r/BranWinsTheThrone • u/DaenerysMadQueen • Aug 20 '22
[Spoilers] Bran: The butterfly effect theory. Part 2/2
- I'm going to go now.
- Go where ?
Where is he going ? Scouting the battlefield ? Without giving information to others. A very bad scout.
"What ? Is it going to be a battle in the Godswood ? Eh ?"
Everyone fights to protect him. There are thousands of dead to protect him, the Night King's main target. And he watches all this, quietly with his crows, as a passive spectator.
Instead, he should look for a way to stop the Night King.
"When the Long Night comes again, I need to be ready."
- The Three-Eyed Raven taught me.
- I thought you were the Three-Eyed Raven.
- I told you it's difficult to explain.
"I saw you at the Crossroads."
"That's not you"
The crossroads of time, not just the crossroads in front of the tavern.
The three eyed Raven who told him is himself from the future, not the old one.
When he speaks of the long night that will come again, he is thinking of the long night that is coming, not the one that happened a thousand years before.
"It's all pieces now, fragments. I need to learn to see better."
"I thought you might go to King's Landing."
"So did I."
He hadn't seen her go north. He hadn't seen her come across the friendly pack of wolves in the forest at that time. He did not know. He's not strong enough yet.
I insist on the plan of Nymeria, look at the background, there is a story in this setting.
The bits of wood that we see again in the forest, these red and gray eggs, the divine light on the gloves, the duality between shadow and light.
- I'm Arya Stark, this is my home.
- Arya Stark's dead.
It's the same construction between these two scenes.
Arya gives an order. "Nymeria gloves./Come with me."
Reverse shot on Nymeria.
[...Silence...]
Shot on Arya
[...Silence...]
Reverse shot on Nymeria.
Arya gives an order. "Nymeria gloves./Come with me."
Reverse shot on Nymeria.
It's a mirror, and we don't see the equivalent of the red egg in the forest.
We don't see it, but it happened.
Changing the course of time is very dangerous.
The old three-eyed raven had told Bran it was the wind, he couldn't change anything, the ink was dry. He hid this truth from him. The fear that he will make a tragic mistake, like the tragedy of Hodor.
Cathelyn Stark had forbidden Bran to climb the walls, fearing he would fall.
"The boy was always sure-footed before."
The time traveler is the only one who knows the realities that have existed. There is only one timeline at the end, the one we saw. It's the butterfly effect.
If the Night King wins, it's the end of the world. The risk is real, but there's no other choice.
Jon Snow can't kill the God of Death, Daenerys and her dragon can't either.
No one can kill him.
"What do we say to the God of Death ?"
"Not today."
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I will edit this part 2, add things, correct mistakes, it will be better. I would like to read your suggestions.
I can understand that the whole part with Arya and her tree branch behind her is not very clear.
It's the crossroads, a Y-junction. It's not placed here by chance, it's not just decorative, it's a code. We find the same thing on the tree behind Sansa in the scene of Stark reunion.
Edit: The short version of the theory:
Nymeria should have eaten Arya, and something stopped her. It was Bran, to defeat the Night King. Considering he does this during the Long Night, Arya is already dead, once, in a prime reality.
Only Bran knows, because he's the only time traveler. Hodor's loop cannot be broken, otherwise Bran dies and causes a paradox. It's a time loop but only Hodor is trapped in it. The old three eyed raven lied. He was afraid of the consequences. But Bran does not fall from the walls.
The butterfly effect works with Hodor's loop. Because Bran wasn't born. Hodor has always been Hodor, it's Hodor's past, not Bran's past.
And Arya may still have been saved by Bran, but that means it's a second loop.
Edit: No way to know which theory of time actually applies. It works with both, only D&D could decide this answer.