a game of no

Stranger Things :: four kinds of love

Inspiration [x]

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us - dead from wars, sickness, starvation - and nobody cares. So you say you’re under a curse? So what? So’s the whole damn world.

Oh excuse me, madam. Sorry, this may see strange, but have you seen a fallen star anywhere?

The old Stark saying of “He who passed the sentence should swing the sword” is totally reinterpreted here. Neither Sansa nor Arya would have the physical ability to wield Ice, their ancestral greatsword, if the blade was still there. So, instead, they became to the two halves of that whole statement.

Arya acknowledges that she could never be the Lady of Winterfell, not like Sansa could, so she became something else. Sansa couldn’t kill someone, not like Arya or her brothers or her father could, but she doesn’t need to do that. What I think we’ll see in the final season of Game of Thrones is Arya operating as the metaphorical sword that Sansa wields in the defense of their home.

They were here together, the children of the forest and the First Men. They fought together against their common enemy. Despite their differences, despite their suspicions. Together. We need to do the same if we’re going to survive.

“Flee, you idiot”.