For most of Game of Thrones ’ run on HBO, much like the still unfinished A Song of Ice and Fire book series that the TV show is based on, creators got a lot of mileage out the Stark children and the heartstrings they pulled whenever they interacted with some pet direwolves. Despite only being under the same roof for two episodes (or a handful of chapters in George R.R. Martin’s massive novels), the Stark kids spent years yearning to be reunited, an anguished longing symbolized by the loneliness, abandonment, and even death suffered by their direwolves. When a few grown Stark siblings finally got together in the later seasons, in spite of what revisionist social media complaints might say now, the general reception was euphoric.

Luckily the real-life dire wolves engineered by Colossa

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