Arya Stark | Maisie Williams
Relationships:
Daughter of Ned and Catelyn, sister of Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon; adoptive sister of Jon Snow
Story arc:
Move over, Steph Curry: There’s a new Baby-Faced Assassin, and she is bona fide. One suspected, when she was a scrappy 11-year-old playing at toy swords, she would learn to use the real thing someday. Still, her eventual apprenticeship with a secret society of assassins was unexpected. The teen survivor of her family’s dire fate embarked on a revenge tour, slaughtering enemies by the dozens and then pulled off an act of humanity-saving heroism during the Battle of Winterfell. She started the show as a little girl and wound up sailing off to new adventures.