Why did Arya go blind?

After she went off-script and assassinated not the man she was assigned to, but someone on her personal revenge-oriented kill list, Jaqen H'ghar blinded Arya, leaving her to fend for herself on the streets of Braavos.
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How did Arya get her eyesight back?

The water in the pool is poisoned, usually given to those who want to die. But as Jaqen (or whoever) tells her that if she's truly no one, she has nothing to fear. Arya takes him up on that double dog dare and slurps down some water. She closes her eyes briefly, and opens them to find her vision restored.
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Does Arya go permanently blind?

But, you might be wondering, is Arya permanently blind on Game of Thrones? As Jaqen explained, "Only death can pay for life," and in this case since Arya stabbed Meryn Trant in the eyes, Arya is now blind.
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Why does Arya go blind in the book?

A similar storyline takes place in George R.R. Martin's book "A Dance with Dragons," though instead of being blinded as punishment for killing Kingsguard member (and child rapist) Ser Meryn Trant like in the show, Arya is blinded merely as a part of her training to become one of the Faceless Men, the assassins who live ...
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How long was Arya blind for?

A Dance with Dragons

Arya remains blind in the service of the House of Black and White for half a year. She continues to dream through the eyes of her direwolf Nymeria, but speaks of it to no one.
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Why does Sansa look upset when Arya fights Brienne?

Sansa finds Arya training with Brienne. She looks most worried now. Because in addition to knowing that Arya wants people dead, and that she wants someone well-protected as Cersei dead, she now knows that Arya actually is capable of killing.
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How did Jaqen get aryas face?

Arya was "drugged" and so it was actually just an hallucination. When Arya joined the Faceless Men, even though not one of them yet, she donated her face, though subconsciously. This can also explain why The Waif appears to have Jaqen's face on underneath in the same scene.
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Who married Sansa Stark?

Season 5. Baelish brokers a marriage between Sansa and Ramsay Bolton, now the heir to the North after the death of Robb Stark.
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What 3 names did Arya say?

Jaqen comes to her at night and offers her three deaths for the three lives—Rorge, Biter, and himself—she saved from burning at the Gods Eye. After several days Arya names Chiswyck, after she overhears him boast at how he participated in a gang rape, and he dies three days later. Next she names Weese, for striking her.
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Who does Arya Stark love?

Arya Stark and Gendry Baratheon begin their relationship as good friends who trust and rely on one another. They hide from enemies during the War of the Five Kings, later separated when the Brotherhood Without Banners sells Gendry. Years later, they reunite at Winterfell and fight against the army of the dead.
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Does Arya Stark marry?

Gendry's having quite the night on Game of Thrones. First he was legitimized by Daenerys Targaryen, becoming both a true born Baratheon and Lord of Storm's End, and then Gendry asked Arya to marry him. Sadly though, Arya turned Gendry's proposal down on Game of Thrones and decided to stay true to herself.
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Why is Arya Stark blind in season 6?

The link to this photo or video may be broken, or the post may have been removed. The 18-year-old British star has explained that, like her on-screen character, she has been blind while filming much of season 6 because of the thick, glazed contact lenses she's had to wear to play Arya.
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How does Arya change her face?

The disguise is applied using the blood, drawn in tribute, running down Arya's own cut face. George R.R. Martin describes the process of pulling one of the dried-out human masks onto Arya's head: “The leather scraped across her brow, dry and stiff, but as her blood soaked into it, it softened and turned supple.
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Does Arya get her sight back in Game of Thrones?

But Arya Stark gets her eyesight back on Game of Thrones in Season 6's third episode "Oathbreaker" as an apparent reward for mastering blind sparring and maintaining her anonymous identity to Jaqen H'ghar.
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Did Arya complete her training?

Arya never completed her Faceless Men training, nor did she have any further practice with Needle. In Season 7 however, Arya has become a full fledged Faceless Man, able to steal multiple faces, and even duel Brienne to a draw.
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Why was Arya blinded Reddit?

In the show she goes blind in the first place because she uses a face as Arya Stark, but the Faces are for no one, for some one they are like poison. Jaqen gives Arya nothing to drink like the kindly man in the books. There Arya goes blind from a substance in the Milk, that she drinks everyday.
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Is Jaqen a faceless man?

In the books, the man whom Arya meets and is apprenticed by in the House of Black and White is a Faceless Man who she dubs "the Kindly Man", not the same Faceless Man under the guise of Jaqen that Arya had met before, as is the case in the TV series.
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Why did Jaqen smile when Arya left?

In way, that also explains the smile—he's pleasantly surprised to see that Arya took to the training so well she killed the Waif. “That's why in the end, when he realized she'd managed to escape the Waif and kill her, he was also pleased because his student had excelled,” Wlaschiha said.
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Is Jaqen H Ghar a Targaryen?

Rhaegar Targaryen is still alive; he's actually Jaqen H'ghar, of the Faceless Men.
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Does Sansa get pregnant?

Fortunately, the answer is... nope! Sansa is not pregnant with Ramsay's baby, at least according to a reliable Game of Thrones spoiler and news website Watchers On The Wall. According to the site, Sansa will not be, or get pregnant in season 7 of the HBO series.
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Who does Sansa lose her virginity to?

Back in season five, “Game of Thrones” became embroiled in controversy when it took an even more significant detour from the books, having Sansa Stark lose her virginity when she is raped by the sadistic Ramsay Bolton on their wedding night.
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Why is the Waif so mean to Arya?

The Faceless Men weren't supposed to want anything, but it was clear the Waif craved the death of Arya. She ignored the request of giving Arya a quick death and elected to make her suffer. The personal hatred that the Waif had for Arya went against the ideologies of the Faceless Men.
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Is the Waif Jaqen?

The Waif is the only other Faceless Man introduced besides Jaqen, and for all we know, they're the only Faceless Men there. Jaqen says very early on that he is not Jaqen, but only wears his face to make Arya comfortable. This is not brought up again until the climax.
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Why did the faceless man suicide?

Jaqen kills himself in front of Arya, to prove the point that no Faceless Man has an identity. This is part of Arya's training. Jaqen teaches Arya in the ways of the Faceless Men. Again, this is not a selfless act.
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