Arya's injuries

https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/4n3b5u/the_waif_stabs_the_midget_from_the_actors_troupe/

Crackpot full speed

I keep waiting for a theory of Bran warging into Arya and this being a reason she acts weird.

I already saw a theory about Bran warging Sandor and killing all these people. Seriously

And....



...it happened

Arya... I know I becomes monothematic, but Jon's stupid behavior and Sansa's arrogance was enough for me to even withstand Arya magically forgetting everything she had learned in just one episode I rewatched this scene and some of her other scenes, I briefly looked at threads on reddit (as Admin said Crackpot full speed is a good term for what's going on there)and I came to the conclusion that there are only 3 possible explanation of this scene:

1. Everything is exactly as we saw. Personally I don't like this option, but logic has never been a strong point of the show, so perhaps it's the most accurate. Pro and con:
+ she acts confident, trying to imitate Syrio's and Jaqen's behaviour (Bravosi who she knew well) to make buing a passage easier
+ new clothes and silver: licentia poetica or whatever, we don't need to see everything on-screen
+ she simply could ponder, lose vigilance and not notice the danger. It happens even to the best
+ after stabbing she acts really natural, like scared to death Arya would
- but also in last episode she was aware of the danger, tried to hide and get Needle back, why in the next episode she began to behave so foolishly? One big hole in the logic and character development
Sure, she will get help and recover from the mortal wounds. Lady Crane couldn't do sh... nothing about that, but Jaqen probably could help. It will require from him using really hard core, almost Red Priest like kind of magic, but yeah he'll manage that. He still likes Arya and Waif didn't do exactly what she's been asked for, so why not help the girl. Arya will magically get better kill Waif and we will have to cope with a really thick and ridiculous plot armor, oh well...
Fun fact: D&D think that we're idiots and we need shockers in every single episode

2. Arya tried to fabricate her own death to be over with FM and their death sentence on her. Really possible and rational one:
+ Arya acts exactly like Waif suspected: she was confident, high-born lady, she was openly walking the streets and asking about ship to Westeros. She made herself easy target for assasin.
+ she found a good place (bridge) from which she could easily escape and she was waiting for her murderer, after that she had to act like her wounds were real
+ this required from her some preparation: devise a plan, a bag with artificial blood and acting abilities. Fortunately, all this she had or could easily capturing (familiar acting troupe). She might also expect that it will be the Waif who want to kill and make her death slowly and painful (blow in the stomach so provides)
- knife seemed too long and vest too tight to hide there a bag of blood and not getting truly hurt
Fun fact: The face of the old woman is most likely the same, which Arya touched in the Hall of Faces in S5, so she could detected assassin early enough.

3. It was Jaqen, not Arya. Probably the least likely theory:
+ behavior, confidence, expressions, tone of voice, clothing, silver, no Needle - all this does not fit the Arya who we saw in the previous episode
+ wounds look serious, probably mortal and Arya is in good shape in the next episode, she'll need (magicall) help and time to recover
+/- why Jaqen would do that and risk his life? To test Waif? To save Arya?
- using face of living person: is it also part of their magic? Is it glamour or some kind of hallucinations poison?
- after stabbing Arya acts really like Arya
Fun fact: Arya had to give 3 names in S2, and didn't exactly unnamed Jaqen only made deal with him, but she never gave him 3 name other than his own. Death is certain, time is not.

Anyway, in the next episode Arya jumps across rooftops like she is in the form of her life, so I hope that we will get a good explanation why.

So I've heard of a lot of theories, but a friend of mine just brought up this about Arya:


SPOILER: Click to show


I posted this in the promo thread...it probably belongs here. Sorry about that.

Is this theory discussed somewhere on the forum? And if so, where is it? I feel like I have to reread her chapters, because I didn't pick up on this. Maybe it's just a "show thing"?



Thoughts? Am I way behind on this? lol

And then there's this:

I didn't agree or disagree with it... I just posted it because people have been talking about all the wild theories and crackpot going on. I do think the guy in blue sticks out though once you actually start looking for him. Everyone else is in browns and golds and Braavos looking clothing. He's the only one not. 

Pictures with short descriptions make better effect than the wall of text (vide: popularity of infographics), so here you got:





















Thanks Old Gods, someone put it together. Wearing face of living person could be glamour. I'm addicted to logical explanations, so I'll belive in this theory until next episode.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/4n4rc8/everything_compiled_clues_about_the_identity_of_a/

It reminds me that should still be the scene of Jaqen in baths, so I suspect Arya finds him there, he gives her one last task, she kills the Waif and No One will live happily ever after

The writers disappointed me with Sansa and Jon, so I refuse to believe that the same thing they did with the Arya