#ellienatchiios

or maybe im completely wrong! lol i hope im not too far off, its just that i know that ppl like cersei and joffrey and meryn trant, all did something to her or her family, but the mountain she saw torture other ppl, and it seems to me she was so horrified she takes it onto herself to seek justice for his crimes??? ur so good with arya meta i dont want to come across as too simple

so her list, its not just abt wrongs done to her its what injustices she's seen. 

you’re not wrong--you’re bang on the nose.  that’s exactly what it is, and it’s part of why it being construed as vengeance bugs me so much because that doesn’t fit for the vast majority of the people on her list, specifically the mountain and his men.  it’s about miscarriages of justice that she’s seen and how they’ve gone completely unpunished.  every single person on that list is not someone who has necessarily wronged her personally (though obviously there are those who have), it’s people who have done wrong by what should be the law.

i say what should be: westeros has no rule of law, and no real good justice system.  so when arya sees what “should be,” it’s based entirely on what she perceives to be right and how her family’s moral compass has shaped her.  she’s a character who knows very much that life isn’t fair (an important lesson from her first chapter) but there’s a difference between the societal “life’s not fair” and the “we’re actively going to harm people because no one’s going to give us shit about it,” that’s a major thing for her.

one thing i did always wonder tho, is if while ofc he couldn't say jon was lyanna's son, if he could've past it off as brandon's? wasn't he known to be pretty wild? say he got some woman pregnant before he went off and got killed by the mad king. or maybe that would've been too hurtful to cat since that was her betrothed. also - do u think ned ever told benjen? bc he adored lyanna and im pretty sure he would've been able to tell

Other than the fact that the timing doesn’t work out, Ned is a DIY guy. He is willing to be the liar and willing to dishonor himself in that way, but he won’t let others lie and others be dishonored over what is supposed to be his burden. He won’t sully his brother’s name just because he’s dead.

DEFENDERS SPOILERS, JUST A HEADS UP. 

They did not address it at all. Outside of calling her a weapon. Like there’s so much conflicting information about the black sky. and they address basically none of it. I’m not holding my breath on it being addressed in dds3, but I do think this means elektra has super powers now so that’s cool. (I mean she can punch luke and it knocks his head back, and kick down a door with a heavy dresser in front of it. and take a hit from a car and just get back up on her feet. And she survived that bomb blast. I’m sure on that.) 

Okay so here’s my theory based on some of what we know. The Black Sky is the Hand’s Immortal Weapon. (nobu calls her their “greatest living weapon” and who else gets called a great living weapon? danny.) And because we know from comic books that there are more immortal weapons than just Danny. (Seven in total, including Danny.) I get the sad sinking feeling we won’t GET the other seven in MCU bc marvel’s fucked up iron fist mythology SO BADLY in an effort to mish mash it with the Hand and the Chaste, but Elektra is supposed to v. clearly be Danny’s counter point. Whiiiich they did a shitty job juxtaposing save for like 2 minutes of monologuing. 

That being said the Hand was supposed to worship the Black Sky ?? Like I totally get that being a lie, but Nobu was ready to bow down and worship at her feet. (#relatable) And they were DESPERATE to get their hands on a black sky she was considered essential for them. But then the Hand seems to be very eh whatever about having elektra around. And even considers just killing her and basically uses her to hunt down and kill members of the chaste which seems like a waste of her time. 

OH MAN OKAY THIS WAS HARD BUT I THIIIIIIIIIIINK THIS IS MY LIST

Troian Bellisario 

Sophie Turner 

Alia Bhatt 

Zendaya 

Candice Patton I guess? 

UMMMMMMMM Constance Wu is always killing it so sure 

- and thats whats going to lead to this whole 'targbowl' ppl are thinking of. in the books, i also feel she'll think that same, but then idk how it'll end up. dany's motives are rlly emotion driven, bc she has nothing else to her name and life then this pursuit, and this history thats landed her where she was in the free cities. she's going back for herself, and that comes from what happened to her family, which is what i meant by her honoring their house. but she's not so honor driven -

idk if you had a next part of the ask?? But I’m gonna go with no bc it’s been a bit of time lmao. SO ONWARDS I know I keep saying “that’s interesting” lmao but it really is. I actually didn’t even know there was a Targbowl theory (#Cleganebowl for life) but ughhh that’s a possibility too. I don’t really have many ideas on how the show would end (I mean, my ideal ruling-wise is the throne being useless but that..probably won’t happen) so it’s always cool hearing these different options.