Canon Arya Stark Appreciation
During the massacre at the Tower of the Hand that killed her father’s guards and household staff, which started right after Sansa went to Queen Cersei and told her about her father’s plan to send the girls back home to Winterfell, Arya escapes the killings and evades capture. For many days, she survives using her wits and resourcefulness. She ends up in Fleabottom, a dangerous part of the city where the poorest live. Her bundled things which contained a silver bracelet she wanted to sell and her extra clothes are stolen immediately except for the clothes she was wearing and Needle which she was lying on top of as she slept. She survives by hunting pigeons, eating them raw at first then learning to trade them in shops for cooked food.
“The only thing was, the pot-shops were never empty, and even as she bolted down her food, Arya could feel them watching. Some of them stared at her boots or her cloak, and she knew what they were thinking. With others, she could almost feel their eyes crawling under her leathers; she didn’t know what they were thinking, and that scared her even more. A couple of times, she was followed out into the alleys and chased, but so far no one had been able to catch her.” -Arya, A Game of Thrones
Arya was literally running away from implied rapists at Fleabottom but since she was only 9 years old, she didn’t even understand what was going on.
And just moments ago, all she had wanted was milk and cake.
“Arya would have given anything for a cup of milk and a lemon cake...”
This was right before the bells ring and she follows the crowd to the Sept of Baelor the Blessed where her father will be beheaded.
😭My poor little wolf girl. It kept getting worse too.😭
This girl deserves more stans. Besides Jon Snow, who was the only one who kept thinking of her and worrying about her. Throughout all the books.
