JON SNOW APPRECIATION MONTH 2022Day 14: Arya Women In Jons Life Reminding Him Of Arya

JON SNOW APPRECIATION MONTH 2022 ↳Day 14: Arya → Women in Jon’s life reminding him of Arya

Jon could see fear and fire in her eyes. […] She is no older than I am. Something about her made him think of Arya, though they looked nothing at all alike. “Will you yield?” he asked, giving the dirk a half turn. And if she doesn’t?

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Ygritte […] looked plump as she crouched there, but most of that was layers of fur and wool and leather. Underneath all that she could be as skinny as Arya.***

[Ygritte] wasn’t wed and her weapon of choice was a short curved bow of horn and weirwood, but “spearwife” fit her all the same. She reminded him a little of his sister Arya, though Arya was younger and probably skinnier. It was hard to tell how plump or thin Ygritte might be, with all the furs and skins she wore.

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“If you kill a man, and never mean t’, he’s just as dead,” Ygritte said stubbornly. Jon had never met anyone so stubborn, except maybe for his little sister Arya. Is she still my sister? he wondered. Was she ever?

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“[…] And yes, I will take your women too. I have no need of blushing maidens looking to be protected, but I will take as many spearwives as will come.“ “And girls?” a girl asked. She looked as young as Arya had, the last time Jon had seen her.

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She looked enough like Arya to give him pause, but only for a moment. A tall, skinny, coltish girl, all legs and elbows, her brown hair was woven in a thick braid and bound about with strips of leather.

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“My uncle declared for Stannis, in hopes it might provoke the Lannisters to take poor Harry’s head. Should my brother die, Karhold should pass to me, but my uncles want my birthright for their own. Once Cregan gets a child by me they won’t need me anymore. He’s buried two wives already.” She rubbed away a tear angrily, the way Arya might have done it. “Will you help me?”

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“You’re not scared?” The girl smiled in a way that reminded Jon so much of his little sister that it almost broke his heart. “Let him be scared of me.”

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Why not? thought Jon. They are all convinced she is a princess. Val looked the part and rode as if she had been born on horseback. A warrior princess, he decided, not some willowy creature who sits up in a tower, brushing her hair and waiting for some knight to rescue her.

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You know nothing, Jon Snow. He thought of Arya, her hair as tangled as a bird’s nest. I made him a warm cloak from the skins of the six whores who came with him to Winterfell … I want my bride back … I want my bride back … I want my bride back …

‘’Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.’’

everywhere in the world they hurt little girls

[game of thrones, season 4 episode 5: first of his name]

Day 16: Skinchanging

As a Stark child (unless of course you’re Sansa) Arya has the magical ability to warg into animals. Like the other Starks, she primarily wargs into her direwolf Nymeria. When she sleeps she goes into Nymeria’s mind and basically becomes Nymeria, seeing the world through her eyes. “She was no little girl in the dream; she was a wolf, huge and powerful, and when she emerged from beneath the trees in front of them and bared her teeth in a low rumbling growl, she could smell the rank stench of fear from horse and man alike. The Lyseni's mount reared and screamed in terror, and the others shouted at one another in mantalk, but before they could act the other wolves came hurtling from the darkness and the rain, a great pack of them, gaunt and wet and silent.” It goes to show that despite being forced to drive Nymeria off to protect her from the Lannisters, their bond is still powerful. Like Jon said Ghost is a part of him, Nymeria is a part of Arya. But Arya’s abilities are not limited to Nymeria. When Arya goes blind she begins warging into a black cat which still allows her to see what is going on. It is significant because the only other Stark who can warg into something other than his direwolf is Bran. This perhaps makes Arya the second most powerful warg of the Stark children after Bran. Imagine what she could do if she learned to control her magical power. And perhaps she could reunite sooner with her favorite person in the world if Ghost and Nymeria reunite first. Jon and Arya can see each other by warging into their wolves if that happens.

Jon Snow: “All the best swords have names, you know.” Arya Stark: “Sansa can keep her sewing needles. l’ve got a Needle of my own.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jwm1yHy-0A

“You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.”

There's this great pack, hundreds of them, mankillers. The one that leads them is a she-wolf, a bitch from the seventh hell.

Princess Arya of House Stark, Lady of Winterfell.