Quote:It's like I was saying and the more I think about it, the more I'm starting to think I might be on to something.  To become a faceless man, one must first die.  I think when they die, their faces are taken and then they're brought back.  The term "faceless men" is more literal then we've been led to believe.

 

I read an interesting theory out there that suggests Arya and the Waif are one and the same.  Alter egos of her "as is" (who she was and still is) and her as "a girl"/faceless (if she were to submit.)

 

I don't think she's ever come close to becoming "a girl."  She's just been suppressing it to please Jaqen and learn what she needs to carry out revenge on her hit list.  She proved that she's still Arya in refusing to kill the actress, still having her own free will.

 

An interesting point is that the two are never spoken to directly when together in the same room, as the Waif is ushered off whenever Arya speaks with Jaqen, and appears after he's finished addressing her.  It also explains how she knows all that Arya knows, when she is lying etc...

 

If the Waif were a true assassin, she wouldn't have left the job unfinished - and Arya wasn't wounded until she got her Needle back.

 

So maybe that's what ties your theory together.  She can't kill herself (let go of who she truly is, cannot kill her current self) to become one of the faceless.

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