Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3035448-20160824024303/@comment-5308269-20170727161325

Sorry, but that is bull****! Arya already LEARNED how to fight with a sword, how to fight in the dark/as a blind person, how to change face/voice to become someone else, and she basically obtained the skill set of a trained assassin through training, hard work, talent and determination.... on top of it all, she even had the guts to betray the Faceless Men, the most dangerous cult of assassins in the kingdom, all of it just to kill people from her list and exact her vengeance.

If there's ONE character that you can say it's "badass", that's Arya Stark.

(and receiving help along the way is simply the smart thing to do when you actually need it, you can't expect a grown man to survive alone in GoT.... why would you expect a little girl to do it? would be dumb to do so, especially in the beginning when she still had a lot to learn)

Arya has NOT learned to fight with a sword because her lessons under Syrio Forel were not complete. Twirling a sword around and doing cartwheels is performance art, not combat! Luring an assassin into a dark room to kill her is not combat!

"..she even betrayed the cult of assassins..." Whom for some reason don't continue ordering hits on her for leaving the House of Black and White after learning their secrets. More like half-assed story-telling than being a testament to Arya's abilities.

"If there's ONE character that you can say it's [sic] "badass", that's Arya Stark."

Yeah, very amusing!

"and receiving help along the way is simply the smart thing to do when you actually need it, you can't expect a grown man to survive alone in GoT...why would you expect a little girl to do it?.."

As I had explained in the quote you provided, Arya needed Sandor Clegane to protect her from her own foolishness. Without him, Arya would have walked right into it with Frey soldiers and Lannister soldiers. She ran away from the Brotherhood Without Banners even though they were prepared to take her home. And she survived her stay at Harrenhal because of the presence of Jaqen H'ghar. Most of Arya's had less to do with her wits and more to do with the prowess of OTHER characters. She's far more lucky than she's smart. And she's the least adept fighter among the Faceless Men novices.