Wow so there’s this fic, Arya of the Thousand Days, on AO3, and it’s legit one of the best things I’ve ever read, and considering what has happened with GoT, I consider this canon... like DAMN
The author takes the “I’m not a lady” thing and really examines it. Arya in the story expresses that she never meant to fall in love or live her life for anyone else, things just happened. Arya does become a “lady” but insists nobody call her this, and continues to adventure/be a badass while also having a husband and family she loves, and kills people, etc. She emotes, she vacillates between the part of her that’s Faceless and the part that’s really Arya Stark.
Also, Gendry’s character is so well fleshed out, it’s insane. Like... hell yeah. This fic >>>>>> GoT as it exists on HBO. Like! Jon kills the NK (White Walkers? I don’t think the author included NK as part of the canon, and tbh good for them)! Dany is portrayed as level headed and awesome! Aegon Targaryen is another character (super interestingly written), but Jon is acknowledged as Targaryen as well! Three heads of the dragon!!! Braime is a thing! Rickon is alive! And Arya does her part in the wars too!! The fight with the Others doesn’t take like one night!!! IT MAKES SENSE AND IT WAS *FINISHED 2 YEARS AGOOOOOESKJGHLSKDJHGLKJH
GO READ ITTTT!!! DrHolland is a genius.
Update: author is @lizstargaryen, also apparently bc legit I still have a couple chapters left it isn’t 100% done but my god, I don’t even care. This fic is genius.















