Even if the faceless men are more or less akin to a holy order, isn’t what they’re trying to do to Arya still fundamentally evil? It seems like they’re systematically trying to peel away and destroy the various layers of her identity to turn her into a child soldier (with methods like physical abuse, blinding her, gaslighting, etc) and are really just exploiting the fact that she feels she has no other place left where she can have food, shelter, and basic safety from things like rape.

Well, that depends on how you characterize what they’re doing. Is it physical abuse (in which case, is Yoren an abuser? Would Arya see it that way?) or training her to dodge? Is blinding her evil when it’s done to train the senses and the blinding is temporary? Is she being gaslighted or trained in the theology of a mystery cult?

As for the no place left, they’ve said repeatedly that she has everywhere else to go. Arya is the one who’s insisted this is where she wants to be. 

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