Season 6 General Speculation v9

Plus the L7R guy Jesus comparing the death to Shireen's was a pretty big hint in that direction in itself, I think. Besides both being children, they're both pretty minor characters with pretty big political significance who's deaths change one's conception of the endgame quite a bit.

That is, if he was the first one to discuss the possibility. I can recall hearing it earlier than that guy's first post and still don't see the purpose of having Osha on one of the crosses. But who the fuck knows.

I guess it's quite possible then. I just found the way that guy posted somewhat suspect and remember reading rumours about Rickon dying on reddit before that guy's first post, so I've still got some doubts about him. Still, it probably checks out.

I am curious as to who the character is in , Winds , I guess, who George says is dead on the show but who is alive in the books, who plays a role in some plot development. 
I suppose in the two big pow wows in Santa Fe (and other times) GRRM has, broad stroke wise, told D&D&B who lives and dies?
(After all David Benioff dropped the bombshell about Sheerien S5E9 which came from Martin.)

“I have decided to do that, yes. Will you know it? I don’t know. It’s fairly obvious, because it’s something that involves a couple of characters, one of whom is dead on the show, but not dead in the books. So, the show can’t do this, unfortunately, because they’ve killed a character that I have not killed. But that doesn’t narrow it down much, because at this point, there are like, fifteen characters who are dead in the show who are still alive in the books.”

Ugh...no more dead Starks.  Can't we kill off Jaime or Cersei this season?  And no, to dead Stannis on a cross, either.

There's a fair chance that GrrM does that too tbh. His wolf is called Shaggydog after all. The theory being that's all Rickon's story will ever be.

I don't think his return is avoidable when they're delving into the succession in the North and having the Umbers return. And the rest depends on how it's handled, I guess. First the audience connection to him will have to be re-established in the first place for it to mean anything. But there are plenty of credible theories of GrrM doing something similar that I've read. So I don't object to it in principle. I suspect as far as plot mechanics go it's to give the North to Jon and Sansa. Beyond that we know very little about how it will all play out.

The writers love cheap shocks.

That's all asoiaf might be!