Game of Thrones’ newest reunion finds Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) romancing Gendry, the Baratheon bastard with a rowboat meme and a brush with White Walkers. The pair’s history and timeline leading up to episode 2 of Game of Thrones’ final season.
Last week’s episode of Game of Thrones was full of reunions, including one between Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and a certain Baratheon bastard who spent two entire seasons just rowing around Westeros. The show has been on the air for so long, and has so many characters, that it’s easy to forget that Gendry (Joe Dempsie) has been around since the very beginning.
[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 2.]
It was a big episode for Arya — she also had a heart-to-heart with the Hound — but most surprisingly, this week’s episode made good on some UST that’s been brewing for a while now, sending the two young royals to bed together on the eve of the White Walkers’ arrival at Winterfell.
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Since the two first met, they’ve been a compelling pair. Arya, as one of the youngest characters on the show, was too young to entertain any romantic interests when the show began, but Gendry has consistently been the only one to treat her the way she’s wanted to be treated, i.
