Love your Ned and Sansa parallels. Wish we saw more of their relationship. Can we hear your Cat/Arya parallels
Aww thank you! For me Arya always admired her mother Catelyn. She thought she was a fondamental figure in Winterfell. And it shows here in this quote:
“The Lannisters are proud,” Jon observed. “You’d think the royal sigil would be sufficient, but no. He makes his mother’s House equal in honor to the king’s.”
“The woman is important too!” Arya protested.
which for me foreshadows Arya being like Queen Nymeria. Marrying a lesser lord (gendry) and using her own Stark sigil to rule. (and her own army of wolves…)
As for Catelyn, she loves Arya very much. And even though she cant understand her more wild side, she admires it. When she sees a strong woman, Arya is what comes in her mind.
The Warrior was Renly and Stannis, Robb and Robert, Jaime Lannister and Jon Snow. She even glimpsed Arya in those lines, just for an instant.
Also arya has defently taken her more dangerous side, her desire from revenge from her mother. This list of names sounds very similiar to Arya own famous one.
“I want them all dead, Brienne. Theon Greyjoy first, then Jaime Lannister and Cersei and the Imp, every one, every one. But my girls … my girls will …"
(its also why i believe Arya will be the one to give Lady stone heart, the mercy of death. Which will be tragic for her, will make Arya stop persuing revenge and make her return home to fight the others..)
I like how both want to look brave and strong but sometimes they just want to be held, to rest, to be vulnerable:
She woke aching and alone and weary; weary of riding, weary of hurting, weary of duty. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all … a day … an hour . . .
“I wish I was home,” she said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.
As for my head canons: Catelyn is always proud of how northen Arya looks. How she has took after her husband Ned. And when the septa tells Catelyn about Arya not being a lady, Catelyn goes to Arya room and consoles her. Reminding her that she is beautiful in her own way. Arya loves how her mother manages the keep, and how people ask for her opinion. She wants to be respected like her when she grows up.
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