'Game of Thrones' fans are confused and creeped out after the latest Arya scenes

Warning: There are major spoilers ahead for Sunday's "Game of Thrones."

While Jon, Tormund, and the rest of his dream team of magnificent seven were off battling wights in the North on Sunday's "Game of Thrones," Sansa and Arya had troubles of their own.

After Arya found an old scroll written by Sansa in season one asking her brother Robb to bend the knee to Joffrey Lannister, she accuses her sister of betraying their father and holds her responsible for his death. Viewers know Sansa was coerced into writing her letter by Cersei, but Arya's not convinced, and now she's fearing her sister could betray Jon as King in the North as well.

While Arya and Sansa bicker, the two sisters fail to realize that Littlefinger planted the letter to drive a wedge between them. It's also awfully convenient the all-seeing Bran wasn't around to break up the nonsensical fight and offer some clarity. (He's already seen through Littlefinger once this season.) 

Instead, things quickly went downhill from there. Toward the episode's end, Arya and Sansa's relationship becomes more strained after Sansa discovers several of her sister's faceless masks while searching for the scroll and inquires about them.

The two then share a bizarre exchange in which Arya tells her sister about her face collection and appears to threaten Sansa's life to take her place as the Lady of Winterfell. 

Here's their full, unsettling conversation:

Arya: Not what you're looking for?
Sansa: I have hundreds of men here at Winterfell, all loyal to me. 
Arya: They're not here now.
Sansa: What are these? 
Arya: My faces. 
Sansa: Where did you get them?
Arya: In Braavos, while i was training to be a Faceless Man.
Sansa: What does that mean?
Arya: Back in Braavos, before I got my first face, there was a game I used to play — The Game of Faces. It's simple. I ask you a question about yourself, and you try to make lies sound like the truth. If you fool me, you win. If I catch a lie, you lose. Let's play.
Sansa: I don't want to play. 
Arya: How do you feel about Jon being king? Is there someone else you think should rule the North instead of him?
Sansa: Those faces, what are they? 
Arya: You want to do the asking? Are you sure? The Game of Faces didn't turn out so well for the last person who asked me questions.
Sansa: Tell me what they are. 
Arya: We both wanted to be other people when we were younger. You wanted to be a Queen to sit next to a handsome young king on the Iron Throne. I wanted to be a knight, to pick up a sword like father and go off to battle. Neither of us got to be the other person, did we? The world doesn't just let girls decide what they're going to be. But I can now. With the faces, I can choose. I can become someone else — speak in their voice, live in their skin. I could even become you. I wonder what it would feel like, to wear those pretty dresses, to be the Lady of Winterfell. All I'd need to find out is your face. 

Arya says all of this before handing her sister a dagger and marching off. It's not clear whether she was being serious or was just trying to scare her sister and get in her head. 

Regardless, it worked. Sansa looked frightened and confused. Her eyes start to fill with tears as Arya described taking over the lives of other men and women.

The unsettling moment left viewers perplexed.

Fans couldn't understand why she wasn't acting more suspicious of Lord Baelish.

Other fans were disappointed in how the scenes between the Stark sisters have played out since they were reunited. 

Co-showrunner D.B. Weiss also said the scene was "creepy."

"Arya has this piece of very incriminating evidence against Sansa so she goes looking for it. She doesn't find it, but she finds a bag full of severed faces instead, which is creepy," said coshowrunner D.B. Weiss on HBO's "Inside the Episode" featurette. "As they get into the discussion about what these faces are, she starts to see Arya as a real, physical danger to her. Going into the final episode, I think Sansa is bringing a real fear about the idea that Arya might really want to murder her. It's a fear that Littlefinger expertly stokes."

Now that Brienne of Tarth is heading off to King's Landing, she's not around to protect Sansa in the event that Arya goes into assassin mode. Hopefully in the season's finale, the two sisters will band together and figure out Petyr Baelish's misdeeds. 

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