Arya Stark

Season One

The Stark who never fitted the portrait: better with a bow than her brothers, hopeless with a needle, and a collector of the names of people nobody else notices. Jon gives her a sword thin enough to use and her father gives her a fencing master, and Syrio Forel's water dance becomes the frame of her whole life. She is in the crowd at Baelor's sept when her father's head comes off, and she leaves the city that night with a shorn head among Yoren's recruits.

Season Two

The Gold Cloaks catch the column on the kingsroad and she buries a boy's name in the mud along with her own. Harrenhal makes her a Lannister cupbearer, close enough to Tywin Lannister to pour his wine and listen to him talk about legacies ÔÇö and Jaqen H'ghar offers her three deaths for the three lives she saved, which she spends badly and then brilliantly.

Season Three

The Brotherhood Without Banners sell her to the Hound, which turns out to be an education. He takes her to the Twins to be ransomed and they arrive minutes late, in time to hear the music change and see her brother's army butchered from the outside of it.

Season Four

North with the Hound through a country that has stopped pretending: the Vale, a fight at an inn, and a man she once knew from a list. When the Hound is beaten and asks her for the mercy of a quick end she takes his coin instead and leaves him under a tree, and buys passage to Braavos with a piece of iron.

Season Five

The House of Black and White wants everything she has in exchange for the power to be no one. She gives up her clothes, her possessions and eventually her name, and hides Needle in the rocks rather than surrender it, which loses her the argument before it starts. She steals a face to kill Meryn Trant, which was not hers to steal, and is struck blind for it.

Season Six

Blind and beaten in the streets until she is not. Offered the last of the bargain, she refuses it, takes Needle back out of the rocks, and puts out the candle in the dark. She comes home the long way, by way of a pie at the Twins and a hall of Freys with a cup in their hands.

Season Seven

Winterfell, and a sister she has not seen since the sept. Littlefinger works on the two of them all autumn with letters and hints and very nearly succeeds ÔÇö and then does not, in the great hall, where he learns which one of them was actually listening.

Season Eight

She is the smallest soldier in the war and the tale hands her the most consequential act of violence in it, in the godswood, out of the dark. Afterwards she walks out of a burning city on a white horse, tells her family what she has decided, and sails west of Westeros, where the maps stop ÔÇö not a lady, not a killer, not no one.

A Game of Thrones 5 chapters of their own, and 2 more that name them

Arya I Arya botches her stitches and flees the sewing circle to watch the boys spar, counting all the ways the world is unfair to girls with skinny arms. Jon II Farewells at Winterfell: Jon gives Arya a sword called Needle and says goodbye to a Bran who cannot hear him. Sansa I By the Trident, Joffrey's cruelty and Arya's temper collide; Nymeria bites the prince and is driven off with stones, and the lie begins. Arya II Ned finds Needle ÔÇö and instead of taking it away, hires Syrio Forel, the First Sword of Braavos, to teach his daughter water dancing. Arya III Chasing cats through the Red Keep, Arya overhears two men in the cellars plotting delay and war ÔÇö Varys and Illyrio, though she cannot name them. Arya IV The purge reaches the Tower of the Hand: Syrio Forel holds the door with a wooden sword; Arya finds Needle and learns what swords are for. Arya V On Baelor's steps Ned Stark confesses to treason to save his daughters; Joffrey wants a head anyway. Yoren grabs Arya in the crowd: ÔÇ£boy.ÔÇØ

A Clash of Kings 10 chapters of their own

A Storm of Swords 13 chapters of their own

A Feast for Crows 3 chapters of their own

A Dance with Dragons 2 chapters of their own, and 1 more that name them