History Characters / GameOfThronesAryaStark

* SheWhoFightsWithMonsters: As she loses more friends and family members, and sees the ruthlessness of the Lannisters and their many goons. She begins stooping to more ruthless and violent actions so she can gain her revenge. That said, she never fully embraces the violence and manages to keep her morality intact as the series comes to an end, realizing that her family is what matters in the end and revenge isn't worth it.

* MultiMeleeMaster: Turns into this this over the course of her travels, becoming well-versed with a smallsword, slashing knives, [[FlechetteStorm throwing knives]], and whatever her Season 8 weapon was (spear that splits into two short spears[=/=]swords?) All before reaching the age of twenty. And that's to say nothing of her displayed-once-but-never-used-again [[ArcherArchetype aptitude with a bow]].

* NiceToTheWaiter: What separates Arya from Sansa is her visible lack of snobbery. Arya is kind to everyone regardless of their class and remembers the violence committed on the poor like Mycah and Lommy Greenhands long after most people have forgotten them. It also hurts her when Gendry gives her a [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome reality check]] that if they were to return to safety, Arya would go back to being a highborn daughter while Gendry will be a mere commoner again and they would not enjoy the close friendship they had known until then.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Played with. She is described in the books as "horse-faced" by Sansa and Jeyne Poole and is mistaken for a boy before she starts posing as one. In the series, she is round-faced and cute. The "played with" portion comes up in that even in the books, several characters note that she is getting prettier as she grows up and compare her favorably to her Aunt Lyanna, a famous beauty herself.

* BigBrotherBully: Inverted with Sansa. In the books, Sansa is very critical of and reactionary toward Arya while in the series, Arya throws food on Sansa's gown she'd made herself in front of their house and her future in-laws for no good reason, calls her an idiot, mocks her interests of sewing and marrying a prince, and stuffs sheep crap in her bed when she's annoyed with her (which apparently was a lot).

* BigBrotherBully: Inverted with Sansa. Arya throws food on Sansa's gown she'd made herself in front of their house and her future in-laws for no good reason, calls her an idiot, mocks her interests of sewing and marrying a prince, and stuffs sheep crap in her bed when she's annoyed with her (which apparently was a lot).

** At the end of Season 6, she finally makes good on her vow to avenge the Red Wedding by killing Walter Frey by slashing his throat in his own dining hall, much the same as what happened to her mother. Before that, she fed Walter Frey pies that were made out of his sons that she killed. Who in particular? Black Walder, her mother’s killer, and Lame Lothar, her pregnant sister in-law’s killer. She immediately follows it up at the start of Season 7 by poisoning all of Walder's male relatives, effectively exterminating House Frey entirely.
** At the end of Season 7, she gets to be the executioner of Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, the man who started the entire Stark/Lannister conflict in the first place, which led to the deaths of her parents and her brother.