Gary

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• White hair: Originally black; turns white following the severe injuries he suffers while manipulating the Ming Dynasty dream 36.
• Mismatched eyes: His left eye changes from blue to dark green when the weirwood’s energy activates something within him. His different-colored eyes later help strangers recognize the White Wolf 4 41 42.
• Altered left hand: Has hard skin, scales across the back of the hand and arm, and extremely tough nails. He conceals it with gloves and initially uses bandages and a scalding story as cover 17 18 19.
• Youthful build: Grows taller and stronger during the five-year time skip, becoming a handsome young man, though tournament opponents still underestimate his slender appearance 32 50.

Personality

Gary is affectionate toward those who care for him and deeply conscious of debts of kindness. He regards Leaf as his mother, remains grateful for the Three-Eyed Crow’s rescue and education despite distrusting him, and is moved when Jon Snow and Robb continue supporting him after his false ancestry is exposed 5 6 35.

He values independence and resents being watched or denied practical training. His desire to become stronger is tied to protecting Leaf, surviving Westeros’s coming conflicts, and finding a way back to his parents on Earth. His belief that Bingling died for him leaves him burdened with guilt and persistent insomnia 6 12 14 31 32.

In conflict, he favors survival and effective tactics over convention. He refuses the Other God even under repeated torture, but has little patience for knightly expectations: during the joust, he exploits the absence of a rule against sweeping attacks and ignores accusations of dishonor 15 49 50.

Abilities & Skills

Green Crystal

The Green Pearl, later called the Green Crystal or simply the Crystal, brings Gary to Westeros and remains hidden in his left eye after its visible form appears to crumble 1 2 5 15.

• Protects him from the Night’s King, restores his human form, and carries him away before its initial protective energy is exhausted 1 2.
• Supplies abundant mana, but does not give him immediate control over that power 19.
• Enables him to repel the Lord of Light within his dream 15.
• Is sought by both the Other God and the Lord of Light 15.
• According to his alternate self, may allow him to return home and possesses power that could let a god truly descend into the world. Gary has not demonstrated either use 16.

White Walker Traits

Gary’s awakened power is intended to operate through the Crystal rather than dependence on the Other God 16.

• Enhanced strength: Knocks out a direwolf’s tooth as an infant, lifts Castle Black’s portcullis, and breaks Theon’s arm with a shield charge 2 8 12.
• Shatter Iron: Turns iron into ice fragments by touch. Gloves do not prevent the effect, though they introduce a delay of roughly one or two seconds in his test 19.
• Durability and healing: His altered nails resist Dark Sister, while a puncture to his palm heals without bleeding or shattering the hand 19.
• Reduced touch sensitivity: The hardened skin and gloves interfere with his archery until he can adjust to the hand’s strength and lack of sensation 18.
• Unconfirmed applications: He considers testing the creation of wights and White Walkers, but the supplied accounts do not document a successful attempt 19.
• Unresolved vulnerability: Valyrian steel can pierce his palm. He does not test dragonglass, so his belief that the Crystal also protects him against it remains speculation 19.

Ice Magic and Ice Shaping

Gary freezes existing water and learns to manipulate its shape and durability 19 21.

• Requires a water source; he cannot create ice from nothing and therefore carries water with him 19 32.
• Progresses from accidentally freezing an entire bucket to controlling the thickness of an ice layer 20 21.
• Creates an Ice Spear as hard as iron, infused with mana that turns a wounded victim into ice shards 32.
• Forms a combat-ready ice blade from his waterskin during Wind Spirit’s attack 38 39.
• Risks losing control despite his large mana reserve. Following his collapse, Bingling warns him against using magic before recovering and against becoming too immersed in White Walker power 19 29.

Dream Entry and Construction

Gary can enter dreams and reshape Crystal-generated settings, but this is distinct from confirmed skinchanging 4 22 25.

• Enters Bingling’s dream through physical contact and later brings Arya into dreams for instruction 22 32.
• Changes identities, locations, and the passage of time within a constructed dream 25 26.
• Must stabilize a dream with mana before altering it. Manipulating the enormous Ming Dynasty setting exceeds his body’s safe capacity and precedes a life-threatening collapse 25 29.
• Can retain knowledge learned in dreams, including martial routines, but cannot bring dream objects into reality 28 45.
• Stops constructing new dreams for five years out of guilt over Bingling’s apparent death 45.

Martial Arts and Archery

• Archery: Demonstrates strong accuracy before formal instruction, then studies under Lari. After a year of intensive practice, an ordinary wooden bow becomes a limit on further improvement 13 14 32.
• Qi Family Saber: Studies Ding Baiying’s drawing technique and Lu Wenzhao’s linked long-saber, spear, and short-saber routines. He does not acquire their internal cultivation or lightness skills 26 28.
• Training discipline: Establishes a routine of ten thousand bow draws and ten thousand saber draws daily before later reducing archery practice and returning to mana control 32.
• Unconventional jousting: Uses two-handed sweeps, disarms opposing lances, and defeats Loras Tyrell with a turning strike to the back 49 50.

Education

• Learns the Common Tongue and Old Tongue from Leaf, becoming literate by four years old 4.
• Receives dream lessons from the Three-Eyed Crow on Westerosi history, geography, customs, culture, and noble houses 4.
• Retains knowledge of the first six seasons of Game of Thrones, which helps him recognize characters and anticipate dangers 1 4 14.

Background / History

Transmigration and Childhood Beyond the Wall

Originally a twenty-six-year-old tobacco-factory worker, Gary discovers a glowing green stone while drinking alone by the seaside. Its light transports him into the body of a newborn on an altar before the Night’s King. An attempted White Walker transformation is interrupted when Gary absorbs the king’s mana and the Green Pearl intervenes 1.

After the Night’s King’s army exhausts the Pearl’s protection, a skinchanger-possessed direwolf carries Gary south. Leaf takes him in under the Three-Eyed Crow’s supervision, although the greenseer secretly orders her to kill him if he behaves unusually. Leaf raises him for twelve years, adapting her home and cooking to give him a human childhood 2 3 4.

Memories of Another Timeline

At twelve, Gary drinks weirwood-seed soup and touches the Three-Eyed Crow’s tree in an attempt to awaken as a skinchanger. The test is judged a failure, but he receives memories of another timeline in which the Night’s King successfully transformed him 4.

That alternate Gary became the Other God’s puppet, conquered Westeros, and was destroyed after rebelling when the deity refused to send him home. The surviving trace of his alternate self later explains that he transmitted the memories through magic left in the Three-Eyed Crow’s wound. Before disappearing, he awakens Gary’s sealed power; Gary promises to save him if he ever masters the Crystal sufficiently to travel through time 4 15 16.

Life at Winterfell

Leaf sends Gary to Benjen Stark with Dark Sister, money, and a fabricated story that he is Brandon Stark’s bastard. His passage through Castle Black ends in violence and arrest, but Benjen subsequently brings him to Winterfell under the name Luke Snow 6 8 10.

He becomes close to Jon Snow, Robb, and Arya while learning combat and secretly developing his magic. His experiments culminate in a dangerous dream excursion with Arya. Afterward, Bingling channels mana through Winterfell’s Heart Tree for three days to save him from catastrophic injuries 18 20 25 29.

Bingling’s Apparent Death and Five Years of Training

When Wind Spirit reports Bingling’s death, Gary concludes that she sacrificed herself to save him. In fact, the account of her death concerns her later attempt to nourish a white egg. Unaware of this distinction, he vows to kill the Night’s King and throws himself into training 31 32.

Over five years, he develops his archery, saber technique, and mana control, fights bandits, and teaches Arya spear moves through dreams. Wind Spirit continues watching over him from a distance despite his resentment of surveillance 32.

Departure and King’s Landing

When his false parentage is exposed, Eddard orders him to Castle Black. Gary instead escapes with Jon and Robb’s assistance; Arya follows him south. Wind Spirit attacks through a shadowcat, convinced that his ice magic means he serves the White Walkers. Gary fights back, while Bingling—now inhabiting a white dragon—intervenes against the animal 35 37 38 39 40.

In King’s Landing, Gary rescues Tyrion Lannister and asks for help securing a royal audience so Arya can be returned safely north. He enters the royal tourney, where his strength and unconventional tactics carry him through several opponents, including Loras Tyrell in the quarterfinals 42 43 46 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dark Sister — Valyrian steel sword entrusted to him by Leaf on the Three-Eyed Crow’s behalf. Its shape is poorly suited to his preferred saber technique, leading him to consider having it reforged 6 34.
• Ice — Greatsword carried at the royal tourney in place of Dark Sister, which he leaves behind because of its association with the former dynasty 45.
• Gloves — Conceal his altered left hand without fully suppressing Shatter Iron 17 19.
• Water canteen — Supplies the liquid required for his ice magic. Arya gives him a carved wild-ox-bone canteen that she insists is dragonbone 32.
• Wooden practice saber — Modeled on the curve of Ding Baiying’s Falling Plum for his daily training 32.
• Silver-gray plate armor — Arranged by Jaime Lannister for the tourney; includes a helmet, gorget, gauntlets, and armored boots 46.
• Black warhorse — His mount when returning to Winterfell after the five-year time skip 32.

Relationships

• Leaf — Foster mother, called “Aunt Ye.” Gary explicitly regards her as his mother and wants to become strong enough to prevent her death 4 6.
• Three-Eyed Crow — Rescuer and teacher whose suspicion limits Gary’s early training. Gary appreciates his help but distrusts his surveillance and motives 3 4 5.
• Bingling — Childhood companion, protector, and guide to dream entry. Her apparent sacrifice profoundly affects him; she later survives within a white dragon 21 22 29 31 34.
• Jon Snow — Roommate and close friend who comforts his homesickness, keeps his magic secret, and helps him escape Winterfell 12 18 35.
• Robb Stark — Friend and training companion. Although their relationship becomes more distant as Robb grows conscious of rank, he still helps Gary escape 32 35.
• Arya Stark — Close companion and student. She prevents his removal from Winterfell through a hunger strike, learns spear moves from him, and follows him south 20 32 37.
• Eddard Stark — Host who remains wary of him and orders him to Castle Black after the false ancestry is exposed 11 35.
• Wind Spirit — Initially a distant guardian; later attacks him after interpreting his White Walker abilities as evidence of betrayal 31 32 38.
• Tyrion Lannister — Becomes a friend after Gary rescues him; offers lodging, seeks a royal audience, and warns him about tournament dangers 42 43 47.
• Alternate-timeline Gary — Sends the warning memories, awakens his powers, and asks to be rescued if Gary eventually gains the means 15 16.
• Night’s King — Attempts to transform and then kill him. Gary later vows to kill him in Bingling’s name 1 2 31.
• Other God and Lord of Light — Both seek his Crystal. Their coercion and deception reinforce his refusal to surrender it 15.

Notable Quotes

“In my heart, you're just like my mother. Thank you for twelve years of companionship, for twelve years of care, and for everything you've done.” 6

“Even if I die, I'll never give in to you.” 15

“If I fully master this stone... this divine artifact, I'll definitely travel through time to save you!” 16

“Which rule says a lance can only be used to thrust during a joust, and not to sweep?” 49