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Asha Greyjoy

She was lost before she had gone ten yards. Asha could see the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, a faint orange glow floating in the air. Elsewise the village was gone. She was alone in a white world of snow and silence, plowing through snowdrifts as high as her thighs. "Justin?" she called. There was no answer. Somewhere to her left she heard a horse whicker. The poor thing sounds frightened. Perhaps he knows that he's to be tomorrow's supper. Asha pulled her cloak about her tightly.

She blundered back onto the village green unknowing. The pinewood stakes still stood, charred and scorched but not burned through. The chains about the dead had cooled by now, she saw, but still held the corpses fast in their iron embrace. A raven was perched atop one, pulling at the tatters of burned flesh that clung to its blackened skull. The blowing snow had covered the ashes at the base of the pyre and crept up the dead man's leg as far as his ankle. The old gods mean to bury him, Asha thought. This was no work of theirs.

"Take a good long gander, cunt," the deep voice of Clayton Suggs said, behind her. "You'll look just as pretty once you're roasted. Tell me, can squids scream?"

God of my fathers, if you can hear me in your watery halls beneath the waves, grant me just one small throwing axe. The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods.

[...]

There's that horse again. "Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

ASHA GREYJOY APPRECIATION WEEK

ASHA GREYJOY APPRECIATION WEEK

THEON MONTH || Day 7: Cultural Dissonance

Theon is out of step in both the northern culture and the ironborn culture. One of the main ways this is shown is through laughter. Sardonic humor appears to be a big part of the Ironborn culture- and Theon has used cynical humor as a defense mechanism in Winterfell. The first time we meet him in the series, he kicks a freshly decapitated head and laughs. However, the people of Winterfell seem uncomfortable with his sense of humor and his constant smiles. Catelyn remarks that she never liked his smiles and Theon himself tells Asha, "I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." This makes it all the more sad when he arrives at Pyke and finds that the laughter is turned against him and can no longer be used as a refuge.

House of Ladies 2020 by @womenasoiaf​ - Day 7 : free choice

Asha Greyjoy, daughter of Balon Greyjoy, self-proclaimed King of Salt and Rock, and Alannys Harlaw. She became Balon’s heir after his two eldest sons died in the rebellion and his youngest one, Theon, had to leave for Winterfell. She is the fiercest woman of the Iron Islands, learned to be bold by her mother’s side, observant by her favorite uncle’s side, and a great warrior thanks to her father. Asha is witty, never afraid of speaking her mind and she’ll never let anyone make her feel less because of her sex, especially not regarding her birthright. She would die as she lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.