#sansa is fine bc she’s locked up in this portable isolated cage but arya puts down roots and now she’s fucked.

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So like. The Riverlands, or at least Harrenhal, have like a gravitational pull. Which is why Catelyn, Jaime, Brienne, and Arya can’t ever escape there. Even in death, Catelyn can’t leave. Her memory and her body are bound together and to her homeland once more. And Jaime and Brienne spend all their time in ASOS in the Riverlands, and you think they’ll escape back to civilization and King’s Landing, and they do, but a) they are changed irrevocably from the people who started out so like did they really leave? and b) King’s Landing turns out to be a brief respite only. They must return once more, and they may even die there. And then Arya spends like two whole books there, wandering and traveling and never getting to where she needs to go. And even when she leaves, even with the whole Narrow Sea between her and those forests and streams, her consciousness and her soul still reside there, and she returns there every night, renewing her connection. Okay? They are stuck. They’re trapped. It’s just endless forest and rivers and the occasional band of outlaws or travelers or abandoned castles. Which, none of them can leave, either. Gendry and the Brotherhood are still there, even when their original purpose is lost and their leader dies. Jeyne, the orphans at the inn, Ravella Smallwood, the Freys, the Brackens and Blackwoods, the Bloody Mummers, the bear from the Harrenhal Bear Pit— they are all trapped. Okay?

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #the riverlands #asoiaf meta #arya stark #jaime lannister #brienne of tarth #catelyn stark #okay?? it’s a gravitational well. and it seems to have harrenhal at the center but like. also the whole thing. #like a stark should never go south but like DEFINITELY don’t get stuck in the Riverlands. #sansa is fine bc she’s locked up in this portable isolated cage but arya puts down roots and now she’s fucked. #like. it’s naomi Novik uprooted. it’s yellowjackets wilderness. okay? #NOT SAYING THEY ARE ALL DYING THERE. just. they are all currently stuck there.