"So the slaver has become a spy," Ned said with distaste. He handed the letter back. "I would rather he become a corpse."
Arya drew back from him. "He killed the slave?" That did not sound right. "He should have killed the masters!
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the reason why most discussions on post resurrection jon feel incomplete is because people downplay the implications of arya being his dying thought. ghost and arya are the two figures that occupy his mind during his murder for a reason, you have to consider both!
“wolves and women wed for life” and its nymeria and ghost being attuned to each other, arya hearing ghost howl. it’s how they cling to each other despite everything, unmake each other. different roads lead to the same castle and jon prays to the old gods to reunite him with arya.
this was actually me mocking Jon a bit lol love him but he was that delusional lmfaoo you mean Arya, the one everyone called wolf child, after years in hell would still be your little princess? ly Jon you made me laugh anyways here's a few closed up
Syrio had told her once that darkness could be her friend, and he was right. If she had the moon and the stars to see by, that was enough.
— A Clash of Kings, Arya IX
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arya + her black kitty:
“That's the real king of this castle right there… that black bastard...”
“Ever so fast, she kissed him right between the eyes.”
“The black bastard what gutted Orell...”
“The Black Bastard of the Wall, one man had called him.”
“Her favorite was a scrawny old tom with a chewed ear who reminded her of a cat that she'd once chased all around the Red Keep. No, that was some other girl, not me.”
i love when the color black is associated with jon through arya…“black devil” “black as a bastard’s heart” “ black bastard of the wall” 🖤 they’re so emo
arya + her black kitty:
“That's the real king of this castle right there… that black bastard...”
“Ever so fast, she kissed him right between the eyes.”
“The black bastard what gutted Orell...”
“The Black Bastard of the Wall, one man had called him.”
theres a nice gender inversion of the conventional romance trope. arya positioned as the usually masculine role of the character who pursues and avenges their lover, whereas jon occupies the traditionally feminine role of the lover tempted and stolen from their established world
mance’s rescue mission for arya is palimpsestic of not only rhaegar and lyanna, but bael the bard and the stark maiden. jon and arya won’t simply reproduce bael and the maiden or rhaegar and lyanna though. jeyne isn’t arya, and it’s arya who steals jon from his duties to the wall
it’s kind of funny how everyone knew that jon did not play about arya. they only saw her as a tool to bring him to their side because they knew she ruled his heart, just for jon to say he’d do it himself then!