Youngsters develop up so quick, particularly in a world as brutal as Westeros. And maybe no one has grown up sooner than Rickon Stark (Artwork Parkinson). When he first seems in “Recreation of Thrones” Season 1, Rickon is the infant of the Stark household, an lovable child with a unclean face. After his father (Sean Bean) bestows him a strong and majestic direwolf, he provides it essentially the most terrifying title he can consider: Shaggydog. (Give the child a break, he was solely six.) Even in Seasons 2 and three, Rickon nonetheless has the candy, harmless face of a kid.
On the finish of Season 3, when he begs his brother (Isaac Hempstead Wright) to let him come alongside to the North, it is clear that the boy is woefully unprepared to outlive past the Wall. That is the final we see of Rickon for 2 entire seasons. When he seems once more, Rickon just isn’t a boy anymore. By Season 6 he’s undeniably an adolescent, with a taller body, a narrower face, and a mop of messy hair. At first, his captor Ramsey (Iwan Rheon) does not consider it is actually him, and we suspect many viewers felt the identical means.
Sadly, poor Shaggydog is not any extra, and with him went Rickon’s childhood. Though Rickon continues to be the youngest Stark, he has come a great distance for the reason that little boy we noticed within the first season. After all, the truth that Rickon appears dramatically older does not soften the blow of his loss of life.