New crackpot theory- Arya (ADWD SPOILERS)

[Boaz]

Imp, I think that Arya is now too tall to impersonate Tyrion. But we don't know what all the tricks are that the Faceless Men use... for example, the waif is over thirty years old, yet she's smaller than Arya... maybe changing height is another of their tricks. I won't hold this argument against you.

But as for Arya getting closer to Cersei while disguised as Tyrion... well, I must take issue with this. The last person Cersei would allow close to her is Tyrion. She perceives him as the greatest threat to her life and her children's lives. Cersei has a mania regarding Tyrion, she'd never willingly let him close unless he was shackled and she had many guards. I think she'd allow Arya, the foolish tomboy daughter of the foolish former Hand, to approach her in order that Cersei may deceive her like Cersei decieved Sansa once upon a time.

And as for the Valonqar, I insist that it must be Cersei's younger brother. I'm sure Valyrian has words to denote younger son (Tommen), man, guy, knight, warrior, villain, assassin, younger brother of the family with dogs as their sigil (Sandor), etc...

No, the word was "younger brother." Jaime and Tyrion are the most likely candidates. What was the song that Tyrion liked? "The hand of gold is always cold..." Jaime now has a hand of gold... and he's killed before to protect the realm from a dictator.

I admit that Cersei may be assassinated by a Faceless Man impersonating Jaime or Tyrion. This may be what Maggy saw. If so, then Arya or any assassin could do it. If Arya progresses to the face changing skills of Jaqen, then she would not need Tyrion's nor Jaime's facial skin. Yet, the death of the Queen Regent of the Seven Kingdoms is not the same as that of wharf merchant of Braavos. I'd tend to think that the Masters of the Faceless Men would send a very accomplished assassin on this mission and not a twelve year old girl.

I've written in other threads (no doubt Imp started this thread in an attempt to keep me from befouling it with crackpot theories) that maybe Cersei has a number of half siblings. Two are dead... Rhaegar and Viserys. Two are living... Daenarys and Jon. And if prince was gender neutral, making Dany the TPTWP, then why cannot younger brother be gender neutral in Valyrian thus making Dany the valonqar?

Surely now, A+L=J and A+J=C&J&T will be disregarded as always, but I insist there is a possibility.

Edit: One other thought.... The Iron Bank may decide to put out a contract upon Cersei.

 

[Azzle]

Arya still says her prayers. She's very devout.

There is no evidence to suggest that Arya is the one who kills each person on her list. Joffrey was killed by someone else. Same for Ser Gregor, and Amory. To pick Cersei off that list and offer it up as another Hound for her to kill is entirely too weak.

That List was designed to start Arya on her way to becoming an assassin. Even the older man who trains her said that it wasn't a part of who she was to become.

 

[Katrina Stark]

The thing about the people in the list is that they aren't important to us, as readers, since we're more concerned with world-wide destruction, Red Gods and Others, and those names mean very little. But they are very real and very important to Arya - she suffered at their hands, and she won't let herself forget it.

So - I don't know if she will kill Cersei (it would be soooo sweet if she died under Jaime's sword). But I don't believe she will forget her list, and on a personal level, Cersei more or less destroyed Arya's life and family. I don't see Arya forgiving that - and I can see her getting revenge, even if it is served very cold.

 

[Swamp Fox]

I agree with Viz's earlier post. In that the list is a way to remind Arya (and us) of her relations to the Starks.

I'm not sure this classifies as a crackpot theory, but Arya is a major wild card. Admittedly, I have very little hard evidence, but Arya is becoming a very dark character. Ultimately, she is loyal to the Starks, but I can see her serving out her own type of justice at any time. What this means for Starks and the North, I'm not sure. Arya, at this point will kill anything that moves the wrong way. She may be inadvertently manipulated. I don't think anyone is safe as far as Arya is concerned.

 

[Runic]

I can't remember who was born first out of Jaime and Cersei, but if Jaime is the younger, I could see something working out like this....

The maid of Tarth is after him, she catches up with him, takes him to Catelyn. She realises that he didn't really break his promise to her, then sends him to kill Cersei, as she is the true culprit of all the bad stuff that has happened, he then chokes her to death with his golden appendage (I was going to say member, but decided against it!).

Getting back to Arya....

Her Vendetta List the question really is how vindictive is she? I could see her making her way to Cersei after finding out some snippet of information, finding that Jaime has killed her and robbed her of her last vengeance, then she remembers jaime fighting with Ned and thinks, yeah, that's worth a shiv in the ribs.

 

[Keebs411]

I can't remember who was born first out of Jaime and Cersei, but if Jaime is the younger, I could see something working out like this....

The maid of Tarth is after him, she catches up with him, takes him to Catelyn. She realises that he didn't really break his promise to her, then sends him to kill Cersei, as she is the true culprit of all the bad stuff that has happened, he then chokes her to death with his golden appendage (I was going to say member, but decided against it!).

Getting back to Arya....

Her Vendetta List the question really is how vindictive is she? I could see her making her way to Cersei after finding out some snippet of information, finding that Jaime has killed her and robbed her of her last vengeance, then she remembers jaime fighting with Ned and thinks, yeah, that's worth a shiv in the ribs.

if memory serves cerci was born 1st and although they are twins i wanna say it is a detail she mentions either out loud or in her mind during one of her POV chapters as one more reason she should be the 1st pick and superiour child of tywins 3. And i agree if one of her brothers ia to kill her i see it being her twin over tyroin

 

[Boaz]

Cersei is Joanna's eldest child.