#arya the hound

[extraordinary-heroes]

Game of Thrones by Matias Bergara

[chippedcupwrites]

Sandor Clegane & Arya Stark + emoji kitchen

[llutik]

The Hound had hacked handfuls of her hair off only two days past. He was an even worse barber than Yoren, and he’d left her half bald on one side. Robb won’t know me either, I bet. Or even Mother. She had been a little girl the last time she saw them, the day Lord Eddard Stark left Winterfell.

ASOS, Arya X

[duztdevl]

hello asoiaf fandom

[odetokeons]

i love the tough, grumpy, intimidating, big guy and the small, but incredibly powerful and badass kid they reluctantly adopted cinematic universe

[silverflameataraxia]

This is how Sansa reacts when a man she's known all her life is murdered by the family of her beloved Prince Joffrey?

Alyn carried the Stark banner. When she saw him rein in beside Lord Beric to exchange words, it made Sansa feel ever so proud. Alyn was handsomer than Jory had been; he was going to be a knight one day.

To talk about how the guy replacing him is better looking? That's so completely heartless, it's disgusting.

And this is how Sansa reacts when Arya wanted justice brought to Mycah's murderer?

"It's not the same," Sansa said. "The Hound is Jeffrey's sworn shield. Your butcher's boy attacked the prince."

She can't even call him "Mycah" or "your friend". No, no. He's a commoner, and thus in her eyes he's not deserving of any humanity or kindness, so thus he is just the "butcher's boy". It's not even that. It's the fact that Sansa wants everyone to mourn the loss of Lady, her direwolf, but she can't even extend that same courtesy to Jory or Mycah's deaths. They're too far beneath her in status for her to care. She even knows Arya is mourning Mycah's loss, that Arya blames herself (though, it's not her fault), but Sansa just throws his death around like it doesn't mean anything because who could care about a commoner?

Not including the fact that Joffrey lied about the incident, Sansa lied, and now Sansa believes the lie that Mycah attacked her beloved prince. She saw the truth with her own eyes, and chooses to ignore it because blaming Arya is more important to her than the truth. And she could never hate her beloved prince, he's too handsome for that 🤮

She's lucky all Arya threw at her was an orange.

[belladonna-fics]

Is there gold hidden in the village?

Is there silver? Gems? Is there food?

Where is Lord Beric? Where did he go?

How many men were with him?

How many knights? How many bowmen?

How many? How many? How many?

How many? How many? How many?

Is there gold in the village?

—Arya XIII, A Storm of Swords

[eliaism]

My favorite BTS/miscellaneous pictures of Rory

[bookgendrya]

“Your Seven have a sept, 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. She wondered whether she would find a godswood in Braavos, with a weirwood at its heart.

…all but the black-haired boy from the forge, who crossed his arms against his chest and sat glowering as the others prayed. Brienne was not the only one to notice. When the prayer was done Septon Meribald looked across the table, and said, “Do you have no love for the gods, son?” “Not for your gods.” Gendry stood abruptly. “I have work to do.” He stalked off without a bite of food. “Is there some other god he loves?”asked Hyle Hunt. “The Lord of Light,” piped one scrawny boy, nigh to six.

[shutupcrime]

I think the thing that’s really striking about the got books as opposed to the show is the way Martin never shies away from how physically damaged everyone is left. In the show Tyrion gets a badass scar but in the books he looses half his nose, Briennes teeth are broken and a chunk of her face is literally bitten out. Theon looks like an old man, his body is completely wrecked -

But they’re still not beyond hope. Their stories don’t finish with the horrible things that happen to them, their scars and deformities, they go on, and it’s not pretty and tragic and romantic like a story

And that’s the whole point.

Every single book in the series makes a point about how violence and war is romanticised in literature and history and Martin makes his character a living testament to the reality of war, the ugliness, the trauma, and that depth is just another thing that got glossed over in the show where people stay pretty and everything that made the books special is watered down.

Let your characters be ugly. Let them get hurt. Let them be scarred, and watch them get up anyway.

[cleanbutsalty]

Stick em with the pointy end

[laurellerual]

Sometimes I find comments out there that go like "Arya would never let herself be kidnapped"...

Have we read the same books? Arya is kidnapped! More than once!

[chippedcupwrites]

"True knights protect the weak." – Sansa Stark, A Clash of Kings

[allovesthings]

There really is a misconstruction of Arya's relationship with the Hound due to the show.

Yes, he is kinder to Sansa when she is kept in the red keep.

But he really isn't treating Arya well in the books when he gets her. They are not a buddy cop type comedy duo. He is awful to her and it's even more obvious when you compare it to the brotherhood.

They both kidnapped her (more or less) but the brotherhood takes care of her and let her be a child for the first time.

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everybody!❤🎀🌲

Here's a meme:

[tronodiferro]

Arya and the Hound by Derek Laufman