

Don't bother changing out of your pajamas and order in when you're hungry. Don’t apologize, just text “senior spring.” Spend an entire day laying on the couch with your best friends sharing stories from the night before and plans for the future and cherishing the time you have left all in the same city together. When you read them in the morning, remind yourself that you’ll never see these people again in a few months anyway. Cut in lines for the bar and when people shoot you dirty looks, stare straight back and mouth the words “senior spring.” Send weird and embarrassing drunk texts. Why are you ordering five boxes of pizza at 2am? Senior. Why are you taking a shot at 11 in the morning? Senior Spring. Why are you going out the night before an exam? Senior Spring. Y'all already love her enough.Īny and all questions should be answered by them. Put some respect on these ladies' name because they've done more than enough to deserve it. It can be easy to miss and dismiss them, but if you take just a closer look you'll see how great these ladies are. While the men on the show can give some incredible performances, the women are consistently showing us layered humans with complexities in all different shapes and sizes. And last but certainly not least, Lady Olenna is absolutely iconic, unapologetically killing the King of Westeros at his own wedding.

She dreams of being a knight and doubts that honor will ever be awarded to her, even though she's one of the best fighters in Westeros (she beat The Hound!). Brienne is the only female warrior we see and her sense of loyalty to what she believes is right is admirable. Catelyn, likewise, is the first person to sense the treason of The Bolton's and warns her son before their untimely death. In the end, she is the only one who can see right through Cersei's plans in the Sept of Baelor and realizes she has fallen into her trap. Margery has a clear goal and will do anything to be queen, her acts of public service keep her in favor with the general public, she plays the part perfectly of the perfect wife, and is willing to marry whoever is in the line of succession. Each of them are complete badasses in their own ways. Notable women who have certainly made my list of favorites are Margery Tyrell, Catelyn Stark, Brienne Tarth, and Lady Olenna. And if their dual manipulation and murder of Littlefinger is any tell, they're certainly not the same little girls who left Winterfell in season 1. This type of sisterhood is what we've needed since the beginning. They have grown from the first season caddy sister behavior, and confide in one another. The Stark sisters compliment one another so well: they each have such different skill sets and together they make an unstoppable force of power. Arya has been floating all these seasons, like most of the Starks were, and for the first time in a long time, she is given a purpose: to protect her family. She returns to Westeros to kill Cersei, but when she hears the news that her family is alive, she abandons it. For the first time, she realized what it meant to be herself and found self-acceptance in that image. As soon as she was forced to truly become no one, she realized that she needed to be Arya Stark more than ever.

Arya ultimately found herself from being other people. Though she has trained for almost two seasons with Jaqen, she gives it all up. The best part of her arc, however, is the culmination of her training.
