snow. Despair is a weapon of the enemy, whose name may not be spoken. Your sister is not lost to you."

"I have no sister." The words were knives. What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister?

Melisandre seemed amused. "What is her name, this little sister that you do not have?"

"Arya." His voice was hoarse. "My half-sister, truly..." (Jon VI, ADwD)

And that Winterfell, where she supposedly "is," is not her home, her true home is with him:

Bring her home, Mance. I saved your son from Melisandre, and now I am about to save four thousand of your free folk. You owe me this one little girl. (Jon XI, ADwD)

Arya feels a huge amount of shame when Needle is taken from her:

They talked over her as she lay hurting, but Arya could not seem to understand the words. Her ears rang. When she tried to crawl off, the earth moved beneath her. They took Needle. The shame of that hurt worse than the pain, and the pain hurt a lot. Jon had given her that sword. Syrio had taught her to use it. (Arya V, ACoK)

And she gets particularly upset when accused of having stolen Needle:

"I did not!" she shouted. Jon Snow had given her Needle. Maybe she had to let them call her Lumpyhead, but she wasn't going to let them call Jon a thief. (Arya I, ACoK)

Call me whatever you want, just don't call Jon a thief.

There is a bit of irony in this, since Jon is accused by Ramsay in ADwD of sending Mance south in order to steal Arya.

Your false king's friends are dead. Their heads upon the walls of Winterfell. Come see them, bastard. Your false king lied, and so did you. You told the world you burned the King-Beyond-the-Wall. Instead you sent him to Winterfell to steal my bride from me. (Jon XIII, ADwD)

She has a very deep-rooted sense of justice and loyalty, but she wouldn't even tell her own father - who she loved enough to bypass snakes and lizard-lions and pools of quicksand to retrieve some flowers for, mind you - who gifted her the sword.

Lord Eddard Stark sighed. "My nine-year-old daughter is being armed from my own forge, and I know nothing of it. The Hand of the King is expected to rule the Seven Kingdoms, yet it seems I cannot even rule my own household. How is it that you come to own a sword, Arya? Where did you get this?"

Arya chewed her lip and said nothing. She would not betray Jon, not even to their father. (Arya II, AGoT)

George is heavy-handed in the way he includes how much they miss + love each other, and what they mean for - and to - one another. George wrote them as inseparable, as true soulmates, as people who would break any vows to be with one another again, and that's the most beautiful aspect of the series there is.

Home is a person to Jon and Arya and it's one another. They are each other's safe havens and hearts and homes.

He would give anything to be with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear her finish a sentence with him.

And he did. He gave his life. And the very first lesson he gave to her was the one that he thought of.

Jon fell to his knees. He found the dagger's hilt and wrenched it free. In the cold night air the wound was smoking. "Ghost," he whispered. Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold… (Jon XIII, ADwD)

That makes me think of this:

He is a man of the Night's Watch, she thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. (Cat of the Canals, AFfC)

Because of the proximity of the Wall to Braavos, Arya does hear about him:

But they were all dead now, even Arya, everyone but her half-brother, Jon. Some nights she heard talk of him, in the taverns and brothels of the Ragman's Harbor. The Black Bastard of the Wall, one man had called him. Even Jon would never know Blind Beth, I bet. That made her sad. (The Blind Girl, ADwD)

Undoubtedly she will hear of his death. And she will break her vows to go to him. And she'll finally go to the place she had struggled to reach before.

#they are soulmates #no way around that #that's why they are so interconnected #arcs and all #there's so much more that i would like to discuss about this but it would be far too long #George wrote them as well and truly inseparable #and that is so beautiful to me #jon snow #arya stark #canonjonsnow #canonaryastark

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silverflameataraxia · 1 month

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This is how Sansa reacts when a man she's known all her life is murdered by the family of her beloved Prince Joffrey?

Alyn carried the Stark banner. When she saw him rein in beside Lord Beric to exchange words, it made Sansa feel ever so proud. Alyn was handsomer than Jory had been; he was going to be a knight one day.

To talk about how the guy replacing him is better looking? That's so completely heartless, it's disgusting.

And this is how Sansa reacts when Arya wanted justice brought to Mycah's murderer?

"It's not the same," Sansa said. "The Hound is Jeffrey's sworn shield. Your butcher's boy attacked the prince."

She can't even call him "Mycah" or "your friend". No, no. He's a commoner, and thus in her eyes he's not deserving of any humanity or kindness, so thus he is just the "butcher's boy". It's not even that. It's the fact that Sansa wants everyone to mourn the loss of Lady, her direwolf, but she can't even extend that same courtesy to Jory or Mycah's deaths. They're too far beneath her in status for her to care. She even knows Arya is mourning Mycah's loss, that Arya blames herself (though, it's not her fault), but Sansa just throws his death around like it doesn't mean anything because who could care about a commoner?

Not including the fact that Joffrey lied about the incident, Sansa lied, and now Sansa believes the lie that Mycah attacked her beloved prince. She saw the truth with her own eyes, and chooses to ignore it because blaming Arya is more important to her than the truth. And she could never hate her beloved prince, he's too handsome for that 🤮

She's lucky all Arya threw at her was an orange.

#a song of ice and fire #anti sansa stark #joffrey baratheon #beric dondarrion #arya stark #sandor the hound clegane #asoiaf #pro arya stark #the hound #a game of thrones #canonaryastark #sandor clegane #agot #canonarya #george rr martin #valyrianscrolls

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aryastarkthelittleshewolf11 · 2 years

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She got dirt in her mouth but she didn’t care, the taste was fine. That taste of mud, worms and life -Arya Stark ACOK

#arya stark #book arya stark #canonarya #canonaryastark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #a clash of kings

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dailyjonaryadany · 6 years

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Canon Arya Stark Appreciation Week: Day Four- The Big Five + Dragons

“Five central characters will make it through all three volumes, however, growing from children to adults and changing the world and themselves in the process. In a sense, my trilogy is almost a generational saga, telling the life stories of these five characters, three men and two women. The five key players are Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, and three of the children of Winterfell, Arya, Bran, and the bastard Jon Snow.”- George R.R. Martin, the Waterstones Outline