Arya Stark and The Hound Tavern Fight
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By the time Arya teams up with Sandor Clegane AKA ‘The Hound,’ she’s already a pretty tough cookie, but there are few warriors in Game of Thrones tougher than The Hound. With him, Arya learns more about the harsh realities of survival and finds that there’s more to the disfigured fighter than meets the eye.
Not only do we get to see The Hound kick ass (always a treat), but the scene also shows how Arya has gone from an innocent young girl and is slowly but surely turning into the cold-blooded killer she becomes. Her time with rough men like The Hound and Jaqen H’ghar has changed her and, although it was arguably justified, the gruesome revenge she takes on one of the soldiers who killed her friend was hard to watch. This scene makes it clear that Arya is no longer the young girl we knew in season one.
