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anonymous requested: parallels between tyrion lannister and arya stark

I usually dont like Arya Snow and Jon Stark fics but this one i do like love.. So I recommend it. Even tho it seems to be on a break

the bastard and the spare

by MannixMind

AU where Jon is the true born son of Ned Stark and Arya is the ‘bastard’ brought home from war. Growing up as the female bastard of a great lord Arya was always told by her step-mother that there was only one path to happiness for her - to grow into a beautiful accomplished woman and convince some lowly, aged bannerman that her father’s favor was worth the shame of taking a bastard as a wife. From the moment she was brought to Winterfell Catelyn Stark began to count down the days until she could be pushed out of the castle and into the arms of a husband. But her father, thank the Gods, loved her enough not to rush that day and her brother Jon did all that he could to see that no one thought that their advances would be appreciated. But one day Winterfell is visited by someone Jon can’t scare away, someone even her father has a hard time saying no to. And that is the day when Arya Snow’s life changed forever.

Words: 13,738 I  Chapters: 7/?  I  Language: English

Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Underage

Categories: F/M

Characters: Jon Snow, Arya Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Ned Stark, Sansa Stark, Robb Stark, Robert Baratheon

Relationships: Jon Snow/Arya Stark, Jon Snow & Arya Stark

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slow Burn, Angst, Forbidden Love, Lechery

Read it on AO3 here.

Arya Stark and the Trauma of Killing

Arya is not the cold-blooded, pleasure seeking killer that the showrunners, and the majority of fandom, like to portray her as. She has never been happy about the killing she’s had to do to survive, the killing she’s had to do to stay with the faceless men because she thinks she has no where else to go, the killing she’s done out of a sense of justice against those who’ve harmed her and others (Raff) and those she’s been taught to view as the most dangerous of all men (Dareon, the Night’s Watch deserter).

More often than not, Arya has felt shame for what she’s done, so much so, that her kills haunt her all the way in ADWD when she’s trying, and failing, to become no one. She must justify to herself why these people deserve their deaths and she’s never *happy* about any of it. She has felt empty, hopeless, weak because nothing she can do will ever bring her parents, her family, back to her.  

A few instances where Arya reflects on the killings, and the blatant shame, fear, guilt she feels when thinking of how her father, mother, brother, and others would react:

Yoren didn’t know about the stableboy, but she was afraid of what he might do if he found out…

-Arya, ACoK

Arya told of Yoren and their escape from King’s Landing as well, and much that had happened since, but she left out the stableboy she’d stabbed with Needle, and the guard whose throat she’d cut to get out of Harrenhal. Telling Harwin would be almost like telling her father, and there were some things that she could not bear having her father know. 

-Arya, ASoS

Arya didn’t know how much Robb would pay for her, though. He was a king now, not the boy she’d left at Winterfell with snow melting in his hair. And if he knew the things she’d done, the stableboy and the guard at Harrenhal and all. “What if my brother doesn’t want to ransom me?”

-Arya,ASoS

And her lady mother, what would she say? Would she still want her back, after all the things she’d done? Arya chewed her lip and wondered.

-Arya, ASoS

In fact, the small amount of comfort she ever has about her kills is this:

Jon wouldn’t care who I killed or whether I brushed my hair…

-Arya, ASoS

Finally, all the way in ADWD, she is still unable to forget the killing, she hasn’t found any peace, relief, happiness, fulfillment, etc. It’s clear that it’s all taken a heavy toll on her, and it is not something she will ever be okay with:

Yet there was the black singer, there the stableboy she’d killed with Needle, there the pimply squire from the crossroads inn, and over there the guard whose throat she’d slashed to get them out of Harrenhal. The Tickler hung on the wall as well, the black holes that were his eyes swimming with malice. The sight of him brought back the feel of the dagger in her hand as she had plunged it into his back, again and again and again.

-Arya, ADWD

Bottomline, killing is an incredibly traumatic, confusing, and more times than not, necessary part of Arya’s arc. It isn’t this cut and dry action that leaves her feeling satisfied or happy. 

And just as a sidenote, I never see any comments about Jaime Lannister killing people, Jon Snow, Stannis Baratheon, Ned Stark, Sandor Clegane. Yet the few kills Arya has, most of whom were out of survival, ALL of whom were dangerous, horrible people, automatically brings out the tumblr MDs trying to diagnose her with sociopathy or psychopathy, or the ~concerned fans~ about her loss of humanity.

It’s funny, because Arya is actually one of the few people who understands the worth of life. When she saves Jaqen, Rorge, Biter from the fire, when she’s concerned about creatures like fleas, LITERAL FLEAS, in her clothes dying, when she witnesses countless deaths and desecrated bodies and is forced to realize just how quickly lives can end, when she witnesses the resurrection of Beric and asks if her father’s life can be restored as well, when she’s concerned about giving Yoren a proper burial. But God forbid this little girl wants the monsters responsible for the massacre of her family, for the abuse she’s endured, for the horrible atrocities she’s seen committed, dead. I guess when it’s a female character wanting justice, it makes her too far gone, but when it’s a male character, it makes him a hero. 

Actual Conversations

Arya: *Silently staring at Jon*

Jon: *Silently staring at Arya*

Arya: ...

Jon: ...

Arya: ...

Jon:...

Arya and Jon: *Simultaneously nod to each other before Jon throws his cloak around Arya while Arya gives Jon a peck on the cheek and hands him a few coins before parting ways*

Everyone else: ...What?

Sansa not even looking up as she reads a book: Don't mind them, they tend to do that. We'll find out what they talked about in the future.

Tagged

I was tagged by the ever super cool @iceandgreys Thank you I suppose?!

Relationship status : Single as hell

Chapstick or Lipstick : Chapstick (watermelon)

Favourite colour : Blue and Silver and Grey and Black and White

Last song you listened to : Fire n Gold by Bea Miller

Last movie you saw : Pride and Predjuce and zombies I think it was called..

Top three tv-shows : Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and izombie

Book you are currently reading: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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Canon Arya Stark Appreciation Week: Day 7- Supernatural+ The Ghost in Harrenhal

“This castle has an ill repute, and one that’s well deserved. It’s said that Harren and his sons still walk the halls by night, afire. Those who look upon them burst into flame…Every man who holds this castle seems to come to a bad end.”- Jaime Lannister

It wasn’t Harren, Arya wanted to say, it was me. She had killed Chiswyck with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

Omg yesssssss

How I imagined the “Arya vs Littlefinger” confrontation was going to go down… (let’s pretend episode 7x05 didn’t happen)

–This was supposed to be a lighter comic but ended up becoming pretty wordy… dialogue or writing in general is not my strong point.

Canon Arya Stark Appreciation Week: Day Five (Religion)

“Your Seven have a sept here, the Sept-Beyond-the-Sea, but only Westerosi sailors worship there.”

They are not my Seven. They were my mother’s gods, and they let the Freys murder her at the Twins.

Arya Stark + Embodiment of the Seven Gods

insp. from this meta