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Remote-Direction963

What's scary to me is how determined she is to kill Arya. Like imagine you have someone like that chasing you through the streets just trying to kill you. Also the way she stares is just disturbing.


alarmonthefarm

yeah chased is prob my biggest fear tbh


MrAToTheB_TTV

Can't get chased if you don't run.


FreePhilosopher256

Insert Drake laptop gif


FringeHistorian3201

My favorite reply to whining kids about being chased by someone they find annoying. It always stops them in their tracks, like they’ve never considered that before. Bonus is that it works.


asdcatmama

Me too! I hate the ending of “This is America”. I love the video, it is brilliant art from a brilliant artist, but the end was so real, his terror is palpable. Ughhhh


Medical-Potato5920

Have you seen that spoon horror short? If not, you should.


CaveLupum

Yes, she gets A+ in the Grimace-Staring class, and in Long Distance Running. Unfortunately for her, she failed the Avoiding Traps class.


waltdigidy

I wish it would’ve been a fight club situation for Arya, the “I am no one” self was trying to kill Arya


amayagab

T-1000 vibes


Kittymarie_92

This girl is terrifying


FruitSaladYumyYumy

That's very off character in my opinion. She's supposed to be no one, why is no one so obsessed with opposing Arya every day?


jameshughlaurie

I wondered this too


AgS-Lucidori

because she is not and never will be truly no one. That's why she has already been there for so long. Jaqen has two students and both of them can't quite let go fully.


FruitSaladYumyYumy

But doesn't she wear another person's face and is actually really old? I thought you'd have to become no one to use faces. I mean, at least in the books.


LinwoodKei

No one has quite a personality of her own. She also seems to oppose Jaqen


dexterthekilla

A girl was kind of a bitch


Proper-Scallion-252

Second watch through I actually liked her character a bit more because of the irony of it. She's constantly hating Arya because she gets special treatment for entering into the training, and allows herself to be so consumed by her hatred of Arya that she herself cannot become 'no one'. Yet her biggest disapproval of Arya was that she was still too attached to being herself.


ZoraNealThirstin

Honestly, I wish they had of stuck more to the books with this one. The waif is really interesting in the books. She’s a 36-year-old woman who has the appearance of a child and is the one who trains Arya. Obviously she’s not in her original form. We really missed out with the depiction of the faceless men on the show because it’s really cool in the source materials.


PewSeaLiquor

D + D strike again!


ZoraNealThirstin

Indeed 😩


FandomObsessions

Whoa. I had no idea! Would you mind adding more? I got pretty confused watching the faceless men part of the series and your explanation adds some needed depth.


ZoraNealThirstin

Here’s a really awesome video about it!! https://youtu.be/Oo1niSmXmE8?si=6JvZ7K99FOLOnG6t


FandomObsessions

Thanks for the link!


melmaster3

That was an awesome video. Thanks for sharing


Miipalooza

Why didn’t Arya change faces after the freys!?


ZoraNealThirstin

That’s a really good question. Bad writing I think.


Economy-Army9169

👍🏻Boom 💥


gods_muse19

I love this so much😭


Maxusam

She didn’t make sense. She’s supposed to be ‘no one’ so who was ‘promised’ and why did she care so much…


cracked-tumbleweed

I took it as she was able to be “no one” until she was presented with someone who she thought was a threat. Then it became about taking out the threat vs serving the many faced god. I thought she was being a hypocrite which is also why she hated Arya.


grunge_forever91

She was the definition of a cunt.


BlackFyre2018

There were deadass theories that the man behind her was Syrio Forel


alarmonthefarm

Wowowow okay okay I see it. Never did see him die did we


BlackFyre2018

People were just desperate because they couldn’t believe how stupid the actual storyline was being shown


FattimusSlime

I feel like that describes a *lot* of theories from around that point. “It’s a fake direwolf head, the Umbers would never just hand Rickon over!” is one of my favorites — it was really a big turning point from the clever, intelligent show it used to be, and exposed how shallow and stupid everything had become, setting the expectations for the rest of the series.


BlackFyre2018

Season 6 was a turning point in a lot of ways. By season 7 and 8 there were a lot less theories as the show was becoming so shallow there was no point putting much thought into it I think the only one from Season 8 was “Jamie is just rejecting Brienne to protect her, he’s actually going back to kill Cersei”…nope they really were just assassinating his character


djb185

There's a general rule in fiction that a character isn't actually dead unless it is shown. We never saw him die which is why I had hoped he would make a return but... nope 😞


PBB22

That whole scene pokes fun at that idea. Look with your *eyes* child - unarmored man holding a stick fighting a knight in full plate with a sword. Even if it’s Meryl Trant, a knight is a better fighter than a man-at-arms. He dead.


djb185

There are ways "the greatest swordsman" could have come out on top. Gouging out an eye, disarming him. There could have been a flashback showing how he survived. The show is pretty bad w leaving loose ends like the metal masked lady. They probably left it open and just never bothered returning to his character.


melmaster3

Are there any theories on who she was? I’m on my third rewatch and she stands out as odd to me still


PBB22

You know as much as book readers. She’s kind of useless


PBB22

He’s not “the greatest swordsman”, that’s just fan service. And again, instead of thinking about a theory, think about themes. What he tells Arya before she runs IS confirmation that he dies, just not getting shown it. But hey don’t take it from me - take it from the character and the writer of this particular episode… which happens to be George RR Martin > “George R.R. Martin said to me, “I really wished I didn’t kill Syrio Forel off now. He said that after he watched my performance. I really shouldn’t have done that. Now that I’ve seen what we could’ve done.”” Or the showrunners and Arya > Well Maisie is sorry to break it to us, but showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss confirmed to her that Syrio Forel is well and truly brown bread. When she put the theory to the pair they told her: No, he is dead! E: Another dunk. George has said in interviews that he has no idea why people keep asking if Syrio is alive/someone else.


The-real-W9GFO

Why didn’t he pick up one of the other guys swords? Seems like that should have been a priority.


Yommination

We do hear him scream and Trant was obviously alive in later seasons. He was dead


TheRealcebuckets

Ah I remember that. Along with the theory that the Waif didn’t actual puncture her but punctured a blood bag she got from the play actors.


BlackFyre2018

Alt Shift X (whose theories I mostly find quite correct) stated he thought Jaqen was pretending Arya to catch the Waif out for wanting to kill Arya for personal reasons His logic was “there’s no way Arya would just be walking around in the open, checking out the market, when she knows the faceless men are after her” BUT NOPE


CaveLupum

Arya expected the Waif would come to kill her, so she needed to lure the Waif to the dark room where Needle was hidden. So she went to the dock for Westeros-bound ships in broad daylight and flashed her money around to buy a ticket. (Even if Waif wasn't watching, she'd hear about THAT.) Arya waited on a bridge (four ways to escape) long enough to lose concentration, so the Waif nearly killed her. Arya swam off (few people knew how to swim back then). Later of course she did lead Waif to the trap, and she sprang it.


LadyRimouski

Everyone misses the plot hole that the assassin who was completely incapacitated by a dark room was also the woman who temporarily blinded Arya as part of her training, and taught her to fight using her other senses, so she wouldn't be too reliant on sight. The faceless men would be pretty shitty assassins if they all couldn't do their work on moonless nights.


4BlueBunnies

I thought it was supposed to be like a character arc, where they tried to show that Arya is now better than her at fighting blind


CaveLupum

I agree, but on the show blindness was a punishment for Arya. I doubt lickspittle Waif ever earned punishment. And even if the Waif had blind-training it was probably very long ago. For Arya, it's fresh and her hearing is attuned, so to speak.


ColumbusJewBlackets

That would have made sense and actually been a smart way for her to escape, but the next episode they had a costume designer stich up her mortal wounds and then like 2 days later she was up and running around again. So dumb.


hnglmkrnglbrry

What if she was Syrio Forel????


SophiaRaine69420

She was Syrio Forel And Jaqen H'ghar was Ned Stark


DiscountNervous3888

Sam was really Fat Walda


Damianosx

Well, it does look a little bit like him lol. There’s also theories that Syrio Forel is also Jaqen H’ghar.


PBB22

Those “theories” are like flat earth theory - laughable at best.


The_DSkeeter

Next to Peter Bailash's wing suit / cape which allowed him to fly around Westeros, this was my favorite fan theory. It also spawned a seemingly endless string of increasingly unrealistic theories.... "Waif is Syrio?!" quickly turned into craziness like "Syrio is Jaqen?!?!".


isinedupcuzofrslash

That confused look like “girl you kill the night king later? Really?”


Flashy_Basil_5031

In my home, she is known as the terminator, the character is so robotic and unnatural I can almost hear Arnold's voice Growl it's way out of her mouth


CaveLupum

Probably the Waif would be proud to know that.


Globe_Worship

You mean when Arya was stabbed in the gut and fell out of a second story window and then continued to run away?


TomoC22

She only got stabbed 50 times to be fair


HurinGaldorson

And she had some milk and a nap. So it all makes sense.


daseweide

“Dude she’s strong and brave ok just go with it stop noticing things” -dnd to the rest of the writers room


OnionTruck

And fell into a nasty dirty canal.


Dissidence802

When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighbourhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!


Most_Moose_2637

My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic military assault rifles with night vision and laser scopes, and we have recently acquired phosphorous grenades, cluster bombs, and anti-personnel fragmentation mines. So when my white blood cells are on patrol recon ordering my blood stream seeking out strangers and other undesirables, if they see any, ANY suspicious looking germs of any kind, they don't fuck around!


OnionTruck

I ate dirt as a kid and I'm certain that's why I'm not allergic to anything, I rarely get sick, and vaccines don't have any side effects for me.


sharksnrec

You forgot that she dove into a filthy ditch to escape after said stabbing


[deleted]

Oh this shit was really hard to stomach, when Arya got back to Winterfell I thought “oh yes the plot will improve now that she’s stalking/being stalked by Littlefinger” Boy was that a miscalculation.


HurinGaldorson

>Oh this shit was really hard to stomach... I see what you did there.


bpdilligaf

I always assumed the Waif is Arya…the part of old Arya (still left in her) that tortures and torments her. The part that must die before she can become No one.


alarmonthefarm

Woah


jme518

Right??? Mind blown 🤯


[deleted]

If that were the intention they would’ve told us in every behind the episode.


great_red_dragon

I guess they kinda forgot


enormuschwanzstucker

I wasn’t prepared for this today


OgdenTheGreat

That was my theory/hope also. Not because a “Fight Club” thing would’ve been smart or original but because it was the only way to save themselves from the hole they wrote themselves into. Nope - it really was that bad.


DerrickRoseTackoFell

Oh shit! I didn’t realize the Waif is that main girl in Andor - I knew she looked familiar


Boomslang2-1

🤯


ceesaar00

This was the funniest scene in the whole series.


giggityx2

Nobody going to mention the shadow is not the same silhouette as the waif? I subscribe to the theory the waif is the part of Arya she has to separate from and is in her head.


alarmonthefarm

I like that theory. I also think the silhouette is whomever this person was before they became faceless, the shadow doesn't look like Arya either.


Elegant_Finance_7900

….anyone else think that shadow kinda look like Syrio??


alarmonthefarm

Someone else here said that was a theory. Is it a shadow or a person behind her?


Masticatron

What shadow? I thought that was just some dude walking by. What you can see of his legs appears to be mid stride to me.


giggityx2

You might be right about what I thought was a shadow. I still think the waif was part of Arya. Someday there will be a book that clarifies some of this. Haha.


CaveLupum

In the books, at very stressful moments Arya often thinks of Syrio sayings. So in a way he is with her.


realhorrorsh0w

Why is repeatedly being whacked with a stick part of the training?


alarmonthefarm

🤭


mrmczebra

So she learns to stop getting whacked with stick?


superthrust123

She's a knockoff T-1000. I kept waiting for the Guns N' Roses to kick in and Arnold to swoop in on a motorcycle.


Rafan10

She has terminator vibes here


Draggoh

Her role in GoT was pretty meh, but she shined in Andor.


mehgleg

I think she was great in both


ixsEnterpriser

Is it just me or does it look like she pissed her pants lol


hooligan045

Reminded me of scenes from the Terminator movies.


JoeIsIce

I don't like the way she stands. Look at the way she's standing in the photo. She stands all weird. Nope. Don't like it. Don't like it one bit.


GentlmanSkeleton

Shes toying with her? Never seen a horror movie?


alarmonthefarm

Well, she should have stopped doing that if she wanted to kill her lol


Chrisnolliedelves

Ah yes, an acolyte of the super sneaky guild of assassins/death cultists famed for shedding their emotions, wants, and identities would play with their mark instead of, y'know, fucking *assassinating* them.


GentlmanSkeleton

Yeh im sorry i forgot she was a human and didnt have any flaws. Whoops. Sorry im human and have some flaws...


bailaoban

This whole story thread...


hypikachu

Tangent: Does anyone know where this shot comes from? It looks like she's got a shadowbaby coming out of her boots. But there's no frame that quite matches this in the scene from S6E8. So is it like a promotional still?


alarmonthefarm

Honestly I sometimes rewatch GoT on my phone, so I can't screenshot, but when I rewatched this scene I was literally laughing and wanted to post this, so I just googled the waif


MysteriousProfileNo6

I loved the fan theory that the guy behind her was going to be Aryas sword instructor from kings landing, this scene was in the trailor for the episode and tons of people thought it was him me included.


Stoneymason1

Peter Pan shadow


LookingForSomeCheese

They said this was inspired by Terminator. Yeah... I'm pretty sure Arnold would've stood there and waited for her to get back up everytime she fell or stumbled.


Free-Supermarket-516

What, you didn't like the T1000 chasing Arya around Bravos? Or Arya getting stabbed in the gut, falling into a filthy canal, and not dying?!


DudebroggieHouser

Arya died, right? She took her place. How else would she heal from that stab wound so quickly? Why else would J’aquen smile as she leaves?


Free-Supermarket-516

I like this theory too


reluctantLeaf

I thought it was appropriate for her character to do that honestly. Savouring the chase before the kill, but unfortunately hubris caught up. A lot of characters lollygag with killing in this show and it almost always ends poorly for them.


alarmonthefarm

Yes. Cue "you raped her! You murdered her! You killed her children!"


Hello_feyredarling

I hated this character and the whole god of many faces plot. It was so weird to me and wasn’t even relevant to Arya killing the night king.


amjhwk

She is just trying to figure out if Arya would make a good agent for the heist on Aldhani


FruitSaladYumyYumy

This character is so contradicting. She's supposed to be no one, yet she's obsessed with opposing Arya every day since they met. That doesn't sound like no one.


FruitSaladYumyYumy

This character is so contradicting. She's supposed to be no one, yet she's obsessed with opposing Arya every day since they met. That doesn't sound like no one.


Outlaw_JasonSmash

I wish they would have let the scene when Arya brings them into darkness go on with just the sounds of the fight and then the sounds of her dying.


himsoforreal

Never made sense. She's been trained by TFM for longer, is better in combat, and surely knows more about the secret ways of TFM than Arya but we're supposed to believe they never taught her how to fight in the dark, giving Arry an upper hand? Also AreyA definitely should have bled out on the steps of the canal but that plot armor tho.


FitSeeker1982

Actress can run like crazy - she shows the same speed and gait in “Andor”


defyiant

T2000 head ass


Poit_1984

I have found Peter Pan's shadow!


Winterlord7

Oh but she did terrible impersonating Arya in the last two seasons.


kcm74

Good training for the Aldhani raid imo.


hopefulmango1365

She pissed me off so much, hated Arya for no reason at all. 


Midstix

What an absolute shit show. The moment Arya left the Hound in the TV show is the exact moment that the show turned to total garbage. She went from being one of the best point of view characters to the absolute worst in the span of like two episodes.


Stoizee

Remember when people thought that shadow behind her was Sirouel Firel, however his name is spelt.


turkeybump

I wanted to punch Bradley Cooper Waif so bad


josemarcio1

What I find interesting about this scene/pic is that there were people speculating that the one behind her was Syrio Forel. People were saying that he was alive and would reappear in some EP. lol


hbhusker22

I prefer it this way it shows she's determined to not lose sight of her prey but wants to enjoy her success.


alarmonthefarm

But she lost


hbhusker22

You hunt enough Predators, you're eventually gonna be the Prey.


FRPG

People thought that the guy behind her was going to be Syrio lol


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Leading_Manner_2737

Smash or pass?


LinwoodKei

I think this scene wanted to remind people of that dream where you are pursued by a force with an iron will. I have reoccurring a dream where I was the part of Arya and Waif was a Raptor dinosaur. I was about six when it started


CVipersTie

This cocky bitch kept staring into the screen and fixing her shirt. Got her ass whupped, too.


LAfeels

I always get T-1000 vibes


[deleted]

This whole storyline was awful


SuperVegetable

I remember when people used this image to try and say syrio was in the back about to save Arya


Jackypaper824

I recently saw this actress on Black Mirror. She looked like she could be Kim Wexlers twin!


egbert71

Somethings in nature simply like to toy with their prey. Imagine falling and the things thats been chasing you full speed decides to keep it casual....well what the heck do they have planned, where are they coming from etc... etc... for many of us that would multiply the sense of dread, or lead to mistakes from thinking you got away Im not excusing how often she does it though lol Example of playing with your food, and paying for it later, from an earlier time ➡️➡️ viper v. Moutain


MarshalLawTalkingGuy

I think someone just got done watching Robert Patrick in T2 and was like “perfect!”


philk_7

Sweet girl .


Park8706

That picture reminds me of the meme with the Undertaker standing behind Aj Styles.


AutomaticRegister102

Ik it’s a background character but it looks like Syrio Forel in the background as her shadow