Sophie Turner May Have Just Spoiled the Game of Thrones Ending With Her New Tattoo
It’s a fairly common practice these days for actors to commemorate wrapping a film or TV series by getting a tattoo inspired by their character or their time on set, and the Game of Thrones cast is no different. Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams already got matching tattoos in 2016 in honor of the day they both found out they’d been cast on the show, and Emilia Clarke recently shared her upcoming plans to get a dragon tattoo to pay tribute to Daenerys Targaryen. But it’s Turner’s newest piece of GoT–themed ink that has fans sounding the alarm and worrying she may have just spoiled the show’s ending.
Australian tattoo artist Lauren Winzer posted a photo on Instagram of Turner’s forearm inked with a new direwolf tattoo that says “the pack survives.” “Thank you so much for getting this from me @sophiet ! bad ass !” Winzer captioned the post, tagging Turner in the pic for good measure.
Though Winzer uploaded the photo last Saturday, it wasn’t until several days later that it caught the attention of GoT fans around the world. Beginning on Wednesday (June 13), the post was flooded with comments from fans anxiously wondering whether the tattoo implies the remaining members of the Stark family, whose emblem is the direwolf and which includes Turner’s character, Sansa Stark, will survive season eight, which doesn’t air until 2019. “Is this a spoiler?” one Instagram user commented, as countless others echoed the question. “A Time for Wolves! The Starklings survive!” another wrote.
A few Twitter users also speculated about the tattoo’s meaning, with one referencing an interview Turner gave E! News in 2016, shortly after she and Williams first got their matching ink. “With Thrones, we were like, if we make it all the way through, hopefully we could all get a matching wolf, but we don’t know if we’re going to make it, so Maisie and I were like, ‘Let’s get this before anyone kills us.'” So this new could tat just be the one Turner’s been dreaming of for years.
The words “the pack survives” have been a running theme throughout the series’ seven seasons. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives,” Sansa’s father Nedd said in season one, and Sansa herself repeated the line in the seventh season. Though Turner has shared she already knows Sansa’s ultimate fate, HBO is extremely protective of GoT spoilers. So it seems unlikely she’d be allowed to get the tattoo if it was a spoiler. Either way, we’ll have to wait until season eight premieres sometime next year to learn who survives the titular game of thrones.
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