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2 hours ago, hallam said:

The point of putting the Waif's head on a spike was to complete the original contract. The faceless God would not be satisfied until there was a face on the wall. That was the literal contract.

 

wasn't the contract already completed by the waif since she killed the actress after all?

doubt the many faced god cares who fulfills the contract

1 hour ago, olibar said:

Do we have proof in the text that is how it works?  Isn't it just as possible that to become a Faceless Man, you remove your own face and add it to the wall?  That you truly become faceless, truly become no one?  

It gives purpose to why they needed the fight to be in the dark.  There are many different ways that they could have shown Arya becoming a better fighter, but blind fighting specifically allowed them to hide the actual fight between Waif and Arya, and therefore hide the proof of who won the fight.

Again, I'm more than happy to be proven wrong by something specific I've missed, but I can't think of anything that actually disproves this as a possibility.

arya: you told her to kill me
jaquen: yes, but here you are and there she is
jaquen: a girl is finally no one
arya: a girl is arya stark from winterfell and I'm going home

seems straightforward?

1) if arya was the waif, why would she say "you told her to kill me". It was a promise from jaquen to the waif that if arya fails to kill the actress, the waif would be allowed to kill arya 

2) doubt a faceless man would introduce him/herself with "a girl is arya stark from winterfell", declining that shs isn't no one

32 minutes ago, olibar said:

Right, it's why I'm saying it makes much more sense that he was actually talking to the Waif wearing Arya's face.  It was the final test for the Waif to become a Faceless Man.  Her mission is to return to Winterfell and assassinate the remaining Starks.  Real Arya didn't want to go back home, she wanted to explore what was "west of Westeros".   

arya has cut off the waif's face though and added it to the "collection of faces" 

it's strange though that arya would do something like that and not use it as a ticket to become a faceless man

what did she want to prove by cutting off the waif's face? did she just do it to find out whether or not jaquen would accept her as faceless man, knowing she would decline?

btw she might've taken some faces with her for disguise 

I don't know if this was discussed yet but how come Jaqen H'ghar told arya that she finally became "no one"?

Why would killing the waif make her "no one"? Also, how come the waif wants to kill her or is allowed to kill her out of personal interest? I thought if you want to join them you have to become "no one" and get rid of your past, basically not caring about anything unless the many faced god requests it