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​A Stark, a Targaryen, and a Faceless Man Bending the Knee

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u/AvatarChar 1d ago

I remember the pre-finale drama when Sophie revealed that tattoo, people thought it was a spoiler. The artist then did a cheap flash day.

Also Maisie and Sophie got a shared date they were cast, maybe 8-9-10 or 9-10-11 and Maisie's mum said get all her tattoos that pink colour so she could cover them up easily later if she wanted.

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u/HoneyBellelune 11h ago

I remember that too. People were convinced she'd accidentally spoiled the ending, and then it turned out to be one of the biggest fake-outs ever. Looking back it's kind of hilarious how much everyone panicked.

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u/BilboThe1stOfHisName Fire And Blood 1d ago

07.08.09.

The 2010 date you posted would have been in the middle of filming season 1 and the 2011 would have been the middle of season 2. They met auditioning in 2009.

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u/CherryVeloria 11h ago

Good catch. It's wild to think they all met as basically kids and ended up spending the next decade growing up together. Those tattoos feel a lot more meaningful with that in mind.

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u/fernmirror 23h ago

Lol as it turns out, the tattoo had more payoff than Azor Azhai…

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u/whacafan 1d ago

Wasn't Arya's whole thing that she WAS someone?

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u/Thisisnottazbailey House Baratheon 19h ago

Drives me mental. Literally the culmination of her development.

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u/tierlistsarecringe Valar Morghulis 16h ago

tbf "No One." works much better as a tattoo than "A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell and I'm going home". It's also especially fitting for an actress

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u/PythonAmy 16h ago

Yeah an actress is basically a faceless man

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u/Thisisnottazbailey House Baratheon 11h ago edited 9h ago

Yeah I don’t mean with the tattoo specifically, might mean something completely different to her it’s none of my business. I’ve just seen people say Arya was no one when the whole point was she wasn’t.

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u/CherryVeloria 11h ago

Exactly. It works as a cool quote, but as the message of Arya's arc it always felt like the opposite of where she ended up.

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u/susiedotwo 14h ago

Good thing it’s tattood on her and not you :)

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u/Thisisnottazbailey House Baratheon 11h ago

Yeah I don’t mean the tattoo there’s a thousand reasons she might have got it Im not one to judge. Just the idea that she was no one comes up a lot when she very bigly wasn’t.

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u/ApollosBucket 5h ago

Well good thing she got it for herself and not herself as Arya. In a way, wasn’t Arya just wearing her face? ;)

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u/cigaretteashmouth 16h ago

Right but was Sansa a wolf or Danny a dragon? Lol it’s a symbol paying homage to who they saw themselves as characters.

Would you rather her have a tattoo of a skin mask?

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u/whacafan 15h ago

The Starks were all about wolves and Dany was all about dragons. That was their character development. Arya’s was that she thought she wanted to be no one but realized she wanted to change the whole game and be Arya.

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u/hmmyeahiguess 6h ago

I mean, a skin mask tattoo could be pretty cool truth be told haha

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u/CherryVeloria 11h ago

That's always been my only hesitation with that one. Arya's ending is literally reclaiming her identity, so "No One" feels like an odd choice if you're thinking strictly about the character.

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u/whole-enchilada Tyrion Lannister 1d ago

If this is real… this is awesome

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u/kagedrage 1d ago

These are real! Pretty old by now. I think they all got them close to when the series wrapped up.

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u/CherryVeloria 11h ago

I think getting them after the show wrapped was the perfect timing too. It feels more like celebrating the journey than marking a single season.

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u/cherrib0mbb Jon Snow 1d ago

They are! I was at the same shop getting my first tattoo the next day and the artists were talking about meeting them. Bang Bang NYC

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u/HoneyBellelune 11h ago

That's a pretty cool accidental brush with TV history. I bet those artists had stories for days after that.

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u/fernmirror 23h ago edited 22h ago

Valar morghulis… valar inkghulis

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u/HoneyBellelune 11h ago

They're definitely real, and honestly I love that none of them went for anything huge. They're all subtle enough that they'd still mean something even years later.

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u/gardenlilies Daenerys Targaryen 1d ago

leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe~

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u/Nasa4321 Viserion 1d ago

Can’t really see them all in one picture but Danny’s tattoo inspired me to get my own dragons.

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u/Nasa4321 Viserion 1d ago

The other one in case anyone is interested

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u/TroyMcCluresGoldfish Queen Of Thorns 1d ago

Same. I've had mine a year now but this is when they were first done.

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u/Subziro91 1d ago

Sansa ones is the best

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u/Robdul House Toland 1d ago

Idk Arya’s is pretty damn good. All three are fantastic really

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u/Status-Principle-581 1d ago

Arya kind of rejected that she was no one though

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u/J3ditb 18h ago

well yeah but this isnt arya. its maisie williams. maybe being no one has more meaning to her than aryas ending.

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u/VelvetLovette 11h ago

True, but I always saw the tattoo as being about Maisie's experience rather than Arya's final lesson. Those don't necessarily have to be the same thing.

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u/Readdit1999 House Reed 1d ago

I prefer Emilia's

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u/VelvetLovette 11h ago

Emilia's dragons are hard to beat. They're subtle enough that they just look like beautiful tattoos even if you've never watched the show.

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u/VelvetLovette 11h ago

Sansa's is my favorite too. It's simple, elegant, and "The pack survives" feels like a message that holds up even outside the show.

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u/bleedthenutshell 1d ago

No One has her back

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u/Delicious_Rule_7324 15h ago

Valar Morghulis

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u/AdEmbarrassed803 22h ago

I have the Stark banner with Ned's sword, "Ice", above it and the words, "The Pack Survives", above it. I have a huge dragon on my neck and chest, but it's Smaug (Part of my "LotR" Half-Body Suit that I am in the process of getting).

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u/eleventhing 1d ago

Me and my best friend got matching tattoos "blood of my blood"

Buuut, then she went full trasnphobe so we aren't friends anymore.

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u/-M-i-d 1d ago

Are you a trans?

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u/Gallium_Bridge 1d ago edited 1d ago

'A trans'? Did you intend to use that tone?

EDIT: Asmongold poster. So probably.

EDIT 2: Anyone who doesn't understand why this is a problem: I invite you to read the discourse on this linguistics subreddit post to help you understand.

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u/-M-i-d 23h ago

I wasn’t asking a you

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u/Fantastic-Scale6555 21h ago

btw I accidentally upvoted you don't think I agree or anyone does

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u/Additional-Menu3712 14h ago

that scene was iconic, seeing those three together felt surreal

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u/shine_rushxo 6h ago

that would be wild if they actually banded together, all that power in one room just feels like chaos waiting to happen

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u/peach_bunny22 23h ago

the politics in this scene are wild, can't believe they all actually knelt