Arya Stark [Finished]
Jun 6, 2013 5:36:14 GMT
Post by Arya Stark on Jun 6, 2013 5:36:14 GMT
Name: Arya Stark
Age: Twelve
Place of Birth: Winterfell
Current Place of Residence: On The Run
House: Stark
Family:
Eddard Stark - Father, Deceased
Catelyn Tully-Stark - Mother
Robb Stark - Older Brother
Jon Snow - Older Half-Brother
Sansa Stark - Older Sister
Bran Stark - Younger Brother
Rickon Stark - Younger Brother
Brandon Stark - Uncle, Deceased
Lyanna Stark - Aunt, Deceased
Benjen Stark - Uncle
Appearance:
Garb: Her attire, although once consisted of lightly colored dresses and fine gowns (despite her distaste for them), have been replaced with dark, common clothes of poor craftsmanship.
They consist of dark pants which must be tied with a string around her waist to hold them up, and a dirty white-cream colored shirt which sleeves which reach down to her wrists. Over top, she wears a brown lather jacket, fastened by a few buttons and held together in place with another leather belt. Although being slightly big on her, it hides her small size well.
Height: 4'8"
Weight: 98 lbs
Personality: Despite her young age, Ayra has many sides to her personality, and most opposite to what a daughter of a Lord of Winterfell should be. From a young age she has been rebellious and obsessed with activities fit for a lord, rather than a lady, and a heavy dislike for all things girly. Because of this she often got herself into trouble, which only seemed to escalate with her harsh words of honesty and the inability to hold her tongue.
Yet despite her rebellious nature, Arya was a caring girl who loved her family deeply and was hurt easier than she often let show, feeling the pressure to measure up to (in her eyes) her perfect older sister. Because of this, and her choice in activities, Arya has often felt like the 'odd one out' which strengthened her bond with her half brother, Jon Snow.
The feeling of loneliness only seemed to grow in her heart after their move to King's Landing, where the young girl began to learn the value of silence and how to keep her opinions unspoken to avoid causing pain to those she loved, or getting into trouble. Yet all which was once the wild and free spirit of the young Winterfell lady seemed to shatter the day she watched her father's beheading, and the day her life fell into darkness.
Arya was always a cleaver girl, yet it never seemed as important as the small trait became when she began her journey back to Winterfell. Needing to pretend that she was a boy seemed to make matters simpler as she could finally act the way she always did without being questioned. This, despite the situation she was in, helped lift her spirits and the wise words of those who care for her gave her strength to undertake this dangerous task.
Arya turned from her rebellious, wild and childish self, to a silent, careful and strong minded girl, being forced to mature far too early in her life. Events in her life which followed the tragic death of her father and the fall of her family caused Arya's hatred to grow, filling her lust for blood and the sweet taste of revenge upon those who had harmed her loved ones. This lust for revenge was the key which drove Ayra into becoming capable of taking one's life without the weight of regret falling upon her shoulders.
However, despite all the darkness which looms over her shattered soul, Arya still yearns for the love of her family and the warmth of friendship. Often upon first meet, the young girl appears shy and silent, never knowing who she can and cannot trust, avoiding the risk of exposing her true identity. Despite having learned the dire importance of keeping her opinions to herself, when asked a question her replies are often cleaver and brutally honest, yet in a way to avoid getting herself into trouble.
Being forced to hide her identity, Arya has learned the true meaning of trust, and seldom finds it within someone. However, once that trust is established, she is a loyal ally and will do all in her might to land a helping hand. It is only to those who earn her friendship that Ayra allows some of her old self to shine through the hardened shell she had to place around herself. Her wild actions and reckless, yet brave, behavior often surprises and shocks her friends.
Despite having her own dreams and desires of becoming a great assassin like the Faceless Man who has helped, Arya's loyalty remains with her family, and her selflessness shines through as her determination to find her family grows. Because of this, Ayra is foreseen as stubborn and at times reckless.
Likes:
- Forel
- Jon Snow
- Wolves
- Cats
- Swords/Knives
Dislikes:
- Anyone who harms the Stark family
- Joffery
- The Queen
Weapons: Needle - A small and slender sword that her half brother gave to her.
Armour: N/A
Skills:
Arya's height and petite figure give her the edge of stealth. Despite lacking the strength of a grown man, Arya has learned to become a graceful fighter using the water dancer technique taught to her by Syro Forel, a man of Essoss. She has learned to adapt this technique to the few swords skills she has picked up while watching fights during her 'captivity'.
Despite lacking the skills and knowledge a Princess should possess, Arya has learned to be well skilled with other weapons apart from a sword such as bow and arrows.
Weaknesses: Physically, the young girl's weaknesses lie in her small height and lack of strength in her delicate arms. She is fragile, regardless of the facade she tries to put on, and unaware of the torment brought upon by physical pain of torture which many of the men know.
Emotionally, Arya is near blinded by her will to be reunited with her family. Her determination often leads to reckless behavior which can lead to dangerous situations, costing someone's life. Being forced to cast away her childhood so early in life has also left an invisible scar upon her heart.
Despite never caring much for the teachings, Arya yearns for the freedom she once had. To so carelessly and innocently explore the world and share the experience with her family. Instead, she is haunted by the horrific images of the past, her father's beheading often leading to sleepless nights and fogged from exhaustion mind.
History:
Childhood in Winterfell
Arya is the youngest daughter and third child of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark, head of House Stark and Warden of the North. She was born soon after Eddard Stark's return from the Greyjoy Rebellion and raised at Winterfell. Arya has an older brother, Robb, and an older sister Sansa. She also has two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, and a bastard half-brother Jon Snow who falls close to Robb's age.
In her nine years, she has quickly shown herself to be an independent and wild-spirited girl. Unlike her sister, she rejects the notion that she must become a lady and marry for influence and power, showing no interest in the womanly arts of dancing, singing, and sewing; instead she revels in fighting and exploring, to the bemusement of her tutor Septa Mordane and parents. Because of this, Arya often found herself in trouble and mocked by her sister and younger brothers. Unlike her sister, however, her two younger brothers were jealous of her fighting and shooting skills which they had yet not mastered, being frowned down upon by her sister who yearned to become the Lady she was being trained to be.
Being the wild spirit that she was, Ayra often went out to explore Winterfell and the surrounding woods, similarly to Bran's love for climbing the tallest walls of the castle. The routine soon however seized when her older brothers and father came across a litter of pups. These weren't ordinary pups however, but the young of a Dire wolf, the proud animal faced upon the Stark Crest. Coincidently, there were enough pups for each of the children to take one, including an all white wolf for her half-brother; her best friend.
Arya named her pup Nymeria, after the legendary Queen of the Rhoynar (a culture of river-faring people who dwelt on the banks of River Rhoyne in Essos). Like the other children, Arya kept Nymeria as close to herself as possible, even allowing the quickly growing pup to sleep at the foot of her bed. She tried to train Nymeria and succeeded on many occasions, although like her stubborn owner, Nymeria refused to follow her orders around others, making Arya look foolish.
Her life began to spiral out of control with the unwanted visit of King Robb Barathion and his wife and children to the Northan Lands. Arya, like many of the other Starks, did not seem to get along with the other children very well aside from Sensa who found love with Prince Joffery. It was not long after their arrival, on one of the Kings private hunts, that her father late Eddard (Ned) Stark, was named Hand of the King.
Despite disagreements between her parents, Ned had no choice but to accept the offer and travel down to King's Landing.
King's Landing
The road to King's Landing was a long and tiresome one, but Ayra did not mind. She found a friend in a peasant boy named Mycah whom which they would often play swords together. Her sister often disliked the dirty which covered Ayra's face and clothes from all the tumbles she took while play fighting with her new friends, trying to find a brighter side to this gloomy journey.
It was then, when Mycah and herself were plying battle in the woods while the others took rest along the King's Road that Sansa and Prince Joffrey stumbled across the two playing youngsters. Joffrey finds amusement that a princess would find enjoyment out of playing with peasants and took it upon himself to teach the young boy the proper way to fight. Joffrey took out his own sword and forced Mycah into battling him with the stick he had moments ago pretended was a sword with young Ayra. It didn't take long before the young boy was hurt, and Ayra could not stand back and let the Prince do this to her friend. Fighting him back, Joffrey pushed Ayra to the ground and before anyone knew what was happening Nymeria bit the prince on the arm as Ayra got to her feet.
As Joffrey ran back to camp, Arya knew that Nymeria would most likely be killed in retribution, her and Jory Cassel chase the wolf away forcing her to run off and saving her life from the cruelty of the punishment.
Ayra was brought before King Robert who forced Eddard to handle the punishment himself, yet Queen Cesei was not satisfied with the choice and ordered Sansa's dire wolf, Lady, to be killed in the place of the wolf which ran away. Like the wolf, the young Mycah had also fled the camp in fear for his life, yet it did him no good. Joffery ordered the Hound to find and kill the boy. Ayra saw the boy's lifeless body that night and the first spark of hatred towards the Lannisterd was ignited within her soul.
The journey to King's Landing after that was even more painful, the loss of the dire wolves grew heavy upon the hearts of the children, and where Sensa found strength in her Prince, Ayra's hatred grew. She began hating Sansa for not standing up for her when Ayra told her side of the story, instead remained silent so not to upset her new Prince. This lead to a fight early on in their stay at King's Landing where Ayra admitted her hatred towards her sister and her nany, before running off to her chamber.
Ned found her there, calming down his daughter until he stumbled upon her sword. Realizing that despite his word against her fighting, Ayra still did as she pleased, Ned decided to allow her to learn.
He called upon Syrio Forel, a celebrated swordsman from Braavosi to teach his daughter the proper way to handle a blade. Under his strict yet crative, tutelge, Ayra learnt to fight in the Braavosi style of Water Dancing with Needle. Most of her days became consumed with swordplay exercises with Forel's instructions and balancing training he had set out for her.
It was during one of the tasks set out for her by her trainer, that Ayra found her way into the secret passage of the castle where the skulls of the dragons were kept. Amazed by the discovery and feeling the same burning excitement and curiosity once more flowing through her veins, Ayra followed the passage until she heard the voices of two men speaking of Ned Stark, Cersei and Varys' spies.
When her father was taken into the dungeons and her mother returned to the North, Ayra managed to escape the purge of Starks from the Red Keep when Syrio realised that the Lannister guardsmen were not sent there by her father as claimed, holding off Arya's attackers with sword's practice to give her a chance to escape. She done using the passage she found earlier, but was unable to escape the city since the gates were heavily guarded. Instead, she lived on the streets of Flea Bottom, chasing pigeons and rats to exchange for food until the day of her father's public execution. Following the crowd to the place of execution she was found by Yoren of the Night's Watch who recognized her and promised to take her back to Winterfell as one of the boys for the Night's Watch. He tried to save her eyes from the sight of her father's execution, yet despite his attempts, and unknown to him, she witnessed the deed.
Journey Home
Yoren shaved Arya's head and forced her to take on the identity of Arry, a boy recruit traveling with Yoren and his party of Night's Watch recruits to the Wall. It is there when she met her friends Gendry and Hot Pie. She keeps her identity secret from them for the time being, until her friendship with Gendry, the Smith's Apprentice, grows stronger. After a while she lets him know her true identity and he helps to keep it safe from the other man. Their journey was going well until they reached the deserted town near the God's Eye lake where they were attacked by raiders led by Ser Amory Lorch. Ayra, Gendry and Hot Pie are one of the few who escaped alive. Before saving their own lives, however, Ayra freed three prisoners of the Night's Watch: Jaquen h'ghar, Rorge and Biter.
Heading out with the survivors, they were captured by Ser Gregor and his men in the next town, where they were held for a period of eight days, while the Tickler questioned the villagers through torture. Their stay as toys for the Tickler was cut short when Tywin Lannister joined the Keep. He saw past her disguise as a boy, and unknowing to her identity, named her his servant. During their stay, Jaquen offers Ayra three names which he would take from the Red God in exchange for the three lives she had saved.
Firstly she named the Tickler, while beginning to form her own Hit List of the names of people she wished to take revenge upon, chanting their names before falling asleep each night. Seeing how subtle the kill on the Tickler had been, Ayra questioned Jaqen about his technique yet he would not say. Arya continued to serve Tywin Lannister, occasionally sharing a conversation with the Lord. Despite a few slip ups in the conversation, and Tywin's curiosity growing, Arya was quick on her feet to explain herself, never giving the Lord more doubt than needed. It was through this service that Ayra learnt of the Lannister's plan to attack her brother's army. One of the guard's man caught her trying to reach a raven, stealing the note she had ready to send to her brother. Frightened, she ran to Jaquen and spoke the second name. Like before, there was no trace of the killer, yet this time the guards were on alarm. She realized that she had to get out of there and warn her brother. Yet there was no way that she and her friends could escape on their own, and went to Jaquen one last time.
This time the name she gave shocked him to the core as she spoke his own name. Begging her to un-name him, Ayra swears to do so, if he promises to help her and her friends escape. He does so, telling her to walk out of the main gates by exactly mid-night that night. Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie did as they were told, seeing guards at the gate yet walking out none the less. It wasn't until they were passing the bodies that they discovered they were dead, hanged on poles to appear as if guarding the gate.
The three journeyed down the road for the rest of the night without seeing a single soul. Ayra was upset that she did not get to say goodbye to Jaqen, but alas upon morning they noticed him following them upon the cliffs. Arya goes to meet him on her own where she admits to wanting to learn the ways of the assassin. Given the option to go with him to Braavos, Arya decided to remain in Westeros until she found her family. In response, Jaqen gave her a coin to - when the day came - help her find him in Braavos.
Changing his face before her eyes, Jaqen left to take names for the Red God, while Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie continued their way towards the Wall and Winterfell.
RP Sample:
The night was getting colder by each passing day. It wasn't by much but you could easily tell if you stood outside long enough. Winter was coming. Arya Stark laid on the cold hard ground, her eyes starring at the dying fire that the Hound had started hours ago; they were coals now. A soft sigh escaped her lips as she glanced over towards the general direction of The Hound. Knowing that he had fallen asleep put her to rest. She had to keep her guard up for she had not a single clue what would be happening to her at any given moment.
The Hound was strange in her eyes. He had seemed heartless, she had witness him kill a baby and laugh about it. Yet here he was, helping her to return to her family. Why? She pondered that question daily. Turning her body so that her eyes were starring at the black starry sky, Arya couldn't help but to start her prayer.
"Joffery..." She had whispered softly into the air to her one god, Death. The picture of the blonde haired man appeared in her mind. The image of him ordering her father's execution played in her head. Even though she had not watched the actual execution she could still imagine what it was like. King Joffery, Queen Cersei and her sister standing there and watching. It had sickened her. Arya had never truly hated someone so much to make her blood boil under her skin. She had hoped and prayed every night that one day someone will kill King Joffery.
"Queen Cersei...Ilyn Payne..." She had continued, each of their faces appearing in her mind, disgust and hatred filling her body as she continued to think of them. "The Hou-" She had started to say but for some instance she could not finish his name. Even if he was a cold hearted killer, he is getting her to her family. The family she had missed greatly. 'Is that enough to fix his sins for me?' Arya asked herself as she studied the stars from above. "Valar morghulis." She had whispered as she laid back on her side.
In the end she could not finish saying The Hound's name. She was unsure if he was cleared of his sins from her mind. Maybe reuniting her to her family was enough for him not to be killed. A tiny spec of trust was arousing from her for The Hound. Maybe it was a dumb idea to think, but for now she would keep her guard up. She was not afraid of him, she knew that any once of fear inside of her could kill her. Anyone can be killed, especially if there is fear. After all, fear cuts deeper than swords.
++OOC Info++
Player: Kennedy
Other characters played: N/A
Any plans in mind for the character? Maybe try to re-unit with Jon Snow? Or try and save her sister from King's Landing.
Do you agree to the rules: Yes
Who invited you to the site? I actually found this site while looking up GoT RPs on Google. >.>;;[/b]
