A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell, and I'm going home.
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~ Arya Stark re-asserts her identity to Jaqen H'ghar
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Sometimes fear makes people do unfortunate things. I'll take anger.
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~ Arya Stark to Sansa Stark
Arya Stark is one of the main protagonists of the Song of Fire and Ice book series and the HBO Max television series Game of Thrones. She is the third child and second daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark, the adoptive sister and maternal cousin of Jon Snow, and the sister of Robb, Sansa, Bran I and Rickon Stark. She initially finds herself in conflict with her sister Sansa due to her nativity and playing a significant role in the Great War.
She left Westros in search of the lands beyond the West after bidding farewell to her siblings.
At the beginning of the series, Arya is a small, inexperienced child lacking physical strength, often forced to conceal herself and flee from danger. Over time, she transforms into a formidable Action Girl, thanks to her rigorous training with Syrio and the Faceless Men, which has effectively shaped her into this new persona. She becomes more ruthless as the series progresses, even having a hit list of names of those she intends to hunt down and kill. According to her father, Arya was a lot like her aunt Lyanna.
She is extremely close with her adoptive brother Jon Snow, and the two are extremely protective of each other.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Catelyn 'Cat' Stark/Tully (mother)
Eddard 'Ned' Stark (father)
Robb Stark (elder brother)
Sansa Stark (elder sister)
Bran Stark (younger brother)
Rickon Stark (younger brother)
Jon Snow (adoptive brother and cousin)
Gendry Baratheon (Former lover)
Edmure Tully (uncle)
Roslin Frey (aunt-in-law)
Lysa Tully-Arryn (aunt)
Jon Arryn (uncle-in-law)
Robert/Robin Arryn (cousin)
Brandon Stark (uncle)
Lyanna Stark (aunt)
Benjen Stark (uncle)
Hoster Tully (maternal grandfather)
Minisa Whent (maternal grandmother)
Rickard Stark (paternal grandfather)
Lyarra Stark (paternal grandmother)
Brynden Tully (great-uncle)
Edwyle Stark (great-grandfather)
Marna Locke (great-grandmother)
Arya Flint (great-grandmother)
Rodrik Stark (great-grandfather)
Jocelyn Stark (grand-aunt)
Benedict Royce (grand-uncle)
Tyrion Lannister (brother-in-law)
Jeyne Westerling (sister-in-law)
Talisa Maegyr (sister-in-law)
Stillborn nephew (via Robb)
Rhaegar Targaryen (Uncle)
Allies[]
Sandor 'Hound' Clegane (close friend)
Her family (especially Jon)
Syrio Forel
Mycah
Nymeria
Gendry (former love interest in the TV series only)
Lommy Greenhands
Hot Pie
Weasel
Edric Dayne
Ravella Smallwood
Jory Cassel
Harwin
Desmond
Tomard "Fat Tom"
Maester Luwin
Old Nan
Rodrik Cassel
Yoren
The kindly man
The waif (novels)
Jaqen H'ghar (formerly)
Plague Face
The squinter
The fat fellow
The handsome man
The stern face
Lordling
The starved man
Ternesio Terys
Yorko
Brusco
Brea
Talea
Umma
Salty
Red Roggo
Gyloro Dothare
Gyleno
Quill
Tagganaro
Casso
Little Narbo
Cossomo
Joss the Gloom
Myrmello
Meralyn "Merry"
Blushing Bethany
The Sailor's Wife
Yna
Lanna
Assadora
Staff of the Happy Port
Izembaro
Lady Stork (Lady Crane in the TV series)
Pynto
Bobono
Big Brusco
Marro
Unnamed mummer
Daena
Wendeyne
The Snapper
Ezzelyno
Eustace
"Her" cats in Braavos
Any cat she sees
Edmure Tully (on her side in the novels; never met)
Elmar Frey (situationally; formerly)
Aenys Frey (briefly)
Robett Glover (briefly)
Rorge (temporarily)
Biter (temporarily)
Winterfell's household
Brotherhood without Banners (situationally)
Brave Companions (briefly)
Enemies[]
Cersei Lannister
Joffrey I Baratheon
Tywin Lannister
Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane
Sandor Clegane (formerly)
Rorge
Walder Frey
Theon Greyjoy (novels)
Ilyn Payne
Raff the Sweetling (victim)
The Tickler (victim)
Weese (victim by proxy)
Polliver
Meryn Trant
Amory Lorch
Chiswyck (victim by proxy)
Pimply squire (victim)
Dunsen
Shagwell
Biter
The wizard
The fat man
Amabel
Dareon (on her side; victim)
Orbelo
Terro
The Mountain's Men
House Lannister
House Baratheon of King's Landing
House Frey
House Greyjoy (novels)
TV series only:
The Waif (victim)
Petyr Baelish (victim)
Night King (victim)
Daenerys Targaryen
Grey Worm
Black Walder Rivers (victim)
Lothar Frey (victim)
Numerous male Freys (victims)
Other Appearances[]
Arya Stark appears as a character in the video game, MultiVersus.
Quotes[]
Spoken by Arya Stark[]
“Sansa can keep her sewing needles. I've got a needle of my own”
―Arya names her sword "Needle" after Jon gifts it to her.
Eddard Stark: "A little Lady shouldn't play with swords."
Arya Stark: "I wasn't playing. And I don't want to be a Lady."
―Arya and Eddard Stark
Arya Stark: "You're a witch! You're going to hurt him!"
Melisandre: "I see a darkness in you. And in that darkness, eyes staring back at me. Brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes. Eyes you'll shut forever. We will meet again."
―Arya and Melisandre.
“Someday, I'm going to put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull.”
―Arya threatens Sandor Clegane.
Dying man: "Maybe nothing is worse than this."
Arya: "Nothing isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just nothing."
―Arya and a dying man.
“You know who I am? I’m Arya Stark. Do you know who you are? You're no one. You're nothing.”
―Arya to Meryn Trant before killing him.
Jaqen H'ghar: "Finally a girl is No One."
Arya Stark: "A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell. And I'm going home."
―Arya Stark reclaims her identity.
“My name is Arya Stark. I want you to know that. The last thing you're ever going to see is a Stark smiling down at you as you die.”
―Arya to Walder Frey before killing him.
“When people ask you what happened here, tell them the North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey.”
―Arya to Kitty Frey after unmasking herself.
Sansa Stark: "You're angry. Sometimes anger makes people do unfortunate things."
Arya Stark: "Sometimes fear makes people do unfortunate things. I'll take anger."
―Arya spars with Sansa.
“Brave men, all of you. Butchered a woman pregnant with her baby. Cut the throat of a mother of five. Slaughtered your guests after inviting them into your home. But...you didn't slaughter every one of the Starks. No, no...that was your mistake. You should have ripped them all out root and stem. Leave one wolf alive...and the sheep are never safe”
―Arya, disguised as Walder Frey, poisons his heirs.
About Arya Stark[]
Gallery[]
Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams as the Stark sisters, Arya and Sansa.
Arya in Season 6 of Game of Thrones
Trivia[]
Arya fulfilled the prophecy as the one who eould end the Longest Night in the TV series.
Arya is a lot more emotionless in the books than the TV series.
Another difference in the TV series is Arya's related to Jon as her cousin while in the books they are half-siblings.
Arya also takes over some of aspects of Lady Stoneheart's need for vengeance against those involved with the Red Wedding.
The two women who play the Stark sisters both played a role in the X-Men Cinematic Universe
Maisie Williams portrayed Wolfsbane in The New Mutants and Sophie Turner portrayed Jean Grey in Dark Phoenix.
