'Game of Thrones' star sums up all our thoughts about his character in 1 simple tweet

At least he's being honest.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead.

LONDON -- Rickon Stark may terrible at dodging arrows, but at least he's honest on Twitter.

Art Parkinson, who played the youngest Stark in Game of Thrones, took to social media on Monday night to basically tweet what we were all thinking about his character's abrupt death.


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Just to recap, Rickon was shot by Ramsay Bolton with an arrow at the beginning of the Battle of the Bastards. Ramsay told the boy to run to his brother, but as Rickon fled across the battlefield he began firing arrows after him. Just as Rickon was about to reach Jon, one of the arrows hit him in the chest and he went down.

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It was a pretty tragic moment, but people on social media all said the same thing: why the hell did Rickon run in a straight line and not try to dodge about a bit?

Well, when watching the episode back, Art Parkinson clearly thought the exact same thing.

Poor guy didn't even have time for a single line of dialogue this season.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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