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kleinbl00  ·  1773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What did ya think of the GoT finale?

Arya has never been a joiner. She told us in the beginning she didn't want to be a princess. She is given exactly three chances to do something other than satisfy her vengeance in that show - the first time she saves the faceless man and gets an invite. The second time she leaves the Hound for dead (and robs him) but he comes back and becomes her only friend. The third time she tries to lead a mother and child to safety and they're burned to death by a dragon minutes later. The white horse is for us:

    When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

- Revelation 6:7-8

Arya legit beholds a pale horse and turns her back on death. She goes from "murder list" to "marco polo" because while she's wandered all over creation looking for better ways to kill, she hasn't stopped to smell the flowers. Arya ends the series going where she has no wrongs to right, no enemies to slay and no reason to open a can of whoop-ass on anyone.