[ SECRET POST #2899 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2899 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't Arya stress that she's a girl whenever people assume she's a boy though? If she's not cis then she's probably genderfluid at most.

[(Anonymous)]

Prior to going to Braavos, Arya's main concern is her own safety, so no, she doesn't draw attention to herself by correcting people who misgender her. She's collecting a lot of names/aliases, but only male one is Arry.

Brienne is actually misgendered more often (because of her height and physique), but is very firm on being a lady. Although tbh, I think Arya would be happy with an adolescence like Brienne's, who was eventually encouraged to train as hard as a boy and to be just as skilled.

[(Anonymous)]

Could've sworn she was fine being female though, she's just mad that she's boxed into expected roles as a result of being female. And it may have only happened on the show, but I'm pretty sure she at least once, prior to everything going to shit, goes "I'm a girl!" to guys who mistake her for a boy. She pretends to be a boy out of necessity.

That said, I can see her as being either way once she joins The Faceless Men, considering what they do. People just tend to be put out that she gets labeled as trans simply because she's a tomboy. It's just more gender essentialism.

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DA

Just popping in to say you're remembering correctly. In the books too, in Arya's first scene with Syrio Forel, he calls her "boy" multiple times. She doesn't react the first two times, but the third time she objects.

It was the third time he had called her "boy." "I'm a girl," Arya objected.

Also, later when Yoren is talking to Ned after Arya tries to warn him about the plot she overheard:

"And this must be your son. He has your look."

"I'm a girl," she said, exasperated.

She definitely has some mixed reactions, though -- sometimes she doesn't mind/is neutral at being mistaken for a boy, and later embraces it/takes advantage of the mistake to avoid being recognized, and sometimes she protests.