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astriloquuus · 2 years ago

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arya being a surrogate mother figure to weasel is so important to me. she worries for her, defends her, cares and protects her as best as she can in the position they’re in. like they’re literally living off of bugs and arya is thinking about weasel’s hair.

and it comes so second nature to her - every time she is doing something for weasel, it’s just a sentence thrown in between whatever else is going on at the time. she never consciously thinks about caring for weasel, because she doesn’t have to - she just does.

#asoiaf #arya stark #like she’s literally 9yo starving and traveling through the woods barefoot in the middle of a war #knowing at any point she could be subjected to the horrors she keeps witnessing #every single protector figure she’s had has died at this point and she’s been there every time even if she doesn’t see the death itself #and yet despite all of that not only does she take on that role for someone else but she does it almost instinctively #empathy is at the CORE of arya’s character and that is the exact reason the pyscopath arya takes are so stupid #also thinking about how arya’s relationship with weasel parallels gendry becoming the leader of their little group after yoren dies #but that’s for another post #this is the chapter when they get captured by the mountain after yoren dies for context

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