- First thing we hear about her: “Arya is already in love…”
- Causing a “scandal” she names her direwolf after the amazing Rhoynar princess who saved her people by leading them to safety in Dorne, united them as one people, ruled for years as an equal to her husbands and heirs, all while defeating six kings and sending them to the Wall, quelling rebellions, fighting off assassins, and forging Dorne into what it is today
- “The woman is important, too!”
- She threatens to shoe a horse because her Septa says she has hands like a blacksmith’s
- She calls fireflies “lantern bugs” like Aegon the Unlikely in the Dunk and Egg novellas
- She punched Jon for scaring baby Bran when he dressed up like a ghost in the crypts. Then they all laughed about it
- She felt bad that the fleas in her clothes would die when she washed them
- She loves Hodor and Old Nan dearly and is excited to see them again when they have to leave KL
- She misses Hodor’s laughter and Old Nan’s stories and uses them to help guide her on her travels
- She trains Nymeria to fetch things to help her pack faster
- Showering kisses on Jon when he gave her Needle before he left and, “The memory of her laughter warmed him on the long ride north.”
- She fires off a thousand questions when she’s interested in something
- She turns her bullies into friends on the road
- She loves talking and listening to all kinds of people regardless of class
- “You in there?” “No!” she shouted.
- She growls and kicks in her sleep like a puppy when she’s having wolf dreams
- She befriends and defends Mycah even though her sister disparages him for being a butcher’s son
- She water dances in the branches of Heart Tree at Harrenhal
- She feels so bad about sending Nymeria away even though it’s to save her life. And she hopes Nymeria makes friends with other wolves so she won’t be alone
- She’s captain of the S.S. NedCat and gets very defensive when it’s suggested that her father could have loved anyone else
- “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.“
- She got a flippershake from the King of the Seals
- She caught and kissed Balerion the cat right between the eyes
- She totally ogles shirtless Gendry while he’s working in the forge
- Hunts and scavenges to feed others even when all she has to offer are bugs
- After Hot Pie keeps going on and on about yielding to anyone who finds them: “What if the wolves come?” “Yield.” A+ sarcasm
- She saves Sam in Braavos and offers him food which Jon would be super proud of
- She doesn’t want to cry but cries a lot
- She bickers with Gendry over which direction moss grows in like an old married couple
- She misses Brusco and his daughters and the girls at the Happy Port when she’s no longer pretending to be Cat
- She is constantly trying to protect her pack even though she’s 9-11 and tiny
- She got on a horse so she could be taller than Gendry during an argument
- She worries that a heart tree might be in pain because of it’s anguished face
- She thinks about how Hot Pie would like Braavos because of the good food
- “She would not betray Jon, not even to their father.“
- “Arya had loved nothing better than to sit at her father’s table and listen to them talk. She had loved listening to the men on the benches too; to freeriders tough as leather, courtly knights and bold young squires, grizzled old men-at-arms. She used to throw snowballs at them and help them steal pies from the kitchen. Their wives gave her scones and she invented names for their babies and played monsters-and-maidens and hide-the-treasure and come-into-my-castle with their children. Fat Tom used to call her “Arya Underfoot,” because he said that was where she always was. She’d liked that a lot better than “Arya Horseface.”
- Ultimate wolves and girls aesthetic
This is just off the top of my head. I could seriously be here all day.
