#or gendry rivers

[laurellerual]

Day 17: Jealousy - Edric and Bella

"Lords and ladies" [...] "Why don't you go back to Stoney Sept and ring that girl's stupid bells?"

A bit of appreciation for this two poor characters unfortunately wedged between Arya and Gendry.

#bookgendryamonth2023 #edric dayne #bella #ned dayne #bella rivers #arya stark #gendry #gendrya #gendry waters #arya x gendry #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #asos

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

jett black hair, deep blue eyes, that square jaw... you must be one of Robert's

#fan art #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf art #gendry waters #mya stone #bella rivers #edric storm #robert's bastards #my art.

[atf1216]

Be like Gendry and have an entire fandom write fanfics about you and has you get the girl in the end

#gendrya #game of thrones #arya stark #arya x gendry #gendry #gendry baratheon #got #arya #arya baratheon #gendry rivers #house of the dragon #ser harwin strong #ser harwin #rhaenyra x harwin #harwin strong #harwin breakbones

[go-catch-a-chickn]

i am rewatching all gendrya scenes and almost 5 years later i still can't believe that happened. arya walking up to her childhood bestie who turned superhot blacksmith warrior in those years they haven't seen each other and announcing that she won't accept death without getting laid first. and two episodes later gendry tells her "all i know is that you're beautiful and i love you" was this all a dream did it happen for real. help

#i still can't believe the show didn't get his name right. like how can you confuse gendry waters as gendry rivers #also why are you so stupid gendry i understand arya is the love of your life but wait a moment and think before proposing on the spot #gendrya #game of thrones #arya stark #gendry waters #gendry baratheon

[grey-joys]

@ship-ambrosia : Only Gendry and Renly get rights

Me: WHAT ABOUT MYA AND BELLA AND EDRIC AND SHIREEN AND-

#don’t worry we’ve corrected this statement #stupid squid thoughts #game of thrones #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #gendry waters #renly baratheon #mya stone #bella rivers #shireen baratheon #edric storm #barra waters #asoiaf barra #robert baratheon #house baratheon #ours is the fury

[inncorrect-starklings]

Gendry: Arya just asked me out!

Mya: Oh, I'm sor-

Bella: {whispering} He's happy.

Mya: Oh, yay!

#incorrect got quotes #incorrect game of thrones #arya stark #mya stone #gendry waters #Bella rivers #arya x gendry

[fromtheseventhhell]

since you finished asos, did you noticed a difference on Arya’s character? as in how george wrote her in this book. I feel like after rereading these books i noticed more and more and to me arya just was such a cliche-tomboy girl in this one,you know that type that antis love to say about arya? I felt that in this book which I didn’t in the previous ones. I don’t know but especially in the second book arya was so much more complex and deep and went through so much, and in asos for me it seemed like that went out of the window in a way, and just was portrayed in such a cliche way, without that emotional side and maturity that she achieved in acok. she is so young obviously but the internal thoughts and how she carried herself was a little more complex then in asos. don’t know if it makes sense.

So, I have to say I really disagree with this. Arya has never been written as a stereotypical tomboy and I think it really simplifies/reduces her character to say that she is. She certainly hasn't ever been written in the way antis, or the majority of fandom, claim she has. I'm not sure what measure you're using to judge but let's assume that it's the opposite of her being traditionally feminine. The real question is, where exactly does Arya have room to be more feminine? Her story in ASOS starts with her on the run and escaping Harrenhal, she subsequently gets captured by the BWB, and then by Sandor. The entire time she is traveling through war-torn land and in constant danger. Her behavior isn't her consciously deciding not to be "feminine" it's her adapting to her surroundings. TBH she has a lot more "feminine" moments than seems logical considering. She wears multiple dresses, bonds with Lady Smallwood and thinks about her throughout the book, she has romantic coded moments with Gendry, there's a romance song specifically related to her, and she even thinks of running away with Gendry like in the songs. This isn't specifically towards you but I would love it if people would stop labeling this little 9-11-year-old girl masculine. It's weird to try and judge her by such restrictive measures.

I also don't think she's any less complex, it's actually the opposite. I think this book does a lot more to show her state of mind and how things are affecting her. Arya is a character that George has always written beyond her years so I can see why some of her thoughts could be viewed as "childish" in comparison. Like you said though, she is very young. We really feel the weight of what she's been through and her desperation to simply make it back to her family. She is a very traumatized young girl and she's written as such. We still get to see her intelligence, her maturity, AND her emotional side. All of these things exist as part of her character but it doesn't make her any less complex. And how exactly does she go through less in ASOS? Was running for her life, being kidnapped, and witnessing the red wedding not enough trauma for her?

Hoping none of this came off as rude but because you didn't supply anything specific as to why you felt that way, I had to answer kind've generically. It just feels like Arya is held to a higher standard than other characters and criticized more harshly. Aside from Dany, I really never see characters being reduced and fit into restrictive boxes like she is. It's like people judge her based only on specific moments and don't look at the entirety of her character and development.

#ask #anon #arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #a storm of swords #asos #I have a feeling this wasn't the answer you wanted uh sorry #feel free to send another ask if you have any more specifics though if this hasn't annoyed you off #I just uhhh...why can't Arya just be a traumatized little girl sometimes without it making her less mature or complex? 😭 #her entire arc in this book culminates in her deciding to go to Braavos because so many of her family is dead and she has no way #to reach those who she thinks are the only ones who remain #she tried so hard to make it back to her mother and brother and because she was delayed by others she only manages #to arrive at the moment of their deaths...and then witnesses her mother's dead body being pulled out of the river... #she doesn't feel like she has a place with anybody else and feels abandoned by the pack she had in Gendry and Hot Pie #god she just goes through so much can she please get some rest or security in TWOW? probably not 😑

[gaykingslayer]

sometimes i lie awake at night thinking about how they got gendry's last name wrong in S8

#that entire cast did not give a fck how did no one notice #i know there were a lot of issues but this is somehow the worst one because its so so stupid and easy to fix #like you're telling me none of you love this project or your own work enough to not let this kind of idiocy slip??? #gendry waters #actors being sad about how their characters are ruined like they weren't sitting right there when gendry was called 'rivers' #reeking of self preservation #game of thrones #got

[sophemeva]

It's that time of the year to get sad over how quickly they ripped our dear gendrya on show.

Still in denial✌️

Will always stay in denial✌️

#gendrya #gendry rivers #gendryxarya #arya x gendry #arya baratheon #arya stark

[aryasheretic]

I know this is an unpopular stance but I get Arya leaving Westeros after season 8, and I understand why she did it but with a specific conditions. Arya spent 8 years trying to get back to the north, back to her family. Leaving wouldn’t make sense, would it? Except I kind of see it. One of the biggest points of Arya’s growth is her devotion to her whole family, she is just as loyal to Sansa and Bran as she is to Jon. I don’t think she made the decision to leave until the dragon pit council. Until Jon was exiled, Sansa became queen in the north, and Bran king of the six kingdoms. After the dragon pit, staying in Westeros meant choosing between Jon, Sansa, and Bran. Arya would never make that choice. So she chose to remove herself from the equation. I don’t think she would be entirely comfortable staying anywhere in Westeros as long as her pack is separated, I think if Jon’s exile was revoked and he went back to Winterfell, so would Arya (preferably with Gendry on her heels).

#arya stark #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #sansa stark #Jon snow #Jon stark #bran stark #gendrya #well gendrya is the target audience #character study #kind of? #gendry waters #gendry rivers #but not actually #gendry baratheon #house stark #starlings

[laurellerual]

Whose your favorite Baratheon?

Ok, first of all, how dare you?! I love all my children equally Stan:

The one true king of my heart and his sweet and doomed fawn.

My rays of sunshine

My personification of all self-destructive tendencies out there

My strong girl and my dashed hopes for the future

Them obv...

And the rest too!

#asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #stannis baratheon #shireen baratheon #edric storm #renly baratheon #robert baratheon #mya stone #barra #barra waters #bella #bella rivers #gendry #gendry waters #the other 11 nameless bastards #house baratheon #storm’s end #our is the fury #grrm

[roxannepolice]

Aegon I, watching The Long Night episode with whoever sent him the dream: ... That's not how you made it sound...

The Dreamsender, sarcastically: Oh??? And what were you expecting???

Aegon I: Well, you said we must unite ALL of Westeros, not-

The Dreamsender: Not what? Not "the North, very confused Valelords, a handful of Ironborn, no one from the Riverlands, four people from Westerlands, two from Stormlands, one subject of Dragonstone and Highgarden each, no one from Dorne and a man who identifies as a Riverlander, spent almost all of his life in King's Landing and will now be the lord of Stormlands"?????

#game of thrones #house of the dragon #aegon i targaryen #got salt #it's been 84 years and i'm still as salty as the brine on titanic #never forget gendry rivers

[negrophobic]

why did arya turn down gendry like that

#game of thrones #got #arya stark #gendry rivers #gendry baratheon #barkings

[mummersblade]

you know who I'd pay to see all in a room together? Robert's bastards. Mya Stone, Gendry Waters, Edric Storm, and Bella (Rivers?) just all like...hey.

#rambles #gendry I'd beat the shit out of my dad waters with mya my daddy threw me in the air and laughed with me stone #edric I deify my father storm and bella a king fucked my mom rivers #gendry wouldn't stand edric something tells me

[summervale]

She was of the Faith, like her father and grandfather and his father before him. Her gods had names, and their faces were as familiar as the faces of her parents. 

#game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #myedits #the seven #ned stark #catelyn stark #sansa stark #Jaqen H'ghar #jaime lannister #gendry rivers #gendry baratheon #melisandre

[mars-626]

IMHO...

IF Dany HAD to go mad at the end, and Jon was exiled.... Gendry should've been on the throne (Dany was queen, no matter how short in technicality, in the eyes of the Lords and she did legitimize him). It would have come full circle...

An unwilling Baratheon on the throne heartbroken over a Stark he couldn't have

Didn't GRRM say history rhymes?

(Tho either way, I personally would have wanted Gendry to say f* all that and sneak on the boat to join Arya 😅)

DAMN House of the Dragons making me reminisce on Game of Thrones!!

#got #game of thrones #game of thrones spoilers #gendry waters #gendry baratheon #gendry rivers #got s8 #iron throne #house baratheon #hbo