How do you think Arya will react to the news of Jon's kneeling? I mean she loves him to pieces, surely, but then there's the question of the North and its independence - Arya watched as Robb's body with Grey Wind's head sewn to his shoulders was paraded before the soldires... And then there's Sansa who has been so supportive and fierce to maintain the North for Jon, and then he swoops in with Lady D and says - oooops I'm Robb 2.0? But I still want to believe in the Undercover!Jon theory sooo bad
Honestly?
I think Arya will be angry. Yes, she loves Jon more than almost anyone else. He was the one person who really let her be who she wanted to be without judgment or reprimand. But that doesn’t negate her fierce love for the rest of her family either, for all that’s happened to them and the sacrifices they made. Jon kneeling to Danielle essentially makes a mockery of all that they’ve fought for: their home, their family, and Northern independence.
This doesn’t mean Arya would betray or ostracise Jon for his decision. He’s still her family, but I don’t think she’ll be happy about it.
There’s also the case that if Jon is doing this out of ‘love’ and ‘blind faith’ in Danielle as a ruler, this will rub Arya the wrong way as well because Danielle’s a stranger and not a part of the pack. The Starks are distrusting (as are the Northerners) and a Targaryen queen coming here with 2 dragons to rule over them won’t bode well.
Right now, the only people the Starks can trust are each other. This is a fact compounded from Day 1 and now it’s finally really reaching fruition at the end of Season 7 with Sansa, Arya and Bran banding together to take down Littlefinger.
Simply looking at Arya’s behaviour and dialogue in Season 7, when she returns, she immediately asks what LF is doing here. She knows he’s a weasel but she doesn’t know the full extent of LF’s manipulation. She was never truly privy to that in King’s Landing, so she’s asking because he’s an outsider, he was part of the Lannisters’ entourage, and therefore, he doesn’t belong in Winterfell.
Then later, Arya is angry over the Northern houses’ disloyalty to Jon. She suggests killing them for their treasonous thoughts. That’s because she’s loyal to Jon, of course, but she even views them as outsiders with no say on who should be ruling Winterfell and the North. It should be a Stark and always a Stark.
All of this means that Arya does not take too kindly to anyone who isn’t a Stark coming to her home to lay claim on what belongs to her family, not even another Northern lord. So imagine her anger when it’s not only a foreign queen but a Targaryen. Keep in mind she’s been told since she was a babe that House Targaryen killed her uncle and grandfather and kidnapped/raped her aunt. Jon can speak for hours about Danielle’s ‘good heart’ all he wants.
At the end of the day, she’s an outsider, a foreigner and most definitely not a Stark, and I can’t see a way for Arya not to be angry about that.













