How Arya Could End Up on the Iron Throne in 'Game of Thrones' [SPOILERS]

This story includes spoilers for 'Game of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 3, "The Long Night."

After the latest episode of Game of Thrones, "The Long Night," showed Arya Stark successfully demolishing the Night King in the most impressive display of knife-catching we've ever seen, we can't help but root for her to win it all. And this fan theory suggests just that. There's a way Arya could end up on the Iron Throne.

The theory, posted by Reddit user DreadChord, is a bit of a stretch, sort of depressing, and still pretty believable.

"Daenerys' vision from the house of the undying has a scene with no one sitting on the throne, while the throne room is covered in snow," the theory explains. "I suggest, Jon dies and Arya truly ends up taking to the no-one persona, adopting Jon's face and behaviour and masquerading as Jon, king on the iron throne. She kills Cersei as Jon, fulfilling simultaneously both the Valonqar prophecy and the green eyes prophecy, Valonqar loosely since Jon seems to think of Arya as little sister."

"No one" was to be Arya's identity while she was in training with the Faceless Men, with Jaqen H'ghar telling her in Season 6, "Finally, a girl is no one." While Arya replies to this by boldly stating, "A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell, and I am going home," prompting her journey back to her family, the Redditor still believes there's a chance she could take on the identity once again.

And the "Valonqar" prophecy mentioned here refers to when Cersei Lannister is told by Maggy the Frog growing up that she would be killed at the hands of a "Valonqar," which is High Valyrian for "little brother." This occurs in A Feast for Crows, the fourth book in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, not the TV series, however fans have still predicted it will come true in the show as well. While there are plenty of theories interpreting this to mean Tyrion or Jaime Lannister, or even somehow Cersei's unborn child to be the one to kill her, this is one of the more out there translations of the prophecy we've heard so far. But Game of Thrones is known to give us some awesome twists.

While we don't think we're ready to see Jon Snow die, the Seven Kingdoms would be in good hands under Arya's rule.

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