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Why Arya wanted to kill Beric and Thoros


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Aryas character is complex. You assume she's a good person Cuz she's a stark and she's trying to get revenge, meaning she was the one who was wronged, there for the potential hero.

But she's a really dark character. She's been lied to, stepped on n misunderstood her whole life. Then everyone close to her is either being killed or taken. I think she's just at a point where she wants to murder anybody who does her or her loved ones wrong.

This story does a good job of showing the pov of each character well. Everybody don't want the same things. It's a story of competing personalities. Arya was a sheltered little girl and doesn't really know the way the world works. BW/OB seemed like dishonest people to her, after she had decided they weren't all that bad.

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At what point does she wish them dead? She might have just made a comment in passing to Edric or Gendry, but you cant take her backhand remarks too seriously. She never put them in her prayer and never made a move against them.

Can you provide quotes?

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Don't worry, its only in the show. The book Arya should remember Lord Beric promising on his honor as a knight to bring her to her mother's arms. Indeed, he tries his very best, by giving the kiss of life to raise Stoneheart. She did run away, but it was a moment of desperation and anger. She was going to go back to BwB, as she told Hound when he caught her.



But in the show, the BwB sold her last remaining friend to the red witch for gold. So she adds three names to her list. The possible reasons to include Melisandre, Thoros and Beric in Arya's hit list:


  • They will die before Arya see them again, or Arya will never see them again. It doesn't matter they are on her list, because she won't need to kill them, but their names in her prayer indicates how much she cares for Gendry.
  • If the show is really going to merge the Red God and the God of Many faces (which will be a sacrilege, in my opinion), the memory of Thoros and Mel being red priests will cause some internal struggles for her to be a part of their order.
  • Arya will work against R'hllor at some point in her future. Victims easiest to point out: Dany, Moqorro/VIctarion, Melisandre, Benerro, Stannis (because the Iron bank will have its due).
  • Arya will be reunited with the BwB and LSH directly or via Nymeria, and realize how the red god raised her mother, and at what price. She will undergo some sort of catharsis and we will lose out revenge-seeker for someone different. Like the character transformations of Jaime, Sansa and Theon.
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Well they can't include everything from the books. There's way to much material. I don't think they are making stuff up, they've just gotta make sure they give the characters reasons to be doing what the book has them doing, when they can't include all the stuff that leads up to that. They've gotta fill a lot of holes due to time restrictions.

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I thought the crime she hated them for was letting The Hound go. The Hound had killed her friend and she felt he needed to be punished. She thought Trial by Combat was a stupid reason to let him go.


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This is fan-fiction. She never hates them. In fact she hopes that they will find her when she is captured by the hound. That said she doesn't really like them. People tend to forget that she was their hostage so she was under no obligation to like them either. While she does get upset when they let the hound go it is more disappointment than hatred as well as that she doesn't agree with their belies. People love to make her a psychopath who cares for nothing but herself but she doesn't hate everyone who crosses her.and she does acknowledge that Beric is helping the smallfolk and in affc she remembers them neutrally.


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