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fromtheseventhhell · 2 years ago

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He damned them all: Littlefinger, Janos Slynt and his gold cloaks, the queen, the Kingslayer, Pycelle and Varys and Ser Barristan, even Lord Renly, Robert's own blood, who had run when he was needed most. Yet in the end he blamed himself. "Fool," he cried to the darkness, "thrice-damned blind fool." (Eddard XV, AGOT)

"Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Amory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei."...On the road Arya had felt like a sheep, but Harrenhal turned her into a mouse. She was grey as a mouse in her scratchy wool shift, and like a mouse she kept to the crannies and crevices and dark holes of the castle, scurrying out of the way of the mighty (Arya II, ACOK)

Valiant Ned's precious little girl

#arya stark #eddard stark #ned stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #how people claim that Arya and Ned aren't alike I'll never know #even their mannerisms are similar #he isn't the calm cool politician that fandom pretends he is #anyways I love this parallel between them #it highlights that Arya's list isn't about vengeance #it's a coping mechanism to deal with the stressful/dangerous situation both Ned and Arya find themselves in #and at the root of it for both of them is guilt and the feeling of helplessness #Arya holds onto that list because she very often has no way to fight back and defend herself or others #oh wow a child in an active warzone who was taken as a POW wants the people who hurt her and her pack to pay what a monster 🙄#anyway Arya is called Valiant Ned's precious little girl for a reason

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