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Two episodes ago,Snow white and the seven dwarfs porn movie the Stark sisters reunion finally came to pass when Arya showed up at Winterfell. There were hugs and smiles and bittersweet conversations reminiscing about better times. If it wasn't everything we wanted, it was, at least, a promising start.

Then, this week, things got awkward. And sinister.

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In Sunday's episode, Arya confronted Sansa with a note she'd found in Littlefinger's room – a letter that the elder Stark had written under duress from the Lannisters back in Season 1. Sansa tried to explain that she was just a scared, confused child who didn't see any other choice, but Arya wasn't having it.

Instead, Arya flung accusations and taunts. Later, she terrified Sansa so badly that we, in the audience, were meant to wonder if Arya would actually be capable of murdering her own sister.

It was frustrating, infuriating, and a little bit heartbreaking, all at once. And that's why it's perfect.

Arya's story is one of tragedy and cruelty, not justice and triumph

Up until now, Game of Throneshasn't really reckoned with the fact that one of its "heroes" is a teenaged killer, and we in the audience haven't exactly been clamoring for them to. It's just so satisfyingto watch Arya cut down her enemies, especially while the rest of her family is out there getting raped and murdered and otherwise treated horrifically.

However, it's worth considering how Arya got so good at this. The sweet little girl we met in Season 1 would never have been capable of slaughtering an entire family over dinner, as Arya did at the start of Season 7.

But that sweet little girl has been through a lot in between: getting captured by Lannister soldiers, the Brotherhood Without Banners, and Sandor Clegane; and then training with an order of mystical assassins across the Narrow Sea. With each new chapter of her life, she's grown harder, more cynical, and better at killing. By now, she's a cold-blooded killer who takes pleasure in butchering men to feed them to their father.

Set aside, for a second, whether the Freys deserved what they got. Or that the good guys in this story, like Jon Snow, have probably killed more men on the battlefield than Arya has in all her travels. Just think about how fucked upa person has to be to carry out a murder plan that involved, that intricate, that grisly, and have a great time doing it.

Arya's not a knight or a superhero – she's a serial killer, and she's been heading down that path for a while now.

How Game of Thrones has forced us to see Arya in a new light

The difference now is that Arya's return to the fold has made us see her in a different light. Initially, her return felt triumphant. We, like Arya, have long craved revenge for the Red Wedding, and Arya served it up with a side of poetic justice.

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But avenging one's family is one thing. Trying to live with them is another, as Arya learns in her reunion with Sansa.

The Stark sisters have never really gotten along, and in the context of everything Arya's been through, her distrust of Sansa makes sense. In their time apart, both Stark sisters have learned over and over that the world is cruel and people are untrustworthy, and both Stark sisters have responded by trying to take greater control of their own fates.

For Sansa, that means political maneuvering. Forced to live with Cersei and Littlefinger, she's learned to play the game the way they do, and the way her own father never could. For Arya, whose journey has been spent with rogues and assassins, that means killing anyone who's ever crossed her, or anyone who might.

Arya's brand of violent vigilantism looked just fine when she off in the wilds, killing people like Polliver and Meryn Trant. It looks a whole lot different now that she's in Winterfell and threatening to cast her mortal judgment on people like Sansa.

It forces us to see what Arya's really become: a pint-sized murderer with a Rorschacian worldview. Arya's perspective doesn't allow for gray areas or mitigating circumstances. Except, tellingly, when it comes to herself.

When Sansa points out that Arya also failed to save Ned Stark, Arya shoots back, "But I wanted to!" It's a childish retort that does neither Stark sister or their dearly departed any good – and Arya seems painfully aware of this. In that moment, the hardened killer melts away and we see a flash of raw pain on Maisie Williams' face: Arya still regrets what she couldn't prevent.

(Arya also conveniently forgets to mention that she spent several episodes hanging out with Tywin Lannister and definitely not killing him – which, by her own twisted logic, makes her as complicit in the Red Wedding as Sansa was in Ned's beheading.)

But Arya quickly reverts to her hardened state, taunting Sansa and issuing barely-veiled threats. Arya now presents a danger to the family she loved, the family she's spent the past several years avenging. Her callousness is upsetting not because it's out of character, but because it isn't. Nothing in Arya's recent history has prepared her to settle down in relative peace, to empathize with Sansa's sufferings, to grit her teeth and forgive and forget.

Can Arya still be saved?

Just because Arya's story is a sad one, though, doesn't mean it needs to stay that way.

Even as Game of Throneshas shown us the depths of Arya's cruelty, it's taken care to remind us that she's still capable of warmth and connection. Just see her happy reunion with Hot Pie – or, even more significantly, her encounter with a group of Lannister soldiers in the season premiere.

The scene was a shockingly unusual one for Game of Thrones, not because it was so brutal but because it was so nice. Nothing bad happened at all to anyone (well, unless you consider Ed Sheeran's singing an assault on the senses, which some people apparently do). The men offer food and drink to Arya and she accepts, enjoying their company before everyone goes on their merry way.

It's not necessarily the choice that comes naturally to Arya. We see in her expression that she's wary of them, and perhaps that she's already considered killing them all and taking their stuff. That would be the obvious thing to do: they are Lannister soldiers, after all, and moreover they're Lannister soldiers dumb enough to let their guards down in front of a stranger in the woods.

But she doesn't, and for a brief, bittersweet moment, we get to see the happy, normal girl that Arya might have become if Ned had survived.

We've seen Arya put on many different personas over the years, and she's only gotten better at it through her training as a Faceless Man. But this feels different. For once, she's not putting on a mask because she needs to cheat death or deal it out. All she gets out of it is a fleeting moment of companionship, and that, in itself, is a welcome reminder that the human part of her isn't dead.

In that same episode where Arya meets Ed Sheeran, the Hound returns to a farmhouse that he and Arya visited long ago, and is forced to reckon with the sins he committed there. Instead of shrugging off his own cruelty, as he did back then, he buries the dead and offers an apology of sorts.

If Arya's former captor, formerly known as one of the most ruthless killers in the Seven Kingdoms, can find his way to redemption, maybe there's hope for Arya, too. Maybe now that we've seen what she is, she'll see what she is, and begin the hard work of saving her own soul.

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