Jaqen H'ghar/Arya Stark

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Pairing
Pairing: Jaqen H'ghar/Arya Stark
Alternative name(s): Jaqarya
Gender category: Het
Fandom: Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
Canonical?: No
Prevalence: Small
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Jaqen H'ghar/Arya Stark, also known as Jaqarya, is the het pairing of Jaqen H'ghar and Arya Stark in the A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones fandoms.

He offers her agency, freedom, assistance in freeing Stark loyalists. In a dark place where she feels beaten down and helpless, he makes her feel safe and strong

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Canon

In the TV series, Arya and Jaqen meet in season two when they travel together with a party heading to the Wall to join the Night's Watch. When Jaqen is trapped during a fire, Arya helps him escape. Afterwards he tells her that she owes the Gods three lives and she must give him three names. He assassinates two men for her, then helps her escape Harrenhal. He gives Arya a coin and tells her she can give it to any man from Braavos and she will be taken there. In season five she goes to Braavos and meets Jaqen again (or who she thinks is Jaqen) at the House of Black and White. She trains to become a Faceless Man, but eventually decides she wishes to return to Westeros.

In the published books, Arya and Jaqen have not met again after Harrenhal. Arya is trained by the Kindly Man and other characters when she goes to Braavos. As for Jaqen, it has been theorised that he is the Alchemist who steals the identity of Pate the novice in Oldtown.

Fandom

Statistics

  • In 2020, Jaqen H'ghar/Arya Stark was the 4th most popular ship for Arya in the ASOIAF category in a survey of FanFiction.net, accounting for 3% of sampled fics.[2]

Common Tropes in Fanworks

  • Modern AU: where they meet and begin a relationship
  • Age Difference: in the books, Jaqen is apparently in his early twenties. In the TV series, he is older (the actor portraying him, Tom Wlaschiha, was in his late thirties when he first appeared in season two). To combat the large gap in their ages sometimes Arya will be aged up, however many writers keep their canonical ages and make any issues that arise a feature of their fanfiction
  • Canon Divergence AU: varies, Arya remains in Braavos or Arya and Jaqen meet again after she leaves

Challenges

Fanworks

Fan Art

Fanfiction

  • Valar Dohaeris by Ghostie: Years after the ending of the War of Five Kings, Arya comes across an assassin from her childhood.
  • beneath the gaze of winter by lolololabilly: "She leads him away from the yard, out into a wood with wild trees and soft ground and a carved face that bleeds. A man feels cold beneath the gaze of winter."
  • The Sparrow and the Wolf by startwithsparks: If Jaqen had returned to Arya in Braavos during her first trial at the House of Black and White... how might her story have changed? Oneshot collection.
  • Smoke and Mirrors by Fififjonka: Arya finally says the words. Valar Morghulis. But what happens afterwards is not quite as she imagined.
  • The Assassin's Apprentice by Winterlyn_Dow: Arya Stark has the potential to become great within her order, if only she can let go of the past. First in a three part series; the second (The Grey Daughter) is currently in progress.
  • Edernen by wearethewitches: "A man will not leave a woman or a son, not while he breathes air."
  • The Truth Belongs to No One by FayeKNaime & gul: A girl completes her training to become a faceless one. A man struggles not to fall in love with a memory. The two will meet again, this time as comrades-in-arms on a deadly mission.
  • Songs of the Faceless by PatriaRoux: The holy texts of two great temples in Braavos spoke of a child who was named Chosen, two hundred years after the Doom of Valyria. An order of assassins took the task of finding this child in the land of Westeros. This child is Arya Stark of Winterfell.
  • Shades of Rue (and the Too Orthodox Tux of Solemn Black) by PatriaRoux: "I want you to paint me like one of your German girls, Jaqen."
  • The Deadly Duo in Time by ewinofthelake: A man and a girl meet in different time periods. A collection of historical and modern AUs featuring vikings, bikers, vampires, and more.
  • benediction by Griftings: The story of a man who was no one until he took an apprentice and became Jaqen H'ghar.
  • sentimentality, and where it gets you by Griftings: The (Incomplete) Warg's Guide to Surviving the Wight Apocalypse with Your Mildly Sociopathic Ex-Hitman Friend with Benefits.

Fan Vids

(all of the above by Darkeleni)

Meta

Art Gallery

  • Valar Morghulis by DanaArena

  • Furious by INGGO

  • Such a fairytale by M4dH4tter

  • Now! - Arya Stark by Marzellene

  • Three Lives You Shall Have by rae-shi

Resources

References

  1. ^ What are your thoughts on Jaqen and Arya?, Archived version
  2. ^ Phantom Statistician: Arya's's FanFiction Shipping Chart 2013 - Present
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