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Originally Posted by Easy 6
Would one of you book readers please tell me just what in the hell is going on with Arya and the Many Faced God and her tutor?
What is expected of her, why was she punished so harshly for a minor transgression, why was the tutor so cool to begin with in seasons past but has now become an incredibly mysterious asshole?
Help me understand...
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You can't reasonably expect the training to become a world class assassin to be easy and heartwarming. The Faceless Men are trained killers. The training requires discipline, and it requires Arya to forget her former self and become no one so she can then serve the Many Faced God, rather than serving House Stark or any other of her old ties to country or family.
But she failed to follow her orders and instead killed someone because of her personal motives as Arya Stark rather than killing the person she was assigned to kill by the Many Faced God, so she clearly was not ready to be no one and give up her past. She already showed this by keeping her sword, Needle, and she showed it again by killing Meryn Trant (on the show anyway, in the books she kills a different person) instead of the insurance guy.
So she was punished, and rightly so from the perspective of her training, though on the show they made it seem like it was because of some magic of putting on the face without permission and before she was ready to be no one. I guess if you are not "no one" and try to wear another face, then it doesn't go well afterwards, at least on the show. In the books it was more a punishment by the man training her who gives her a drink that blinds her.
I'm curious to see if the show follows the books on some of the things that happen next with Arya. In particular:
Book Spoiler that may be in the show next season: