Lino Facioli (Robin Arryn) returning for Season 6 

reported that Rupert Vansittart, the actor who plays Lord Yohn Royce, will be returning for 

Season 6. Last we saw Royce in the Season 5 premiere, Littlefinger and Sansa were leaving him in the Vale, where he was charged with looking after Robin Arryn. Now, 

has it that Lino Facioli, the actor behind Robin, will also return, per his CV on the United Agents talent agency website.

This isn’t an enormous surprise, given that young, sickly Robin is nominally the heir to the Lord Protectorship of the Vale, although one imagines Littlefinger may have some designs on that. In any case, he’s a player, whether he wants to be or not. How might he reenter the narrative? Let’s speculate.

A couple weeks back, we learned that Littlefinger, Sansa, Jon Snow, and Ramsay Bolton will share a scene inside Winterfell, very likely towards the end of the season. If Littlefinger is there, he probably carried out the plan he described to Cersei in “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” and led the knights of the Vale to Winterfell. Might Robin have come with him, and if so, to what end?

While we ponder that question, another actor is also teasing his return. Tim Plester, who played Black Walder Rivers in Season 3, talked to 

magazine about several of his current projects, and couldn’t help dropping a few hints about 

while he was at it. You may remember that Black Walder was a son of Walder Frey, specifically the one who did this:

If Black Walder does return, we probably won’t be happy to see him. Here’s what Plester said on the topic:

As you’d expect on such a phenomenally popular TV show, there’s a complicated veil of secrecy that surrounds any future storylines, and as an actor you’re never shown full shooting scripts – only the scenes which refer specifically to your role. And even then, some of the character names are occasionally changed on the scripts in order to try and further limit the chances of any leaks. So yes, when people ask me if Black Walder and his trusty blade will ever be making a re-appearance in the fictional realm of Westeros, all I’m (contractually) allowed to say is that he’s not dead yet, and so there’s always a chance… Although I think it’s fairly safe to assume that I won’t be getting invited to anymore weddings!

We know we’ll be returning to the Riverlands for Season 6, and David Bradley, who plays Walder Frey, has been spotted around 

filming locations during the off-season—if Walder Frey is coming back, it’s not a stretch to guess that a couple of his sons might, too. Stay tuned.

Also, I love how politely Plester describes the Red Wedding in his interview.

Without giving too much away for people who may still be playing catch-up, there was a lavish wedding ceremony at which my character became embroiled in some particularly ill-mannered behavior.

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Why wouldn’t Black Walder be invited if Old Walder finds himself a new teenage bride (perhaps one whose apparent face is not her own)?

Ooh! Arya?!!! See this is why I love your posts Firannion!

I want this to be true, so I’m just going to go ahead and believe it.

Re: Sweetrobin, I have long thought that the most GRRMish thing that GRRM could do with the little brat is to let him grow to a ripe old age and become a wise, kind and beloved ruler of the Vale. It’s the last thing that anybody would expect.

Lino did a great job playing as a wimpy kid and brat. Hopefully, his role doesn’t expand in season 6.

Such a creepy kid. Can’t look at him without thinking of Little Britain’s ‘bitty’. /shudders

Poor kid! He must miss that titty!

A couple weeks back, we learned that Littlefinger, Sansa, Jon Snow, and Ramsay Bolton will share a scene inside Winterfell, very likely towards the end of the season.

Clearwater revival credence…. Yes that much credence. (That’s a lot)

No matter what littlefinger does I think it will come back to bite him in the ass . He will never become warden of north the plan he plotted with cercei roose bolton not stupid . the vale lords will turn on littlefinger untill he sees Robin. Unfortunately for littlefinger Robin will be well and good Royce had his own maester to help him and this will make him stronger the maester that was helping him was littlefingers man and was slipping poison into his food to weaken him a little so littlefinger could rule the vale . The vale army will side with the north kill the boltons who killed there liege lords cousin and son to ned stark there friend and ally

Yea because all of his plans always backfire. …not. like it or not LF will be a main player til the end of ADOS. He’d not going anywhere.

Probably be some random death that gets him. Sweet robin would be a perfect candidate.

If LF uses a magic carpet (or secret wormholes) to get about, it takes no less stretch of imagination to think something has changed Robin Arryn into a bad-ass fighter.

Think back at the episode where he’s getting his ass handed to him. Think back to the tantrum kicking Sansa’s Winterfell apart. Bring the two together and what can happen?

Training will work because it’s not allowed to fail. The kid’s been molly-coddled all his life, and once that’s broken, who knows. Plus, he does have a soft spot for Sansa. Now what can happen?

As if that would ever likely to take place!

I hope that we see an ‘improved’ Robin in S6. Yohn Royce will likely be a more positive father figure than LF and Runestone a better place for a boy to grow up than on top of a mountain; and he won’t be getting dosed with drugs constantly.

If LF does try to take a Vale army north then he will need to go past The Twins, which means dealing with Walder Frey who won’t be happy the idea at all.

One of my all time favorite reactions in GoT was Catelyn witnessing Lysa nursing Robin openly, in front of the whole court. Michelle Fairley really crushed that whole amalgamation of shock, disgust, and fear.

There’s nothing in his CV that says he’s in season 6. It just says season 1, 4 and 5

You probably won’t find S6 mentioned on most of the cast’s CVs unless they’ve been officially announced / confirmed for S6 by HBO (i.e, Richard E Grant).

If Robin Arryn does appear in S6, I would imagine it’s just a few minor appearances in one or two episodes meant to support Littlefinger’s story arc and show him deciding his next move.

He’ll likely either be presented as a pawn that Littlefinger manipulates to gain control of the armies of the Vale, or he’ll be presented as an obstacle (due to the interference / influence of the Lords Declarant) that requires some classic Littlefingering (man, that sounded bad…), with LF either offing him directly or deciding he must remove a rival who may be gaining influence over him (i.e, Bronze Yohn Royce)…

Maybe I’m getting confused, but I thought Walder Rivers and the Frey known as ‘Black Walder’ were two different people, with Walder Rivers being a direct bastard son of Walder Frey and Black Walder being a legitimate grandson of Walder Frey through one Walder’s legitimate sons

(whichever one it was that Jaime sent packing after the seige of Riverrun – and who was subsequently ambushed on the road and hung by the BwB)…

Who can keep up with Freys? They’re like roaches.

That kid did a great job of portraying an awkward and strange boy. His laugh was creepy as hell. Hopefully he eats…solid foods…now. Lol.

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