Braavos is home to a death cult and rich merchants, so it wouldn’t surprise me if bystanders just see her as either a wounded thief, or a fated victim of the Faceless Men.
Yeah, the show forgot to cover it, but in the books Bravos is kind of famous for its duels to the death in the streets.
I hate to have to point this out, but:
Why Arya?
It seems to have been an awful lot of trouble for Jaq to have gone through just to get one measely recruit.
Methinks Arya has Braavosi Prophesy plot armor.
I don’t think he’s going through a lot of trouble.
Something happened with Ayra where he owed her the lives of a few people. She then blackmailed him to help train her or she’d order him to kill himself. He would have had to do it due to his beliefs or some shit.
He only truly let her fuck up once and then punished her for it. This time, she fucked up again and the waif asked him for permission to kill her. He implied yes.
Ain’t that complicated.
Faceless dude did tell the waif to make sure she didn’t suffer though. Gut stabs aren’t exactly that, so I wonder if he’ll make her pay for it.
Cersi rapeface smirk in that preview… You know zombie is gonna get deep in some ass!
Why Arya? Because she’s actually a good recruit for it.
She’s young, has physical aptitude, and is mostly comfortable with killing people.
She’s got warg blood, and while magic goes explicitly unexplained in GoT there’s very much a magic-begets-magic thing going on, so she’s probably a good fit for Faceless Man hoodoo.
Maybe most importantly, she managed to casually befriend a Faceless Man even after learning what he is. That probably almost never happens in Braavos between the fact that they normally don’t stick around after completing their job, and the fact that the locals are all in awe or terrified of them.
Sure it is.
Or are you one of those people who genuinely believes that Jaq “got put into” that situation?
Really?
This isn’t even taking into account any of the Syrio stuff.
What situation are we talking about? Where he owed her the favors?
Dude is good but he’s not a god. He’s bound to fuck up.
Where he was a “prisoner” headed to The Wall in the first place.
I just don’t think he is so godlike he could escape capture. He’s only human.
Dude can wave his hand down his face and become someone new.
I think he’s a bit more than a normal expert high-level assassin, even… whatever that is.
Magic makes everything deadlier.
Especially on GoT.
Mix religion into it, and gods help your foe.
The Arya storyline is one of the deviations from the book as far as the whole flavor goes. In the book, there’s no Jaqen, no blatantly antagonistic Waif. She hits a lot of the same beats, but it goes deeper and it goes longer, and it hints at her ‘cheating’ part of the training in a way that might or might not be exactly what the FM wanted out of her.
There’s also a Faceless Man somewhere else in the story, who people theorize might be Jaqen, but saying where might spoil a TV plot point they didn’t get to yet. The flow of time in Thrones is convoluted.
Yeah next episode you see Arya jumping from the ledge with different clothes on & no signs of being shanked…So my guess the one who got stabbed is Jaqen, he decides to give his life for Arya…I think Jaqen is possibly Syrio the dancing swordsman. They developed a nice teacher student relationship & Syrio witnessing what happened to the Starks decides to train Aria to become the perfect assassin to get her revenge.
Other theory is Jaqen is not Syrio but is still obligated to Arya because she save him in Season 2.
Arya=waif im not feeling
I have to re-watch the episode because e probably skipped that part
I hope Littlefinger pulls a “The Prestige” and has a twin walking around.
Speaking of Littlefinger, was I the only one that figured Sansa grudgingly sent that letter she wrote to him?
Why?
He’s still alive, on the show, right?
No, she’s clearly requesting his aid to bolster the numbers of their army.
Im assuming shes trying to send dat shiz to blackfish but then the army of siegeing lannisters gonna get ahold of dat?