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Good luck with your surgery! I hope everything goes well, bb. <3
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That game is awesome. You have fab taste.
I just LOVE strategy games like that. I think AoM is my favourite so far (though I have a few ~classics~ of this vein of games to play in the future) because I just love being immersed with ~gods~ and ~super powers~ and ~mythological creatures~ instead of the trying-to-stick-with-realistic-stuff approach.
Yeah, Arya's actions are taken at face value a lot of the time in the fandom. Like, a lot of other characters will get every word in their chapters analysed to death, but Arya will just be labelled as a 'badass' or a 'psychopath' without any real analysis of her character and why she does the things she does. Also, I see you're a Delena fan. You have awesome taste in OTPs. Just saying. ;)
Thank you, Delena and Arya/Gendry, my lovely OTPs that drive me to tears I swear :)
People have simplified Arya’s character so much for so long that even some of her fans don’t give her more thought. People are told something repeatedly- Arya’s a psycopath, Arya doesn’t feel remorse, Arya’s a bad person, Arya’s the least complex character, Arya’s unimportant/cliche/anti-feminist/whatever baseless negativity that can be thrown out there- and then they just start to believe it. Either the don’t care to find out or check out the facts or they like the idea that Arya is just useless and awful.
As for the badass thing, I have conflicting opinions on it. I hate it in that A) it sometimes downplays Arya’s considerable trauma and B) simplifies her characterization.
But on the other hand, Arya is a badass. Of course, the actual definition of the word varies (try to define it, it’s hard to.) But under the microscope of what people often take it to mean (skilled, competent, tough, overall positive, kick ass nature,) and it can definitely be applied to Arya.
She’s capable, clever, cunning, astute, perceptive, quick thinking, and an absolute survivalist.
She was sheltered her whole life, privileged beyond most everyone, never lacked for food, money, family, or comfort for 9 years. She was completely unprepared to survive on her own. But she was so adaptable that she managed to do the impossible. There’s a reason people think she’s dead, because who could have survived?
She goes from everything to nothing in seconds and just deals with it, though not without great cost.
And along the way she manages to pull off some rather remarkable feats. Most of them have little to do with actual physicality as well. I think most people forget that Arya starts as a nine year old with little combat training (if you can even call her shortlived lessons with Syrio that.) She oftentimes has to rely on her wits and strength of mind to keep going.
Personal favorites include:
tricking the guards by the Wind Witch boat who are looking for her
tricking Elmar Frey into leaving her alone
her outsmarting both the Bolton guard (who was a fully grown man) and the stableboy
her entire scheme for her assassination of the insurance guy who was surrounded by guards who did everything from follow him around to test his food and drink for poison
And I’ll never get over her outsmarting Jaqen, a Faceless Man. Whatever is the true deal with the FM, they have a remarkable reputation for being absurdly competent.
"If we’d sent a Faceless Man after [Daenerys], she’d be as good as buried." Littlefinger to Ned, AGoT
Littlefinger thinks they’re beyond capable. Even monsters like Rorge fear them. He spends several lines threatening to rape and taunting Arya and then this happens:
“I’m looking for Jaqen,” she said. “There’s a message.”
Rorge halted. Something in his eyes… could it be that he was scared of Jaqen H’ghar? “The bathhouse. Get out of my way.” Arya, ACoK
It’s no easy feat to one up a member, especially as a child. But she does it, and he’s so impressed by her courage, cunning, and tenacity that he offers her training underneath the Faceless Men.
So I both hate and love the use of the word “badass” in regards to Arya. I find it applicable, but not in the ways it’s applied (i.e. not to her actual killings and violence.) For example, the Tickler moment was big in so many ways, but it’s also so sad. Arya was basically a shell after witnessing the Red Wedding and then she sees this guy, a man who was responsible for torturing innocent people to death, young children included, right in front of her eyes.
I mean this is how Arya described him:
The Tickler was almost too scary to hate. Arya, ACoK
And her experiences with him when he was “tickling” people?
Fear cuts deeper than swords, Arya would tell herself, but that did not make the fear go away. It was as much a part of her days as stale bread and the blisters on her toes after a long day of walking the hard, rutted road.Arya, ACoK
Arya was terrified of him. He frightened her more than most everyone else she met on her journeys- and she met a ton of scary, dangerous people.
But the moment isn’t her overcoming her fear, it’s a complete breakdown over all she’s lost. In that moment, she knows her father, mother, and Robb are dead. She thinks that Bran and Rickon are as well. She’s just been informed that Sansa is marrying into the Lannister family. And she’s a captive of the Hound, who she both hates and doesn’t hate with her confused sense of justice, and also stuck in a room with people who made her life hell for months and mentally and emotionally scarred her.
And as she kills him, she repeats the questions he once reiterated as he tortured people in front of her:
She had thought she had known what it meant to be afraid, but she learned better in that storehouse beside the Gods Eye. Eight days she had lingered there before the Mountain gave the command to march, and every day she had seen someone die…
There was no place to hide, no tricks to play, no way to be safe.
One girl shared a soldier’s bed three nights running; the Mountain picked her on the fourth day, and the soldier said nothing.
A smiley old man mended their clothing and babbled about his son, off serving in the gold cloaks at King’s Landing. “A king’s man, he is,” he would say, “a good king’s man like me, all for Joffrey.” He said it so often the other captives began to call him All-for-Joffrey whenever the guards weren’t listening. All-for-Joffrey was picked on the fifth day.
A young mother with a pox-scarred face offered to freely tell them all she knew if they’d promise not to hurt her daughter. The Mountain heard her out; the next morning he picked her daughter, to be certain she’d held nothing back.
The ones chosen were questioned in full view of the other captives, so they could see the fate of rebels and traitors…
The questions were always the same. Was there gold hidden in the village?…By the third day, Arya could have asked the questions herself...
No one ever survived the Tickler’s questioning; no man, no woman, no child. The strongest lasted past evenfall. Their bodies were hung beyond the fires for the wolves. Arya, ACoK
And that’s why I’m forever crying over it and can’t think of it as anything but horribly depressing.
I’m sorry, I went off on a tangent. But there’s so much depth, trauma, and intricacies in Arya’s storyline, I don’t know how anyone can overlook them.
lols remember that one time I didn't know what Christmas Crackers were and then Dee made me a tutorial on them and that's when i knew that Dee + me = friends for ever.
ahh good times
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lol this is true. Left you something under your tag to prove it.
I KNOW. I REBLOGGED IT.
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*insert Cersei gif here*
*insert Cersei'MoreWine'. gif*
i think if i ever met Dee, she'd turn me Irish from all the drinking she'd influence on me. plus that would be our coping mechanism from all the feelings we'd have about ASoIaF.
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*hugs*
thanks Dee. you're always there for me whenever i have Gendry related meltdowns
