Heeeeeeeey.

[bluebombardier]

Yo, where the fen at?

All the comms I've come across are diddly-dying. I just finished AFfC last night, and I'm aching for a substantial bone (preferably a femur) to gnaw on until the next one drops who-knows-when (probably once grrm stops watching so much damn football

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[sparrow_wings]

Warm milk? What? Remind me!

[bluebombardier]

Arya wakes up blind the morning after slicing Dareon's throat, dumping his deserting ass in the canal, stealing his boots, and accepting a glass of warm milk from the thirty-six-year-old waif once the kindly man disapproves of her ongoing identity-retention.

I was SO DISTRAUGHT after reading that chapter.

[sparrow_wings]

Oh, that! ... I don't know. Arya's survived so many cliffhanger catastrophes, I've kind of stopped worrying about her. ^^.

[sparrow_wings]

Oops, hit post too early. Um... I still don't know. Martin doesn't really go for reversible damage, and when he maims his characters by god they STAY maimed (hi Bran, hi Jaime), so I doubt if Arya will become a super-virtuoso blind swordsman like the guy from Privilege of the Sword. But I also can't figure out why the kindly man would blind her permanently, since it seems to wreck her usefulness as an assassin -- unless that is his reason. *shrug*

[marusaia]

My theory is that either the blindness isn't permanent, or that she'll become a swordswoman like Zatoichi. For that matter, we don't even know if she's actually blind as I recall, for all we know they gave her knockout poison and locked her up in a room two-hundred feet underground that's been painted black and has no candle or torches anywhere near it. I am fine with any of these, so long as she makes it to the end. She's one of my favorites.

Personally, I hope she ends up as Daenerys's bodyguard, but that seems unlikely...

[bluebombardier]

Oooh! A roofie in her milk! I like this theory.

I want her to get back together with Nymeria and whoop some Lannister ass as the alpha-wargs of the God's Eye wolf pack.

[redcandle17]

I don't expect Arya to stay blind. Though Nymeria as a seeing eye wolf would be pretty funny. What I'm really curious about is what Arya is in the Free Cities for. I'm much more interested in Arya getting back to Westeros and being confronted with her undead mother and Jon, etc. I can't imagine what GRRM intends for Arya to do where she is now.

[bluebombardier]

Though Nymeria as a seeing eye wolf would be pretty funny.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAYES. That would create some difficulties, as Arya's eyes would be in Westeros, while the rest of her is in Braavos.

Part of me wants to believe that she'll succeed in becoming a Faceless Man (or Girl, as it were), though GRRM never mentions how long it takes to complete the training. However, being a Faceless Man (or Girl) apparently requires Arya to give up her identity as Arya and literally become no one, which would completely destroy her character. She's bent on vengeance; she wants the power that Jaqen had.

Maybe Daenerys will make a pit stop in Braavos and pick her up as part of her entourage.

And call me fucked up, but I kind of want Arya to kill her undead mother.

[esc_key]

And call me fucked up, but I kind of want Arya to kill her undead mother.
I wrote a fic where Cat died when she touched Arya (because of Beric's promise to return Arya to her mother's arms). But she didn't like kill kill her. No stabbity.

[bluebombardier]

I'm gunning for a "You're not my mother!" *deathstrike* scene.

[redcandle17]

I'm refraining from making jokes about Sandor. :P

[bluebombardier]

Knick-knack, paddy-whack, give the dog a bone.

Sansa should've sang that song for him. :P

[bluebombardier]

Let's you and me stick femurs where they have no business going. XD

[esc_key]

how permanent do you think the effect of warm milk is? 'Cause that one bit deep, man.
It doesn't appear to be permanent because Arya mentions seeing blind acolytes around before. And if they blinded them all, there wouldn't be very many Faceless Men. I think it's like a test (sort of the opposite of "Look with your eyes" which Syrio taught her)

I might amend the icon to say "Everytime to complain about GRRM's football watching habits, he kills a Stark." :p

[bluebombardier]

Come to think of it, didn't Syrio also encourage her to wander about the Red Keep with a blindfold across her eyes? I am reminded deeply of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, where he spent a year each without one of his five senses to improve his mad skillz to kill Count Rugen.

We'd be out of Starks by now, if that were the case.

How about "Every time the Giants or the Jets lose a game, GRRM kills a Stark in a fit of pique." Is it even possible for a football fan to like both teams? I thought the Giants/Jets rivalry was bloodier than Yankees/Red Sox.

[esc_key]

I'll have to look back at GoT. I think he might have had her do some stuff blindfolded but mostly I just remember chasing cats.

We'd be out of Starks by now, if that were the case.
Unless someone keeps bringin' 'em back, Beric.

[bluebombardier]

It might have been in one of Ned's chapters, a quick mention of the strange things his crazy daughter was asked to do in training to be a "water dancer," like balancing on one foot and chasing cats.

I think he only had that one resurrection in him. Thoros mentioned that Beric was gone once and for all when he passed the flame of life to Catelyn, which was SUCH A WASTE. Good God, Beric, WHY? She'd been dead for DAYS, you necrophiliac. I thought for sure that he was the Prince who was Promised, what with the undeadness and the flaming sword.